States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1836) April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal (b. 1842) May May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta, American poet (b. 1834) May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (b. 1821) May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect, civil engineer (b. 1830) May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848) May 19 – Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer (b. 1840) May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847) May 27 – Kevork Chavush, Armenian national hero (b. 1870) June June 4 – Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1847) June 6 – J. A. Chatwin, English architect (b. 1830) June 14 Bartolomé Masó, Cuban patriot (b. 1830) William Le Baron Jenney, American architect, engineer (b. 1832) June 23 – Hod Stuart, Canadian professional ice hockey player, killed in diving accident (b. 1879) June 25 – Sir John Hall, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824) June 29 – Maximilian Cercha, Polish painter and drawer (b. 1818) July July 13 – Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer (b. 1854) July 14 – Sir William Perkin, English chemist (b. 1838) July 15 - Qin Jin, Chinese poet, revolutionary (b. 1875) July 28 – Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (b. 1840) August August – Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815) August 1 Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, American physician and writer (b. 1843) Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849) August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. 1848) August 4 – Richard Meade, Lord Gilford, British admiral (b. 1832) August 13 – Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist (b. 1841) August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831) August 25 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist (b. 1861) Alexandre Franquet, French admiral (b. 1828) August 30 – Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American actor (b. 1857) September September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843) September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839) September 9 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840) September 12 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer, Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1837) September 19 – Jacob Morenga, Namibian rebel leader (b. 1875) September 22 – Wilbur Olin Atwater, American chemist (b. 1844) September 30 – Sir John Ardagh, British army general (b. 1840) October October 10 – Adolf Furtwängler, German