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==Deaths== ===January=== [[File:Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845-1920).jpg|thumb|110px|Saint [[Zygmunt Gorazdowski]]]] [[File:Edmund Barton crop.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Edmund Barton]]]] [[File:Amedeo Modigliani Photo.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Amedeo Modigliani]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Zygmunt Gorazdowski]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] priest and saint (b. [[1845]]) ** [[Paul Adam (French novelist)|Paul Adam]], French Symbolist writer (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1930 |title=Adam, Paul |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] |edition=14|volume=1|page=149 |language=en}}</ref> * [[January 3]] – [[Zygmunt Janiszewski]], Polish mathematician; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1888]]) * [[January 4]] ** [[Manuel de la Cámara]], Spanish admiral (b. [[1835]]) ** [[Benito Pérez Galdós]], Spanish novelist (b. [[1843]]) * [[January 6]] ** [[Heinrich Lammasch]], Austrian statesman, last minister-president of Austria (as part of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]]) in 1918 (b. [[1853]]) ** [[Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe]], English banker (b. [[1856]]) ** [[Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen]], Danish mathematician (b. [[1839]]) * [[January 7]] – [[Edmund Barton|Sir Edmund Barton]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Australia|prime minister of Australia]] (b. [[1849]]) * [[January 9]] – [[Mikhail Bakhirev]], Russian admiral; [[executed]] (b. [[1868]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Kataoka Shichirō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1854]]) * [[January 14]] – [[John Francis Dodge]], American automobile manufacturer; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1864]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Georg Lurich]], Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler, strongman (b. [[1876]]) * [[January 24]] ** [[William Percy French]], Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. [[1854]]) ** [[Amedeo Modigliani]], Italian painter, sculptor; [[tuberculosis]] (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pierre Sichel|title=Modigliani: A Biography of Amedeo Modigliani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVZBAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Dutton|isbn=978-0-491-00120-5|page=500}}</ref> ===February=== [[File:RobertPeary.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Robert Peary]]]] * [[February 2]] – [[Field Eugene Kindley]], American World War I aviator (b. [[1896]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Frank Brown (governor)|Frank Brown]], 42nd [[governor of Maryland]] (b. [[1846]]) * [[February 7]] ** [[Alexander Kolchak]], Russian naval commander; [[executed]] (b. [[1874]])<ref name="Onacewicz1985">{{cite book|author=Wlodzimierz Onacewicz|title=Empires by Conquest: 1905-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vwfUAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Hero Books|isbn=978-91-597-9040-6|page=120}}</ref> ** [[Viktor Pepelyayev]], Russian politician; [[executed]] (b. [[1874]])<ref name="Onacewicz1985"/> * [[February 9]] – [[Friedrich von Beck-Rzikowsky]], Austrian general (b. [[1830]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=120954 |title=General Friedrich Graf Beck-Rzikowsky |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=1 February 2022 |website=Hmdb.org |publisher=The Historical Marker Database |access-date=14 November 2024}}</ref> * [[February 11]] – [[Gaby Deslys]], French dancer, actress and spy; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1881]]) * [[February 13]] – [[João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal]], Portuguese politician and antiquarian (b. [[1847]]) * [[February 15]] **[[Aleksander Aberg]], Estonian professional wrestler, strongman (b. [[1881]]) **[[Joseph Burton Sumner]], American founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. [[1837]]) * [[February 16]] – [[Augustus F. Goodridge]], Canadian merchant and politician (b. [[1839]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Eduard von Knorr]], German admiral (b. [[1840]]) * [[February 20]] ** [[Robert Peary]], American Arctic explorer (b. [[1856]]) ** [[Jacinta Marto]], Portuguese saint; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1910]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Afonso, Duke of Porto]] (b. [[1865]]) * [[February 27]] – [[William Sherman Jennings]], Governor of Florida (b. [[1863]]) ===March=== [[File:Evelina Haverfield.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Evelina Haverfield]]]] * [[March 1]] ** [[John H. Bankhead]], U.S. senator from Alabama (b. [[1842]]) ** [[William A. Stone]], Governor of Pennsylvania (b. [[1846]]) ** [[Joseph Trumpeldor]], Russian Zionist (b. [[1880]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Roswell P. Bishop]], U.S. congressman from Michigan (b. [[1843]]) * [[March 7]] – [[Jaan Poska]], Estonian barrister, politician (b. [[1866]]) * [[March 11]] – [[Julio Garavito Armero]], Colombian astronomer (b. [[1865]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Nikolai Korotkov]], Russian surgeon (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16340219/|title=A centenary of auscultatory blood pressure measurement: a tribute to Nikolai Korotkoff|first1=Dobrin|last1=Paskalev|first2=Anna|last2=Kircheva|first3=Stefan|last3=Krivoshiev|date=October 17, 2005|journal=Kidney & Blood Pressure Research|volume=28|issue=4|pages=259–263|via=PubMed|doi=10.1159/000090084|pmid=16340219|s2cid=21377576 }}</ref> * [[March 15]] – [[Rudolf Berthold]], German World War I fighter ace (b. [[1891]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Evelina Haverfield]], British suffragette (b. [[1867]]) * [[March 24]] – [[Mary Augusta Ward]], Tasmanian novelist (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Stewart | first1 = Herbert L | year = 1920 | title = Mrs. Humphry Ward | url = https://archive.org/stream/n1universitymag19mcgiuoft#page/192/mode/2up | journal = The University Magazine | volume = XIX | issue = 2| pages = 193–207 }}</ref> * [[March 26]] – [[William Chester Minor]], American surgeon (b. [[1834]]) * [[March 31]] ** [[Paul Bachmann]], German mathematician (b. [[1837]]) ** [[Abdul Hamid Madarshahi]], Bengali Islamic scholar and author (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite magazine|language=bn|url=https://at.jamiahislamiahpatiya.com/?p=1022|title=আল্লামা আবদুল হামিদ (রহ.) অনুপ্রেরণার উৎস সাধক|trans-title=Allama Abdul Hamid (Rh.), the saintly source of inspiration|last=Rasel|first=Khalid|magazine=Monthly Al-Tawheed|publisher=[[Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya]]|access-date=September 4, 2022|archive-date=December 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220065701/https://at.jamiahislamiahpatiya.com/?p=1022|url-status=dead}}</ref> ** [[Lothar von Trotha]], German military commander (b. [[1848]]) ** [[Edwin Warfield]], Governor of Maryland (b. [[1848]]) ===April=== [[Image:Srinivasa Ramanujan - OPC - 1.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Srinivasa Ramanujan]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Walter Simon (philanthropist)|Walter Simon]], German philanthropist (b. [[1857]]) * [[April 8]] ** [[John Brashear]], American astronomer (b. [[1840]]) ** [[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]], American composer (b. [[1884]]), [[Spanish flu]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Griffes|title=Charles Griffes | Romanticism, Impressionism, Piano Music | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=September 13, 2023 }}</ref> * [[April 10]] – [[Moritz Cantor]], German mathematical historian (b. [[1829]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Walter Edwards (director)|Walter Edwards]], American film director (b. [[1870]]) * [[April 21]] – [[Maria Sanford]], American educator (b. [[1836]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]], Indian mathematician (b. [[1887]]) ===May=== [[File:James "Big Jim" Colosimo.jpg|thumb|120px|[[James Colosimo]]]] * [[May 1]] – [[Princess Margaret of Connaught]], Crown Princess of Sweden (b. [[1882]]) * [[May 4]] – [[Mary Catherine Crowley]], American author (b. [[1856]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Johan Reinhold Sahlberg]], Finnish entomologist (b. [[1845]]) * [[May 10]] – [[John Wesley Hyatt]], American inventor (b. [[1837]]) * [[May 11]] ** [[Big Jim Colosimo]], Italian-born American gangster (b. [[1878]]) ** [[William Dean Howells]], American writer (b. [[1837]]), [[Spanish flu]] <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-manhattan-daily-nationalist-william/120954194/ | title=William Dean Howells Obituary, New York, NY 11 May 1920 | work=The Manhattan Daily Nationalist | date=May 11, 1920 | page=1 }}</ref> * [[May 16]] ** [[José Gómez Ortega|Joselito]], Spanish bullfighter (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Levi P. Morton]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|22nd]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1824]]) ** [[Maria Bochkareva]], Russian White soldier (b. [[1889]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Curry Cabral]], Portuguese physician and professor (b. [[1844]]) * [[May 21]] ** [[Venustiano Carranza]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lahistoriamexicana.mx/biografia/venustiano-carranza|publisher=La Historia de Mexico|title=Venustiano Carranza |date=January 3, 2017|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref> ** [[Eleanor H. Porter]], American novelist (b. [[1868]]) * [[May 23]] – [[Svetozar Boroević]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. [[1856]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Hardwicke Rawnsley]], English clergyman, poet, writer of hymns and conservationist (b. [[1851]]) * [[May 30]] ** [[Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali]], Bengali writer and social activist (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Ali, Mirza Muhammad Yusuf|author=Badiuzzaman, Muhammad}}</ref> ** [[George Ernest Morrison]], Australian adventurer (b. [[1862]]) ===June=== [[File:Essad Pasha Toptani.