Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
Jan 17 American activist and founder of the Girl Scouts of America, dies of breast cancer at 66
- Jan 19 Carlota of Mexico, princess of Belgium and empress consort of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86
- Jan 19 Jim McLaughlin, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey (Kentucky Derby 1881, Preakness Stakes 1885, 6 x Belmont Stakes), dies at 65
- Jan 21 Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65
- Jan 22 John McCausland, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 90
- Jan 27 Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
- Jan 30 Friedrich Ernst Koch, German composer, dies at 64
- Feb 4 Thomas Laub, Danish organist and composer, dies at 74
- Feb 5 Inayat Khan, Indian singer, musicologist, and philosopher (founder of Sufi Order - London, 1914), dies at 44
- Feb 6 Daniel François Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist and banker, dies at 71
- Feb 6 Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
- Feb 10 Laura Netzel (née Pistolekors), Finnish-Swedish pianist, composer, concert organizer, and humanitarian, dies at 87
- Feb 11 Joel Engel, Russian musicologist (Jewish Folksongs), composer ("Numi, Numi"), and music publisher, dies at 58
- Feb 13 Brooks Adams, American philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78
- Feb 16 Friedrich Reinitzer, Austrian chemist and botanist (discovered properties of liquid crystals), dies at 69
- Feb 19 Georg Brandes [Cohen], Danish literary-historian and critic (the Modern Breakthrough of Scandinavian literature), dies at 85
- Feb 19 Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer, and teacher (Vienna Conservatory, 1875-1912), dies at 80
- Feb 23 Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Icelandic composer (Lofsöngur - National Anthem of Iceland), dies at 79
- Feb 26 Willie Simms, American jockey (US Champion Jockey by wins 1893, 94; Kentucky Derby 1896, 98; Preakness Stakes 1898; Belmont Stakes 1893, 94), dies at 57
- Mar 3 J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
- Mar 3 Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
- Mar 4 Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
- Mar 5 Franz Mertens, Polish mathematician, dies at 86
- Mar 12 Arthur Bernard Deacon, British anthropologist (Malekula: A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides), dies of blackwater fever (b. 1903)
- Mar 17 James Scott Skinner, Scottish fiddler and composer, dies at 83
- Mar 23 Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
- Mar 27 Joe Start, American baseball player, dies at 84
- Mar 28 Karl Prohaska, Austrian composer, dies at 57
- Apr 10 Ivo Bligh, British noble (8th Earl of Darnley) and cricket batsman (4 Tests; first England captain v Australia 1882-83), dies at 68
- Apr 10 Young Corbett II (William J. Rothwell), American boxer (world featherweight champion 1901-02), dies at 46
- Apr 15 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
- Apr 15 Gaston Leroux, French writer (The Phantom of the Opera), dies at 58
- Apr 27 Albert J. Beveridge, American politician and historian (Progressive leader, Senator Indiana 1899-1911), dies at 64
- May 2 Ernest Starling, British physiologist (Frank–Starling law of the heart), dies at 61
- May 5 Charles Boissevain, Dutch editor of Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908), dies at 84
- May 9 Tommy Routledge, South African cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies at 60
- May 11 Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window), dies at 40
- May 17 Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
- May 18 Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (Bath School disaster), commits suicide at 55 after killing his wife and blowing up a school
- May 23 Henry Edwards Huntington, American railroad executive (owned Pacific Electric Railway), dies at 77
- May 25 Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
- May 28 Boris Kustodiev, Russian-Soviet painter and stage designer, dies of tuberculosis at 49
- May 28 Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies at 73
- Jun 1 J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
Jun 1 American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), dies of pneumonia at 66
- Jun 2 Eduard Cuypers, Dutch architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67
- Jun 2 Friedrich Hegar, Swiss composer, dies at 85
- Jun 5 Paul Lacombe, French composer, dies at 89
- Jun 7 Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Quebec), dies at 79
- Jun 7 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927)
Jun 9 American civil rights activist (1872 presidential candidate, woman's suffrage movement), dies at 88
- Jun 11 William Attewell, English cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies at 65
- Jun 13 Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
- Jun 14 Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow), dies at 68
- Jun 14 Johanna Barbiers, Dutch actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79
- Jun 14 Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (the first Italian winner of the Tour de France), dies at 32
- Jul 5 Albrecht Kossel, German physician (Nobel 1910), dies at 73
- Jul 7 Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
- Jul 9 John Drew Jr., American Shakespearean actor (The Big Bonanza), dies at 73
- Jul 10 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated at 35
- Jul 15 Constance Markievicz, Irish politician, revolutionary and suffragist (1st woman elected to UK House of Commons, 1st female cabinet minister in Europe), dies of complications after surgery at 59 [1]
- Jul 20 Ferdinand I [Meinrad], King of Romania (1914-27), dies of cancer at 61
