- Dec 2 Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Dec 3 Pierre Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter and sculptor (Bal du moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party), dies at 78
- Dec 13 Amintore Galli, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Dec 13 Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
- Dec 18 Horatio Parker, American organist and composer, dies at 56
- Dec 18 John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean), dies in crash at 27
- Dec 27 Achilles Alferaki, Russian composer, dies at 73
- Dec 27 Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68
- Dec 28 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (Rydberg formula), dies at 65
- Dec 29 William Osler, Canadian physician and author (circulatory system), dies at 70