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Calendar overview 1886
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| 1886 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1334/35 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1878/79 (September 10-11) |
| Baha'i calendar | 42/43 (March 20/21) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1291/92 (beginning of April 14th or 15th) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2429/30 (southern Buddhism); 2428/29 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Fire Dog丙戌 ( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster 乙酉) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1248/49 (turn of the year April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4219/20 (October 2/3) |
| Iranian calendar | 1264/65 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1303/04 (September 29/30) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 19 (
明治 19 年); Kōki 2546 |
| Jewish calendar | 5646/47 (September 29/30) |
| Coptic Calendar | 1602/03 (September 10/11) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1061/62 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1301/02 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2196/97 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 2197/98 (turn of the year October) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1942/43 (April) |
events
Politics and world events
Eastern Europe / Balkans
- March 3: The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Serbian-Bulgarian war in the Balkans. The territorial gains made by Bulgaria will be reversed under pressure from Austria-Hungary and the status quo ante restored.
- April 5: The unification of Bulgaria in 1885 with Eastern Rumelia is internationally recognized by the Topchane Treaty . The treaty is signed by the envoys of the great powers as well as the Ottoman Grand Vizier Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha and the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ilija Zanow in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul .
- August 9: At the instigation of Russia , a group of pro-Russian officers put a coup against the Bulgarian Prince Alexander I and force him to abdicate. He is then taken to Russia. With the support of the Bulgarian parliamentary president Stefan Stambolow , who organized a counter-coup with the help of the military, Alexander was able to briefly return to the throne of Bulgaria. On September 7th he renounced Russian pressure but finally renounced the rule.
- October 22: Another military revolt initiated by Russia in the Bulgarian city of Burgas is put down within a few days.
- November 6th: The Russian Empire breaks off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria as a result of the Bulgarian crisis .
Central Europe
- January 1: Adolf Deucher becomes President of Switzerland .
- April 26th: With the settlement law signed by Kaiser Wilhelm I for the eastern provinces of Prussia , which previously belonged to Poland , the proportion of local farmers is to be reduced. However, official expropriations strengthen Polish nationalism.
- June 12th: Four days after a medical commission submitted its report on the mental state of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the second attempt at Neuschwanstein Castle was successful . The king is brought to Berg Castle .
- June 13th: King Ludwig II dies under circumstances that have not yet been fully clarified in Lake Starnberg . His mentally handicapped brother Otto officially becomes King of Bavaria under the tutelage of his uncle the Prince Regent Luitpold .
America
- May 1st: In Chicago , a unionized strike for the eight-hour day triggers the Haymarket Riot, and so May Day commemorates Labor Day in many places from 1890 onwards .
- May 4: The Haymarket Riot escalates after a bomb is dropped at a workers' demonstration in Chicago, claiming the dead and firing police into the crowd.
- December 8: Samuel Gompers founds the American Federation of Labor in Columbus, Ohio , one of the first trade union federations in the United States.
Africa
- May 15: The colonial powers Portugal and France sign a treaty on their ownership of the Portuguese Guineas and Cabindas .
- October 4th: Johannesburg is established as a place after gold diggers have previously settled in tents.
Asia
- Great Britain conquers parts of Burma .
business
Patents and inventions
- January 29th: Carl Benz applies for a patent for the automobile he has built .
- April 8th: Carl Gassner receives a German patent for the dry battery he developed .
- May 8: Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated drink that makes Coca-Cola .
- May 8: Coca-Cola is first sold as medicine in Atlanta .
- June 8th: The Swiss Julius Maggi invents a seasoning sauce , the Maggi seasoning named after him .
- November 2: The Imperial Patent Office in Germany issued Carl Benz for him built automobile that patent .
- November 14th: Patent application for the paper punch by Friedrich Soennecken .
Business start-ups and openings
- January: The brothers Robert Wood Johnson I, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson found the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey . The focus of business activity in the 1880s was on the manufacture of the first surgical dressing materials.
- December 6: The first Raiffeisen bank in Austria is founded in Mühldorf .
- The Irish brothers William M. Foster and Ralph R. Foster found a brewery in Melbourne from which the Foster's Group will develop.
- The White Brewery in Erding , today's private brewery Erdinger Weißbräu , is founded.
- Arthur D. Little management consultancy is founded in Cambridge (Mass./USA).
- The German Pondoland Society is founded.
traffic
- March 16: The law establishing the Kiel Canal is passed.
- March 25: The Ponte Internacional Valença-Tui between Portugal and Spain is ceremoniously opened with a train decorated with the flags of both nations from Valença crossing the bridge to Tui .
- June 28: The first passenger train on the Canadian Pacific Railway leaves Montreal . On the more than 3,000 km long route, it reached the terminus in Port Moody on July 4th.
- July 4: The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled transcontinental railroad train reaches its western terminus at Port Moody in British Columbia .
- July 7th: The Doberan-Heiligendammer Railway starts running as a steam tram between Bad Doberan and Heiligendamm .
- November 8: Around six months after the start of construction, the Lugano – SBB funicular goes into operation.
science and technology
astronomy
- September 1: Lewis A. Swift spots the galaxy NGC 155 in the constellation Whale .
- September 2: Lewis A. Swift discovers the galaxy NGC 448 in the constellation Whale .
- October 21: Lewis A. Swift sees the galaxy later known as NGC 64 in the constellation Whale .
- October 21: Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel discovers the galaxy NGC 47 in the constellation Whale .
- October 22nd: Lewis A. Swift is the first to see the galaxies NGC 75 and NGC 240 in the constellation Pisces .
- November 20: Lewis A. Swift discovers the galaxy NGC 150 in the constellation Sculptor .
- November 21: Lewis A. Swift first notices the galaxies NGC 35 , NGC 161 and NGC 237 in the constellation Whale .
Chemistry and physics
- February 6th: During the analysis of the mineral argyrodite , Clemens Winkler discovers a new chemical element which he calls germanium and which corresponds to the Eka silicon predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev .
- February 23: Charles Martin Hall succeeds in a manufacturing process for aluminum after several years of trials .
- June 26th: The Frenchman Henri Moissan produces pure fluorine for the first time .
- November 11th: In an experiment in Karlsruhe, Heinrich Hertz succeeds in transmitting electromagnetic waves from a transmitter to a receiver.
- The German physicist Eugen Goldstein discovered the canal rays that are now identified as positively charged ion radiation.
Medicine and psychology
- The German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing defines the medical term masochism .
Technical achievements
- July 3: The New York Tribune puts Ottmar Mergenthaler's first Linotype typesetting machine into operation. His invention accelerated the setting of newspapers.
