museum curator and surgeon (b. 1831) July 2 – General Horatio Wright, 79, American engineer, U.S. Army officer in the American Civil War, Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (b. 1820) July 4 – Sir Alexander Armstrong, 81, Irish-born physician, Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1818) July 10 – Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, 28, Tsarevich and heir to the throne of Russia as younger brother of Nicholas II (b. 1871) Albert Grévy, French statesman and Governor-General of Algeria 1879-1881 (b. 1823) July 16 – Margaretta Riley, British botanist (b. 1804) William Preston Johnston, 68, American college administrator and first president of Tulane University (b. 1831) July 18 – Horatio Alger Jr., American writer (b. 1832) July 20 – Frances Laughton Mace, American poet (b. 1836) July 21 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician (b. 1833) July 27 – Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, German chess-master (b. 1818) August 4 – Karl, Freiherr von Prel, German philosopher (b. 1839) August 9 Sir Edward Frankland, British chemist (b. 1825) Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Russian Grand Duke, younger brother of Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1871) August 16 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811) September–October September 2 – Ernest Renshaw, British tennis player (b. 1861) September 12 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (b. 1843) September 13 – Sarah Warren Keeler, American educator of the deaf-mute (b. 1844) September 17 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842) September 28 – Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (b. 1858) October 2 Emma Hardinge Britten, British writer (b. 1823) Percy Pilcher, British aviation pioneer, glider pilot (b. 1866) October 7 – Deodato Arellano, Filipino Propagandist (b. 1844) October 14 Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American diarist (b. 1812) Nicolai Hanson, Norwegian zoologist and Antarctic explorer (b. 1870) October 22 – Ella Hoag Brockway Avann, American educator (b. 1853) October 23 – Sir Penn Symons, British general (died of wounds) (b. 1843) October 25 – Grant Allen, Canadian science writer and novelist (b. 1848) October 30 Sir Arthur Blomfield, British architect (b. 1829) William Henry Webb, American industrialist, philanthropist (b. 1816) October 31 – Anton Berindei, Wallachian-born Romanian general and politician (b. 1838) November–December November 16 Vincas Kudirka, Lithuanian doctor, poet, and national hero (b. 1858) Julius Hermann Moritz Busch, German publicist (b. 1821) November 21 – Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the