- Dec 8 Henry Russell, English pianist and composer, dies at 87
- Dec 14 Jean Baptiste August Kessler, Dutch entrepreneur and director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
- Dec 21 Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
- Dec 27 William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong and British industralist and inventor (hydraulic crane Armstrong Gun), dies at 90
- Dec 28 Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)
- Dec 31 Hannibal Goodwin, Episcopal priest who patented a method for making film used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, dies at 78
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