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Year '''1924''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXIV]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1924 ==
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*Carpenter Avenue Elementary School is built.
===January===
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* [[January 7]] - Great fire in London harbour.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
* [[January 10]] - British submarine L-34 sinks in the [[English Channel]] - forty-three dead.
* [[January 12]] - [[Gopinath Saha]] shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested soon after.
* [[January 21]] - [[Vladimir Lenin]] dies and [[Joseph Stalin]] begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
* [[January 22]] - [[Ramsay MacDonald]] becomes the first [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] Prime Minister.
* [[January 23]] - [[Soviet Union]] officially declares that [[Lenin]] died [[January 21]].
* [[January 25]] - The [[1924 Winter Olympics]] open in [[Chamonix|Chamonix, France]] (in the [[France|French]] [[Alps]]), inaugurating the [[Winter Olympic Games]].
* [[January 26]] - Petrograd ([[Saint Petersburg]]) is renamed [[Leningrad]].
* [[January 27]] - [[Lenin]] is buried in a [[mausoleum]] ([[:Image:Lenin's Tomb.jpg|Lenin's Tomb]]) in [[Moscow]]'s [[Red Square]].
===February===
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* [[February 1]]
**The [[United Kingdom]] recognizes [[Soviet Union]].
**[[Australian Loans Council]] meets for the first time.
* [[February 4]] - [[Mohandas Gandhi]] is released prematurely on medical grounds.
* [[February 5]] - [[GMT]]: Hourly time signals from [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] are broadcasted for the first time.
* [[February 7]] - [[Capital punishment|Death penalty]]: The first state execution using [[gas]] in the [[United States]] takes place in [[Nevada]].
* [[February 12]] - [[Rhapsody in Blue]], by George [[Gershwin]], first performed in [[New York City]] at [[Aeolian Hall]].
* [[February 14]] - [[International Business Machines|IBM]] corporation founded.
* [[February 16]]-[[February 26]] - Dock strike in US harbors.
* [[February 22]] - [[Calvin Coolidge]] becomes the first [[President of the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]].
===March===
* [[Adolf Hitler]] begins dictating his book, ''Mein Kampf'' (or in English, ''My Struggle''), while imprisoned in [[Bavaria]].
* [[March 1]] - [[Diana Vreeland]], fashion editor and columnist, marries Thomas Reed Vreeland at St. Thomas's church in New York.
* [[March 3]] - The 1400-year-old Islamic [[caliph]]ate is abolished when [[Caliph]] [[Abdul Mejid II]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed [[Turkey]] of President [[Kemal Atatürk]].
* [[March 8]] - [[Castle Gate mine disaster]] kills 172 coal miners in [[Utah]], [[United States]]
* [[March 9]] - [[Italy]] annexes [[Fiume]]
* [[March 25]] - [[Greece]] proclaims it is a [[republic]].
* [[March 29]] - Third Ministry of [[Raymond Poincaré]] starts in France.
===April===
* [[April 1]]
**[[Adolf Hitler]] is sentenced to five years in [[Prison|jail]] for his participation in the [[Beer Hall Putsch]]. He will serve only nine months.
**First revenue flight for [[Belgium]]'s [[SABENA]] Airlines.
* [[April 6]] - [[Fascist]]s win elections in [[Italy]] with ⅔ majority.
* [[April 13]] - [[Referendum]] in [[Greece]] favors the formation of [[Hellenic Republic]].
* [[April 13]] - [[Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos|A.E.K]], one of the most successful football
clubs in [[Greece]], is founded.
* [[April 16]] - [[United States|American]] [[Mass media|Media]] company [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]] is founded.
* [[April 26]] - [[Harry Grindell Matthews]] demonstrates his "[[death ray]]" in London but fails to convince British [[War Office]]
* [[April 27]] - Group of [[Alawites]] kill some Christian nuns in [[Syria]] – French troops march against them.
===May===
* [[May 3]] - The [[Aleph Zadik Aleph]], the oldest [[Jew]]ish youth fraternity, founded.
