- February 18
- James Lane Allen, American writer (Choir Invisible), dies at age 75. [1]
- February 22
- Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at age 72. [1]
- February 28
- Friedrich Ebert, Social-Democrat president of Germany, dies. [1]
- March 12
- Death of Sun Yat-sen at age 58 in China; first president of Republic of China (1912), founded Chinese Nationalist Party. [1] [1113.54]
- March 14
- Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at age 65. [1]
- March 20
- George N Curzon; British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at age 66. [1]
- March 23
- Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian General/minister of War, dies at age 76. [1]
- March 30
- Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at age 64. [1]
- April 18
- Charles Ebbets, president of MLB Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, dies. [1]
- April 23
- André Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jésus), dies at age 45. [1]
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- April 28
- Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies. [1]
- May 3
- Clément Ader, French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at age 84. [1]
- May 12
- Alfred Milner, British Governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at age 71. [1]
- May 14
- Henry Rider Haggard; English writer (Dawn, She), dies. [1]
- May 22
- John [Denton Pinkstone] French, British field marshall (WWI), dies at age 72. [1]
- May 27
- Ed McKeever, president (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia. [1]
- July 26
- Death of William Jennings Bryan, Christian fundamentalist, five days after public humiliation at the "Monkey Trial" of John Scopes. [1] [129]
- December 17
- A N "Monkey" Hornby, cricket player (England captain at Oval 1882), dies. [1]
- December 23
- A S C Wallis [Adèle von Antal-Opzoomer], writer (Vorstengunst), dies. [1]
- December 27
- Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at age 44. [1]
- December 29
- Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at age 60. [1]
1926
- January 21
- Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel Prize 1906), dies at age 81. [1]
- January 23
- Désiré J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at age 74. [1]
- February 21
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes; Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1913), dies at age 72. [1]
- February 24
- Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at age 51. [1]
- February 26
- Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at age 67. [1]
- March 1
- Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at age 58. [1]
- March 11
- John Henry Anderson, cricket player (score 32 and 11 in Test for South Africa), dies. [1]
- March 26
- Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Montreal Canadiens), dies. [1]
- Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at age 74. [1]
- March 30
- Feliks E Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at age 48. [1]
- April 6
- Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at age 43. [1]
- April 15
- Frank Iredale, cricket player (14 Tests for Australia, 807 runs at 36 68), dies. [1]
- April 19
- Squire Bancroft [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at age 84. [1]
- April 25
- Ellen K S Key, Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at age 76. [1]
- May 1
- Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at age 60. [1]
- May 3
- Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at age 63. [1]
- May 16
- Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies. [1]
- May 17
- Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies. [1]
- May 20
- Dick Pougher, cricket player (17 and 3-26 in only Test for England 1892), dies. [1]
- May 21
- Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at age 40. [1]
- May 26
- Symon V Petliura, Ukrainian statesman, is assassinated at age 47 by Sholom Schwartzbard. [1]
- August 22
- Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard University (1869-1909), dies at age 92. [1]
- August 23
- Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina D'Antonguolla (Rudolph Valentino), silent movie idol, dies in New York, USA at age 31. [1]
- October 31
- Erich Weiss, better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit, Michigan, USA. [1] [5] [194.24]
- December 6
- Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at age 86. [1]
- December 12
- Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies at age 77. [1]
- December 14
- Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at age 64. [1]
- December 25
- Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at age 47. [1]
- December 29
- Rainer M Rilke, Austrian songwriter/writer ("Wise Queen"), dies at age 51. [1]
1927
- January 10
- August(us) Allebé, Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at age 88. [1]
- January 19
- Charlotte, princess of Belgium/Empress of Mexico (1864-67), dies at age 86. [1]
- January 21
- Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at age 65. [1]
- February 13
- Brooks Adams, US philosopher (New Empire), dies at age 78. [1]
- April 10
- Ivo Bligh, cricket player (8th Earl of Darnley, four Tests 1882-83), dies. [1]
- April 15
- Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at age 47. [1]
- May 5
- Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies. [1]
- May 9
