Deaths from diphtheria

Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878

tenth Umayyad caliph

Founder of Otis Elevator Co.

Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine (1797-1856)

Russian artist (1886-1918)

Queen Consort of Portugal (1858-1859) (b.1837–d.1859)

British activist, botanist and astronomist (1827-1890)

Prussian prince (1773–1796)

German princess (1874-1878)

American clergyman and author, hymnwriter (1835–1893)

German prince

noblewoman; British writer (1855–1905)

Russian Empire Yiddish poet (1890–1918)

Cheyenne woman warrior

Maharaja Of Mysore (1863–1894)

German surgeon and pathologist (1867–1918)

British artist (1824-1884)

American minister (1824-1864)

British plant collector, gardener, writer and illustrator (1880-1920)

British Army general (1890–1942)

English association and rugby union footballer (1849-1898)

British suffragist and advocate of birth control (1842-1874)

rabbi, educator, writer and prominent Zionist activist (1879–1935)

Russian favourite (1758-1784)

American politician (1826-75)