Zitkála-Šá (1876-1938)
Jan 26 Native American (Yankton Dakota) writer, violinist, librettist (The Sun Dance Opera), educator, and political activist, dies at 61
- Jan 28 Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver, dies at 28
- Jan 28 John Sharp, English cricketer (England bat 1909, also soccer intl), dies ay 69 or 70
- Feb 5 Hans Litten, German lawyer, workers' rights advocate, anti-Nazi antagonist, and educator, commits suicide while imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp at 34 [1]
- Feb 6 Marianne Von Werefkin, Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter, dies at 77
Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938)
Feb 7 American manufacturer and founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, dies at 69
- Feb 9 Truby King, New Zealand physician, pioneer in infant welfare (Karitāne hospitals, Plunket Society), dies at 79 [1]
- Feb 11 James A. Ten Eyck, American champion rower and coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake), dies at 86
- Feb 16 Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64
- Feb 18 Alida Tartaud-Klein, Dutch actress and performance artist (Rotterdam Stage), dies at 64
- Feb 18 David King Udall, American politician and Mormon leader, dies at 86
- Feb 18 Edward Anseele, Belgian socialist politician, dies at 81
George Dayton (1857-1938)
Feb 18 American businessman (founder of Target Corporation), dies of cancer at 80
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938)
Mar 1 Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, dies of a stroke at 74
- Mar 2 Ben Harney, American composer and 'Father of Ragtime Piano' ("You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down"), dies of a heart attack at 66 [1]
- Mar 4 George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
- Mar 4 Jack Taylor, American baseball pitcher (MLB record 187 consecutive complete games; World Series 1907, NL ERA leader 1902 Chicago Cubs), dies at 68
- Mar 7 Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (1924-25) (b. 1876)
- Mar 9 Sydney Baynes, British conductor, arranger, bandleader and composer (Destiny Waltz; Endure to Conquer), dies at 59
- Mar 12 Heber Manning Wells, American banker, politician (1st Governor of the State of Utah, 1896-1905), and newspaper editor, dies of a stroke at 78
- Mar 13 Clarence Darrow, American defense attorney at Scopes Monkey Trial, dies at 80
- Mar 13 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, dies at 49
- Mar 15 Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies
- Mar 18 Cyril Rootham, English composer, dies at 62
- Mar 21 Oscar Apfel, American actor (The Squaw Man, Inspiration, Before Dawn), dies from a heart attack at 60
- Mar 27 William Stern, German-American philosopher (Intelligence of Children), dies at 66
- Mar 31 Willem Kloos, Dutch poet and critic (New Guide), dies at 78
- Apr 2 Alice Berend, writer, dies
- Apr 4 Cyril Christiani, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests; British Guiana), dies of malaria at 24
- Apr 8 Harold Baumgartner, South African cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for South Africa), dies at 54
- Apr 10 (Joseph) "King" Oliver, American jazz cornet player, composer, bandleader ("Dippermouth Blues"), and mentor to Louis Armstrong, dies of arteriosclerosis and related heart attack at 56 [1] [2]
- Apr 10 Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
- Apr 11 Cristóbal Torriente, Cuban Baseball HOF outfielder (NgL NL batting champion 1920; NgL NL pennant 1920–22; Chicago American Giants; career batting average: .352), dies from alcoholism & tuberculosis at 44
- Apr 12 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian operatic bass-baritone singer (Man and Mask: Forty Years in the Life of a Singer), dies of leukemia at 65
- Apr 13 Grey Owl [Archibald Belaney], Canadian pioneering conservationist (who pretended to be part Native American), dies of pneumonia at 49 [1]
- Apr 14 Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold 1920, 24, 28), dies of blood poisoning at 44
- Apr 15 César Vallejo, Peruvian-French poet and novelist (Los Heraldos Negros; Trilce; Russia in 1931), dies from recurrence of childhood malaria at 46
- Apr 16 Bertram Mills, British circus proprietor (Bertram Mills Circus), dies at 70
- Apr 16 Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
- Apr 18 Richard Terry, English organist and musicologist, dies at 73
- Apr 19 Henry John Newbolt, English poet and author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
- Apr 21 Muhammad Iqbal, British East Indies lawyer and Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
- Apr 24 George Grey Barnard, American sculptor, dies at 74
- Apr 26 Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (founded School of Phenomenology), dies at 79
- Apr 27 Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Colonies, dies at 44
- May 4 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and writer (Nobel Peace Prize 1935), dies at 48
- May 4 Kanō Jigorō, Japanese educator and the founder of Judo, dies at 77
- May 9 Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist, dies at 72
- May 10 Percy McAlister, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests; Big Six cricket dispute 1912), dies at 68
