Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Jan 21 Russian Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader (1917-24), dies of a stroke at 53
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Feb 3 28th President of the United States (Democrat: 1913-21) and 1919 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, dies at his home in Washington at 67
- Feb 5 Alexis Hollander, German conductor and composer, dies at 83
- Feb 8 Gee John, Chinese-American gangster (1st person in US to be executed by lethal gas in Nevada), executed at 29
- Feb 9 Nils Kjær, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
- Feb 15 Lionel Monckton, British composer (Edwardian musical comedy), dies at 62
Henry Bacon (1866-1924)
Feb 17 American architect (Lincoln Memorial), dies at 57
- Feb 17 Oskar Merikanto [Ala-Kanto], Finnish pianist, organist, and composer, dies at 55
- Feb 21 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, Italian opera composer, dies at 78
- Feb 24 Edmond Picard, French-Belgian lawyer and writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
- Mar 1 Princess Louise of Belgium, eldest daughter of Leopold II, dies at 66
- Mar 6 Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
- Mar 7 Pat Moran, American baseball catcher (World Series 1907 Chicago Cubs) and manager (World Series 1919 Cincinnati Reds), dies of Bright's Disease at 48
- Mar 12 Hilaire de Chardonnet, French industrialist and inventor (rayon), dies at 84
- Mar 18 Frederick Bridge, English organist and composer, dies at 79
- Mar 22 Robert Nivelle, French military officer, dies at 67
- Mar 25 John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
- Mar 26 Augusto (de Oliveira) Machado, Portuguese composer (Lauriane; Camões es os Luziadas), dies at 78
- Mar 27 Walter Parratt, British organist and composer, dies at 83
- Mar 29 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist, conductor, composer, and music teacher (Royal College of Music, 1882-1924), dies at 71
- Apr 1 Stan Rowley, Australian athlete (Olympic gold 5,000m team, bronze 60m, 100m, 200m 1900), dies at 47
- Apr 2 Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Danish botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions), dies at 82
Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
Apr 14 American architect (father of skyscrapers), dies at 67
- Apr 14 Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and president of the Société de Géographie, dies at 65
- Apr 15 Eduardo Caudella, Romanian opera composer, dies at 82
- Apr 16 Jack Board, English cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies at 57
- Apr 21 Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64
- Apr 24 George Street, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test, 1 dismissal; Surrey CCC, MCC), dies in a road accident at 34
- Apr 24 Granville Stanley Hall, American pioneering psychologist, dies at 78
- Apr 26 Josef Labor, Austrian composer, dies at 82
- May 1 August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62
- May 4 Edith Nesbit, British children books author (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It), dies at 65
- May 6 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
- May 8 Lev Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth), dies at 23
- May 10 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top), dies at 58
- May 11 Moses Walker, American baseball catcher (first African-American open about his heritage to play MLB; Toledo Blue Stockings), dies at 66
- May 12 Henri Maréchal, French composer and music critic, dies at 82
- May 15 Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and pacifist (Nobel 1909), dies at 71
- May 16 William "Candy" Cummings, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (credited with creating the curveball), dies at 75
- May 19 Billy Zulch, cricketer (South African batsman scored 2 Test centuries), dies
- May 21 Bobby Franks, American school boy killed by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, at 14
- May 21 Charley Barrett, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Cornell undefeated National C'ship 1915), dies from effects of war injuries at 30
- May 25 Ashutosh Mukherjee, Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician described as the "Banglar Bagh" (Tiger of Bengal), dies abruptly at 59
- May 25 Lyubov Popova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, dies at 35
- May 25 Theodore F. Morse, American composer, dies at 51
- May 26 Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer, dies at 67
- May 26 Victor Herbert, American cellist, composer, and conductor (Babes in Toyland; Eileen), dies of a heart attack at 65
- May 29 Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher of liturgical music, dies at 76
- May 29 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (negotiated Entente Cordiale), dies at 81
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Jun 3 Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
- Jun 8 Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
George Mallory (1886-1924)
Jun 8 English mountain climber ("because it is there"), dies in a climbing accident at 37
- Jun 10 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist Party leader, assassinated by fascists at 39
- Jun 11 Alexander de Savornin Lohman, Dutch minister and party leader (CHU), dies at 87
- Jun 11 Theodore Dubois, French composer, dies at 86
- Jun 23 Cecil Sharp, British collector of English folk music and dance, dies at 64
- Jun 24 Willie Fernie, Scottish golfer (British Open 1883), dies at 69
- Jun 28 Jack Darragh, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (Stanley Cup 1911, 20-21, 23; Ottawa Senators), dies of peritonitis at 33
- Jun 30 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
- Jul 2 Matsukata Masayoshi, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1891-1892, 1896 -1898), dies at 89
- Jul 10 Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz, Dutch general (ended Aceh War) and Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1904-09), dies at 73
- Jul 13 Alfred Marshall, English economist (Principles of Economics), dies at 81
- Jul 21 Dudley Allen Sargent, American physician and educator (Harvard U gymnasium), dies at 74
