- Jan 1 Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist & botanist (1st to coin the name virus), dies at 79
- Jan 3 Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78
- Jan 4 Arthemus "Art" Acord, American silent film actor and rodeo champion (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists), commits suicide by poison at 40
- Jan 9 Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies at 62
- Jan 10 Oscar Fetrás [Otto Faster], German composer (Mondnacht auf der Alster), dies at 76
- Jan 11 James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
- Jan 14 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies
- Jan 21 Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer, conductor and pianist, dies at 67
- Jan 22 Alma Rubens, American actress (Humoresque), dies of Lobar pneumonia and bronchitis at 33
- Jan 23 Anna Pavlova, Russian prima ballerina and choreographer (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies from pneumonia at 49
- Feb 2 Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71
- Feb 3 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72
- Feb 7 Ion Vidu, Romanian composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Feb 11 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
- Feb 12 Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
- Feb 18 Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian and politician, dies at 51
Nellie Melba
Feb 23 Nellie Melba [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies at 69
- Feb 26 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83
- Feb 27 Chandra Sekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army), dies at 24
- Mar 5 Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities, dies ta 91
- Mar 7 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, dies at 65 [1]
- Mar 7 Theo van Doesburg [Christian Emil Marie Küpper], Dutch painter and architect, dies at 47
- Mar 8 Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
- Mar 11 F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
- Mar 20 Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
Bhagat Singh
Mar 23 Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter, hanged at 23
Ban Johnson
Mar 28 Ban Johnson, American Baseball HOF executive (founder, President American League), dies after a long illness at 67
André Michelin
Apr 4 Andre Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer and publisher of the Michelin Guide, dies of respiratory failure at 78
- Apr 4 George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76
- Apr 6 Giuseppe Radiciotti, Italian musicologist and composer, dies at 73
- Apr 8 Eric Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1931), dies at 66
- Apr 9 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
- Apr 10 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
- Apr 16 Rachel Bluwstein, Hebrew poet, dies of tuberculosis at 40
- Apr 25 Bert Hopkins, Australian cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies at 56
- Apr 30 Sammy Woods, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests Australia, 3 England, 1 x 50, 10 wickets; Somerset CCC) and rugby union flanker (13 caps England, 5 as captain), dies at 64
- May 3 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
- May 3 Otto Winter-Hjelm, Norwegian musician and composer, dies at 93
- May 5 Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
- May 9 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, American physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
- May 12 Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian composer and violinist, dies at 72
- May 13 Josif Marinković, Serbian composer, dies at 79
- May 14 David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
- May 14 Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter, dies at 44
- May 17 Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
- May 17 Timothy Cole, American wood engraver, dies at about 71
- May 31 Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
- Jun 4 Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies
- Jun 9 Henrique Oswald, Brazilian composer, dies at 79
- Jun 13 Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
- Jun 22 Armand Fallières, French president (1906-13), dies at 89
- Jun 29 Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
Alice Mary Robertson
Jul 1 Alice Mary Robertson, American educator, social worker and 2nd woman in US Congress, dies at 77
- Jul 2 Stephen Babcock, American agricultural chemist (Babcock test and father of scientific dairying), dies at 87
- Jul 4 Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
- Jul 4 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
- Jul 7 Johannes "Kodgee" Kotze, South African cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies at 51
- Jul 11 Jean-Louis Forain, French impressionist etcher and lithographer, dies at 78
- Jul 15 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician 9Poisson distribution) and economist (b. 1868)
- Jul 16 Charles Studd, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Middlesex) and missionary (Cambridge Seven), dies from untreated gallstones at 70
- Jul 16 Alice Pike Barney, American painter, dies at 74
- Jul 18 Oskar Minkowski, German Biologist (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73
- Jul 24 Willem Treub, Dutch economist and politician, dies at 75
- Jul 27 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
- Aug 2 Kinue Hitomi, Japanese athlete (World record women's 100m, 200m, long jump, triple jump; Olympic silver 800m 1928), dies from pneumonia at 24
Daniel Williams
