In the year 1908
47 Notable deaths
Sidney Paget
English illustrator.
Born October 4th, 1860 in London. [ref]
Died January 28th, 1908 at 47 years old in Margate. [ref]
Qasim Amin
Writer, judge and social reformer.
Born December 1st, 1863 in Alexandria.
Died April 23rd, 1908 at 44 years old in Cairo.
George Dixon
Canadian boxer.
Born July 29th, 1870 in Africville.
Died January 6th, 1908 at 37 years old in New York City.
John Taylor
Track and field athlete, first african american to win an olympic gold medal.
Born November 3rd, 1882 in Washington, D.C..
Died December 2nd, 1908 at 26 years old in Philadelphia (typhoid fever).
Mustafa Kamil
Egyptian politician.
Born August 14th, 1874 in Cairo. [ref]
Died February 10th, 1908 at 33 years old in Egypt (tuberculosis). [ref]
Mikhail Chigorin
Russian chess player.
Born November 12th, 1850 in Gatchina.
Died January 25th, 1908 at 57 years old in Lublin (diabetes).
Joseph Maria Olbrich
Austrian architect.
Born December 22nd, 1867 in Opava. [ref]
Died August 8th, 1908 at 40 years old in Düsseldorf (leukemia). [ref]
Ernest Fenollosa
American art historian and orientalist.
Born February 18th, 1853 in Salem. [ref]
Died September 21st, 1908 at 55 years old in London. [ref]
Richard Gerstl
Austrian artist (1883-1908).
Born September 14th, 1883 in Vienna. [ref]
Died November 4th, 1908 at 25 years old in Vienna (hanging). [ref]
Georgy Voronoy
Russian mathematician.
Born April 28th, 1868 in Zhuravka.
Died November 20th, 1908 at 40 years old in Warsaw.
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson