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== Deaths == {{BDToC|deaths}} === January === [[File:Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858 – 1939).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Valdemar of Denmark]]]] [[File:Kullervo Manner.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Kullervo Manner]]]] [[File:Yeats Boughton.jpg|thumb|100px|[[W. B. Yeats]]]] * [[January 2]] – [[Roman Dmowski]], Polish politician (b. [[1864]]) *[[January 4]] – [[Mary J. L. Black]], Canadian librarian and suffragist (b. [[1879]]) * [[January 6]] – [[Gustavs Zemgals]], 2nd President of Latvia (b. [[1871]]) * [[January 8]] – [[Charles Eastman]], American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (b. [[1858]]) * [[January 14]] – [[Prince Valdemar of Denmark]] (b. [[1858]]) * [[January 15]] – [[Kullervo Manner]], Finnish [[Speaker of the Parliament of Finland|Speaker of the Parliament]], the [[Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic|Prime Minister of the FSWR]] and the Supreme Commander of the [[Red Guard (Finland)|Red Guards]] (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://finland100.fi/persons/manner-kullervo/|title=Manner, Kullervo – Svinhufvud|website=Finland100.fi|access-date=October 26, 2020|language=en|archive-date=October 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019235441/http://finland100.fi/persons/manner-kullervo/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[January 18]] – [[Ivan Mosjoukine]], Soviet actor (b. [[1889]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm]], Soviet sculptor (b. [[1859]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Matthias Sindelar]], Austrian footballer (b. [[1903]]) * [[January 24]] – [[Maximilian Bircher-Benner]], Swiss physician, nutritionist (b. [[1867]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Helen Ware]], American actress (b. [[1877]]) * [[January 28]] – [[W. B. Yeats]], Irish writer, 1923 [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{cite book|author=K. P. S. Jochum|title=The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FMkOxnrae8UC&pg=PA224|date=6 October 2006|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-5963-3|pages=224}}</ref> === February === [[File:Papst Pius XI. 1JS.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pope Pius XI]]]] [[File:Henri Jaspar.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Henri Jaspar]]]] * [[February 1]] – [[Lawrence Marston]], American actor, playwright, and film director (b. [[1857]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Janez Frančišek Gnidovec]], Yugoslav [[Roman Catholic]] priest and venerable (b. [[1873]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Edward Sapir]], German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. [[1884]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Teresa Mañé]], Spanish teacher, editor and writer (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Catherine|title=Spanish Women's Writing 1849–1996|chapter=The Libertarian Superwoman: Federica Montseny (1905-1994)|year=1998|publisher=Athlone Press|location=London|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppRtzQXGS8wC&pg=PA138|page=78|isbn=0-485-91006-3|lccn=98-11468|oclc=468307323}}</ref> * [[February 6]] – [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III]], Maharada of Baroda (b. [[1863]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Henry Balfour]], British archaeologist (b. [[1863]]) * [[February 10]] ** [[Pope Pius XI]] (b. [[1857]]) ** Patriarch [[Torkom Koushagian of Jerusalem]] (b. [[1874]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Franz Schmidt (composer)|Franz Schmidt]], Austrian composer (b. [[1874]]) * [[February 12]] ** [[Potenciano Gregorio]], Filipino musician (b. [[1880]]) ** [[S. P. L. Sørensen]], Danish chemist (b. [[1868]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army officer, born 1859)|Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon]], British general (b. [[1859]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Henri Jaspar]], Belgian politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1870]]) * [[February 16]] – [[Josef Moroder-Lusenberg]], Austro-Italian artist (b.[[1846]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Kanoko Okamoto]], Japanese tanka poet (b. [[1899]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Antonio Machado]], Spanish poet (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Arrowsmith|author2=James Fearon Brown|title=The Chimera: A Rough Beast|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgIwAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|page=5}}</ref> * [[February 23]] – [[Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne]], British peer, soldier (b. [[1895]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Ivan Fedko]], Soviet army commander (b. [[1897]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Nadezhda Krupskaya]], [[Russians|Russian]] [[Marxist]] revolutionary, [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s widow (b. [[1869]]) === March === [[File:Howard carter.