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==Deaths== *[[January 3]] β [[James Elroy Flecker]], English poet, novelist and dramatist (tuberculosis, born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mary D. Davis|author2=Mary Byrd Davis|title=James Elroy Flecker: A Critical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fb5aAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Inst. f. Engl. Sprache u. Literatur|page=198}}</ref> *[[January 19]] β [[Elizabeth Boynton Harbert]], American author, lecturer, reformer (born [[1843 in literature|1843]]) *[[February 4]] β [[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]], English popular novelist (born [[1837 in literature|1837]]) *[[April 8]] β [[Louis Pergaud]], French novelist (killed in action, born [[1882 in literature|1882]]) *[[April 19]] β [[Julia Evelyn Ditto Young]], American poet and novelist (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Julia Ditto Young|url=http://buffaloah.com/a/forestL/young/|website=buffaloah.com|access-date=4 January 2018}}</ref> *[[April 23]] β [[Rupert Brooke]], English war poet (blood poisoning, born [[1887 in literature|1887]]) *[[May 7]] (passengers drowned in the sinking of the ''Lusitania'') ** [[Justus Miles Forman]], American writer (born [[1875 in literature|1875]])<ref name=Lusitania>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65522025/vanderbilt-lost-frohman-also-fear-of/ |title=Vanderbilt Lost, Frohman Also, Fear of Friends |newspaper=[[Brooklyn Eagle]] |page=1 |date=1915-05-08 |access-date=2020-12-18 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ** [[Charles Frohman]], American theater producer (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])<ref name=Lusitania/> ** [[Elbert Hubbard]], American writer and philosopher (born 1856)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany|title=First Report of Robert W. Bonynge, Agent of the United States Before the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: Established Under the Agreement of August 10, 1922, Between the United States and Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MKiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA176|year=1925|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=176}}</ref> ** [[Alice Moore Hubbard]], American wife of Elbert Hubbard (born [[1861 in literature|1861]]) ** [[Charles Klein]], American playwright (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])<ref>[http://www.rmslusitania.info/people/saloon/charles-klein "Mr. Charles Klein"], The Lusitania Resource, accessed June 9, 2019</ref> *[[May 11]] β [[Lucy Bethia Walford]], Scottish-born novelist and artist (born [[1845 in literature|1845]]) *[[May 26]] β [[Julian Grenfell]], English war poet (killed in action, born [[1888 in literature|1888]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Mosley|title=Julian Grenfell, His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|isbn=978-0-03-017596-1|page=265}}</ref> *[[June 4]] β [[George Calderon]], English dramatist and translator (killed in action on [[Gallipoli campaign]], born [[1868 in literature|1868]]) *[[July 5]] β [[Aurelio Tolentino]], Filipino dramatist (born [[1867 in literature|1867]]) *[[August 19]] β [[Tevfik Fikret]], Ottoman Turkish poet and journalist (diabetes, born 1867). *[[September 1]] β [[August Stramm]], German Expressionist poet and playwright (killed in action, born [[1874 in literature|1874]]) *[[September 27]] β [[Remy de Gourmont]], French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic (stroke, born [[1858 in literature|1858]]) *[[October 17]] β [[Edmond Laforest]], [[Haiti]]an French-language poet (suicide, born [[1876 in poetry|1876]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=[[Donald E. Herdeck]]|author2=Maurice Alcibiade Lubin|author3=Margaret Herdeck|title=Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical-critical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I4gYAAAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Three Continents Press|isbn=978-0-914478-74-4|page=413}}</ref> *[[November 14]] β [[Booker T. Washington]], American writer and educator (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert A. Hill|author2=Marcus Garvey|author3=Universal Negro Improvement Association|title=The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. I: 1826-August 1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CKJrUKdSZwkC&pg=PA166|date=4 November 1983|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-04456-2|pages=166}}</ref> *[[December 23]] β [[Roland Leighton]], English war poet (died of wounds, born [[1895 in literature|1895]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Helen McPhail|author2=Philip Guest|title=Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuWXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT47|date=12 August 1998|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-4738-2078-4|pages=47}}</ref>
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