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1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1916th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 916th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1916, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.

April

Proclamation of the Irish Republic distributed during the Easter Rising

Main article: April 1916

• April
  • The toggle light switch is invented, by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg.
  • Korea Tungsten is founded in Daegu, predecessor of leading steel producer in Asia, POSCO (Pohang Steel Company).
• April 11 – WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the occupation of the Sinai Peninsula.
• April 22 – The Chinese troop transport SS Hsin-Yu capsizes off the Chinese coast; at least 1,000 are killed.
• April 24–30 – The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army.
• April 24–May 10 – Voyage of the James Caird: An open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nautical miles (1,500 km; 920 mi)) is undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions, to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, following the loss of its ship Endurance.
• April 27 – WWI: Gas attack at Hulluch in France: The 47th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division is decimated, in one of the most heavily concentrated German gas attacks of the war.
• April 29 – WWI: Mesopotamian campaign – The Siege of Kut ends with the surrender of British Indian Army forces to the Ottoman Empire at Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris in Basra Vilayet.

May

Main article: May 1916

May 31–June 1:Battle of Jutland between Allies and Germany

• May 16
  • United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
  • Britain and France conclude the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement, which is to divide Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire, following the conclusion of WWI and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, into French and British spheres of influence.
• May 31–June 1 – WWI: Battle of Jutland, between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet^[3] in the North Sea, the war's only large-scale clash of battleships. The result is tactically inconclusive, but British dominance of the North Sea is maintained.

July

Main article: July 1916

July 1–November 18:Battle of the Somme between British and German.

• July 1–November 18 – WWI: Battle of the Somme, opening with explosion of the British Y Sap and Lochnagar mines and the Battle of Albert: More than one million soldiers die, with 57,470 British Empire casualties on the first day, 19,240 of them killed, the British Army's bloodiest day.^[5] The immediate result is tactically inconclusive.
• July 1–12 – Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916: At least one shark attacks 5 swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth, who requires limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.
• July 2 – WWI: Battle of Erzincan – Russian forces defeat troops of the Ottoman Empire in Armenia.
• July 6 – WWI: The Battle of Kostiuchnówka concludes in Galicia (modern-day Ukraine) with Russian Imperial troops breaking through the line, forcing the Polish Legions and supporting Hungarian troops to retreat, with the Poles enduring 2,000 casualties.^[6]
• July 15 – In Seattle, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
• July 15–19 – WWI: Battle of Delville Wood – 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed, in South Africa's biggest loss during the First World War.
• July 19–20 – WWI: Battle of Fromelles – An attack by Australian and British troops is repulsed by the German army, with heavy casualties.
• July 22 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 and injuring 40; Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it.
• July 26 – WWI: East African Campaign – The German armed ship SMS Graf von Goetzen scuttles herself on Lake Tanganyika.
• July 29 – Matheson Fire: In Ontario, Canada, a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson, killing 233.
• July 30 – German agents cause the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey, an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least 7 people.

September

Main article: September 1916

Troops from New Zealand during WWI.

• September 1 – Bulgaria declares war on Romania, going on to take Dobruja.
• September 2 – WWI: British pilot Leefe Robinson becomes the first to shoot down a German airship over Britain.
• September 4 – WWI: East African Campaign – Dar es Salaam surrenders to British Empire forces, securing them control of the Central Line of railway through German East Africa.
• September 5 – D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages is released in the United States.
• September 6 – The first true self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders, opening 5 days later.^[7]
• September 11 – A mechanical failure causes the central span of the Quebec Bridge, a cantilever-type structure, to crash into the Saint Lawrence River for the second time, killing 13 workers.
• September 13 – Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.
• September 15–22 – WWI: Battle of Flers–Courcelette, France – The battle is significant for the first use of the tank in warfare; also for the debut of the Canadian and New Zealand Divisions in the Battle of the Somme.
• September 19 – WWI: East African Campaign – Belgian troops occupy Tabora in German East Africa.
• September 27 – Iyasu V of Ethiopia is deposed in a palace coup, in favour of his aunt Zewditu.
• September 29 – John D. Rockefeller becomes the first person ever to reach a nominal personal fortune of US$1 billion

November

Main article: November 1916

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) marching to the trenches, November 1916

• November 1
  • Pavel Milyukov delivers his "stupidity or treason" speech in the Russian State Duma, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
  • The first 40-hour work week officially begins, in the Endicott-Johnson factories of Western New York.
• November 5
  • The Kingdom of Poland (1916–18) is proclaimed by a joint act of the emperors of Germany and Austria.
  • Everett massacre: An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World results in seven deaths.
  • Honan Chapel, Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement (1894–1925), is dedicated.
• November 7
  • 1916 United States presidential election: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Republican Charles Evans Hughes, when California is called a week after Election Day.
  • Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
  • Radio station 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City, makes the first audio broadcast of presidential election returns.
• November 13 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
• November 18 – WWI – Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle, which started on July 1.
• November 21
  • Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria dies of pneumonia at the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, aged 86, after a reign of 68 years and is succeeded by his grandnephew Charles I.
  • WWI: Hospital ship HMHS Britannic, designed as the third Olympic-class ocean liner for White Star Line, sinks in the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea after hitting a mine; 30 lives are lost. At 48,158 gross register tons, she is the largest ship lost during the war.
• November 23 – WWI: Eastern Front – Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is occupied by troops of the Central Powers.

Sport

• March 30 - National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2. All Games were played at Montreal's Montreal Arena.
• Due to the outbreak of World War I, the 1916 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, is cancelled.

In fiction

• In the 1941 film Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane runs for New York governor and loses. Also in 1916, Emily Monroe Norton divorces him and, in either this year or in 1917, he marries Susan Alexander.

Births

January

Princess Niloufer

Elena Ceaușescu

P. W. Botha

Rafael Caldera

• January 1
  • Giuseppe Aquari, Italian film cinematographer (d. 1982)
  • Italo Viglianesi, Italian trade unionist politician and syndicalist (d. 1995)
• January 2 – Joseph W. Schmitt, American aircraft mechanic and spacesuit technician (d. 2017)
• January 3
  • Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
  • Betty Furness, American actress and consumer activist (d. 1994)
  • Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (d. 2011)
  • Erik Ågren, Swedish boxer (d. 1985)
  • Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978)
• January 4
  • Princess Niloufer (d. 1989)
  • Sidney Siegel, American psychologist (d. 1961)
• January 5
  • Alfred Ryder, American film, radio and television actor (d. 1995)
  • Wilhelm Szewczyk, Polish writer, poet, literary critic and translator (d. 1991)
• January 7
  • Elena Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, First Lady of Romania and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1989)
  • Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
• January 9 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and WWII code-breaker (d. 2004)
• January 10
  • Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
  • Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and Minister of Culture (d. 2019)
  • Richard Münch, German actor (d. 1987)
• January 12
  • Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist (d. 2013)
  • P. W. Botha, 9th President of South Africa (d. 2006)
  • Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx, English poet (d. 2018)
• January 15 – Hugh Gibb, English drummer and bandleader (d. 1992)
• January 17
  • Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., American politician (d. 2011)
  • Tatyana Karpova, Soviet and Russian actress (d. 2018)
• January 18 – Silviu Brucan, Romanian author and politician (d. 2006)
• January 19 – Harry Huskey, American computer designer (d. 2017)
• January 22 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer (d. 2013)
• January 23 – David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (d. 2018)
• January 24
  • Rafael Caldera, 39th President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
  • Marvin Creamer, American sailor (d. 2020)
  • Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor (d. 2014)
  • Daphne Lorraine Gum, Australian educator (d. 2017)
• January 27 – Stjepan Filipović, a People's Hero of Yugoslavia (d. 1942)
• January 28 – Dottie Hunter, Canadian baseball player (d. 2005)
• January 31 – Sangoulé Lamizana, 2nd President and Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2005)

February

Jackie Gleason

• February 10 – Louis Guttman, American-born Israeli university professor (d. 1987)
• February 11 – Ivan Hristov Bashev, Bulgarian Foreign Minister (d. 1971)
• February 12 – Damián Iguacén Borau, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2020)
• February 13 – John Reed, British actor and opera singer (d. 2010)
• February 14
  • Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (d. 2010)
  • Sally Gray, English actress (d. 2006)
  • Denham Harman, American gerontologist (d. 2014)
  • Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)
  • Charles Wycliffe Joiner, American judge (d. 2017)
  • Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese film director (d. 1996)
• February 15
  • Ernest Millington, English politician (d. 2009)
  • Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999)
  • Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2008)
• February 16 – Karel Dufek, Czechoslovak diplomat (d. 2009)
• February 18 – Maria Altmann, Austrian Holocaust survivor and heiress (d. 2011)
• February 20 – Jean Erdman, American dancer (d. 2020)
• February 23 – Retta Scott, first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios (d. 1990)
• February 26
  • Jackie Gleason, American comedian, actor and musician (d. 1987)
  • Preacher Roe, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• February 28
  • Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist (d. 2017)
  • Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician, Mayor of Zamboanga (d. 1984)
  • Frank Crean, Australian politician (d. 2008)

March

Harold Wilson

• March 1 – Emelyn Whiton, American Olympic sailor (d. 1962)
• March 2 – George E. Bria, Italian-American journalist (d. 2017)
• March 3 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 2006)
• March 4
  • William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
  • Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
  • Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
• March 5 – Jack Hamm, American cartoonist (d. 1996)
• March 6 – Rochelle Hudson, American actress (d. 1972)
• March 7 – Marie-Thérèse Bourquin, Belgian lawyer (d. 2018)
• March 10 – Ethel Bush, British police officer (d. 2016)
• March 11 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
• March 13
  • Lindy Boggs, American politician (d. 2013)
  • Jacque Fresco, American futurist and designer (d. 2017)
  • John Aspinwall Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1981)
  • Robert O. Peterson, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1994)
• March 14 – Horton Foote, American writer (d. 2009)
• March 15
  • Frank Coghlan Jr., American actor (d. 2009)
  • Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)
• March 16
  • Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)^[8]
  • Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings (d. 2010)
• March 17
  • Lyle Smith, American football coach (d. 2017)
  • Volodia Teitelboim, Chilean author and politician (d. 2008)
• March 19 – Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)
• March 20 – Pierre Messmer, French politician (d. 2007)
• March 24
  • Donald Hamilton, Swedish writer (d. 2006)
  • Anna Maria Bottini, Italian actress (d. 2020)
• March 26
  • Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
  • Dai Zijin, Chinese aviator (d. 2017)
  • Harry Rabinowitz, British film composer and conductor (d. 2016)
• March 29
  • Sam Beazley, British actor (d. 2017)
  • Peter Geach, British philosopher (d. 2013)
  • Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 6th President of Bangladesh (d. 1997)
  • Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Minnesota and Presidential candidate (d. 2005)
• March 31 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actor (d. 2012)

April

Gregory Peck

Ferruccio Lamborghini

• April 1
  • John Holter, American toolmaker and inventor (d. 2003)
  • Balilla Lombardi, Italian football player (d. 1987)
• April 2 – Menachem Porush, member of Israeli Knesset for Agudat Yisrael (d. 2010)
• April 3
  • Herb Caen, American journalist (d. 1997)
  • Peter Gowland, American photographer (d. 2010)
  • Louiguy, Spanish-French musician of Italian extraction (d. 1991)
• April 4
  • David White, American actor (d. 1990)
  • Nikola Ljubičić, 10th President of Serbia (d. 2005)
  • Mubarak Zarouk, Sudanese politician and minister (d. 1965)
• April 5
  • Albert Henry Ottenweller, American bishop (d. 2012)
  • Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
  • Carmen Silva, Brazilian actress (d. 2008)
• April 10 – Lee Jung-seob, Korean oil painter (d. 1956)
• April 11
  • Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
  • Armando León Bejarano, Mexican politician (d. 2016)
• April 12
  • Beverly Cleary, American children's book author (d. 2021)
  • Benjamin Libet, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness (d. 2007)
  • Movita Castaneda, American actress (d. 2015)
• April 14 – Pehr Victor Edman, Swedish chemist (d.1977)
• April 15
  • Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American department store heir (d. 1982)
  • Helene Hanff, American writer and critic (d. 1997)
  • Mikiel Fsadni, Maltese friar and historian (d. 2013)^[9]
• April 16 – Hon Sui Sen, Malaysian-Singaporean politician (d. 1983)
• April 17
  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2000)
  • A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician (d. 1981)
  • Win Maung, 3rd President of Myanmar (d. 1989)
• April 18
  • Carl Burgos, American comic book artist (d. 1984)
  • José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, President of Costa Rica (d. 2010)
• April 19
  • Bruno Chizzo, Italian association footballer (d. 1969)
  • Delio Rodríguez, Spanish road racing cyclist and sprinter (d. 1994)
• April 21
  • Walter Berg, German footballer (d. 1949)
• April 22
  • Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
  • Yvette Lundy, French resistance fighter (d. 2019)
• April 24
  • Stanley Kauffmann, American film critic (d. 2013)
  • Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
• April 25 – R. J. Rushdoony, American founder of Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001)
• April 26
  • Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American writer (d. 2014)
  • Vic Perrin, American voice actor (d. 1989)
  • Paulette Coquatrix, French costume designer (d. 2018)
  • Ken Wallis, British aviator, engineer, and inventor (d. 2013)
  • Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer and photojournalist (d. 1954)
  • George Tuska, American comic strip artist (d. 2009)
• April 27 – Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• April 28 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
• April 29 – Ramón Amaya Amador, Honduran author (d. 1966)
• April 30
  • Claude Elwood Shannon, American information theorist (d. 2001)
  • Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)

