Editing 1888 (section)

=== January–March ===
[[File:Kaiser Wilhelm I. .JPG|thumb|110px|[[William I, German Emperor|Wilhelm I]]]] 
* [[January 7]]&nbsp;– [[Golam Ali Chowdhury]], Bengali landlord and philanthropist (b. [[1824]])<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b49619607dba348f016a4c|date=5 December 1994|quote=Karimunnessa Khatun and others v. Mahomed Fazlul Karim and others|title=Privy Council Appeal No. 90 of 1922, from Bengal Appeal No. 27 of 1919|work=Case Mine}}</ref>
* [[January 19]]&nbsp;– [[Anton de Bary]], German biologist (b. [[1831]])
* [[January 20]]&nbsp;– [[William Pitt Ballinger]], Texas lawyer, southern statesman (b. [[1825]])
* [[January 29]]&nbsp;– [[Edward Lear]], British artist, writer (b. [[1812]])
* [[January 31]]&nbsp;– [[John Bosco]], Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the [[Salesian Society]] (b. [[1815]])
* [[February 3]]&nbsp;– [[Henry Maine|Sir Henry Maine]], British jurist (b. [[1822]])
* [[February 5]]&nbsp;– [[Anton Mauve]], Dutch painter (b. [[1838]])
* [[February 9]]&nbsp;– [[Augusto Riboty]], Italian admiral and politician (b. [[1816]])<ref>Mariano Gabriele, ''Augusto Riboty'', Ufficio Storico della Marina Militare, 1999 (in Italian).</ref>
* [[February 22]]&nbsp;– [[Anna Kingsford]], British women's rights activist (b. [[1846]])
* [[February 24]]&nbsp;– [[Seth Kinman]], American hunter, settler (b. [[1815]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[Louisa May Alcott]], American novelist (b. [[1832]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Louisa May Alcott {{!}} Biography, Childhood, Family, Books, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisa-May-Alcott |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Josif Pančić]], Serbian botanist (b. [[1814]])
* [[March 9]]&nbsp;– [[William I, German Emperor]], King of Prussia (b. [[1797]])
* [[March 12]]&nbsp;– [[Henry Bergh]], founder of the [[American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]] (b. [[1813]])
* [[March 16]]&nbsp;– [[Hippolyte Carnot]], French statesman (b. [[1801]])
* [[March 23]]&nbsp;– [[Morrison Waite]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1816]])
* [[March 27]]&nbsp;– [[Francesco Faà di Bruno]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1825]])
* [[March 29]]&nbsp;– [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]], French composer, pianist (b. [[1813]])