- Jan 4 Eliza Ann Gardner, African-American abolitionist and religious leader, dies at 90
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
Jan 5 British-Irish polar explorer (Endurance, Antarctica), dies of a heart attack at 47
- Jan 6 Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (algebraic geometry and invariant theory), dies at 79
- Jan 7 Antonio Scontrino, Italian composer, dies at 71
- Jan 7 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, dies at 50
- Jan 8 Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria
- Jan 10 Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
- Jan 10 Ōkuma Shigenobu, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1898, 1914-1916), dies at 83
- Jan 15 John Kirk Barry, British physician, explorer and administrator in Zanzibar (companion to explorer David Livingstone), dies at 89
- Jan 22 Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, feminist and pacifist politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 84
- Jan 22 James, Bryce, Irish-British historian and politician (ambassador to the United States, 1907–13), dies at 83
- Jan 23 Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 66
- Jan 26 Luigi Denza, Italian composer (Funiculì, Funiculà), dies at 77
- Jan 27 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81
Nellie Bly (1865-1922)
Jan 27 American journalist and writer (Ten Days in a Mad House), dies at 57
- Jan 31 Heinrich Reinhardt, Austrian composer, dies at 56
- Feb 1 William Desmond Taylor [Deane-Tanner], Irish director and actor (The Awakening, Broken Coin), murdered at 49
- Feb 1 Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese soldier and statesman (Prime Minister of Japan 1889–91,1898–1900), dies at 83
- Feb 3 Christiaan R. de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War, dies at 67
- Feb 3 John Butler Yeats, Irish painter, and father of W.B. Yeats, dies at 82
- Feb 5 James W. Tate, English composer, dies at 46
- Feb 5 Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
- Feb 11 Gerard Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
- Feb 14 Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (Minister of the Interior), assassinated at 41
- Feb 15 Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German-Dutch anarchist and feminist, dies at 36
- Feb 23 Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
- Feb 24 Dmitri B. Shostakovich, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
- Feb 25 Henri Désiré Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52
- Feb 28 Vicente Lleo, Spanish composer (La Corte de Faraón), dies at 51
- Mar 1 Rafael Moreno Aranzadi [Pichichi], Spanish soccer forward (5 caps; Athletic Bilbao), dies from typhus at 29
- Mar 4 Bert Williams, African American comedian and entertainer, dies at 46
- Mar 10 Arthur Hervey, Irish orchestral and operatic composer, and musicologist, dies at 67
- Mar 10 Horace Wadham Nicholl, British composer, dies at 73
- Mar 22 Louis-Antoine Ranvier, French anatomist and historian, dies at 86
- Mar 27 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, Russian composer, dies at 63
- Mar 28 Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian politician and criminologist (Minister of Justice 1918-19) father of the writer, assassinated at 51
- Apr 1 Charles I, last ruler of Austria-Hungary (1916-18), dies of the effects of pneumonia at 34
- Apr 1 Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person measuring 2.41 metres (7 ft 11 in) at the time of her death, dies at 26
- Apr 2 Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (inkblot test - Rorschach test), dies at 37
- Apr 5 Charles Woeste, Belgian count and politician (Minister of Justice), dies at 85
- Apr 5 Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India Christian social reformer (Mukti Orphanage), dies at 63
- Apr 9 Patrick Manson, Scottish physician and parasitologist (Father of tropical medicine), dies at 77
- Apr 12 František Ondříček, Czech violinist and composer, dies at 64
- Apr 14 Cap Anson, American Baseball HOF first baseman (NL batting champion 1881, 88; 8 × NL RBI leader; Chicago White Stockings/Colts) and manager (Philadelphia A's, Chicago White Stockings/Colts, NY Giants), dies from a glandular ailment at 69
- Apr 21 Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
- Apr 24 Richard Batka, Austrian music critic and composer, dies at 53
- Apr 26 Hans Sommer, German theatre composer, dies at 84
- Apr 29 Kyrylo Stetsenko, Ukrainian composer (Burlaka), choral conductor, music critic, teacher, and later, Ukrainian Orthodox priest, dies of typhus while tending to the sick during an outbreak at 39
- May 2 Richard T. Greener, African-American pioneering scholar and diplomat who was Harvard College's 1st Black graduate, University of South Carolina 1st Black professor and America's 1st Black diplomat to a white country, dies of natural causes at 78 [1]
- May 4 Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
- May 7 Max Wagenknecht, German composer, dies at 64
- May 18 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1907), dies at 76
- May 19 Heinrich Quincke, German internist and surgeon (postural drainage), dies at 79
- May 21 Sidney Ainsworth, British silent film actor (Not in the News, The Rajah's Tunic), dies at 49
- May 22 Ada Jane Jones, English-American popular singer, among the earliest female singers to be recorded, dies of kidney failure at 48
- May 28 Carl Teike, German military composer, dies at 58
- May 28 John Munro Longyear, American capitalist and developer of timber and mineral lands, dies at 72
- May 29 Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Armenian-Russian theatrical director of the Moscow Art Theatre (Vakhtangov Theatre), dies of cancer at 39
- May 30 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
- Jun 4 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
- Jun 6 Lillian Russell, American actress and operetta singer, dies at about 60
- Jun 9 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter and etcher, dies at 56
- Jun 12 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
- Jun 18 John Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (studied the Milky Way), dies at 71
- Jun 19 Johannes Cornelius Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
- Jun 20 Vittorio Monti, Italian violinist, mandolin player, conductor, and composer (Csárdás), dies at 54
