- February 23
- Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at age 75 in South Carolina. [1]
- February 25
- George Mimot, physician (Nobel Prize-1934), dies. [1]
- March 13
- Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at age 65. [1]
- April 3
- Andrew Stoddart, cricket player (England captain at turn of century), dies of suicide. [1]
- April 14
- James Hutton Brew "Pioneer of West African Journalism", dies. [1]
- April 23
- Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at age 27. [1]
- April 27
- Alexander N Skriabin, Russian pianist/composer (Prometheus), dies at age 43. [1]
- May 7
- Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania. [1]
- July 27
- Haiti Chief of the Arrondisement of Port-au-Prince Charles Oscar is taken from a Consulate by angry mob, and torn apart in the streets, in revenge for killing 300 political prisoners, earlier in the day. [1144.244]
- July 28
- Haiti President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam is taken from French Embassy and killed by a mob. [1144.244]
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- August 17
- Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia, USA after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life. [1]
- September 21
- Death of Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, at age 71 in New York City, New York, USA. [1]
- October 12
- English nurse Edith Cavell is executed by firing squad by Germans in Belgium. [1]
- November 14
- Booker Taliaferro Washington, American educator/organizer, dies at age 59 in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA. [1] [5]
- December 18
- Èdouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at age 75. [1]
- December 19
- Alois Alzheimer, German neurologist (first described Alzheimer's Disease), dies at age 51. [1]
1916
- January 16
- Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at age 57. [1]
- February 9
- Jack Barrett, cricket player (two Tests for Australia 1890), dies. [1]
- February 14
- Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at age 36. [1]
- February 16
- [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot and Sien), dies at age 57. [1]
- February 20
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel Prize 1908), dies at age 71. [1]
- February 28
- Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at age 72. [1]
- February 29
- Edward H J Keurvels, Flemish conductor/composer (Parisina), dies at age 62. [1]
- March 2
- Elisabeth OL [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at age 72. [1]
- March 4
- Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at age 36. [1]
- March 9
- Ken Hutchings, cricket player (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies. [1]
- March 24
- Enrique y Campina Granados, Spanish opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at age 48. [1]
- April 1
- Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, is executed. [1]
- April 16
- Tom Horan, cricket player (15 Tests for Australia, 471 runs, 11 wickets), dies. [1]
- May 3
- Pádraic Pearse, Irish nationalist, is executed by British firing squad. [1]
- May 11
- Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies. [1]
- Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger AKA Max Reger, German composer/pianist/organist (Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart), dies at age 43. [1]
- May 13
- Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies. [1] [406.88]
- May 25
- Jack Marsh, cricket player (aboriginal bowler played for New South Wales 1900-03), dies. [1]
- May 27
- Joseph S Galliéni, General/Military Governor of Paris, dies. [1]
- May 31
- Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle. [1]
- June 5
- Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), dies at age 65. [1]
- December 1
- Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at age 58. [1]
- December 9
- P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at age 73. [1]
- December 16
- Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a powerful Russian monk, is murdered at age 45. [1]
- December 26
- Frank Penn, cricket player (one Test for England versus Australia 1880), dies. [1]
- December 28
- Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at age 81. [1]
1917
- January 6
- Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Netherlands), dies at age 82. [1]
- January 10
- Buffalo Bill Cody, US Army scout and Indian fighter, dies. [1]
- January 22
- Death of Bérenger Saunière at age 65; parish priest of Rennes-le-Château, France. [1197.10]
- January 25
- Edwin Tyler, cricket player (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies. [1]
- January 29
- Evelyn Baring Earl Cromer, English consul-General in Egypt, dies at age 75. [1]
- February 9
- Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Australia-England Test), dies. [1]
- February 15
- Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at age 60. [1]
- February 17
- Edmund Bishop, English Secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at age 70. [1]
- February 18
- Death of Charles Barber; US Mint Chief Engraver (1879-1917). [1] [783.46]
- March 6
- Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at age 73. [1]
- March 8
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at age 78. [1]
- March 18
- William Shalders, South African cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies. [1]
- April 1
- Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (The Sting), dies at age 48. [1]
- April 14
- Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doctor/linguist (creator of Esperanto language), dies at age 57. [1] [592.50]
- April 18
- Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17), dies at age 73. [1]
- May 1
- José E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies. [1]
- May 3
- Norman Callaway, New South Wales bat, cricket player (207 in only FC innings), dies. [1]
- May 18
- Death of Bela Lyon Pratt; US gold coin designer. [627.36]
- August 1
- Frank Little, IWW organizer, is lynched in Butte, Montana, USA. [1]
- August 7
- Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning dies. He was the first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. [5]
- October 15
- Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris, France. [1]
- December 22
- Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at age 67. [1]
1918
- January 2
- Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at age 42. [1]
- January 7
- Death of Julius Wellhausen in Gottingen, Germany; biblical scholar, professor of Old Testament at the University of Greifswald. [37]
- February 2
- Heavyweight boxing champion John L Sullivan of Massachusetts, USA, dies at age 59. [1]
- February 10
- Abdül-Hamid II, 34th sultan of Turkey (lost Serbia/Egypt), dies at age 65. [1]
- February 16
- Death of Károly earl Khuen-Héderváry; Hungarian Governor/premier (1910-12). [1]
- February 17
- Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister (1896-1911), dies. [1]
- March 9
- [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press secretary, dies at age 53. [1]
- March 13
- William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at age 26. [1]
- March 14
- Death of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield in Pasadena, California, USA; spouse of US President James Garfield. [718.56]
- March 25
- Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia, La mer), dies in Paris, France at age 55. [1]
- March 26
- César A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at age 83. [1]
- April 11
- Arthur Ochse, cricket player (played for South Africa in 1889 aged 19), dies. [1]
- April 20
- Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricket player (one Test for South Africa), dies. [1]
- April 29
- Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at age 22. [1]
- May 27
- Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at age 80. [1]
- July 16
- Russian tsar Nicholas II, his tsarina and their five children are executed. [1]
- October 31
- Count Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, is assassinated by soldiers. [1]
- December 11
- Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at age 42. [1]
- December 14
- Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, is murdered. [1]
- December 22
- Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at age 83. [1]
- December 28
- George H White, last post-Reconstruction congressman (Pennsylvania), dies. [1]
1919
- January 1
- William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at age 60. [1]
- January 6
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1901-09), dies at his home in Oyster Bay, New York at age 60. [1] [450.78]
- January 15
- In Germany, Marxist revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered. [1] [37]
- January 18
- John C F, son of English king George V, dies at age 13. [1]
- January 27
- Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (Margita élni akar), dies at age 41. [1]
- January 31
- Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at age 79. [1]
- February 15
- Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at age 66. [1]
- February 21
- Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistan (1901-19), is murdered at age 46. [1]
- Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies. [1]
- Kurt Eisner, socialist premier of Bayern, Germany is murdered at age 51. [1]
- March 23
- Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (Two Orphans), dies at age 45. [1]
- April 4
- William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at age 86. [1]
- April 10
- Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at age 39. [1]
- April 30
- Henry Wood, English cricket wicket keeper (in four Tests 1888-92), dies. [1]
- May 6
- Lyman Frank Baum, author (The Wizard of Oz), dies at age 62. [1] [5]
- May 25
- Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at age 51. [1]
- May 30
- Lord John Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel Prize 1904), dies. [1]
- December 2
- Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke and steel operation, dies at age 69. [1]
- December 18
- Sir John Alcock, British pilot (first non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash in northern France at age 27. [1] [385.xv]
- December 27
- Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch liberal premier (1905-08), dies at age 68. [1]
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