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1920
Calendar year
1920 (MCMXX ) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar , the 1920th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium , the 20th year of the 20th century , and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January
February
February 1 – The South African Air Force (SAAF) is established, the second autonomous Air Force in the world, after the Royal Air Force (RAF).[8]
February 2
February 9 – The Svalbard Treaty , signed by members of the League of Nations in Paris, recognises the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard (at this time called Spitzbergen), while giving the other signatories economic rights in the islands.[9]
February 10 – General Józef Haller first performs Poland's Wedding to the Sea , a symbolic celebration of the restitution of Polish access to the Baltic Sea .
February 12 –24 – Conference of London : Leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to discuss the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire .
February 13 – Switzerland joins the League of Nations .
February 14 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia .
February 20 – 1920 Gori earthquake : An earthquake hits Gori in the Democratic Republic of Georgia , killing 114.
February 21 – The island province of Marinduque in the Philippines archipelago is founded.
February 22 – In Emeryville, California , the first dog racing track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
February 24 – Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist Program in Munich to the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ), which renames itself as the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ).
March
March 1
March 7 – The Syrian National Congress proclaims Syria independent, with Faisal I of Iraq as king.
March 10 – The world's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden as Hjalmar Branting takes over as Prime Minister when Nils Edén leaves office.
March 13 –17 – Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz 's Kapp Putsch (an attempted coup in Germany) briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin, but fails due to public resistance and a general strike.
March 15 – The Ruhr Red Army , a communist army 60,000 men strong, is formed in Germany .
March 15 –16 – Constantinople is occupied by British Empire forces, acting for the Allied Powers against the Turkish National Movement . Retrospectively, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey regards this as the dissolution of the Ottoman regime in Istanbul .[10]
March 18 – Greece begins using the Gregorian calendar .
March 19 – The United States Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles .
March 23 – Admiral Miklós Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy, without anyone on the throne.
March 25 – Irish War of Independence : British recruits to the Royal Irish Constabulary begin to arrive in Ireland. They become known from their improvised uniforms as the "Black and Tans ".[11]
March 26 – The German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against the rebellious Ruhr Red Army , in the French-occupied area.
March 28 – The 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South of the United States.
March 29 – Sir William Robertson is promoted to Field Marshal , the first man to rise from private (enlisted 1877 ) to the highest rank in the British Army .[12]
April
April – The Spanish Flu ends with an estimate between seventeen million to fifty million dead. It would be the last global pandemic until the 2009 swine flu pandemic almost 90 Years Later.
April 2 – The German army marches to the Ruhr , to fight the Ruhr Red Army .
April 3 – Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim , led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja , during the White Guard parade in Tampere , Finland .[13] [14]
April 4 – 1920 Palestine riots : Violence erupts between Arab and Jewish residents in Jerusalem ; 9 are killed, 216 injured.
April 6 – The short-lived Far Eastern Republic is declared, in eastern Siberia .
April 11 – Mexican Revolution : Álvaro Obregón flees from Mexico City (during a trial intended to ruin his reputation) to Guerrero , where he joins Fortunato Maycotte.
April 19 –26 – San Remo conference : Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan meet to determine the League of Nations mandates for administration of territories, following the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire .
April 19 – Germany and Soviet Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
May
June
July
August
August 1 – East Bengal Football Club is founded as a sports and cultural association in Kolkata , India .[20]
August 3 – Irish War of Independence : Catholics riot in Belfast , in protest at the continuing British Army presence.
August 10 – Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI 's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allied Powers , confirming arrangements for the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire .
August 11 – Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Latvia .
August 13 –25 – Polish-Soviet War : Battle of Warsaw – The Red Army is defeated.
August 13 – Irish War of Independence : The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act (passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom ) receives Royal Assent , providing for Irish Republican Army activists to be tried by court-martial , rather than by jury in criminal courts.[11]
August 14 – The 1920 Summer Olympics open in Antwerp , Belgium .
August 19 – Russian Civil War : Peasants in Tambov Governorate begin the Tambov Rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia .
August 19 –25 – Second Silesian Uprising : The Poles in Upper Silesia rise up against the Germans.
August 20 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ ), begins operations in Detroit . It is owned by the Detroit News , the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.
August 26 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage .
August 28 –September 2 – Bukhara operation : The Russian Red Army and Young Bukharians overthrow the Emirate of Bukhara , leading to the establishment of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic .
September
October
November
November 2
November 11 – In London, The Cenotaph is unveiled and The Unknown Warrior is buried in Westminster Abbey ; while in Paris the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is consecrated beneath the Arc de Triomphe .
November 12 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo .
November 13 – The White Army 's last units and civilian refugees are evacuated from the Crimea onboard 126 ships, the remnants of the Russian Imperial Navy , to Turkey , Tunisia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , accompanied by wide-scale civilian massacres. The total number of evacuees amounts to approximately 150,000 people, of which 20% are civilians.
November 14 – The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra holds its first concert.
November 15 – In Geneva , the first assembly of the League of Nations is held.
November 16 – Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (Qantas ) is founded by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness .
November 17 – The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig .
November 20 – Prince Arthur of Connaught is appointed the 3rd Governor-General of South Africa .
November 21 – Irish War of Independence : Bloody Sunday : The Irish Republican Army (IRA), on the instructions of Michael Collins , shoot dead the "Cairo gang", 14 British undercover agents in Dublin , most in their homes. Later this day in retaliation, the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a Gaelic Athletic Association football match in Croke Park , resulting in 14 deaths with 60 wounded.[11] [25] Three men are shot this night in Dublin Castle "while trying to escape".
November 28
Irish War of Independence – Kilmichael Ambush : The flying column of the 3rd Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army , led by Tom Barry , ambushes two lorries carrying men of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary at Kilmichael, County Cork , killing 17 (with 3 of its men also dying), which leads to official reprisals.[11]
FIDAC (French: F édération I nteralliée d es A nciens C ombattants, English: The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations ) is established in Paris at the initiative of veterans from World War I , predominantly pacifists , joined by associations of veterans from France, the United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Serbia.[26]
December
December 1 – The Mexican Revolution effectively ends with a new regime coming to power, which coincides with the end of the Old West .[27]
December 3 – Following more than a month of the Turkish-Armenian War , the Turkish-dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
December 5 – A referendum in Greece is favorable to the reinstatement of the monarchy.
December 10 – Irish War of Independence : Martial law is declared in Counties Cork , Kerry , Limerick and Tipperary .[11]
December 11 – Burning of Cork in Ireland: British forces set fire to some 5 acres (20,000 m2 ) of the centre of Cork , including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks, after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.
December 13 – Confectionery company Haribo is founded in Bonn, Germany.
December 15 –22 – The Brussels Conference establishes a timetable for German war reparations, intended to extend for over 42 years.
Date unknown
Births
January
January 2
January 4 – David Musuguri , Tanzanian soldier and military officer
January 5 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Italian pianist (d. 1995 )[30]
January 6
January 7 – Vincent Gardenia , American actor (d. 1992 )[31]
January 8 – Abbey Simon , American classical pianist (d. 2019 )
January 9
January 10
January 11 – Jarbas Passarinho , Brazilian military officer, politician (d. 2016 )
January 12 – Bill Reid , Canadian artist (d. 1998 )
January 13 – Jahangir Amuzegar , Iranian economist, academic and politician (d. 2018 )
January 14 – Vahe Danielyan , Soviet soldier and concentration camp survivor
January 15
January 16 – Walter Frederick Morrison , American entrepreneur, inventor (d. 2010 )[34]
January 19 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , Peruvian Secretary-General of the United Nations , 135th Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2020 )
January 20
January 21 – Errol Barrow , 1st Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1987 )
January 22 – Sir Alf Ramsey , English footballer and manager (d. 1999 )
January 23
January 24 – Manuel Yan , Filipino general (d. 2008 )
January 25 – Alicia Montoya , Mexican actress (d. 2002 )
January 26
January 27
January 29 – Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao , Indian writer (d. 2018 )
January 30
February
February 2 – John Russell , American Olympic equestrian (d. 2020 )
February 3 – Henry Heimlich , American physician, medical researcher (d. 2016 )
February 4 – Giriraj Kishore , Indian activist, politician (d. 2014 )
