1893

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896

1893 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1893 MDCCCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2646
Armenian calendar	1342 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6643
Baháʼí calendar	49–50
Balinese saka calendar	1814–1815
Bengali calendar	1300
Berber calendar	2843
British Regnal year	56 Vict. 1 – 57 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2437
Burmese calendar	1255
Byzantine calendar	7401–7402
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4590 or 4383     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4591 or 4384
Coptic calendar	1609–1610
Discordian calendar	3059
Ethiopian calendar	1885–1886
Hebrew calendar	5653–5654
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1949–1950
- Shaka Samvat	1814–1815
- Kali Yuga	4993–4994
Holocene calendar	11893
Igbo calendar	893–894
Iranian calendar	1271–1272
Islamic calendar	1310–1311
Japanese calendar	Meiji 26 (明治２６年)
Javanese calendar	1822–1823
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4226
Minguo calendar	19 before ROC 民前19年
Nanakshahi calendar	425
Thai solar calendar	2435–2436
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2019 or 1638 or 866     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2020 or 1639 or 867

1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1893rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 893rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1893, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

January 2: standard railroad chronometers.

March 10: Ivory Coast becomes French colony.

• January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
• January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• January 13
  • The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting.
  • U.S. Marines from the USS Boston land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
• January 15 – The Telefon Hírmondó service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest.
• January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani.
• January 21 – The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa.
• January 21 - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
• February 1 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
• February 19 – The SS Naronic is believed to have sunk due to a storm.
• February 23 – Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.
• February 24 – American University is established by an Act of Congress, in Washington, D.C.
• February 28 – USS Indiana, the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to other nation's battleships of the time, is launched.
• March 4 – Grover Cleveland is sworn in, as the 24th President of the United States.
• March 10 – Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
• March 20 – In Belgium, Adam Worth is sentenced to 7 years for robbery (he is released in 1897).

April–June

May 1: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

• April 1 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the United States Navy.
• April 6 – The iconic Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated, after 40 years of construction.
• April 8 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.
• April 17 – Belgian general strike of 1893: Riots erupt in Mons; the day after, the Belgian Parliament approves universal male suffrage.
• April 17 – The Alpha Xi Delta Sorority is founded at Lombard College, in Galesburg, Illinois.
• May – The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland is formed.
• May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition.
• May 5 – Panic of 1893: A crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
• May 9 – Edison's 1½ inch system of Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public, at the Brooklyn Institute.
• May 10 – Nix v. Hedden: the United States Supreme Court legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable.

June 20: Wengernalpbahn railway.

• May 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in South Africa, where he will live until 1914, lead non-violent protests on behalf of Indian immigrants in the South African Republic (Transvaal), and generally have a deeper experience of such activities during these years.
• June 4 – The Anti-Saloon League is incorporated, originally as a state organization, in Oberlin, Ohio. On December 18, 1895, it becomes a nationwide organization. The same year, the American Council on Alcohol Problems is established, along with the Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem.
• June 6 – Prince George, Duke of York (later George V) marries Mary of Teck.
• June 17 – Gold is found in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
• June 20
  • The Wengernalpbahn railway in Wengen, Switzerland (Canton of Bern) is opened.
  • Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her parents in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892.
• June 22 – The flagship HMS Victoria (1887) of the British Mediterranean Fleet collides with HMS Camperdown (1885), and sinks in 10 minutes; Vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with his ship.

July–September

June 22: British Mediterranean Fleet flagship Victoria sinks.

• July 1 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland is operated on in secret.
• July 6 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado; 71 people are killed and 200 injured.
• July 11
  • Liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya leads a successful revolt in Nicaragua.
  • Kokichi Mikimoto, in Japan, develops the method to seed and grow cultured pearls.
• July 13
  • Paknam Incident: Two French Navy ships are fired upon by Siamese cannons stationed at the Paknam Fort, that guards the Chao Phraya River. Three months later, Siam is forced to cede modern day Laos to France.
  • Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago.
  • Dundee F.C., a Scottish football club, is formed.
• July 25 – The Corinth Canal is completed in Greece.
• August 15 – The Ibadan area becomes a British protectorate, after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
• August 27 – The Sea Islands hurricane hits Savannah, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands, killing 1,000–2,000.

