Dec 1 Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (I Saw Estonia Yesterday), dies at 49 Dec 7 José Marraco y Ferrer, Catalan church musician and composer, dies at 78 Dec 7 Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX, dies at 85 Menelik II (1844-1913) Dec 12 Emperor of Ethiopia (1889-1913) and Negus/King of Shewa (1866–89), dies at 69 Dec 17 Stefano Gobatti, Italian composer, dies at 61 Dec 23 Bonnor Middleton, South African cricket fast bowler (6 Tests, 24 wickets; Western Province), dies at 48 Dec 29 Anderson Abbott, Canadian physician and writer (first Canadian-born black doctor), dies at 76 [1] Nov 1913 Famous Deaths by Year Jan 1914 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
Menelik II (1844-1913)
Menelik II (1844-1913) 
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Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide