1926

1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1926 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1926
MCMXXVI
Ab urbe condita2679
Armenian calendar1375
ԹՎ ՌՅՀԵ
Assyrian calendar6676
Baháʼí calendar82–83
Balinese saka calendar1847–1848
Bengali calendar1333
Berber calendar2876
British Regnal year16 Geo. 5  17 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2470
Burmese calendar1288
Byzantine calendar7434–7435
Chinese calendar乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4622 or 4562
     to 
丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
4623 or 4563
Coptic calendar1642–1643
Discordian calendar3092
Ethiopian calendar1918–1919
Hebrew calendar5686–5687
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1982–1983
 - Shaka Samvat1847–1848
 - Kali Yuga5026–5027
Holocene calendar11926
Igbo calendar926–927
Iranian calendar1304–1305
Islamic calendar1344–1345
Japanese calendarTaishō 15 / Shōwa 1
(昭和元年)
Javanese calendar1856–1857
Juche calendar15
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4259
Minguo calendarROC 15
民國15年
Nanakshahi calendar458
Thai solar calendar2468–2469
Tibetan calendar阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
2052 or 1671 or 899
     to 
阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
2053 or 1672 or 900

Events

January

February

March

March 16: Goddard with rocket in 1926.

April

  • April 4 Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos wins the presidential election, with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion.[5]
  • April 7 An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.[6]
  • April 17 Zhang Zuolin's army captures Beijing.[7]
  • April 21 The British Queen Elizabeth II, is born in London.
  • April 24 Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality, in the event of an attack on the other by a third party, for the next five years.
  • April 25 Rezā Khan is crowned Shah of Iran, under the name "Pahlevi".

May

  • May 4 The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.
  • May 9
    • Martial law is declared in Britain, because of the general strike.
    • The French navy bombards Damascus, because of Druze riots.
    • Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time.[8] An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996, suggested that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.[9]
  • May 10 Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the United States Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia (Hickam parachutes to safety).
  • May 12
  • May 1214 May Coup: Józef Piłsudski takes over in Poland.
  • May 18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach.
  • May 20 The United States Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.
  • May 23 The first Lebanese constitution is established.
  • May 25 At least 165 persons (144 confirmed) die in the Mount Tokachi volcano eruption in Hokkaido, Japan, according to the Japanese government official report.
  • May 26 The Rif War ends, when Rif rebels surrender in Morocco.
  • May 28 The 1926 coup d'état, commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.

June

July

  • July 1
  • July 3 A Caudron C.61 aircraft, operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne, crashes in Czechoslovakia.
  • July 9 In Portugal, General Óscar Carmona takes power in a military coup.
  • July 10 A bolt of lightning strikes Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days.
  • July 15 Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses.
  • July 23 Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • July 26 The United States National Bar Association is incorporated.

August

  • August 1 In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes the Cristero War.
  • August 2 The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.[10]
  • August 5 In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system is seen by audiences for the first time, in the movie Don Juan, starring John Barrymore.[11]
  • August 6 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, from France to England.[12]
  • August 18 In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C.
  • August 22 In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos.
  • August 25 Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship has ended in Greece, and he is now the president.

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

  • Dr Muthulakshmi Reddi becomes the first woman to be appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras Legislative Council.
  • Stephen H. Langdon begins excavations in Jemdet Nasr, finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 BCE).
  • Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is first synthesized.
  • Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and marks rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta, Canada.
  • The International African Institute is founded in London.
  • Industrial output surpasses the level of 1913 in the USSR.