- October: Gottlieb Daimler builds the four-stroke engine he developed in 1883 into a carriage made by Wilhelm Wimpff , making him the inventor of the four-wheeled motor vehicle.
- October 31: The arched bridge Ponte Dom Luís I over the Douro river near Porto , built according to the plans of the engineer Théophile Seyrig , is inaugurated by the Portuguese King Ludwig I after a five-year construction period . At the time of its opening, it is the largest of its kind.
- Josephine Cochrane , wife of an American diplomat, invents the dishwasher .
- In Austria, the first electric street lighting is installed in Scheibbs .
- From 1886 Ottomar Anschütz developed the electrotachyscope , a device for the projection of chronophotographically generated serial images .
Others
- The Sigma Xi Science Association is founded at Cornell University in New York . The aim of the association is to honor special scientific achievements and to promote collaboration between researchers from different scientific disciplines.
- Several state experimental farms are set up in Ottawa , including the Central Experimental Farm / Ferme expérimentale centrale .
Culture
- September 9: The Berne Convention for the Protection of Works of Art and Literature , drawn up on the initiative of Victor Hugo , is signed by eight countries. Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Tunisia recognize the copyright between sovereign nations for the first time .
Architecture and fine arts
- December 27: The Olympia exhibition hall , built by the National Agricultural Company , opens in London, making it the largest steel-and-glass building in Great Britain to date.
- Claude Monet paints the impressionist work Woman with a Parasol in two versions.
- Creation of the painting The King Everywhere by Robert Warthmüller
literature
- A doppelganger , a novella by Theodor Storm , appears in sequels between October 1 and December 15 in the first six issues of the journal Deutsche Dichtung , which Karl Emil Franzos founded in the same year.
- On September 1st, Samuel Fischer founds S. Fischer Verlag (at that time still written with a comma: “S. Fischer, Verlag”) at Mohrenstrasse 10 in Berlin. October 1st, later rumored by S. Fischer as the official founding date, was the date of his wedding anniversary.
Music and theater
- February 20: The world premiere of the opera Urvasi by Wilhelm Kienzl takes place in Dresden.
- February 21: Almost five years after the death of Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky , his opera Khovanshchina in the version significantly shortened by the censorship authorities is premiered by Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov in a private setting at the Musikdramatic Club in Saint Petersburg.
- February 27: The drama Edmea of Alfredo Catalani is at Teatro alla Scala di Milano premiered in Milan.
- October 2: The world premiere of the operetta Lorraine by Rudolf Dellinger takes place at the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg.
- October 20: Kaiser Wilhelm I opens the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main .
- November 19: The world premiere of the opera Merlin by Karl Goldmark takes place at the Court Opera in Vienna .
- November 19: The world premiere of the opera Die Hochzeit des Mönchs by August Klughardt takes place in Dessau .
Others
- October 28: The Statue of Liberty is inaugurated by US President Grover Cleveland .
- November 30th: Les Folies Bergère established its first revue in Paris .
society
- June 2: Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom at the Washington White House . It is the only wedding in the official residence of the US President to date .
- September 18: In a lecture at the gathering of German naturalists and doctors, Werner von Siemens coined the term “scientific age”.
- November 27th: The judge Emil Hartwich and Baron Armand von Ardenne fight a duel with pistols after Hartwich's affair with Ardenne's wife Elisabeth . Hartwich dies on December 1st from the gunshot wound he has suffered. The poet Theodor Fontane takes up the process later in the novel Effi Briest .
religion
- January 6th: The encyclical Iampridem on Catholicism in Germany by Pope Leo XIII, addressed to the Prussian episcopate . will be published.
- September 14th: In the encyclical Pergrata nobis , the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal is at the center of the reflections of Pope Leo XIII. He calls on the Portuguese government to grant the church the state protection it is entitled to by virtue of natural law .
Disasters
- May 14: A devastating cyclone rages over the town of Crossen on the Oder, today's Krosno Odrzańskie .
- May 30: The Australian liner Ly-ee-Moon runs aground on the rocks of Cape Green headland on the New South Wales coast and breaks apart. 71 passengers and crew members perish.
- June 10: An eruption of the Mount Tarawera volcano on New Zealand's North Island leads to devastation, destroys the Māori village Te Wairoa on Lake Tarawera and kills more than 150 people. The Pink and White Terraces in the Bay of Plenty are also being destroyed.
- August 31: Charleston (South Carolina) is almost 90 percent destroyed by a severe earthquake , the force of nature claims around 100 deaths.
nature and environment
- In Austria-Hungary the edelweiss is placed under nature protection.
Sports
- January 11th: The first official World Chess Championship begins. In the duel, which lasted until March 29, Wilhelm Steinitz defeated his opponent Johannes Zukertort with 10: 5 and thus became the first world chess champion . The demonstration board invented by Johann Jacob Löwenthal will be used for the first time for the audience .
- March: In Belfast is by workers of Linfield Spinning Mill of Linfield Football Club founded. The Irish football club was Protestant from the very beginning.
- May 17th: The Scottish football club FC Motherwell is created through the merger of the two corporate sports clubs Glencairn and Alpha .
- September 1: The Grasshopper Club Zurich , the second oldest football club in Switzerland, is founded.
- On December 8th, the world's first ice hockey championship league , the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada Montreal, is formed.
- Workers at Royal Arsenal in Woolwich , London, set up Dial Square football club , now Arsenal FC . On December 11th, they won their first game against the Eastern Wanderers 6-0.
- The federations of Ireland , Scotland and Wales set up the International Rugby Football Board over rule disputes with the English Rugby Football Union .
