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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1925 January 12 Oskar Brefeld German botanist, dies at age 85. [1] January 14 Willem Devout self employed (V and Dreesmann), dies. [1] January 30 Jakab Gyula Major composer, dies at age 66. [1] John F Mellaerts Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at age 79. [1] February 2 Antti Aarne Finnish sociologist, dies at age 57. [1] February 3 Jaap Eden Dutch World champion bicyclist/speed skating, dies at age 51. [1] February 18 James Lane Allen US writer (Choir Invisible), dies at age 75. [1] February 21 Alfred Baldwin Sloan composer, dies at age 52. [1] February 22 Georges/Joris Helleputte Belgian Catholic minister, dies at age 72. [1] Nina David [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies. [1] Thomas C Allbutt English physiologist, dies at age 88. [1] February 25 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia composer, dies at age 81. [1] February 28 Friedrich Ebert Social-Democrat president of Germany, dies. [1] March 4 Moritz Moszkowski Polish/German composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 11 Andreas Hallen composer, dies at age 78. [1] March 12 Birth of Harry [Maxwell] Harrison United Kingdom, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy). [1] Sun Yat-Sen Chinese revolutionary president, dies at age 58. [1] 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 27 Carl G Neumann German mathematician/physicist, dies at age 92. [1] March 30 Rudolf Steiner Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at age 64. [1] April 1 Francis William Davenport composer, dies at age 77. [1] April 14 Pieter D van Essen Dutch artillery officer, dies at age 54. [1] April 15 John Singer Sargent US portrait painter, dies at age 69. [1] April 18 Charles Ebbets president (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies. [1] April 23 André Caplet French composer (Le miroir de Jésus), dies at age 45. [1] April 25 George Stephanescu composer, dies at age 81. [1] 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] Amy Lowell writer, dies at age 51. [1] Artur Napoleao dos Santos composer, dies at age 82. [1] May 13 Boris V Savinkov Russian writer/terrorist, dies. [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 William Jennings Bryan jurist, dies. [1] November 28 Famed NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses in a game and dies of TB 4months later. [1] December 1 Vicente Arregui Garay composer, dies at age 54. [1] December 2 Julio Garreta composer, dies at age 50. [1] December 5 Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing] Dutch feminist, dies at age 78. [1] December 9 Eugene Gigout composer, dies at age 81. [1] December 17 A N "Monkey" Hornby cricketer (England captain at Oval 1882), dies. [1] December 19 Jose Ignacio Quinton composer, dies at age 44. [1] December 23 A S C Wallis [Adèle von Antal-Opzoomer] writer (Vorstengunst), dies. [1] December 25 Sergei Jessenin writer, dies at age 30. [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 8 Emile Paladilhe composer, dies at age 81. [1] January 15 Enrico Toselli composer, dies at age 42. [1] 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] Joseph Carl Breil composer, dies at age 55. [1] February 5 Andre Gedalge composer, dies at age 69. [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] Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller composer, dies at age 75. [1] March 1 Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha Portuguese poet (China), dies at age 58. [1] March 3 Cyril Metodej Hrazdira composer, dies at age 58. [1] March 7 Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan composer, dies at age 73. [1] March 11 John Henry Anderson cricketer (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 cricketer (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 23 Joseph Pennell artist/author, dies. [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 9 Joseph Mallaby Dent publisher, dies. [1] May 15 Mohammed VI Vahideddin last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies. [1] May 16 Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman) last sultan of Turkey, dies. [1] May 17 Lucien Herr French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies. [1] May 20 Dick Pougher cricketer (17 and 3-26 in only Test for England 1892), dies. [1] May 21 Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer, dies at age 65. [1] Ronald Arthur A Firbank British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at age 40. [1] May 23 Hans Koessler composer, dies at age 73. [1] May 25 Symon Petlyura leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at age 47. [1] May 26 S V Petlura Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard. [1] August 22 Charles William Elliot President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at age 92. [1] October 31 Erich Weiss better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit. [1] November 3 Annie Oakley dies. [1] December 1 Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg composer, dies at age 83. [1] December 6 Claude [Oscar] Monet French painter (impressionist), dies at age 86. [1] December 8 Jan Six Dutch art historian/collector, dies. [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 17 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky composer, dies at age 70. [1] December 25 Yoshihito 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at age 47. [1] December 29 Rainer M Rilke Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at age 51. [1] 1927 January 9 Houston S Chamberlain British/German race theorist, dies at age 71. [1] 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] January 30 Friedrich Ernst Koch composer, dies at age 64. [1] February 4 Thomas Linnemann Laub composer, dies at age 74. [1] February 6 Daniël F Scheurleer Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at age 71. [1] February 13 Brooks Adams US philosopher (New Empire), dies at age 78. [1] February 19 Georg Brandes [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at age 85. [1] Robert Fuchs composer, dies at age 80. [1] February 23 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson composer, dies at age 79. [1] March 17 James Scott Skinner