1911
Calendar year
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1911 (MCMXI ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar , the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium , the 11th year of the 20th century , and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole .
Sketch by Marguerite Martyn of 1911 women's fashion styles
January 3 : Siege of Sidney Street in London
Events
January
February
March
April
April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the première of his Symphony No. 4 , in Helsinki .
April 8 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity ; he presents his findings on April 28 .[ 4]
April 13 – Mexican Revolution : Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora –Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17 , when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk.
April 18 – SS Lusitania , a 5,557-ton Portuguese passenger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon , strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.
April 19 – Mexican Revolution : Francisco I. Madero 's troops besiege Ciudad Juárez , but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand.
April 22 – A passenger train from Port Alfred to Grahamstown , South Africa derails on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge, and plunges into the ravine 200 feet (61 metres) below, killing 31 and seriously injuring 23.[ 5] [ 6]
April 26 – HŠK Građanski Zagreb (predecessor of GNK Dinamo Zagreb ), a Croatian Association football club, is founded in Zagreb .
April 27 – Huanghuagang Uprising : In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt").
May
May 8 – Mexican Revolution : Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juárez without Madero's permission; the government troops surrender on May 10 .
May 13 –15 – Mexican Revolution : Torreón massacre – Over 300 Chinese residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces of Francisco I. Madero , in the Mexican city of Torreón .
May 15 –Standard Oil is dissolved by the Supreme Court of the United States into 34 separate oil companies including Exxon , Mobil , Chevron , Texaco , and others due to violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
May 17 – Mexican Revolution : Porfirio Díaz is convinced to resign, but does not do so yet.
May 21 – Mexican Revolution : In Ciudad Juárez , a peace treaty is signed between Madero's rebels and government troops.
May 24 – Mexican Revolution : Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).
May 25 – Mexican Revolution : Porfirio Díaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz ; on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
May 30 – The first Indianapolis 500 automobile race is held in the United States, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.
May 31 – The hull of the RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast , on the same day RMS Olympic starts her sea trials.
June
June 7 – Mexican Revolution : Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the 1911 Michoacán earthquake .
June 14 – RMS Olympic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France.
June 15 – RMS Olympic arrives in Queenstown , Ireland, to discharge and take up passengers.
June 21 – RMS Olympic arrives in New York at the end of her maiden voyage. She proceeds to her quarantine station off Staten Island, which she leaves at 7:45 a.m., and is saluted on her way up New York Harbor by all kinds of craft as she steams to Pier 59 in the North River. With the assistance of twelve tugs, Olympic is safely moored at 10 a.m.
June 22 – George V and Mary are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions , at Westminster Abbey in London.[ 7] Moored at Pier 59 of New York Harbor, RMS Olympic is decorated for the occasion.
June 28
June – The Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance is held in Stockholm, Sweden.
July
July 24 : Machu Picchu rediscovered
August
September
October
October 4 – China adopts "Cup of Solid Gold " as its first national anthem. However, it is never performed publicly and is replaced a few months later with a new composition.
October 7 – Liberal leader Karl Staaff returns as Prime Minister of Sweden after a Riksdag election victory based on the promises of defense cuts and social reforms.
October 10 – The Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution , that leads to the founding of the Republic of China .
October 16 – Mexican Revolution : Felix Diaz , nephew of Porfirio Díaz , occupies the port of Veracruz , as a sign of rebellion against Madero.
October 26 – In American baseball, the Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants , 13–2, to win the 1911 World Series in 6 games. The game is tied 1–1 after three innings, but with four runs in the fourth, and seven runs in the seventh, the A's demolish the Giants. The most unusual play of the game is an inside-the-park home run made by the A's Jack Barry, on a bunt .
November
December 14 : Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
Franz Marc , Blaues Pferd I , 1911
November 1 – The world's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War . Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T.
November 4 – Morocco–Congo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
November 5 – Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25 , 1912 ).
November 17 – Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.
December
Date unknown
Births
January
Hank Greenberg
Zenkō Suzuki
Eduardo Frei Montalva
Danny Kaye
Bruno Kreisky
Polykarp Kusch
January 1
January 2 – Pavel Rychagov , Soviet air ace, air force general (d. 1941 )
January 3 – Al Sack , American conductor, composer and violinist (d. 1947 )
January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor (d. 2001 )
January 7 – Butterfly McQueen , American actress (d. 1995 )
January 10
January 11
January 13 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen , 31st Premier of Queensland (d. 2005 )
January 15
January 16 – Eduardo Frei Montalva , Chilean politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1982 )
January 17
January 18
January 19
January 22 – Bruno Kreisky , Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990 )
January 25 – Kurt Maetzig , German director (d. 2012 )
January 26 – Polykarp Kusch , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
January 28 – Johan van Hulst , Dutch politician, academic, author and Yad Vashem recipient (d. 2018 )