Born
January
- January 1: Kinoshita Rigen , Japanese poet († 1925)
- January 2: Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel , German general and resistance fighter († 1944)
- January 2: Lupu Pick , Romanian-German actor and director († 1931)
- January 3: Grigori Nikolajewitsch Neuimin , Russian astronomer († 1946)
- January 4: Fritz Ecarius , German politician, Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen († 1966)
- January 5: Franz Kaufmann , German lawyer and resistance fighter († 1944)
- January 6: Walter Adam , Austrian journalist and politician († 1947)
- January 7th: Hans Grimm , German composer († 1965)
- January 8: Albrecht Janssen , German writer († 1972)
- January 9: Paul Aron , German pianist, composer, director, conductor, organizer, educator and translator († 1955)
- January 9: Arthur Kronfeld , German psychotherapist († 1941)
- January 10: Leopold Binental , Polish musicologist and teacher († 1944)
- January 10: Albrecht Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , German politician and member of the Bundestag († 1948)
- January 10: Nadeschda Udalzowa , Russian painter († 1961)
- January 10: Roman von Ungern-Sternberg , tsarist officer and leader of the "whites" in the Russian Civil War († 1921)
- January 11th: Rosario Arcidiacono , Italian actor († 1972)
- January 11th: Sytse Frederick Willem Koolhoven , Dutch racing car driver, aircraft designer and entrepreneur († 1946)
- January 11th: Elsa Rendschmidt , German figure skater († 1969)
- January 11: George Zucco , American film and stage actor († 1960)
- January 14: Bruno Gimpel , German painter († 1943)
- January 15: Raymond de Tornaco , Belgian racing driver († 1960)
- January 15: Jenő Károly , Hungarian football player and coach († 1926)
- January 15: Harry Kuneman , Dutch football player († 1945)
- January 17th: Johan Ankerstjerne , Danish cameraman († 1959)
- January 18: Ștefan Dimitrescu , Romanian painter († 1933)
- January 18: Clara Nordström , Swedish writer († 1962)
- January 19: Kurt Heinig , German lithographer, politician and journalist († 1956)
- January 22: John J. Becker , American composer († 1961)
- January 22nd: Oskar Jellinek , Austrian writer († 1949)
- January 24th: Henry King , American film director († 1982)
- January 25: Ernst Eschmann , Swiss writer († 1953)
- January 25: Wilhelm Furtwängler , German conductor and composer († 1954)
- January 25: Paolo Salman , Syrian Archbishop in Jordan († 1948)
- January 25: Willie Smith , English snooker and English billiards player († 1982)
- January 26: Eugen Lacroix , German chef and entrepreneur († 1964)
- January 26: Hermann Schubert , German politician († 1938)
- January 26: Pieter Boelmans ter Spill , Dutch football player († 1954)
- January 28: Robert Leroy Cochran , American politician († 1963)
- January 28: Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese physicist († 1976)
- January 29: Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky , Austrian film pioneer († 1927)
February
- February 2: William Rose Benét , American poet and editor († 1950)
- February 2: Frank Lloyd , British-American actor, director and producer († 1960)
- February 2: Erhard Lommatzsch , German Romanist († 1975)
- February 2: Julius Sporket , German Protestant pastor and missionary († 1955)
- February 3: Alfred Andreesen , German reform pedagogue († 1944)
- February 8: Gunther Plüschow , German pilot († 1931)
- February 9: Edward L. Leahy , American politician († 1953)
- February 9: Wilhelm Vocke , German financial expert and banker († 1973)
- February 10: Otto Lummitzsch , German pioneer officer, architect and civil engineer, founder of the Technical Relief Organization († 1962)
- February 11: Johann Baptist Hofmann , German classical philologist and linguist († 1954)
- February 11: Robert F. Rockwell , American politician († 1950)
- February 13: Ricardo Güiraldes , Argentine writer († 1927)
- February 14: Friedrich Arenhövel , German writer († 1954)
- February 14: Ángel Pestaña , Spanish syndicalist and politician († 1937)
- February 14: Karl Reinhardt , German classical philologist († 1958)
- February 14: Forrest Smith , American politician († 1962)
- February 15: Harold Chapin , English actor and playwright († 1915)
- February 15: Augustinus Hieber , German Catholic pastor, episcopal commissioner († 1968)
- February 17th: Arnold Hörburger , Dutch soccer player († 1966)
- February 17th: Eduard Stadtler , German publicist and founder of several anti-communist organizations († 1945)
- February 17: Erich Zeigner , German lawyer and SED politician († 1949)
- February 18: Jack Scales , British racing car driver († 1962)
- February 19: Karl Ast , Estonian writer and politician († 1971)
- February 19: Nils Erik Hellsten , Swedish fencer († 1962)
- February 20: Béla Kun , Hungarian politician († 1938)
- February 22: Hugo Ball , German author and co-founder of the Zurich Dada movement († 1927)
- February 22: Jean Strohl , Franco-Swiss zoologist, science historian and university professor († 1942)
- February 23: Gustav Abb , German librarian († 1945)
- February 23: Kasia von Szadurska , German painter and graphic artist († 1942)
- February 25: Hans Walter Imhoff , Swiss football player († 1971)
- February 27: Hugo Black , American politician and lawyer († 1971)
- February 28: Bjarne Aas , Norwegian sailor, shipyard owner and yacht designer († 1969)
- February 28: René Beeh , German painter and graphic artist († 1922)
- February 28: Victor Boin , Belgian sports journalist, athlete and sports official († 1974)
March
- March 1: Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian painter and writer († 1980)
- March 2: Kurt Grelling , German mathematician, logician and philosopher († 1942)
- March 2: Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg , German tank general († 1974)
- March 3: Ezequiel Fernández Jaén , Panamanian President († 1946)
- March 3: RO Morris , English composer and music teacher († 1948)
- March 4: Heinrich Uhlendahl , German librarian († 1954)
- March 5: Paul Radmilovic , British water polo player and swimmer, Olympic champion († 1968)
- March 5: Vladimir Wiese , Russian-Soviet oceanographer and polar explorer († 1954)
- March 6: Fritz Goerdeler , German lawyer († 1945)
- March 7: Bastiampillai Anthonipillai , Sri Lankan religious chaplain († 1964)
- March 7th: Geoffrey Ingram Taylor , British physicist († 1975)
- March 7th: René Thomas , French racing driver and aviation pioneer († 1975)
- March 8: Edward Calvin Kendall , American biochemist († 1972)
- March 8: Richard Charles Mills , Australian economist († 1952)
- March 9: Kenneth Edwards , American golfer († 1952)