July

Dame Olivia de Havilland

Sir Edward Heath

Gough Whitlam

• July 1
  • Olivia de Havilland, Japanese-born British-American film actress (d. 2020)
  • Lawrence Halprin, American architect (d. 2009)
  • Thomas Hamilton-Brown, South African boxer (d. 1981)
• July 2
  • Reino Kangasmäki, Finnish wrestler (d. 2010)
  • Alec Hill, Australian military historian (d. 2008)
  • Zélia Gattai, Brazilian author and photographer (d. 2008)
  • Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (d. 1982)
  • Ken Curtis, American screen actor and singer (d. 1991)
• July 3 – John Kundla, American basketball coach (d. 2017)
• July 4
  • Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"), American propaganda broadcaster (d. 2006)
  • Adam Curle, British academic and peace activist (d. 2006)
  • Naseem Banu, Indian actress (d. 2002)
  • Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (d. 2014)
• July 5
  • Lívia Rév, Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)
  • Ivor Powell, Welsh footballer (d. 2012)
• July 6
  • Harold Norse, American writer (d. 2009)
  • Hugh Gibbons, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (d. 2007)
  • Don R. Christensen, American animator, cartoonist, illustrator, writer and inventor (d. 2006)
• July 7 – Werner G. Scharff, American arts patron and fashion designer (d. 2006)
• July 8
  • Marion Hartzog Smoak, American lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
  • Ronald R. Van Stockum, American writer (d. 2022)
  • Jean Rouverol, American actress, screenwriter and author (d. 2017)
  • Otto Luedeke, American cyclist (d. 2005)
• July 9 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• July 10 – Nicholas D'Antonio Salza, American bishop (d. 2009)
• July 11
  • Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (d. 2019)
  • Hans Maier, Dutch water polo player (d. 2018)
  • Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
  • Reg Varney, British actor (d. 2008)
  • Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014)
• July 14
  • Franco Montoro, Brazilian politician and lawyer (d. 1999)
  • Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (d. 1991)
• July 15
  • Sumner Gerard, American politician and diplomat (d. 2005)
  • Les Dye, American football player (d. 2000)
• July 16
  • Victor Fontana, Brazilian engineer, businessman and politician (d. 2017)
  • Sudono Salim, Indonesian-Chinese businessman (d. 2012)
• July 17
  • Eleanor Hadley, American economist and policymaker (d. 2007)^[10]
  • Henning Brandis, German physician and microbiologist (d. 2004)
• July 18
  • Charles Kittel, American physicist (d. 2019)
  • L. Patrick Gray III, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 2005)
  • Ed Cifers, American football end (d. 2005)
  • Sid Kiel, South African doctor and cricketer (d. 2007)
• July 19 – Phil Cavarretta, baseball player (d. 2010)
• July 20
  • Ersilio Tonini, Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church (d. 2013)
  • Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr., Swedish officer and horse rider (d. 2005)
• July 21
  • Douglas Freeman, English cricketer (d. 2013)
  • Sergeant Stubby, World War I American hero war dog (d. 1926)
• July 22
  • Irene Galitzine, Russian-Georgian fashion designer (d. 2006)
  • William A. Culpepper, American judge (d. 2015)
  • William Harper, Rhodesian politician (d. 2006)
  • Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
• July 23 – Sandra Gould, American actress (d. 1999)
• July 25 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
• July 27
  • Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007)
  • Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
• July 28 – David Brown, American producer (d. 2010)
• July 29 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician and Premier of Victoria (d. 2004)
• July 30 – Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
• July 31
  • Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
  • Ignacio Trelles, Mexican football player and coach (d. 2020)

September

Roald Dahl

Aldo Moro

Peter Finch

• September 1
  • Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (d. 2014)
  • Joseph Minish, American politician (d. 2007)
• September 3 – Tommy J. Smith, Australian trainer (d. 1998)
• September 5
  • Allan Louisy, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2011)
  • Frank Yerby, American writer (d. 1991)
• September 7 – Shen Panwen, Chinese chemist (d. 2017)
• September 12
  • Leoncio Afonso, Spanish scientist (d. 2017)
  • Edward Binns, American stage, film, and television actor (d. 1990)
• September 13 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-born author (d. 1990)^[11]
• September 14
  • Eric Bentley, English-born American critic and playwright (d. 2020)
  • John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001)
• September 15
  • Margaret Lockwood, Indian-born English actress (d. 1990)
  • Frederick C. Weyand, U.S. Army General (d. 2010)
• September 16 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
• September 17 – Mary Stewart, born Mary Rainbow, English-born fantasy and mystery writer (d. 2014)
• September 18 – John Jacob Rhodes, American politician and lawyer (d. 2003)
• September 21 – Zinovy Gerdt, Russian actor (d. 1996)
• September 23 – Aldo Moro, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1978)
• September 24 – Ruth Leach Amonette, American businesswoman (d. 2004)
• September 26 – Frank Handlen, American artist (d. 2023)
• September 27
  • Trento Longaretti, Italian painter (d. 2017)
  • S. Yizhar (aka Yizhar Smilansky), Israeli author (d. 2006)
• September 28 – Peter Finch, English-born Australian actor (d. 1977)

October

Vitaly Ginzburg

François Mitterrand

• October 2 – Jim L. Gillis Jr., American politician (d. 2018)
• October 3
  • Frank Pantridge, Irish physician and inventor (d. 2004)
  • James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
  • Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
• October 4 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
• October 7 – Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet, British army officer (d. 2017)
• October 9 – Robert Brubaker, American actor (d. 2010)
• October 10
  • Bernard Heuvelmans, Belgian-French cryptozoologist (d. 2001)
  • Sumiko Mizukubo, Japanese actress
• October 11 – Maurice Gaffney, Irish barrister (d. 2016)
• October 12 – Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and novelist (d. 1994)
• October 14 – C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)
• October 15 – Hassan Gouled Aptidon, President of Djibouti (d. 2006)
• October 19
  • Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009)
  • Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
• October 21 – Eddie Carnett, American baseball player (d. 2016)
• October 25 – Thérèse Kleindienst, French librarian (d. 2018)
• October 26 – François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
• October 30 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
• October 31
  • Phil Monroe, American animator and director (d. 1988)
  • Carl Johan Bernadotte, Prince of Sweden (d. 2012)