- May 11 Arnold Sauwen, Belgium poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81
- May 13 Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist (1920 Nobel Prize for Physics), dies at 77
- May 14 Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at 81
- May 16 Joseph Strauss, American civil engineer (chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge), dies at 68
- May 16 Steve Fairbairn, British rower and coach (Jesus College Boat Club, Cambridge University), dies at 75
- May 17 Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and Zionist, dies at 60
- May 26 John Jacob Abel, American pharmacologist (endocrine glands), dies at 81
- May 30 Raden Soetomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
- Jun 1 Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian writer (A Child of Our Time), dies at 36
- Jun 2 Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, American yacht designer (6 x undefeated America's Cup campaigns 1893-1920) and naval architect (built first torpedo boat for US Navy), dies at 90
- Jun 6 Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (cared for the wounded, sick, and dying during the Mexican Revolution), dies at 60
- Jun 7 Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
- Jun 14 William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and Director of Lick Observatory, dies at 76
- Jun 15 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58
- Jun 17 Ranji Hordern, Australian cricket spin bowler (7 Tests, 46 wickets, BB 7/90; NSW CA), dies at 55
- Jun 20 Fred L Noonan, US aviator and navigator, declared dead after having disappeared over Pacific Ocean with Amelia Earhart in 1937
- Jun 22 C. J. Dennis, Australian poet (The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke), dies at 61
- Jun 24 "Digger" Robertson, Australian cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, played in California), dies at 76
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Jun 26 American Harlem Renaissance poet, lyricist ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), civil rights activist, and leader of the NAACP, dies in a car crash at 67
Suzanne Lenglen (1899-1938)
Jul 4 French tennis player (French C'ships 1925-26, Wimbledon 1919-23, 25), dies of anemia at 39
- Jul 5 John McIlwraith, cricketer (Tests for Australia), dies
- Jul 9 Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist, dies at 68
- Jul 14 Robert Poore, British cricket batsman (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies at 72
- Jul 18 Fernando Canon, Filipino revolutionary general, poet, and the Philippines 1st National Chess Champion, dies at 77
- Jul 18 Marie, last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I (1914-27), dies at 62
- Jul 18 Vladimir Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory), executed at 35
- Jul 21 Owen Wister, American author, 'father of the Western' (The Virginian), dies at 78
- Jul 27 Catherine Wolfe Donohue, American watch dial painter, dies of radium poisoning at 35 [1]
- Jul 29 Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
- Aug 2 Bjarni Thorsteinsson, Icelandic organist, composer, musical folklorist, and priest, dies at 76
- Aug 3 Alexander Malyschkin, Russian writer, dies (b. 1892)
- Aug 4 L. H. Perquin, Dutch religious radio broadcaster, dies at 73
- Aug 4 Pearl White, American actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
- Aug 4 Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter and writer (Legenden Der Zeit), dies at 70
- Aug 6 Warner Oland, Swedish actor (The Jazz Singer, Charlie Chan), dies at 58
- Aug 7 Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian director and actor (Stanislavski Method for acting), dies at 75
- Aug 9 Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (African cultures), dies at 65
- Aug 10 Joseph Moorat, British composer (Prunella), dies at 73
- Aug 12 Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist, dies at 74
- Aug 14 Hugh Trumble, Australian cricket spin bowler and captain (32 Tests, 141 wickets; 2 x Test hat-tricks), dies of a heart attack at 71
- Aug 14 Jim Kelly, Australian cricketer (36 Tests for Aust 1896-1905, stumped 20), dies at 71
- Aug 14 Landon Ronald, British composer, pianist and teacher (Guildhall School of Music), dies at 65
- Aug 16 Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic priest, dies at 1938
Robert Johnson (1911-1938)
Aug 16 American blues singer-songwriter, and guitarist (King of Delta Blues Singers), poisoned at 27
- Aug 25 Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
- Aug 29 Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist revolutionary (de facto head of Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919), executed during the 'Great Purge' in Russia at 52
- Aug 30 Max Factor, Polish-American make-up artist, inventor and founder of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor & Company, dies at 60
- Sep 3 Bart de Ligt, Dutch pacifist and anti-militarist (Acting Peace), dies at 55
- Sep 4 Clifford Dempsey, American actor (Salute), dies at 73
- Sep 6 John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
- Sep 13 Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Space, time & deity), dies at 79
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
Sep 15 American novelist (Look Homeward Angel), dies of tuberculosis.at 37
