- Jan 9 Émile Reynaud, French inventor of the praxinoscope who created the first projected animated films (Pantomimes Lumineuses), dies at 73
Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)
Mar 9 German actor and playwright (The "Lulu" plays), dies at 53
- Mar 15 George Alexander [Samson], British actor, theatre producer and manager, dies at 59
- Aug 12 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), dies of cancer at 46
- Oct 19 Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), dies from the flu at 31
- Oct 22 Myrtle Gonzalez, American silent film actress regarded as Hollywood's first Latin and Hispanic movie star actress (Missy, The Chalice of Courage, Her Great Part), dies from influenza and heart ailment at 27
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