* [[May 4]] - The [[1924 Summer Olympics]] opening ceremonies held in [[Paris, France]].
* [[May 10]] - [[J. Edgar Hoover]] is appointed head the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|Bureau of Investigation]].
* [[May 11]] - [[Mercedes-Benz]] formed by the merging companies owned by [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Karl Benz]].
* [[May 21]] - [[University of Chicago]] students [[Leopold and Loeb|Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr.]] murder 14-year-old [[Bobby Franks]] in a [[thrill killing]].
===June===
* [[June 1]] - [[Harry Grindell Matthews]] returns from [[Paris]] to [[London]] - he tries to use a [[Pathe]] film to demonstrate that his [[death ray]] works
* [[June 2]] - U.S. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] signs the [[Indian Citizenship Act of 1924]] into law, granting [[citizenship]] to all [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] born within the [[territorial limits]] of the [[United States]].
* [[June 3]] - [[Franz Kafka]] dies in Vienna, Austria. His death is attributed to starvation, brought on by worsening [[Tuberculosis]]
* [[June 5]] - [[Ernst Alexanderson]] sends the first [[Fax|facsimile]] across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] (to his father in [[Sweden]]).
* [[June 7]] - [[Ed Farhat]], "The Original Sheik", is born.
* [[June 8]] - [[George Mallory]] and [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]] are last seen "going strong for the top" of [[Mount Everest]] by teammate [[Noel Odell]] at 12:50 PM. The two [[mountaineer]]s were never seen alive again.
* [[June 10]] - [[Fascist]]s kidnap and kill [[Italy|Italian]] socialist leader [[Giacomo Matteotti]] in [[Rome]].
* [[June 12]] - the [[Roundout Heist]] - Six men of [[Egan's Rats]] gang rob a mail train in [[Roundout, Illinois]]. Robbery is later found to have been an [[inside job]]
* [[June 16]] - [[Whampoa Military Academy]] is founded.
* [[June 23]] - American airman Russell L. Maughan flew from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit
===July===
* [[July 17]] - Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in [[Australia]], after a private member's bill proposed by [[Tasmania]]n [[National Party of Australia|Nationalist]] senator [[Herbert Payne]] results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
* [[July 20]] - A [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] sports newspaper ''[[Sovetskiy Sport]]'' is founded.
===August===
* [[August 18]] - France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.
* [[August 28]] - [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] rose against the [[Soviet Union]] in the [[August Uprising in Georgia|abortive rebellion]] in which several thousands died.
===September===
* [[September 9]]
**[[Hanapepe Massacre]] occurs on [[Kauai]], [[Hawaii]]
**8-hour work day introduced in [[Belgium]]
*[[September 9]] - [[September 11|11]] - [[1924 Kohat riots]]
===October===
* [[October 2]] - The [[Geneva Protocol]] is adopted as a means to strengthen the [[League of Nations]].
* [[October 10]] - [[Alpha Delta Gamma]] National Fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
* [[October 19]] - [[Abdul Azis]] declares himself protector of holy places in [[Mecca]].
* [[October 22]] - [[Toastmasters]] is founded.
* [[October 24]]
**British Foreign Office publishes [[Zinoviev Letter]].
**[[Dixie Dean]] scores a hat-trick for [[Tranmere Rovers]] to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites
* [[October 25]] - British authorities in [[India]] arrest [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] and jail him for the next two and half years
* [[October 27]] - The [[Uzbek SSR]] joins the Soviet Union.
===November===
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* [[November 4]]
**[[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]].
**[[Calvin Coolidge]] defeats [[John W. Davis]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1924|U.S. presidential election]]
* [[November 19]] - In [[Los Angeles, California]], famous [[silent film]] director [[Thomas Ince]] ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]], in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon [[William Randolph Hearst]]).
* [[November 27]] - In [[New York City]] the first [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]] is held.
