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| − | '''1898''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXCVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] (see link for calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the 12-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[New York City]] annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], [[The Bronx]], and [[Staten Island]].
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| − | * [[January 13]] - [[Emile Zola]]'s ''J'accuse'' exposes the [[Dreyfus affair]].
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| − | * [[February 7]] - [[Emile Zola]] is brought to trial for [[libel]] for publishing ''[[J'Accuse]]''
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| − | * [[February 12]] - Henry Lindfield, dies in [[England]]. Lindfield was the first fatality from an automobile accident.
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| − | * [[February 15]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: The [[USS Maine|USS ''Maine'']] explodes and sinks in [[Havana Harbor]], [[Cuba]] for then unknown reasons killing more than 260. This event helped lead the [[United States]] to declare war on [[Spain]].
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| − | * [[February 23]] - [[Emile Zola]] is imprisoned in [[France]] after writing "[[J'accuse]]" which was a letter accusing the French government of [[anti-Semitism]] and wrongfully placing [[Alfred Dreyfus]] in jail.
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| − | * [[March 24]] - Robert Allison of [[Port Carbon, Pennsylvania]] becomes the first person to buy an American-built [[automobile]] when he buys a [[Winton automobile]] that was advertised in ''[[Scientific American]]''.
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| − | * [[March 26]] - The [[Sabi Game Reserve]] in [[South Africa]], the first officially designated [[game reserve]]
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| − | * [[April 22]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: The [[United States Navy]] begins a [[blockade]] of [[Cuba]]n ports and the [[USS Nashville]] captures a [[Spain | Spanish]] merchant ship.
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| − | * [[April 25]] - Spanish-American War: The [[United States]] declares war on [[Spain]]; the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] announces that a state of war has existed since [[April 21]] (later backdating one more day to [[April 20]]).
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| − | === May ===
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| − | * [[May 2]] - Association of thousands of [[China|Chinese]] scholars and [[Beijing]] citizens in front of the [[Capital Control]] [[Chinese yuan|Yuan]] asking for reform.
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| − | * [[May 7]] - [[General]] [[Bava-Beccaris]] killed 80 demonstrants in [[Milan]], [[Italy]] shooting on a rally; [[King of Italy]] [[Umberto I of Italy|Umberto I]] will be killed two years after to avenge this shooting.
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| − | * [[May 8]] - The first games of the [[Italian Football League]] are played.
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| − | * [[June 1]] - The [[Trans-Mississippi Exposition (1898)|Trans-Mississippi Exposition]] [[World's Fair]] opens in [[Omaha, Nebraska]].
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| − | * [[June 12]] - [[Philippine Declaration of Independence]]: General [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] declares the [[Philippines]]' independence from [[Spain]].
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| − | * [[June 13]] - [[Yukon|Yukon Territory]] is formed, with [[Dawson, Yukon|Dawson]] chosen as its capital.
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| − | * [[June 17]] - The [[Navy Hospital Corps]] is established.
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| − | * [[July 3]] - [[Joshua Slocum]] completes a 3-year solo [[circumnavigation]]
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| − | * [[July 7]] - The [[United States]] annexes the [[Hawaii|Hawaiian Islands]].
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| − | * [[July 17]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: [[Battle of Santiago Bay]] - Troops under [[United States]] General [[William R. Shafter]] take the city of [[Santiago de Cuba]] from the [[Spain | Spanish]].
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| − | * [[July 25]] - Spanish-American War: The [[United States]] invasion of [[Puerto Rico]] begins with a landing at [[Guánica, Puerto Rico|Guánica Bay]].
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| − | * [[August 12]]- [[Spanish-American War]]: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
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| − | * [[August 28]]- Caleb Bradham names his soft drink [[Pepsi-Cola]].
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| − | * [[September 2]] - [[Battle of Omdurman]] - British and Egyptian troops led by [[Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum|Horatio Kitchener]] defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by [[Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi]], thus establishing British dominance in the [[Sudan]].
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| − | * [[September 10]] - [[Luigi Lucheni]] assassinates Empress [[Elizabeth of Austria]]-Hungary
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| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] of [[China]] engineered a [[coup d'etat]] and it marks the end of [[Hundred Days' Reform]]. [[Guangxu Emperor]] was arrested.
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| − | * [[October 1]] - The [[Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration]] is founded under the name ''k.u.k. Exportakademie''.
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| − | * [[October 6]] - First meeting and founding of [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]] Fraternity, then called the Sinfonia Club, at the [[New England Conservatory]] in [[Boston]].
