Editing 1896 (section)

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Franz von Lenbach - Clara Schumann (Pastell 1878).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Clara Schumann]]]]
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Joseph Hubert Reinkens]], German Old Catholic bishop (b. [[1821]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Charlie Bassett]], American sheriff (b. [[1847]])
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Paul Verlaine]], French lyric poet (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Flower|title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA519|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4|pages=519}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Mathew Brady]], American photographer (b. [[1822]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Charles Floquet]], Prime Minister of France (b. [[1828]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Prince Henry of Battenberg]], Lombardy-born British royal, married to [[Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1858]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[James Edwin Campbell (poet)|James Edwin Campbell]], American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867)<ref name="Poetry Foundation 1">{{cite web |url= https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-edwin-campbell |title= James Edwin Campbell |year= 2020 |publisher= [[Poetry Foundation]] |access-date= May 25, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200525145119/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-edwin-campbell |archive-date= May 25, 2020}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[William Hayden English]], American politician (b. [[1822]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Joseph P. Fyffe]], American admiral (b. [[1832]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Carlo Alberto Racchia]], Italian admiral and politician (b. [[1833]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Almagià |first1=Guido |title=RACHIA, Carlo Alberto |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-alberto-racchia_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ |website=treccani.it |publisher=Treccani |access-date=6 February 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Charilaos Trikoupis]], 7-time prime minister of Greece (b. [[1832]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Gustav Koerner]], German-American statesman (b. [[1809]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Henry Parkes|Sir Henry Parkes]], Australian politician, [[Premier of New South Wales]] (b. [[1815]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Hamilton Disston]], American industrialist and land developer (b. [[1844]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Naser al-Din Shah Qajar]], Shah of Persia, King of Herat (b. [[1831]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[H. H. Holmes]], American serial killer (executed) (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Antti Ahlström]], Finnish industrialist, founder of [[Ahlstrom]] (b. [[1827]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Nora Perry (writer)|Nora Perry]], American newspaper correspondent (b. [[1831]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Al-Sabah]], emir of Kuwait (b. [[1831]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Daniel Pollen]], 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. [[1813]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria]], father of Archduke Ferdinand (b. [[1833]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Clara Schumann]], German composer, pianist (b. [[1819]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Luigi Federico Menabrea]], Italian soldier, statesman (b. [[1809]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld]], Austrian general and politician (b. [[1817]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&aid=nfp&datum=18960526&seite=3&zoom=2|title=ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1896-05-26, Seite 3|website=anno.onb.ac.at}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Alpheus Felch]], American politician, governor and senator from [[Michigan]] (b. [[1804]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Louis Brière de l'Isle]], French general (b. [[1827]])