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Calendar year
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1920 .
1920 (
MCMXX ) was a
leap year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Wednesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1920th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the
2nd millennium , the 20th year of the
20th century , and the 1st year of the
1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January
January 17 : Beginning of
Prohibition in the United States
February
February 1 – The
South African Air Force (SAAF) is established, the second autonomous Air Force in the world, after the
Royal Air Force (RAF).
[8]
February 2
February 9 – The
Svalbard Treaty , signed by members of the League of Nations in Paris, recognises the sovereignty of
Norway over the
Arctic archipelago of
Svalbard (at this time called Spitzbergen), while giving the other signatories economic rights in the islands.
[9]
February 10 – General
Józef Haller first performs
Poland's Wedding to the Sea , a symbolic celebration of the restitution of Polish access to the
Baltic Sea .
February 12 –
24 –
Conference of London : Leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to discuss the
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire .
February 13 – Switzerland joins the
League of Nations .
February 14 – The
League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
February 17 – A woman named
Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital where she claims she is
Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia .
February 20 –
1920 Gori earthquake : An earthquake hits
Gori in the
Democratic Republic of Georgia , killing 114.
February 21 – The island province of
Marinduque in the
Philippines archipelago is founded.
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 to the
German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ), which renames itself as the
Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ).
March
March 1
March 7 – The Syrian National Congress proclaims
Syria independent, with
Faisal I of Iraq as king.
March 10 – The world's first peaceful establishment of a
social democratic government takes place in
Sweden as
Hjalmar Branting takes over as
Prime Minister when
Nils Edén leaves office.
March 13 –
17 –
Wolfgang Kapp and
Walther von Lüttwitz 's
Kapp Putsch (an attempted
coup in Germany) briefly ousts the
Weimar Republic government from Berlin, but fails due to public resistance and a general strike.
March 15 – The
Ruhr Red Army , a communist army 60,000 men strong, is formed in
Germany .
March 15 –
16 –
Constantinople is occupied by
British Empire forces, acting for the
Allied Powers against the
Turkish National Movement . Retrospectively, the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey regards this as the dissolution of the
Ottoman regime in
Istanbul .
[10]
March 18 –
Greece begins using the
Gregorian calendar .
March 19 – The
United States Senate refuses to ratify the
Treaty of Versailles .
March 23 – Admiral
Miklós Horthy declares that
Hungary is a monarchy, without anyone on the throne.
March 25 –
Irish War of Independence : British recruits to the
Royal Irish Constabulary begin to arrive in Ireland. They become known from their improvised uniforms as the "
Black and Tans ".
[11]
March 26 – The German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against the rebellious
Ruhr Red Army , in the French-occupied area.
March 28 – The
1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak hits the
Great Lakes region and
Deep South of the United States.
March 29 –
Sir William Robertson is promoted to
Field Marshal , the first man to rise from
private (enlisted
1877 ) to the highest rank in the
British Army .
[12]
April
April – The
Spanish Flu ends with an estimate between seventeen million to fifty million dead. It would be the last global
pandemic until the
2009 swine flu pandemic almost 90 Years Later.
April 2 – The German army marches to the
Ruhr , to fight the
Ruhr Red Army .
April 3 – Attempts are made to carry out the failed
assassination attempt on General Mannerheim , led by Aleksander Weckman by order of
Eino Rahja , during the
White Guard parade in
Tampere ,
Finland .
[13]
[14]
April 4 –
1920 Palestine riots : Violence erupts between Arab and Jewish residents in
Jerusalem ; 9 are killed, 216 injured.
April 6 – The short-lived
Far Eastern Republic is declared, in eastern
Siberia .
April 11 –
Mexican Revolution :
Álvaro Obregón flees from Mexico City (during a trial intended to ruin his reputation) to
Guerrero , where he joins Fortunato Maycotte.
April 19 –
26 –
San Remo conference : Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan meet to determine the
League of Nations mandates for administration of territories, following the
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire .
April 19 – Germany and
Soviet Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
1920 Summer Olympics
May
June
July
August
August 3 –
Irish War of Independence :
Catholics riot in
Belfast , in protest at the continuing
British Army presence.
August 10 –
Ottoman Sultan
Mehmed VI 's representatives sign the
Treaty of Sèvres with the
Allied Powers , confirming arrangements for the
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire .
August 11 –
Bolshevik Russia
recognizes independent
Latvia .
August 13 –
25 –
Polish–Soviet War :
Battle of Warsaw – The
Red Army is defeated.
August 13 –
Irish War of Independence : The
Restoration of Order in Ireland Act (passed by the
Parliament of the United Kingdom ) receives
Royal Assent , providing for
Irish Republican Army activists to be tried by
court-martial , rather than by
jury in criminal courts.
[11]
August 14 – The
1920 Summer Olympics open in
Antwerp , Belgium.
August 19 –
Russian Civil War : Peasants in
Tambov Governorate begin the
Tambov Rebellion against the
Bolshevik government of
Soviet Russia .
August 19 –
25 –
Second Silesian Uprising : The Poles in
Upper Silesia rise up against the Germans.
August 20 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (
WWJ ), begins operations in
Detroit . It is owned by the Detroit News , the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.
August 26 – The
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing
women's suffrage .
August 28 –
September 2 –
Bukhara operation : The
Russian
Red Army and
Young Bukharians overthrow the
Emirate of Bukhara , leading to the establishment of the
Bukharan People's Soviet Republic .
September
October
November
November 2
November 11 – In London,
The Cenotaph is unveiled and
The Unknown Warrior is buried in
Westminster Abbey ; while in Paris the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is consecrated beneath the
Arc de Triomphe .
November 12 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the
Treaty of Rapallo .
November 13 – The
White Army 's last units and civilian refugees are evacuated from the
Crimea onboard 126 ships,
the remnants of the Russian Imperial Navy , to
Turkey ,
Tunisia and the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , accompanied by wide-scale civilian massacres. The total number of evacuees amounts to approximately 150,000 people, of which 20% are civilians.
November 14 – The
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra holds its first concert.
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 McGinness .
November 17 – The council of the
League of Nations accepts the
constitution for the
Free City of Danzig .
November 20 –
Prince Arthur of Connaught is appointed the 3rd
Governor-General of South Africa .
November 21 –
Irish War of Independence :
Bloody Sunday : The
Irish Republican Army (IRA), on the instructions of
Michael Collins , shoot dead the "Cairo gang", 14 British undercover agents in
Dublin , most in their homes. Later this day in retaliation, the
Auxiliary Division of the
Royal Irish Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a
Gaelic Athletic Association football match in
Croke Park , resulting in 14 deaths with 60 wounded.
[11]
[24] Three men are shot this night in
Dublin Castle "while trying to escape".
November 28
Irish War of Independence –
Kilmichael Ambush : The flying column of the
3rd Cork Brigade of the
Irish Republican Army , led by
Tom Barry , ambushes two lorries carrying men of the
Auxiliary Division of the
Royal Irish Constabulary at
Kilmichael, County Cork , killing 17 (with 3 of its men also dying), which leads to official reprisals.
[11]
FIDAC (French: F édération I nteralliée d es A nciens C ombattants, English: The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations ) is established in Paris at the initiative of veterans from
World War I , predominantly
pacifists , joined by associations of veterans from France, the United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Serbia.
[25]
December
December 1 – The
Mexican Revolution effectively ends with a new regime coming to power, which coincides with the end of the
Old West .
[26]
December 3 – Following more than a month of the
Turkish–Armenian War , the Turkish-dictated
Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
December 7 – The first draft of the
Mandate for Palestine is submitted to the League of Nations.
December 5 – A
referendum in
Greece is favorable to the reinstatement of the monarchy.
December 10 –
Irish War of Independence :
Martial law is declared in Counties
Cork ,
Kerry ,
Limerick and
Tipperary .
[11]
December 11 –
Burning of Cork in Ireland: British forces set fire to some 5 acres (20,000 m2 ) of the centre of
Cork , including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks, after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.
December 13 – Confectionery company
Haribo is founded in Bonn, Germany.
December 15 –
22 – The Brussels Conference establishes a timetable for German war reparations, intended to extend for over 42 years.
Haiyuan earthquake
Date unknown
Births
January
Isaac Asimov
John Maynard Smith
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Federico Fellini
DeForest Kelley
Sir
Alf Ramsey
January 2
January 4 –
David Musuguri , Tanzanian soldier and military officer
January 5 –
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Italian pianist (d.
1995 )
[29]
January 6
January 7 –
Vincent Gardenia , American actor (d.
1992 )
[30]
January 8 –
Abbey Simon , American classical pianist (d.
2019 )
January 9
January 10
January 11 –
Jarbas Passarinho , Brazilian military officer, politician (d.
2016 )
January 12 –
Bill Reid , Canadian artist (d.
1998 )
January 13 –
Jahangir Amuzegar , Iranian economist, academic and politician (d.
2018 )
January 14 –
Vahe Danielyan , Soviet soldier and concentration camp survivor
January 15
January 16 –
Walter Frederick Morrison , American entrepreneur, inventor (d.
2010 )
[33]
January 19 –
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , Peruvian
Secretary-General of the United Nations , 135th
Prime Minister of Peru (d.
2020 )
January 20
January 21 –
Errol Barrow , 1st Prime Minister of Barbados (d.
1987 )
January 22 – Sir
Alf Ramsey , English footballer and manager (d.
1999 )
January 23
January 24 –
Manuel Yan , Filipino general (d.
2008 )
January 25 –
Alicia Montoya , Mexican actress (d.
2002 )
January 26
January 27
January 29 –
Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao , Indian writer (d.
2018 )
January 30
February
Farouk of Egypt
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
Tony Randall
February 2 –
John Russell , American Olympic equestrian (d.
2020 )
February 3 –
Henry Heimlich , American physician, medical researcher (d.
2016 )
February 4 –
Giriraj Kishore , Indian activist, politician (d.
2014 )
February 5 –
Frank Muir , British actor, comedy writer and raconteur (d.
1998 )
February 6 –
Gordon Van Wylen , American physicist and author (d.
2020 )
February 7
February 8 –
Tony Murray , French-English billionaire and businessman (d.
2023 )
February 11
February 12
February 13
February 16 –
Anna Mae Hays , American general (d.
2018 )
February 17
February 18 –
Eddie Slovik , U.S. Army private, only deserter to be executed during World War II (d.
1945 )
February 20 –
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (d.
1948 )
February 24 –
Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton , English noble (d.
2021 )
February 26
February 28
February 29
March
James Doohan
Boris Vian
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Josip Manolić
March 3
March 4 –
Jean Lecanuet , French politician (d.
1993 )
March 5 –
Rachel Gurney , British actress (d.
2001 )
March 6
March 8 –
Ingemar Hedberg , Swedish canoeist (d.
2019 )
March 9 –
Franjo Mihalić , Croatian-Serbian athlete (d.
2015 )
March 10
March 11
March 14 –
Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (d.
2001 )
March 15
March 16 –
Leo McKern , Australian actor (d.
2002 )
[42]
March 17 –
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , founder, 2-time President & 2nd Prime Minister of
Bangladesh (d.
1975 )
March 20
March 22
March 23
March 24 –
Corbin Harney , elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d.
2007 )
March 25 –
Patrick Troughton , English actor (d.
1987 )
[44]
March 26 –
Ernest Courant , American accelerator physicist (d.
2020 )
March 27 –
William Moncrief , American businessman (d.
2021 )
March 29
March 31
April
Toshiro Mifune
Richard von Weizsäcker
April 1
April 3 –
Ehsan Yarshater , Iranian scholar (d.
2018 )
April 4 –
Éric Rohmer , French film director (d.
2010 )
April 5
April 6 –
Edmond H. Fischer ,
Swiss American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2021 )
April 7 –
Ravi Shankar , Indian sitar player (d.
