Samuel Gompers
Dec 13 Samuel Gompers, American labor union leader (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
- Dec 15 T. Frank Appleby, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives - (R) New Jersey, 1921-23), dies at 60
- Dec 27 William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
- Dec 28 Léon Bakst, Russian painter and scene and costume designer, dis at 58
- Dec 29 Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)