page_title: 1898
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1898 / Deaths / January–June
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Lewis Carroll.
context_page_description: 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1898th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 898th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1898, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 3 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A&M University (b. 1838)
  January 14 – Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (Alice in Wonderland) (b. 1832)
  January 16 – Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
  January 18 – Henry Liddell, English Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811)
  January 26 – Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan, American lyricist (b. 1830)
  February 1 – Tsuboi Kōzō, Japanese admiral (b. 1843)
  February 6 – Abdul Samad of Selangor, Malaysian ruler, 4th Sultan of Selangor (b. 1804)
  February 16 – Thomas Bracken, author of the official national anthem of New Zealand (God Defend New Zealand) (b. 1843)
  March 1 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer, author (b. 1825)
  March 6 – Andrei Alexandrovich Popov, Russian admiral (b. 1821)
  March 10
  Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French religious (b. 1817)
  George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the Ashley Down orphanage (b. 1805)
  March 11 – William Rosecrans, California congressman, Register of the U.S. Treasury (b. 1819)
  March 15 – Sir Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor (b. 1813)
  March 16 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
  March 18 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist (b. 1826)
  March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder (b. 1817)
  March 28 – Anton Seidl, Hungarian conductor (b. 1850)
  April 13 – Aurilla Furber, American author (b. 1847)
  April 15 – Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
  April 18 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
  April 29 – Mary Towne Burt, American benefactor (b. 1842)
  May 19 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
  May 22 – Edward Bellamy, American author (b. 1850)
  May 29 – Theodor Eimer, German zoologist (b. 1843)
  June 4 – Rosalie Olivecrona, Swedish feminist activist (b. 1823)
  June 10 – Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian last speaker of the Dalmatian language (b. 1821)
  June 14 – Dewitt Clinton Senter, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1830)
  June 25 – Ferdinand Cohn, German biologist, bacteriologist and microbiologist (b. 1828)
caption: Lewis Carroll
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