===December===
* [[December 1]]
**Failed communist [[Attempted coup of 1924 in Estonia|coup attempt]] in [[Estonia]].
**Premiere of [[George Gershwin]]'s [[Lady Be Good]], with the song [[Fascinating Rhythm]] (book by [[Guy Bolton]] and [[Fred Thompson]], lyrics by [[Ira Gershwin]]), New York, NY.
* [[December 19]] - [[Fritz Haarmann]] sentenced to death for a series of murders.
* [[December 24]]
**Air crash in [[Croydon Airport|Croydon air field]] - 8 dead.
**[[Albania]] becomes a [[republic]].
===Undated===
* The powerful opiate, [[hydromorphone]] is developed in [[Germany]].
* [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at [[Stirling]], [[Alberta]] [[Canada]]
* [[Alice Vanderbilt Morris]], a wealthy heiress, founds the [[International Auxiliary Language Association]] in [[New York]]
* [[André Breton]] defines [[surrealism]] as "pure psychic [[surrealist automatism|automatism]]" in the first [[Surrealist Manifesto]].
* US bootleggers begin to use [[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson SMG]]s.
* [[Earth Inductor Compass]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Roberts Blossom]], American actor and poet
* [[January 3]] - [[Hank Stram]], American football coach and broadcaster (d. [[2005]])
* [[January 4]] - [[Walter Ris]], American freestyle swimmer
* [[January 6]] - [[Earl Scruggs]], American musician
* [[January 10]] - [[Max Roach]], American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. [[2007]])
* [[January 11]]
**[[Roger Guillemin]], French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
**[[Sam B. Hall]], American politician (d. [[1994]])
**[[Slim Harpo]], American musician (d. [[1970]])
* [[January 12]] - [[Olivier Gendebien]], Belgian race car driver (d. [[1998]])
* [[January 16]] - [[Katy Jurado]], Mexican actress (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 19]] - [[Jean-Francois Revel]], French author (d. [[2006]])
* [[January 26]] - [[Annette Strauss]], American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. [[1998]])
* [[January 27]] - [[Sabu Dastagir|Sabu]], Indian actor (d. [[1963]])
* [[January 29]] - [[Luigi Nono]], Italian composer (d. [[1990]])
* [[January 30]] - [[Lloyd Alexander]], American writer (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Elfi von Dassanowsky]], Austrian-born producer and musician
* [[February 7]] - [[Hattie Jacques]], English star of the Carry On films (d. [[1980]])
* [[February 9]] - [[George Guest]], Welsh choral conductor (d. [[2002]])
* [[February 17]] - [[Margaret Truman]], American novelist and only child of [[Harry S. Truman]] and [[Bess Truman]]
* [[February 19]] - [[Lee Marvin]], American actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[February 20]]
**[[Gerson Goldhaber]], particle physicist and Astrophysicist
**[[Gloria Vanderbilt]], American cosmetics entrepreneur
* [[February 21]] - [[Robert Mugabe]], first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
* [[February 23]] - [[Allan McLeod Cormack]], South African physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1998]])
* [[February 29]] - [[Al Rosen]], baseball player
===March-April===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Deke Slayton]], astronaut (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 2]] - [[Wendell Wise Mayes, Jr.]] He received the first Wendell Mayes, Jr. Medal in 1986. The Diabetes Association named the highest award given to non-medical professional volunteers, in his honor.
