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1894 deaths

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

German physicist (1857–1894)

Alexander III of Russia

Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894

Hermann von Helmholtz

German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)

Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (1814–1894)

Christina Rossetti

English poet (1830–1894)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

American poet and physician (1809–1894)

Hungarian politician (1802–1894)

5th president of France (1837–1894)

Ferdinand de Lesseps

French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal (1805–1894)

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bengali writer, poet and journalist (1838-1894)

Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle

French poet (1818–1894)

Anton Rubinstein

Russian pianist, composer and conductor (1829–1894)

Gustave Caillebotte

French painter (1848–1894)

Pafnuty Chebyshev

Russian mathematician (1821–1894)

Francis II of the Two Sicilies

King of the Two Sicilies (1836-1894) and Servant of God

Hans von Bülow

German conductor and pianist (1830–1894)

Ukrainian-Russian realist painter and early symbolist (1831–1894)

Theodor Billroth

German surgeon (1829-1894)

Austen Henry Layard

British politician (1817–1894)

Eugène Charles Catalan

French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)

English writer, critic and essayist (1839–1894)

John Sparrow David Thompson

Prime Minister of Canada from 1892 to 1894

Emmanuel Chabrier

French Romantic composer and pianist

Brian Houghton Hodgson

British diplomat and naturalist (1800/1801–1894)

Women's rights activist (1818–1894)

Alexander von Middendorff

Baltic German explorer and scientist (1815-1894)

German physicist (1839–1894)

Prince Philippe, Count of Paris

Prince of France (1838-1894)

Hassan I of Morocco

Moroccan Sultan (1836-1894)

William Henry Waddington

19th century French statesman, Prime Minister and an Ambassador of France (1826–1894)

Heinrich Hoffmann

German psychiatrist and children's writer

Pavel Yablochkov

Russian engineer (1847–1894)

Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac

Swiss chemist (1817–1894)

author, lawyer, journalist, politician and President of Colombia (1825-1894)

Robert Michael Ballantyne

Scottish author of juvenile fiction (1825-1894)

James Anthony Froude

English historian, novelist and biographer (1818–1894)

lawyer, politician, and general of the Confederate States Army (1816-1894)

Nadezhda von Meck

Patron of Tchaikovsky (1831-1894)

German musicologist (1841–1894)

Heinrich Karl Brugsch

German Egyptologist (1827–1894)

Juan N. Méndez

President of Mexico (1876–77)

Maria Deraismes

French writer and feminist (1828–1894)

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

mathematician (1856–1894)

William Robertson Smith

Scottish orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland (1846–1894)

American landscape painter (1825-1894)

William Dwight Whitney

American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer (1827–1894)

Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia

Grand Princess of Russia (1827–1894)

Nathaniel P. Banks

American politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union Army (1816-1894)

Croatian historian, politician and writer (1828-1894)

Swedish 19th century prime minister (1820-1894)

Guillaume Lekeu

Belgian composer (1870-1894)

Remigio Morales Bermúdez

President of Peru (1836-1894)

President of Bolivia (1840-1894)

Mina Karadžić

Serbian historian and painter (1828-1894)

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz

Spanish artist (1815-1894)

George John Romanes

British evolutionary biologist (1848–1894)

painter from France (1862–1894)

Sante Geronimo Caserio

sentenced to death in France

Marietta Alboni

Italian operatic contralto (1826-1894)