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1889 deaths

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Anne Lee Guinness

Anne Lee Plunket, Baroness Plunket was an Irish philanthropist.

James Prescott Joule

English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)

Robert Browning

English poet and playwright (1812–1889)

Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850-1889)

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Russian writer and nihilist philosopher (1828–1889)

British writer (1824-1889)

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist

American astronomer

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria

Austrian archduke (1858-1889)

Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

French writer (1808-1889)

Luís I of Portugal

King of Portugal from 1861 to 1889

Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808–1889)

Michel Eugène Chevreul

French chemist (1786-1889)

19th century Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint (1840–1889)

Alexandre Cabanel

French painter (1823–1889)

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

French writer (1838–1889)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

English poet (1844–1889)

Julia Gardiner Tyler

First Lady of the United States (1820–1889)

German astronomer (1821–1889)

French writer (1820-1889)

Lucy Webb Hayes

First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881

Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies

Princess of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Empress of the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889)

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

French historian (1830–1889)

Priscilla Cooper Tyler

First Lady of The United States from 1842 to 1844

Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 to 1889

Moldavian - born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada

President of Mexico (1823-1889)

Princess Eugénie of Sweden

Swedish princess; daughter of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1830–1889)

Mary von Vetsera

Austrian noblewoman, mistress to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (1871-1889)

Benedetto Cairoli

Italian politician (1825–1889)

Ludwig Anzengruber

Austrian dramatist (1839-1889)

Charles III, Prince of Monaco

Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 1856

Johann Jakob von Tschudi

Swiss naturalist and explorer (1818–1889)

Swedish-US engineer (1803-1889)

British writer (1814-1889)

French painter (1811-1889)

August Ahlqvist

Finnish poet, scholar, author and literary critic (1826-1889)

Marie of Prussia

Queen consort of Bavaria; youngest child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg

Giovanni Bottesini

Italian composer, conductor, and double bass player

José Joaquín Pérez

Chilean politician and President (1801-1889)

Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel

German aristocrat (1786–1850), Viceregal consort of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1818 to 1837

Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach

German botanist (1824–1889)

Franciscus Donders

Dutch ophthalmologist (1818-1889)

Domingo Santa María

Chilean politician and President (1825–1889)

French physicist

Miles Joseph Berkeley

British botanist (1803-1889)

Vietnamese emperor (1864–1889)

Robert Hamerling

Austrian poet (1830–1889)

British Radical and Liberal statesman (1811–1889)

Polish-Chilean geologist and educator (1802–1889)

Warren De la Rue

British astronomer, chemist and photographer (1815–1889)

German writer (1811-1889)

Adolf von Henselt

German composer and pianist (1814–1889)

Albrecht Ritschl

German theologian (1822-1889)

Viktor Bunyakovsky

Russian mathematician (1804-1889)

Şihabetdin Märcani

Russian Tatar historian and theologian (1818–1889)

Ecuadorian writer (1832-1889)

Louis Faidherbe

French general (1818-1889)

Şevkefza Sultan

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1820–1889)