* [[March 3]] - [[John Woodnutt]], British actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[March 3]] - [[Lilian Velez]], Filipino actress (d. [[1948]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Kenneth O'Donnell]], aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. [[1977]])
* [[March 7]] - [[Kōbō Abe]], Japanese novelist (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 15]] - [[Walter Gotell]], German actor (d. [[1997]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Sarah Vaughan]], American jazz singer (d. [[1990]])
* [[March 28]] - [[Freddie Bartholomew]], British actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Alan Davidson (food writer)|Alan Davidson]], British author (d. [[2003]])
* [[April 1]] - [[Brendan Byrne]], Governor of New Jersey
* [[April 3]]
**[[Marlon Brando]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
**[[Errol Brathwaite]], New Zealand author (d. [[2005]])
**[[Doris Day]], American actress
* [[April 4]] - [[Gil Hodges]], American baseball player (d. [[1972]])
* [[April 6]] - [[Jimmy Roberts (singer)|Jimmy Roberts]], American singer, ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]'' (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 7]] - [[Johannes Mario Simmel]], Austrian writer
* [[April 12]] - [[Raymond Barre]], French politician and Prime Minister (d. [[2007]])
* [[April 15]] - Sir [[Neville Marriner]], English conductor and violinist
* [[April 16]] - [[Henry Mancini]], American composer and arranger (d. [[1994]])
* [[April 18]]
**[[Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown]], American blues musician (d. [[2005]])
**[[Henry Hyde]], Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (d. [[2007]])
* [[April 19]] - [[Al Balding]], Canadian golfer (d. [[2006]])
* [[April 23]] - [[Bobby Rosengarden]], American jazz drummer (d. [[2007]])
* [[April 24]] - [[Clement Freud]], British writer, radio personality, and politician
===May-June===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Art Fleming]], American actor, game show host, original host of [[Jeopardy!]]. (d. 1995)
* [[May 11]] - [[Antony Hewish]], English radio astronomer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]
* [[May 12]] - [[Tony Hancock]], English comedian (d. [[1968]])
* [[May 13]] - [[Beatrice Arthur]], Actress, Golden Girls star
* [[May 18]] - [[Priscilla Pointer]], American actress
* [[May 19]] - [[Sandy Wilson]], British composer
* [[May 22]] - [[Charles Aznavour]], French singer, actor, and songwriter
* [[May 24]]
**[[Vincent Cronin]], British historical writer and biographer
**[[Maria Koepcke]], ornithologist
* [[June 1]] - Dr. [[William Sloane Coffin]], American clergyman (d. [[2006]])
* [[June 2]] - [[June Callwood]], Canadian journalist, author & social activist (d. [[2007]])
* [[June 3]]
**[[Ted Mallie]], American radio and television announcer (d. [[1999]])
**[[Torsten Wiesel]], Swedish scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
**[[Herk Harvey]], American film director (d. [[1996]])
* [[June 4]] - [[Dennis Weaver]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[June 12]] - [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], 41st President of the [[United States]]
* [[June 15]] - [[Ezer Weizman]], 7th President of [[Israel]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 18]] - [[George Mikan]], basketball player (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 20]]
**[[Chet Atkins]], American country guitar player and producer (d. [[2001]])
**[[Audie Murphy]], American World War II hero and actor (d. [[1971]])
* [[June 24]] - [[Kurt Furgler]], member of the Swiss Federal Council
* [[June 27]] - [[Bob Appleyard]], English cricketer
* [[June 29]]
**[[Flo Sandon's]], Italian singer
**[[Ezra Laderman]], American composer
===July-August===
* [[July 3]] - [[Sellapan Ramanathan|S. R. Nathan]], 6th [[president of Singapore]]
* [[July 4]] - [[Eva Marie Saint]], American actress
* [[July 5]]
**[[Niels Jannasch]], Canadian historian and museum curator (d. [[2001]])
**[[Osman Lins]], Brazilian novelist (d. [[1978]])
**[[János Starker]], Hungarian cellist
* [[July 11]]
**[[Brett Somers]], Canadian-born actress (d. [[2007]])
**[[Charlie Tully]], Northern Irish footballer (d. [[1971]])
* [[July 13]]
**[[Carlo Bergonzi]], Italian tenor
**[[Johnny Gilbert]], American game show announcer
* [[July 14]] - [[James W. Black]], Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[July 15]] - [[Makhmud Esambayev]], Chechen dancer (d. [[2000]])
* [[July 19]] - [[Stanley K. Hathaway]], American politician
* [[July 21]] - [[Don Knotts]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 28]] - [[Anne Braden]], American civil rights activist (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 29]] - [[Elizabeth Short]], American actress, also known as 'The Black Dahlia' (d. [[1947]])
* [[August 1]]
**[[Georges Charpak]], Ukrainian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**King [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]]
* [[August 2]] - [[Carroll O'Connor]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Leon Uris]], American writer (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 7]] - [[Kenneth Kendall]], British newsreader and presenter
* [[August 12]]
**[[Derek Shackleton]], English cricketer (d. [[2007]])
**[[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]], leader of Pakistan (d. [[1988]])
* [[August 15]] - [[Robert Bolt]], English writer (d. [[1995]])
* [[August 23]] - [[Robert Solow]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[August 28]] - [[Peggy Ryan]], American actress (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 29]] - [[Consuelo Velázquez]], Mexican songwriter (d. [[2005]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Geoffrey Beene]], American fashion designer (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 31]] - [[Buddy Hackett]], American comedian and actor (d. [[2003]])
===September-October===
* [[September 2]] - [[Daniel arap Moi]], [[President of Kenya]]
* [[September 4]]
** [[Joan Aiken]], English writer (d. [[2004]])
** [[Anita Snellman]], Finnish painter (d. [[2006]])
* [[September 5]] - [[Paul Dietzel]], College football coach
* [[September 8]] - [[Mimi Parent]], Canadian painter (d. [[2005]])
* [[September 9]] - [[Rik Van Steenbergen]], Belgian cyclist (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 11]]
**[[Tom Landry]], American football player and coach (d. [[2000]])
**[[Rudolf Vrba]], escapee from Auscwitz (d. [[2006]])
* [[September 14]] - [[Abioseh Nicol]], Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. [[1994]])
* [[September 15]] - [[Bobby Short]], American entertainer (d. [[2005]])
* [[September 19]] - [[Don Harron]], Canadian entertainer
* [[September 20]] - [[Hermann Buhl]], Austrian mountaineer (d. [[1957]])
* [[September 22]]
**[[Charles Keeping]], English illustrator (d. [[1988]])
**[[Rosamunde Pilcher]], English novelist
* [[September 26]] - [[Nina Bocharova]], Soviet gymnast
* [[September 27]] - [[Bernard Waber]], American children's author
* [[September 30]] - [[Truman Capote]], American author (d. [[1984]])
* [[October 1]]
**[[Jimmy Carter]], [[President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
**[[William Rehnquist]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 8]] - [[Alphons Egli]], member of the Swiss Federal Council
* [[October 10]]
**[[Margaret Fulton]], Australian Food Writer
**[[Edward D. Wood, Jr.|Ed Wood]], American filmmaker (d. [[1978]])
* [[October 11]] - [[Mal Whitfield]], American athlete
* [[October 14]] - [[Robert Webber]], American actor (d. [[1989]])
* [[October 15]] - [[Mark Lenard]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
* [[October 21]] - [[Celia Cruz]], Cuban singer (d. [[2003]])
* [[October 24]] - [[Christine Glanville]] English puppeteer ( d. [[1999]]
===November-December===
* [[November 6]] - [[Jeanette Schmid]], famous whistler (d. [[2005]])
* [[November 10]] - [[Russell Johnson]], American actor
* [[November 13]] - [[Motoo Kimura]], Japanese population geneticist (d. [[1994]])
* [[November 19]] - [[William Russell (actor)|William Russell]], British actor
* [[November 20]] - [[Benoît Mandelbrot]], Polish-born mathematician
* [[November 23]] - [[Anita Linda]], Filipino actress
* [[November 24]] - [[Mel Patton]], American athlete
* [[November 25]] - [[Takaaki Yoshimoto]], Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
* [[November 28]] - [[Dennis Brutus]], South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist
* [[December 2]] - [[Alexander M. Haig, Jr.]], American politician
*[[December 3]] - [[Francisco Sionil José]], Filipino novelist, [[National Artist of the Philippines|Philippine National Artist for Literature]]
* [[December 6]] - [[Wally Cox]], [[television]] and [[motion picture]] actor. (d.[[1973]])