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin
Patricia Neal

February

Bob Richards

March

Ralph Abernathy
Siegfried Lenz

April

  • April 1
    • Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
    • Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011)
    • Luis de la Puente Uceda, Peruvian guerrilla leader (d. 1965)
  • April 2
    • Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d. 2014)
    • Omar Graffigna, Argentine Air Force officer (d. 2019)
  • April 3Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)[40]
  • April 5
    • Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
    • Ri Kun-mo, North Korean politician (d. 2001)
  • April 6
    • Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher, nationalist politician (d. 2017)
    • Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor, actor (d. 1990)
    • Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d. 2014)
  • April 8 – Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic
  • April 9Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (Playboy) (d. 2017)
  • April 10 – Gustav Metzger, German-born stateless auto-destructive artist (d. 2017)
  • April 12 – Jane Withers, American actress (d. 2021)
  • April 13
    • John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer (d. 2014)
    • Maximilian Raub, Austrian Olympic canoeist (d. 2019)
    • Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright, author (d. 2016)
  • April 14
    • Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, and teacher (d. 1996)
    • Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
    • George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d. 1989)
    • Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 2008)
  • April 15 – Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (d. 1990)[41]
  • April 19 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician, first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
  • April 21
    • Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (d. 2022)[42]
    • Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
    • Alexander Lyudskanov, Bulgarian translator, semiotician and mathematician (d. 1976)
  • April 22
    • Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
    • Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d. 2018)
    • James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
  • April 24 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, twice Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016)[43]
  • April 27
    • Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker and author (d. 2016)[44]
    • Vladimír Černý, Czechoslovakian modern pentathlete (d. 2016)
  • April 28Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)
  • April 29 – Paul Baran, American internet pioneer (d. 2011)[45]
  • April 30
    • Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, Santomean poet (d. 2010)
    • Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)
    • Christian Mohn, Norwegian ski jumper and sports official (d. 2019)

May

Don Rickles
  • May 1Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician, academic
  • May 3
    • Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler
    • Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, Croatian politician (d. 2020)
  • May 5 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
  • May 8
    • Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist, and producer
    • David Hurst, German actor (d. 2019)
    • Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d. 2017)
  • May 10Hugo Banzer, 51st President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
  • May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d. 1984)
  • May 15
    • Anthony Shaffer, English novelist, playwright (d. 2001)
    • Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)
  • May 17
    • Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author (d. 2016)
    • Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist (d. 1981)
    • Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian film actor (d. 2014)
  • May 18 – Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (d. 2018)
  • May 21 – Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
  • May 23 – Aileen Hernandez, African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist (d. 2017)
  • May 24 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
  • May 25
    • Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
    • Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d. 2013)[46]
  • May 26Miles Davis, African-American Jazz musician (d. 1991)
  • May 27 – Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
  • May 29Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal

June

Efraín Ríos Montt
Tadeusz Konwicki
  • June 1
  • June 3
  • June 4 – Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (d. 1958)
  • June 5
    • Emile Capgras, Martinican politician (d. 2014)
    • Paul Soros, Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
  • June 6 – Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
  • June 7 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
  • June 9 – Happy Rockefeller, American socialite (d. 2015)[48]
  • June 10
    • June Haver, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
    • Lionel Jeffries, British film director and actor (d. 2010)
  • June 11
    • Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator (d. 2021)[49]
    • Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer (d. 2010)
  • June 12
    • Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper (d. 2020)
    • Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (d. 2001)
  • June 13
    • Satoru Abe, Japanese-American sculptor and painter
    • June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014)[50]
  • June 16 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan career military officer and politician (d. 2018)[51]
  • June 18
    • Avshalom Haviv, (d. 1947)
    • Allan Sandage, American astronomer (d. 2010)
  • June 19 – Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor[52]
  • June 21
    • Washington Malianga, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2014)
    • Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (d. 2015)
  • June 22
    • George Englund, American film editor, director, producer, and actor (d. 2017)
    • Elyakim Haetzni, Israeli lawyer (d. 2022)
    • Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish filmmaker (d. 2015)
    • Rachid Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
  • June 23
    • Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2011)
    • Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust (d. 2021)
    • Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Senegalese writer
    • Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
  • June 24
    • Muslim Arogundade, Nigerian sprinter (d. unknown)
    • Barbara Scofield, American tennis player
  • June 25
    • Ján Eugen Kočiš, Czech bishop (d. 2019)
    • Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
    • Gordon Robertson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
    • Stig Sollander, Swedish alpine skier (d. 2019)
  • June 26
    • Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet (d. 2020)
    • Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon
    • Luis Molné, Andorran alpine skier
    • André Monnier, French ski jumper
    • Fritz Zwazl, Austrian swimmer
  • June 27
    • Giambattista Bonis, Italian professional football player
    • Geza de Kaplany, Hungarian-born physician
    • Don Raleigh, American ice hockey player (d. 2012)
    • Bruce Tozer, Australian cricketer (d. 2021)
    • Galina Vecherkovskaya, Russian rower
  • June 28
    • Elisabeta Abrudeanu, Romanian artistic gymnast
    • George Booth, American cartoonist
    • Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
  • June 30
    • Peter Alexander, Austrian actor and singer (d. 2011)
    • Paul Berg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate[53]
    • Božena Moserová, Czech alpine skier (d. 2017)

