- February 23
- Horst Wessel, German lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at age 22. [1]
- Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at age 35. [1]
- February 24
- Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at age 74. [1]
- March 1
- Aloïs Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at age 54. [1]
- March 2
- David H Lawrence, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at age 44. [1]
- March 6
- William Milton, cricket player (South African Test captain in three Tests 1889-92), dies. [1]
- March 8
- William Howard Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), Chief Justice, dies at age 72. [1]
- March 13
- Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at age 77. [1]
- March 16
- Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Spanish dictator (1923-30), dies at age 60. [1]
- March 19
- Arthur James Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at age 81. [1]
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- April 1
- Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at age 92. [1]
- Zawditu, first reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies. [1]
- April 4
- Queen Viktoria of Sweden dies, in Rome, Italy. [7]
- April 21
- Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at age 79. [1]
- Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at age 85. [1]
- April 22
- Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist/author/poet (Rugens sange), dies at age 63. [1]
- May 12
- Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at age 70. [1]
- May 13
- Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas, USA; this is the only known fatality due to hail. [1]
- Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel Prize 1922), dies. [1]
- May 17
- Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at age 61. [1]
- October 5
- The R 101 airship from England en route to Egypt crashes in Bois de Coutumes, Beauvais, France and burns completely except for the steel frame, killing 47 including British Secretary of State for Air Lord Thomson. [720.141]
- October 11
- Death of Augustus Heaton, artist, American Numismatic Association President. [538.34]
- December 9
- Jim Slight, cricket player (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies. [1]
- December 19
- Johnny Douglas, cricket player (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns. [1]
- December 24
- Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at age 67. [1]
- December 27
- William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at age 63. [1]
1931
- January 3
- Joseph J C Joffre, French World War I general, dies at age 78. [1] [429]
- January 4
- Death of Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, British royal, eldest daughter of Edward VII (born 1867). [429]
- Art Acord, American western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at age 40. [1] [429]
- January 9
- Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies. [1]
- January 23
- Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies (born 1881). [1] [429]
- February 2
- Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at age 71. [1]
- February 11
- Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at age 76. [1] [429]
- February 16
- Dirk Schäfer, Dutch pianist/composer (Klavier), dies at age 57. [1]
- February 26
- Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1910), dies at age 83. [1] [429]
- March 20
- Death of Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (born 1876). [429]
- March 21
- Death of Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (born 1908). [429]
- March 23
- Indian revolutionary leaders Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev are hanged by the British Government. [429]
- March 25
- Death of Ida Wells, African-American lynching crusader. [429]
- March 27
- British writer Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London shortly after returning from a visit to Paris, where he drank local water to prove it was safe. [1] [429]
- March 28
- Death of Ban Johnson at age 67, American baseball executive (founded American League) (born 1864). [429]
- March 31
- Knute Rockne, American football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at age 43. [1] [429]
- April 4
- Andre Michelin, CEO (Michelin Tires), dies. [1]
- April 8
- Death of Erik Axel Karlfeldt; Swedish writer, poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864). [1] [429]
- April 9
- Death of Nicholas Longworth, American politician, Speaker of the House (born 1869). [429]
- Argentinian anarchist Severino Digiovanni is executed. [429]
- April 15
- The Castellemmarese War ends with the assassination of Joe "The Boss" Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo di tutti i capi ("boss of all bosses") and undisputed ruler of the American Mafia. [429]
- April 20
- Death of Cosmo Duff-Gordon, British baronet and Titanic survivor (born 1862). [429]
- April 25
- A J Y [Bert] Hopkins, cricket player (20 Tests for Australia, 509 runs), dies. [1]
- April 26
- Death of George Herbert Mead, American philosopher (born 1863). [429]
- April 30
- Sammy Woods, English cricket player (3 Tests for Australia, three for England), dies (born 1867). [1] [429]
- May 9
- A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, German-born American physicist (1907 Nobel Prize), dies at age 78. [1] [429]
- July 12
- Death of Nathan Söderblom Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1866). [429]
- August 26
- Death of Hamaguchi Osachi, 27th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1870). [429]
- September 5
- John Thomson, Scottish soccer player, dies in an accident during a Celtic-Rangers match (born 1909). [429] [429]
- September 16
- Death by hanging of Omar Mukhtar, the leader of Libyan resistance (born 1862?). [429]
- September 18
- Geli Raubal is found shot dead in Adolf Hitler's apartment. [429]
- October 18
- Death of Thomas Alva Edison at age 84 in West Orange, New Jersey, USA; American inventor and businessman (phonograph, light bulb). [1] [429] [457]
- December 10
- Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at age 69. [1]
- December 16
- Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at age 82. [1]
- December 18
- John T "Legs" Diamond, American gangster, is murdered at age 35. [1] [429]
- December 23
- Tyrone Power Sr, American actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at age 62. [1] [429]
- December 26
- Death of Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification (born 1851). [429]
1932
- January 7
- Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at age 60. [1]
- January 15
- Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at age 77. [1]
- January 21
- [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at age 51. [1]
- January 26
- William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies. [1]
- February 8
- Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang. [1]
- February 9
- Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, is murdered. [1]
- February 10
- R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (Three Just Men), dies at age 76. [1]
- February 15
- Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at age 66. [1]
- February 17
- Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at age 70. [1]
- February 18
- Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at age 66. [1]
- February 29
- "Big Ed" Morris, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies. [1]
- March 1
- Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at age 46. [1]
- March 5
- Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, is murdered. [1]
- March 6
- John Philip Sousa, US composer ("Stars and Stripes Forever"), dies at age 77. [1]
- March 7
- Aristide Briand, eleven-time premier of France (Nobel Prize 1926), dies at age 69. [1]
- March 8
- Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at age 84. [1]
- March 12
- Ivar Kreuger, Swedish financier, is found shot dead in his Paris apartment, presumably a suicide. He is estimated to have spent US$400 million of investor money in 15 years. [1] [7] [80.56] [135.115]
- March 14
- George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), commits suicide at age 77. [1] [5]
- March 24
- George Robert Canning, cricket player (the 4th Lord Harris), dies. [1]
- April 4
- Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at age 59. [1]
- Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1909), dies. [1]
- April 7
- Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd. [1]
- April 13
- Johannes T de Visser, first Dutch minister of Education, dies at age 75. [1]
- April 26
- Bill Lockwood, cricket player (43 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies. [1]
- April 27
- Harold "Heart" Crane, American poet (Bridge), commits suicide at age 32 by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York. [1]
- May 1
- Paul Doumer, President of France (1931-32), assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov. [1]
- May 3
- Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at age 51. [1]
- May 7
- Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies. [1]
- May 15
- Ki Inukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), is murdered. [1]
- May 22
- Lady Augusta [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at age 80. [1]
- July 22
- Death of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden at age 65 in Hamilton, Bermuda; radio pioneer, made first two-way radio voice transmission between Scotland and Massachusetts, made world's first public program of music and voice transmitted to ships, holder of 300 patents. [457]
- August 2
- Death of Ignaz Seipel in Austria; Catholic priest, author (Nation und Staat), chancellor of Austria (1922-24, 1926-29). [482.66]
- August 10
- Popular pooch Rin Tin Tin dies. [5]
- December 18
- Eduard "Ede" Bernstein; German marxist/revisionist, dies at age 82. [1]
- December 28
- John Blackham, cricket player (35 Tests as Australia wicket keeper, caught 37), dies. [1]
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