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== Deaths == === January–February === [[File:Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg(cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg]]]] [[File:Andrea Carlo Ferrari - Photo.jpg|thumb|110px|Blessed [[Andrea Carlo Ferrari]]]] [[File:King Nikola of Montenegro.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Nicholas I of Montenegro]]]] [[File:EDato.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Eduardo Dato]]]] [[File:%C3%89mile_Combes_(1835%E2%80%931921).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emile Combes]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg]], 5th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1856]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Gervase Elwes]], English tenor (b. [[1866]]) * [[January 18]] – [[Adolf von Hildebrand]], German sculptor (b. [[1847]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz]], German anatomist (b. [[1836]]) * [[January 25]] – [[William Thompson Sedgwick]], American teacher, epidemiologist and bacteriologist (b. [[1855]]) * [[January 27]] – [[Justiniano Borgoño]], 37th Prime Minister of Peru (b. [[1836]]) * [[January 29]] – [[H. G. Haugan]], Norwegian-born American railroad, banking executive (b. [[1840]]) * [[February 2]] ** [[Andrea Carlo Ferrari]], Italian Catholic cardinal and blessed (b. [[1850]]) ** [[Antonio Jacobsen]], American maritime artist (b. [[1850]]) * [[February 8]] ** [[George Formby Sr]], English entertainer (tuberculosis; b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rainer E. Lotz|title=German Ragtime & Prehistory of Jazz: The sound documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tgUFAQAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Storyville Publications|isbn=978-0-902391-08-6|page=105}}</ref> ** [[Peter Kropotkin]], Russian anarchist (b. [[1842]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Pierre Kropotkine|author2=Peter Kropotkin|author3=Kropotkin Peter|title=Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InTfBhY75CQC&pg=PR23|date=10 August 1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-45990-7|pages=23}}</ref> * [[February 22]] – [[Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] (b. [[1863]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Carl Menger]], Austrian economist (b. [[1840]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Schofield Haigh]], English cricketer (b. [[1871]]) === March–April === * [[March 1]] – [[Nicholas I of Montenegro]], exiled king (b. [[1841]])<ref>"Montenegrin King Is Dead in France— Nicholas Had Been in Exile Since 1918, When Subjects Rejected Him", ''The New York Times'', March 2, 1921. p.8.</ref> * [[March 2]] – [[Champ Clark]], American politician (b. [[1850]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Auguste Mercier]], French general, politician (b. [[1833]]) * [[March 8]] – [[Eduardo Dato]], Spanish politician, 3-time [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1856]]) (assassinated)<ref>{{cite book|author=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|title=Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pRuD137EhC8C|year=1922|publisher=The Endowment|page=62}}</ref> * [[March 15]] – [[Talaat Pasha]], Ottoman Turkish ruler, initiator of the Armenian Genocide (b. [[1874]]) (assassinated) * [[March 16]] – [[Abraham Grünbaum (activist)]], German Jewish activist. (b. [[1885]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Edward Theodore Compton]], English-German painter and mountain climber (b. [[1849]]) * [[March 29]] – [[John Burroughs]], American naturalist, essayist (b. [[1837]]) * [[April 1]] – Sir [[Edmund Poë]], British admiral (b. [[1849]]) * [[April 2]] – [[Charles Blackader]], British general (b. [[1869]]) * [[April 8]] – [[James H. Jones (North Carolina politician)|James H. Jones]], American coachman and confidential courier for [[Jefferson Davis]] and later a North Carolina local public official<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1994651/james-h-jones-dead/|title=James H Jones dead|newspaper=Asheville Citizen-Times |date=April 9, 1921|pages=9|via=newspapers.com}}</ref> * [[April 11]] – [[Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein]], last German Empress, wife of [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]] (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjFaAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4080-4|page=625}}</ref> * [[April 17]] – [[Manwel Dimech]], Maltese philosopher, social reformer (b. [[1860]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Tony Jackson (pianist)|Tony Jackson]], American jazz musician (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ragpiano.com/comps/tjackson.shtml|title=Antonio (Toney) Junius Jackson|website=RagPiano.com}}</ref> * [[April 24]] – [[Warington Baden-Powell]], British admiralty lawyer (b. [[1847]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Arthur Mold]], English cricketer (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{Cite web | last = Pardon | first = Sydney | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/232808.html | title = Arthur Mold (Obituary) | work = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | year = 1922 | publisher = John Wisden & Co | location = London | access-date = 20 September 