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1915 January 2 Karl Goldmark Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at age 84. [1] January 3 James E Flecker British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at age 30. [1] January 6 Reginald Wood cricketer (one Test England vs Australia 1886), dies. [1] January 15 Guillaume Couture composer, dies at age 63. [1] February 7 Wladyslaw Gorski composer, dies at age 68. [1] February 10 Albert J-BJ Thijs Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at age 65. [1] February 12 Charles Emile Waldteufel composer, dies at age 77. [1] February 16 Emil Waldteufel [Charles Levy], French composer (Estudiantina), dies. [1] February 19 Gopal Krishna Gokhale India's social reformer/politician, dies. [1] 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] March 17 Walter Crane English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at age 69. [1] April 1 Johann Joseph Abert composer, dies at age 82. [1] April 3 Andrew Stoddart cricketer (England captain at turn of century), suicide. [1] April 4 Birth of Lars G Ahlin Swedish writer (Death of Me). [1] April 14 James Hutton Brew "Pioneer of West African Journalism", dies. [1] April 17 Johannes P Kelly [Kellij] Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at age 60. [1] April 23 Rupert Chawner Brooke English poet (Lithuania), dies at age 27. [1] April 25 Nicola d' Arienzo composer, dies at age 72. [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] Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr US Lusitania officer, dies. [1] Charles Frohman dies aboard Lusitania. [1] May 8 Henry McNeal Turner 1 US black army chaplain, dies at age 82. [1] May 10 Albert Weisgerber German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle. [1] August 17 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life. [1] August 20 Paul Ehrlich scientist, dies in Hamburg at age 61. [1] September 21 Anthony Comstock anti-vice crusader, dies at age 71 in New York City. [1] October 12 English nurse Edith Cavell executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II). [1] October 17 Birth of Arthur Miller playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible). [1] October 23 W.G. Grace British cricketer, dies. [1] November 14 Booker T Washington educator/organizer, dies at age 59 in Tuskegee Alabama. [1] November 19 Joe Hill Labor leader, executed for murder. [1] December 2 Jan Malat composer, dies at age 72. [1] December 4 Gustav Hollaender composer, dies at age 60. [1] 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] December 23 Roland Leighton dies at age 20. [1] December 28 Gerrit Jan van Heek Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at age 78. [1] December 29 Charles Beach Hawley composer, dies at age 57. [1] 1916 January 14 Otto Ammon German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at age 73. [1] January 16 Arnold Aletrino Dutch physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at age 57. [1] January 22 Iwan Knorr composer, dies at age 63. [1] January 29 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils composer, dies at age 62. [1] February 1 Anton Simon composer, dies at age 65. [1] February 6 Anne C A I van Diest Belgian physician/feminist, dies at age 73. [1] February 9 Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek composer, dies at age 90. [1] Jack Barrett cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1890), dies. [1] February 12 J W Richard Dedekind German mathematician, dies. [1] February 14 Petko J Todorov Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at age 36. [1] February 15 Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky composer, dies at age 73. [1] February 16 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper Dutch feminist, dies at age 79. [1] [Gerard] Jan Ligthart Dutch educator (Ot and Sien), dies at age 57. [1] February 19 Ernst Mach Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at age 78. [1] February 20 Klas Pontus Arnoldson Swedish politician (Nobel Prize 1908), dies at age 71. [1] February 23 George Clement Martin composer, 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 cricketer (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies. [1] March 12 M v Ebner-Eschenbach writer, dies at age 39. [1] March 21 Victor de Stuers Dutch art expert, dies at age 72. [1] March 24 Enrique y Campina Granados Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at age 48. [1] April 1 Gabrielle Petit Belgian resistance fighter, executed. [1] April 9 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 11 Richard Harding Davis journalist, dies at age 52. [1] April 15 Alfred Cogniaux Belgian botanist, dies at age 75. [1] April 16 Tom Horan cricketer (15 Tests for Australia, 471 runs, 11 wickets), dies. [1] May 3 Pádraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad. [1] May 6 Dirk