- February 18
- Alida J Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies at age 64. [1]
- Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail, dies at age 81. [1]
- Louis de la Vallée-Poussin, author (The Way to Nirvana), dies at age 69. [1]
- March 1
- Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at age 74. [1]
- March 13
- Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago, Illinois at age 80. [1]
- March 15
- Edmund Tylecote, cricket player (England keeper in six Tests 1882-86), dies. [1]
- March 21
- Oscar Apfel, actor (Inspiration), dies at age 60. [1]
- March 31
- Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at age 78. [1]
- April 4
- Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (West Indies 1935), dies of malaria at age 24. [1]
- April 8
- Harold Baumgartner, cricket player (took 2-99 lefty in test for South Africa), dies. [1]
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- April 12
- Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at age 65. [1]
- Serafín Alvarez Quintéro, Spanish playwright (Piropos), dies at age 67. [1]
- April 15
- César Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at age 46. [1]
- April 16
- Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor, dies. [1]
- April 19
- Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at age 75. [1]
- April 21
- Muhammad Iqbal, British East Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at age 65. [1]
- April 26
- Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at age 79. [1]
- April 27
- Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Colonies, dies at age 44. [1]
- May 4
- Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel Prize 1935), dies at age 48. [1]
- May 10
- Percy McAlister, cricket player (8 Tests, punches Clem Hill in 1912), dies. [1]
- May 11
- Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (El dulce daño / suicide), dies at age 45. [1]
- Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at age 81. [1]
- May 14
- Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at age 81. [1]
- July 4
- Suzanne Lenglen, six-time Wimbeldon tennis champ, dies at age 39 of anemia. [1]
- September 4
- New York Archbishop Patrick Cardinal Hayes dies at age 70. [500.E10]
- November 10
- Kemal Ataturk, first President of Turkey, dies. [1] [500.E10]
- November 29
- Flora Disney (Walt Disney's mother) dies of inhaling poison gas fumes from a defective water heater. [6]
- December 7
- Harry Moses, cricket player (6 Tests for Australia 1887-95), dies. [1]
- December 14
- Marie Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at age 76. [1]
- December 23
- Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies at age 70. [1]
- December 25
- Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bílá Nemoc), dies at age 48. [1]
- December 27
- Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at age 72. [1]
- December 28
- Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at age 48. [1]
- December 31
- Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at age 70. [1]
1939
- January 6
- Albert Ward, cricket player (England batsman in 7 Tests 1893-95), dies. [1]
- January 9
- Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at age 72. [1]
- January 10
- Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at age 50. [1]
- Julius Bittner, Austria composer (Missa Austriaca, Little Violet), dies at age 64. [1]
- January 13
- Jacob Ruppert, CEO (New York Yankees, 1915-39), dies. [1]
- January 16
- Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed. [1]
- January 26
- Professor Cristescu, Romania's iron guard leader, is murdered. [1]
- January 28
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel Prize), dies in France at age 73. [1]
- January 31
- George Thornton, cricket player (one Test for South Africa 1902, 1* and 1-20), dies. [1]
- February 4
- Edward Sapir, US linguist/cultural anthropologist (Indian), dies at age 55. [1]
- Henri W A Deterding; Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at age 72. [1]
- February 10
- Pius XI [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies of a heart attack at age 81. [1] [861.129]
- February 15
- Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at age 68. [1]
- February 27
- Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at age 70. [1]
- March 2
- Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at age 65. [1] [319.A14]
- March 6
- [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at age 86. [1]
- March 27
- Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at age 57. [1]
- March 31
- Indrið Einarsson, Iceland playwright (Skipið Sekkur), dies at age 87. [1]
- April 3
- King Ghazi of Iraq drives car into lamppost, dying instantly. [1] [1215.811]
- April 5
- William Cooper, cricket player (two Tests for Australia 1882-84), dies. [1]
- April 10
- Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at age 75. [1]
- April 18
- Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at age 88. [1]
- May 1
- Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van oliën), dies. [1]
- May 3
- [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at age 71. [1]
- May 8
- Death of Ted Rogers at age 38; pioneer Canadian broadcaster, invented world's first Alternating Current radio, Canada's First Rogers Batteryless (CFRB) began broadcasting as the world's first all electric radio station, started Canada's first FM station. [457]
- May 20
- Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at age 59. [1]
- May 22
- Willem de Mérode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at age 51. [1]
- May 26
- Charles H Mayo, American surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at age 74. [1]
- Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies. [1]
- May 27
- Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at age 44. [1]
- June 17
- Eugene Weldman is last person guillotined in France. [1]
- June 19
- Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at age 60. [1]
- July 7
- James Deacon White, baseball player who jumped teams in 1876 (Chicago), dies at age 91. [1]
- September 21
- (1330 hours) In Bucharest, Rumania, six Iron Guards assassinate Prime Minister Armand Calinescu. This is intended as a prelude to a Nazi uprising, but is quickly stopped by police. Nine men are captured and executed before midnight. [10]
- September 23
- Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at age 83. [1]
- November 28
- James A Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at age 78. [1]
- December 9
- Death of Thomas Priday on patrol near Maginot Line, France; Corporal in First Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry; believed to be first British soldier killed in action in World War II. [1458.10]
- December 12
- Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, Three Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at age 56. [1]
- December 14
- Helene Kröller-Müller, Dutch museum founder, dies at age 70. [1]
- December 15
- Tom McKibbin, cricket player (5 Tests for Australia 1895-1898, 17 wickets), dies. [1]
- December 19
- Karl Wagenfeld Low, German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at age 70. [1]
- Willem Benoy, Flemish actor/director (The White), dies at age 57. [1]
- December 20
- Hans Langsdorff, German captain (Admiral Graf Spee), commits suicide. [1] [10]
- December 22
- Ma Rainey "Mother of the Blues", American blues singer/composer, dies at age 53. [1]
- December 23
- Anthony H G Fokker, Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at age 49. [1]
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