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Howard Carter]]]] [[File:Miron Cristia patriach of Romania.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Patriarch Miron of Romania]]]] [[File:Carlos Manuel de C%C3%A9spedes y Quesada circa 1914.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Quesada]]]] * [[March 2]] – [[Howard Carter]], British archaeologist (b. [[1874]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Dimitrie Gerota]], Romanian anatomist, physician (b. [[1867]]) * [[March 5]] – [[Herbert Mundin]], British actor (b. [[1898]]) * [[March 6]] ** [[Ginepro Cocchi]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and Servant of God (b. [[1908]]) ** [[Patriarch Miron of Romania]], Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric, politician, priest and 38th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1868]]) * [[March 7]] – [[Matvei Berman]], Soviet intelligence officer (b. [[1898]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Lucien Lévy-Bruhl]], French sociologist, anthropologist (b. [[1857]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Agostino Borgato]], Italian actor, director (b. [[1871]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Avril de Sainte-Croix]], French author, journalist (b. [[1855]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad]], Palestinian revolutionary (b. [[1892]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Ferdinand von Quast]], German general (b. [[1850]]) * [[March 28]] ** [[Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Quesada]], Cuban diplomat, politician, writer and 6th [[President of Cuba]] (b. [[1871]]) ** [[Mario Lertora]], Italian artistic gymnast in the [[1924 Summer Olympics]] (b. [[1897]]) * [[March 29]] – [[Gerardo Machado]], Cuban general, 5th [[President of Cuba]] (b. [[1871]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Ioannis Tsangaridis]], Greek general (b. [[1887]]) ===April=== [[File:Ghazi3.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Ghazi of Iraq]]]] [[File:Joseph Lyons.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph Lyons]]]] * [[April 4]] ** King [[Ghazi of Iraq]] (b. [[1912]]) ** [[Joaquín García Morato]], Spanish fighter ace (b. [[1904]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Joseph Lyons]], 10th [[Prime Minister of Australia]], [[Premier of Tasmania]] (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Anne|last=Henderson|author-link=Anne Henderson (author)|title=Joseph Lyons: The People's Prime Minister|year=2011|publisher=UNSW Press|isbn=978-1742240992|page=429}}</ref> * [[April 15]] – [[Konstantin Petrovich Grigorovich]], Soviet engineer, professor (b. [[1886]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Ludwig Herzer]], Austrian musician and composer (b. [[1872]]) * [[April 18]] ** [[Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair]], British writer, philanthropist (b. [[1857]]) ** [[Hugo Charlemont]], Austrian painter (b. [[1850]]) * [[April 19]] ** [[Lucilio de Albuquerque]], Brazilian painter (b. [[1877]]) ** [[János Vaszary]], Hungarian painter and graphic artist (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/janos-vaszary |title=János Vaszary | Art, Biography & Art for Sale | Sotheby's |access-date=August 26, 2021 |archive-date=August 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826085135/https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/janos-vaszary |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[April 20]] – [[Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria]], the son of [[Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria]] and [[Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies|Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]] (b. [[1866]]) * [[April 22]] – [[Leandro Campanari]], Italian conductor, composer and violinist (b. [[1859]]) * [[April 25]] ** [[John Foulds]], British classical music composer (b. [[1880]]) ** [[Georges Ricard-Cordingley]], French painter (b. [[1873]]) * [[April 27]] – [[José Gola]], Argentinian actor (b. [[1904]]) * [[April 28]] – [[Archduke Leo Karl of Austria]] (b. [[1893]]) ===May=== [[File:SAAVEDRA B.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Bautista Saavedra]]]] [[File:Ursula Leduhovskaya in 1907.jpg|100px|thumb|Saint [[Ursula Ledóchowska]]]] * [[May 1]] – [[Bautista Saavedra]], 29th [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1870]]) * [[May 2]] – [[Phillips Smalley]], American actor, director (b. [[1875]]) * [[May 3]] – [[Wilhelm Groener]], German general (b. [[1867]]) * [[May 4]] – [[James A. Johnson (architect)|James A. Johnson]], American architect (b. [[1865]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Francesco Paleari]], Italian priest and blessed (b. [[1863]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Mary, Lady Heath]], Irish aviator (b. [[1896]]) * [[May 10]] – [[James Parrott]], American actor (b. [[1898]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Victor Bernau]], Norwegian actor, director (b. [[1890]]) * [[May 14]] ** [[Jesse Price]], American politician and member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1914 to 1919 (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Dezső Varga]], Romanian ice hockey player (b. 1939) * [[May 19]] – [[Ahmet Ağaoğlu]], Turkish politician, author and writer (b. [[1869]]) * [[May 20]] ** [[Joseph Carr]], 2nd president of the [[National Football League]] (b. [[1880]]) ** [[Alexandra Čvanová]], Czechoslovakian soprano (b. [[1897]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Ernst Toller]], German playwright, Communist politician (b. [[1893]]) * [[May 24]] ** [[Aleksander Brückner]], German scholar (b. [[1856]]) ** [[Witmer Stone]], American [[ornithologist]], botanist, and [[mammalogist]] (b. [[1866]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Álvaro Casanova Zenteno]], Chilean painter (b. [[1857]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Frank Watson Dyson]], British astronomer (b. [[1868]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Alfred A. Cunningham]], American aviator, the first United States Marine Corps aviator (b. [[1882]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Ursula Ledóchowska]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and saint (b. [[1865]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Floyd Roberts]], American race car driver (b. [[1900]]) === June === * [[June 4]] – [[Tommy Ladnier]], American jazz trumpeter (b. [[1900]]) * [[June 6]] ** [[George Fawcett]], American actor (b. [[1860]]) ** [[Constantin Noe]], Megleno-Romanian editor and professor (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/5573680|title=Aromâni, meglenoromâni, istroromâni: aspecte identitare și culturale|first1=Adina|last1=Berciu Drăghicescu|first2=Lozovanu|last2=Dorin|first3=Coman|last3=Virgil|publisher=Editura Universității din București|year=2012|language=ro|isbn=9786061601486}}</ref> * [[June 9]] – [[Owen Moore]], Irish-born American actor (b. [[1886]]) * [[June 15]] – [[Edward Chaytor]], New Zealand general (b. [[1868]])<ref>''Fiery Ted: Anzac Commander'' by Michael Smith (2008, Christchurch NZ) {{ISBN|978-0-473-13363-4}}</ref> * [[June 16]] – [[Chick Webb]], American musician (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Scenes as 7500 Attend Chick Webb Benefit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8E9AAAAAIBAJ&pg=3755%2C6412611 |website=news.google.com |publisher=The Afro American |access-date=January 16, 2019 |page=8 |date=February 17, 1940}}</ref> * [[June 19]] – [[Grace Abbott]], American social worker (b. [[1878]]) * [[June 22]] – [[Benjamin Tucker]], American anarchist (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James Joseph Martin|title=Men Against the State|publisher=Ludwig von Mises Institute|year=1953|page=276 | isbn=9781610163910}}</ref> * [[June 23]] – [[Ernest Alexander Cruikshank]], Canadian general (b. [[1859]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Richard Seaman]], British motor racing driver (b. [[1913]])<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The Times]] |date=1939-06-27 |title=Obituary: Mr Richard Seaman |page=16|url=https://www.thetimes.com/archive/article/1939-06-27/16/9.html|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * [[June 26]] – [[Ford Madox Ford]], British writer (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=August Nemo|author2=Camille Flammarion|title=Essential Novelists - Ford Madox Ford: The Redefinition of Modern Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZugDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|date=3 July 2019|publisher=Tacet Books|isbn=978-85-7777-331-2|pages=3}}</ref> * [[June 27]] – [[Margaret Campbell]], American actress (b. [[1883]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Bobby Vernon]], American actor (b. [[1898]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Eduardo Lopez Bustamante]], Venezuelan poet, lawyer and journalist (b. [[1881]]) === July === [[File:Malietoa Tanumafili I.