- March 10: Karl Bröger , German worker poet and politician († 1944)
- March 10: Eugen Klöpfer , German actor († 1950)
- March 10: Paul Hans Jaeger , German politician († 1958)
- March 12: Vittorio Pozzo , Italian football player and coach († 1968)
- March 13: Henri Gagnebin , Swiss composer († 1977)
- March 14: Richard Gaettens , German numismatist († 1965)
- March 14: Vladimir Andreevich Faworsky , Russian artist († 1964)
- March 14th: Firmin Lambot , Belgian cyclist († 1964)
- March 17: Emil Stumpp , German teacher, painter and press illustrator († 1941)
- March 18: Kurt Koffka , German psychologist († 1941)
- March 18: Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière , German submarine commander in World War I († 1941)
- March 18: H. Maurice Jacquet , French composer and conductor († 1954)
- March 21: Oscar Traynor , Irish politician († 1963)
- March 23: Emil Fey , Austrian politician and Heimwehr leader († 1938)
- March 24: Edward Weston , American photographer († 1958)
- March 25: Athenagoras , Patriarch of Constantinople († 1972)
- March 26: Luigi Amoroso , Italian mathematician and economist († 1965)
- March 27: Clemens Holzmeister , Austrian architect († 1983)
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- March 27: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , German architect († 1969)
- March 27: Sergei Mironowitsch Kirov , Russian politician, confidante of Stalin and party secretary of Leningrad († 1934)
- March 28: Katharine Parker , Australian pianist and composer († 1971)
- March 29: Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , German entrepreneur, owner of the Krupp Group († 1957)
- March 29: Gustaf Bengtsson , Swedish composer († 1965)
- March 30th: Henry Lehrman , Austrian-American silent film actor, director and producer († 1946)
- March 31: Tadeusz Kotarbiński , Polish philosopher († 1981)
April
- April 2: Egon Caesar Conte Corti , Austrian writer († 1953)
- April 2: Bruno Karl August Jung , German politician († 1966)
- April 5: Gotthelf Bergsträsser , German orientalist († 1933)
- April 6: Asaf Jah VII. , Prince of Hyderabad († 1967)
- April 7th: Emilio Pujol , Spanish guitarist and composer († 1980)
- April 8: Benjamin de Arriba y Castro , Spanish Archbishop of Tarragona († 1973)
- April 8: Dimitrios Levidis , Greek composer († 1951)
- April 8: Jānis Vītoliņš , Latvian composer († 1955)
- April 10: John Hayes , American marathon runner and Olympic champion († 1965)
- April 12: Christian Lahusen , German composer († 1975)
- April 12: Fritz Henßler , German printer, politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1953)
- April 12: Paul Buchner , German zoologist († 1978)
- April 13: Ethel Leginska , English pianist, conductor and composer († 1970)
- April 13: Nicolae Tonitza , Romanian painter († 1940)
- April 14: Ernst Robert Curtius , German Romanist († 1956)
- April 15: Frank Ezra Adcock , British ancient historian († 1968)
- April 15: Heinrich Höcker , German politician († 1962)
- April 15: Nikolai Stepanowitsch Gumiljow , Russian poet († 1921)
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- April 16: Ernst Thälmann , German politician († 1944)
- April 19: Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote , German doctor († 1960)
- April 19: Manuel Bandeira , Brazilian poet († 1968)
- April 20: Walther Ansorge , German lawyer († 1967)
- April 21: Viktor von Weizsäcker , German medic († 1957)
- April 23: Friedrich Wilhelm Constantin Ashoff , German entrepreneur († 1941)
- April 23: Wilhelm Bode , German locksmith, trade unionist and resistance fighter († between 1940 and 1945)
- April 24: Mabel Garrison , American singer († 1963)
- April 24th: Georg Haas , German doctor, inventor of blood washing († 1971)
- April 24th: Hellmuth Hirth , German aviation pioneer († 1938)
- April 26: Ma Rainey , American blues singer († 1939)
- April 29: Kurt Pinthus , German writer († 1975)
May
- May 1: Walter Cramer , German entrepreneur and resistance fighter († 1944)
- May 2: Gottfried Benn , German doctor, poet and essayist († 1956)
- May 3: Fritz Baumann , Swiss painter († 1942)
- May 3: Marcel Dupré , French composer, organist, music theorist and publisher († 1971)
- May 5: Hermann Heukamp , German politician († 1966)
- May 8: Eli Kochański , Polish cellist and music teacher († 1940)
- May 9: Francis Biddle , American judge during the Nuremberg Trials († 1968)
- May 9: Edu Snethlage , Dutch football player († 1941)
- May 10: Frank Ahearn , Canadian ice hockey official († 1962)
- May 10: Karl Barth , Swiss theologian († 1968)
- May 10: Rosa Münch , Swiss politician († 1974)
- May 10: Olaf Stapledon , British science fiction author († 1950)
- May 11th: August Klingenhaben , German Africanist († 1967)
- May 12: Hermann Grabner , Austrian composer († 1969)
- May 13: Joseph Achron , Polish violinist and composer († 1943)
- May 13: Carlo Mense , German painter († 1965)
- May 13: Hans Naumann , German ancient Germanist and folklorist († 1951)
- May 13: William John Patterson , Canadian politician († 1976)
- May 14: Ernst Späth , Austrian chemist († 1946)
- May 17th: Alfonso XIII. , King of Spain († 1941)
- May 17th: Ernst Deloch , German show jumper († unknown)
- May 18: Grigori Borissowitsch Adamow , Russian writer († 1945)
- May 20: John Jacob Astor , British nobleman († 1971)
- May 20: Erwin Anton Gutkind , German-English architect, urban planner and architectural theorist († 1968)
- May 20: Ali Sami Yen , founder of the Turkish football club "Galatasaray Spor Kulübü" († 1951)
- May 22: Werner Otto von Hentig , German diplomat († 1984)
- May 23: Horacio Abadie Santos , Uruguayan politician, lawyer and journalist († 1936)
- May 23: Max Herrmann-Neisse , German writer († 1941)
- May 24: Hans Adam , Bavarian officer († 1917)
- May 24: Paul Paray , French conductor and composer († 1979)
- May 26: Al Jolson , American singer and entertainer († 1950)
- May 27th: Max Dreher , German organ builder († 1967)
- May 28: Jakob Fischbacher , German politician († 1972)
- May 28: Karl Aloys Schenzinger , German writer († 1962)
- May 30: Ernst Molden , Austrian journalist and historian († 1953)
- May 30: Frank C. Walker , American politician († 1959)
- May 31: Clemens Klotz , German architect († 1969)
June
- June 1: Gunnar Graarud , Norwegian opera singer († 1960)
- June 3: Adalbert von Bayern , Prussian Prince († 1970)
- June 5: Kurt Hahn , Jewish-German educator († 1974)
- June 6: Albert Heilmann , German building contractor († 1949)
- June 6th: Edvard Rusjan , Slovenian aviation pioneer († 1911)
- June 7th: Henri Marie Coandă , Romanian physicist and aerodynamicist († 1972)
