Editing 1908 (section)

== Deaths ==
=== January–March ===
[[File:Wilhelm Busch.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wilhelm Busch]]]]
[[File:Carlos I de Portugal.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Carlos I of Portugal]]]]
[[File:Picture of Henry Campbell-Bannerman.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]]]]
[[File:HIH Yamashina Kikumaro on Yagumo.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Prince Yamashina Kikumaro]]]]
[[File:StephenGroverCleveland.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Grover Cleveland]]]]
* [[January 9]] – [[Wilhelm Busch]], German painter, poet (born [[1832]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Lotze | first = Dieter | title = Wilhelm Busch | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = Boston | year = 1979 | isbn = 9780805763652 | page=21}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] – [[Holger Drachmann]], Danish poet (born [[1846]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Literary Year-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mX1PAAAAMAAJ|year=1909|publisher=G. Routledge|page=384|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807150331/https://books.google.com/books?id=mX1PAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] – [[Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (born [[1835]])
* [[January 20]] – [[William Wood (ventriloquist)|William Wood]], American ventriloquist (born c. 1861)
* [[January 23]] – [[Edward MacDowell]], American composer (born [[1860]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Ouida]], English writer (born [[1839]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Cosmopolis History of The Langham|date=February 5, 2004|url=http://www.cosmopolis.ch/travel/the_langham_london.htm|access-date=20 October 2010}}</ref>
* [[February 1]]
** King [[Carlos I of Portugal]] (born [[1863]])
** [[Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal]] (born [[1887]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Annie Ryder Gracey]], American missionary (born [[1836]])
** [[Baron Ignaz von Plener]], 3rd Minister-President of Cisleithania (born [[1810]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Eliza A. Pittsinger]], "The California Poetess" (born [[1837]])
* [[February 29]]
** [[John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow]], 1st Governor-General of Australia (born [[1860]])
** [[Pat Garrett]], Sheriff in the Old West; shot [[Billy the Kid]] in 1881 (born [[1850]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Sidney Hill]], English philanthropist (born [[1829]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Edmondo De Amicis]], Italian novelist (born [[1846]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Louise Restieaux Hawkes|title=Before and After Pinocchio: A Study of Italian Children's Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkA0AAAAMAAJ|year=1933|publisher=Puppet Press|page=88|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807150335/https://books.google.com/books?id=tkA0AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[Charles N. Sims]], American Methodist preacher, third chancellor of [[Syracuse University]] (born [[1835]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Esther Pugh]], American temperance reformer (born [[1834]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Chester Gillette]], American murderer (executed) (born [[1883]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 20]] – [[Henry Chadwick (writer)|Henry Chadwick]], English-born American baseball writer (born [[1824]])
* [[April 22]]
** [[Qasim Amin]], Egyptian writer (born [[1863]])
** [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (born [[1836]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Karl Möbius]], German ecologist (born [[1825]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Redi | first = Carlo | title = Visual zoology: the Pavia collection of Leuckart's zoological wall charts (1877 | publisher = Ibis | location = Como | year = 2000 | isbn = 9788871641300 | page=69}}</ref>
* [[May 2]] – [[Prince Yamashina Kikumaro]], Japanese prince (born [[1873]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Carl Koldewey]], German explorer (born [[1837]])<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=The Geographical Journal|publisher=Royal Geographical Society|year=1908|page=191}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] – [[François Coppée]], French poet, playwright and novelist (born [[1842]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Parker|title=Who's who in the Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Pitman|page=1609|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=April 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415004207/https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Old Tom Morris]], Scottish golfer (born [[1821]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], Sikh Empire-born founder of the [[Ahmadiyya]] movement in Islam (born [[1835]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Redvers Buller|Sir Redvers Buller]], British general, Victoria Cross recipient (born [[1839]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Jef Lambeaux]], Belgian sculptor (born [[1852]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Drusilla Wilson]], American temperance leader and Quaker pastor (born [[1815]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby]], Governor-General of Canada, founder of the Stanley Cup (born [[1841]])
* [[June 20]]
** [[Federico Chueca]], Spanish composer (born [[1846]])
** [[Eleanor Kirk]], American publisher (born [[1831]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]], Russian composer (born [[1844]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Grover Cleveland]], 22nd and 24th [[President of the United States]] (born [[1837]])

=== July–September ===
