Famous Deaths In 1893

Jan 02 John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805) died on this day in history.

Jan 07 Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835) died in the year 1893.

Jan 09 Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten on this day in history.

Jan 11 On this day in history benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74

Jan 15 Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809) died in the year 1893.

Jan 16 In the year 1893 johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74

Jan 17 Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70 in the year 1893.

Jan 19 Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.

Jan 22 Vincenz Lachner, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.

Jan 23 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75 in the year 1893.

Jan 26 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday in the year 1893.

Jan 27 James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62 on this day in history.

Feb 01 In the year 1893 death of george Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)

Feb 13 Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58 on this day in history.

Feb 18 In the year 1893 death of serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)

Feb 20 In the year 1893 death of p.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)

Mar 05 In the year 1893 hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64

Mar 17 Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832) died on this day in history.

Mar 19 On this day in history karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69

Apr 04 Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86 on this day in history.

Apr 09 Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.

Apr 19 On this day in history john Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies

Apr 22 Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825) died in the year 1893.

Apr 27 John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday on this day in history.

Apr 30 Edouard Manet, French painter (Olympia), dies at 61 on this day in history.

May 03 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.

May 04 George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.

May 14 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 in the year 1893.

May 23 In the year 1893 death of anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)

Jun 07 Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43 in the year 1893.

Jun 10 Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.

Jun 21 Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University died on this day in history.

Jun 23 On this day in history death of sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)

Jul 06 Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850) died in the year 1893.

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Jan 02 On this day in history birth of lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)

Jan 03 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles) was born on this day in history.

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of manuel Palau Boix, composer

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds Oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007)

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik)

Jan 05 In the year 1893 birth of zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)

Jan 05 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) was born in the year 1893.

Jan 10 In the year 1893 birth of albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)