page_title: 1900
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1900 / Deaths / January–June
context_page_description: 1900 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1900, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  As of March 1, when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28, 2100.
context_section_description: January 4 – Stanisław Mieroszewski, Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria (b. 1827)
  January 5 – William A. Hammond, American military physician, neurologist, and 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) (b. 1828)
  January 16 – S. M. I. Henry, American evangelist (b. 1839)
  January 20 – John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic (b. 1819)
  January 21 – Francis, Duke of Teck (b. 1837)
  January 31 – John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman, boxer (b. 1844)
  February 6 – Sir William Wilson Hunter, Scottish historian, civil servant and academic administrator (b. 1840)
  February 18 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
  February 23 – William Butterfield, British architect (b. 1814)
  March 6
  Carl Bechstein, German piano maker (b. 1826)
  Gottlieb Daimler, German inventor, automotive pioneer (b. 1834)
  March 7 – Rachel Lloyd, American chemist (b. 1839)
  March 10 – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Danish composer (b. 1805)
  March 14 – Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, American feminist (b. 1814)
  March 18 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
  March 28 – Piet Joubert, Boer politician, military commander (b. 1834)
  March 29 – Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, 1st president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (b. 1826)
  April 2 – Gustaf Åkerhielm, 6th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1833)
  April 5
  Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
  Maria Louise Eve, American author (b. 1848)
  Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman military leader (b. 1832)
  April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826)
  April 12 – James Richard Cocke, American physician, homeopath, and pioneer hypnotherapist (b. 1863)
  April 17 – George Curry, Wild West robber (Wild Bunch) (shot) (b. 1871)
  April 19 – James Dawson, Australian activist (b. 1806)
  April 22 – Amédée-François Lamy, French soldier (b. 1858) (killed in battle)
  April 24 – George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician (b. 1823)
  April 30 – Casey Jones, American railway engineer (b. 1863)
  May 1 – Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (b. 1844)
  May 2 – Seweryn Morawski, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1819)
  May 9 – Carit Etlar (Carl Brosbøll), Danish author (b. 1816)
  May 18 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
  May 28 – Sir George Grove, English music writer (b. 1820)
  June 2
  Samori Ture, West African empire-builder (b. 1830)
  Clarence Cook, American critic and writer (b. 1828)
  June 3
  Mary Kingsley, English explorer, writer (b. 1862)
  Alzina Stevens, American labor leader (b. 1849)
  June 5 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
  June 11 – Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy, actress (b. 1843)
  June 19 – Princess Josephine of Baden (b. 1813)
caption: Gottlieb Daimler
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