- Jan 2 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of the German Empire (1909-17), dies at 64
- Jan 7 Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
- Jan 8 Luis Villalba Muñoz, Spanish organist, sacred music composer, Augustinian priest, and musicologist, dies at 48
- Jan 12 Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
- Jan 18 Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73
- Jan 19 William Gunn, English cricket batsman (11 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 102no; Nottinghamshire CCC) and soccer winger (2 caps; Notts County FC), dies at 62
- Jan 22 Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
- Jan 23 Wlasyslaw Zelenski, Polish composer, dies at 83
- Jan 25 Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer, dies at 43
- Jan 27 Maurice Buckley, Australian soldier and winner of the Victoria Cross, dies at 29
- Feb 2 Luigi Mancinelli, Italian conductor, cellist and composer, dies at 72
- Feb 3 Max Wilhelm Zach, Polish-American violinist and conductor (Boston Symphony 1896-1907; St. Louis Symphony, 1907-21), dies at 56
- Feb 4 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter and illustrator, dies at 75
- Feb 8 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Russian activist and anarchist, dies at 78
- Feb 12 Charles Leslie, English cricketer (4 Tests England v Australia 1882-83), dies at 59
- Feb 13 Willem P C Knuttel, Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
- Feb 15 Hans Haym, German conductor, dies at 60
- Feb 22 Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
- Feb 26 Carl Menger, Austrian economist (marginal utility theory, subjective theory of value), dies at 81
- Feb 27 Schofield Haigh, English cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 24 wickets, BB 6/11; Yorkshire CCC), dies from a stroke at 49
- Mar 1 Nicholas I, last and only King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies in exile at 79
- Mar 2 Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
- Mar 2 Henryk Pachulski, Polish pianist, composer, and educator (Moscow Conservatory, 1886-1917), dies at 61
- Mar 3 P.J.H. [Pierre] Cuypers, Dutch architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
- Mar 11 Sherburne Wesley Burnham, American astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
- Mar 12 Isabella Caroline Somerset, British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women's rights, dies at 69
- Mar 24 Déodat de Séverac, French composer (Cerdaña), dies at 48
- Mar 24 James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 86
- Mar 29 John Burroughs, American writer and nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake), dies at 83
- Apr 5 Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58
- Apr 8 Ernst von Possart, German actor and theatre director (Bayerische Hoftheater), dies at 79
- Apr 11 Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia, wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 62
- Apr 12 William Strang, Scottish painter and engraver (illustrated Bunyan, Coleridge and Kipling), dies at 62
- Apr 18 Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, Dutch actor (Inkwartiering, Kloris & Roses), dies at 70
- Apr 20 Tony Jackson, American ragtime pianist and singer-songwriter ("Pretty Baby"), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 38
- Apr 29 Arthur Mold, English cricket fast bowler (England 3 Tests; 1,673 1st class wickets), dies at 57
- May 1 Louis Campbell-Tipton, American composer, dies at 43
- May 3 Teddy Pilette, Belgian auto racer (first Belgian Indy 500), dies in a road accident at 36
- May 5 Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911-co-founder of the German peace movement), dies at 56
- May 5 William Friese-Greene, British photographer and inventor (motion pictures), dies at 65
- May 12 Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish countess and writer (Pascual López: Autobiography of a Medical Student), dies at 68
- May 13 Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (Jeune Croyances), dies at 73
- May 19 Edward Douglass White, American politician and jurist (9th Chief Justice of the United States), dies at 75
- May 22 Marie Wilton, Lady Bancroft, British Victorian theater manager, actress, and novelist, dies at about 82
- May 28 Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies
- May 29 Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and naturalist (paintings of angels), dies at 71 [1]
- May 29 Horace Porter, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 84
- Jun 2 Phoebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, 1st female ordained minister in New England, dies at 92
- Jun 4 Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
- Jun 5 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
- Jun 9 Luis María Drago, Argentine statesman and author of Drago Doctrine, dies at 62
- Jun 18 Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Uruguayan writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies at 70
- Jun 18 Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological and writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37
