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==Deaths== *[[January 6]] – [[Henrietta Keddie]] (Sarah Tytler), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born [[1827 in literature|1827]])<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ewan |first1=Elizabeth L. |last2=Innes |first2=Sue |last3=Reynolds |first3=Sian |last4=Pipes |first4=Rose |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women |date=2006 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9780748626601 |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA189 |language=en}}</ref> *[[February 1]] – [[Marie Robinson Wright]], American travel writer (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress....|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_lVMAAAAMAAJ|year=1915|publisher=Dodd, Mead|page=799}}</ref> *[[February 15]] – [[Kate Brownlee Sherwood]], American poet, journalist, translator, and story writer (born [[1841 in literature|1841]]) *[[February 25]] – [[John Tenniel]], English cartoonist and illustrator (born [[1820 in literature|1820]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Diane Telgen|title=Something about the Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a8nmnqDY_SkC|year=1993|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-2284-4|page=232}}</ref> *March – [[Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette]], American short story writer (born [[1842 in literature|1842]]) *[[March 17]] – [[Hiraide Shū]] (平出 修), Japanese novelist, poet, and lawyer (born [[1878 in literature|1878]]) *[[March 19]] – [[Thomas Cooper de Leon]], American journalist, author and playwright (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])<ref name="Edgar2006">{{cite book|author=Walter B. Edgar|title=The South Carolina Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90ITAAAAYAAJ|year=2006|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-598-2|page=252}}</ref> *[[March 25]] – [[Frédéric Mistral]], Nobel Prize winning French author (born [[1830 in literature|1830]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Atlantic Brief Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hozoywf3AlEC|year=1971|page=532}}</ref> *[[March 28]] - [[Hjalmar Bergström (writer)|Hjalmar Bergström]], Danish playwright, novelist, and short story writer (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti: A-Z|page=710|chapter= Bergström, Hjalmar|author=Istituto Giovanni Treccani|year=1930|editor-last=Treccani|editor-first= Giovanni|publisher=Bestetti & Tumminelli}}</ref> *[[March 31]] – [[Christian Morgenstern]], German poet and writer (born [[1871 in literature|1871]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Guenther Wachsmuth|title=The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner from the Turn of the Century to His Death|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWrYAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Whittier Books|isbn=978-0-89345-249-0|page=221}}</ref> *[[April 2]] – [[Paul Heyse]], Nobel Prize winning German author (born [[1830 in literature|1830]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Parker|title=Who's who in the Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Pitman|page=1640}}</ref> *[[April 7]] – [[Edith Maude Eaton]] (Sui Sin Far, 水仙花), English-born writer on Chinese (born [[1865 in literature|1865]]) *[[May 13]] – [[Isabella Fyvie Mayo]], British poet and novelist born [[1843 in literature|1843]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Publishers Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKkxAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=F. Leypoldt|page=1646}}</ref> *[[May 19]] – [[William Aldis Wright]], English writer and editor (born [[1831 in literature|1831]]) *[[May 29]] – [[Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving|Laurence Irving]], English dramatist and novelist (drowned, born [[1871 in literature|1871]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w887AQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=Tho. Newcomb|page=6426}}</ref> *[[June 3]] – [[Danske Dandridge]], Danish-born American poet, historian, and garden writer (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Flora|first1=Joseph M.|last2=Vogel|first2=Amber|title=Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA94|date=21 June 2006|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3123-7|page=94}}</ref> *[[June 6]] – [[Theodore Watts-Dunton]], English critic and poet (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tom James Truss|title=Theodore Watts-Dunton as Critic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVlVAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|page=7}}</ref> *[[June 19]] – [[Brandon Thomas (playwright)|Brandon Thomas]], British actor and playwright (''[[Charley's Aunt]]'') (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir John Alexander Hammerton|title=Concise Universal Biography: A Dictionary of the Famous Men and Women of All Countries and All Times...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BsXAQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-4209-5|page=1288}}</ref> *[[June 21]] – [[Bertha von Suttner]], Austrian pacifist writer (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bertha von Suttner |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1905/suttner/biographical/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=6 June 2019}}</ref> *[[July 6]] – [[Delmira Agustini]], Uruguayan poet (murdered; born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>{{Cite book |author=Verity Smith |title=Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcjFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |date=26 March 1997 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-135-31424-1 |pages=19}}</ref> *[[July 23]] – [[Charlotte Forten Grimké]], African American poet (born [[1837 in literature|1837]]) *[[September 4]] – [[Charles Péguy]], French poet and essayist (killed in action, born [[1873 in literature|1873]])<ref>{{cite book|title=PN Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bImRAAAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Department of English, University of Manchester|page=12}}</ref> *[[September 8]] ** [[Mariana Cox Méndez]], Chilean writer (born [[1871 in literature|1871]]) ** [[Hans Leybold]], German nihilist poet (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Publications of the English Goethe Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0s8nAAAAYAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Society|page=48}}</ref> *[[September 11]] – [[Mircea Demetriade]], Romanian poet and actor (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])<ref>[[Rodica Zafiu]], "Demetriade Mircea", in Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', Vol. I, p. 471. Pitești: [[Editura Paralela 45]], 2004. {{ISBN|973-697-758-7}}</ref> *[[September 22]] – [[Alain-Fournier]], French novelist (killed in action, born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Cyclopedia of World Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMg3AAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-435-3|page=31}}</ref> *[[September 25]] – [[Alfred Lichtenstein (writer)|Alfred Lichtenstein]], [[German poetry|German]] [[Expressionist]] writer (killed in action, born [[1889 in literature|1889]]) *[[October 9]] – [[Dumitru C. Moruzi]], Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (asthma; born [[1850 in literature|1850]])<ref>{{in lang|ro}} Florin Marinescu, [http://www.limbaromana.md/index.php?go=articole&n=1439 "Un basarabean înflăcărat. Scriitorul Dumitru C. Moruzi"], in ''Revista Limba Română'', Nr. 5–6/2012</ref><ref>Bezviconi, ''Boierimea...'', p. 137; Coșa, pp. 399, 403; Penelea Filitti, p. 60</ref> *[[October 30]] – [[Ernst Stadler]], German Expressionist poet (killed in action, born [[1883 in literature|1883]]) *[[November 3]] – [[Georg Trakl]], Austrian Expressionist poet (cocaine overdose, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{Cite book |title=Austrian Information |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YC4iAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA2 |year=1987 |publisher=Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General |pages=6}}</ref> *[[November 9]] – [[Alessandro d'Ancona]], Italian critic and writer (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bruce Haddock|author2=James Wakefield|title=Thought Thinking: The Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vU_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT253|date=14 July 2015|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-84540-850-3|pages=253}}</ref> *[[November 12]] – [[Augusto dos Anjos]], Brazilian poet (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Márcio Souza|title=A Book of Days for the Brazilian Literary Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1ZfAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Fundação Biblioteca Nacional|isbn=978-85-333-0021-7}}</ref> *[[November 16]] – [[Nikolai Chayev]], Russian writer, poet and playwright (born [[1824 in literature|1824]]) *[[November 19]] – [[Robert Jones Burdette]], American minister and sentimental humorist (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert J. Burdette Dead. Noted Humorist, Lecturer, and Minister Dies in Pasadena. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/11/20/archives/robert-j-burdette-dead-noted-humorist-lecturer-and-minister-dies-in.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=November 20, 1914 |access-date=2011-01-16 }}</ref>
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