1847) March 15 – Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, British colonial administrator of India (b. 1826) March 23 – Kálmán Tisza, Hungarian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1830) March 26 – Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853) March 29 – Sir Andrew Clarke, British army officer and colonial governor (b. 1824) April 3 – Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragist judge (b. 1814) April 8 – John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, British politician (b. 1826) April 11 – Wade Hampton III, Confederate soldier and South Carolina politician (b. 1818) April 15 – Jules Dalou, French sculptor (b. 1838) April 17 – Francis, Duke of Cádiz, former king consort of Spain (b. 1822) April 19 – Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (b. 1850) April 26 – Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician (b. 1833) April 28 – Sol Smith Russell, American comedian (b. 1848) May – Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge, American philanthropist, author and reformer (b. 1849) May 5 – Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836) May 6 Martha Perry Lowe, American social activist and organizer (b. 1829) William T. Sampson, American admiral (b. 1840) May 7 – Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest, founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata (b. 1818) May 26 – Almon Brown Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839) June 5 - Louis J. Weichmann, American witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842) June 8 – Charles Ingalls, American pioneer and father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. 1836) June 10 Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845) Auguste Schmidt, German educator, activist (b. 1833) June 18 – Samuel Butler, British author (b. 1835) June 19 – King Albert of Saxony, member of the House of Wettin (b. 1828) July–December July 4 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863) July 6 – Maria Goretti, Italian Roman Catholic virgin, martyr and saint (b. 1890) July 16 – Henry Dunning Macleod, Scottish economist (b. 1821) July 18 – Saigō Jūdō, Japanese general, admiral, and politician (b. 1843) July 27 – Gustave Trouvé, French electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1839) August 8 – James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836) August 31 – Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (b. 1828) September 5 – Rudolf Virchow, German scientist, politician (b. 1821) September 6 Sir Frederick Abel, British chemist (b. 1827) Hammerton Killick, Haitian admiral (b. 1856) Winfield Scott Stratton, American mining prospector and philanthropist (b. 1848) September 15 – Horace Gray, American jurist (b.