Bos Dutch Member of Parliament (Liberal), dies at age 53. [1] Earl Ross Drake composer, dies at age 50. [1] May 11 Karl Schwarzschild German astronomer (s-effect), dies. [1] Max [Johann] Reger German composer/pianist/organist, dies at age 43. [1] May 13 Sholem Aleichem yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies. [1] May 17 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre composer, dies at age 68. [1] May 25 Jack Marsh cricketer (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] June 23 Birth of Irene Worth Nebraska, actress (Deathtrap, Nicolas and Alexandra). [1] November 21 Franz Josef of Austria, dies. [1] December 1 Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld French explorer, dies at age 58. [1] December 2 Francesco Paolo Tosti composer, dies at age 69. [1] December 5 Hans Richter composer, dies at age 73. [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 20 Manuel Giro composer, dies at age 68. [1] William Wallace Gilchrist composer, dies at age 70. [1] December 26 Bernhard Scholz composer, dies at age 81. [1] Frank Penn cricketer (one Test for England vs Australia 1880), dies. [1] December 27 Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov composer, dies at age 70. [1] December 28 Eduard Strauss Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at age 81. [1] December 31 Ernst Rudorff composer, dies at age 76. [1] 1917 January 2 Edward B Tylor English anthropologist, dies at age 84. [1] January 6 Hendrik P G Quack lawyer/economist (Bank of Netherlands), dies at age 82. [1] January 10 Buffalo Bill Cody army scout and Indian fighter, dies. [1] January 17 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius Dutch politician, dies at age 70. [1] January 25 Edwin Tyler cricketer (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 5 Paul Rubens composer, dies at age 41. [1] February 6 Edouard A Drumont French anti-semite journalist, dies at age 72. [1] February 9 Francis Allan cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Australia-England Test), dies. [1] February 10 Emile Pessard composer, dies at age 73. [1] February 13 Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer, dies at age 48. [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 Charles E Barber US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies. [1] 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] March 29 Fran Gerbic composer, dies at age 76. [1] April 1 Scott Joplin ragtime composer (Sting), dies at age 48. [1] April 7 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras composer, dies at age 53. [1] April 9 Edward Thomas poet, killed in WWI. [1] April 14 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at age 57. [1] April 18 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17), dies at age 73. [1] April 24 Oskar Blumenthal writer, dies. [1] May 1 José E Rodo Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies. [1] May 3 Norman Callaway New South Wales bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies. [1] May 11 Otto Adolf Klauwell composer, dies at age 66. [1] May 25 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur composer, dies at age 72. [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. [1] November 17 Auguste Rodin sculptor, dies in Meudon, France. [1] December 7 Leon Minkus composer, dies at age 91. [1] December 22 Francesca Saveria Cabrini US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at age 67. [1] December 26 Louise J Gautier French poetess/daughter of Théophile G, dies at age 71. [1] 1918 January 2 Sijbe K Bakker vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at age 42. [1] January 6 Georg F L P Cantor German mathematician collection, dies at age 72. [1] January 7 Death of Julius Wellhausen in Gottingen, Germany; Biblical scholar, professor of Old Testament at the University of Greifswald. [37] January 8 Michael Hertz composer, dies at age 73. [1] January 18 Birth of Bohuslav Jeremias composer, dies at age 58. [1] January 28 John McCrae Canadian poet/physician, dies. [1] February 2 John L Sullivan Massachusetts, heavyweight boxing champion, dies at age 59. [1] February 6 Gustav Klimt Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at age 55. [1] February 7 Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev composer, dies at age 68. [1] February 9 Emiel van der Straeten [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at age 30. [1] February 10 Abdül-Hamid II 34th sultan of Turkey (lost Serbia/Egypt), dies at age 65. [1] February 17 Wilfrid Laurier Canadian Prime Minister (1896-1911), dies. [1] March 1 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 4 Eugene D'Harcourt composer, dies at age 58. [1] March 9 [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind German writer/press secretary, dies at age 53. [1] March 13 Karel Stecker composer, dies at age 57. [1] William Courtleigh actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at age 26. [1] March 15 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte composer, dies at age 82. [1] Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger composer, dies at age 24. [1] Lili Boulanger composer, dies at age 24. [1] March 18 Willem Coenen composer, dies at age 80. [1] March 19 Willem H de Beaufort Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at age 73. [1] March 23 Cesar Cortinas composer, dies at age 27. [1] March 24 Theophile Ysaye composer, dies at age 53. [1] 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] March 30 Birth of Joseph Allen Jr Boston Massachusetts; actor (Death of a Champion). [1] April 1 Karl Fritjof Valentin composer, dies at age 64. [1] April 5 Paul Vidal de la Blanche French geographer, dies at age 73. [1] April 11 Arthur Ochse cricketer (WWI played for South Africa in 1889 aged 19), dies. [1] April 20 Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands cricketer (one Test for South Africa), dies. [1] April 23 Percy Thomson Dean Lieutenant-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies. [1] April 29 Gavrilo Princip Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at age 22. [1] May 16 Eusapia Palladino Napolitan, dies at age 64. [1] May 18 Toivo Kuula composer, dies at age 34. [1] May 27 Henry Adams US literature historian (Esther), dies at age 80. [1] May 30 Georgi V Plechanov Russian revolutionary theorist, dies. [1] July 16 Nicholas II Russian tsar, his tsarina and their five kids executed. [1] October 31 Count Stephen Tisza Hungarian Prime Minister assassinated by soldiers. [1] December 2 Margit Kaffka writer, dies at age 38. [1] December 11 Ivan Cankar Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at age 42. [1] December 14 Sidonio Pais prince of Portugal, murdered. [1] December 18 Henryk Jarecki composer, dies at age 72. [1] December 22 Albijn van de Abeele Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at age 83. [1] December 26 Bertram Luard-Selby composer, dies at age 65. [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 President (1901-09), dies at his home in Oyster Bay New York at age 60. [1] January 8 Peter Altenberg writer, dies at age 59. [1] Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg], Austrian author, dies at age 59. [1] January 15 In Germany, Marxist revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered. [1] [37] January 16 Jaroslav Jeremias composer, dies at age 19. [1] 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 2 Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux composer, dies at age 55. [1] February 5 Vasili V Rozanov Russian philosopher/writer, dies at age 62. [1] February 6 Friedrich W Mengelberg German sculptor/painter, dies at age 81. [1] February 15 Pieter K Pel Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at age 66. [1] February 21 Giovanni Bolzoni composer, dies at age 77. [1] Habib Ullah Chan emir of Afghanistan (1901-19), murdered at age 46. [1] Karl von Hohenzollern Prince of Belgium, dies. [1] Kurt Eisner premier Bayern (socialist), murdered at age 51. [1] February 24 Josephine McGill composer, dies at age 41. [1] March 5 Jozef Surzynski composer, dies at age 67. [1] March 8 Auguste Tolbecque composer, dies at age 88. [1] March 11 Harald Fryklof composer, dies at age 36. [1] March 16 Sigurd von Koch composer, dies at age 39. [1] March 23 Jean HL Bossard actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at age 45. [1] April 3 Paul Geisler composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 4 William Crookes English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at age 86. [1] April 6 Stefan Surzynski composer, dies at age 63. [1] April 8 Roland baron Eötvös Hungarian physicist, dies at age 70. [1] April 10 Emiliano Zapata Mexican leader, murdered at age 39. [1] April 18 Enny Vrede [Maria M Müller] Dutch actress, drowns at age 35. [1] April 30 Henry Wood England cricket wicket keeper (in four Tests 1888-92), dies. [1] May 2 Gustav Landauer German socialist, dies. [1] May 6 Frank Lyman Baum, author (The Wizard of Oz), dies at age 62. [1] [5] May 17 Bohumil Pazdirek composer, dies at age 80. [1] May 20 Jacob Verdam philosopher, dies. [1] May 21 Victor A D Ségalen [Max Anély] French ship's doctor/writer, dies. [1] May 24 Amado Nervo [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo] Mexican poet, dies at age 48. [1] 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 3 Pierre A Renoir French painter/sculptor, dies at age 78. [1] December 13 Amintore Galli composer, dies at age 74. [1] December 18 Horatio William Parker composer, dies at age 56. [1] John Alcock pilot (first non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at age 27. [1] December 27 Achilles Alferaki composer, dies at age 73. [1] Theodoor H de Meester Dutch liberal premier (1905-08), dies at age 68. [1]