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Malietoa Tanumafili I]]]] [[File:Carlo Galimberti.JPG|thumbnail|100px|[[Carlo Galimberti]]]] * [[July 3]] – [[Juan José Gárate]], Spanish painter (b. [[1869]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Louis Wain]], English artist (b. [[1860]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rodney Dale|title=Louis Wain: the Man who Drew Cats|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9P7VAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Kimber|isbn=978-0-7183-0141-5|page=151}}</ref> * [[July 5]] – [[Malietoa Tanumafili I]], [[King of Samoa]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[July 7]] – [[Deacon White]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1847]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[Havelock Ellis]], British sexologist (b. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vAtPAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|page=121}}</ref> ** [[Anna Pappritz]], German writer, suffragist (b. [[1861]]) * [[July 9]] ** [[Carlo Chiostri]], Italian painter (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Alphonse Laurencic]], French painter, architect (b. [[1902]]) [[File:Louis_Wain_-_Lascelles.png|thumb|110px|[[Louis Wain]]]] * [[July 11]] – [[Stiliyan Kovachev]], Bulgarian general (b. [[1860]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Alphonse Mucha]], Czech painter, decorative artist (b. [[1860]]) * [[July 17]] – [[María del Carmen González-Valerio]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] saint (b. [[1930]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Rose Hartwick Thorpe]], American poet (b. [[1850]]) * [[July 20]] – [[Joseph Mendes da Costa]], Dutch sculptor (b. [[1863]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Ambroise Vollard]], French art dealer (b. [[1866]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Jack Duffy (actor)|Jack Duffy]], American actor (b. [[1882]]) * [[July 26]] – [[William Mackay (artist)|William Mackay]], American artist (b. [[1876]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Stanisław Baczyński]], Polish writer, journalist and soldier (b. [[1890]]) ===August=== [[File:Busch german.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Germán Busch]]]] [[File:Eliodoro Villaz%C3%B3n.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eliodoro Villazón]]]] * [[August 2]] – [[Harvey Spencer Lewis]], American mystic (b. [[1883]]) * [[August 6]] ** [[Mehmet Emin Çolakoğlu]], Turkish army general (b. [[1878]]) ** [[Monroe Dunaway Anderson]], American founder of Anderson, Clayton and Company; "Father of Texas Medical Center" (b. [[1873]]) ** [[Arthur Rackham]], English book illustrator (b. 1867) * [[August 10]] – [[Carlo Galimberti]], Italian Olympic weightlifter (b. [[1894]]) * [[August 11]] – [[Jean Bugatti]], German automobile designer (b. [[1909]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Eulalio Gutiérrez]], President of Mexico (b. [[1881]]) * [[August 23]] ** [[Sidney Howard]], American writer (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Gewirtz|title=Sidney Howard and Clare Eames: American Theater's Perfect Couple of the 1920s|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated|year=2004|isbn=9780786417513|page=281}}</ref> ** [[Germán Busch]], 36th [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1903]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Arthur Asquith]], British general (b. [[1883]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Rubén González Cárdenas]], Venezuelan lawyer (b. [[1875]]) * [[August 29]] – [[Marthe de Florian]], French painter (b. [[1864]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Richard Bouwens van der Boijen]], French architect (b. [[1863]]) ===September=== [[File:Armand Calinescu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Armand Călinescu]]]] [[File:Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sigmund Freud]]]] [[File:CarlLaemmle.