- Jun 19 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33
- Jun 28 Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American Lawyer and political activist (US Attorney General (1906-9), dies at 70
- Jun 29 Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
- Jul 2 Edwin Evans, Australian cricket spin bowler (6 Tests; 7 wickets), dies at 72
- Jul 11 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist and inventor, dies at 75
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Aug 2 Italian operatic tenor (Faust), dies of pleurisy at 48
- Aug 7 Alexander Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40
- Aug 8 Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59
- Aug 10 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
- Aug 16 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies at 77
- Aug 21 Ernest Daudet, French journalist and writer (White Terror), dies at 84
- Aug 24 Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet, dies at 35
- Aug 26 Ludwig Thoma, German writer, dies at 54
- Aug 26 Matthias Enzberger, German writer and politician (Minister of Finance, 1919-20), assassinated at 45
- Aug 29 Joel Asaph Allen, American zoologist (Allen's rule) and first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, dies at 83
- Sep 2 Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer, dies at 65
- Sep 2 Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
- Sep 7 Alfred William Rich, English watercolor painter, dies at 65
- Sep 11 Subramania Bharati, Indian poet and independence activist, dies at 38
- Sep 13 Louis of Battenberg [Mountbatten], Austrian-born British admiral (WWI), dies at 67
- Sep 15 Roman von Ungern-Sternberg 'the mad Baron', Baltic-German baron and anti-communist Russian general, executed by the Russian Red Army at 35
- Sep 21 George Foottit, English clown, dies at 57
- Sep 21 José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist and political leader, dies at 64
- Sep 22 Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (Under the Yoke), dies at 71
- Sep 27 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer (Hansel and Gretel), dies at 67
- Sep 30 Oskar Panizza, German writer (Das Liebeskonzil), dies at 77
- Oct 17 Katherine Griffith [Kiernan], American actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 45
- Oct 17 Yaa Asantewaa, Ghanaian queen of Ashanti Empire, led fight against British colonialism, dies at 80 or 81
- Oct 18 King Ludwig III, the last king of Bavaria (1913-18), dies at 76
- Oct 19 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
- Oct 23 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor and vet (pneumatic rubber tire, Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
- Oct 25 Bat Masterson, American gunfighter in the Wild West, dies of a heart attack at 67
- Nov 4 Takasji Hara, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1918-21), assassinated by right wing fanatic at 65
- Nov 5 Antoinette Brown Blackwell, American minister (1st ordained US female minister), dies at 96
- Nov 8 Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
- Nov 12 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter and sculptor, dies at 63
- Nov 14 Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (while serving as regent signed law abolishing slavery), dies in exile at 75
- Nov 17 John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies
- Nov 17 Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
- Nov 27 Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
- Nov 28 `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
- Nov 29 Ivan Caryll [Félix Tilkin], Belgian composer of operetta and musical comedy (The Shop Girl; The Spring Chicken; The Pink Lady), dies at 60
- Dec 9 Arthur Pearson, English newspaper proprietor (Daily Express), dies at 55
- Dec 10 George Ashlin, Irish architect noted for his work on churches and cathedrals, dies at 84
- Dec 10 Viktor Jacobi, Hungarian operetta composer (Szibill), dies at 38
- Dec 12 Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (period-luminosity relation), dies at 53
- Dec 13 Frederick Martin, cricketer (14 wkts in 2 Tests for Eng 1890-92), dies
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Dec 16 French composer (Samson et Dalila; Organ Symphony), dies of a heart attack at 86
- Dec 20 Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German Colonel General, dies at 71
- Dec 20 Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist generally credited with inventing the device known as the Petri dish, dies at 69
- Dec 21 Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, American politician and publisher (1st African American governor - Governor of Louisiana (R) 1872-73), dies at 84
- Dec 25 Hans Huber, Swiss composer and pedagogue, dies at 69
- Dec 25 Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (The Blind Musician), dies at 68
- Dec 31 Boies Penrose, American politician (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1897-1921)), dies at 61
- Dec 31 József Kiss, Hungarian literary (Zsido Dalok), dies at 78
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