July

Carl Hahn
Nuon Chea
Stef Wertheimer
Maunu Kurkvaara
Norman Jewison
  • July 1
  • July 2
    • Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and an academician (d. 2016)
    • Alfons Oehy, Swiss swimmer (d. 1977)
    • Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor (d. 2020)
  • July 3 – María Lorenza Barreneche, First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016)
  • July 4
    • Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-born footballer (d. 2014)
    • Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009)
    • Lopön Tenzin Namdak, Tibetan religious leader
  • July 5
    • Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
    • Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
    • Anthony Purssell, English brewing executive and rower
  • July 6
    • Serge Roullet, French film director and screenwriter
    • Dorothy E. Smith, British-born Canadian sociologist (d. 2022)
  • July 7
    • Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura soprano in opera and concert
    • Armand Lemieux, Canadian professional hockey player (d. 2015)
    • Thorkild Simonsen, Danish politician (d. 2022)
    • Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 2019)
    • Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2014)
  • July 8
    • David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
    • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist (d. 2004)
  • July 9
    • Jens Juul Eriksen, Danish cyclist (d. 2004)
    • Mathilde Krim, founding chairman of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (d. 2018)
    • Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
  • July 10
    • Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer (d. 2022)
    • Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d. 2015)
    • Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993)
    • Harry MacPherson, American pitcher (d. 2017)
    • Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former politician and partisan
  • July 11
    • Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian (d. 2022)
    • Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
  • July 12 – Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
  • July 13 – Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter
  • July 14 – Harry Dean Stanton, American film and television actor (d. 2017)
  • July 15
    • Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019)
    • Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
    • Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015)
  • July 16
    • Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and novelist (d. 2017)
    • Michael Otedola, Nigerian politician (d. 2014)
    • Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
    • Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician
  • July 17 – Édouard Carpentier, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010)
  • July 18
    • Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter
    • Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (d. 2022)
  • July 19
    • Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
    • Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer
  • July 20
    • Charles David Ganao, Congolese politician (d. 2012)
    • Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician (d. 2016)
  • July 21
    • Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier
    • Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
  • July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013)
  • July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (d. 2018)
  • July 25
    • Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
    • Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009)
  • July 26 – James Best, American actor and acting coach (d. 2015)
  • July 28 – Walt Brown, American presidential candidate
  • July 29 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (d. 2008)
  • July 30 – Nina Kulagina, Russian psychic (d. 1990)
  • July 31
    • Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011)
    • Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)

August

Aaron Klug
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
  • August 2
    • Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988)
    • George Habash, Palestinian Christian politician (d. 2008)
    • Igor Spassky, Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur
    • Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. 1975)
  • August 3
    • Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. 2013)
    • Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2015)
    • Tony Bennett, American singer
    • Shun-ichi Iwasaki, Japanese engineer
  • August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
  • August 6
    • Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019)
    • János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
    • Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016)
    • Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
    • Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
  • August 7 – Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015)
  • August 8
    • Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
    • Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006)
    • Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004)
  • August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
  • August 10
    • Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)[55]
    • Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972)[56]
    • Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013)
  • August 11
    • Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017)
    • Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)[57]
    • Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (d. 2019)
    • John Gokongwei, Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
  • August 12
    • John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998)
    • Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016)
    • Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
    • René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016)
  • August 13
    • Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016)
    • Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber singer (d. 2018)
    • Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991)
  • August 14
    • Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
    • René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
    • Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017)
  • August 15
    • Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)
    • Ivy Bottini, American activist and artist (d. 2021)
    • Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969)
    • Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author
    • Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
  • August 16
    • Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013)
    • Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017)
    • Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist (d. 2019)
  • August 17
  • August 18 – Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011)
  • August 19 – Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and composer (d. 2006)
  • August 20 – Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015)
  • August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal (d. 2020)
  • August 22 – Werner Spitz, German-American forensic pathologist
  • August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
  • August 29
    • Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
    • Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d. 2004)
    • Betty Lynn, American actress (d. 2021)

September

Prince Claus
Donald A. Glaser

October

Julie Adams
Necmettin Erbakan

November

Jeffrey Hunter
Beji Caid Essebsi

December

Raif Dizdarević
  • December 1
    • Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018)
    • Kitty Hart-Moxon, Polish-English nurse and Holocaust survivor
    • Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (d. 2017)
  • December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic and educator
  • December 9
  • December 10
    • Leon Kossoff, English painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
    • Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959)
    • Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017)
  • December 13 – George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
  • December 14 – María Elena Marqués, Mexican actress (d. 2008)
  • December 15
    • Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director (d. 2017)
    • Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal
  • December 16 – A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
  • December 17 – Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014)
  • December 19 – Herbert Stempel, American game show contestant (d. 2020)
  • December 20
    • Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
    • Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
    • David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009)
  • December 21
  • December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015)
  • December 23
    • Jorge Medina, Chilean cardinal (d. 2021)
    • Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. 2014)
  • December 24
    • Ronald Draper, South African cricketer
    • Maria Janion, Polish scholar, critic and politician (d. 2020)
  • December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014)
  • December 29 – Amelita Ramos, First Lady of the Philippines
  • December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

