1921

Year '1921' ('MCMXXI') was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1921

January

February

March

April

May-June

July

August

September

October

November-December

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Nobel prizes

Notes

External references

Table of Contents

Events of 1921

January

★ January 1 - In American football, the University of California defeats Ohio State 28-0 in the Rose Bowl.

★ January 2

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★ The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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★ Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' sinks off Villa Garcia - 244 dead

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★ DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.

★ January 20 - Royal Navy K-boat ''K5'' sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands onboard.

★ January 21

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★ The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.

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★ Women are allowed to vote in Sweden.

February

★ February 25 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia during the Red Army invasion of Georgia.

★ February 27 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna

★ February 28 - Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt

March

★ March 1 - The city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.

★ March 4 - Change of US presidency from Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) to Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)

★ March 6 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.

★ March 8

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★ Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

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★ Occupation of Düsseldorf, Rurhort and Duisburg.

★ March 13 - Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China. Roman Ungern von Sternberg declares himself ruler.

★ March 17

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★ The Red Army crushes the Kronstadt rebellion and a number of sailors flee to Finland

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★ Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England. The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.

★ March 18 - The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Soviet war. The permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.

★ March 23 - Plebiscite in Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.

April

★ April 11 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.

★ April 14 - In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike - government threatens to call in the army

★ April 16 - Foundation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

★ April 20 - Ferenc Molnár's play ''Liliom'' is first produced on Broadway in English. A flop in its native Hungary when first presented there in 1909, the American production is critically acclaimed and becomes a modern classic, filmed more than once, and eclipsed only when Rodgers and Hammerstein adapt it in 1945 into a hit musical, ''Carousel'', which becomes a stage classic in its own right.

★ April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany

May-June

★ May 1-May 7 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921.

★ May 2-July 5 - Third Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.

★ May 5 - Only 13 spectators attend the soccer match between Leicester City and Stockport County, the lowest attendance in The Football League's history.

★ May 6 - General strike begins in Norway.

★ May 8 - Death penalty abolished in Sweden.

★ May 14 - May 17 - Violent anti-European riots in Cairo and Alexandria.

★ May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.

★ May 24 - Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.

★ May 31 - Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

★ June 1 - Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills 85 people.

★ June 26 - In Britain, rain ends 100 days of drought.

July

★ July 1

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★ Official founding date for the Communist Party of China.

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★ Coal strike ends in England.

★ July 2 - U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.

★ July 4 - New conservative government formed in Italy by Ivanoe Bonomi.

★ July 11

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★ The Irish War of Independence comes to an end when a truce is signed between the British Government and the Irish forces.

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★ Red Army captures Mongolia from White Army and establishes Mongolian People's Republic.

★ July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.

★ July 18 - The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis.

★ July 21 - Rif War: Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the Battle of Annual against Abd el-Krim.

★ July 22 - Irish Truce declared in Britain.

★ July 26 - US President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan - and Stanley Clifford Weyman.

★ July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.

★ July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of the Nazi Party.

August

★ August - The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany.

★ August 2 - Famous opera singer Enrico Caruso dies.

★ August 5 - First radio broadcast of baseball game; Harold Arlin announced Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA Pittsburgh.

★ August 11 - 35 degrees Celsius in Breslau - heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well.

★ August 23 - King Faisal is crowned in Baghdad.

★ August 24 - Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Hull, England: 41 dead.

★ August 26

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★ Rising prices cause riots in Munich.

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★ Assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.

September

★ September 1 - Poplar Strike in London - 9 members of Poplar borough council are arrested.

★ September 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.

★ September 8 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

★ September 12 - Lotta Svärd founded in Finland.

★ September 21 - Oppau explosion happened at BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany: 500—600 dead.

October

★ October 8 - First Sweetest Day staged in Cleveland, Ohio.

★ October 10 - Teaching at the University of Szeged started in Hungary.

★ October 19 - A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians.

★ October 21 - Peace conference between Irish and United Kingdom begins in London.

★ October 24 - Spanish army defeats rifkabyls.

★ October 29

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★ Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project completed.

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★ Centre College's football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6-0 to snap Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called "football's upset of the century."

November-December

★ November 9 - Riots in Reykjavík - most of the small police force is injured.

★ November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding.

★ November 14 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Party.

★ November 7 - The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, came into existence.

★ December 1 - Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.

★ December 6

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★ The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State, an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland's 32 counties is signed in London. See Ireland/History.

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★ Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian parliament.

★ December 13 - In the Four Power Treaty on Insular Possessions Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.

★ December 23 - Visva-Bharati University inaugurated.

★ December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

Undated

★ Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.

★ Beginning of regular radio broadcasting service in Italy.

★ Edward Harper, the ' father of broadcasting ' in Ceylon, arrives in Colombo to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.

★ Invention of the vibraphone in its original form.

★ Tau Epsilon Chi (TEX) Jewish High School Sorority is founded in Atlantic City, NJ.

Ongoing

★ Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:

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★ Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)

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★ Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923).