February 5 – Frank Muir , British actor, comedy writer and raconteur (d. 1998 )
February 6 – Gordon Van Wylen , American physicist and author (d. 2020 )
February 7
February 8 – Tony Murray , French-English billionaire and businessman
February 11
February 12
February 13
February 16 – Anna Mae Hays , American general (d. 2018 )
February 17
February 18 – Eddie Slovik , U.S. Army private, only deserter to be executed during World War II (d. 1945 )
February 20 – Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (d. 1948 )
February 24 – Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton , English noble (d. 2021 )
February 26
February 28
February 29
March
March 3
March 4 – Jean Lecanuet , French politician (d. 1993 )
March 5 – Rachel Gurney , British actress (d. 2001 )
March 6
March 8 – Ingemar Hedberg , Swedish canoeist (d. 2019 )
March 9 – Franjo Mihali? , Croatian-Serbian athlete (d. 2015 )
March 10
March 11
March 14 – Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (d. 2001 )
March 15
March 16 – Leo McKern , Australian actor (d. 2002 )[41]
March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , founder, 2-time President & 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975 )
March 20
March 22
March 23
March 24 – Corbin Harney , elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. 2007 )
March 25 – Patrick Troughton , English actor (d. 1987 )[43]
March 26 – Ernest Courant , American accelerator physicist (d. 2020 )
March 27 – William Moncrief , American businessman (d. 2021 )
March 29
March 31
April
April 1
April 3 – Ehsan Yarshater , Iranian scholar (d. 2018 )
April 4 – Éric Rohmer , French film director (d. 2010 )
April 5
April 6 – Edmond H. Fischer , Swiss American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2021 )
April 7 – Ravi Shankar , Indian sitar player (d. 2012 )[45]
April 11
April 12
April 13
April 14
April 15
April 16
April 19
April 20 – John Paul Stevens , American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 2019 )
April 21 – Edmund Adamkiewicz , German footballer (d. 1991 )
April 22 – Valeri Petrov , Bulgarian poet (d. 2014 )
April 25
April 26 – Padú del Caribe , Aruban musician and songwriter (d. 2019 )
April 27 – Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (d. 1956 )[47]
April 30
May
May 1 – Alan Burgess , New Zealand cricketer (d. 2021 )
May 2
May 5 – Jon Naar , British-American author, photographer (d. 2017 )
May 6
May 8
May 8 – Saul Bass , American graphic designer (d. 1996 )
May 9
May 11 – Gene Hermanski , American baseball player (d. 2010 )
May 12
May 13 – Vassos Lyssarides , Cypriot politician and physician (d. 2021 )
May 15 – Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir , Lebanese cardinal (d. 2019 )
May 17 – Lydia Wideman , Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2019 )
May 18 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005 )
May 19 – Tina Strobos , Dutch psychiatrist known for rescuing Jews during World War II (d. 2012 )
May 20
May 21 – Sonja de Lennart , German fashion designer
May 22 – Helen Andelin , American author (d. 2009 )
May 23 – Helen O'Connell , American singer (d. 1993 )[51]
May 25 – Arthur Wint , Jamaican runner (d. 1992 )
May 26
May 28 – Gene Levitt , American television writer, producer and director (d. 1999 )
May 29 – John Harsanyi , Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000 )
May 30
June
June 1 – Amos Yarkoni , Israeli soldier (d. 1991 )
June 2
June 5 – Marion Motley , American football player (d. 1999 )
June 10
June 11
June 12 – Dave Berg , American cartoonist (d. 2002 )
June 13 – Rolf Huisgen , German chemist and academic (d. 2020 )
June 15 – Alberto Sordi , Italian actor (d. 2003 )[54]
June 16
June 17
June 18
June 19
June 20 – Amos Tutuola , Nigerian writer (d. 1997 )
June 21 – Hans Gerschwiler , Swiss figure skater (d. 2017 )
June 22
June 23 – Saleh Ajeery , Kuwaiti astronomer (d. 2022 )
June 25
June 27 – Fernando Riera , Chilean football player, manager (d. 2010 )
June 28 – Clarissa Eden , wife of British Prime Minister Anthony Eden (d. 2021 )
June 29
June 30
July
August
August 1 – Sammy Lee , Korean-American diver (d. 2016 )
August 3 – P. D. James , English mystery novelist (d. 2014 )[60]
August 4
August 5
August 6
August 7
August 8
August 9 – Milton G. Henschel , American member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, 5th President of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (d. 2003 )
August 10
August 11 – Florence Bjelke-Petersen , Australian politician, writer (d. 2017 )
August 13 – Neville Brand , American actor, highly decorated World War II combat soldier (d. 1992 )
August 14 – María Teresa Linares Savio , Cuban musicologist (d. 2021 )
August 15 – Prince Konstantin of Bavaria (d. 1969 )
