Apr 6 Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and founder of Clemson University, dies at 80 Apr 14 William Fiske Sherwin, American composer, dies at 62 Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Apr 15 English poet and critic (Dover Beach), dies at 65 Apr 16 Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist, dies at 42 Apr 18 Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), dies at 58 Mar 1888 Famous Deaths by Year May 1888 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide