August Strindberg	Swedish Dramatist	January 22
James Whitcomb Riley	American Poet	October 7
Jean Richepin	French Poet	February 4
John Ambrose Fleming	English Inventor	November 29
Luther Burbank	American Environmentalist	March 7
Max Nordau	Hungarian Critic	July 29
Sarah Orne Jewett	American Author	September 3
William Ernest Henley	English Poet	August 23
William Merritt Chase	American Artist	November 1
William Osler	Canadian Scientist	July 12
James Lane Allen	American Author	December 21
Jacob Riis	Danish Journalist	May 3
Jacob August Riis	Danish Journalist	May 3
Bernhard von Bulow	German Statesman	May 3
Edmund Barton	Australian Politician	January 18
Elizabeth Harrison	American First Lady	September 1
Ellen Key	Swedish Writer	December 11
Emma Lazarus	American Poet	July 22
Felix Klein	German Mathematician	April 25
Frances Hodgson Burnett	English Playwright	November 24
George Mercer Dawson	Canadian Scientist	August 1
Ivan Pavlov	Russian Psychologist	September 14
William Thomas Stead	English Journalist	July 5