- Jan 4 Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70
- Jan 9 Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright (Shulamis), dies at 67
- Jan 9 Wilhelm Busch, German poet, dies at 75
- Jan 14 Holger Drachmann, Danish writer (Modern Breakthrough Movement), dies at 61
- Jan 17 Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies at 72
- Jan 25 Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
- Jan 28 Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 47
- Feb 1 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by Republican sympathisers at 44
- Feb 10 Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, Nationalist and a founder of Egyptian National Party, dies at 33
- Feb 21 Harriet Hosmer, American neoclassical sculptor, dies at 77
- Feb 23 Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
- Feb 29 Pat Garrett, American Western lawman, dies at 57
- Feb 29 John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (as Lord Hopetoun)
- Mar 3 Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely, German Jesuit biblical scholar, dies at 77
- Mar 11 Benjamin Waugh, English social reformer who founded the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, dies at 69
- Mar 12 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
- Mar 25 Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
- Mar 28 John Eliot, English meteorologist, dies at 68
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Apr 22 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1905-08), dies at 71
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- Apr 22 Ellison Capers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
- May 23 Francois Coppee, French poet, dies
- May 26 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at 69
- May 31 Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian poet, dies at 68
- Jun 2 Redvers Buller, English general and recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at 68
- Jun 9 Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46
- Jun 11 Georg Adler, Polish state economist, dies at 45
- Jun 14 Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
Grover Cleveland
Jun 24 Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President (1885-89, 93-97), dies at 71
Grover Cleveland
- Jul 3 Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (created Uncle Remus stories), dies at 59
- Jul 5 Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (The Family at Gilje: A Domestic Story of the Forties), dies at 74
- Jul 10 Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar, poet and writer, dies at 78
- Jul 22 William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
- Jul 24 Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet, dies at 41 (b. the same day 1867)
- Aug 8 Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40
- Aug 11 Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
Henri Becquerel
Aug 25 Henri Becquerel, French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), dies at 55
Henri Becquerel
- Aug 25 Eyre Massey Shaw, British first chief of London Fire Brigade, dies at 78
- Aug 26 Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer, dies at 71
- Aug 30 Alexander P. Stewart, American Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), dies at 86
- Sep 3 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, Dutch jurist and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1888-93), dies at 61
- Sep 17 Thomas E Selfridge, earlier American aviator, 1st to die in an air crash
- Sep 23 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet, dies at 74
- Sep 29 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (Epitaph of a small winner), dies at 69
- Nov 4 Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies
Butch Cassidy
Nov 7 Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian soldiers at 42
Butch Cassidy
- Nov 8 William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor, dies at 60
- Nov 12 William Keith Brooks, American marine zoologist (anatomy and embryology of marine animals), dies at 60
- Nov 14 Kwang-siu, emperor of China, dies
- Nov 15 Empress Dowager Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies at 72
- Nov 16 Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian politician (7th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia), dies at 78
- Nov 20 Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (Voronoi diagram), dies at 40
- Nov 27 Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist, dies at 81
- Dec 9 William Harvey Carney, American Civil War soldier (first African-American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor), dies of injuries sustained in an elevator accident at 68
- Dec 13 Augustus Le Plongeon, French-American photographer and antiquitarian, dies at 83
- Dec 22 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
- Dec 30 Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)