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carl Laemmle]]]] * [[September 6]] – [[Arthur Rackham]], British artist (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{ Cite ODNB |last=Hamilton |first=James Stanley |title=Rackham, Arthur, (1867-1939) |date=2004-09-23 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35645 }}</ref> * [[September 8]] – [[Swami Abhedananda]], Indian mystic (b. [[1866]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig]], German Waffen SS general, first general killed in action during World War II (b. [[1888]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Eliodoro Villazón]], 27th [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1848]]) * [[September 16]] ** [[Nikolaos Triantafyllakos]], Prime Minister of Greece (b. [[1855]]) ** [[Otto Wels]], German politician, chairman of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] (SPD) (b. [[1873]]) * [[September 18]] – [[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]], Polish writer, painter (b. [[1885]]) * [[September 20]] ** [[Paul Bruchesi]], Canadian prelate (b. [[1855]]) ** [[Hermann Brunn]], German mathematician (b. [[1862]]) ** [[Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin]], French astronomer (b. [[1865]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Armand Călinescu]], Romanian economist, politician and 39th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1893]]) * [[September 22]] ** [[Mikołaj Bołtuć]], Polish army general (killed in battle) (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński]], Polish general (b. [[1890]]) ** [[Werner von Fritsch]], German general (killed in action) (b. [[1880]]) * [[September 23]] ** [[Sigmund Freud]], Austrian psychoanalyst (b. [[1856]]) ** [[Eugeniusz Kazimirowski]], Polish painter (b. [[1873]]) ** [[Francisco León de la Barra]], Mexican diplomat, political figure, and acting [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/francisco-leon-de-la-barra/|title=Francisco León de la Barra|publisher=Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530042139/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/francisco-leon-de-la-barra/|archive-date=May 30, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[September 24]] ** [[Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro]] (b. [[1871]]) ** [[Carl Laemmle]], German film producer (b. [[1867]]) === October === [[File:AlbrechtHerzogW%C3%BCrttemberg.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg]]]] * [[October 2]] – [[Edgar M. Lazarus]], American architect (b. [[1868]]) * [[October 3]] – [[Fay Templeton]], American musical comedy star (b. [[1865]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Giulio Gavotti]], Italian aviator (b. [[1882]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Harvey Cushing]], American neurosurgeon (b. [[1869]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Gustav Henriksen]], Norwegian executive (b. [[1872]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Anna Tuschinski]], Esperantist from [[Danzig]] (b. [[1841]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-26 |title=Anna Eliza Tuschinski (1841–1939) |url=https://www.reformacja-pomorze.pl/2021/03/26/anna-eliza-tuschinski1841-1939/ |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=Committee for Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation in Pomerania |language=pl-PL}}</ref> * [[October 13]] – [[Ford Sterling]], American actor (b. [[1882]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Polaire]], French actress (b. [[1874]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Hendrik Wortman]], Dutch civil engineer (b. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite journal |title=Hendrik Wortman |last=Horn-van Nispen |first=Marie-Louise ten |journal=Tijdschrift voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis |publisher=Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis |page=60 |url=https://www.waterstaatsgeschiedenis.nl/tijdschrift/2004-2/ |volume=13 |issue=2 |year=2004 }}</ref> * [[October 23]] – [[Zane Grey]], American writer (b. [[1872]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Alice Brady]], American actress (b. [[1892]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Carlos De Valdez]], Peruvian actor (b. [[1894]]) * [[October 31]] ** [[Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg]], German field marshal (b. [[1865]]) ** [[Otto Rank]], Austrian psychoanalyst (b. [[1884]]) === November === [[File:Mrs. Despard (suffragette).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charlotte Despard]]]] [[File:James Naismith with a basketball.jpg|thumb|110px|[[James Naismith]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1979-122-29A, Philipp Scheidemann.