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121113220644/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/232808.html | archive-date = 13 November 2012 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}</ref> === May–June === * [[May 4]] – [[Alfred Hermann Fried]], Austrian writer, pacifist and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1864]]) * [[May 9]] – [[William Henry Chamberlin (philosopher)|William Henry Chamberlin]], American philosopher (b. [[1870]]) * [[May 12]] ** [[Melville Macnaghten|Sir Melville Macnaghten]], British police officer (b. [[1853]]) ** [[Emilia Pardo Bazán]], Spanish writer (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Pardo Bazán, Emilia|volume=20|page=801|first=James|last=Fitzmaurice-Kelly|authorlink=James Fitzmaurice-Kelly}}</ref> ** [[Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten]], Austro-Hungarian general and politician (b. [[1861]]) * [[May 19]] ** [[Edward Douglass White]], 9th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1845]]) ** [[Michael Llewelyn Davies]], one of the "Lost Boys" for the [[Peter Pan]] book (b. [[1900]]) * [[May 25]] ** [[Émile Combes]], French statesman, 69th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1835]]) ** [[Arthur Wilson (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Arthur Wilson]], British admiral of the fleet (b. [[1842]]) * [[May 29]] –[[Euthymios (Agritellis)]], Greek Orthodox bishop and saint. (b. [[1876]]) *[[May 31]]–[[June 1]] – [[A.C. Jackson (surgeon)|A.C. Jackson]], African-American surgeon<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=L. Brown|first=DeNeen|date=11 October 2018|title=We lived like we were Wall Street|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/11/we-lived-like-we-were-wall-street/|access-date=9 August 2019}}</ref> * [[June 5]] **[[Laura Bromwell]], American stunt pilot (b. [[1897]]) **[[Georges Feydeau]], French playwright (b. [[1862]]) * [[June 11]] – Patriarch [[Leonid of Georgia]] (b. [[1860]]) * [[June 18]] **[[Eduardo Acevedo Díaz]], Uruguayan writer (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Carlos A. Solé|author2=Maria Isabel Abreu|title=Latin American Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5bRZAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-18597-2|page=299}}</ref> **[[Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri]], Indian Islamic scholar and author (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Jaunpuri, Abdul Awal|author=Afaz Uddin, Muhammad}}</ref> * [[June 28]] – [[Gyorche Petrov]], Macedonian, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. [[1865]]) (assassinated) * [[June 29]] **[[Lady Randolph Churchill]], mother of [[Winston Churchill]] (b. [[1854]])<ref>Jenkins, Roy., ''Churchill'', Pan Books, London, 2002 edition, {{ISBN|0330488058}}, pp.353–354</ref> **[[Otto Seeck]], German classical historian (b. [[1850]]) === July–August === [[File:Enrico Caruso XV.png|thumb|100px|[[Enrico Caruso]]]] [[File:Peter I of Serbia (Rotary Photo 7119 A).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter I of Serbia]]]] [[File:Humperdinck Postcard-1910.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]]] [[File:John Boyd Dunlop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Boyd Dunlop]]]] [[File:Takashi_Hara_posing.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hara Takashi]]]] [[File:Picture_of_Abdul-Baha.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Abdul-Baha]]]] [[File:Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns_in_1900_by_Pierre_Petit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Camille Saint-Saens]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[Maurice Bailloud]], French general (b. [[1847]]) * [[July 3]] – [[Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (b. [[1844]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Gabriel Lippmann]], Luxembourger-French physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1845]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Manuel Fernández Silvestre]], Spanish general (killed in action or suicide) (b. [[1871]]) * [[July 26]] – [[Howard Vernon (Australian actor)|Howard Vernon]], Australian actor (b. [[1848]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Enrico Caruso]], Italian tenor (b. [[1873]]) * [[August 7]] – [[Alexander Blok]], Russian poet (b. [[1880]]) * [[August 8]] ** [[Juhani Aho]], Finnish author and journalist (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kb/artikkeli/2806/|title=Aho, Juhani (1861–1921)|work=kansallisbiografia.fi|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref> ** [[Maria Anna Rosa Caiani]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] nun and blessed (b. [[1863]]) * [[August 16]] – [[Peter I of Serbia]], King of Yugoslavia (b. [[1844]]) * [[August 26]] ** [[Matthias Erzberger]], German politician (assassinated; b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Brustein|title=The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n6I_FFX0YFsC&pg=PA191|year=1996|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07432-1|pages=191}}</ref> ** [[Sándor Wekerle]], 3-time prime minister of Hungary (b. [[1848]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Karl von Bülow]], German field marshal (b. [[1846]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|year=1998|page=768}}</ref> === September–October === * [[September 7]] – [[Maria Angela Picco]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and blessed (b. [[1867]]) * [[September 9]] – [[Virginia Rappe]], American model, actress (b. [[1891]]) * [[September 10]] – [[John Tengo Jabavu]], editor of South Africa's first newspaper in Xhosa (b. 1859) * [[September 11]] ** [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]], British naval officer, German prince (b. [[1854]]) ** [[Subramania Bharati]], Tamil poet (b. [[1882]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Ivan Vazov]], Bulgarian poet (b. [[1850]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]], German composer (b. [[1854]]) * [[October 1]] – [[Julius von Hann]], Austrian meteorologist (b. [[1839]]) * [[October 2]] – King [[William II of Württemberg]] (b. [[1848]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Philander C. Knox]], American politician (b. [[1853]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations|title=Background Information on the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXU1j2rOSEsC&pg=PA61|year=1968|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=61}}</ref> * [[October 15]] – [[Haydar Khan Amo-oghli]], Iranian revolutionary (b. [[1860]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Yaa Asantewaa]], Asante warrior queen (b. c. [[1840]]) * [[October 18]] – [[Ludwig III of Bavaria]], last king of Bavaria (b. [[1845]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Hamilton|title=Leaders and Personalities of the Third Reich: Their Biographies, Portraits, and Autographs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OegAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=R.J. Bender Pub.|isbn=978-0-912138-27-5|page=78}}</ref> * [[October 21]] – [[William Wallace Wotherspoon]], American general (b. [[1850]]) * [[October 23]] – [[John Boyd Dunlop]], British-born Irish inventor, veterinary surgeon (b. [[1840]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Bat Masterson]], American gunfighter (b. [[1853]]) * [[October 28]] – [[William Speirs Bruce]], British marine biologist and antarctic explorer (b. [[1867]]) === November–December === * [[November 4]] – [[Hara Takashi]], Japanese politician, 10th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1856]]) (assassinated) * [[November 7]] – [[Peter Conover Hains]], major general in the [[United States Army]], and veteran of the [[American Civil War]], [[Spanish–American War]], and [[First World War]] (b. [[1840]]) * [[November 12]] – [[Fernand Khnopff]], Belgian painter (b. [[1858]]) * [[November 13]] – [[Ignác Goldziher]], Hungarian orientalist (b. [[1850]]) * [[November 14]] – [[Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil]], daughter of Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil]] (b. [[1846]]) *[[November 22]] **[[Christina Nilsson]], Swedish operatic soprano (b. [[1843]]) **[[Edward J. Adams]], American serial/spree killer and bank robber (b.1887)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.legendsofamerica.com/20th-eddieadams/ | title=Eddie Adams – Killer of the Prohibition Era – Legends of America }}</ref> * [[November 26]] ** [[Émile Cartailhac]], French prehistorian (b. [[1845]]) ** [[Charles W. Whittlesey]], United States Army officer, commander of the "[[Lost Battalion (World War I)|Lost Battalion]]" in World War I (suicide) (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tombguard.org/news/article/the-tragedy-of-heroism-charles-w-whittlesey|title=Society of the Honor Guard | The Tragedy of Heroism: Charles W. Whittlesey|website=tombguard.org}}</ref> * [[November 27]] – [[Douglas Colin Cameron|Sir Douglas Cameron]], Canadian politician, [[Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba]] (b. [[1854]]) * [[November 28]] – [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]], head of the [[Baháʼí Faith]] (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bahai-encyclopedia-project.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:abdul-baha-abbas-1844-1921&catid=36:administrationinstitutions|title='Abdu'l-Bahá 'Abbás}}</ref> * [[November 29]] – [[George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen]], Canadian businessman (b. [[1829]]) * [[November 30]] ** [[Madeleine Brès]], French physician (b. [[1842]]) ** [[Hermann Schwarz]], German mathematician (b. [[1843]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carathéodory |first1=C |title=Hermann Amandus Schwarz |journal=Deutsches biographisches Jahrbuch |date=1921 |volume=III |issue=6 |pages=236–238 |doi=10.1002/zamm.19210010615 |bibcode=1921ZaMM....1..494M |url=https://archive.org/details/DeutschesBiographischesJahrbuchBd031921/page/n233/ |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> * [[December 10]] – [[George Ashlin]], Irish architect (b. [[1837]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]], American astronomer (b. [[1868]]) * [[December 16]] – [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], French composer (b. [[1835]]) * [[December 20]] **[[Hans Hartwig von Beseler]], German general (b. [[1850]]) **[[Dmitri Parsky]], Russian general (b. [[1866]]) **[[Julius Richard Petri]], German microbiologist (b. [[1852]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Misu Sōtarō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1855]])
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