1898 deaths

American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist

Ottoman Armenian composer, conductor, and writer (1837–1898)

American Union Army General (1818–1898)

British physicist and electrical engineer (1849–1898)

Russian artist (1850-1898)

Hungarian-American conductor and orchestra leader (1850-1898)

British politician (1824-1898)

French writer (1832–1898)

German chemist (1824–1898)

German princess (1854-1898)

Catholic Saint and Founder of religious order (1817–1898)

Cuban general (1839-1898)

Puerto Rican nationalist (1827–1898)

president of Mexico (1813-1898)

German economist and university lecturer (1821-1898)

French composer (1819-1898)

Danish botanist (1818-1898)

Austrian botanist (1831-1898)

Russian philologist and art historian (1818–1897)

Austrian-Hungarian diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1832-1898)

German photochemist and university lecturer (1834-1898)

English / New Zealand architect and photographer

Spanish dramatist (1829–1898)

Hungarian artist (c.1810-1898)

English interpreter

Brazilian poet and journalist (1861–1898)

Prime Minister of Greece (1820-1898)

Austrian archduke (1823-1898)

American politician (1841-1898)

German nun and saint of Catholic church (1820-1898)

British biologist (1849-1898)

German Princess (1826–1898)

Czech-Austrian philosopher (1824-1898)

German classical philologist (1845–1898)

Nongqawuse (; c. 1841 – 1898) was a Xhosa prophet. Her prophecies resulted in a millenarian belief that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing and famine of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz (1846–1898)

Italian engineer and politician (1833-1898)

Author, wife of Oscar Wilde (1859–1898)

Russian military leader and politician (1828-1898)

Austrian philologist and ethnologist (1834-1898)

Venezuelan painter (1863-1898)

Danish composer (1836-1898)

Serbian poet (1879–1898)

German pathologist and physician (1825-1898)

English novelist and journalist (1822–1898)

Governor of Texas, Confederate States of America general, Texas A&M University president (1838-1898)

New Zealand botanist and botanical collector (1828-1898)

German zoologist (1843-1898)

British electrical engineer (1822–1898)

British artist (1833-1898)

American con artist, gangster, and crime boss (1860-1898)

British novelist (1841–1898)

French ballet dancer (1815–1898)

American gunsmith and manufacturer (1821-1898)

Italian painter (1825-1898)

American businessman (1857–1898)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (1836-1898)

Hungarian violinist and composer (1828–1898)

Swedish writer, editor

Guatemalan president (1854-1898)