* [[December 12]] - [[Ed Koch]], Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989
* [[December 25]]
**[[Rod Serling]], American television screenwriter (d. [[1975]])
**[[Atal Behari Vajpayee]], tenth [[Prime Minister of India]]
**[[Moktar Ould Daddah]], first [[President of Mauritania]] (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 28]] - [[Milton Obote]], [[President of Uganda]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 31]]
**[[Taylor Mead]], American actor
**[[Frank J. Kelley]], 50<sup>th</sup> [[Michigan Attorney General]]
==Deaths==
=== January - June===
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* [[January 2]] - [[Sabine Baring-Gould]], English composer and novelist (b. [[1834]])
* [[January 4]] - [[John Peters (19th century MLB player)|John Peters]], American 19th century baseball player (b. [[1850]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Georg Hermann Quincke]], German physicist (b. [[1834]])
*[[January 16]] - [[Licerio Gerónimo]], Filipino military leader (b. [[1855]])
*[[January 21]] - [[Vladimir Lenin]], Russian revolutionary and first [[Premier of the Soviet Union|Premier]] of the [[Soviet Union]] (b. [[1870]])
*[[January 24]] - [[Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1894]])
*[[February 3]] - [[Woodrow Wilson]], 28th [[President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1856]])
*[[March 9]] - [[Panagiotis Danglis]], Greek military leader and politician (b. [[1853]])
*[[March 24]] - [[Prince Kwacho Hirotada]] of Japan (b. [[1902]])
*[[April 21]] - [[Eleonora Duse]], Italian actress (b. [[1858]])
*[[May 4]] - [[E. Nesbit]], English author (b. [[1858]])
*[[May 15]] - [[Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant]], French diplomat, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1852]])
*[[May 24]] - [[Victor Herbert]], Irish dramatist (b. [[1859]])
*[[June 3]] - [[Franz Kafka]], Austrian author (b. [[1883]])
*[[June 9]] - [[George Mallory]], English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. [[1886]])
*[[June 9]] - [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]], English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. [[1902]])
*[[June 11]] - [[Théodore Dubois]], French composer and teacher (b. [[1837]])
===July - December===
*[[July 14]] - [[Isabella Stewart Gardner]], art collector and philanthropist
*[[July 23]] - [[Frank Frost Abbott]], American classical scholar (b. [[1860]])
*[[July 27]] - [[Ferruccio Busoni]], Italian pianist and composer (b. [[1866]])
*[[August 3]] - [[Joseph Conrad]], Polish-born author (b. [[1857]])
*[[August 7]] - [[John Edward Bruce|Bruce Grit]], ex-slave and Negro historian
*[[August 17]] - [[Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn|Pavel Urysohn]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1898]])
*[[August 25]] - [[Mariano Álvarez]], Filipino general (b. [[1818]])
*[[August 31]] - [[Todor Aleksandrov]], Bulgarian revolutionary (b. [[1881]])
*[[September 6]] - [[Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria]] (b. [[1868]])
*[[September 15]] - [[Frank Chance]], baseball player and manager (b. [[1877]])
*[[October 12]] - [[Anatole France]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1844]])
*[[October 29]] - [[John Marden]], Australian Headmaster and pioneer of women's education (b. [[1855]])
*[[November 4]] - [[Gabriel Fauré]], French composer (b. [[1845]])
*[[November 10]] - Sir [[Archibald Geikie]], Scottish geologist (b. [[1835]])
*[[November 29]] - [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian composer (b. [[1858]])
*[[December 2]] - [[Kazimieras Būga]], Lithuanian linguist (b. [[1879]])
*[[December 6]] - [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. [[1863]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Carl Spitteler]], Swiss writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1845]])
* [[December 31]] - [[Samuel William Knaggs|Sir Samuel William Knaggs]], British civil servant (b. [[1856]])
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==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Manne Siegbahn]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - Not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Willem Einthoven]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Władysław Reymont|Władysław Stanisław Reymont]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - Not awarded
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