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Essad Pasha Toptani|Essad Pasha]]]] [[File:Max Weber 1894.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Max Weber]]]] * [[June 2]] – [[Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete]], Mexican archaeologist and Archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monterrey]] (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://museodezamora.wixsite.com/museozam/single-post/2017/09/08/FRANCISCO-PLANCARTE-Y-NAVARRETE-PIONERO-DE-LA-ARQUEOLOG%C3%8DA-NACIONAL|title=Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Pionero de la Arqueología Nacional|date=September 8, 2017|publisher=Consejo Ciudadano de la Cronica de Zamora|access-date=February 10, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Pioneer of National Archaeology}}</ref> * [[June 6]] – [[James Dunsmuir]], Canadian politician (b. [[1851]]) * [[June 13]] – [[Essad Pasha Toptani]], [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1863]]) * [[June 14]] ** [[Ella Eaton Kellogg]], American dietetician (b. [[1853]]) ** [[Anna Maria Mozzoni]], Italian feminist (b. [[1837]]) ** [[Gabrielle Réjane]], French actress (b. [[1856]]); [[Spanish flu]] ** [[Max Weber]], German political economist (b. [[1864]]); [[Spanish flu]] * [[June 18]] ** [[Jewett W. Adams]], Governor of Nevada (b. [[1835]]) ** [[John Macoun]], Irish-born Canadian naturalist (b. [[1831]]) * [[June 20]] ** [[Marie-Adolphe Carnot]], French chemist, mining engineer and politician (b. [[1839]]) ** [[John Grigg (astronomer)|John Grigg]], New Zealand astronomer (b. [[1838]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Adolphe-Basile Routhier]], Canadian judge, author and lyricist (b. [[1839]]) ===July=== * [[July 1]] – [[Delfim Moreira]], 10th [[president of Brazil]] (b. [[1868]]) * [[July 2]] – [[William Louis Marshall]], American general, engineer (b. [[1846]]) * [[July 3]] – [[William C. Gorgas]], American Army surgeon (b. [[1854]]) * [[July 5]] – [[Max Klinger]], German painter and sculptor (b. [[1857]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Walter Yust|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iA1AAAAIAAJ|year=1951|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=527}}</ref> * [[July 7]] – [[Roberto Silva Renard]], Chilean general (b. [[1855]]) * [[July 10]] – [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher]], British admiral (b. [[1841]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Empress Eugénie]] of France (b. [[1826]]) * [[July 17]] ** [[Charles E. Courtney]], American rower, rowing coach (b. [[1849]]) ** [[Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet]], English potter (b. [[1846]]) * [[July 18]] – [[Prince Joachim of Prussia]] (b. [[1890]]) * [[July 20]] – [[Sarada Devi]], Indian mystic and saint (b. [[1853]]) * [[July 22]] – [[William Kissam Vanderbilt]], American heir (b. [[1849]]) ===August=== [[File:Ray_Chapman_Baseball.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Ray Chapman]]]] * [[August 1]] ** [[Frank Hanly]], Governor of Indiana (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], Indian nationalist (b. [[1856]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Ormer Locklear]], American stunt pilot, film actor (b. [[1891]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Remus von Woyrsch]], German field marshal (b. [[1847]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Eduard Birnbaum]], Polish-born German cantor (b. [[1855]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Samuel Griffith|Sir Samuel Griffith]], Australian politician and judge (b. [[1845]]) * [[August 10]] ** [[Clara Lachmann]], Danish-Swedish patron of the arts (b. [[1864]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1979 |title=Clara Lachmann |encyclopedia=[[Dictionary of Swedish National Biography]] |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=10817 |last=Kjellander |first=Rune |volume=22 |page=23 |language=sv}}</ref> ** [[James O'Neill (actor, born 1847)|James O'Neill]], American actor (b. [[1847]]) ** [[Ádám Politzer]], Austrian otologist (b. [[1835]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Hermann Struve]], Russian-born astronomer (b. [[1854]]) * [[August 16]] ** [[Henry Daglish]], [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. [[1866]]) ** [[Joseph Norman Lockyer|Sir Norman Lockyer]], English astronomer (b. [[1836]]) * [[August 17]] – [[Ray Chapman]], American baseball player (b. [[1891]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Paul W. Abt]], American businessman and politician (b. [[1845]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Anders Zorn]], Swedish painter (b. [[1860]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anders Zorn|title=Anders Zorn Rediscovered: November 27-December 19, 1984 : an Exhibition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MdIAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=The Museum|isbn=978-0-936270-23-4|page=16}}</ref> * [[August 26]] – [[James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture)|James Wilson]], Scottish-born American politician (b. [[1835]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Wilhelm Wundt]], German physiologist, psychologist (b. [[1832]]) ===September=== [[File:Karl Gustavovich Faberge.