On This Day

Famous People Who Died in December 1890

  • Dec 2 Cadmus M. Wilcox, American Major General (Confederate Army - American Civil War), dies at 66
  • Dec 3 Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricket all-rounder (8 Tests Australia, 4 England), dies of insanity at 39
  • Dec 6 Joe Coburn, Irish boxer (Heavyweight C'ship of America 1863-65), dies from tuberculosis at 55
  • Dec 10 Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1861-66), dies at 84

Sitting Bull

Dec 15 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief who helped led his people to victory in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, killed by US Police aged 58 or 59

Sitting Bull
Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull
  • Dec 21 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist, organist, composer, and conductor, dies at 73

Heinrich Schliemann

Dec 26 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist who rediscovered Troy, dies of cholesteatoma at 86

Heinrich Schliemann
Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann
  • Dec 29 Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
  • Dec 31 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (Costa Rica's first woman in the military), dies at 74

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