Deaths
- January 24 - Sir David Gill (born 1843), Scottish astronomer.
- March 30 - John Henry Poynting (born 1852), English physicist, discovered the Poynting-Robertson effect and developed the Poynting vector.
- April 16 - George William Hill (born 1838), American astronomer.
- April 26 - Eduard Suess (born 1831), German geologist and ecologist.
- May 27 - Joseph Swan (born 1828), English physicist.
- November 5 - August Weismann (born 1834), German evolutionary biologist.
- December 24 - John Muir (born 1838), Scottish American geologist and ecologist, founder of the Sierra Club.
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