- June 8: Albertine Morin-Labrecque , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher († 1957)
- June 8: Hans Prinzhorn , German psychiatrist and art historian († 1933)
- June 9: Kosaku Yamada , Japanese composer († 1965)
- June 12: E. Ray Goetz , American songwriter, producer, screenwriter and actor († 1954)
- June 12: Naitō Tachū , Japanese architect, engineer and university professor († 1970)
- June 14: Georg Zacharias , German swimmer († 1953)
- June 15: William C. Stadie , American medic († 1959)
- June 15: Eftimios Youakim , Lebanese Archbishop († 1972)
- June 16: Carl Eichhorn , German rower
- June 18: George Mallory , British mountaineer († 1924)
- June 19: Rudolf Kremlička , Czech painter and graphic artist († 1932)
- June 22nd: Rudolf Fehrmann , German lawyer, climber and climbing guide author († 1948)
- June 23: Jean Déré , French composer and music teacher († 1970)
- June 24th: Valentin Pfeifer , was a German teacher, local researcher and writer († 1964)
- June 25: Henry Harley Arnold , American general († 1950)
- June 25: James Francis McIntyre , American clergyman, Archbishop of Los Angeles and Cardinal († 1979)
- June 27th: Eduard Dingeldey , German politician, party and parliamentary group leader (DVP) († 1942)
- June 28: Aloïse Corbaz , Swiss artist († 1964)
- June 28: Walther Veeck , German archaeologist; Specialist for the Merovingian period († 1941)
- June 29: Ada Sari , Polish opera singer († 1968)
- June 29: George Frederick Boyle , Australian composer († 1948)
- June 29: Robert Schuman , French politician († 1963)
- June 29: William Fielding Ogburn , American sociologist († 1959)
July
- July 1: Anton Kolig , Austrian painter († 1950)
- July 1: Fernando Santiván , Chilean writer and journalist († 1973)
- July 3: Harmodio Arias Madrid , Panamanian President († 1962)
- July 3: Raymond A. Spruance , American admiral († 1969)
- July 4: Arminio Janner , Swiss university professor and journalist († 1949)
- July 5: Felix Timmermans , Flemish writer and painter († 1947)
- July 5: Willem Drees , Dutch politician († 1988)
- July 6: Marc Bloch , French historian († 1944)
- July 6th: Annette Kellerman , Australian swimmer and film actress († 1975)
- July 6th: Max Sparer , South Tyrolean painter and graphic artist († 1968)
- July 7: Otto Kiep , German diplomat († 1944)
- July 8: Hans Leicht , lawyer, politician, poet and translator († 1937)
- July 10: John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort , British Field Marshal († 1946)
- July 11: Hans May , Austrian-German-British composer († 1959)
- July 12: Raoul Hausmann , Austrian-German artist († 1971)
- July 14: Ernst Nobs , Swiss politician († 1957)
- July 14: Manfred von Killinger , German naval officer, free corps leader, military writer, MdR († 1944)
- July 15: Harry Green , British long-distance runner († 1934)
- July 15: Jacques Rivière , French writer († 1925)
- July 19: Ferry van der Vinne , Dutch football player († 1947)
- July 21: Henri Schaller , Swiss clergyman, journalist and newspaper publisher († 1985)
- July 21: Eugen Schüfftan , German cameraman and inventor († 1977)
- July 22nd: Theo Morell , German Nazi doctor († 1948)
- July 22nd: Hans Pemmer , Austrian homeland researcher and teacher in Vienna († 1972)
- July 22nd: Hella Wuolijoki , Estonian-Finnish writer († 1954)
- July 23: Anna Maria Schulte , German social democrat and social activist († 1973)
- July 23: Arthur Whitten Brown , British aviation pioneer († 1948)
- July 23: Theodor Frings , German philologist and linguist († 1968)
- July 23: Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish diplomat and writer († 1978)
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- July 23: Walter Schottky , German physicist († 1976)
- July 23: Władysław Szafer , Polish botanist and ecologist († 1970)
- July 25: Edward Cummins , American golfer († 1926)
- July 26: Lars Hanson , Swedish film actor († 1965)
- July 27: Ernst May , German architect and urban planner († 1970)
- July 28: Gustavo Testa , Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal († 1969)
- July 29: Emil Phillip , German Protestant deacon († 1965)
- July 30: Dutch Speck , American football player († 1952)
- July 30th: Franz Thoma , Austrian politician († 1966)
August
- August 5: Carlo Giorgio Garofalo , Italian composer and organist († 1962)
- August 7th: Lothar Budzinski-Kreth , German national soccer player († 1955)
- August 8: Matthew Henson , American polar explorer († 1955)
- August 8: Pietro Yon , Italian-American organist and composer († 1943)
- August 9: Heinrich Ehmsen , German painter and graphic artist († 1964)
- August 9: Jops Reeman , Dutch football player († 1959)
- August 15: Karl Korsch , German philosopher, Marxist († 1961)
- August 15: Paul Rudolf Henning , German sculptor and architect († 1986)
- August 18: Karl Tewes , German football player († 1968)
- August 19: Louis Abit , French racing car driver († 1976)
- August 19: Paul Preuss , Austrian alpinist († 1913)
- August 20: István Abonyi , Hungarian chess player and chess official († 1942)
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- August 20: Paul Tillich , German Protestant theologian and religious philosopher († 1965)
- August 22nd: August Geislhöringer , German politician († 1963)
- August 23: Gustav Theodor Johann Ludwig Ahlhorn , German lawyer († 1971)
- August 24: Earl Johnson , American country musician († 1965)
- August 25: Erich Liebermann-Roßwiese , German pianist, composer and librettist († 1942)
- August 25: Emmy Wehlen , German actress († 1977)
- August 26: Rudolf Belling , German artist († 1972)
- August 27: Rebecca Clarke , English composer and violist († 1979)
- August 27: Otto Eggerstedt , German politician († 1933)
- August 28: Robert Hohlbaum , Austrian librarian, novelist and playwright († 1955)
- August 29: Joseph Godehard Machens , German bishop († 1956)
- August 30th: August Sonnefeld , German optician († 1974)
- August 31: Jan Heřman , Czech pianist and music teacher († 1946)
September
- September 1: Tarsila do Amaral , Brazilian painter († 1973)
- September 1: Othmar Schoeck , Swiss composer and conductor († 1957)
- September 4: Miloslav Fleischmann , Czech ice hockey player († 1955)
- September 4: Georg Krogmann , German national soccer player († 1915)
- September 5: Karl Eschweiler , German theologian († 1936)
- September 7th: Ludwig Armbruster , German zoologist († 1973)
- September 7: Max Daetwyler , first Swiss conscientious objector († 1976)
- September 9: Erwin Voellmy , Swiss chess master and mathematician († 1951)
- September 10: Hilda Doolittle ( HD ), American writer († 1961)
- September 11th: Ernst Ackermann , Swiss statistician († 1978)