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| − | === December ===
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| − | * [[December 10]] - The Treaty of Peace ending the [[Spanish-American War]] is signed in [[Paris]].
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| − | * [[December]] 26 ? [[Maria Sklodowska-Curie|Marie]] and [[Pierre Curie]] discover [[radium]]
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| − | * [[Fashoda incident]] -- diplomatic dispute between [[France]] and the [[United Kingdom]].
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| − | * [[John Henry Patterson (author)|John Henry Patterson]] kills the man-eating [[lion]]s of [[Tsavo]] which were delaying the building of the [[Uganda Railway]] as described in the book "[[The Man-Eaters of Tsavo]]"
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| − | * Exploits of [[Louis de Rougemont]] begin to appear in the ''[[Wide World Magazine]]''
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| − | * [[North Petherton]] becomes the first town in [[England]] to install [[Acetylene]] lighting.
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| − | * [[John Jacob Abel]] isolates [[epinephrine]] ([[adrenaline]]).
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| − | * [[William Ramsay]] and [[Morris Travers]] discover [[neon]]
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | ===January to March===
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| − | *[[January 16]] - [[Margaret Booth]], American film editor (d. [[2002]])
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| − | *[[January 21]] - [[Ahmad Shah Qajar]], [[Shah of Persia]] (d. [[1930]])
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| − | *[[January 23]] - [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Russian film director (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[January 23]] - [[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán]], Colombian politician (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[February 1]] - [[Leila Denmark]], US-American pediatrician
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| − | *[[February 3]] - [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish architect (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[February 10]] - [[Bertolt Brecht]], German writer (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[February 14]] - [[Fritz Zwicky]], Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. [[1974]])
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| − | *[[February 15]] - [[Allen Woodring]], American runner (d. [[1982]])
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| − | *[[February 17]] - [[Thomas Coleman Lowry]], [[New Zealand]] [[cricket]] [[captains]] (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[February 18]] - [[Enzo Ferrari]], Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer (d. [[1988]])
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| − | *[[February 18]] - [[Luis Muñoz Marín]], Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d. [[1980]])
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| − | *[[February 24]] - [[Kurt Tank]], German aeronautical engineer (d. [[1983]])
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| − | *[[February 28]] - [[Hugh O'Flaherty]], Irish Catholic priest (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[March 11]] - [[Dorothy Gish]], American actress (d. [[1968]])
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| − | ===April to June===
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| − | *[[April 1]] - [[William James Sidis]], American mathematician (d. [[1944]])
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| − | *[[April 3]] - [[George Jessel (actor)|George Jessel]], American comedian (d. [[1981]])
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| − | *[[April 4]] - [[Agnes Ayres]], American actress (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[April 6]] - [[Jeanne Hébuterne]], French painter (d. [[1920]])
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| − | *[[April 26]] - [[Vicente Aleixandre]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1984]])
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| − | *[[April 26]] - [[John Grierson]], Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. [[1972]])
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| − | *[[May 3]] - [[Golda Meir]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (d. [[1978]])
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| − | *[[May 15]] - [[Arletty]], French model and actress (d. [[1992]])
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| − | *[[May 17]] - [[Alfred Joseph Casson]], Canadian painter (d. [[1992]])
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| − | *[[May 21]] - [[Armand Hammer]], American entrepreneur and art collector (d. [[1990]])
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| − | *[[May 23]] - [[Scott O'Dell]], American author (d. [[1989]])
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| − | *[[May 31]] - Dr. [[Norman Vincent Peale]], American clergyman (d. [[1993]])
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| − | *[[June 4]] - [[Harry Crosby]], American publisher and poet (d. [[1929]])
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| − | *[[June 5]] - [[Federico García Lorca]], Spanish poet (d. [[1936]])
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| − | *[[June 6]] - [[Ninette de Valois]], Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. [[2001]])
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| − | *[[June 17]] - [[M. C. Escher]], Dutch artist (d. [[1972]])
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| − | *[[June 22]] - [[Erich Maria Remarque]], German writer (d. [[1970]])
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| − | ===July to September===
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| − | *[[July 2]] - [[Gen Paul]], French artist (d. [[1975]])
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| − | *[[July 3]] - [[Donald Healey]], English motor engineer and race car driver (d. [[1988]])
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| − | *[[July 6]] - [[Hanns Eisler]], German composer (d. [[1962]])
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| − | *[[July 17]] - [[Berenice Abbott]], American photographer (d. [[1991]])
