Editing 1900 (section)

== Deaths ==
=== January–June ===
[[File:John Ruskin 1863.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Ruskin]]]]
[[File:gottliebdaimler1.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gottlieb Daimler]]]]
[[File:Mary Kingsley West African Studies.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mary Kingsley]]]]
[[File:Josephine Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Princess Josephine of Baden]]]]
* [[January 5]] – [[William A. Hammond]], American military physician, neurologist, and 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) (b. [[1828]])
* [[January 11]] – [[James Martineau]], English religious philosopher (b. [[1805]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3242352|title=Obituary – Dr. James Martineau, London – January 12, 1900|work=[[The West Australian]] |date=15 January 1900 |page=5 |access-date=15 January 2014 |via=Trove}}</ref> 
* [[January 16]] – [[S. M. I. Henry]], American evangelist (b. [[1839]])
* [[January 20]] – [[John Ruskin]], English writer, artist, and social critic (b. [[1819]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Clinton L. Merriam]], American politician (b. [[1824]])
* [[February 23]] – [[William Butterfield]], British architect (b. [[1814]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[Carl Bechstein]], German [[piano]] maker (b. [[1826]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf |author=Bernd Rühle |title=Carl Bechstein (1826–1900) Über Leben und Lebenswerk eines grossen Klavierbauers... |accessdate=6 April 2018 |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505181133/http://www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Gottlieb Daimler]], German inventor, automotive pioneer (b. [[1834]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Rachel Lloyd (chemist)|Rachel Lloyd]], American chemist (b. [[1839]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann]], Danish composer (b. [[1805]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Hjalmar Kiærskou]], Danish botanist (b. [[1835]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Piet Joubert]], Boer politician, military commander (b. [[1834]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Cyrus K. Holliday]], cofounder of [[Topeka, Kansas]], 1st president of the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] (b. [[1826]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Gustaf Åkerhielm]], 6th prime minister of Sweden (b. [[1833]])
* [[April 5]]
** [[Joseph Bertrand]], French mathematician (b. [[1822]])
** [[Maria Louise Eve]], American author (b. [[1848]])
** [[Osman Nuri Pasha]], Ottoman military leader (b. [[1832]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Frederic Edwin Church]], American landscape painter (b. [[1826]])
* [[April 12]] – [[James Richard Cocke]], American physician, homeopath, and pioneer hypnotherapist (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 17]] – [[George Curry (Wild Bunch)|George Curry]], Wild West robber (''Wild Bunch'') (shot) (b. [[1871]])
* [[April 19]] – [[James Dawson (activist)|James Dawson]], Australian activist (b. [[1806]]) 
*[[April 21]] – [[Vikramatji Khimojiraj]], Indian ruler (b. [[1819]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Amédée-François Lamy]], French soldier (b. [[1858]]) (killed in battle)
* [[April 24]] – [[George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll]], British politician (b. [[1823]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Casey Jones]], American railway engineer (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Mihály Munkácsy]], Hungarian painter (b. [[1844]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Seweryn Morawski]], Roman Catholic prelate (b. [[1819]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Carit Etlar|Carit Etlar (Carl Brosbøll)]], Danish author (b. [[1816]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Félix Ravaisson-Mollien]], French philosopher (b. [[1813]])
* [[May 28]] – [[George Grove|Sir George Grove]], English music writer (b. [[1820]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Samori Ture]], West African empire-builder (b. [[1830]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Mary Kingsley]], English explorer, writer (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Henrietta-Kingsley|title=Mary Henrietta Kingsley {{!}} English traveler|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=July 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702040809/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Henrietta-Kingsley|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 5]] – [[Stephen Crane]], American author (b. [[1871]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Belle Boyd]], American Confederate spy, actress (b. [[1843]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Princess Josephine of Baden]] (b. [[1813]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Ritratto di Umberto I.jpg|thumb|120px|King [[Umberto I of Italy|Umberto I]]]]
[[File:Nietzsche187a.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]]]
[[File:Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Arthur Sullivan|Sir Arthur Sullivan]]]]
[[File:Oscar Wilde MET DP136272.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Oscar Wilde]]]]
* [[July 5]] – [[Henry Barnard]], American educationalist (b. [[1811]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Henry D. Cogswell]], American philanthropist (b. [[1820]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Gregorio Grassi]], Italian [[Franciscan]] friar, [[Roman Catholic]] martyr and saint (b. [[1833]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Nicolae Crețulescu]], 2-time prime minister of Romania (b. [[1812]])
* [[July 29]] – King [[Umberto I of Italy]] (assassinated) (b. [[1844]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], second son of Queen Victoria (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Panton |first1=James |title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy |date=February 24, 2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7497-8 |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA40 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] – [[Rafael Molina Sanchez]], Spanish bullfighter (b. [[1841]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Étienne Lenoir]], Belgian engineer (b. [[1822]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Wilhelm Liebknecht]], German Social Democratic politician (b. [[1826]])<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Liebknecht, Wilhelm |volume=16 |page=592}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] 
** [[Emil Škoda]], Czech engineer and industrialist (b. [[1839]])
** [[József Szlávy]], 6th prime minister of Hungary (b. [[1818]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen]], Lord Chief Justice of England (b. [[1832]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Wilhelm Steinitz]], Austrian-born chess player, first undisputed World Champion (b. [[1836]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]], Russian philosopher and poet (b. [[1853]])
* [[August 16]] – [[José Maria de Eça de Queirós]], Portuguese writer (b. [[1845]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Kuroda Kiyotaka]], Japanese politician, 2nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1840]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], German philosopher, writer (b. [[1844]])
* [[September 23]]
** [[William Marsh Rice]], American philanthropist, university founder (b. [[1816]])
** [[Arsenio Martínez-Campos]], Spanish general, revolutionary, and [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1831]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Samuel Fenton Cary]], American politician (b. [[1814]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Zdeněk Fibich]], Czech composer (b. [[1850]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Roderick Cameron|Sir Roderick Cameron]], Canadian shipping magnate (b. [[1825]])
* [[October 22]] – [[John Sherman]], American politician (b.[[1823]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Max Müller]], German philologist, Orientalist (b. [[1823]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Arthur Sullivan|Sir Arthur Sullivan]], English composer (b. [[1842]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Méry Laurent]], French artist's muse, model (b. [[1849]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Oscar Wilde]], Irish writer (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar Wilde |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde |website=www.bl.uk |access-date=12 November 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112093040/https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 4]] – [[Aquileo Parra]], 11th [[President of Colombia]] (b. [[1825]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Paddy Ryan]], Irish-American boxer, former world's heavyweight champion (b. [[1851]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal]], Prussian field marshal (b. [[1810]])