2012 )
[46]
April 11
April 12
April 13
April 14
April 15
April 16
April 17
April 18 –
Wang Zigan , modern papercutting artist, master of arts and crafts (d.
2000 )
April 19
April 20 –
John Paul Stevens , American judge,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d.
2019 )
April 21 –
Edmund Adamkiewicz , German footballer (d.
1991 )
April 22 –
Valeri Petrov , Bulgarian poet (d.
2014 )
April 25
April 26 –
Padú del Caribe , Aruban musician and songwriter (d.
2019 )
April 27 –
Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (d.
1956 )
[48]
April 30
May
Pope John Paul II
Peggy Lee
May 1 –
Alan Burgess , New Zealand cricketer (d.
2021 )
May 2
May 3 –
Godfrey Evans , English cricketer (d.
1999 )
May 5 –
Jon Naar , British-American author, photographer (d.
2017 )
May 6
May 8
May 8 –
Saul Bass , American graphic designer (d.
1996 )
May 9
May 11 –
Gene Hermanski , American baseball player (d.
2010 )
May 12
May 13 –
Vassos Lyssarides , Cypriot politician and physician (d.
2021 )
May 15 –
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir , Lebanese cardinal (d.
2019 )
May 17 –
Lydia Wideman , Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d.
2019 )
May 18 –
Pope John Paul II (d.
2005 )
May 19
May 20
May 21 –
Sonja de Lennart , German fashion designer
May 22 –
Helen Andelin , American author (d.
2009 )
May 23 –
Helen O'Connell , American singer (d.
1993 )
[52]
May 25 –
Arthur Wint , Jamaican runner (d.
1992 )
May 26
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
June
José López Portillo
Zeno Colò
June 1 –
Amos Yarkoni , Israeli soldier (d.
1991 )
June 2
June 5 –
Marion Motley , American football player (d.
1999 )
June 10
June 11
June 12 –
Dave Berg , American cartoonist (d.
2002 )
June 13 –
Rolf Huisgen , German chemist and academic (d.
2020 )
June 15 –
Alberto Sordi , Italian actor (d.
2003 )
[55]
June 16
June 17
June 18
June 19
June 20 –
Amos Tutuola , Nigerian writer (d.
1997 )
June 21 –
Hans Gerschwiler , Swiss figure skater (d.
2017 )
June 22
June 23 –
Saleh Ajeery , Kuwaiti astronomer (d.
2022 )
June 25
June 27 –
Fernando Riera , Chilean football player, manager (d.
2010 )
June 28 –
Clarissa Eden , wife of British Prime Minister
Anthony Eden (d.
2021 )
June 29
June 30
July
Yul Brynner
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Émile Idée
August
P. D. James
Maureen O'Hara
Shelley Winters
Ray Bradbury
Prem Tinsulanonda
Ali Sabri
August 1 –
Sammy Lee , Korean-American diver (d.
2016 )
August 3 –
P. D. James , English mystery novelist (d.
2014 )
[61]
August 4
August 5
August 6
August 7
August 8
August 9 –
Milton G. Henschel , American member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, 5th President of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (d.
2003 )
August 10
August 11 –
Florence Bjelke-Petersen , Australian politician, writer (d.
2017 )
August 12 –
Anna-Kaarina Aalto , Finnish physician and politician (d.
1994 )
[63]
August 13 –
Neville Brand , American actor, highly decorated World War II combat soldier (d.
1992 )
August 14 –
María Teresa Linares Savio , Cuban musicologist (d.
2021 )
August 15 –
Prince Konstantin of Bavaria (d.
1969 )
August 16
August 17 –
Maureen O'Hara , Irish-American actress (d.
2015 )
August 18
August 20 –
Boris Braun , Croatian university professor and Holocaust survivor (d.
2018 )
August 21 –
Christopher Robin Milne , English author, bookseller (d.
1996 )
August 22 –
Ray Bradbury , American science fiction writer (d.
2012 )
[64]
August 26
August 27 –
Baptiste Manzini , American football player (d.