July 11: Mikimoto develops cultured pearls.

• September 1 – William Ewart Gladstone's Government of Ireland Bill 1893, intended to give Ireland self-government, is rejected by the British Parliament.
• September 7
  • Under pressure of a general strike, the Belgian Federal Parliament enacts general multiple suffrage.
  • Russian monitor Rusalka sinks in the Gulf of Finland, with the loss of all 177 crew.
  • Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, the oldest Italian football club, is formed.
• September 11
  • The World Parliament of Religions in Chicago opens its first meeting; Hindu monk Swami Vivekanda receives a standing ovation, for his address in response to his welcoming.
• September 12 – American Temperance University begins classes in Washington, D.C. (it closes after 15 years, in May 1908).
• September 16 – Settlers make a land run for prime land, in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
• September 19
  • Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper, at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
  • New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.
  • Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm en route from Tallinn to Helsinki; her hulk is eventually discovered in July 2003, off Helsinki.
• September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America, on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• September 23 – The Bahá'í Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States, at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• September 27 – The World Parliament of Religions holds its closing meeting in Chicago.
• September 28 – The Portuguese sports club Futebol Clube do Porto is founded.

October–December

France conquers Laos.

• October 13 – The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1893 is signed, as the Kingdom of Siam cedes all of its territories east of the Mekong River to France, creating the territory of Laos.
• October 10 – The first car number plates appear in Paris, France.
• October 13 – The first students enter St Hilda's College, Oxford, England, founded for women by Dorothea Beale.
• October 16 – American sisters Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill copyright their book Song Stories for the Kindergarten including "Good Morning to All". The melody, by Mildred Hill, is later adapted, without authorization, by Robert H. Coleman as "Good Morning to You!", with the second stanza containing the words to "Happy Birthday to You", leading to a successful copyright lawsuit by the Hill sisters in 1934.
• October 23 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) is founded by Bulgarians, in the town of Thessaloniki. Its aim is to liberate the region of Macedonia from the Ottoman Turks.
• October 28 (October 16 O.S.) – In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine days before his death.
• October 30 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, closes.
• November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
• November 12 – The Durand Line is established as the boundary between British India and Afghanistan, by a memorandum of understanding signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan.
• November 15 – FC Basel football club is founded in Switzerland.
• November 16 – Athletic club Královské Vinohrady, later Sparta Prague, is founded.
• November 26 – The Adventure of the Final Problem, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is published in the December 1893 issue of Strand Magazine, serialized in Sunday newspapers worldwide, and surprises the reading public, by revealing that his popular character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891.
• December 4 – First Matabele War: The Shangani Patrol of British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated, by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors.
• December 5 – Plural voting is abolished in New South Wales.
• December 8 – In the United States, the National Education Association releases the final report from the Committee of Ten at a conference at Columbia University, recommending standardization of the high school curriculum.
• December 16 – Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 (From the New World receives its premiere at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
• December 20 – Evergreen Park, Illinois, is incorporated.
• December – Carl Anton Larsen becomes the first man to ski in Antarctica.

Date unknown

• Physicist Wilhelm Wien formulates Wien's displacement law.
• Millbank Prison in London is demolished.
• In the U.S., the National Sculpture Society (NSS) is founded.
• Football club Dulwich Hamlet is founded.
• TMI — The Episcopal School of Texas is founded.
• Colored High becomes the first African-American high school in Houston, Texas; its name is later changed to Booker T. Washington High School.
• The Ardabil Carpet is brought to London.
• Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, is incorporated as a town.
• Small anti-Semitic parties secure 2.9% of votes in Germany.
• Before 1893 – 8,000 Chinese arrive in Cuba.
• 71.2% of the working population of São Paulo is foreign-born.

