and politician, 1st Governor of Alaska and 3rd Governor of Nevada (born 1826) August 16 Joachim Grassi, Italian architect (born 1837) Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (born 1843) August 22 Gaudensi Allar, French architect (born 1841) Kate Chopin, American author (born 1850) August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (born 1836) August 29 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V (born 1840) September September 2 James Brady, American criminal (born 1875) Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso, New Zealander Protestant missionary (born 1821) September 3 James Archer, Scottish artist (born 1822) Heinrich Koebner, German-born Israeli dermatologist (born 1838) September 4 – William McCallin, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1842) September 5 – Herbert von Bismarck, German politician (born 1849) September 13 – James Jameson, American surgeon (born 1837) September 17 – Kartini, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist (born 1879) September 20 R. W. H. T. Hudson, British mathematician (born 1875) José Maria de Yermo y Parres, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint (born 1851) September 22 Wilson Barrett, British actor (born 1846) Louis Massebieau, French historian and Protestant theologian (born 1840) September 23 George Adams, Australian businessman (born 1839) Émile Gallé, French artist (born 1846) September 24 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist (born 1860) Gustav Frank, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian (born 1832) Caleb C. Harris, American farmer and physician (born 1836) September 26 Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (born 1842) Lafcadio Hearn, American-born Japanese author (born 1850) September 27 – David Grant Colson, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky (born 1861) October October 4 Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (born 1834) Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (born 1847) Edmund Francis Dunne, American politician, jurist and Catholic orator (b 1835) Violet Nicolson, British poet (born 1865) Pierre Sainsevain, French settler (born 1818) October 8 – Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian philosopher (born 1842) October 11 Mary Tenney Gray, American club-woman Archie Hooper, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1881) October 13 – Pavlos Melas, Greek revolutionary and army officer (born 1870) October 15 – George, King of Saxony (born 1832) October 17 Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (born 1880) Ștefan Petică, Romanian poet and writer (born 1877) October 19 – Maurice Baldwin, Canadian Anglican bishop (born 1836) October 21 Euphemia Vale Blake, British-born American critic (born 1817) Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer (born 1877) Braulio Orue-Vivanco, Cuban Roman Catholic bishop (born 1843) October 23 – Emilia Dilke, English author (born 1840) October 26 – Princess Srivilailaksana of Suphanburi,