Aug 1 George Baird Hodge, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 64 Aug 9 Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling), dies at 71 Aug 11 Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813) Aug 19 František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, dies at 62 Aug 23 Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian military officer and the 1st President of Brazil (1889-91), dies at 65 Jul 1892 Famous Deaths by Year Sep 1892 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide