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== Deaths == {{BD ToC|deaths}} === January === [[File:LeninEnSuizaMarzo1916--barbaroussovietr00mcbr.png|thumb|110px|[[Vladimir Lenin]]]] * [[January 2]] – [[Sabine Baring-Gould]], British composer and novelist (b. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book |author=John Betjeman |title=Coming Home |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SRXAAAAYAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-0-09-926843-7 |page=168 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190918/https://books.google.com/books?id=6SRXAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[January 13]] ** [[Albert Abrams]], American doctor (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Georg Hermann Quincke]], German physicist (b. [[1834]]) * [[January 14]] – [[Luther Emmett Holt]], American pediatrician (b. [[1855]]) * [[January 16]] – [[Licerio Gerónimo]], Filipino military leader (b. [[1855]]) * [[January 21]] – [[Vladimir Lenin]], Russian revolutionary, first [[Premier of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1870]]) * [[January 24]] ** [[Auguste-Louis-Alberic, prince d'Arenberg]] (b. [[1837]]) ** [[Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1894]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Teófilo Braga]], Portuguese writer (b. [[1843]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier]] (b. [[1884]]) === February === [[File:President Woodrow Wilson portrait December 2 1912.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Woodrow Wilson]]]] * [[February 3]] – [[Woodrow Wilson]], 28th [[President of the United States]], [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. Naval History Division |title=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA455 |year=1981 |pages=455 |access-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190848/https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[February 11]] – [[Jacques Loeb]], German–born American physiologist and biologist (b. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10081-loeb-jacques |title=Loeb, Jacques |website=Jewish Encyclopedia |access-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141744/https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10081-loeb-jacques |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[February 16]] ** [[Henry Bacon]], American architect (b. [[1866]]) ** [[John William Kendrick]], American railroad executive (b. [[1853]]) ** [[Wilhelm Schmidt (engineer)|Wilhelm Schmidt]], German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (b. [[1858]]) * [[February 17]] ** [[Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère]], French admiral (b. [[1852]]) ** [[Oskar Merikanto]], Finnish composer (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naxos.com/person/Oskar_Merikanto/25688.htm|title=Recordings by Oskar Merikanto | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos|website=www.naxos.com}}</ref> * [[February 22]] – [[Manuel Tinio]], Filipino general and politician (b. [[1877]]) * [[February 29]] – [[Emily Ruete]], princess of Zanzibar (b. [[1844]]) === March === [[File:Wollert_Konow_(SB),_Stortinget.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wollert Konow (Prime Minister of Norway)|Willert Konow]]]] [[File:Nilo_Pe%C3%A7anha_02.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Nilo Pecanha]]]] * [[March 4]] – [[Fanny Eaton]], Jamaican artist's model (b. [[1835]]) * [[March 9]] – [[Panagiotis Danglis]], Greek military leader, politician (b. [[1853]]) * [[March 11]] ** [[Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg]] (b. [[1868]]) ** [[Ivan Evstratiev Geshov]], 18th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1849]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Wollert Konow (Prime Minister of Norway)|Wollert Konow]], Norwegian politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Norway]] (b. [[1845]]) * [[March 22]] ** [[Louis Delluc]], French film director (b. [[1890]]) ** Sir [[William Macewen]], British surgeon (b. [[1848]]) ** [[Robert Nivelle]], French World War I general (b. [[1856]]) * [[March 24]] – [[Prince Kachō Hirotada]] of Japan (b. [[1902]]) * [[March 29]] – Sir [[Charles Villiers Stanford]], Irish composer, resident in United Kingdom (b. [[1852]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodmell|first=Paul|year=2002|title=Charles Villiers Stanford|location=Aldershot|publisher=Scolar Press|isbn=1-85928-198-2|pages=330–333}}</ref> * [[March 31]] – [[Nilo Peçanha]], Brazilian politician and 7th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1867]]) === April === [[File:MarieCorelli.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Marie Corelli]]]] [[File:Portrait of Eleonora Duse.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Eleonora Duse]]]] * [[April 4]] – [[Arnold Pick]], Czechoslovakian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. [[1851]]) * [[April 10]] ** [[Rafael Yglesias Castro]], Costa Rican politician, 16th [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1861]]) ** [[Hugo Stinnes]], German industrialist, politician (b. [[1870]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Louis Sullivan]], American architect (b. [[1856]]) * [[April 19]] – [[Paul Boyton]], Irish-American extreme water sports pioneer (b. [[1848]]) * [[April 21]] ** [[Marie Corelli]], English novelist (b. [[1855]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Eileen Bigland|title=Marie Corelli, the Woman and the Legend: A Biography|publisher=Jarrolds|year=1953|page=11}}</ref> ** [[Eleonora Duse]], Italian actress (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924), actress |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801621 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |access-date=22 January 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1801621 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |last1=Fisher |first1=James |archive-date=September 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901113343/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801621 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[April 24]] – [[G. Stanley Hall]], American psychologist, educator (b. [[1846]])<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hall-g-stanley.pdf |title=National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir of Granville Stanley Hall |first=Edward L. |last=Thorndike |author-link=Edward Thorndike |year=1925 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=February 26, 2022 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801060023/http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hall-g-stanley.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> === May === [[File:George_Kennan_1885.jpg|thumb|110px|[[George Kennan (explorer)|George Kennan]]]] * [[May 4]] – [[E. Nesbit]], British author (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=E. Nesbit {{!}} English author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=31 March 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141953/https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[May 6]] – [[Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema]], Dutch poet (b. [[1877]]) * [[May 10]] – [[George Kennan (explorer)|George Kennan]], American explorer (b. [[1845]]) * [[May 15]] – [[Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant]], French diplomat, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1852]]) * [[May 26]] – [[Victor Herbert]], Irish composer (b. [[1859]]) === June === [[File:Kafka1906.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Franz Kafka]]]] * [[June 3]] – [[Franz Kafka]], Austrian author (''The Trial'') (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Brod |first=Max |author-link=Max Brod |title=Franz Kafka: A Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/franzkafkabiogra00brod |url-access=registration |year=1960 |publisher=Schocken Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8052-0047-8 |page=211}}</ref> * [[June 9]] ** [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]], British mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. [[1902]]) ** [[George Mallory]], British mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. [[1886]]) * [[June 10]] – [[Giacomo Matteotti]], Italian socialist politician (assassinated) (b. [[1885]]) * [[June 11]] **[[Théodore Dubois]], French composer, teacher (b. [[1837]]) **[[Jacob Israël de Haan]], Dutch-Jewish literary writer, journalist (b. [[1881]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Johannes von Eben]], German general (b. [[1855]]) === July === [[File:FerruccioBusoni1913.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ferruccio Busoni]]]] * [[July 14]] ** [[Isabella Ford]], British socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (b. [[1855]]) ** [[Isabella Stewart Gardner]], American art collector, philanthropist (b. [[1840]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Frank Frost Abbott]], American classical scholar (b. [[1860]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Ferruccio Busoni]], Italian pianist, composer (b. [[1866]]) === August === * [[August 2]] – [[George Shiras Jr.]], American Supreme Court Justice (b. [[1832]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Joseph Conrad]], Polish-born author (b. [[1857]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Martin Ray |title=Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G_hJ0JPicIC&pg=PA230 |date=13 September 2010 |publisher=University of Iowa Press |isbn=978-1-60938-017-5 |pages=230 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190913/https://books.google.com/books?id=2G_hJ0JPicIC&pg=PA230#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[August 5]] – [[Teodor Teodorov]], 19th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1859]]) * [[August 7]] – [[John Edward Bruce|Bruce Grit]], African-American historian, ex-slave (b. [[1856]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Ernestine von Kirchsberg]], Austrian painter (b. [[1857]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys]], British Private Secretary to King [[Edward VII]] (b. [[1837]]) * [[August 17]] ** [[Paul Natorp]], German philosopher (b. [[1854]]) ** [[Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn|Pavel Urysohn]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1898]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Antoine de Mitry]], French general (b. [[1857]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Mariano Álvarez]], Filipino general (b. [[1818]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Todor Aleksandrov]], Bulgarian revolutionary (b. [[1881]]) === September === [[File:Sultan_Muhammad_Jamalul_Alam_II(Brunei).jpg|thumb|110px|Sultan [[Muhammad Jamalul Alam II]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Samuel Baldwin Marks Young]], American general, first [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army]] (b. [[1840]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria]] (b. [[1868]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Muhammad Jamalul Alam II]], [[Sultan of Brunei]] (b. [[1889]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Frank Chance]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1877]]) * [[September 18]] – [[F. H. Bradley]], English philosopher (b. [[1846]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{lang in|de}} [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz44078.html Entry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902084143/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz44078.html |date=September 2, 2018 }} in ''[[Neue Deutsche Biographie]]''</ref> * [[September 24]] ** [[Manuel Estrada Cabrera]], 13th [[President of Guatemala]] (b. [[1857]]) ** [[Imperial Noble Consort Wenjing|Consort Jin]], Qing Dynasty imperial consort (b. [[1873]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Lotta Crabtree]], American stage actress (b. [[1847]]) === October === [[File:F H Burnett.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Frances Hodgson Burnett]]]] * [[October 12]] ** [[Anatole France]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite book |author=André Gide |title=The Journals, 1889-1949: 1889-1924 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ |year=1956 |publisher=Vintage Books |page=3 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190845/https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[Kate Lester]], American stage and silent screen actress (b. [[1857]]) * [[October 18]] ** [[Giovanni Ancillotto]], Italian World War I flying ace (b. [[1896]]) ** [[Franz Schrader]], French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer, and landscape painter (b. [[1844]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Luigi Pelloux]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1839]]) * [[October 29]] – [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]], Anglo-American writer (b. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Joanne Shattock |title=The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ |year=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-214176-7 |page=76 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191810/https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> === November === [[File:Dean O'Banion 1921.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Dean O'Banion]]]] [[File:GiacomoPuccini.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Giacomo Puccini]]]] * [[November 3]] – [[Mario di Carpegna]], Italian general, politician (b. [[1856]]) * [[November 4]] – [[Gabriel Fauré]], French composer (b. [[1845]])<ref>{{cite book|last= Duchen |first= Jessica |author-link= Jessica Duchen |year= 2000 |title= Gabriel Fauré |location= London |publisher= Phaidon |isbn= 0-7148-3932-9|page=212}}</ref> * [[November 9]] – [[Henry Cabot Lodge]], American politician (b. [[1850]]) * [[November 10]] ** Sir [[Archibald Geikie]], British geologist (b. [[1835]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=33364|title=Geikie, Sir Archibald (1835-1924), geologist and historian|last= Oldroyd|first= David}}</ref> ** [[Dean O'Banion]], American gangster (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dion-OBannion |title=Dion O'Bannion American gangster |access-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141824/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dion-OBannion |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 12]] – [[E. D. Morel]], French-born British journalist and politician (b. [[1873]]) * [[November 19]] – [[Thomas H. Ince]], American film producer (b. [[1880]]) * [[November 20]] – [[Ebenezer Cobb Morley]], English sportsman and the [[List of persons considered father or mother of a field|father]] of [[the Football Association]] and modern [[Association football|football]] (b. [[1831]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Florence Harding]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1860]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian composer (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2012/11/29/the-death-of-giacomo-puccini-brussels-29-november-1924/ |title=The Death of Giacomo Puccini |publisher=The British Newspaper Archive |date=29 November 2012 |access-date=16 January 2015 |archive-date=February 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202093628/http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2012/11/29/the-death-of-giacomo-puccini-brussels-29-november-1924/ |url-status=live }}</ref> === December === [[File:Cipriano Castro 1908.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Cipriano Castro]]]] * [[December 2]] ** [[Kazimieras Būga]], Lithuanian linguist (b. [[1879]]) ** [[Hugo von Seeliger]], German astronomer (b. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics, 1925 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25 |date=28 December 2000 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-95176-8 |pages=25 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191812/https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[December 4]] – [[Cipriano Castro]], Venezuelan military officer, politician and 38th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1858]]) * [[December 5]] – [[S. Subramania Iyer]], Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (b. [[1842]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{cite book | author=Barbara Olenyik Morrow | title =Nature's Storyteller: The Life of Gene Stratton-Porter | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | year =2010 | location =Indianapolis| isbn =978-0-87195-284-4|pages=28, 137–9}}</ref> * [[December 8]] – [[Xaver Scharwenka]], Polish-German composer (b. [[1850]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Samuel Gompers]], American labor leader (b. [[1850]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]] (b. [[1853]]) * [[December 19]] – [[Luis Emilio Recabarren]], Chilean politician, founder of the [[Communist Party of Chile]]. (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Translations on Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |year=1969 |publisher=Joint Publications Research Service |page=39 |access-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191741/https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[December 20]] – [[Ricardo Bellver]], Spanish sculptor (b. [[1845]]) * [[December 21]] – [[Anna Hierta-Retzius]], Swedish women's rights activist (b. [[1841]]) * [[December 27]] – [[Agda Meyerson]], Swedish nurse, healthcare profession activist (b. [[1866]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Carl Spitteler]], Swiss writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1845]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Samuel William Knaggs|Sir Samuel Knaggs]], British civil servant (b. [[1856]])
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