November

Walter Cronkite

Evelyn Keyes

Ramón José Velásquez

• November 4 – Walter Cronkite, American television journalist (d. 2009)
• November 5 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (d. 1953)
• November 6 – Harry Blamires, British Anglican theologian, literary critic and novelist (d. 2017)
• November 8 – Lady Ursula d'Abo, English socialite (d. 2017)
• November 10 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (d. 2012)
• November 11 – Robert Carr, English politician (d. 2012)
• November 12 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
• November 14 – Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
• November 15 – Bill Melendez, American animator (d. 2008)
• November 16 – Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
• November 17 – Shelby Foote, American historian and novelist, author of The Civil War: A Narrative (d. 2005)
• November 20
  • Hamida Habibullah, Indian politician (d. 2018)
  • Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008)
• November 23
  • Michael Gough, Malayan-born English actor (d. 2011)
  • P. K. Page, Canadian poet (d. 2010)
• November 24
  • Forrest J Ackerman, American writer (d. 2008)
  • Frankie Muse Freeman, American civil rights attorney (d. 2018)
• November 25 – Cosmo Haskard, Irish-born British colonial administrator and British Army officer (d. 2017)
• November 26 – Gerhard Unger, German tenor (d. 2011)
• November 27 – Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (d. 2002)
• November 28
  • Lilian, Princess of Réthy, born Mary Lilian Baels, English-born Belgian queen consort of Leopold III (d. 2002)
  • Ramón José Velásquez, 44th President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
• November 29
  • Evelyn Bonaci, Maltese politician (d. 2008)
  • Helen Clare, British singer (d. 2018)
  • Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
• November 30 – John C. Harkness, American architect (d. 2016)

December

Kristján Eldjárn

Kirk Douglas

Betty Grable

• December 1 – Wan Li, Chinese government official (d. 2015)
• December 2 – Nancye Wynne Bolton, Australian tennis player (d. 2001)^[12]
• December 5 – Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist (d. 2013)
• December 6
  • Kristján Eldjárn, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
  • Pratap Chandra Lal, Indian military advisor (d. 1982)
  • Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
• December 7
  • George Russell Weller, American salesman known for the Santa Monica Farmer's Market incident (d. 2010)
  • John G. Morris, American picture editor (d. 2017)
• December 8
  • Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
  • T. K. Whitaker, Irish economist and public servant (d. 2017)
• December 9
  • Jerome Beatty, Jr., American author of children's literature (d. 2002)
  • Kirk Douglas, American film actor (Spartacus) (d. 2020)
  • Esther Wilkins, American dentist (d. 2016)
• December 11 – Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (d. 1989)
• December 12 – Maharaj Charan Singh, Fourth Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (d. 1990)
• December 12 – Anne Vermeer, Dutch politician (d. 2018)
• December 14 – Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
• December 15 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
• December 16 – Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (d. 2014)
• December 18
  • Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born union leader (d. 2008)
  • Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
  • Franciszek Kornicki, Polish fighter pilot (d. 2017)
• December 19
  • Roy Baker, English film director (d. 2010)
  • Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (d. 2010)
  • John Crutcher, American politician (d. 2017)
• December 20 – Morrie Schwartz, American professor (d. 1995)
• December 21 – Arsène Tchakarian, Armenian-French resistance fighter (d. 2018)
• December 22 – Dietrich Grunewald, Swedish-born, American Artist (d. 2003)
• December 24
  • Ron G. Mason, English oceanographer (d. 2009)
  • Cecília Schelingová, Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic religious professed, martyr and blessed (d. 1955)
• December 25
  • Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian politician, 1st President of Algeria (d. 2012)
  • Graciela Naranjo, Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001)
• December 27 – Cathy Lewis, American actress (d. 1968)

Deaths

January

Patriarch Cyril VIII Geha

Blessed Juana María Condesa Lluch

Lorenzo Latorre

• January 1
  • Max Bastelberger, German doctor and entomologist (b. 1851)
  • Adán Cárdenas, Nicaraguan doctor and politician, 16th President of Nicaragua (b. 1836)
• January 2
  • Joseph Rucker Lamar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1857)
  • Félix Sardà y Salvany, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and writer (b. 1844)
• January 5 – Ulpiano Checa, Spanish painter, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1860)
• January 7 – Andrés Baquero, Spanish teacher and writer (b. 1853)
• January 8
  • Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
  • Eugene W. Hilgard, German-born American soil scientist (b. 1833)
• January 9 – Ada Rehan, Irish-born American Shakespearean actress (b. 1859)
• January 10 – Guido Baccelli, Italian physician (b. 1830)
• January 11
  • Cyril VIII Geha, Greek Catholic patriarch (b. 1840)
  • Takashima Tomonosuke, Japanese general (b. 1844)
• January 12
  • Léon Autonne, French engineer and mathematician (b. 1859)
  • Georgios Theotokis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• January 13
  • George Bengescu-Dabija, Wallachian-born Romanian poet, playwright, and general (b. 1844)
  • Vasile Hossu, Romanian Orthodox priest and bishop (b. 1866)
  • Victoriano Huerta, Mexican general and statesman, 35th President of Mexico (b. 1850)^[13]
• January 14 – Otto Ammon, German anthropologist (b. 1842)
• January 15 – Vojtech Alexander, Slovakian radiologist (b. 1857)
• January 16
  • Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician (b. 1858)
  • William Montrose Graham Jr., American general (b. 1834)
  • Juana María Condesa Lluch, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1862)
• January 17 – Arthur V. Johnson, American actor and director (b. 1876)
• January 18 – Lorenzo Latorre, Uruguayan officer and politician, 11th President of Uruguay (b. 1844)
• January 19
  • Dora Knowlton Ranous, American actress, author and translator (b. 1859)
  • Antoine Simon, French composer (b. 1850)
• January 20 – Ephraim Francis Baldwin, American architect (b. 1837)
• January 30 – Sir Clements Markham, British explorer and geographer (b. 1830)