- September 13: Melli Beese , German pilot († 1925)
- September 13: Alain LeRoy Locke , American philosopher († 1954)
- September 13: Robert Robinson , British chemist († 1975)
- September 14: Erich Hoepner , German general and resistance fighter († 1944)
- September 14: Jan Masaryk , Czech politician († 1948)
- September 15: Paul Lévy , French mathematician († 1971)
- September 16: Hans Arp , German-French painter, sculptor and poet († 1966)
- September 16: Dorothea von Arronet , Baltic German painter, illustrator and graphic artist († 1973)
- September 16: José Delaquerrière , Canadian singer, composer and music teacher († 1978)
- September 17: Ramón Emilio Jiménez , Dominican writer († 1971)
- September 17: Otto Gmelin , German writer († 1940)
- September 17: Alfred Walther , Swiss Professor of Business Administration († 1955)
- September 18: Armando Donoso , essayist, journalist, editor and literary critic († 1946)
- September 18: Max Rudolf Lehmann , German professor of business administration († 1965)
- September 18: Karl Oberparleiter , Austrian professor of business administration († 1968)
- September 20: Cecilie von Mecklenburg-Schwerin , last Crown Princess of the German Empire († 1954)
- September 20: Hermann Lautensach , German geographer († 1971)
- September 21: François Piazzoli , French racing driver († 1960)
- September 22nd: Roger Bissière , French painter († 1964)
- September 22nd: Hermann Holthusen , German physician and radiologist († 1971)
- September 24th: Edward Bach , English physician, bacteriologist, immunologist († 1936)
- September 24: Roberto María Ortiz , Argentine President († 1942)
- September 25: Charles Armstrong , American doctor and virologist († 1967)
- September 25: Nobutake Kondo , Japanese admiral († 1953)
- September 25: Émile Lamarre , Canadian singer († 1963)
- September 25: Kurt Oppenheim , German entrepreneur, manager and chemist († 1947)
- September 25: May Sutton , American tennis player († 1975)
- September 26: Archibald Vivian Hill , British physiologist († 1977)
- September 26: Koizumi Chikashi , Japanese poet († 1927)
- September 27: Mario Amadori , Italian pharmaceutical chemist and university professor († 1941)
October
- October 1: Paul Morgan , Austrian actor and comedian († 1938)
- October 2: Leon Hirsch , German bookseller, printer, publisher and cabaret director († 1954)
- October 3: Alain-Fournier , French writer († 1914)
- October 3: Barbara Karinska , American costume designer († 1983)
- October 4: Erich Fellgiebel , German officer and resistance fighter († 1944)
- October 4: Nakamura Murao , Japanese literary theorist and critic († 1949)
- October 6: Karl Paul Andrae , German architect and artist († 1945)
- October 6: Edwin Fischer , Swiss pianist († 1960)
- October 7: Heinrich Ancker , German naval officer († 1960)
- October 7: Kurt Schmitt , German business leader and Reich Minister of Economics († 1950)
- October 8: Karl Gengler , German politician († 1974)
- October 8: Wim Groskamp , Dutch football player († 1974)
- October 8: Pedro Prado , Chilean writer († 1952)
- October 8: Yoshii Isamu , Japanese writer († 1960)
- October 10: Franz Arczynski , German trade union official and politician († 1946)
- October 11: Max Augustin , Austrian politician († 1943)
- October 11: Oskar Icha , Austrian sculptor († 1945)
- October 12: Wanda Achsel , German opera singer († 1977)
- October 12: Albert Chamberland , Canadian violinist and composer († 1975)
- October 13: Karl Arndt , German politician and trade unionist († 1948)
- October 13: Maurice Rost , French racing car driver and aviator († 1958)
- October 13: Ben Stom , Dutch football player († 1965)
- October 15: Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz , German resistance fighter of July 20, 1944 († 1944)
- October 16: Otto Arpke , German painter, illustrator and commercial artist († 1943)
- October 16: Raoul Maria Eduard Karl Aslan-Zumpart , Austrian-Greek actor († 1958)
- October 16: Boris Michailowitsch Eichenbaum , Russian literary scholar († 1959)
- October 16: David Ben Gurion , Israeli Prime Minister († 1973)
- October 16: Gerhart Rodenwaldt , German archaeologist († 1945)
- October 19: Adolf Werner , German national soccer player († 1975)
- October 19: Bella Ouellette , Canadian actress († 1945)
- October 19: Lothar Schreyer , German lawyer, painter, writer and dramaturge († 1966)
- October 20: Leopold Stocker , Austrian publisher († 1950)
- October 21: Karl Polanyi , Hungarian economist and economic theorist († 1964)
- October 23: Edwin Boring , American experimental psychologist and one of the first psychology historians († 1968)
- October 23: Ernest Friederich , French racing car driver and mechanic († 1954)
- October 23: Karl Hartleb , Austrian politician († 1965)
- October 24: Delmira Agustini , Uruguayan poet († 1914)
- October 24: Grigori Konstantinowitsch Ordzhonikidze , Soviet politician († 1937)
- October 25: Nikola Atanasov , Bulgarian composer and music teacher († 1969)
- October 25: Leo G. Carroll , British actor († 1972)
- October 26: Hanns Braun , German athlete († 1918)
- October 26: Isidore Fattal , Syrian Archbishop († 1961)
- October 27: Marie Sieger-Polack , German painter († 1970)
- October 28: Frans de Bruyn Kops , Dutch football player († 1979)
- October 29: Martin Gusinde , Austrian anthropologist, priest († 1969)
- October 29: Wilhelm Hansmann , German politician († 1963)
- October 30: Zoë Akins , American screenwriter and playwright († 1958)
- October 31: William John Adie , Australian neurologist († 1935)
November
- November 1: Hermann Broch , Austrian writer († 1951)
- November 1: Hagiwara Sakutarō , Japanese writer († 1942)
- November 1: Matsui Sumako , Japanese actress († 1919)
- November 6: Gustav Gerson Kahn , American musician, songwriter and lyricist († 1941)
- November 6: Franz Kandolf , German Catholic clergyman and employee of Karl May Verlag († 1949)
- November 6th: Bruno Satori-Neumann , German theater scholar († 1943)
- November 7th: Charlotte Armbruster , German politician († 1970)
- November 7th: Aaron Nimzowitsch , Latvian chess player and theorist († 1935)
- November 9: Edward Lindberg , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1978)
- November 12: Agustín Acosta , Cuban politician and writer († 1978)
- November 12: Günter Dyhrenfurth , Swiss mountaineer and geologist († 1975)
- November 13: Alva M. Lumpkin , American lawyer and politician († 1941)
- November 13: Tur-Sinai , Israeli philologist and Bible interpreter († 1973)
- November 13th: Mary Wigman , German dancer, choreographer and dance teacher († 1973)
- November 15: Georg Anschütz , German psychologist († 1953)
