Deaths
- January 25 - David Kirkaldy (born 1820), Scottish-born engineer, pioneer of materials testing.
- February 19 - Karl Weierstrass (born 1815), German mathematician.
- May 6
- Edward James Stone (born 1831), English astronomer.
- Alfred Des Cloizeaux (born 1817), French mineralogist.
- August 27 - Eduard von Hofmann (born 1837), Austrian forensic pathologist.
- October 19 - George Pullman (born 1831), American inventor.
- October 31 - Samuel Haughton (born 1821), Irish scientific polymath.
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