February

Metropolitan Ioan Mețianu

Blessed Ludwika Szczęsna

Ernst Mach

• February 3 – Metropolitan Ioan Mețianu, Romanian cleric (b. 1828)
• February 6
  • Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
  • Isala Van Diest, Belgian physician (b. 1842)
• February 7
  • Franklin E. Brooks, U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado (b. 1847)
  • Ludwika Szczęsna, Polish Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1863)
• February 9 – Anton Yegorovich von Saltza, Russian general (b. 1843)
• February 12 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (b. 1831)
• February 13
  • Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (b. 1864)
  • Carlos Antonio Mendoza, Panamanian politician, acting President of Panama (b. 1856)
• February 18 – Hans Schmidt, German Roman Catholic priest (executed) (b. 1881)
• February 19 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• February 20 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844)
• February 21 – Karl Begas, German sculptor (b. 1845)
• February 23
  • Jabez Balfour, English businessman (b. 1843)
  • Domenico Lovisato, Italian geologist (b. 1842)
  • Hugo von Pohl, German admiral (b. 1855)
• February 25 – David Bowman, Australian politician (b. 1860)
• February 26 – Tomasa Ortiz Real, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1842)
• February 27 – Ugo Balzani, Italian historian (b. 1847)
• February 28 – Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)

March

Franz Marc

Herman Gesellius

• March 2 – Elisabeth of Wied, Queen consort of Romania (b. 1843)
• March 4
  • Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter (killed in action) (b. 1880)
  • William Sooy Smith, American Union general and engineer (b. 1830)
• March 7 – Fred Donovan, American baseball player (b. 1844)
• March 9 - Arnold Spencer-Smith, British explorer, clergyman, and amateur photographer (b. 1883)
• March 11
  • Florence Baker, Hungarian-born British explorer (b. 1841)
  • Henry G. Davis, American politician (b. 1823)
• March 12 – William M. O. Dawson, 12th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1853)
• March 15 – John Beveridge, Australian businessman, Mayor of Redfern (b. 1848)
• March 16 – Thomas King, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1858)
• March 19
  • John J. Davis, American politician, U.S. Representatives from West Virginia (b. 1835)
  • Girolamo Maria Gotti, Italian Discalced Carmelite friar and Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1834)
  • Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• March 20 – Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy brought to America as part of an exhibition at the Bronx zoo (b. 1883)
• March 24
  • Herman Gesellius, French architect (b. 1874)
  • Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (ship sinking) (b. 1867)
• March 25 – Ishi, last known member of the Yana people (b. 1860)
• March 28 – Paul von Plehwe, Russian general (b. 1850)
• March 30 – Nakamuta Kuranosuke, Japanese admiral (b. 1837)

April

Prince Leopold Clement of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

• April 4
  • Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist (b. 1841)
  • Max Lewandowsky, German neurologist (b. 1876)
• April 7 – Shigeyoshi Matsuo, Japanese businessman (b. 1843)
• April 11 – Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (b. 1864)
• April 14 – Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist, activist and editor (b. 1847)
• April 16 – Alexander Meyrick Broadley, British barrister (b. 1846)
• April 19 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
• April 21
  • Ubaldo Pacchierotti, Italian composer (b. 1876)
  • John Surratt, suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination, son of Mary Surratt (b. 1844)
• April 27 – Prince Leopold Clement of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
• April 28 – Edward Felix Baxter, English recipient of the Victorian Cross (b. 1885)

May

Karl Schwarzschild

James Connolly

Vladimír Jindřich Bufka

Ivan Franko

• May 2 – Jules Blanchard, French sculptor (b. 1832)
• May 3
  • Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, political activist, and nationalist (executed) (b. 1879)
  • Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1878)
  • Tom Clarke, Irish republican, leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (executed) (b. 1858)
• May 4
  • Lord John Hay, British admiral and politician (b. 1827)
  • Joseph Plunkett, Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary (executed) (b. 1887)
  • Hector Sévin, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1852)
• May 6 – Hans Chiari, Austrian pathologist (b. 1851)
• May 8
  • Mabel Beardsley, English actress (b. 1871)
  • William Burnyeat, British politician (b. 1837)
  • Éamonn Ceannt, Irish republican (executed) (b. 1881)
  • Seán Heuston, Irish republican (executed) (b. 1891)^[14]
  • Aeneas Mackintosh, British Merchant Navy officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1879)
  • Victor Hayward, British explorer (b. 1887)
• May 11
  • Max Reger, German modernist composer (b. 1873)
  • Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist (b. 1873)
  • Tirésias Simon Sam, 16th President of Haiti (b. 1835)
• May 12
  • James Connolly, Irish socialist and political activist (executed) (b. 1868)
  • Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish republican (executed) (b. 1883)
• May 13
  • Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859)
  • Ján Bahýľ, Slovak engineer and inventor (b. 1856)
  • Margaret Benson, English author (b. 1865)
  • Émile Petitot, French Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1838)
• May 18 - Chen Qiemi, Chinese politician (b. 1878)
• May 19 – Georges Boillot, French Grand Prix driver (killed in action) (b. 1884)
• May 21 – Artúr Görgei, Hungarian military general and politician (b. 1818)
• May 23 – Vladimír Jindřich Bufka, Czechoslovak photographer (b. 1887)
• May 27 – Joseph Gallieni, French general (b. 1849)
• May 28 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer and political activist (b. 1856)
• May 31 – Sir Horace Hood, British admiral (killed in action) (b. 1870)