- November 15: Franz Felix , Austrian opera singer, theater director and director († 1963)
- November 15: René Guénon , French metaphysician and esoteric writer († 1951)
- November 15: Pedro Sanjuán , Spanish composer and conductor († 1976)
- November 16: Marcel Riesz , Hungarian mathematician († 1969)
- November 17: Ferdinand Friedensburg , German politician († 1972)
- November 17: Hans Schlange-Schöningen , German politician († 1960)
- November 20: Karl von Frisch , Austrian biologist, zoologist, Nobel Prize winner († 1982)
- November 20: Robert Hunter , American golfer († 1971)
- November 21: Harold Nicolson , British diplomat, author and politician († 1968)
- November 23: Lloyd Stark , American politician († 1972)
- November 24: Margaret Caroline Frances Anderson , American writer († 1973)
- November 24: Georges Vantongerloo , Belgian painter, sculptor and architect († 1965)
- November 28: Georg Schumann , German communist and resistance fighter († 1945)
- November 30th: Karl Struss , American photographer and cameraman († 1981)
December
- December 1: Rex Stout , American crime novelist († 1975)
- December 1: Zhu De , Chinese marshal († 1976)
- December 2: Earl Cooper , American racing driver († 1965)
- December 2: Annie Francé-Harrar , Austrian writer († 1971)
- December 2: Dimitri Usnadze , Georgian psychologist († 1950)
- December 3: Karl Manne Siegbahn , Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 1978)
- December 4: Jan Thomée , Dutch football player († 1954)
- December 4: Ludwig Bieberbach , German mathematician and NSDAP activist († 1982)
- December 5: Rose Wilder Lane , American writer and political theorist († 1968)
- December 8: Diego Rivera , Mexican painter († 1957)
- December 8: Jakob Diel , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1969)
- December 9th: Ernst Hollstein , German soccer player († 1950)
- December 11: Victor McLaglen , British actor († 1959)
- December 12th: Mirko Jelusich , Austrian writer († 1969)
- December 13: Wilhelm Leo , German lawyer and member of the National Committee Free Germany for the West († 1945)
- December 14th: Fred Sauer , Austrian actor, director and screenwriter († 1952)
- December 19: Ángel Herrera Oria , Spanish clergyman, Bishop of Málaga († 1968)
- December 19: Charles M. Cooke , American admiral († 1970)
- December 19: Matthias Gelzer , Swiss ancient historian († 1974)
- December 20: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman , American tennis player († 1974)
- December 20: Celestino Piaggio , Argentine composer, pianist and conductor († 1931)
- December 21: Fritz Baumgarten , German soccer player († 1961)
- December 21: Hermann Kees , German Egyptologist († 1964)
- December 21: Frank Neil , Australian theater entrepreneur († 1940)
- December 23: Albert Ehrenstein , German-language poet, narrator († 1950)
- December 23: Salvador Seguí , Spanish anarchist and syndicalist († 1923)
- December 24th: Peco Bauwens , German soccer player and official of the DFB († 1963)
- December 24th: Michael Curtiz , Hungarian-American film director († 1962)
- December 25: Malak Hifnī Nāsif , Egyptian women's rights activist († 1918)
- December 25: Franz Rosenzweig , German historian and philosopher († 1929)
- December 26: Gyula Gömbös , Hungarian general, politician and Prime Minister († 1936)
- December 28: Fritz Schröter , German physicist and television pioneer († 1973)
- December 29: Georg von Struve , Russian-German astronomer († 1933)
- December 30th: Austin Osman Spare , British graphic artist, painter and magician († 1956)
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- Wadi 'al-Bustani , Lebanese poet and translator († 1954)
- Giannis M. Apostolakis , Greek Neo-Graecist († 1947)
- José Gil , Argentine composer and music teacher († 1947)
- Masoud Keyhan , Major in the Persian Gendarmerie († 1961)
- Faiyaz Khan , Indian singer of classical Hindustan music and composer († 1950)
- Riccardo Malipiero , Italian cellist and music teacher († 1975)
- Edward Royce , American composer and music teacher († 1963)
- George Lawrence Stone , American drummer and drum teacher († 1967)
Died
First quarter
- January 2: Georg Adolf Demmler , German architect and politician (* 1804)
- January 5th: Lazarus Adler , writer and rabbi of Hessen-Nassau (* 1810)
- January 7th: Richard Dadd , English painter (* 1817)
- January 10: Benjamin F. Conley , American politician (* 1815)
- January 11: Gustav Hache , German politician (* 1835)
- January 17th: Paul Baudry , French painter (* 1828)
- January 17th: Bernhard von Neher , German painter (* 1806)
- January 17th: Eduard Oscar Schmidt , German zoologist (* 1823)
- January 18: Karl Gaertner , German engineer, entrepreneur and politician (* 1823)
- January 20: Ernst Methfessel , German composer (* 1811)
- January 21: Adolf Werneburg , German name and homeland researcher and forester (* 1813)
- January 22nd: August Wilhelm Theodor Adam , German music director (* 1833)
- January 22nd: James T. Farley , American politician (* 1829)
- January 26: David Rice Atchison , American politician (* 1807)
- January 30th: Gustave Chouquet , French musicologist (* 1819)
- January 30th: Neill S. Brown , American politician (* 1810)
- February 2: Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg , German mechanical engineer and railway pioneer (* 1817)
- February 4: Hans Victor von Unruh , Prussian politician and councilor (* 1806)
- February 8: Ivan Sergejewitsch Aksakow , Russian writer and Slavophile (* 1823)
- February 9: Winfield Scott Hancock , American general (* 1824)
- February 12: Marie von Augustin , Austrian painter and writer (* 1806)
- February 19: Joseph Matthäus Aigner , Austrian portrait painter (* 1818)
- February 24: Etienne Chastel , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor (* 1801)
- February 27: Angelo Panzini , Italian composer and music teacher (* 1820)
- March 2: Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer , German organ builder (* 1811)
- March 3: Alfred Assolant , French writer (* 1827)
- March 11th: Franz Antoine , court gardener in the Hofburggarten (* 1815)
- March 12: Ysaak Brons , German politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly (* 1802)
- March 15: William Irwin , American politician (* 1827)
- March 15: George Michael Hahn , American politician (* 1830)
- March 16: Georg Varrentrapp , German medic (* 1809)
- March 17th: Karl von Brandenstein , Prussian general (* 1831)
- March 17: Leopold Zunz , German scientist (* 1794)
- March 27: Julian Schmidt , German literary historian (* 1818)
- March 27: Sir Henry Taylor , English playwright and colonial administrator (* 1800)