- Jul 23 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, dies at 64
- Jul 27 Ferruccio Busoni, Italian piano prodigy, composer (Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Arlecchino), conductor, and pedagogue, dies of heart failure at 58
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Aug 3 Polish-English novelist (Lord Jim; Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
- Aug 6 John Henry Roberts, Welsh organist, hymn composer, and pedagogue, dies at 76
- Aug 7 Camille Zeckwer, American pianist, organist, composer, and educator (Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1917-24), dies from complications of throat surgery at 49
- Aug 9 Jacob P. Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
- Aug 13 Julian Aguirre, Argentine composer and pianist, dies at 56
- Aug 17 Pavel Urysohn, Ukrainian mathematician, drowns at 26
- Aug 17 Tom Kendall, Australian cricket slow bowler (2 Tests, 14 wickets in Australia's 1st 2 Tests, BB 7/55), dies at 72
- Aug 25 Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
- Aug 27 William Maddock Bayliss, British physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, dies at 64
- Aug 31 Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, Macedonian freedom fighter, and teacher, assassinated at 43
- Sep 3 Dario Resta, Italian-British auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1916; Vanderbilt Cup 1915, 16; AAA National C'ship 1916), dies in a land-speed record attempt at 42
- Sep 5 Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at 46 [1]
- Sep 6 Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, 4th and last child of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, dies at 56
- Sep 10 Walter Lees, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 26 wickets), dies at 48
- Sep 11 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, Polish organ virtuoso and composer (1904 Organ Concerto), dies at 57
- Sep 13 P. J. Hannikainen, Finnish composer, dies at 69
- Sep 15 Anthony Johnson Showalter, American gospel composer, dies at 66
Frank Chance (1877-1924)
Sep 15 American Baseball HOF first baseman (World Series 1907, 08; 2 x NL stolen base leader; NL runs leader 1906 Chicago Orphans/Cubs) and manager (Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, Boston RS), dies at 47
- Sep 18 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), dies at 78
- Sep 19 Alick Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (28 Tests, 8 x 50s; NSW 1876–94), dies at 70
- Sep 24 Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala (1898-1920), dies in prison at 66
- Sep 25 (Charlotte) "Lotta" Crabtree, American stage actress, comedian (Little Nell and the Marchioness), and philanthropist, dies at 76
- Sep 25 Karel Burian (also Carl Burrian), Czech operatic tenor, dies at 54
- Oct 5 Joseph Vézina, Canadian conductor (Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, 1902-24), and composer (Le Rajah), dies at 75
- Oct 5 Tom Campbell, South African cricket wicket keeper (5 Tests, 8 dismissals), dies in a railway accident at 42
- Oct 6 Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer and jurist, dies at 75
- Oct 7 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie), dies at 71
- Oct 9 Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
- Oct 12 Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault], French writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921), dies at 80
- Oct 12 Monroe Althouse, American composer, dies at 71
- Oct 21 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, Belgian composer, dies at 76
- Oct 29 Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-American playwright and children's author ("The Secret Garden"; "Little Lord Fauntleroy"), dies at 74
- Oct 29 Peter Verigin, Russian Doukhobor leader (led Doukhobor community in Canada), dies, possibly assassinated in an explosion on a train at 65 [1]
- Nov 4 Gabriel Urbain Fauré, French organist, composer (Requiem; Ballade), and educator (Paris Conservatoire, 1905-20), dies at 79
- Nov 4 Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
- Nov 7 Hans Thoma, German painter, dies at 75
- Nov 8 Sergei Lyapunov, Russian pianist and composer (Lezghinka), dies at 64
- Nov 9 Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
- Nov 10 Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist (Scenery of Scotland), dies at 88
- Nov 15 Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, Portuguese aviator (1st flight across the south Atlantic), disappears flying over the English Channel at 43
- Nov 16 Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, Russian composer, dies at 78
- Nov 16 Edward Everett Rice, composer, dies at 75
- Nov 19 Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
- Nov 19 Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
- Nov 20 Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman (drafted first FA rules), dies at 93
- Nov 21 Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
- Nov 22 Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies at 59
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Nov 29 Italian opera composer (La bohème; Tosca; Madame Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65
- Dec 2 Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
- Dec 6 Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
- Dec 8 (Franz) Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist, educator, and composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74
- Dec 9 Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel, To My Fatherland), dies at 70
- Dec 10 August Belmont Jr., American financier (construction of New York subway, NY Jockey Club), dies at 71
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)
Dec 13 American labor union leader (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
- Dec 15 T. Frank Appleby, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives - (R) New Jersey, 1921-23), dies at 60
- Dec 27 William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess, translated and popularised Ibsen), dies at 68
- Dec 28 Léon Bakst, Russian painter and scene and costume designer, dis at 58
- Dec 29 Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
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