June

Yuan Shikai

Alberto Elmore Fernández de Córdoba

• June 2 – Paul von Bruns, German surgeon (b. 1846)
• June 5 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal and statesman (drowned) (b. 1850)
• June 6 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician, Emperor of China and 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1859)
• June 7
  • Alberto Elmore Fernández de Córdoba, Peruvian diplomat and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1844)
  • Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
• June 12 – Silvanus P. Thompson, English professor of physics, electrical engineer, member of the Royal Society and author (b. 1851)
• June 17 – Edwin Munroe Bacon, English writer (b. 1844)
• June 18
  • Max Immelmann, German fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1890)
  • Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, German general (b. 1848)
• June 22 – Tanaka Yoshio, Japanese naturalist (b. 1838)
• June 24 – Victor Chapman, French-born American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1890)
• June 25 – Thomas Eakins, American realist painter (b. 1844)
• June 30
  • Russell Barton, British-born Australian politician (b. 1830)
  • Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn, American correspondent, author, and songwriter (b. 1847)

July

Servant of God Jeremiah Lomnytskyj

Cesare Battisti

William Ramsay

• July 1 – First Day on the Somme (killed in action)
  • Eugene Bourdon, French architect (b. 1870)
  • Gilbert Waterhouse, English architect and war poet (b. 1883)
• July 2 – Mikhail Pomortsev, Russian meteorologist (b. 1851)
• July 3
  • Hetty Green, American businesswoman (b. 1834)
  • Alfred Kleiner, Swiss physicist (b. 1849)
  • Jeremiah Lomnytskyj, Ukrainian Basilian priest, missionary and servant of God (b. 1860)
• July 6 – Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
• July 7 – Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, German painter (b. 1835)
• July 12 – Cesare Battisti, Italian patriot, geographer and politician (b. 1875)
• July 15 – Élie Metchnikoff, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
• July 16
  • Regino Garcia, Filipino artist (b. 1840)
  • Sir Victor Horsley, English physician and surgeon (b. 1857)
• July 20 – Reinhard Sorge, German dramatist and poet (killed in action) (b. 1892)
• July 22 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (b. 1849)
• July 23 – Sir William Ramsay, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• July 26
  • Gustave Maria Blanche, French Roman Catholic priest and bishop (b. 1849)
  • Johannes Ranke, German physiologist (b. 1836)
• July 27
  • Arthur Winton Brown, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington (b. 1856)
  • Charles Fryatt, British mariner (executed) (b. 1872)
• July 29 – Claude Castleton, Australian VC recipient (killed in action) (b. 1893)

August

Pierre de Ségur

Umberto Boccioni

• August 3 – Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1864)
• August 5 – George Butterworth, English composer (b. 1885)
• August 7 – Kittredge Haskins, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont (b. 1836)
• August 8
  • Lily Braun, German writer (b. 1865)
  • Kamimura Hikonojō, Japanese admiral (b. 1849)
  • Oscar Linkson, English football player (b. 1888)
• August 9 – Guido Gozzano, Italian poet and writer (b. 1883)
• August 10 – S. Isadore Miner, American columnist writing as "Pauline Periwinkle" (b. 1863)
• August 13 – Pierre de Ségur, French historian (b. 1853)
• August 17 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
• August 18 – Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais, French aviator (b. 1892)
• August 30 – Alexander Boarman, American judge, U.S. House of Representatives of Louisiana (b. 1839)
• August 31
  • Martha McClellan Brown, American activist (b. 1838)
  • John St. John, American temperance leader and Governor of Kansas (b. 1833)

September

Gennady Ladyzhensky

Gerald Arbuthnot

• September 2
  • Gennady Ladyzhensky, Russian painter (b. 1852)
  • Felipe Trigo, Spanish writer (b. 1864)
• September 7 – Annie Le Porte Diggs, Canadian-born American activist and librarian (b. 1853)
• September 8
  • Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1836)
  • James Gray, American journalist, 19th Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1862)
• September 12 – Zygmunt Balicki, Polish sociologist (b. 1858)
• September 14
  • Pierre Duhem, French physicist (b. 1861)
  • José Echegaray, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• September 15
  • Raymond Asquith, English barrister (b. 1878)
  • Josiah Royce, American philosopher (b. 1855)
• September 17 – Seth Low, American politician and educator, Mayor of New York City (b. 1850)
• September 25
  • Gerald Arbuthnot, British soldier and politician (b. 1872)
  • Kurt Wintgens, German fighter pilot, air ace in World War I (b. 1894)^[15]
• September 29 – Albert John Cook, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1842)