2008 )
August 28 –
Jaime de Almeida , Brazilian football player, manager (d.
1973 )
August 29
August 30 –
Ali Sabri , Egyptian politician, 32nd
Prime Minister of Egypt (d.
1991 )
September
Chabuca Granda
Mickey Rooney
September 1
September 2 –
Mónica Echeverría , Chilean journalist, writer, actress and a Literature professor (d.
2020 )
September 5 –
Apolonia Muñoz Abarca , American health professional and reproductive rights advocate (d.
2009 )
September 8
September 10
September 12
September 13
September 14
September 15 –
Dave Garcia , American baseball coach, manager (d.
2018 )
September 17 –
Marjorie Holt , American politician (d.
2018 )
September 18 –
Jack Warden , American actor (d.
2006 )
September 19 –
Roger Angell , American journalist, author and editor (d.
2022 )
September 20 –
Jay Ward , American animation producer (d.
1989 )
September 21 –
Kenneth McAlpine , English racing driver (d.
2023 )
September 22 –
William H. Riker , American political scientist (d.
1993 )
September 23 –
Mickey Rooney , American actor, dancer and entertainer (d.
2014 )
September 24
September 25 –
Wan Haifeng , Chinese military officer (d.
2023 )
September 27 –
William Conrad , American actor, film director and producer (d.
1994 )
September 29 –
Peter D. Mitchell , English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1992 )
September 30 –
Milton P. Rice , American politician (d.
2018 )
Unknown –
Wu Ningkun , Chinese academic (d.
2019 )
October
Walter Matthau
Montgomery Clift
Melina Mercouri
Timothy Leary
October 1
October 2 –
Tun Tin , 6th
Prime Minister of Burma (d.
2020 )
October 3 –
Bung Tomo , Indonesian military leader and 1st Minister of State (d.
1981 )
October 4
October 5 –
Ralph Turlington , American politician (d.
2021 )
October 8 –
Frank Herbert , American author (d.
1986 )
[68]
October 9
October 10
October 13
October 15 –
Mario Puzo , American author (d.
1999 )
[70]
October 16 –
Alicia Dussán de Reichel , Colombian educator (d.
2023 )
October 17
October 18 –
Melina Mercouri , Greek actress and politician (d.
1994 )
October 19 –
Pandurang Shastri Athavale , Indian founder of the Swadhyay Movement (d.
2003 )
October 20
October 21 –
Ruth Terry , American singer, actress (d.
2016 )
October 22 –
Timothy Leary , American psychologist, author and proponent of
LSD (d.
1996 )
October 23 –
Vern Stephens , American baseball player (d.
1968 )
October 24 –
Steve Conway , British singer (d. 1952)
[72]
October 25 –
J. Denis Summers-Smith , English ornithologist and mechanical engineer (d.
2020 )
October 26
October 27 –
K. R. Narayanan ,
President of India (d.
2005 )
October 29
October 31
November
Esther Rolle
Gene Tierney
Stan Musial
November 2 –
Kim Chol-man , North Korean politician and military official (d.
2018 )
November 3 –
Oodgeroo Noonuccal , Australian political activist, artist, and educator (d.
1993 )
November 4 –
Val Heim , American Major League Baseball player (d.
2019 )
November 5
November 8
November 11
November 12 –
Josip Boljkovac , Croatian politician (d.
2014 )
November 13
November 14 –
Mary Greyeyes , first
First Nations woman to join the
Canadian Armed Forces (d.
2011 )
November 15 –
Wayne Thiebaud , American painter (d.
2021 )
November 16
November 18 –
Mustafa Khalil , 40th Prime Minister of Egypt (d.
2008 )
November 19 –
Gene Tierney , American actress (d.
1991 )
November 21
November 22
November 23 –
Paik Sun-yup , South Korean military officer (d.
2020 )
November 24 –
Jorge Mistral , Spanish-Mexican actor (d.
1972 )
November 25
November 27 –
Buster Merryfield , British actor (d.
