On This Day

Famous People Who Died in 1895

  • Jan 3 James Merritt Ives, American lithographer and businessman (Currier and Ives), dies at 70
  • Jan 4 Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general, dies at 66
  • Jan 9 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, 'Father of American watchmaking', American watch manufacturer and businessman (Tremont Watch Company), dies at 82
  • Jan 10 Benjamin Godard, French violinist, orchestral and opera composer (Symphonie légendaire; Jocelyn), dies at 45
  • Jan 22 Edward Solomon, English composer, dies at 39
  • Jan 24 Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (chancellor of the Exchequer, father of Winston Churchill), dies at 45
  • Jan 26 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies
  • Jan 28 François Certain Canrobert, French marshal and parliament member, dies at 85
  • Feb 2 Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)

Theodore Dwight WeldTheodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895)

Feb 3 American abolitionist and writer (American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses), dies at 91

Theodore Dwight Weld
  • Feb 4 Faustina Hasse Hodges, English-American composer, dies at 71
  • Feb 18 Archduke Albrecht of Austria, Duke of Teschen (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77
  • Feb 18 Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)

Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass (c. 1817/18-1895)

Feb 20 African-American abolitionist, lecturer and editor who was also an escaped slave, dies of a heart attack at 77

Frederick Douglass
  • Feb 24 Ignaz Lachner, German composer, dies at 87
  • Mar 1 Pauline Musters, Dutch world's smallest woman at 24 inches (61 cm), dies at 19
  • Mar 2 Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54
  • Mar 2 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
  • Mar 5 Henry Rawlinson, British army officer and oriental scholar (major role in deciphering cuneiform), dies at 84
  • Mar 5 Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), and playwright, dies at 64
  • Mar 6 Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
  • Mar 9 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (word masochism derived from his name), dies at 59
  • Mar 10 Charles Frederick Worth, British fashion designer (House of Worth - Paris), dies of pneumonia at 69
  • Mar 12 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
  • Mar 12 John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (a practical folding wooden stepladder), dies at 71
  • Mar 13 Louise Otto-Peters, German suffragist, women's rights movement activist and author (The Wandering Star), dies at 75
  • Mar 17 Adolphe Nibelle, French composer (Le Loup-Garou (The Werewolf)), dies at 69
  • Apr 11 Julius Lothar Meyer, German Chemist, dies at 64
  • Apr 19 George Scharf, critic, dies
  • Apr 19 Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70
  • Apr 23 Carl Ludwig, German physiologist and physician (1884 Copley medal), dies at 78
  • Apr 30 Gustav Freytag, German writer (Soll und Haben), dies at 78
  • May 15 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack), dies at 75
  • May 19 Jose Marti y Perez, Cuban poet (Versos sencillos) essayist and politician (fought for independence from Spain), dies fighting the Battle of Dos Rios at 42
  • May 21 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
  • May 21 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon, dies at 66
  • May 23 Franz E. Neumann, German mineralogist, mathematician and physicist, dies at 96
  • May 24 Hugh McCulloch, US Treasury Secretary (1865-69, 1884-85), dies at 86
  • May 24 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter (landscape paintings), dies at 73
  • May 25 Ahmed Cevdet Paşa, Turkish statesman and historian (Minister of Justice), dies at 73
  • Jun 15 Richard Genée, Austrian playwright, librettist, and composer, dies at 72
  • Jun 23 Joseph Paul Skelly, Irish-American composer ("Keep The Horseshoe Over The Door"), dies at 44
  • Jun 29 Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (comparative anatomy), dies at 70
  • Jul 2 William Rockstro, English composer and musicologist, dies at 72
  • Jul 8 Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
  • Jul 9 Jack Simpson, Scottish golfer (British Open 1884), dies of typhoid fever at 35
  • Jul 14 Alexander Ewing, Scottish composer (Jerusalem the Golden), dies at 65
  • Jul 19 Charles T. Stork, Dutch industrialist (cotton machine factory), dies at 73
  • Jul 19 Henri Ernest Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
  • Jul 28 Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
  • Jul 28 Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1877-79), dies at 72
  • Jul 31 Richard Morris Hunt, American architect and educator, dies at 67
  • Aug 1 Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzugs), dies at 77
  • Aug 2 Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), dies of pneumonia at 37
  • Aug 4 Marcellus Augustus Stovall, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 76

Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Aug 5 German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, dies of throat cancer at 74

Friedrich Engels
  • Aug 6 George Frederick Root, American songwriter (The Battle Cry of Freedom), dies at 74
  • Aug 13 Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies at 79
  • Aug 19 John Wesley Hardin, American outlaw and gunfighter (claimed to have killed 27 men), shot dead in a saloon at 42
  • Aug 24 John F. Loudon, Dutch sugar and indigo manufacturer, who Delft collection was left to the Rijksmuseum, dies at 74
  • Sep 8 Adam Opel, German automobile manufacturer (Adam Opel AG), dies at 58
  • Sep 10 Harrison Millard, American composer, dies at 64
  • Sep 14 Alfred Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57
  • Sep 15 Jan Kleczyński Sr., Polish pianist and composer, dies at 58
  • Sep 17 Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies

Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur (1822-1895)

Sep 28 French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization), dies at 72

Louis Pasteur
  • Oct 3 Harry Wright, English Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder and manager (established baseball's first fully professional team, Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869), dies of a lung ailment at 60
  • Oct 8 Charles Oberthür, German composer and harpist, dies at 76
  • Oct 8 William Mahone, American railway engineer and Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
  • Oct 14 Elisha P. Ferry, American politician (Governor of Washington, 1872-80, 1889-93), dies at 70
  • Oct 25 Charles Hallé, Anglo-German pianist, conductor and founder (Halle Orchestra), dies at 76
  • Oct 31 Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62
  • Nov 1 Aleksander Zarzycki, Polish composer (Warsaw Music Society), dies at 61
  • Nov 2 Jack 'The Nonpareil' Dempsey, Irish boxer (first holder of World Middleweight Championship 1886-90), dies from tuberculosis at 32
  • Nov 11 Julius Tausch, German composer, dies at 68
  • Nov 25 Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer and musicologist, dies at 68
  • Nov 29 Eduard Taaffe, Austrian politician (Minister-President of Austria 1868-70, 79-93), dies at 62
  • Dec 13 Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
  • Dec 25 Raul Pompeia, Brazilian writer (O Ateneu), dies at 32
  • Dec 30 LP Hartley, British writer, dies

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