October

Blessed Isidore De Loor

King Otto of Bavaria

• October 3
  • James Burgess, British archaeologist (b. 1832)
  • Dmytro Yaremko, Ukrainian Eastern Catholic hierarch and bishop (b. 1879)
• October 6 – Isidore De Loor, Belgian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1881)
• October 10 – Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian architect (killed in action) (b. 1888)
• October 11 – King Otto of Bavaria (b. 1848)
• October 12 – Tony Jannus, American aviator and aircraft designer (b. 1889)
• October 18 – Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench, Spanish painter (b. 1849)
• October 21
  • Olindo Guerrini, Italian poet (b. 1845)
  • Karl von Stürgkh, Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1859)
• October 25 – Gérard Encausse, Papus, French occultist (b. 1865)
• October 28
  • Oswald Boelcke, German World War I fighter ace, (b. 1891)
  • Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
• October 29 – John Sebastian Little, American politician and congressman (b. 1851)
• October 31
  • Tina Blau, Austrian painter (b. 1845)
  • Charles Taze Russell, Protestant evangelist, forerunner of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
  • Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and politician, and the first commander-in-chief of the Republic of China (b. 1874)

November

Prince Mircea of Romania

Prince Heinrich of Bavaria

Francisco da Veiga Beirão

Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria

Jack London

• November 1 – Franz, Prince of Thun and Hohenstein, Austrian noble and statesman, Prime Minister (b. 1847)
• November 2 – Prince Mircea of Romania (b. 1913)
• November 3 – August Lindberg, Swedish actor, director and manager (b. 1846)
• November 4
  • John Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris, Irish peer (b. 1838)
  • Ella Loraine Dorsey, American author, journalist, and translator (b. 1853)
• November 5 – Francesco Salesio Della Volpe, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1844)
• November 6 – Sultan Ali Dinar (b. 1856)
• November 8 – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (b. 1884)
• November 9
  • Ludwig Bruns, German neurologist (b. 1856)
  • Ion Dragalina, Romanian general (died of wounds) (b. 1860)
• November 10 – Walter Sutton, American geneticist and physician (b. 1877)
• November 11
  • Frank Chesterton, British architect (b. 1877)
  • Francisco da Veiga Beirão, Portuguese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1841)
• November 12 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (b. 1855)
• November 14
  • Franklin Ware Mann, American inventor (b. 1856)
  • Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
• November 15 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)^[16]
• November 18 – August Lindberg, Swedish actor, director and manager (b. 1846)
• November 21 –
  • Chester Adgate Congdon, American mining magnate (b. 1853)
  • Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (b. 1830)
• November 22 – Jack London, American author (b. 1876)
• November 23 – Lanoe Hawker VC, British World War I fighter ace, killed in action by Manfred von Richthofen (b. 1890)
• November 24
  • Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1833)
  • John Francis Barnett, English teacher (b. 1851)
  • Sir Hiram Maxim, American firearms inventor (b. 1840)
• November 25 – Inez Milholland, American suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent and public speaker (b. 1886)^[17]
• November 27 – Émile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (b. 1855)
• November 28 – Martinus Theunis Steyn, Boer lawyer, politician, and statesman, sixth and last President of the Orange Free State (1896-1902) (b. 1857)
• November 30 – Demetrio Alonso Castrillo, Spanish politician (b. 1841)

December

Blessed Charles de Foucauld

Blessed Giulia Valle

Blessed Honorat da Biała

King Thibaw Min

Saint Albert Chmielowski

Grigori Rasputin

• December 1 – Charles de Foucauld, French Roman Catholic religious professed, priest and blessed (b. 1858)
• December 2
  • William Brownell, Australian politician (b. 1862)
  • Hughie Hughes, British racecar driver (b. 1885)
  • José Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (b. 1857)
• December 4 – Paul Allard, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1841)
• December 5
  • Princess Augusta of Cambridge (b. 1822)
  • Hans Richter, Austrian–Hungarian conductor (b. 1843)
• December 6 – Signe Hornborg, Finnish architect (b. 1856)
• December 8 – John Porter Merrell, American admiral (b. 1846)
• December 9
  • Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (b. 1843)
  • Natsume Sōseki, Japanese writer (b. 1867)
  • Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay (b. 1873)
• December 10 – Ōyama Iwao, Japanese field marshal and a founder of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1842)
• December 11
  • Valentín Díaz, Filipino patriot, during the Philippine Revolution (b. 1845)
  • Zoilo H. Garcia, Dominican engineer and aviator (b. 1881)
• December 12 – Edwin Atlee Barber, American archaeologist (b. 1851)
• December 14 – Nicolai Soloviev, Russian composer (b. 1846)
• December 15 – José Maria de Alpoim, Portuguese journalist (b. 1857)
• December 16
  • Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist (b. 1848)
  • Honorat da Biała, Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1829)
  • Hugo Münsterberg, German-born American psychologist (b. 1856)
  • Ognjeslav Stepanović, Serbian inventor (b. 1851)
• December 18
  • George W. Cook, U.S. Representative from Colorado (b. 1851)
  • Giulia Valle, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1847)
• December 19
  • Doug Allison, American baseball player (b. 1846)
  • Thibaw Min, King of Burma (b. 1859)
• December 22 – George A. Woodward, American general (b. 1835)
• December 25
  • Albert Chmielowski, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1845)
  • John Dunne, Australian Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1846)
• December 28 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835)^[18]
• December 30
  • Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (assassinated) (b. 1869)
  • Leopold Sulerzhitsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – not awarded
• Chemistry – not awarded
• Medicine – not awarded
• Literature – Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
• Peace – not awarded

References

Further reading

• Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 109–74.