Editing 1898 (section)

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Lewis Carroll photograph.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Lewis Carroll]]]]
[[File:MatildaJoslynGage.jpeg|thumb|110px|[[Matilda Joslyn Gage]]]]
[[File:Gladstone2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William Ewart Gladstone]]]]
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Lawrence Sullivan Ross]], [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] brigadier general, [[Texas]] governor, and president of [[Texas A&M University]] (b. [[1838]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Lewis Carroll]], British writer, mathematician (''Alice in Wonderland'') (b. [[1832]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Charles Pelham Villiers]], longest-serving MP in the [[British House of Commons]] (b. [[1802]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Henry Liddell]], English Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. [[1811]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Cornelia J. M. Jordan]], American lyricist (b. [[1830]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Tsuboi Kōzō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1843]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Abdul Samad of Selangor]], Malaysian ruler, 4th [[Sultan of Selangor]] (b. [[1804]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bracken]], author of the official national anthem of New Zealand (''[[God Defend New Zealand]]'') (b. [[1843]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[George Bruce Malleson]], Indian officer, author (b. [[1825]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Andrei Alexandrovich Popov]], Russian admiral (b. [[1821]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Marie-Eugénie de Jésus]], French religious (b. [[1817]])
** [[George Müller]], Prussian evangelist, founder of the [[New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol|Ashley Down orphanage]] (b. [[1805]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[William Rosecrans]], California congressman, [[Register of the Treasury|Register of the U.S. Treasury]] (b. [[1819]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Henry Bessemer|Sir Henry Bessemer]], British engineer, inventor (b. [[1813]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Aubrey Beardsley]], British artist (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Crawford |first1=Alan |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter=Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator |page=<!-- online, no page numbers -->|date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1821 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], American feminist (b. [[1826]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; Sir [[Syed Ahmad Khan]], Indian university founder (b. [[1817]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Anton Seidl]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1850]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Aurilla Furber]], American author (b. [[1847]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui]], Maori military leader
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (b. [[1826]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Mary Towne Burt]], American benefactor (b. [[1842]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1809]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Edward Bellamy]], American author (b. [[1850]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Theodor Eimer]], German zoologist (b. [[1843]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Rosalie Olivecrona]], Swedish feminist activist (b. [[1823]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Tuone Udaina]], Croatian-Italian last speaker of the [[Dalmatian language]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Dewitt Clinton Senter]], American politician, 18th [[Governor of Tennessee]] (b. [[1830]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Cohn]], German biologist, bacteriologist and microbiologist (b. [[1828]])