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Peter Carl Fabergé]]]] * [[September 7]] – [[Simon-Napoléon Parent]], [[Premier of Quebec]] (b. [[1855]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Harmon Northrop Morse]], American chemist (b. [[1848]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Olive Thomas]], American actress (b. [[1894]]) * [[September 18]] – [[Robert Beaven]], Canadian politician (b. [[1836]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Peter Carl Fabergé]], Russian jeweler (b. [[1846]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Jacob Schiff]], German-born banker, philanthropist (b. [[1847]]) * [[September 30]] – [[William Wilfred Sullivan|Sir William Wilfred Sullivan]], Canadian journalist, politician and jurist (b. [[1843]]) ===October=== * [[October 2]] ** [[Max Bruch]], German composer (b. [[1838]])<ref name="Orchestra1947">{{cite book|author=Chicago Symphony Orchestra|title=Program Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=auMEAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Orchestral Association|page=513}}</ref> ** [[Winthrop M. Crane]], Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. [[1853]]) * [[October 5]] – [[William Heinemann]], English publisher (b. [[1863]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Yves Delage]], French zoologist (b. [[1854]]) * [[October 10]] – [[Hudson Stuck]], English mountaineer (b. [[1865]]) * [[October 17]] **[[Reginald Farrer]], English botanist (b. [[1880]]) **[[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist (b. [[1887]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia]] (b. [[1853]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Alexander of Greece]], Greek king (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-king-of-Greece ''Britannica''].</ref> * [[October 27]] – [[Agda Montelius]], Swedish feminist (b. [[1850]]) ===November=== [[File:Kevin Barry.jpg|thumb|120px|upright|[[Kevin Barry]]]] * [[November 1]] – [[Kevin Barry]], Irish republican paramilitary; [[executed]] (b. [[1902]]) * [[November 2]] ** [[James Daly (mutineer)|James Daly]], Irish [[Mutiny|mutineer]]; [[executed]] (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Louise Imogen Guiney]], American poet and essayist (b. [[1861]]) * [[November 3]] – [[Warren Terhune]], [[United States Navy]] [[Commander (United States)#Naval rank|Commander]] and 13th [[governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1869]]) * [[November 4]] – [[Ludwig Struve]], Russian astronomer (b. [[1858]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Michael Hogan (Gaelic footballer)|Michael Hogan]], Irish [[Gaelic football|football]]er and activist, one of 14 civilians killed in the [[Croke Park massacre]] by British paramilitary forces (b. [[1896]]) * [[November 23]] – [[George Callaghan|Sir George Callaghan]], British admiral (b. [[1852]]) * [[November 25]] ** [[Gaston Chevrolet]], Swiss-born racing driver and manufacturer (b. [[1892]]) ** [[Madeline McDowell Breckinridge]], American leader of the women's suffrage movement, one of Kentucky's leading progressive reformers (b. [[1872]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Alexius Meinong]], Austrian philosopher (b. [[1853]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Eugene W. Chafin]], American politician (b. [[1852]]) ===December=== * [[December 11]] – [[Olive Schreiner]], South African writer (b. [[1855]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Edward Gawler Prior]], Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. [[1854]]) * [[December 14]] – [[George Gipp]], American football player (b. [[1895]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Cayetano Arellano]], first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American Civil Government (b. [[1847]]) * ''Unknown date'' – [[Nikolai Pavlovich Bobyr]], Russian general; [[executed]] (b. [[1854]]) ===Date unknown=== * [[Alimuddin Ahmad]], Bengali revolutionary and activist (b. [[1884]]) <ref>{{cite book|author=Sengupta, Subodha|editor=Bose, Anjali|title=সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান|volume=1|publisher=Sahitya Samsad|location=[[Kolkata]]|date=November 2013|page=80|isbn=978-81-7955-135-6|language=bn}}</ref> * [[Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov]], Russian general (executed) (b. [[1853]])
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