Harry Burleigh (1866-1949)
Dec 2 African American baritone and composer (Five Songs of Laurence Hope), and Springarn Medal winner (1917), born in Erie, Pennsylvania
- Dec 4 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration), born in Moscow (d. 1944)
- Dec 12 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), born in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France (d. 1919)
- Dec 14 Roger Fry, English artist and art critic, born in St Pancras, London, England (d. 1934)
- Dec 22 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, Polish organ virtuoso and composer (1904 Organ Concerto), born in Środa, Poland (d. 1924)
- Dec 28 Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935)
- Dec 29 Joseph Limburg, Dutch lawyer and politician, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1940)
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