[[File:Demetrius Vikelas.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Demetrius Vikelas]]]]
[[File:Paul Nadar - Henri Becquerel.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Henri Becquerel]]]]
[[File:Jan Berther.JPG|thumb|110px|Servant of God [[John Berthier]]]]
[[File:Tomas estrada palma.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Tomás Estrada Palma]]]]
[[File:Emperor Guangxu.jpg|thumb|110px|Emperor [[Guangxu]] of [[Qing dynasty|China]]]]
* [[July 3]] – [[Joel Chandler Harris]], American author (born [[1848]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Jonas Lie (writer)|Jonas Lie]], Norwegian writer (born [[1833]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Felipe Calderón y Roca]], Filipino politician (born [[1868]])
* [[July 12]] – [[William D. Coleman (politician)|William D. Coleman]], 13th [[President of Liberia]] (born [[1842]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunn|first1= Elwood D.|last2=Beyan|first2=Amos J.|last3=Burrowes|first3=Carl Patrick|author-link= |date=2000|title=Historical Dictionary of Liberia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC|location=Lanham, Maryland|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9781461659310|pages=80–81}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] – [[Ignacio de Veintemilla]], 11th [[President of Ecuador]] (born [[1828]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Demetrius Vikelas]], 1st [[President of the International Olympic Committee]] (born [[1835]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Randal Cremer|Sir Randal Cremer]], English politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (born [[1828]])
* [[July 24]] – [[Sigismondo Savona]], Maltese educator and politician (born [[1835]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schiavone |first1=Michael J. |title=Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G–Z |date=2009 |publisher=Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza |location=[[Pietà, Malta|Pietà]] |isbn=9789993291329 |pages=1414–1415}}</ref>
* [[August 4]] – [[Radoje Domanović]], Serbian writer (born [[1873]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (born [[1839]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Éleuthère Mascart]], French physicist (born [[1837]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Henri Becquerel]], French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born [[1852]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Tony Pastor]], American theater impresario (born [[1837]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Leslie Green]], British architect (born [[1875]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Thomas Selfridge]], United States Army officer, first person killed in an airplane crash (born [[1882]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Pablo de Sarasate]], Spanish violinist, composer (born [[1844]])
* [[September 21]]
** [[Ernest Fenollosa]], Spanish-born American art historian and philosopher (born [[1853]])
** [[Arnold Burrowes Kemball|Sir Arnold Kemball]], British army officer and diplomat (born [[1820]])
** [[Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso]], 3rd [[President of the Republic (Spain)|President of Spain]] (born [[1838]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Frank Robison]], American baseball executive, early owner of the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] (born [[1852]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Machado de Assis]], Brazilian author (born [[1839]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 11]] – [[Rita Cetina Gutiérrez]], Mexican educator, poet and activist (born [[1846]])
* [[October 16]] – [[John Berthier]], French [[Roman Catholic]] priest, missionary and servant of God (born [[1840]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Nozu Michitsura]], Japanese general (born [[1840]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Enomoto Takeaki]], Japanese ''samurai'', admiral (born [[1836]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Caroline Schermerhorn Astor]], American socialite (born [[1830]])
* [[October]] – [[The Rogers Brothers|Gus Rogers]], American vaudevillian (born 1869)
* [[November 1]] – [[Mary F. Eastman]], American educator, lecturer, writer and suffragist (born [[1833]])
* [[November 4]]
** [[Richard Gerstl]], Austrian artist (born [[1883]])
** [[Tomás Estrada Palma]], 1st [[President of Cuba]] (born [[1832]])
* [[November 7]]
** [[Butch Cassidy]], American outlaw (born [[1866]])
** [[Sundance Kid]], American outlaw (born [[1867]])
* [[November 8]] 
** [[Josephine E. Keating]], American literary critic and musician (born [[1838]])
** [[Victorien Sardou]], French dramatist (born [[1831]])
* [[November 14]] – Emperor [[Guangxu]] of China (born [[1871]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] of China (born [[1835]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Cixi {{!}} Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cixi |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=8 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=October 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010053747/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cixi |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 17]] – [[Lydia Thompson]], English dancer, actress (born [[1838]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Paul Taffanel]], French flautist, composer (born [[1844]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Augustus Le Plongeon]], American archaeologist (born [[1825]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Jacob Parrott]], the first person to receive the American [[Medal of Honor]], one of six presented on March 25, 1863, to the heroes of the [[Great Locomotive Chase]] during the American Civil War (born [[1843]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Jacob W. Davis]], Latvian American tailor, inventor of jeans (born [[1831]])