1999 )
November 28 –
Patrick Rodger , Scottish Anglican bishop (d.
2002 )
November 29
November 30 –
Virginia Mayo , American actress (d.
2005 )
December
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Clark Terry
December 1
December 5 –
Poldine Carlo , American author (d.
2018 )
December 6
December 8 –
Ivar Martinsen , Norwegian speed skater (d.
2018 )
December 9 –
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , 49th
Prime Minister of Italy , 10th
President of Italy (d.
2016 )
December 10 –
Stanko Todorov , Bulgarian communist politician (d.
1996 )
December 12
December 13
December 14
December 15
December 16 –
John Hale Stutesman , American public official (d.
2019 )
December 17 –
Ewa Paradies , German Nazi war criminal (d.
1946 )
December 18 –
Gianni Di Venanzo , Italian cinematographer (d.
1966 )
December 19
December 20 –
Väinö Linna , Finnish author (d.
1992 )
[76]
December 21
December 22 –
Robin Dalton , Australian literary agent and film producer (d.
2022 )
December 23 –
Tim Elkington , English Royal Air Force pilot (d.
2019 )
December 24
December 28 –
Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (d.
2011 )
December 29
December 30 –
Jack Lord , American actor (d.
1998 )
December 31 –
Rex Allen , American actor, singer and songwriter (d.
1999 )
[77]
Date unknown
Deaths
January
Saint
Zygmunt Gorazdowski
Edmund Barton
Amedeo Modigliani
January 1 –
Zygmunt Gorazdowski , Polish
Roman Catholic priest and saint (b.
1845 )
January 2 –
Paul Adam , French Symbolist writer (b.
1862 )
[78]
January 3 –
Zygmunt Janiszewski , Polish mathematician (b.
1888 ),
Spanish flu
January 4
January 6
January 7 –
Sir Edmund Barton , 1st
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1849 )
January 11 –
Kataoka Shichirō , Japanese admiral (b.
1854 )
January 14 –
John Francis Dodge , American automobile manufacturer (b.
1864 ),
Spanish flu
January 16 –
Mikhail Bakhirev , Russian admiral (executed) (b.
1868 )
January 22 –
Georg Lurich , Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler, strongman (b.
1876 )
January 24
February
Robert Peary
February 2 –
Field Eugene Kindley , American World War I aviator (b.
1896 )
February 3 –
Frank Brown , 42nd
Governor of Maryland (b.
1846 )
February 6
February 11 –
Gaby Deslys , French dancer, actress & spy (b.
1881 ),
Spanish flu
February 13 –
João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal , Portuguese politician and antiquarian (b.
1847 )
February 15
February 17 –
Eduard von Knorr , German admiral (b.
1840 )
February 20
February 21 –
Afonso, Duke of Porto (b.
1865 )
February 27 –
William Sherman Jennings , Governor of Florida (b.
1863 )
March
Evelina Haverfield
April
Srinivasa Ramanujan
May
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
May 15 –
Maria Bochkareva , Russian White soldier (b.
1889 )
May 16
May 18 –
Curry Cabral , Portuguese physician and professor (b.
1844 )
May 21
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
June
Essad Pasha
Max Weber
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 )
[88]
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
July 18 –
Prince Joachim of Prussia (b.
1890 )
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Sarada Devi , Indian mystic and saint (b.
1853 )
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William Kissam Vanderbilt , American heir (b.
1849 )
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Ray Chapman
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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 –
Sir Samuel Griffith , Australian politician and judge (b.
1845 )
August 10
August 12 –
Hermann Struve , Russian-born astronomer (b.
1854 )
August 16
August 17 –
Ray Chapman , American baseball player (b.
1891 )
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Paul W. Abt , American businessman and politician (b.
1845 )
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Anders Zorn , Swedish painter (b.
1860 )
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James Wilson , Scottish-born American politician (b.
1835 )
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Wilhelm Wundt , German physiologist, psychologist (b.
1832 )
September
Peter Carl Fabergé
October
November
Kevin Barry
December
Date unknown
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