Aug 4 Daniel Williams, American heart surgeon who performed the 1st open heart surgery, dies at 73
- Aug 5 Ullrich Haupt, Prussian actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), accidentally shot at 43
- Aug 6 (Leon Bismarck) "Bix" Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist, one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, pianist, and composer (In A Mist), dies at was lobar pneumonia. of alcoholism exacerbated pneumonia at 28
- Aug 19 Aristides Agramonte y Simoni, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever), dies at 63
- Aug 20 Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
- Aug 27 Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and ambassador to Vatican, dies at 70
- Aug 27 Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and writer (My Life & Loves), dies at 75
- Aug 27 Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
- Aug 28 Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician, dies at 74
- Aug 29 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, dies at 64
- Aug 31 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies
- Sep 5 John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
- Sep 9 Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
- Sep 10 Alfonso Rendano, Italian composer, dies at 78
- Sep 10 Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
- Sep 11 Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure, dies at 63
- Sep 18 Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
- Sep 20 Sam Morris, Australian cricket all-rounder (1 Test; 1st black & of West Indian origin to rep. Australia in a Test; Victoria CA), dies at 76
- Sep 28 Sylvain Dupuis, Belgian conductor, composer, (Le Chant de la Création), and music educator, dies at 74
- Oct 2 Thomas Lipton, Scottish yachtsman (5-time America's Cup challenger) and tea merchant (Lipton Tea), dies at 81
- Oct 2 George Bradley, American baseball pitcher (first no-hitter in MLB history 1876; NL ERA leader 1876), dies at 79
- Oct 3 Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist and composer (Det Uudslukkelige), dies of a heart attack at 66
- Oct 7 Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (Minute Man), dies at 81
- Oct 7 Charles Ricketts, British artist and illustrator, dies at 65
- Oct 8 John Monash, Australian military general during WWI (Gallipoli, Western Front), dies at 66
- Oct 10 Carl von Bach, German mechanical engineer, dies at 84
- Oct 13 Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
- Oct 17 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist, dies at 47
Thomas Edison
Oct 18 Thomas Edison, American inventor (lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera), dies at 84
- Oct 20 Emánuel Moór, Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments, dies at 68
- Oct 21 A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
- Oct 24 Murray Bisset, South African cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910), dies at 55
- Oct 26 Charles Comiskey, American baseball infielder (St. Louis Brown Stockings/Browns), team owner (Chicago White Sox) and manager (St. Louis Browns), dies at 72
- Oct 29 Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, dies at 38
- Nov 2 Arthur James Cook, British trade union leader (coal miners), dies of cancer at 47
- Nov 2 Henry Musgrove, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test 1885), dies at 72
- Nov 3 Rudolf Wilhelm Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
- Nov 4 Buddy Bolden, African-American early jazz musician, dies at 54
- Nov 6 Jack Chesbro, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB wins leader 1902, 04 [41 wins], NY Highlanders), dies of heart attack at 57
- Nov 11 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
- Nov 15 C. A. J. van Dishoeck, Dutch publisher, dies at 68
- Nov 17 Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian composer (Gergana), dies at 50
- Nov 17 John Paulus Lotsy, Dutch botanist and geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
- Nov 17 Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature, dies at 77
- Nov 19 Frederic Cliffe, English composer, dies at 74
- Nov 19 Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet, dies in a plane crash at 34
- Nov 23 Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor and pianist, dies at 46
- Nov 27 Lya De Putti [Amália Putti], Hungarian silent film actress, known for portraying vamp characters, dies at 34
- Nov 30 John Hyatt Brewer, American composer, dies at 75
- Nov 30 Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, French composer, dies at 46
Vincent d'Indy
Dec 2 Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher, dies at 80
- Dec 5 Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
- Dec 10 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
- Dec 13 Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
- Dec 16 Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist and bishop of Bruges, dies at 82
- Dec 18 Jack "Legs" Diamond, American gangster and bootlegger, murdered at 34
- Dec 23 (Frederick) Tyrone Power Sr., British-American stage and screen actor (The Big Trial; The Test of Donald Norton), dies of a heart attack at 62
- Dec 23 Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
- Dec 26 Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator (created Dewey Decimal System for libraries), dies at 80
- Dec 27 Peter C. Lutkin, American organist, composer (The Lord Bless You and Keep You), choral conductor, and educator (Northwestern University, 1891-1931)dies of a heart attack at 73
- Dec 27 Walter Courvoisier, Swiss composer, dies at 76