- March 31: Józef Bohdan Zaleski , Polish poet (* 1802)
Second quarter
- April 4: Caesarine Kupfer-Gomansky , German actress (* 1818)
- April 4: Yevgeny Alexandrowitsch Lansere , Russian sculptor (* 1848)
- April 6th: Théodore Ritter , French pianist and composer (* 1840)
- April 9: Joseph Victor von Scheffel , German poet (* 1826)
- April 13: Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint , Dutch writer (* 1812)
- April 13: Károly Thern , Hungarian composer (* 1817)
- April 14: Marie Kerner , German writer (* 1813)
- April 26: Elise Flindt , German actress (* around 1810)
- April 27: Eugène Isabey , French painter (* 1803)
- May 2: Isabella Braun , German author of children's books (* 1815)
- May 5: Louis Vautrey , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and historian (* 1829)
- May 7: Jenny Bürde-Ney , German singer (* 1824)
- May 13: Theodor Mattern , German businessman (* 1820)
- May 15: Emily Dickinson , American poet (* 1830)
- May 16: Ambroise Verschaffelt , Belgian gardener and author (* 1825)
- May 17: John Deere , American farrier, inventor of the steel plow and company founder (* 1804)
- May 17: Josef Haltrich , German teacher, pastor and Saxon folklorist (* 1822)
- May 23: Carl Heinrich Auspitz , Austrian dermatologist (* 1835)
- May 23: Leopold von Ranke , German historian (* 1795)
- May 24th: Franz Xaver Schönwerth , German folklorist (* 1810)
- June 1: Julius Adolph Stöckhardt , German agricultural chemist (* 1809)
- June 13: Bernhard von Gudden , German medic (* 1824)
- June 13: Ludwig II , King of Bavaria (* 1845)
- June 14: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ostrowski , Russian playwright (* 1823)
- June 15: Pascal Sébah , photographer in the Ottoman Empire (* 1823)
- June 16: Edwin Percy Whipple , American writer and essayist (* 1819)
- June 17th: Charles Bunbury , British naturalist and diary writer (* 1809)
- June 21: Hugh Welch Diamond , British psychiatrist and photographer (* 1809)
Third quarter
- July 1: Hermann von Abich , German mineralogist, geologist and explorer (* 1806)
- July 2: Justus Heer , Swiss Protestant clergyman (* 1840)
- July 10: Pauline Louise Agnes , Princess von Reuss, also writer under the pseudonym Angelica Hohenstein (* 1835)
- July 18: Friedrich Haas , German-Swiss organ builder (* 1811)
- July 21: Maximilian Duncker , German historian and politician (* 1811)
- July 21: Carl Theodor von Piloty , German painter (* 1826)
- July 22nd: Emil Scaria , Austrian opera singer (* 1840)
- July 29: Adolf Müller , Austro-Hungarian actor and composer (* 1801)
- July 29th: Friedrich von Bothmer , Bavarian infantry general (* 1805)
- July 31: Franz Liszt , Austro-Hungarian pianist and composer (* 1811)
- August 4: Samuel J. Tilden , American politician (* 1841)
- August 6: Wilhelm Scherer , Austrian Germanist (* 1841)
- August 6: Katharine Weißgerber , German, also known as Schultze Katrin, received the Cross of Merit for Women and Virgins (* 1818)
- August 10: Eduard Grell , German composer and organist (* 1800)
- August 15: Julius Carl Friedrich Aßmann , German watchmaker (* 1827)
- August 17th: Alexander Butlerow , Russian chemist (* 1828)
- August 30: Francesco Lacedelli , Tyrolean mountaineer, mountain guide, marksman and watchmaker (* 1796)
- September 3: Friedrich Hetzel , German banker and benefactor (* 1804)
- September 4th: Agustina Gutiérrez Salazar , Chilean painter and draftsman (* 1851)
- September 10: Paul Soleillet , French traveler to Africa (* 1842)
- September 11th: Eduard Robert Flegel , German traveler to Africa (* 1852)
- September 14th: Hubert Ries , German violin player and composer (* 1802)
- September 15: Carmine Gori-Merosi , Italian cardinal (* 1810)
- September 16: Carl Damm , German Catholic priest, politician and participant in the revolution of 1848/1849 (* 1812)
- September 19: Edward von Steinle , Austrian painter (* 1810)
- September 30th: Franz Adam , German battle and horse painter and lithographer (* 1815)
- September 30th: Max Preßler , German engineer, forest scientist, inventor and economist (* 1815)
Fourth Quarter
- October 6: Thomas Talbot , American politician (* 1818)
- October 8: Austin F. Pike , American politician (* 1819)
- October 8: Claus Pavels Riis , Norwegian poet (* 1826)
- October 10: Wilhelm Lehmann , German emigrant, founder of the Argentine city of Rafaela (* 1840)
- October 21: José Hernández , Argentine journalist and poet (* 1834)
- October 24: Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust , Austrian politician (* 1809)
- October 24: Johannes Dielmann , German sculptor (* 1819)
- October 24: Adolf Lüderitz , German merchant, founder of the colony of German South West Africa (* 1834)
- October 26: Giovanni Antonio Vanoni , Italian painter (* 1810)
- October 31: Robert Oswald von Ulrici , German forester and civil servant (* 1816)
- November 4: Alexander von Münchhausen , Hanoverian statesman (* 1813)
- November 7: Nathaniel Ellis Atwood , American politician (* 1807)
- November 10th: Filipina Brzezińska , Polish composer and pianist (* 1800)
- November 10: Friedrich Traugott Helbig , Saxon sculptor (* 1859)
- November 11th: Gustav Adolf Fischer , German Africa explorer (* 1848)
- November 11th: Alexander von Schoeller , Austrian industrialist and banker (* 1805)
- November 13th: Ignaz Dörr , German organ builder (* 1829)
- November 17th: Louis Schlösser , German composer and concert virtuoso (* 1800)
- November 18: Chester A. Arthur , American politician, President of the United States (* 1829)
- November 20: John Arnot junior , American politician (* 1831)
- November 20: John S. Phelps , American politician (* 1814)
- November 21: Charles Francis Adams , American lawyer and politician (* 1807)
- November 21: Johannes Scherr , German cultural historian (* 1817)
- November 27: Otto Spamer , German bookseller and publisher (* 1820)
- November 29th: Arthur von Seckendorff-Gudent , Swiss-Austrian forest scientist (* 1845)
- December 1: Karl Ludwig Jühlke , German African explorer (* 1856)
- December 2: Arnold Ipolyi , Hungarian clergyman, historian and art historian (* 1823)
- December 4: Ludwig Arnold , German lawyer (* 1798)
- December 4: Johann Wilhelm Ernst Wägner , German writer and Protestant theologian (* 1800)
- December 9: Johann Philipp Becker , German politician and revolutionary (* 1809)
- December 12th: Bertha Augusti , German writer (* 1827)
- December 18: Frederick Walker Pitkin , American politician (* 1837)
- December 22nd: Otto Möllinger , Swiss scientist, inventor and entrepreneur (* 1814)
- December 29th: Addison Crandall Gibbs , American politician (* 1825)
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