composer, dies at age 83. [1] March 28 Karl Prohaska composer, dies at age 57. [1] April 10 Ivo Bligh cricketer (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 cricketer (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] Juan Gris Spanish cubist painter, dies at age 40. [1] May 28 Georges Eekhoud Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies. [1] July 10 Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated. [1] August 23 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Massachusetts. [1] September 14 Isadora Duncan dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel. [1] November 1 Florence Mills dancer/singer, dies at age 32 in New York City. [1] December 12 Heinrich Reitsch composer, dies at age 67. [1] December 16 Hugh Archibald Clarke composer, dies at age 88. [1] December 21 Jack Saunders cricketer (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 8 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer, dies at age 61. [1] January 11 Thomas Hardy novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies at his home near Dorchester at age 87. [1] January 13 Johan Peter Koch Danish officer/explorer, dies at age 57. [1] January 27 Marie Verstraete actress (Frou-Frou/Nora), dies at age 74. [1] January 29 Douglas Haig first Earl Haig/field marshal (WWI), dies at age 66. [1] January 30 Douglas 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 Great Britain (1908-16), dies at age 75. [1] February 29 Adolphe Appia Swiss set designer/theorist, dies at age 65. [1] Armando V Diaz Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at age 66. [1] March 1 Albert Herbert Brewer composer, dies at age 62. [1] Jacob Adolf Hagg composer, dies at age 77. [1] March 3 Jan [Jean] T Toorop Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at age 69. [1] March 18 Paul van Ostaijen Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at age 32. [1] March 27 Leslie Stuart composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 28 Giuseppe Ferrata composer, dies at age 63. [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 4 Birth of Jimmy Logan British comedian (Mad Death). [1] April 5 Jane Ellen Harrison scholar/archaeologist, dies. [1] Roy Kilner cricketer (9 Tests for England 1924-26), dies at age 38. [1] April 13 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre composer, dies at age 36. [1] April 18 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski composer, dies at age 58. [1] April 24 Ferdinand B Hummel composer, dies at age 72. [1] April 25 Pjotr N Wrangel Russian baron General, dies at age 49. [1] April 29 Henrich Federer Switzerland, 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 7 Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan composer, dies at age 56. [1] May 9 Constantin Dimitrescu composer, dies at age 81. [1] May 16 Edmund William Grosse poet/author, dies. [1] May 19 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert composer, dies at age 59. [1] Max Scheler German philosopher, dies at age 53. [1] May 22 William Gairdner English missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at age 54. [1] May 31 Ludwig Enneccerus German leader, dies at age 85. [1] Manuel de Oliveira Lima Brazilian historian, dies at age 60. [1] July 7 Birth of Vincent Edwards actor (Dr Ben Casey, Death Stalk, Firehouse). [1] July 17 General Alvaro Obregón president of Mexico, assassinated. [1] October 25 Birth of Anthony Franciosa New York City; actor (Long Hot Summer, Name of Game, Death Wish 3). [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] December 5 Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at age 61. [1] December 14 Theodore Roberts actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at age 77. [1] December 18 Lucien Capet composer, dies at age 55. [1] December 21 Harry Butt cricketer (England wicket-keeper vs South Africa 1895-96), dies. [1] Luigi Cadorna Italian fieldmarshal (WWI, Caporetto), dies at age 78. [1] 1929 January 2 Erich Wichman[n] Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at age 38. [1] 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 9 Heiner Müller writer, dies. [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 1 August Otto Halm composer, dies at age 59. [1] February 2 Albert Steinrück German actor (Golem), dies at age 56. [1] February 5 Siegfried Ochs composer, dies at age 70. [1] February 12 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing German para-psychologist, dies at age 66. [1] February 17 John Read cricketer (batted in 17 Tests for England for 463 runs), dies. [1] February 24 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager composer, dies at age 75. [1] February 27 Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry composer, dies at age 65. [1] February 28 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet Austrian artist (React of P), dies at age 54. [1] John Ebenezer West composer, dies at age 65. [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] March 21 Birth of James Coco Bronx New York; actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death). [1] March 22 Anton Beer-Walbrun composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 27 ... Shatunovsky mathematician, dies. [1] April 4 Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at age 84. [1] [5] April 10 Edmond Thieffry Belgium, WWI pilot, dies at age 36. [1] April 15 Antonio Smareglia composer, dies at age 74. [1] April 16 Abraham van Stolk Jzn art collector, dies at age 57. [1] April 22 Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich composer, dies at age 86. [1] 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 4 Henry Morton Dunham composer, dies at age 75. [1] May 7 Albert Anselmi US gangster, murdered by Al Capone. [1] John Scalise US gangster, murdered by Al Capone. [1] Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta US gangster, murdered by Al Capone. [1] May 16 Lilli Lehmann soprano, dies. [1] May 21 V P F A Royle cricketer (one Test England vs Australia 1879), dies. [1] 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 cricketer (two Tests England vs South Africa 1899), dies. [1] December 13 Knut Algot Hakanson composer, dies at age 42. [1] December 20 Emile Loubet French premier (1892)/President (1899-1906), dies at age 90. [1]