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Philipp Scheidemann]]]] * [[November 1]] – [[Kálmán Darányi]], 31st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. [[1886]]) * [[November 4]] ** [[Percy Douglas|Sir Percy Douglas]], chairman of the [[British Graham Land Expedition]] (BGLE) Advisory Committee (b. [[1876]]) ** [[Ma Xiangbo]], Chinese [[Jesuit]] priest and blessed (b. [[1840]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Kirsti Suonio]], Finnish actress (b. [[1872]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Charlotte Despard]], Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 15|page=906}}</ref> * [[November 11]] – [[Alicja Kotowska]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] nun, martyr and blessed (b. [[1899]]) * [[November 12]] – [[Norman Bethune]], Canadian humanitarian (b. [[1890]]) * [[November 13]] – [[Lois Weber]], American actress (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Lois Weber |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f63ea90 |website=BFI |access-date=15 February 2021 |language=en |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126200439/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f63ea90 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[November 15]] **[[Platon Ivanovich Ivanov]], Soviet-born Finnish civil servant (b. [[1863]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Henry, Duke of Parma]] (d. [[1873]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Aurelio Mosquera]], Ecuadorian politician, 25th [[President of Ecuador]] (b. [[1883]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Émile Guépratte]], French admiral (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Keesing's Contemporary Archives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MeMJAQAAMAAJ|year=1937|publisher=Keesing's Limited|page=3841}}</ref> * [[November 22]] – King [[Daudi Cwa II of Buganda]] (b. [[1896]]) * [[November 24]] – [[John Harron]], American actor (b. [[1903]]) * [[November 28]] – [[James Naismith]], Canadian inventor of basketball (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Naismith Museum & Hall of Fame: Biography of James Naismith |url=http://www.naismithmuseum.com/naismith_drjamesnaismith/main_drjamesnaismith.htm |access-date=December 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205045627/http://www.naismithmuseum.com/naismith_drjamesnaismith/main_drjamesnaismith.htm |archive-date=February 5, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=bookrags>{{cite news | work = bookrags.com | title = James Naismith Biography | url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10765-2005Jan14.html | access-date = September 30, 2008| first=Mark | last=Schlabac| date=January 15, 2005}}</ref> * [[November 29]] ** [[Eugen Kolisko]], Austrian-born German physician, educator (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Józef Krasnowolski]], Polish painter (b. [[1879]]) ** [[Philipp Scheidemann]], German politician, 11th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1865]]) === December === [[File:Douglas Fairbanks Sr. - Private Life of Don Juan.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Douglas Fairbanks]]]] * [[December 3]] – [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll]], second youngest daughter of [[Queen Victoria]] (b. [[1848]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Santiago Iglesias]], Puerto Rican statesman (b. [[1872]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Alimondo Ciampi]], Italian sculptor (b. [[1876]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Douglas Fairbanks]], American actor, father of [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]] (b. [[1883]]) * [[December 14]] – [[Helene Kröller-Müller]], Dutch museum founder and art collector (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite web| url = https://krollermuller.nl/en/timeline/from-a-merchant-family| title = From a merchant family}}</ref> * [[December 16]] – [[Juan Demóstenes Arosemena]], 18th [[President of Panama]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Bruno Liljefors]], Swedish artist (b. [[1860]]) * [[December 19]] ** [[Dmitry Grave]], Soviet mathematician (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Reginald F. Nicholson]], United States Navy admiral (b. [[1852]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Hans Langsdorff]], German naval officer (suicide) (b. [[1894]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Ma Rainey]], African-American blues singer (b. [[1886]]) * [[December 23]] ** [[Anthony Fokker]], Dutch-born American aircraft manufacturer (b. [[1890]]) ** [[Maxime Laubeuf]], French maritime engineer (b. [[1864]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Walter Gordon (physicist)|Walter Gordon]], German physicist (b. [[1893]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Ivan Dmitriyevich Borisov]], Soviet aircraft pilot (b. [[1913]]) * [[December 27]] – [[Rinaldo Cuneo]], American artist ("the painter of San Francisco") (b. [[1877]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Frank Benson (actor)|Sir Frank Benson]], British actor (b. [[1858]])
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