- Jun 22 Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
- Jun 24 Mary Florence Potts, American businesswoman and inventor of the cold-handle sad iron, dies at 71 [1]
- Jun 24 Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54
- Jun 26 Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73
- Jun 28 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright, dies at 36
- Jul 4 Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot, dies at 27
- Jul 6 Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver), dies at 59
- Jul 7 Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army, dies of a bullet wound at 47
- Jul 13 Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
- Jul 17 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist (back body radiation), dies at 57
- Jul 19 Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing, Dutch physician, dies on 74th birthday
- Jul 20 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (Markov Chain), dies at 66
- Jul 21 Djemal Pasha, Turkish Ottoman military leader (persecuted Armenian people), assassinated by Armenian Revolutionary Federation members at 50
- Jul 22 John Motley Morehead III, American chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding), dies at 67
- Jul 22 Jokichi Takamine, Japanese-American biochemist who isolated adrenalin (epinephrine), which causes the body to respond to emergencies, the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources, dies at 67
- Jul 25 Jarolslaw Zielinski, Polish-American concert pianist, teacher, and composer, dies at 75
- Jul 29 Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist and archaeologist, dies at 81
- Aug 1 Vaclav Juda Novotny, Czech music writer, composer, and libretti translator, dies at 72
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Aug 2 Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone), dies of diabetes complications at 75
- Aug 2 Mina Kruseman, Dutch author and feminist, dies at 82
Enver Pasha (1881-1922)
Aug 4 Turkish general, Ottoman Minister of War during World War I and part of the dictatorial triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas", dies in battle in the Soviet Union at 40
- Aug 5 Tommy McCarthy, American Baseball HOF outfielder (Boston Beaneaters, Philadelphia Quakers, St. Louis Browns), dies from cancer at 59
Arthur Griffith (1871-1922)
Aug 12 Irish writer and politician who founded Sinn Féin (President of Ireland 1922), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 51
Michael Collins (1890-1922)
Aug 22 Irish revolutionary leader and leading figure in the struggle for Irish independence in the early 20th century, killed in ambush by anti-treaty forces during the Irish Civil War at 31
- Aug 27 Carl Fuchs, German composer, dies at 83
- Aug 28 Gaston of Orleans, Count of Eu, dies at 80
- Sep 2 Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet (n the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses), dies at 55
- Sep 4 Georges Sorel, French philosopher and theorist of Sorelianism, dies at 74
- Sep 5 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- Sep 7 William Stewart Halsted, American pioneering surgeon (introduced anesthesia and antisepsis while addicted to cocaine and opium), dies at 69 [1]
- Sep 8 Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
- Sep 10 Arpad Szendy, Hungarian composer, dies at 59
- Sep 10 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English writer (Irish Land League), traveller and Arabian stud founder, dies at 82
- Sep 11 Louis Coerne, American composer (Zenobia; Excalibur), and educator (The Evolution of Modern Orchestration), dies at 52
- Sep 21 Tom Armitage, English cricketer (took part 1st two cricket test match England played), dies at 74
- Sep 28 Andrejs Jurjans, Latvia's first professional classical composer, dies at 65
- Sep 30 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, dies at 64
- Oct 1 Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, Russian pianist and composer, dies at 63
- Oct 7 Marie Lloyd [Mathilda Wood], English music-hall performer ("Oh Mr Porter What Shall I Do"), dies of heart and kidney failure at 52
- Oct 12 Margriet Baers, Flemish social worker, feminist, and philosopher, dies at 33
- Oct 24 George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (Cadbury), dies at 83
- Oct 25 Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist (discovered fertilization), dies at 73
- Oct 28 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer and poet (Flemish Motion), dies at 81
- Oct 29 Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (Tivoli Concert Hall Orchestra, 1891-97), dies at 79
- Nov 1 Alfred Capus, French journalist and playwright, dies at 63
- Nov 6 Morgan Bulkeley, American politician (US Senator - Connecticut 1905-11) and Baseball HOF administrator (NL President 1876), dies at 84
- Nov 6 William Baines, British composer, dies of tuberculosis at 23
- Nov 7 Sam Thompson, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL batting champion 1887 Detroit Wolverines; NL HR leader 1889, 1895 Philadelphia Quakers), dies at 62
- Nov 14 Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer, dies at 79
- Nov 14 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", dies at 58
- Nov 16 Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
- Nov 17 Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), dies at 75
- Nov 18 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
- Nov 19 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), dies from a heart attack at 58
- Nov 21 Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
- Dec 5 Samuel Muller Fz, Dutch historian and archivist, dies at 74
- Dec 12 John Wanamaker, American merchant (Wanamakers Department Store), pioneer in marketing and Postmaster General, dies at 84
- Dec 13 Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
- Dec 16 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated
- Dec 25 Alphonse Goovaerts, Belgian composer and musicologist (Histoire et Bibliographie de la Typographie Musicale dans les Pays-Bas), dies at 75
- Dec 31 Richard Zeckwer, German-American organist, composer (The Bride of Messina), and educator (Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1876-1917), dies at 72
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