Births

January-February

★ January 5

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★ Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)

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★ Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

★ January 9

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★ William 'Billy Batts' Devino (d. 1970)

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★ Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)

★ January 10 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)

★ January 14 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)

★ January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)

★ January 27 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

★ January 31

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★ Carol Channing, American actress

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★ Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)

★ February 4

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★ Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)

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★ K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)

★ February 5 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)

★ February 7 - Nexhmije Hoxha, the widow of Enver Hoxha

★ February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)

★ February 14 - Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist

★ February 16 - Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)

★ February 20 - Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)

★ February 22 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)

★ February 24 - Abe Vigoda, American actor

★ February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970)

★ February 26 - Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)

★ February 28 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)

March-April

★ March 1

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★ Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)

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★ Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983)

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★ Richard Wilbur, American poet

★ March 2 - Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)

★ March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)

★ March 4

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★ Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator

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★ Joan Greenwood, British actress and director (d. 1987)

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★ Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer

★ March 5 - Elmer Valo, Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)

★ March 8

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★ Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer

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★ Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)

★ March 11 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)

★ March 12

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★ Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)

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★ Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)

★ March 13

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★ Al Jaffee, American cartoonist

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★ Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)

★ March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)

★ March 21 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)

★ March 25 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)

★ March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)

★ April 1 - Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)

★ April 8 - Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d. 2003)

★ April 10 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)

★ April 14 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)

★ April 16 - Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (d. 2004)

★ April 23

★ April 21 - Vivian Dandridge, Actress

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★ Warren Spahn, baseball player (d. 2003)

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★ Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)

★ April 25 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)

May-June

★ May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)

★ May 5 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

★ May 6 - Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)

★ May 9

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★ Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)

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★ Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)

★ May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician

★ May 12

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★ Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)

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★ Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist

★ May 17 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)

★ May 18 - Sir Michael Epstein, British medical researcher

★ May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)

★ May 20

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★ Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)

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★ Hal Newhouser, baseball player (d. 1998)

★ May 21

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★ Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher author of socio-economical theory "Progressive Utilization Theory" (d. 1990)

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★ Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (d. 1989)

★ May 23

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★ James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)

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★ Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and radio personality

★ May 25

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★ Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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★ James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (d. 2000)

★ May 26 - Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)

★ May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)

★ June 1 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)

★ June 3 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete

★ June 8 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)

★ June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

★ June 15 - Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977)

★ June 25 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)

★ June 26 - Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)

★ June 28 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)

July-August

★ July 4

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★ Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

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★ Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)

★ July 6 - Nancy Davis Reagan, wife of U.S President Ronald Reagan

★ July 10 - Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001)

★ July 11 - Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005)

★ July 13 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)

★ July 14

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★ Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)

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★ Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

★ July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

★ July 17

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★ František Zvarík, Slovakian actor

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★ Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)

★ July 18

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★ John Glenn, American astronaut

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★ Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist

★ July 19 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

★ July 22 - William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)

★ July 30 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)

★ August 3 - Richard Adler, American Broadway composer

★ August 4 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)

★ August 8 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)

★ August 9 - J. James Exon Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator (d. 2005)

★ August 13 - Barney Liddell, American musician, ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' (d. 2003)

★ August 18 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian

★ August 19 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)

★ August 23 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ August 25

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★ Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host

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★ Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born writer (d. 1999)

September-October

★ September 3 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)

★ September 8 - Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)

★ September 12 - Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006)

★ September 14 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (d. 2001)

★ September 15 - Norma Macmillan, voice actress (d. 2001)

★ September 30 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress

★ October 2 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)

★ October 5 - Bill Willis, American football player

★ October 13 - Yves Montand, French singer and actor (d. 1991)

★ October 17 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)

★ October 18 - Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina

★ October 19 - Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)

★ October 21 - Malcolm Arnold, music composer (d. 2006)

★ October 22 - Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)

★ October 25 - King Michael of Romania

★ October 26 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (d. 1986)

November-December

★ November 3 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)

★ November 5 - Princess Fawzia of Egypt

★ November 6 - James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)

★ November 11 - Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)

★ November 14 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)

★ November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)

★ November 23 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)

★ November 27 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)

★ November 29 - Jackie Stallone, American astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone

★ December 3 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano

★ December 6 - Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)

★ December 26 - Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)

★ December 28 - Stan Lee Writer and Comic Book creator.

Deaths

January - June

★ January 1 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)

★ February 8

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★ Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)

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★ George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)

★ February 26 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)

★ February 27 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)

★ March 1 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)

★ April 21 - Tom O'Brien, 19th century major league baseball player (b. 1860)

★ April 27 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)

★ May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)

★ June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)

★ June 29 - Otto Seeck, German classical historian (b. 1850)

July - December

★ August 2 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)

★ August 19 - Georges Darien, French writer (b. 1862)

★ September 2 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)

★ September 7 - Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter (b. 1856)

★ September 11 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)

★ September 27 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)

★ October 25 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (b. 1853)

★ November 4 - Hara Takashi, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856)

★ November 20 - Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1843)

★ November 28 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)

★ December 10 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)

★ December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)

★ December 31 - Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)

Nobel prizes

★ Physics - Albert Einstein

★ Chemistry - Frederick Soddy

★ Medicine - not awarded

★ Literature - Anatole France

★ Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange

Notes

External references

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