- March 24
- Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at age 77. [1]
- April 4
- Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at age 73. [1]
- April 18
- Juan Valera bon Alcalá Galiano, Spanish author (Pepita Jiménez), dies at age 80. [1]
- May 9
- Death of Anna Reeves Jarvis, the inspiration for the modern Mother's Day in the USA. [411.64] [428.5]
- May 23
- Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head editor (Time), dies at age 75. [1]
- May 26
- Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies. [1]
- June 17
- Máximo Gómez, Cuban general, dies at age 68. [1]
1906
- January 8
- Jacob Cornelis van Marken, peanut butter maker (Calvé-Delft), dies at age 60. [1]
- January 18
- President Bartolomé Mitre of Argentina (1862-70), dies at age 84. [1]
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- January 25
- Joseph Wheeler II, former General of Confederate States of America, dies at age 70. [1]
- Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at age 78. [1]
- January 29
- King Christaan IX of Denmark (1893-1906) dies. [1]
- February 9
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at age 33 in Dayton, Ohio. [1]
- March 1
- Moriz Heyne, German germanist (German Wörterbuch), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 10
- Eugen Richter, German Member of Parliament (Liberal), dies at age 67. [1]
- March 13
- Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at age 85. [1]
- March 15
- Alfred Gilpin Jones, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at age 81. [1]
- March 17
- Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at age 82. [1]
- March 23
- Victor Barton, cricket player (scored 23 in Test England versus South Africa 1892), dies. [1]
- April 6
- Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at age 57. [1]
- April 11
- Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Russian-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies. [1]
- James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum and Bailey), dies at age 58. [1]
- April 19
- Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel Prize 1903), dies. [1]
- April 20
- Australian wombat, oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at age 26. [1]
- May 23
- Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at age 78. [1]
- May 31
- Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at age 56. [1]
- King Alfonso XIII and Victoria von Battenberg are assassinated in Madrid, Spain. [1]
- June 25
- Architect Stanford White is shot dead atop Madison Square Garden (which he designed) by Harry Thaw, jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit. [1]
- June 26
- Alexander Muir, poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at age 76. [1]
- October 1
- Death of Albert J. Adams at age 65 by suicide gunshot in New York; boss of policy gambling game 1880s-1901, multi-millionaire. [819.105]
- October 20
- William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (New York Giants), dies at age 67. [1]
1907
- January 6
- Walter Read, cricket player (English batsman, 117 at no 10 versus Australia 1884), dies. [1]
- January 16
- Alfred Shaw, cricket player (seven Tests for England 1877-82), dies. [1]
- February 2
- Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at age 72. [1]
- February 8
- Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at age 52. [1]
- February 11
- Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at age 80. [1]
- February 16
- Giosué Carducci, poet (Nobel Prize 1906), dies. [1]
- February 17
- Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist Society-Madras), dies at age 74. [1]
- February 20
- Ferdinand-Frederic-Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel Prize 1906), dies at age 54. [1]
- March 11
- Nikola Petkow, premier of Bulgaria, is murdered. [1]
- March 19
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at age 70. [1]
- March 23
- Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at age 79. [1]
- April 5
- Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Netherlands), dies at age 65. [1]
- August 3
- Death of Augustus Saint-Gaudens; American sculptor, designer of American 1907 $20 gold coin. [406.70] [421.20]
- November 7
- Dynamite explodes on a locomotive killing engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico. [1]
- December 8
- Death of King Oskar II of Sweden (and Norway to 1905); Prince Gustav is proclaimed King Gustav V. [7]
- December 17
- Kelvin of Largs [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin), dies at age 83. [1]
- December 21
- Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at age 58. [1]
- December 31
- Death of Jules de Trooz, Belgium Prime Minister, at age 63. [1]
1908
- January 4
- Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at age 70. [1]
- January 9
- Abraham Goldfaden, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at age 67. [1]
- Death of Wilhelm Busch in Mechtshausen bei Seesen, Germany; humorous writer, painter and poet, Max und Moritz (The Katzenjammer Kids) and Die fromme Helene, forerunner to the comic strip. [1] [37]
- January 10
- Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at age 65. [1]
- January 17
- Ferdinand IV, ruler of Toscane, dies at age 72. [1]
- January 23
- Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at age 47. [1]
- February 1
- King Carlos I of Portugal (1889-1908), is assassinated by mob at age 44. [1]
- February 17
- Geronimo, Apache chief, dies at about age 79. [1]
- February 29
- Death of Patrick Garret near Organ, New Mexico, USA, shot by Wayne Brazel in a dispute over a herd of goats. Garrett was former Sherriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, and killed William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid". [645.50]
- March 12
- Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at age 61. [1]
- April 20
- Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at age 85. [1]
- April 22
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies. [1]
- May 6
- Jean Réville, French vicar (Le Prophétisme Hébreu), dies at age 53. [1]
- May 26
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Indies, theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at age 69. [1]
- May 31
- C L "Boy" Johnson, cricket player (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies. [1]
- June 24
- Death of Stephen Grover Cleveland at age 71 after a heart attack in Princeton, New Jersey, USA; lawyer, Eric County district attorney (1863-65), Erie County sheriff (1871-73), mayor of Buffalo (1881), governor of New York (1882-85), 22nd US President (1885-89), 24th US President (1893-97). [5] [844.46]
- September 17
- Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight. [1]
- December 22
- Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at age 44. [1]
1909
- January 15
- Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at age 63. [1]
- February 2
- Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at age 73. [1]
- March 16
- George Thorndike Angell; lawyer (ASPCA), dies at age 85. [1]
- March 24
- John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at age 37. [1]
- April 13
- Death of Sir Donald Currie at age 83 at Dartmouth, England; founder of Union Castle Steamship Company. [152.18]
- May 8
- Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies. [1]
- May 18
- George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at age 81. [1]
- June 28
- Israel Durham, Philadelphia Phillies' president, dies. [1]
- July 11
- Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority, dies. [1]
- September 7
- Eugène Lefebvre dies test-piloting a Wright A aircraft. [1]
- October 26
- Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean. [1]
- December 4
- Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at age 60. [1]
- December 10
- Death of Red Cloud at age 77 on Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, USA; leader of Oglala Lakota Sioux during Boseman War (1866-1868). [1] [1458.11]
- December 17
- King Leopold II of Belgium dies. [1]
- December 24
- Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at age 80. [1]
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