- March 11
- Edmund Peate, cricket player (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies. [1]
- March 18
- António Nobre, Portuguese poet (Só), dies at age 32. [1]
- March 26
- Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder of American Hebrew Congregations, dies at age 80. [1]
- March 27
- Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African General, dies at age 69. [1]
- March 31
- Frank Milligan, cricket player (Mafeking 2 Tests England versus South Africa 1898-99), dies. [1]
- April 5
- Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African General, dies in battle. [1]
- April 19
- Ivan K Aïvazovski, Russian painter (harbor scenes), dies at age 82. [1]
- April 24
- George J D Campbell, British minister of Indies (1868-74, 1880-85), dies at age 76. [1]
- April 30
- John Luther Jones AKA Casey Jones dies in Cannonball Express train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, USA. [1]
- May 31
- James Loudon, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1871-75), dies at age 75. [1]
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- John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle. [1]
- July 29
- Italian King Umberto I is assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci. [1]
- August 25
- Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, dies in Weimar, Germany. [1]
- October 17
- Death of James Parsons Major in Sommerville, New Jersey, USA; designer and engraver, designed first US postage stamps (1847 5-cent, 10-cent), banknote engraver with American Banknote Company. [958.832]
- October 22
- Death of John Sherman in Washington, DC, USA at age 77; canal engineer, lawyer, Representative (Ohio, 1854-61), US Senator (Ohio, 1861-77, 1881-97), Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, US Treasury Secretary (1877-81), Secretary of State (1897-98). [525.116]
- November 30
- Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris, France. [1] [5]
- December 14
- Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at age 46. [1]
1901
- January 1
- Ignatius Donnelly, US attorney/Lieutenant-Governor (Minnesota), dies at age 69. [1]
- January 14
- Charles Hermite, French mathematician ("e" is transcendental), dies at age 78. [1]
- January 22
- Britain's Queen Victoria (1837-1901), dies at age 81. [1]
- January 27
- Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Rigoletto, Traviata, Aïda), dies in Milano at age 87. [1]
- February 11
- King Milan I of Serbia dies at age 56. [1]
- February 12
- Ramón de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colón), dies at age 83. [1]
- February 26
- Chi-hsui is beheaded during Boxer Rebellion in China. [1]
- March 1
- Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer, German historian (Mirabeau), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 8
- Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at age 66. [1]
- March 13
- Death of Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; brigadier general of 70th Indiana Infantry Regiment, US Senator (1881-87), 23rd US President (1889-1893). [1] [912.44]
- March 17
- Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at age 69. [1]
- April 1
- François M Raoult; French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at age 70. [1]
- April 3
- Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert and Sullivan operas), dies. [1]
- May 19
- Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, first President of Republic of South Africa, dies at age 81. [1]
- August 25
- Death of Clara Maass, army nurse who sacrificied her life at age 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever. [1]
- September 14
- US President William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. [1] [5] [549.72]
- October 29
- Leon Czolcosz, assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed. [1]
- December 1
- George Lohmann, cricket player (in South Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies. [1]
1902
- January 9
- Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/Interior minister, dies at age 66. [1]
- January 11
- Johnny Briggs, cricket player (118 wickets for England), dies in an asylum. [1]
- January 17
- Gideon Scheepers, South African Boer leader, is executed. [1]
- February 3
- Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch Prime Minister (1866), dies. [1]
- February 23
- Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at age 72. [1]
- March 3
- Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at age 79. [1]
- March 12
- John Peter Altgeld, German/US Governor of Illinois, dies at age 54. [1]
- March 23
- Kálmán Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at age 71. [1]
- March 26
- Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96), dies at age 48. [1]
- April 8
- Sipyagain, Russian minister of interior/headed Secret Service, is assassinated. [1]
- April 11
- Hendrik Potgieter, South African Boer General, dies in battle. [1]
- April 27
- Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies at age 72. [1]
- May 1
- John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at age 85. [1]
- May 3
- David R Capriles, Curaçaos director of psychiatric, dies at age 64. [1]
- December 11
- Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at age 68. [1]
- December 14
- Death of Julia Boggs Dent Grant in Washington, D.C., USA; spouse of US President Hiram Ulysses Grant. [638.62]
1903
- January 4
- W H M "Dicky" Richards, cricket player (score 4 and 0 in Test for South Africa), dies. [1]
- January 21
- Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at age 58. [1]
- February 1
- George G Stokes, British physicist/presidential Royal Society, dies at age 83. [1]
- February 22
- Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies. [1]
- Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at age 42. [1]
- February 26
- Richard J Gatling, US inventor (Gatling gun), dies at age 84. [1]
- March 4
- Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 13
- Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at age 88. [1]
- May 1
- Arthur Haygarth, cricket player (compiler of Scores and Biographies), dies. [1]
- May 8
- Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin; French painter (Tahiti), dies. [1]
- May 19
- Arthur Shrewsbury, cricket player (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies. [1]
- June 10
- King Alexander I and Queen Dragia of Serbia are assassinated. [1]
- October 23
- Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at age 66. [1]
- December 11
- Patrick McShane, cricket player/umpire (1884-85 Ashes series), dies. [1]
- December 14
- William Ennis is first US policeman to die in the electric chair. [1]
1904
- January 2
- James Longstreet, Confederate General, dies at age 82. [1]
- January 5
- Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at age 64. [1]
- January 9
- Alfred Richard, cricket player (6 and 0 in only Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies. [1]
- March 5
- Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at age 71. [1]
- April 9
- Queen Isabella II of Spain (1833-68) dies at age 73. [1]
- April 13
- The flagship of Russian naval forces in the Far East, the Petropavlovsk, is blown up by a mine, killing commander Admiral Stephen Osipovitch Makarov. [1038.2080]
- Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies. [1]
- April 24
- Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens), dies at age 77. [1]
- May 1
- Antonín Dvorak of Czechoslovakia, composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at age 62. [1]
- May 8
- Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies. [1]
- May 16
- N I Bobrikov, Russian Governor-General in Finland, dies. [1]
- October 4
- Death of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty). [1]
- December 10
- James Cranston, cricket player (scored 16 and 15 in Test for England), dies. [1]
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