- Tommy Routledge, cricket player (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies. [1]
- May 11
- General Henry Martyn Robert (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at age 90. [1]
- May 28
- Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies. [1]
- July 10
- Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, is assassinated. [1]
- July 23
- Death of Reginald E.H. Dyer in Long Ashton, Bristol, England; general, ordered Amritsar shooting in 1919. [695]
- August 23
- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Massachusetts, USA. [1]
- September 14
- Isadora Duncan dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel. [1]
- December 21
- Jack Saunders, cricket player (79 wickets-14 Tests for Australia 1902-08), dies. [1]
- December 25
- Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at age 66. [1]
1928
- January 6
- Alvin C Kraenzlein, track star (Olympics-4 gold-1900), dies at age 51. [1]
- January 11
- Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies at his home near Dorchester, England at age 87. [1]
- January 27
- Marie Verstraete, actress (Frou - Frou/Nora), dies at age 74. [1]
- January 29
- Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig, British field marshal (Sudan/Boer war/WWI), dies at age 66. [1]
- February 4
- Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel Prize 1902), dies at age 74. [1]
- February 15
- Hubert H Asquith, premier of Great Britain (1908-16), dies at age 75. [1]
- February 29
- Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at age 66. [1]
- March 3
- Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (Three Brides), dies at age 69. [1]
- March 18
- Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at age 32. [1]
- March 31
- Gustave Ador, President of Austria (1919), dies at age 82. [1]
- Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at age 69. [1]
- April 2
- Theodore Richards, US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel Prize 1914), dies. [1]
- April 5
- Roy Kilner, cricket player (9 Tests for England 1924-26), dies at age 38. [1]
- April 25
- Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron General, dies at age 49. [1]
- April 29
- Henrich Federer, Swiss writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at age 61. [1]
- May 4
- Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at age 63. [1]
- May 22
- William Gairdner, English missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at age 54. [1]
- July 17
- General Alvaro Obregón, president of Mexico, is assassinated. [1]
- November 4
- Arnold Rothstein is shot and killed in the Park Central Hotel in New York City, owing US$333,000 on a poker game. [80.322] [187.339]
- December 3
- Death of Ezra Meeker; American sculptor, co-founder of Puyallup Washington, grower of hops, promoter of the Oregon Trail. [663.44]
- December 14
- Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, Ten Commandments), dies at age 77. [1]
- December 21
- Harry Butt, cricket player (England wicket-keeper versus South Africa 1895-96), dies. [1]
- Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal (WWI, Caporetto), dies at age 78. [1]
1929
- January 6
- Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at age 72. [1]
- January 7
- Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at age 77. [1]
- January 11
- Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about age 28. [1]
- January 12
- Dietrich Schäfer, German historian (Mein Leben), dies at age 83. [1]
- January 13
- Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at age 80. [1]
- January 14
- Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at age 74. [1]
- January 24
- Willem Royaards, theater director (Adam in Ballingschap), dies. [1]
- February 2
- Albert Steinrück, German actor (Golem), dies at age 56. [1]
- February 12
- Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist, dies at age 66. [1]
- February 17
- John Read, cricket player (batted in 17 Tests for England for 463 runs), dies. [1]
- February 28
- Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at age 54. [1]
- March 15
- Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at age 24. [1]
- March 20
- Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WWI), dies at age 77. [1]
- April 4
- Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at age 84. [1] [5]
- April 23
- Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at age 28. [1]
- April 30
- Friedrich Lienhard, German publisher (Türmer), dies at age 63. [1]
- May 7
- John Scalise, US gangster, is murdered by Al Capone. [1]
- Albert Anselmi, US gangster, is murdered by Al Capone. [1]
- Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone. [1]
- May 21
- V P F A Royle, cricket player (one Test England versus Australia 1879), dies. [1]
- August 3
- Death of Emile Berliner in Washington, DC, USA; inventor of the gramophone. [457]
- August 19
- Sergei P Diaghilev Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at age 57. [1]
- September 25
- Miller Huggins, New York Yankees manager, dies at age 50. [1]
- November 14
- Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (New York Giants), dies at age 58. [1]
- December 9
- Willis Cuttell, cricket player (two Tests England versus South Africa 1899), dies. [1]
- December 20
- Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/President (1899-1906), dies at age 90. [1]
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