Deaths Date 1895 | History by KabAstro

Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895)

Feb 3 American abolitionist and writer (American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses), dies at 91

Feb 4 Faustina Hasse Hodges, English-American composer, dies at 71
Feb 18 Archduke Albrecht of Austria, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77
Feb 18 Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)

Frederick Douglass (c. 1817/18-1895)

Feb 20 African-American abolitionist, lecturer and editor who was also an escaped slave, dies of a heart attack at 77

Feb 24 Ignaz Lachner, German composer, dies at 87
Mar 1 Pauline Musters, Dutch world's smallest woman at 24 inches (61 cm), dies at 19

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

Mar 2 French Impressionist painter who helped start the Impressionist movement, dies of pneumonia at 54

Mar 2 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
Mar 5 Henry Rawlinson, British army officer and oriental scholar (major role in deciphering cuneiform), dies at 84
Mar 5 Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), and playwright, dies at 64
Mar 6 Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
Mar 8 Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor of a valve for steam engines, dies at 75 [1]
Mar 9 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (word masochism derived from his name), dies at 59
Mar 9 Rebecca Lee Crumpler, American physician and medical writer (first African American woman to receive a medical degree), dies at 64 [1]
Mar 10 Charles Frederick Worth, British fashion designer (House of Worth - Paris), dies of pneumonia at 69
Mar 12 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
Mar 12 John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (a practical folding wooden stepladder), dies at 71
Mar 13 Louise Otto-Peters, German suffragist, women's rights movement activist and author (The Wandering Star), dies at 75
Mar 17 Adolphe Nibelle, French composer (Le Loup-Garou (The Werewolf)), dies at 69
Apr 7 James Lawson Kemper, American lawyer, military officer (US Army Captain - Mexican-American War; Confederate Army Major General), and politician (Governor of Virginia, 1874-78), dies at 71
Apr 11 Julius Lothar Meyer, German Chemist, dies at 64
Apr 19 George Scharf, British art critic and administrator (National Portrait Gallery, 1857-95), dies at 74
Apr 22 Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, French-American artist and astronomer called “the Audubon of the Sky”, dies at 67 [1]
Apr 23 Carl Ludwig, German physiologist and physician (1884 Copley medal), dies at 78
Apr 30 Gustav Freytag, German writer and playwright (Debt and Credit), dies at 78
May 15 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack), dies at 75
May 19 Jose Marti y Perez, Cuban poet (Versos sencillos) essayist and politician (fought for independence from Spain), dies fighting the Battle of Dos Rios at 42
May 21 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
May 21 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon, dies at 66
May 23 Franz E. Neumann, German mineralogist, mathematician and physicist, dies at 96
May 24 Hugh McCulloch, US Treasury Secretary (1865-69, 1884-85), dies at 86
May 24 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter (landscape paintings), dies at 73
May 25 Ahmed Cevdet Paşa, Turkish statesman and historian (Minister of Justice), dies at 73
Jun 15 Richard Genée, Austrian playwright, librettist, and composer, dies at 72
Jun 23 Joseph Paul Skelly, Irish-American composer ("Keep The Horseshoe Over The Door"), dies at 44
Jun 29 Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (comparative anatomy), dies at 70
Jul 2 William Rockstro, English composer and musicologist, dies at 72
Jul 8 Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
Jul 9 Jack Simpson, Scottish golfer (British Open 1884), dies of typhoid fever at 35
Jul 14 Alexander Ewing, Scottish composer (Jerusalem the Golden), dies at 65
Jul 19 Charles T. Stork, Dutch industrialist (cotton machine factory), dies at 73
Jul 19 Henri Ernest Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
Jul 28 Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
Jul 28 Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1877-79), dies at 72
Jul 31 Richard Morris Hunt, American architect and educator, dies at 67
Aug 1 Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzugs), dies at 77
Aug 2 Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), dies of pneumonia at 37
Aug 4 Marcellus Augustus Stovall, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 76

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Aug 5 German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, dies of throat cancer at 74

Aug 6 George Frederick Root, American songwriter ("The Battle Cry of Freedom"), dies at 74
Aug 13 Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies at 79
Aug 19 John Wesley Hardin, American outlaw and gunfighter (claimed to have killed 27 men), shot dead in a saloon at 42
Aug 24 John F. Loudon, Dutch sugar and indigo manufacturer, who Delft collection was left to the Rijksmuseum, dies at 74

Adam Opel (1837-1895)

Sep 8 German automobile manufacturer (Adam Opel AG), dies at 58

Sep 10 Harrison Millard, American composer, dies at 64
Sep 14 Alfred Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57
Sep 15 Jan Kleczyński Sr., Polish pianist and composer, dies at 58
Sep 17 Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

Sep 28 French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization), dies at 72

Oct 3 Harry Wright, English Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder and manager (established baseball's first fully professional team, Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869), dies of a lung ailment at 60
Oct 6 Lorenzo Langstroth, American apiarist (invented modern beehive), dies at 84 [1]
Oct 8 Charles Oberthür, German composer and harpist, dies at 76
Oct 8 William Mahone, American railway engineer and Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
Oct 14 Elisha P. Ferry, American politician (Governor of Washington, 1872-80, 1889-93), dies at 70
Oct 25 Charles Hallé, Anglo-German pianist, conductor and founder (Halle Orchestra), dies at 76
Oct 31 Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62
Nov 1 Aleksander Zarzycki, Polish composer (Warsaw Music Society), dies at 61
Nov 2 Jack 'The Nonpareil' Dempsey, Irish boxer (first holder of World Middleweight Championship 1886-90), dies from tuberculosis at 32
Nov 4 Eugene Field "Poet of Childhood", American poet, writer and journalist (Little Boy Blue), dies at 45
Nov 11 Julius Tausch, German composer, dies at 68
Nov 25 Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer and musicologist, dies at 68
Nov 29 Eduard Taaffe, Austrian politician (Minister-President of Austria 1868-70, 79-93), dies at 62
Dec 13 Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
Dec 25 Raul Pompeia, Brazilian writer (O Ateneu), dies at 32
Dec 30 LP Hartley, British writer, dies