1920
1920 (
MCMXX) was a
leap year starting on Thursday.
January
*
January 3 -
Babe Ruth is traded by the
Boston Red Sox to the
New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.
*
January 7 - Forces of
Russian White admiral
Kolchak surrender in
Krasnoyarsk.
*
January 9 -
Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full.
*
January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly"
George Polley, climbs the
New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit
*
January 16 -
Prohibition goes into effect in the
United States with the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.
*
January 16 - Allies demand that the
Netherlands extradite the German
Kaiser, who has fled there.
*
January 19 - The
United States Senate votes against joining the
League of Nations.
*
January 22 - The
Australian
Country Party is officially formed.
*
January 23 - The
Netherlands refuses to extradite the German
Kaiser.
*
January 28 - The
Spanish legion is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in
Morocco.
*
January 28 -
Turkey gives up the
Ottoman Empire and all non-Turkish areas.
February
*
February 1 - The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
*
February 2 -
Estonia's independence is recognised.
*
February 2 -
France occupies
Memel.
*
February 9 - League of Nations gives
Spitzbergen to
Norway.
*
February 10 -
Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs
symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
*
February 14 - The
League of Women Voters is founded in
Chicago, Illinois.
*
February 17 -A woman named
Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is
Anastasia.
*
February 22 - In
Emeryville, California, the first
dog racing track to employ an imitation
rabbit opens.
*
February 24 -
Adolf Hitler presents his
National Socialist program in
Munich.
March
* March - World's first peaceful establishment of a
social democratic government takes place in
Sweden.
Hjalmar Branting takes over when
Nils Edén resigns.
*
March 1 -
Hungarian Admiral and
statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the
Regent of
Hungary*
March 1 - The
United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
*
March 13-
March 17 -
Wolfgang Kapp fails in his
coup attempt in
Germany due to public resistance and a general strike.
*
March 15 -
Maine celebrates the first
centenary of its statehood.
*
March 15 -
Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
*
March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify
Versailles Treaty.
*
March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that
Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
*
March 26 - German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious
Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
*
March 26 - The
Black and Tans special constables arrive in
Ireland*
March 29 -
Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in
1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
*
March 31 -
Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.
April-May
*
April 2 - German army marches to
Ruhr to fight
Red Ruhr Army.
*
April 4 -
Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 ? Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem ? governor declares the state of siege
*
April 6 - The short-lived
Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern
Siberia*
April 11 -
Mexican Revolution -
Alvaro Obregon flees from
Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to
Guerrero where he joins
Fortunato Maycotte*
April 19 - Germany and
Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
*
April 20 -
Alvaro Obregon announces in
Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of
Venustiano Carranza*
April 23 - National council in
Turkey denounces the government of
sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
*
April 24 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Polish and Anti-Soviet
Ukrainian troops attack the
Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.
*
May 2 - The first game of the
Negro National League baseball is played in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
*
May 7 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Polish troops occupy
Kyiv. The government of
Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
*
May 7 -
Venustiano Carranza leaves
Mexico City in a large train
*
May 9 -
Alvaro Obregon's troops enter
Mexico City*
May 15 -
Maria Bochkareva executed in Soviet Russia
*
May 16 -
Referendum in
Switzerland is favorable to joining
League of Nations.
*
May 16 - In
Rome,
Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a
saint.
*
May 17 - French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
*
May 17 - First flight of
KLM, Dutch air company, from
Amsterdam to
London.
*
May 20 -
Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of
Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
*
May 24 -
Venustiano Carranza is buried in
Mexico City - all of his mourning allies are arrested.
Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president
*
May 24 -
French president
Paul Deschanel falls out of a train and is later found wandering along the railroad track, wearing pajamas.
*
May 27 -
Tomáš Masaryk becomes president of
Czechoslovakia.
*
May 29 - Great
Horncastle flood. 20 people killed.
June-July
*
June 4 -
Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
*
June 12 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Red Army retakes
Kyiv.
*
June 13 - The
United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
*
June 15 - New border treaty between
Germany and
Denmark gives northern
Schleswig to Denmark.
*
June 22 -
Greece attacks
Turkish troops.
*
July 1 - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
*
July 2 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Red Army continues offensive into
Poland.
*
July 10 -
Arthur Meighen becomes
Canada's ninth
prime minister.
*
July 12 -
Bolshevist Russia recognizes independent
Lithuania.
*
July 13 -
London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.
*
July 14 - France declares that
Faisal I of Syria is deposed and occupies
Damascus and
Aleppo*
July 17 - Republic of
Mirdite proclaimed near
Albanian-
Serbian border with
Yugoslav support
*
July 22 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Poland sues for peace with
Bolshevist Russia.
*
July 25 - First transatlantic two-way
radio broadcast?
*
July 26 -
Pancho Villa takes over
Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in
July 28*
July 29 - The
United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the
Link River Dam as part of the
Klamath Reclamation Project.
August-September
*
August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in
Ireland, suspending jury trials.
*
August 3 - Catholics riot in
Belfast.
*
August 10 -
Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the
Treaty of Sevres.
*
August 11 -
Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent
Estonia and
Latvia.
*
August 13 -
August 25 -
Polish-Soviet War: The
Red Army is defeated in the
Battle of Warsaw.
*
August 15 - Town Hall of
Templemore,
Ireland, is burned down during the riots.
*
August 19-
August 25 -
Second Silesian Uprising, the Poles in
Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
*
August 20 - The first commercial
radio station in the United States, 8MK (
WWJ), begins operations in
Detroit, Michigan.
*
August 26 -
19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's
suffrage.
*
September 4 -
La Tercio de Extranjenos, the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day
Spanish Legion) inaugurated in
Spain*
September 5 - Presidential elections begin in
Mexico*
September 8 -
Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the
Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of
Fiume.
*
September 16 - The
Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a
horse wagon explodes in front of the
J.P.Morgan building in
New York City - 39 dead, 400 injured
*
September 18-
Jack Warden, American actor is born.
*
September 20 - The first soldier joins the
Spanish Legion.
*
September 22 -
Flying Squad formed in
London Metropolitan Police.
*
September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA –
Westinghouse radio costs $10.
*
September 29 -
Adolf Hitler makes first public political speech, in
Austria.
October-November
*
October 9 - Polish troops take
Vilnius*
October 10 - In the
Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of
Carinthia Province votes to become part of
Austria rather than of the
Yugoslavia.
*
October 12 -
Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures
Tarnopol,
Dubno,
Minsk, and
Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
*
October 18 - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
*
October 26 -
Alvaro Obregon is announced elected
president of Mexico*
October 27 -
League of Nations moves its headquarters to
Geneve,
Switzerland*
November 2 -
Warren G. Harding defeats
James M. Cox in the
U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
*
November 2 - In the
United States,
KDKA AM of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by
Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial
radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the
U.S. presidential election, 1920.
*
November 11 -
Unknown Soldier buried in
Westminster Abbey.
*
November 15 - In
Geneva, the first assembly of the
League of Nations is held.
*
November 16 - Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (
Qantas) is founded by
Hudson Fysh and
Paul McGinniss.
*
November 17 - The council of the
League of Nations accepts the
constitution for the
Free City of Danzig.
*
November 21 -
Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a
Football match in
Dublin's
Croke Park, following the assassinations of 12 British agents.
*
November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under
Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at
Kilmichael, Co.Cork. Kilmichael AmbushDecember
*
December 1 -
Álvaro Obregón became
president of Mexico.
*
December 5 -
Referendum in
Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
*
December 11 -
Martial law in
Ireland.
*
December 16 -
Finland joins the
League of Nations.
*
December 16 - 8.6 Richter scale
Earthquake causes
landslide in
Gansu Province,
China - 180.000 dead.
*
December 23 -
United Kingdom and
France ratify the border between French-held
Syria and British-held
Palestine.
