of California (b. 1820) September 11 – Antero de Quental, Portuguese poet (b. 1842) September 15 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812) September 19 – José Manuel Balmaceda, 10th President of Chile (b. 1840) September 28 – Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819) September 30 – Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general, politician (b. 1837) October 6 Charles I of Württemberg (b. 1823) Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (b. 1846) October 23 – Ambrose of Optina, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1812) October 25 – Prince Kuni Asahiko of Japan (b. 1824) October 29 – Prince Yamashina Akira of Japan (b. 1816) November 6 – J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor (b. 1818) November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854) November 17 – George H. Cooper, United States Navy admiral (b. 1821) November 28 – Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet, British politician (b. 1826) December 4 – Frederick Whitaker, English-New Zealand lawyer, politician and 5th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812) December 5 – Pedro II, 2nd and last Emperor of Brazil (b. 1825) December 6 – Émile Bayard, French artist (b. 1837) December 7 – Mary Crane, American activist; mother of the writer, Stephen Crane (b. 1827) December 12 – Julia A. Ames, American reformer (b. 1861) December 17 – José María Iglesias, Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877 (b. 1823) December 20 – William Robert Woodman, British co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (b. 1828) December 29 – Leopold Kronecker, Polish-born German mathematician, academic (b. 1823) December 31 – Samuel Ajayi Crowther, 1st African Anglican bishop, linguist and legendary missionary (b. 1809) Date unknown Anna Sprengel, German countess (alleged death) References Sources Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1891: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry (1892); highly detailed compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage. not online.