Deaths
- January 6 - Georg Cantor (born 1845), mathematician.
- January 26 - Ewald Hering (born 1834), physiologist.
- January 31 - Ivan Pulyui (born 1845), physicist.
- April 20 - Karl Ferdinand Braun (born 1850), physicist.
- May 31 - Alexander Mitscherlich (born 1836), chemist.
- June 27 - George Mary Searle (born 1839), astronomer.
- September 7 - Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (born 1832), mathematician.
- October 28 - Ulisse Dini (born 1845), mathematician.
- November 3 - Aleksandr Lyapunov (born 1857), mathematician and physicist.
- November 29 - Thomas Allinson (born 1858) physician and dietetic reformer.
- December 27 - Birt Acres (born 1854), pioneer of cinematography.
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