Wyatt Earp
Jan 13 Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80
Wyatt Earp
- Jan 13 H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
- Jan 14 Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74
- Jan 19 Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
- Jan 24 Willem Royaards, Dutch theater directer (Adam in Ballingschap), dies at 62
- Jan 24 Wilfred Baddeley, English tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), dies at 57
- Jan 30 La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
- Feb 1 August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59
- Feb 3 Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
- Feb 5 Siegfried Ochs, German composer, dies at 70
- Feb 8 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, dies at 71
- Feb 12 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist, dies at 66
- Feb 12 Lillie Langtry [Emilie Charlotte Le Breton], American actress (His Neighbor's Wife), dies at 75
- Feb 14 Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
- Feb 17 John Read, cricketer (batted in 17 Tests for Eng for 463 runs), dies
- Feb 24 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
- Feb 27 Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), dies at 65
- Feb 28 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
- Feb 28 John Ebenezer West, English composer, dies at 65
- Mar 1 Royal H. Weller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 47
- Mar 5 David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
- Mar 12 Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
- Mar 15 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, American jazz pianist and singer (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies of a gunshot wound in a dance-hall fight at 24
- Mar 20 Ferdinand Foch, French Allied military commander and marshal of France during WW I, dies at 77
- Mar 22 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, dies at 64
- Mar 26 Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
- Mar 27 Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
- Mar 28 Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
- Apr 10 Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot, dies at 36
- Apr 15 Antonio Smareglia, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Apr 16 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57
- Apr 22 Ödön Mihalovich, Hungarian composer, dies at 86
- Apr 22 Henry Lerolle, French painter, dies at 80
- Apr 23 Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
- May 4 Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
- May 7 Albert Anselmi, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- May 7 John Scalise, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- May 7 Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- May 11 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
- May 16 Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
- May 21 V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
Archibald Primrose
May 21 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1894-95), dies at 82
Archibald Primrose
- May 28 Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and proponent of Irish independence, dies at 81
- Jun 2 Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889), dies
- Jun 4 Harry Frazee, American MLB team owner (Boston Red Sox), dies of kidney failure at 48
- Jun 7 J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0), dies
- Jun 8 Bliss Carman, Canadian poet, dies at 68
- Jun 9 Lewis Bennison, American actor (The Road Called Straight), commits suicide at 44
- Jun 11 Gyula Andrássy, Jr., Hungarian politician (Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1918-20)), dies at 68
- Jun 16 Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of The Salvation Army, dies at 73
- Jun 16 Vernon Louis Parrington, American author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928), dies at 57
- Jun 25 Georges Courteline [Moineau], French playwright, dies at 71
- Jun 28 Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure), dies at 84
- Jul 1 Henry Johnson, American soldier of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), 1st US WWI soldier to receive the Croix de guerre after fighting a German raid in hand-to-hand combat to rescue a fellow soldier (posthumous Medal of Honour, 2015), dies of myocarditis at 36
- Jul 2 Gladys Brockwell, American actress (Long Pants, Oliver Twist), dies in an automobile accident at 34
- Jul 3 Dustin Farnum, American actor (Squaw Man, Virginian, The Flaming Frontier), dies at 55
- Jul 4 Otto Taubmann, German composer, dies at 70
- Jul 11 Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
- Jul 12 Robert Henri, American painter (The Eight) and leader of Ashcan school of painting, dies at 63
- Jul 15 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
- Jul 22 Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
- Jul 22 Édouard Empain, Belgian railway builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
- Jul 27 Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics, dies at 83
- Aug 1 Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (Australian captain pre-WWI), dies at 59
- Aug 2 Mae Costello [Altschuk], American actress (The Joys of a Jealous Wife), dies of heart disease at 47
- Aug 3 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
- Aug 3 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
- Aug 5 Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
- Aug 9 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
- Aug 10 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and feminist, dies at 75
- Aug 10 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
- Aug 16 Frank Valentine der Stucken, American-Belgian composer, dies at 70
- Aug 19 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
- Aug 22 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WWI), dies at 74
- Aug 23 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
- Aug 25 Frederick Burton, Australian cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies at 63
- Aug 26 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat and scholar, dies at 86
- Aug 27 Herman Potočnik, Slovenian rocket scientist, dies at 36
- Sep 12 Rainis [Jānis Pliekšāns], Latvian poet and playwright, dies at 64
- Sep 18 Hermann Gradener, German composer, dies at 85
- Sep 23 Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
- Sep 25 Miller Huggins, American Baseball Hall of Fame 2nd baseman, manager (NY Yankees WS 1923, 27-28), dies of pyaemia at 51
- Sep 29 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
- Sep 30 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), dies at 64
- Oct 1 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
- Oct 3 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
- Oct 3 Jeanne Eagels, American actress and former Ziegfeld Girl (Rain, Under False Colors), dies of a drug overdose at 39
- Oct 4 John Metzelaar, Dutch/American writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37
Elijah McCoy
Oct 10 Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor (57 patents), dies at 86
Elijah McCoy
- Oct 12 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
- Oct 20 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
- Oct 21 Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies
- Oct 23 Thomas Frederick Tout, British historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
- Oct 24 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74
- Oct 25 James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies
- Oct 26 Arno Holz, German writer (Phantasus), dies at 66
- Oct 28 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, dies at 36
- Oct 28 Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany, dies at 80
- Oct 31 António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
- Nov 3 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
- Nov 6 Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
- Nov 6 Maximilian, Prince of Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918), dies at 62
- Nov 9 Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
- Nov 11 Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
- Nov 14 Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
- Nov 17 A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies
- Nov 17 Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
- Nov 18 Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
- Nov 19 Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
Georges Clémenceau
Nov 24 Georges Clémenceau, Prime Minister of France (Radical-Socialist Party: 1906-09, 1917-20) who defended Dreyfuss, dies at 88
Georges Clémenceau
- Nov 26 Michele Esposito, Italian composer who worked in Ireland, dies at 74
- Dec 9 Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v South Africa 1899), dies
- Dec 12 Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
- Dec 13 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42
- Dec 19 Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 36
- Dec 20 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
- Dec 29 Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)