1899 deaths

President of the Dominican Republic (1845-1898)

German zoologist, comparative anatomist and university lecturer (1835-1899)

British naturalist, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, botanical and scientific collector, scientific illustrator, painter and poet (1818-1899)

German chess player (1818–1899)

English comparative anatomist, surgeon and museum curator (1831–1899)

novelist and author (1829-1899)

Swedish journalist and writer (1808–1899)

Prime Minister of France (1813-1899)

German chess master, bookseller and writer (1832-1899)

Princess Kaʻiulani (; Victoria Kawēkiu Kaʻiulani Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn; October 16, 1875 – March 6, 1899) was a Hawaiian royal, the only child of Princess Miriam Likelike, and the last heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was the niece of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani. After the death of her mother, Kaʻiulani was sent to Europe at age 13 to complete her education under the guardianship of British businessman and Hawaiian sugar investor Theo H. Davies. She had not yet reached her eighteenth birthday when the 1893 overthrow of the Hawai

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1825-1899)

French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor (1843–1899)

French Jewish dramatist and novelist (1811–1899)

Ottoman princess (1826–1899)

Dutch supercentenarian

Austrian cartographer (1864-1899)

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1844-1899)

Anglo-Hungarian orientalist

Acehnese guerrilla leader (1854–1899)

German chemist and university teacher (1813-1899)

Italian judge, deacon and cardinal (1806–1899)

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1863 to 1866

Cardinal and Bishop of Budweis and Archbishop of Prague (1844-1899)

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1819–1899)

Bosnian Serb writer, physician, educator, clergyman, nationalist

Slovene Impressionist and Neo-Romantic poet

Kapiʻolani (December 31, 1834 – June 24, 1899) was the queen of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi as the consort of Mōʻī (king) Kalākaua, who reigned from 1874 until his death in 1891, when she became known as the Dowager Queen Kapiʻolani. Deeply interested in the health and welfare of Native Hawaiians, Kapiʻolani established the Kapiʻolani Home for Girls, for the education of the daughters of residents of the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement, and the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home, where Hawaiian mothers and newborns could receive care.

Austro-Hungarian politician (1824-1899)

German linguist (1823–1899)

Italian chess player (1817–1899)

American murderer who became the first woman to die in the electric chair

German bryologist (1818–1899)

Italian ballet dancer (1819–1899)

South African mathematician and botanist (1831-1899)

English-Canadian author and botanical artist (1802-1899)

Bolivia presidente (1823–1899)

Princess consort of Leiningen (1834–1899)

Serbian photographer (1817-1899)

Confederate States Army general (1825–1899)

Italian entomologist (1823-1898)

Finnish lichenologist and entomologist (1822-1899)

English sugar merchant and philanthropist (1819–1899)

Canadian geologist, principal of McGill University (1820–1899)

Austrian archduke (1824-1899)

German politician (1823-1899)

American politician (1832-1899)

Swedish entomologist (1824-1899)

German chemist (1848–1899)

English landowner, politician, and racehorse owner (1825-1899)

Swiss engineer (1817–1899)

Finnish composer (1877–1899)

Liechtenstein princess (1837-1899)

British colonial administrator, 9th Governor of Hong Kong, 1st Governor of Queensland (1821-1899)

Governor of California (1831-1899)

American archaeologist and ethnologist (1837-1899)

Scottish artist and war correspondent (1823-1899)

German Cardinal and Archbishop of Cologne (1819–1899)

French entomologist (1814–1899)

Union Army general (1824–1899)

8th Premier of New Zealand (1835-1899)