November 1 – Mary F. Eastman, American educator, lecturer, writer, and suffragist (born 1833) November 4 Richard Gerstl, Austrian artist (born 1883) Tomás Estrada Palma, 1st President of Cuba (born 1832) November 7 Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (born 1866) Sundance Kid, American outlaw (born 1867) November 8 Josephine E. Keating, American literary critic and musician (born 1838) Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (born 1831) November 14 – Emperor Guangxu of China (born 1871) November 15 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (born 1835) November 17 – Lydia Thompson, English dancer, actress (born 1838) November 22 – Paul Taffanel, French flautist, composer (born 1844) December 13 – Augustus Le Plongeon, American archaeologist (born 1825) December 22 — Jacob Parrott, the first person to receive the Medal of Honor, one of six presented on March 25, 1863, to the heroes of the Great Locomotive Chase during the American Civil War (born 1843) Date unknown Jacob W. Davis, Latvian American tailor, inventor of jeans (born 1831) Eleanor Kirk, American publisher (born 1831) Nobel Prizes Physics – Gabriel Lippmann Chemistry – Ernest Rutherford Medicine – Élie Metchnikoff, Paul Ehrlich Literature – Rudolf Christoph Eucken Peace – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer References Further reading The Annual Register for 1908, British and world events online Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 105 – 22. Leap years in the Gregorian calendar