- Sep 17 Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- Sep 19 Pauline Frederick, American actress (Mr. Moto), dies of an asthma attack at 55
- Sep 21 Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian writer (The Brave Adventures of Lapitch), dies at 64
- Sep 24 Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
- Sep 27 Elmer Feldcamp, American big band baritone vocalist, saxophone, and clarinet player (Freddy Martin Orchestra), dies of heart failure at 36
- Sep 28 Charles Duryea, American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first auto built in the US), dies at 76
- Sep 28 Con Conrad, American songwriter and producer, dies at 48
- Oct 2 Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
- Oct 3 Viktor Kosenko, Russian-Ukrainian pianist, composer (Moldavian Poem), and educator, dies of kidney cancer at 41
- Oct 5 Sister Faustina [Helena Kowalska], Polish Roman Catholic saint, nun and mystic, dies of suspected tuberculosis at 33
- Oct 10 Lord Hawke [Martin Hawke], English cricket batsman (5 Tests; Yorkshire CCC, Cambridge Uni CC, MCC), dies at 78
- Oct 12 Hugh Massie, Australian cricket batsman and captain (9 Tests; NSW), dies at 84
- Oct 13 E. C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye), dies at 43
- Oct 18 Karl Kautsky, Austrian philosopher and Marxist theorist (Socialist journal Neue Zeit), dies at 83
- Oct 22 May Irwin, Canadian comedienne and singer (Hot Time in the Old Town), dies at 76
- Oct 24 Ernst Barlach, German writer and artist, dies at 68
- Oct 25 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal), dies at 46
- Oct 27 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic (Revaluations), dies at 57
- Nov 1 Francis Jammes, French poet and writer (Jammisme), dies at 69
- Nov 7 Ernst vom Rath, German diplomat, assassinated at 29, providing the pretext for Kristallnacht
- Nov 9 Edward Murray East, American botanist and geneticist who developed hybrid corn, dies at 59
- Nov 9 Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
Nov 10 1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 57
Typhoid Mary (1869-1938)
Nov 11 Irish-American patient best known as 'Typhoid Mary' and the first person in the United States known to be immune to typhoid, dies at 69
- Nov 15 George Glover, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
- Nov 17 Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (23rd Mayor of Split), dies at 74
- Nov 19 Lev Shestov, Russian existentialist philosopher, dies at 72
- Nov 20 Edwin Hall, American physicist (discovered Hall effect), dies at 83
- Nov 20 Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
- Nov 20 Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway, spouse of King Haakon VII, dies at 68
- Nov 21 Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist, composer (Java Suite; Triakontameron; 53 Studies on Chopin's Études), and pedagogue, dies of stomach cancer at 68
- Nov 23 August Kiehl, Dutch actor (Op hoop van zegen, De kribbebijter), dies at 84
- Nov 26 Henry Schultz, American economist (econometrics), dies at 45
- Nov 30 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian politician (founder and leader of the Iron Guard), dies at 39
- Dec 4 Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch classical pianist and composer, dies at 54
- Dec 4 Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (32nd yokozuna; winner 9 top division yūshō), dies following a delayed appendectomy at 34
- Dec 7 Harry Moses, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1887-95), dies
- Dec 8 Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (Sergeant Studer detective novels), dies of a stroke at 42
- Dec 9 Johannes van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics), dies at 78
- Dec 10 Mario Pilati, Italian composer, dies at 35
- Dec 11 Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist and internationalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1921), dies at 69
- Dec 12 James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State, dies at 69
- Dec 14 Maurice Emmanuel, French composer and musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76
- Dec 19 Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), dies at 65
- Dec 20 Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader, dies at 88
- Dec 21 Helen Miller Shepard, American philanthropist who established Hall of Fame, dies at 70
- Dec 23 Robert Herrick, American novelist (Chimes), dies at 70
- Dec 24 Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
Karel Čapek (1890-1938)
Dec 25 Czech author, playwright and critic (R.U.R.), coined term "robot", dies of pneumonia at 48
- Dec 27 Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889)
- Dec 27 Emile Vandervelde, President (1900–1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister of 3 Belgian governments dies at 72
- Dec 27 Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and writer (Kamen), dies in a Siberian transit camp of typhoid fever at 47
- Dec 28 Florence Lawrence [Bridgwood], Canadian stage and silent screen actress (Confidence; Lady Helen's Escapade), dies of probable suicide at 52
- Dec 31 Richard Nicolaas Roland Holst, Dutch artist and painter, dies at 70
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