March 6 Carl Bechstein, German piano maker (b. 1826) Gottlieb Daimler, German inventor, automotive pioneer (b. 1834) March 7 – Rachel Lloyd, American chemist (b. 1839) March 10 – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Danish composer (b. 1805) March 18 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835) March 28 – Piet Joubert, Boer politician, military commander (b. 1834) March 29 – Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, 1st president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (b. 1826) April 2 – Gustaf Åkerhielm, 6th prime minister of Sweden (b. 1833) April 5 Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822) Maria Louise Eve, American author (b. 1848) Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman military leader (b. 1832) April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826) April 12 – James Richard Cocke, American physician, homeopath, and pioneer hypnotherapist (b. 1863) April 17 – George Curry, Wild West robber (Wild Bunch) (shot) (b. 1871) April 19 – James Dawson, Australian activist (b. 1806) April 21 – Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819) April 22 – Amédée-François Lamy, French soldier (b. 1858) (killed in battle) April 24 – George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician (b. 1823) April 30 – Casey Jones, American railway engineer (b. 1863) May 1 – Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (b. 1844) May 2 – Seweryn Morawski, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1819) May 9 – Carit Etlar (Carl Brosbøll), Danish author (b. 1816) May 18 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813) May 28 – Sir George Grove, English music writer (b. 1820) June 2 – Samori Ture, West African empire-builder (b. 1830) June 3 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer, writer (b. 1862) June 5 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871) June 11 – Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy, actress (b. 1843) June 19 – Princess Josephine of Baden (b. 1813) July–December July 5 – Henry Barnard, American educationalist (b. 1811) July 8 – Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b. 1820) July 9 – Gregorio Grassi, Italian Franciscan friar, Roman Catholic martyr and saint (b. 1833) July 26 – Nicolae Crețulescu, 2-time prime minister of Romania (b. 1812) July 29 – King Umberto I of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844) July 30 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria (b. 1844) August 1 – Rafael Molina Sanchez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1841) August 4 – Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer (b. 1822) August 7 –