Apr 9 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73 Apr 13 Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies at 61 Apr 16 Maximilian Kronberger, German poet, dies at 16 Apr 16 Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812) Apr 24 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist, dies at 77 1903 Famous Deaths by Year 1905