August 16 – Charles Bukowski , American writer (d. 1994 )
August 17 – Maureen O'Hara , Irish-American actress (d. 2015 )
August 18
August 20 – Boris Braun , Croatian university professor and Holocaust survivor (d. 2018 )
August 21 – Christopher Robin Milne , English author, bookseller (d. 1996 )
August 22 – Ray Bradbury , American science fiction writer (d. 2012 )[62]
August 26
August 27 – Baptiste Manzini , American football player (d. 2008 )
August 28 – Jaime de Almeida , Brazilian football player, manager (d. 1973 )
August 29
August 30 – Ali Sabri , Egyptian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1991 )
September
September 1
September 2 – Mónica Echeverría , Chilean journalist, writer, actress and a Literature professor (d. 2020 )
September 5 – Apolonia Muñoz Abarca , American health professional and reproductive rights advocate (d. 2009 )
September 8 – Lawrence LeShan , American psychologist, educator and author (d. 2020 )
September 10
September 12
September 13
September 14
September 15 – Dave Garcia , American baseball coach, manager (d. 2018 )
September 17 – Marjorie Holt , American politician (d. 2018 )
September 18 – Jack Warden , American actor (d. 2006 )
September 19 – Roger Angell , American journalist, author and editor (d. 2022 )
September 20 – Jay Ward , American animation producer (d. 1989 )
September 21 – Kenneth McAlpine , English racing driver
September 22 – William H. Riker , American political scientist (d. 1993 )
September 23 – Mickey Rooney , American actor, dancer and entertainer (d. 2014 )
September 24
September 27 – William Conrad , American actor, film director and producer (d. 1994 )
September 29 – Peter D. Mitchell , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992 )
September 30 – Milton P. Rice , American politician (d. 2018 )
Unknown
October
October 1
October 2 – Tun Tin , 6th Prime Minister of Burma (d. 2020 )
October 3 – Bung Tomo , Indonesian military leader and 1st Minister of State (d. 1981 )
October 4
October 5 – Ralph Turlington , American politician (d. 2021 )
October 8 – Frank Herbert , American author (d. 1986 )[66]
October 9
October 10
October 13
October 15 – Mario Puzo , American author (d. 1999 )[68]
October 16 – Alicia Dussán de Reichel , Colombian educator
October 17
October 19 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale , Indian founder of the Swadhyay Movement (d. 2003 )
October 20
October 21 – Ruth Terry , American singer, actress (d. 2016 )
October 22 – Timothy Leary , American psychologist, author and proponent of LSD (d. 1996 )
October 23 – Vern Stephens , American baseball player (d. 1968 )
October 24 – Steve Conway , British singer (d. 1952)[70]
October 25 – J. Denis Summers-Smith , English ornithologist and mechanical engineer (d. 2020 )
October 26
October 27 - K. R. Narayanan , President of India (d. 2005 )
October 29
October 31
Unknown – Zou Yu , Chinese jurist and politician
November
November 2 – Kim Chol-man , North Korean politician and military official (d. 2018 )
November 3 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal , Australian political activist, artist, and educator (d. 1993 )
November 4 – Val Heim , American Major League Baseball player (d. 2019 )
November 5
November 8
November 11
November 12 – Josip Boljkovac , Croatian politician (d. 2014 )
November 13
November 14 – Mary Greyeyes , first First Nations woman to join the Canadian Armed Forces (d. 2011 )
November 15 – Wayne Thiebaud , American painter (d. 2021 )
November 16
November 18 – Mustafa Khalil , 40th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008 )
November 19 – Gene Tierney , American actress (d. 1991 )
November 21
November 22
November 23 – Paik Sun-yup , South Korean military officer (d. 2020 )
November 24 – Jorge Mistral , Spanish-Mexican actor (d. 1972 )
November 25
November 27 – Buster Merryfield , British actor (d. 1999 )
November 28 – Patrick Rodger , Scottish Anglican bishop (d. 2002 )
November 29
November 30 – Virginia Mayo , American actress (d. 2005 )
December
December 1
December 5 – Poldine Carlo , American author (d. 2018 )
December 6
December 8 – Ivar Martinsen , Norwegian speed skater (d. 2018 )
December 9 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , 49th Prime Minister of Italy , 10th President of Italy (d. 2016 )
December 10 – Stanko Todorov , Bulgarian communist politician (d. 1996 )
December 12
December 13
December 14
December 15
December 16 – John Hale Stutesman , American public official (d. 2019 )
December 17 – Ewa Paradies , German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946 )
December 18 – Gianni Di Venanzo , Italian cinematographer (d. 1966 )
December 19
December 20 – Väinö Linna , Finnish author (d. 1992 )[74]
December 21
