Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865) Henry B. Harris, American theater producer (b. 1866) Wallace Hartley, English ship's bandleader and violinist (b. 1878) Charles Melville Hays, American railroad executive (b. 1856) Francis Davis Millet, American painter, sculptor and writer (b. 1846) Clarence Moore, American businessman and sportsman (b. 1865) William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer of the Titanic (b. 1873) Jack Phillips, English ship's senior wireless officer (b. 1887) Edward Smith, English ship's captain (b. 1850) William Thomas Stead, English campaigning journalist (b. 1849) Isidor Straus, German American department store owner (Macy's) and member of United States House of Representatives (b. 1845) Ida Straus, German American wife of Isidor Straus (1 of only 5 Titanic first-class female fatalities) (b. 1849) John B. Thayer, American businessman and sportsman (b. 1862) Frank M. Warren Sr., American businessman (b. 1848) George Dunton Widener, American businessman (b. 1861) Harry Elkins Widener, American bibliophile, son of George Dunton Widener (b. 1885) Henry Tingle Wilde, Chief Officer of the Titanic (b. 1872) April 18 – Martha Ripley, American physician and suffragist (b. 1843) April 19 – Patricio Escobar, 9th President of Paraguay (b. 1843) April 20 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer (Dracula) (b. 1847) May May 4 – Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (b. 1861) May 5 – Rafael Pombo, Colombian poet (b. 1833) May 14 Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843) August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and painter (b. 1849) May 19 – Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, Spanish historian, philologist and literary critic (b. 1856) May 21 – Sir Julius Wernher, German-born British businessman and art collector (b. 1850) May 25 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860) May 28 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist (b. 1838) May 30 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, of typhoid (b. 1867) June June 1 – Philip Orin Parmelee, American aviator, in aircraft accident (b. 1887) June 9 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852) June 10 – Anton Aškerc, Slovene poet (b. 1856) June 11 – Léon Dierx, French poet (Les Amants) (b. 1838) June 12 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822) June 16 – Thomas Pollock Anshutz, American painter (b. 1851) June 24 – Sir George White, British field marshal (b. 1835) June 25 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-born British painter, died in Germany (b. 1836) Louis-Joseph Antoine, Belgian miner and sect leader Hubert Latham,