Camillo Golgi
Kato Takaaki
Theodosius of Skopje
Jan Cieplak

AprilJune

Emperor Sunjong
Sultan Mehmed VI
Jón Magnússon
  • April 1 Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855)
  • April 4 Thomas Burberry, English businessman and inventor (b. 1835)
  • April 7 Giovanni Amendola, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1882)
  • April 9 Henry Miller, British-born American stage actor and producer (b. 1859)
  • April 10 Ōshima Yoshimasa, Japanese general (b. 1850)
  • April 11 Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist and agricultural scientist (b. 1849)
  • April 14 Otto Stark, American painter (b. 1859)
  • April 17 Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1839)
  • April 19 Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Soviet statistician (b. 1874)
  • April 20 Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873)
  • April 22 Federico Gana, Chilean writer and diplomat (b. 1867)
  • April 24 Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea (b. 1874)
  • April 25 Ellen Key, Swedish feminist writer (b. 1849)
  • April 26 Jeffreys Lewis, English-born stage actress (b. 1852)
  • April 28 Kawamura Kageaki, Japanese field marshal (b. 1850)
  • April 30 Bessie Coleman, American pilot (b. 1892)
  • May 3 Victor, Prince Napoleon (b. 1849)
  • May 7 Lillian Lawrence, American actress (b. 1868)
  • May 9 J. M. Dent, British publisher (b. 1849)
  • May 10
    • Alton B. Parker, American judge and political candidate (b. 1852)
    • Giacinto Menotti Serrati, Italian politician (b. 1874)
  • May 16 Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
  • May 18 Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin (b. 1857)
  • May 22 Tomás Arejola, Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat and writer (b. 1865)
  • May 26
  • May 27 Michele Comella, Italian painter (b. 1856)
  • June 4 Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
  • June 8
    • Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner (b. 1860)
    • Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Indian Catholic professed religious and stigmatist (b. 1876)
  • June 9 Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii (b. 1844)
  • June 10 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (b. 1852)[65]
  • June 13 Nikolay Chkheidze, Soviet politician (b. 1864)
  • June 14
    • Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker (b. 1844)
    • Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Anglo-Irish politician (b. 1841)
  • June 18 Olga Constantinovna of Russia (b. 1851)
  • June 23 Jón Magnússon, Icelandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1857)

JulySeptember

Mother Mary Alphonsa
King Ugyen Wangchuck
José María Orellana
  • July 1 Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. 1858)
  • July 2
    • Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
    • Kristján Jónsson, Minister for Iceland (b. 1852)
  • July 9 Mother Mary Alphonsa, American Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. 1851)
  • July 12
    • Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
    • John W. Weeks, American politician in the Republican Party (b. 1860)
  • July 14 Roshanara, Anglo-Indian dancer (b. 1894)
  • July 17 Bernard Coyne, Irish Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1854)
  • July 18 Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1865)
  • July 22
    • Willard Louis, American actor (b. 1882)
    • Friedrich von Wieser, Austrian economist (b. 1851)
  • July 23
    • Charles Avery, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1873)
    • Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese anarchist and nihilist (b. 1903)
  • July 26
    • Ella Adayevskaya, Soviet composer (b. 1846)
    • Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave, Haitian political figure, 25th President of Haiti (b. 1863)
    • Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)
  • July 30 Albert B. Cummins, American lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
  • July 31 Bronislav Grombchevsky, Soviet army and explorer (b. 1855)
  • August 1 Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright (b. 1864)
  • August 6 Constantin Climescu, Romanian mathematician and politician (b. 1844)
  • August 14 John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
  • August 21 Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1861)
  • August 22
    • Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
    • Joe Moore, American actor (b. 1894)
  • August 23 Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
  • August 27 John Rodgers, American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881)
  • August 30 Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886)
  • September 15
    • Alexander Boyter, American stonemason (b. 1848)
    • Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
  • September 17 Rashid Tali’a, 1st Prime Minister of Transjordan (b. 1877)
  • September 21 Léon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
  • September 25 Herbert Booth, English Salvationist, third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
  • September 26 José María Orellana, Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th President of Guatemala (b. 1872)

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