December 22 – Robin Dalton , Australian literary agent and film producer
December 23 – Tim Elkington , English Royal Air Force pilot (d. 2019 )
December 24
December 28 – Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (d. 2011 )
December 29
December 30 – Jack Lord , American actor (d. 1998 )
December 31 – Rex Allen , American actor, singer and songwriter (d. 1999 )[75]
Deaths
January
January 1 – Zygmunt Gorazdowski , Polish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1845 )
January 2 – Paul Adam , French writer (b. 1862 )
January 3 – Zygmunt Janiszewski , Polish mathematician (b. 1888 ), Spanish flu
January 4
January 6
January 7 – Sir Edmund Barton , 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849 )
January 9 – Ella Maria Dietz Clymer , American actress and author (b. 1847 )
January 11 - Kataoka Shichir? , Japanese admiral (b. 1854 )
January 14 – John Francis Dodge , American automobile manufacturer (b. 1864 ), Spanish flu
January 16 – Mikhail Bakhirev , Russian admiral (executed) (b. 1868 )
January 18 – Giovanni Capurro , Italian poet (b. 1859 )
January 22 – Georg Lurich , Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler, strongman (b. 1876 )
January 24
February
February 2 – Field E. Kindley , American World War I aviator (b. 1896 )
February 3 – Frank Brown , 42nd Governor of Maryland (b. 1846 )
February 6
February 8 – Richard Dehmel , German poet, writer (b. 1863 )
February 11 – Gaby Deslys , French dancer, actress & spy (b. 1881 ), Spanish flu
February 13 – João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal , Portuguese politician and antiquarian (b. 1847 )
February 15
February 17 – Eduard von Knorr , German admiral (b. 1840 )
February 20
February 21 – Afonso, Duke of Porto (b. 1865 )
February 27 – William Sherman Jennings , Governor of Florida (b. 1863 )
March
April
May
May 1 – Princess Margaret of Connaught , Crown Princess of Sweden (b. 1882 )
May 4 – Mary Catherine Crowley , American author (b. 1856 )
May 8 – Johan Reinhold Sahlberg , Finnish entomologist
May 10 – John Wesley Hyatt , American inventor (b. 1837 )
May 11
May 15
May 16
May 18 – Curry Cabral , Portuguese physician and professor (b. 1844 )
May 21
May 23 – Svetozar Boroevi? , Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1856 )
May 28 – Hardwicke Rawnsley , English clergyman, poet, writer of hymns and conservationist (b. 1851 )
May 30 – George Ernest Morrison , Australian adventurer (b. 1862 )
June
July
July 1 – Delfim Moreira , 10th President of Brazil (b. 1868 )
July 2 – William Louis Marshall , American general, engineer (b. 1846 )
July 3 – William C. Gorgas , American Army surgeon (b. 1854 )
July 5 – Max Klinger , German painter and sculptor (b. 1857 )[81]
July 7 – Roberto Silva Renard , Chilean general (b. 1855 )
July 10 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , British admiral (b. 1841 )
July 11 – Empress Eugénie of France (b. 1826 )
July 17
July 18 – Prince Joachim of Prussia (b. 1890 )
July 20 – Sarada Devi , Indian mystic and saint (d. 1920)
July 22 – William Kissam Vanderbilt , American heir (b. 1849 )
August
August 1
August 2 – Ormer Locklear , American stunt pilot, film actor (b. 1891 )
August 6 – Remus von Woyrsch , German field marshal (b. 1847 )
August 8 – Eduard Birnbaum , Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855 )
August 9 – Sir Samuel Griffith , Australian politician and judge (b. 1845 )
August 10
August 12 – Hermann Struve , Russian-born astronomer (b. 1854 )
August 16
August 17 – Ray Chapman , American baseball player (b. 1891 )
August 21 – Paul W. Abt , American businessman and politician (b. 1845 )
August 22 – Anders Zorn , Swedish painter (b. 1860 )[82]
August 26 – James Wilson , Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835 )
August 31 – Wilhelm Wundt , German physiologist, psychologist (b. 1832 )
September
October
November
November 1 – Kevin Barry , Irish republican paramilitary (executed) (b. 1902 )
November 2
November 3 – Warren Terhune , United States Navy Commander and 13th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1869 )
November 4 – Ludwig Struve , Russian astronomer (b. 1858 )
November 9 – Alberto Blest Gana , Chilean novelist, diplomat (b. 1830 )
November 21 – Michael Hogan , Irish footballer and activist, one of 14 civilians killed in the Croke Park Massacre by British paramilitary forces (b. 1896 )
November 22 – Manuel Pérez y Curis , Uruguayan poet (b. 1884 )
November 23 – Sir George Callaghan , British admiral (b. 1852 )
November 25
November 27 – Alexius Meinong , Austrian philosopher (b. 1853 )
November 30 – Eugene W. Chafin , American politician (b. 1852 )
December
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
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