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| − | *[[July 22]] - [[Stephen Vincent Benet]], American writer (d. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[July 22]] - [[Alexander Calder]], American artist (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[July 29]] - [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]])
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| − | *[[July 30]] - [[Henry Moore]], English sculptor (d. [[1986]])
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| − | *[[August 26]] - [[Peggy Guggenheim]], American art collector (d. [[1979]])
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| − | *[[August 29]] - [[Preston Sturges]], American director and writer (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[September 13]] - [[Roger Désormière]], French conductor (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[September 22]] - [[Katherine Alexander]], American actress (d. [[1981]])
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| − | *[[September 24]] - [[Howard Walter Florey]], Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1968]])
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| − | *[[September 25]] - [[Robert Brackman]], American artist (d. [[1980]])
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| − | *[[September 26]] - [[George Gershwin]], American composer (d. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[September 30]] - [[Renée Adorée]], French actress (d. [[1933]])
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| − | *[[September 30]] - [[Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois|Princess Charlotte of Monaco]] (d. [[1977]])
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| − | ===October to December===
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| − | *[[October 10]] - [[Lilly Daché]], French milliner (d. [[1989]])
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| − | *[[October 10]] - [[Marie Pierre Koenig]], French general and politician (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[October 15]] - [[Boughera El Ouafi]], Algerian athlete (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[November 8]] - [[Marie Prevost]], Canadian actress (d. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[November 12]] - [[Leon Štukelj]], Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d. [[1999]])
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| − | *[[November 17]] - [[Maurice Journeau]], composer (d. [[1999]])
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| − | *[[November 18]] - [[Joris Ivens]], Dutch director (d. [[1989]])
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| − | *[[November 19]] - [[Arthur R. von Hippel]], German-born physicist (d. [[2003]])
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| − | *[[November 21]] - [[René Magritte]], Belgian artist (d. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[November 26]] - [[Karl Ziegler]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[November 29]] - [[C. S. Lewis]], British author (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[November 30]] - [[Firpo Marberry]], baseball pitcher (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[December 2]] - [[Indra Lal Roy]], Indian World War I pilot (d. [[1918]])
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| − | *[[December 19]] - [[Zheng Zhenduo]], Chinese author and translator (d. [[1958]])
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| − | *[[December 20]] - [[Irene Dunne]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
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| − | *[[December 24]] - [[Baby Dodds]], American jazz musician (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah]], King of Malaysia (d. [[1960]])
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| − | *[[Edward Elric]], European Alchemist (d. Unknown)
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| − | *[[January 14]] - [[Lewis Carroll]], British writer, mathematician (b. [[1832]])
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| − | *[[January 18]] - [[Henry Liddell | Henry George Lidell]], Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. [[1811]])
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| − | *[[March 1]] - [[George Bruce Malleson]], Indian officer and author (b. [[1825]])
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| − | *[[March 15]] - [[Henry Bessemer]], British engineer and inventor (b. [[1813]])
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| − | *[[March 16]] - [[Aubrey Beardsley]], British artist (b. [[1872]])
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| − | *[[March 18]] - [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], American feminist (b. [[1826]])
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| − | *[[March 27]] - [[Sir Syed Ahmad Khan]], ("The Morning Star") founded the Aligarh University in Awadh, India (b. [[1817]])
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| − | *[[April 15]] - [[Kepa Te Rangihiwinui]], Maori military leader
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| − | *[[April 18]] - [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (b. [[1826]])
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| − | *[[May 19]] - [[William Ewart Gladstone]], British prime minister {b. [[1809]])
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| − | *[[July 1]] - [[Siegfried Marcus]], Austrian automobile pioneer (b. [[1831]])
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| − | *[[July 30]] - [[Otto von Bismarck]], German statesman (b. [[1815]])
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| − | *[[August 8]] - [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (b. [[1824]])
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| − | *[[September 2]] - [[Wilford Woodruff]], president of [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1807]])
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| − | *[[September 9]] - [[Stéphane Mallarmé]], French poet (b. [[1842]])
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| − | *[[September 20]] - [[Theodor Fontane]], German writer (b. [[1819]])
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| − | *[[September 28]] - [[Tan Sitong]], Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b. [[1865]])
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| − | *[[October 24]] - [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], French painter (b. [[1824]])
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| − | *[[November 2]] - [[George Goyder]], surveyor-general of South Australia (b. [[1826]])
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