List: 1904 deaths

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•  Anton Chekhov

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress.

  

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•  Lafcadio Hearn

  Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as '.

  

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•  Vladimir Markovnikov

  Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov, also spelled as Markownikoff (December 22, 1838 in Nizhny Novgorod - February 11, 1904) was a Russian chemist.

  

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•  Henry Morton Stanley

  Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", although there is some question as to authenticity of this now famous greeting.

  

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•  James Longstreet

  James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse. " He served under Lee as a corps commander for many of the famous battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, but also with Gen. Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater. Biographer and historian Jeffry D.

  

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•  Kate Chopin

  Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. From 1869 to 1902, she wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, the Century, and Harper's Youth's Companion.

  

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•  Eadweard Muybridge

  Eadweard J. Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an English photographer, known primarily for his important pioneering work, with use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip that is used today.

  

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•  Wilhelm Marr

  Wilhelm Marr (1819, Magdeburg – 1904) was a German agitator and publicist, who coined the term "antisemitism".

  

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•  Henri Fantin-Latour

  Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer.

  

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•  Frédéric Bartholdi

  

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•  Antonín Dvořák

  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. His works include operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music. His best-known works include his New World Symphony, the Slavonic Dances, "American" String Quartet, and Cello Concerto in B minor.

  

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•  Paul Kruger

  Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and affectionately known as Uncle Paul was State President of the South African Republic. He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899-1902).

  

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•  Edwin Arnold

  Sir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE (10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia.

  

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•  Isabella II of Spain

  Isabella II was Queen regnant of Spain ("Queen of the Spains" officially from 13 August 1836, Isabella II the "Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon,... ") She was Spain's first and so far only queen regnant, although she is sometimes considered the third Queen Regnant of Spain, as previous monarchs of Leon and Castile were counted as kings and queens of Spain. Counting the monarchs of Aragon as well, she is the fourth Queen regnant of Spain.

  

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•  Mathilde Bonaparte

  Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française (May 27, 1820 – January 2, 1904) was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jerome Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg. Born in Trieste, Mathilde Bonaparte was raised in Florence and Rome. She married a Russian rich tycoon, Anatole Demidov on November 1, 1840 in Rome.

  

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•  Wilson Barrett

  Wilson Barrett (18 February 1846 – 22 September 1904) was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barret is credited with gathering the largest crowds of English theatregoers of the melodrama genre in history, for instance for his successful representation of The Silver King piece (1882), at the Princess's Theatre of London.

  

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•  Samuel Smiles

  Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.

  

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•  Mark Hanna

  Marcus Alonzo Hanna (September 24, 1837 – February 15, 1904), best known as Mark Hanna, was an American industrialist and Republican politician from Cleveland, Ohio. He rose to fame as the campaign manager of the successful Republican Presidential candidate, William McKinley, in the U.S. Presidential election of 1896 in a well-funded political campaign and subsequently became one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Senate.

  

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•  Chief Joseph

  Chief Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904) was the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Nez Perce to a reservation in Idaho. For his principled resistance to the removal, he became renowned as a humanitarian and peacemaker.

  

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•  Abay Qunanbayuli

  Abay Ibrahim Qunanbayuli (August 10, 1845 - July 5, 1904) was a Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam.

  

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•  Murad V

  Mehmed Murad V (September 21/22 1840 - 29 August 1904) was the 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned from 30 May to 31 August 1876. He was born at Istanbul, Topkapı Palace. His father was Abdülmecid I. His mother, whom his father married in Istanbul on 1 August 1839, was Valide Sultan Shevkefza,, originally named Vilma, a Circassian. He was born at Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul.

  

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•  Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau

  Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (2 December 1846 - 10 August 1904) was a French Republican statesman.

  

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•  Frederick York Powell

  Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904), was an English historian and scholar.

  

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•  Leslie Stephen

  Sir Leslie Stephen, KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

  

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•  Auguste Molinier

  August Molinier (September 30, 1851 - May 19, 1904) was a French historian. He was born at Toulouse. He was a pupil at the École des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École des Hautes Études; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine (1878), at Fontainebleau (1884), and at Sainte-Geneviève, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885.

  

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