Death year 1889 celebrities
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Amy Judith Levy (10 November 1861 – 10 September 1889) was a British essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts; her experience as the first Jewish woman at Cambridge University and as a pioneering woman student at Newnham
Princess Eugenie of Sweden and Norway (Swedish: Charlotta Eugenia Augusta Amalia Albertina) (Stockholm Palace, 24 April 1830 – 23 April 1889 in Stockholm) was a member of the Royal House of Bernadotte and a dilettante artist.
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social comme
Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne (October 31, 1829 – May 18, 1889) was a Canadian politician, fur trader and leading citizen of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
George Laidlaw (February 28, 1828 – August 6, 1889) was a businessman who promoted the development of narrow gauge railways and was invaluable in the chartering of the Toronto & Nipissing (with which his own Victoria Railway would soon compete) and
Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in pro
Ema Pukšec (February 6, 1834 – January 14, 1889), also known as Ilma de Murska, as well as Ilma di Murska, was a famous 19th-century soprano opera singer from Croatia.
Teófilo Odorico Dias de Mesquita (November 8, 1854 — March 29, 1889) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and lawyer, nephew of Gonçalves Dias.
Mary Louise Booth (April 19, 1831 – March 5, 1889) was an American editor, translator and writer. She was editor of Harper’s Bazaar – headquartered in New York City – from its beginning in 1867 until her death. She was a prolific translator
John James Hughes (1814 – June 1889) was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk. The city was originally named Yuzovka or Hughesovka (Юзовка) after Hughes, (“Yuz” being a Russian and Ukrainian approximation of Hughes