- February 15
- Anton J Cermak (Mayor-Democrat-Chicago), assassinated in Miami, Florida. [1]
- February 16
- Archie Jackson, cricket player (of TB, Australia bat too briefly average 47.4), dies. [1]
- February 17
- Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch composer (Handbook of Music), dies at age 84. [1]
- February 18
- James Corbett (Gentleman Jim), heavyweight boxing champion (1892-97), dies. [1]
- February 24
- Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at age 64. [1]
- March 4
- Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist ("Dupree Blues"), dies at age 36. [1]
- March 6
- Anton J Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, dies. [1]
- March 16
- Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at age 47. [1]
- March 17
- Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at age 48. [1]
- March 18
- Luigi A, duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at age 60. [1]
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- March 20
- Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara electrocuted for assassination attempt on Franklin Roosevelt. [1]
- March 27
- Lionel Palairet, cricket player (49 runs in two Tests for England 1902), dies. [1]
- April 1
- Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21), dies at age 64. [1]
- April 2
- K S Ranjitsinhji, cricket player (989 Test runs, first-class average 56), dies. [1]
- April 7
- Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered. [1]
- April 22
- Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies. [1]
- April 28
- Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at age 31. [1]
- April 30
- Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza. [1]
- May 15
- Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at age 54. [1]
- May 21
- John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at age 69. [1]
- May 29
- Frank Sugg, cricket player (batted in two Tests for England 1888), dies. [1]
- June 3
- William Muldoon, US boxing commissioner, dies at age 88. [1]
- June 29
- Death of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; actor (Keystone Comedies, Mabel and Fatty). [1] [5]
- November 8
- King Nadir, Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig. [1]
- December 4
- Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at age 65. [1]
- December 9
- Morice Bird, cricket player (scored 280 runs in 10 Tests for England), dies. [1]
- December 11
- Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at age 87. [1]
- December 17
- Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at age 81. [1]
- December 21
- Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at age 54. [1]
- December 29
- Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered. [1]
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- January 1
- Death of Jakob Wassermann in Altausee, Austria at age 60 (born in Furth, Germany); novelist (Die Juden von Zirndorf, Caspar Hauser, Christian Wahnschaffe). [1] [37]
- January 10
- Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin, Germany at age 24. [1]
- January 13
- Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier/explorer (Sudan), dies at age 70. [1]
- January 15
- Death of Hermann Bahr in Munich, Germany, at age 70; dramatist, Austrian writer (Concert). [1] [37]
- Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger. [1]
- January 29
- Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1918), dies at age 65. [1]
- February 17
- Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, King of Belgium (1909-34), dies at age 58. [1]
- February 21
- Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard. [1]
- February 23
- Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at age 76. [1]
- February 25
- John J McGraw, manager (New York Giants), dies at age 60. [1]
- March 19
- Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at age 66. [1]
- March 20
- A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen (and regent), dies at age 76. [1]
- March 21
- Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at age 34. [1]
- March 31
- Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at age 88. [1]
- April 7
- William Monroe Trotter, civil rights activist/journalist, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston, Massachusetts. [1]
- April 14
- Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies. [1]
- April 30
- Dr William Henry Welch, pathologist who played a major role in the introduction of modern medical practice and education, dies at age 75. [1]
- May 3
- Death of William Hartman Woodin in New York, USA; US Treasury Secretary (1933). [743.83]
- May 23
- Texas and Louisiana state police shoot to death notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow near Sailes, Louisiana. The Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people, including nine police officers. [1] [129]
- May 25
- Gustav Theodore Holst; English composer (Ode to Death), dies at age 59. [1]
- May 29
- Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at age 65. [1]
- May 30
- Death of Heihatjirô Tôjô, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War). [1] [1142.39]
- July 22
- John Dillinger is shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois. [1]
- July 25
- Nazis assassinate Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria. [10]
- August 2
- In Germany, President Paul von Hindenburg dies at age 87. [10] [861.23]
- September 2
- Death of singer Russ Columbo at age 26 of a freak gunshot wound in the eye. Lansing Brown lit a match for a cigarette by striking it against the wooden stock of an antique French dueling pistol. The flame set off a long-forgotten charge in the gun, and a lead pistol ball ricocheted off a nearby table and hit Columbo in the left eye, killing him almost instantly. [457]
- October 9
- While being driven through the streets of Marseilles, France, King Alexander of Yugoslavia is shot and killed by Georgief, an ethnic Bulgarian. The chauffeur is also killed, and the French Foreign Minister is wounded. [1] [1268.86]
- October 22
- Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio. [1]
- November 27
- Baby Face Nelson shot by FBI agents. [1] [5]
- December 1
- Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, is assassinated in Leningrad. [1]
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