Births

January–March

Soong Ching-ling

Jimmy Durante

José María Velasco Ibarra

Ethel Owen

• January 1 – Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (d. 1961)
• January 4 – Yone Minagawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
• January 5 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
• January 10 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (d. 1948)
• January 11 – Anthony M. Rud, American writer (d. 1942)
• January 12
  • Edward Selzer, American film producer (d. 1970)
  • Hermann Göring, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
  • Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
• January 15 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician (d. 1951)
• January 22
  • Arthur Smith, Australian public servant (d. 1971)
  • Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
  • Frankie Yale, American gangster (d. 1928)
• January 27 – Soong Ching-ling, one of the Soong sisters, wife of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
• January 28 – Catherine Caradja, Romanian aristocrat, philanthropist (d. 1993)
• February 3 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
• February 9 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)
• February 10 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (d. 1980)
• February 12 – Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981)
• February 13
  • Ana Pauker, Romanian communist politician (d. 1960)
  • Zénon Bernard, Luxembourgish communist politician (d. 1942)
• February 16
  • Katharine Cornell, American actress (d. 1974)
  • Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Soviet Army officer (d. 1937)
• February 19 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (d. 1964)
• February 21 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
• February 24 – Tokushichi Mishima, Japanese inventor, engineer (d. 1975)
• February 28 – Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect (d. 1979)
• March 1 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968)
• March 3
  • Beatrice Wood, American artist, ceramicist (d. 1998)
  • Ivon Hitchens, English painter (d. 1979)
• March 7 – Elsa Ratassepp, Estonian actress (d. 1972)
• March 8 – Mississippi John Hurt, American country blues singer, guitarist (d. 1966) (some sources give his year of birth as 1892)
• March 11 – Wanda Gág, American children's author and artist (d. 1946)
• March 14 – Arthur C. Davis, American admiral (d. 1965)
• March 18 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier, poet (d. 1918)
• March 19 – José María Velasco Ibarra, former President of Ecuador (d. 1979)
• March 22 – Kleber Claux, French-born Australian anarchist, nudist (d. 1971)
• March 24
  • Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
  • Emmy Sonnemann, German actress, second wife of Hermann Göring (d. 1973)
• March 26 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
• March 30 – Ethel Owen, American actress (d. 1997)
• March 31 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian (d. 1982)

April–June

Joan Miró

Gillis Grafström

Roy O. Disney

• April 1 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (d. 1980)
• April 3 – Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943)
• April 6– Alfred Gerstenberg, German Luftwaffe general (d. 1959)
• April 9
  • Victor Gollancz, British publisher (d. 1967)
  • Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer, scholar (d. 1963)
• April 12 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
• April 15 – Maximilian Ritter von Pohl, German army, air force officer (d. 1951)
• April 18 – Georges Boulanger, Romanian violinist (d. 1958)
• April 20
  • Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
  • Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor (d. 1983)
  • Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (d. 2008)
• April 21 – Matsuji Ijuin, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
• April 23 – Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
• April 27 – John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (d. 1839)
• April 29 – Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• April 30 – Harold Breen, Australian public servant (d. 1966)
• May 3 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer, public benefactor (d. 1975)
• May 8
  • Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster, rugby union player (d. 1963)
  • Francis Ouimet, American golfer, businessman (d. 1967)
• May 16 – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (d. 1980)
• May 21 – Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant (d. 1969)
• May 23 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist, paleontologist (d. 1977)
• May 25 – Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, American country music artist (d. 1968)
• May 26 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
• June 4 – Armand Călinescu, 39th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1939)
• June 7 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (d. 1938)
• June 12 – John R. Hodge, United States Army general (d. 1963)
• June 13 – Dorothy L. Sayers, British crime writer, poet, playwright and essayist (d. 1957)
• June 14 – Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and singer (d. 1980)
• June 23 – Herman H. Hanneken, United States Marine Corps officer (d. 1986)
• June 24
  • Roy O. Disney, brother, business partner of Walter Elias Disney (d. 1971)
  • Suzanne La Follette, American libertarian feminist (d. 1983)
• June 26 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer, composer (d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth as 1903)
• June 29 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• June 30
  • Harold Laski, British political theorist, economist (d. 1950)
  • Walter Ulbricht, German communist politician (d. 1973)

