Jan 6 Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
Jan 16 Alfred Shaw, English cricket medium/spin bowler (7 Tests; bowled first ball in Test cricket; first to take 5 wickets in a Test innings; Nottinghamshire CCC, MCC), dies at 64
Jan 25 René Pottier, French racing cyclist (Tour de France 1906), dies of suicide at 27
Feb 12 Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), dies of lymphadenoma at 28
Jun 14 Bob McLeod, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 12 wickets, BB 5/53; Victoria), dies at 39
Jun 21 Lena Rice, Irish tennis player (Wimbledon 1890), dies of tuberculosis at 41
Jul 18 Ted Pooley, English cricket wicket-keeper (1st class records: 8 stumpings in a match 1878; 12 dismissals in a match 1868; Surrey CCC, Middlesex CCC), dies at 65
Nov 21 Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Aust's early Tests), dies