Al Spalding	American Athlete	September 2
Hermann Ebbinghaus	German Psychologist	January 24
Jane Harrison	English Writer
Kate Chopin	American Author	February 8
Lafcadio Hearn	Japanese Author	June 27
Lawrence Hargrave	Australian Scientist	January 29
Orison Swett Marden	American Writer
Pierre Loti	French Writer	January 14
Robert Louis Stevenson	Scottish Writer	November 13
Samuel Gompers	American Activist	January 27
Seth Low	American Educator	January 18
Herbert Baxter Adams	American Educator	April 16
Henry Cabot Lodge	American Politician	May 12
Anton Seidl	Hungarian Celebrity	May 7
Augustine Birrell	English Author	January 19
Brandon Thomas	British Actor	December 24
Charles Richet	French Scientist	August 26
Daniel Carter Beard	American Artist	June 21
Edgar Wilson Nye	American Journalist	August 25
Edward Bellamy	American Author	March 26
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	American Writer	November 5
Eugene Field	American Poet	September 2
Guy de Maupassant	French Writer	August 5
Sofia Kovalevskaya	Russian Mathematician	January 15