July–September

Mae West

Albert Szent-Györgyi

• July 1 – Mario de Bernardi, Italian aviator (d. 1959)
• July 3 – Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
• July 4 – Norman Manley, Jamaican statesman (d. 1969)
• July 5
  • Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer (d. 1971)
  • Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (d. 1976)
• July 9 – George Geary, English cricketer (d. 1981)
• July 11 – Edward "Eddie" Stinson, American aviator, aircraft manufacturer (d. 1932)
• July 12
  • Ernest Cadine, French weightlifter (d. 1978)
  • John Gould Moyer, American naval officer, 31st Governor of American Samoa (d. 1976)
• July 18
  • Orrice Abram Murdock Jr., American politician (d. 1979)
  • Richard Dix, American actor (d. 1949)
• July 20
  • Arno von Lenski, German military officer, general (d. 1986)
  • George Llewelyn Davies, British inspiration for Peter Pan (d. 1915)
• July 22 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
• July 25 – Dorothy Dickson, American-born actress, socialite (d. 1995)
• July 28 – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer, organist (d. 1952)
• July 30 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
• August 4 – Fritz Gause, German historian (d. 1973)
• August 6 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
• August 14
  • Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (d. 1975)
  • Carl Benton Reid, American actor (d. 1973)
• August 15 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer, computing pioneer (d. 1950)
• August 17 – Mae West, American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol (d. 1980)
• August 18 – Frank Linke-Crawford, Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (d. 1918)
• August 22
  • Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
  • Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977)
• August 23 – Aleksandr Loktionov, Soviet general (d. 1941)
• August 24 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1978)
• August 25 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
• August 30 – Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator (d. 1935)
• September 6 – Claire Lee Chennault, American aviator, general, and leader of the Flying Tigers (d. 1958)
• September 10
  • Juana Bormann, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1945)
  • Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (d. 2009)
• September 12 – Frederick William Franz, American President of Jehovah's Witnesses (d. 1992)
• September 13 – Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
• September 16 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• September 18
  • Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
  • William March, American writer, soldier (d. 1954)
  • Reidar Rye Haugan, American newspaper editor, publisher (d. 1972)
• September 30 – Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman (d. 1964)

October–December

Lillian Gish

Mao Zedong

• October 1 – Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (d. 1983)
• October 8 – Clarence Williams, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 1965) (some sources give his year of birth as 1898)
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer, photographer (d. 1945)
• October 14 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
• October 15 – King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
• October 16 – Harry Donenfeld, American publisher (d. 1965)
• October 18
  • Sidney Holland, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)
  • George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
• October 23 – Gummo Marx, American comedian, actor (d. 1977)
• October 26 – Oliver P. Smith, American general (d. 1977)
• November 2 – Victor Crutchley, British admiral (d. 1986)
• November 5 – Raymond Loewy, French-born American industrial designer (d. 1986)
• November 8 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, King of Siam (d. 1941)
• November 10 – John P. Marquand, American novelist (d. 1960)
• November 12 – Leonard F. Wing, American general, politician (d. 1945)
• November 13 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
• November 20 – Grace Darmond, Canadian-born American actress (d. 1963)
• November 22
  • Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician, Great Purge perpetrator (d. 1991)
  • Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace (d. 1976)
• November 24 – Fern Andra, American actress (d. 1974)
• November 27 – Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador (d. 1969)
• December 1 – Henry J. Cadbury, American biblical scholar, Quaker (d. 1974)
• December 2 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer, pianist (d. 2002)
• December 3
  • Walter Stuart Diehl, American naval officer, aeronautical engineer (d. 1976)
  • Wilhelm Pelikan, Austrian chemist (d. 1981)
• December 7
  • Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
  • Hermann Balck, German general (d. 1982)
• December 8 – Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (d. 1980)
• December 23 – Ann Pennington, American actress, dancer (d. 1971)
• December 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress (d. 1961)
• December 26 – Mao Zedong, Chinese leader (d. 1976)
• December 29 – Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (d. 1968)

Date unknown

• Otto Eppers, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
• Henry Matthew Talintyre, British artist (d. 1962)
• Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (d. 1995)