- Jul 21 J. J. Lyons, Australian cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies at 64
- Jul 23 Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
- Jul 23 William Ashley, English economic historian (The Economic Organisation of England), dies at 67
- Jul 24 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 'father of the Japanese short story', Japanese writer (Rashomon in Kappa), commits suicide at 35
- Jul 25 Matilde Serao, Italian writer and journalist (Land of Cockayne, 1st woman to edit Italian newspaper), dies at 71
- Jul 30 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Ghanaian-American missionary, educator and scholar, dies of meningococcal meningitis at 51
- Jul 30 Robert de Flers, French writer and playwright (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies at 54
- Jul 31 Walter Travis, Australian-American golfer, writer, course designer (US Amateur C'ship 1900-01, 03; British Amateur 1904), dies at 65
- Aug 4 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75
- Aug 5 Thomas Groube, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test; Victoria CA), dies at 69
- Aug 13 James Oliver Curwood, American journalist and writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49
- Aug 23 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts
- Aug 23 Therese Zamara, Austrian harpist and music teacher, dies at 71
- Aug 28 Li Dazhao [Ta-chao], Chinese intellectual, revolutionary and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party with Chen Duxiu, executed as a political prisoner at 37
- Sep 6 Lafayette "Lave" Cross [Vratislav Kriz], American MLB baseball infielder, 1892-1907 (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, and 5 other teams), dies of a heart attack at 61
- Sep 12 Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer, dies at 80
- Sep 12 Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
- Sep 14 Hugo Ball, German playwright and social critic (co-founder Flametti, Dada), dies of cancer at 41
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
Sep 14 American free form/interpretative dancer, dies at 50 due to her scarf becoming entangled in her car's wheel
- Sep 15 Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist and poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem), dies at 62
- Sep 19 Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
- Sep 20 George Nichols, American director and actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62 or 63
- Sep 22 Giannotto Bastianelli, Italian musician and composer, dies at 44
- Sep 27 Stephán G. Stephansson, Icelandic poet who lived in Canada, dies at 73 [1]
- Sep 29 Arthur Achleitner, German writer, dies at 69
- Sep 29 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924), dies at 67
- Sep 30 Samuel Garman, American zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and namesake of a Jamaican lizard, dies at 84
- Oct 1 Wilhelm Harteveld, Swedish composer, dies at 68
- Oct 2 Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (1903 Nobel Prize for Chemistry), dies at 68
- Oct 8 Mary Webb, English writer (Gone to Earth), dies at 46
- Oct 10 Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
- Oct 20 Mikhail Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 78
- Oct 22 Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
- Oct 22 Ross Youngs, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1921, 22; NY Giants), dies of Bright's disease at 30
- Oct 27 Joseph "Squizzy" Taylor, Australian gangster, dies of wounds following a gunfight with a rival gangster, John "Snowy" Cutmore, at 39
- Oct 28 (Joseph) Eaton Faning, British organist and composer (The Vikings; Mock Turtles), dies at 77
- Oct 29 Leonard Nelson, German philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
- Oct 31 Elizabeth Harrison, American educator (National Congress of Parents & Teachers), dies at 78
- Nov 1 Florence Mills [Winfrey], American cabaret singer, dancer and comedian, known as 'the Queen of Happiness', dies of tuberculosis at 31
- Nov 3 Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
- Nov 9 Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer, organist, and military bandleader, dies at 77
- Nov 11 Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist (provided evidence for Hugo de Vries' mutation theory), dies at 70
- Nov 17 Adolph Joffe, Russian Communist revolutionary and writer (Brest-Litovsk), commits suicide at 44
- Nov 20 (Carl) Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish composer considered the finest Swedish pianist of his time, dies of a stroke at 56
- Nov 23 Stanisław Przybyszewski, Polish writer and dramatist, dies at 59
- Nov 26 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch cabaret singer and comedian ("M'n Eerste" - "My First"; "The French Governess"), killed along with his wife by her jilted lover at 47
- Nov 28 Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New Guinea), dies
- Nov 28 C. E. A. Wichmann, German-Dutch geologist, dies at 76
- Nov 29 George Giffen, Australian cricket all-rounder (31 Tests, 1 x 100, 6 x 50, HS 161, 103 wickets, BB 7/117; SA CA), dies at 68
- Dec 7 Albert Griffiths ("Young Griffo"), Australian boxer (World Featherweight champion 1890-92), dies of apoplexy at 56
- Dec 12 Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67
- Dec 14 Julian Sochocki, Russian-Polish mathematician, dies at 85
- Dec 16 Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88
- Dec 17 Hubert Harrison, West Indian-American writer and freedom fighter, dies at 44
- Dec 18 Harry Barrett, British athlete (WR marathon 2:42:31 1909), dies at 47
- Dec 21 Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies
- Dec 25 Sergei Sazonov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16), dies in exile in France at 66
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