c. 1838) September 13 – René Goblet, French politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828) September 14 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Franco-Italian explorer (b. 1852) September 18 – George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet and Christian minister (b. 1824) September 19 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845) October 3 – José-Maria de Heredia, French poet (b. 1842) October 6 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German explorer and geographer (b. 1833) October 11 – Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, Belgian educationalist and feminist (b. 1839) October 13 – Sir Henry Irving, English actor (b. 1838) October 15 – Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian general (b. 1830) October 29 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873) November–December November 2 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817) November 9 – William Parrott, British coalminer (b. 1843) November 14 – Robert Whitehead, British engineer and inventor (b. 1823) November 17 Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1817) Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (b. 1837) November 22 – Viktor Sakharov, Russian general (assassinated) (b. 1848) December 5 – Henry Eckford, British horticulturist (b. 1823) December 9 Henry Holmes, British composer, violinist (b. 1839) Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, British scholar, politician (b. 1841) Date unknown Abdul Wahid Bengali, Muslim theologian and teacher (b. 1850) Mary Thomas, West Indian labor leader (b. 1848) Nobel Prizes Physics – Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard Chemistry – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer Medicine – Robert Koch Literature – Henryk Sienkiewicz Peace – Bertha von Suttner References Further reading Gilbert, Martin (1997). A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933. pp 105–22.