Deaths

January–June

Rutherford B. Hayes

Jane Mackenzie

Margaret Manton Merrill

• January 2 – John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
• January 7 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (b. 1835)
• January 11 – Benjamin Butler, American lawyer, politician, and general (b. 1818)
• January 17 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• January 23 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1825)
• January 27 – James G. Blaine, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1830)
• February 1 – George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
• February 4 – Concepción Arenal, Spanish feminist writer, activist (b. 1820)
• February 10 – Henry Churchill de Mille, American dramatist, playwright and father of Cecil B. DeMille (b. 1853)
• February 18
  • King George Tupou I of Tonga (b. 1797)
  • Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
• February 20 – P. G. T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
• March 7 – Francisco Robles, 6th President of Ecuador (b. 1811)
• March 16 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (b. 1844)
• March 17
  • Jules Ferry, French premier (b. 1832)
  • Lucy Isabella Buckstone, English actress (b. 1857)
• March 18
  • Bandō Kakitsu I, Japanese kabuki actor (b. 1847)
  • George Alexander Baird, (Squire Abington), wealthy English horse breeder (b. 1861)
• March 21 – Mary Foot Seymour, American school founder (b. 1846)
• March 30 – Jane Sym-Mackenzie, second wife of Canada's second prime minister (b. 1825)
• April 8 – August Czartoryski, Polish prince (b. 1858)
• April 17 – Lucy Larcom, American teacher and author (b. 1824)
• April 19 – John Addington Symonds, English poet, literary critic (b. 1840)
• April 22 – Edward Fitzgerald Beale, American adventurer, businessman (b. 1822)
• April 26 – Harriette Baker, American children's books author (b. 1815)
• April 27 – John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (b. 1839)
• May 10 – Ion Emanuel Florescu, 2-time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1819)
• June 7 – Edwin Booth, American actor (b. 1833)
• June 14 – Jakob Frohschammer, German theologian, philosopher (b. 1821)
• June 19
  • June 19 – Margaret Manton Merrill, English-born American journalist and translator (b. 1859)
  • William Rosecrans, California congressman, Register of the U.S. Treasury (b. 1819)
• June 21 – Leland Stanford, Governor of California (b. 1824)
• June 22 – George Tryon, British admiral (b. 1832)
• June 23
  • Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (b. 1817)
  • Sir William Fox, 2nd Premier of New Zealand (b. 1812)

July–December

John Abbott

Annie Pixley

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• July 2 – Georgiana Drew Barrymore, American actress, comedian (b. 1856)
• July 6 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (b. 1850)
• July 16 – Antonio Ghislanzoni, Italian politician, journalist (b. 1833)
• August 6 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
• August 7 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (b. 1854)
• August 16 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
• August 20 – Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Governor of the Duchy of Bucovina, member of the Herrenhaus (b. 1827)
• August 31 – Lucy Hamilton Hooper, American writer and editor (b. 1835)
• September 9 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (b. 1807)
• September 28 – Bella French Swisher, American writer, editor, and publisher (b. 1837)
• October 6 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (b. 1821)
• October 8 – John Willis Menard, African-American politician (b. 1838)
• October 10 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
• October 17 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general, politician, and 1st president of the Third Republic (1875-1879) (b. 1808)
• October 18 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
• October 22 – Duleep Singh, ruler of Punjab (b. 1838)
• October 23 – Alexander of Battenberg, first prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857)
• October 30 – Sir John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
• November 8 – Annie Pixley, American actress (b. 1848)
• November 22 – James Calder, 5th President of Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
• November 24 – Belle Hunt Shortridge, American author (b. 1858)
• November 28 – Sir Alexander Cunningham, British engineer and archaeologist (b. 1814)
• December 20 – George C. Magoun, American railroad executive (b. 1840)
• December 25 – Marie Durocher, Brazilian obstetrician, physician (b. 1809)

Date unknown

• Julius Dresser, American writer (b. 1838)
• Margaret Fox, American spiritualist medium (b. 1833)

Further reading

• The Year-book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the colonies and India: a statistical record of the resources and trade of the colonial and Indian possessions of the British Empire (2nd. ed. 1893) 880pp; online edition