Deaths
- January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (born 1834), chemist.
- February 5 (O.S. January 22) - Nikolai Menshutkin (born 1842), chemist.
- May 19 - Sir Benjamin Baker (born 1840), civil engineer.
- July 14 - Sir William Perkin (born 1838), chemist.
- December 17 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (born 1824), physicist.
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