Editing 1889 (section)

=== July–December ===
[[File:Joule James sitting.jpg|110px|thumb|[[James Prescott Joule]]]]
[[File:Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist.jpg|110px|thumb|[[August Ahlqvist]]]]
* [[July 4]] – [[Susan Catherine Koerner Wright]], mother of the [[Wright Brothers]] (b. [[1831]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Giovanni Bottesini]], Italian conductor, composer and virtuoso [[double bass]] player (b. [[1821]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Burnett R. Toskey|title=Concertos for Violin and Viola: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZwJAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=B.R. Toskey|isbn=978-0-9601054-8-9|page=117}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] – [[Julia Gardiner Tyler]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1820]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Eduardo Gutiérrez]], Argentinian author (b. [[1851]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]], French writer (b. [[1838]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Authors : Villiers de L'Isle-Adam: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/villiers_de_lisle-adam|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|access-date=March 27, 2019}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] – [[Wilkie Collins]], English novelist (b. [[1824]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Baker|title=Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPD_tVuoQM0C&pg=PA69|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31394-3|pages=69}}</ref>
* [[September 24]] – [[Charles Leroux]], American balloonist, parachutist (b. [[1856]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Louis Faidherbe]], French general and colonial administrator (b. [[1818]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Adolf von Henselt]], German pianist and composer (b. [[1814]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA626|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|pages=626}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] – [[James Prescott Joule]], English physicist (b. [[1818]])
* [[October 17]]
** [[Rodrigo Augusto da Silva]], Brazilian Senator, author of the [[Golden Law]] (b. [[1833]])
** [[John F. Hartranft]], Union Army officer, Medal of Honour recipient (b. [[1830]])
* [[October 19]] – King [[Luís I of Portugal]] (b. [[1838]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Émile Augier]], French dramatist (b. [[1820]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKNK1YwHcQ4C&pg=PA85|year=1995|publisher=Merriam-Webster|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|page=85}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] – [[Sergei Bobokhov]], Russian revolutionary, commits suicide as a protest against the flogging of a woman comrade in Siberia (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 18]] – [[William Allingham]], Irish author (b. [[1824]])<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Allingham, William|volume=1|page=696}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] – [[August Ahlqvist]], Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the [[Finno-Ugric languages]], author and literary critic (b. [[1826]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/3105|title=Ahlqvist, August (1826-1889)|publisher=kansallisbiografia|author=H. K. Riikonen|access-date=July 6, 2021|language=fi}}</ref>
* [[November 24]] – [[George H. Pendleton]], American politician (b. [[1825]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Jefferson Davis]], [[President of the Confederate States of America]] (b. [[1808]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Donald E. Collins|title=The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Am2nZlAV6KMC&pg=PA82|year=2005|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-4304-1|pages=82}}</ref>
* [[December 12]] – [[Robert Browning]], English poet (b. [[1812]])<ref>{{Cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] – [[Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies]], [[List of Brazilian consorts|Empress consort of Brazil]] (b. [[1822]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[Glele]], King of [[Dahomey]] (suicide)
** [[Priscilla Cooper Tyler]], ''de facto'' [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1816]])
* [[December 30]] –  [[Henry Yule|Sir Henry Yule]], Scottish orientalist (b. [[1820]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Ion Creangă]], Romanian writer (b. [[1837]] or [[1839]])