Famous people died in 1894

Adolphe Sax was the inventor of Saxophone

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat famous for building the Suez Canal

Alexander III of Russia was the emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894, dubbed "The Peacemaker"

Franjo Rački was a Croatian historian, politician and writer

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay/Chatterjee was a famous Bengali writer, poet and journalist

Hermann von Helmholtz was a German physician and physicist, best known for his statement of the law of the conservation of energy.

Heinrich Hertz was a German scientist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves

Theodor Billroth was a great surgeon who invented many surgical procedures

Robert Louis Stevenson was a famous Scottish poet, novelist and travel writer