*
December 25 - Foundation of
The Rosicrucian Fellowship's Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at
Mount Ecclesia,
Oceanside, California (
United States).
Undated
* Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the
Prohibition*
France prohibits selling of
contraceptives.
*
Roman Ungern von Sternberg conquers
Urga and declares himself as a ruler of
Mongolia.
*
Kurd rebellion in
Turkey begins.
*
Johnny Torrio invites
Al Capone to
Chicago, Illinois from
New York City, New York.
*
Bricks of wine are widely sold throughout U.S.
January
*
January 1 -
Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (
Quartetto Cetra)
*
January 2 -
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d.
1992)
*
January 3 -
Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d.
2001)
*
January 5 -
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d.
1995)
*
January 6 -
Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
*
January 6 -
John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d.
2004)
*
January 6 -
Early Wynn, baseball player (d.
1999)
*
January 12 -
Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d.
1998)
*
January 19 -
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian
United Nations Secretary General*
January 20 -
Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d.
1993)
*
January 20 -
DeForest Kelley, American actor (d.
1999)
*
January 20 -
John O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal
*
January 23 -
Gottfried Böhm, German architect
*
January 27 -
Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d.
2002)
*
January 30 -
Delbert Mann, American television and film director
February
*
February 7 -
An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d.
1990)
*
February 11 -
Farouk I,
King of Egypt (d.
1965)
*
February 11 -
Billy Halop, American actor (d.
1976)
*
February 11 -
Paul Peter Piech, American artist (d.
1996)
*
February 12 -
William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d.
2000)
*
February 13 -
Seneka Bibile, founder of
Sri Lanka's drug policy (d.
1977)
*
February 17 -
Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d.
2001)
*
February 18 -
Bill Cullen, American game show host (d.
1990)
*
February 18 -
Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d.
1945)
*
February 26 -
Tony Randall, American actor (d.
2004)
*
February 29 -
Howard Nemerov, American poet (d.
1991)
March
*
March 3 -
James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d.
2005)
*
March 3 -
Ronald Searle, British cartoonist
*
March 4 -
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d.
2002)
*
March 10 -
Boris Vian,
French writer,
poet,
singer and
musician (d.
1959)
*
March 11 -
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
March 14 -
Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d.
2001)
*
March 15 -
Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d.
1998)
*
March 15 -
E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
March 16 -
Leo McKern, Australian actor (d.
2002)
*
March 17 -
Mujibur Rahman,
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d.
1975)
*
March 19 -
Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d.
2002)
*
March 20 -
Pamela Harriman, English-born U.S. Ambassador to France (d.
1997)
*
March 22 Werner Klemperer, German actor (d.
2000)
*
March 25 -
Patrick Troughton, British actor (d.
1987)
*
March 25 -
Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d.
1992)
April
*
April 1 -
Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (d.
1997)
*
April 2 -
Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d.
1982)
*
April 5 -
Arthur Hailey, American writer (d.
2004)
*
April 6 -
Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
April 7 -
Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
*
April 11 -
Peter O'Donnell, British cartoonist and writer
*
April 15 -
Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
*
April 13 -
Liam Cosgrave,
President of Ireland*
April 21 -
Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d.
1991)
*
April 27 -
Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d.
1956)
*
April 29 -
Harold Shapero, American composer
May
*
May 2 -
Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d.
2004)
*
May 6 -
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first
Prime Minister of Fiji and
President of Fiji (d.
2004)
*
May 9 -
Richard Adams, English author
*
May 11 -
Denver Pyle, American actor (d.
1997)
*
May 18 -
Pope John Paul II (d.
2005)
*
May 18 -
Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (
Quartetto Cetra)
*
May 23 -
Helen O'Connell, American singer (d.
1993)
*
May 26 -
Peggy Lee, American singer (d.
2002)
*
May 28 -
Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (d.
1999)
*
May 29 -
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2000)
*
May 30 -
Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d.
1989)
June
*
June 2 -
Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d.
2003)
*
June 12 -
Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d.
2002)
*
June 12 -
Jim Siedow, American actor (d.
2003)
*
June 16 -
José López Portillo,
President of Mexico (d.
2004)
*
June 17 -
François Jacob, French biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
June 25 -
Ozan Marsh, American pianist
July
*
July 10 -
Owen Chamberlain, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
July 13 -
Bill Towers, English footballer (d.
2000)
*
July 17 -
Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
*
July 21 -
Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d.
2001)
*
July 24 -
Bella Abzug, American politician (d.
1998)
*
July 25 -
Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (d.
1958)
August
*
August 8 -
Leo Chiosso, Italian poet
*
August 12 -
Romana Suarez, Beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother (d.
2003)
*
August 16 -
Charles Bukowski, American writer (d.
1994)
*
August 18 -
Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (d.
2005)
*
August 18 -
Shelley Winters, American actress (d.
2006)
*
August 21 -
Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (d.
1996)
*
August 22 -
Ray Bradbury, American writer
*
August 29 -
Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d.
1955)
September
*
September 10 -
Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d.
2001)
*
September 14 -
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
*
September 14 -
Lawrence Klein, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
September 18 -
Jack Warden, American actor (d.
2006)
*
September 22 -
William H. Riker, American political scientist (d.
1993)
*
September 23 -
Mickey Rooney, American film actor
*
September 27 -
Jayne Meadows, American actress
*
September 29 -
Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
October
*
October 1 -
Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d.
2001)
*
October 1 -
Walter Matthau, American actor (d.
2000)
*
October 6 -
Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d.
2005)
*
October 8 -
Frank Herbert, American author (d.
1986)
*
October 9 -
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d.
1976)
*
October 15 -
Mario Puzo, American author (d.
1999)
*
October 22 -
Timothy Leary, American author, psychologist, computer software designer, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use (d.
1996)
*
October 29 -
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
October 31 -
Fritz Walter, German football player (d.
2002)
November
*
November 5 -
Douglass North, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
November 21 -
Stan Musial, baseball player
*
November 23 -
Paul Celan, Romanian-born poet (d.
1970)
*
November 25 -
Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d.
2000)
*
November 25 -
Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor
*
November 25 -
Noel Neill, American actress
*
November 27 -
Abe Lenstra, Dutch football player (d.
1985)
December
*
December 6 -
Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
*
December 6 -
George Porter, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002)
*
December 9 -
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
President of the Italian Republic*
December 24 -
Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d.
1944)
*
December 30 -
Jack Lord, American actor (d.
1998)
Date unknown
*
Patrick Campbell Rodger, Scottish Anglican bishop (d.
2002)
*
Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Norwegian resistance leader
*
Thomas John (T.J.) Smith (d.1998),
Australian trainer of
thoroughbred racehorses
*
January 2 -
Paul Adam, French writer (b.
1862)
*
January 3 -
Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (b.
1888)
*
January 4 -
Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b.
1843)
*
January 6 -
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b.
1839)
*
January 7 -
Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1849)
*
January 18 -
Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b.
1825)
*
January 24 -
William Percy French, Irish songwriter and entertainer (b.
1854)
*
January 24 -
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b.
1884)
*
January 24 -
William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator (b.
1864)
*
January 26 -
Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of
Amedeo Modigliani (suicide) (b.
1898)
*
February 2 -
Field E. Kindley, American World War I aviator (b.
1896)
*
February 3 -
Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (b.
1846)
*
February 6 -
Augustus F. Goodridge, Canadian merchant and politician (b.
1839)
*
February 7 -
Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander (b.
1874)
*
February 15 -
Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b.
1837)
*
February 20 -
Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu (b.
1872)
*
February 20 -
Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (b.
1856)
*
February 27 -
William Sherman Jennings, Governor of Florida (b.
1863)
*
March 1 -
John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama (b.
1842)
*
March 1 -
William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania (b.
1846)
*
March 1 -
Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b.
1880)
*
March 4 -
Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b.
1843)
*
March 11 -
Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b.
1865)
*
March 13 -
Charles Lapworth, English geologist (b.
1842)
*
March 26 -
William Chester Minor, American surgeon (b.
1834)
*
March 26 -
Mary Augusta Ward, Tasmanian novelist (b.
1851)
*
March 31 -
Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (b.
1837)
*
March 31 -
Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland (b.
1848)
*
April 8 -
John Brashear, American astronomer (b.
1840)
*
April 8 -
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b.
1884)
*
April 9 -
Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (b.
1829)
*
April 21 -
Maria L. Sanford, American educator (b.
1836)
*
April 26 -
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b.
1887)
*
May 1 -
Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (b.
1882)
*
May 9 -
Agnes Macdonald, wife of
John A. Macdonald,
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1836*
May 11 -
James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster (b.
1877)
*
May 11 -
William Dean Howells, American writer (b.
1837)
*
May 16 -
Levi P. Morton,
Vice President of the United States (b.
1824)
*
May 21 -
Venustiano Carranza,
President of Mexico (b.
1859)
*
May 21 -
Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (b.
1868)
*
May 23 -
Svetozar Borojevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b.
1856)
*
May 30 -
George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer (b.
1862)
*
June 5 -
Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b.
1840)
*
June 5 -
Julia A. Moore, American poet (b.
1847)
*
June 6 -
James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b.
1851)
*
June 13 -
Essad Pasha,
Prime Minister of Albania (b.
1863)
*
June 14 -
Gabrielle Réjane, French actress (b.
1856)
*
June 14 -
Max Weber, German political economist (b.
1864)
*
June 18 -
Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b.
1835)
*
June 18 -
John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b.
1831)
*
June 20 -
Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b.
1839)
*
June 20 -
John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b.
1838)
*
June 27 -
Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (b.
1839)
*
July 1 -
Delfim Moreira,
President of Brazil (b.
1868)
*
July 2 -
William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b.
1846)
*
July 10 -
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b.
1841)
*
July 11 -
Empress Eugénie of France (b.
1826)
*
July 14 -
Albert Keller, German painter (b.
1844)
*
July 22 -
William Kissam Vanderbilt, American heir (b.
1849)
*
August 1 -
Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana (b.
1863)
*
August 1 -
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (b.
1856)
*
August 2 -
Ormer Locklear, American pilot (b.
1891)
*
August 9 -
Samuel Griffith, Australian politician and judge (b.
1845)
*
August 10 -
Adam Politzer, Austrian otologist (b.
1835)
*
August 12 -
Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b.
1854)
*
August 16 -
Henry Daglish, Premier of Australia (b.
1866)
*
August 16 -
Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (b.
1836)
*
August 17 -
Ray Chapman, baseball player (b.
1891)
*
August 22 -
Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b.
1860)
*
August 26 -
James Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b.
1835)
*
August 31 -
Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b.
1832)
*
September 7 -
Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b.
1855)
*
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 and philanthropist (b.
1847)
*
September 30 -
William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b.
1843)
*
October 2 -
Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b.
1853)
*
October 10 -
Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b.
1865)
*
October 19 -
John Reed, American journalist (b.
1887)
*
October 20 -
Max Bruch, German composer (b.
1838)
*
October 24 -
Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b.
1853)
*
November 1 -
Kevin Barry, Irish republican, hanged (b.
1902)
*
November 4 -
Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b.
1858)
*
November 13 -
Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b.
1846)
*
November 23 -
George Callaghan, British admiral (b.
1852)
*
November 25 -
Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile race driver and manufacturer (b.
1892)
*
November 30 -
Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (b.
1852)
*
December 3 -
William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (b.
1843)
*
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)
*Unknown date -
Francisco Domingo Marques,Spanish painter (b.
1845)
*
Physics -
Charles Edouard Guillaume*
Chemistry -
Walther Nernst*
Medicine -
Schack August Steenberg Krogh*
Literature -
Knut Hamsun*
Peace -
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