January 29 – Peter von Siemens , German industrialist (d. 1986 )
January 30
January 31
February
Ronald Reagan
Elizabeth Bishop
Merle Oberon
February 5 – Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960 )
February 6 – Ronald Reagan , 40th President of the United States and actor (d. 2004 )
February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop , American poet (d. 1979 )
February 10 – Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel , Venezuelan classical musician (d. 1986 )
February 12
February 13 – Jean Muir , American actress (d. 1996 )
February 14 – Willem Johan Kolff , Dutch inventor (d. 2009 )
February 17 – Oskar Seidlin , Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d. 1984 )
February 19
February 21 – Madeline Barclay , French SOE espionage agent (d. 1943 )
February 24 – Eduardo Vañó Pastor , Spanish cartoonist (d. 1993 )
February 27 – Fanny Edelman , Argentine politician (d. 2011 )
February 28 – Otakar Vávra , Czech director (d. 2011 )
March
Jean Harlow
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Alfonso García Robles
Joseph Barbera
Tennessee Williams
March 1 – Mike Gilbert , New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2002 )
March 3 – Jean Harlow , American actress (d. 1937 )
March 5 – Wolfgang Larrazábal , 52nd President of Venezuela (d. 2003 )
March 6 – Nikolai Baibakov , Soviet statesman (d. 2008 )
March 8 – Alan Hovhaness , American composer (d. 2000 )
March 10 – Marita Camacho Quirós , First Lady of Costa Rica
March 12 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz , 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979 )
March 13 – L. Ron Hubbard , American author, founder of Scientology (d. 1986 )[ 13]
March 16
March 18
March 20 – Alfonso García Robles , Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
March 24
March 25 – Jack Ruby , American mobster, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967 )
March 26
March 27 – Erich Heller , British philosopher (d. 1990 )
March 29 – Brigitte Horney , German-born actress (d. 1988 )
March 31
April
Hédi Amara Nouira
Feodor Lynen
Melvin Calvin
Józef Cyrankiewicz
April 3
April 4 – Narciso J. Alegre , Filipino civil liberties advocate (d. 1980)
April 5 – Hédi Amara Nouira , Tunisian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 1993 )
April 6 – Feodor Lynen , German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
April 8
April 10 – Maurice Schumann , French politician (d. 1998 )
April 13 – Donald Leslie , American creator of the Leslie speaker (d. 2004 )
April 15 – Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi , Egyptian jurist (d. 1998 )
April 18 – Maurice Goldhaber , Austrian-American physicist (d. 2011 )
April 23
April 26 – Paul Verner , German politician (d. 1986 )
April 27 – Antonio Sastre , Argentine footballer (d. 1987 )
April 28
May
Big Joe Turner
Vincent Price
Maurice Allais
May 5 – Andor Lilienthal , Hungarian chess Grandmaster (d. 2010 )
May 6 – Frank Nelson , American actor (d. 1986 )
May 7 – Ishirō Honda , Japanese film director (d. 1993 )
May 8 – Robert Johnson , American guitarist, singer (d. 1938 )
May 10 – Bel Kaufman , German-born American author (d. 2014 )
May 11 – Phil Silvers , American actor, comedian (d. 1985 )
May 12 – Dorothy Rungeling , Canadian aviator (d. 2018 )
May 15 – Max Frisch , Swiss playwright and novelist (d. 1991 )[ 16]
May 16 – Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah , Malayan queen (d. 1999 )
May 17
May 18 – Big Joe Turner , African-American singer (d. 1985 )
May 20 – Gardner Fox , American writer (d. 1986 )
May 22 – Anatol Rapoport , Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d. 2007 )
May 24 – Carleen Hutchins , American violin maker (d. 2009 )
May 25 – Eric P. Newman , American numismatist (d. 2017 )
May 27
May 31 – Maurice Allais , French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010 )
June
Luis Walter Alvarez
Wilbert Awdry
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
Bernard Herrmann
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Czesław Miłosz
June 3 – Ellen Corby , American actress (d. 1999 )
June 4 – Milovan Đilas , Yugoslavian Marxist (d. 1995 )
June 5 – Neel E. Kearby , American fighter ace (d. 1944 )
June 9 – Hawley Pratt , American film director, animator and illustrator (d. 1999 )
June 13
June 15 – Wilbert Awdry , English children's writer (d. 1997 )
June 16 – Paulo Gracindo , Brazilian actor (d. 1995 )
June 19 – Dudley Senanayake , 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1973 )
June 20 – Paul Pietsch , German racer, magazine magnate (d. 2012 )
June 21
June 22
June 23
June 24
June 25
June 26
June 27
June 28
June 29
Pablo Gomez Sarino
July
Gian Carlo Menotti
John Archibald Wheeler
Ginger Rogers
Yang Jiang
Marshall McLuhan
José María Lemus
July 1
July 2
July 3
July 4
July 5
July 6
July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10 – Amalia Solórzano , First Lady of Mexico (d. 2008 )
July 11
July 14 – William Norris , American business executive (d. 2006 )
July 15
July 16
July 17 – Yang Jiang , Chinese playwright, author and translator (d. 2016 )
July 18
July 19 – Ben Eastman , American middle-distance runner (d. 2002 )
July 19 – Loda Halama , Polish dancer and actress (d. 1996)
July 21 – Marshall McLuhan , Canadian author (d. 1980 )
July 22 – José María Lemus , 33rd President of El Salvador (d. 1993 )
July 26 – Jerry Burke , American musician (d. 1965 )
July 28 – Ann Doran , American actress (d. 2000 )
July 29 – Ján Cikker , Slovak composer (d. 1989 )
July 31 – George Liberace , American musician (d. 1983 )
August
Lucille Ball
Thanom Kittikachorn
Cantinflas
Mikhail Botvinnik
August 2 – Rusty Wescoatt , American actor (d. 1987 )
August 3 – Manuel Esperón , Mexican musician, composer (d. 2011 )
August 5 – Robert Taylor , American actor (d. 1969 )
August 6
August 7 – Nicholas Ray , American director (d. 1979 )
August 8 – Rosetta LeNoire , American actress (d. 2002 )
August 9 – William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
August 10
August 11
August 12 – Cantinflas , Mexican actor (d. 1993 )
August 13 – Roy Pinney , American herpetologist, photographer, war correspondent and writer (d. 2010 )
August 15 – Anthony Salerno , American gangster (d. 1992 )
August 17
August 18 – Amelia Boynton Robinson , African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015 )
August 22 – Joe Hickey , American politician, jurist, governor and senator from Wyoming (d. 1970 )
August 23
August 25 – Võ Nguyên Giáp , General of the Vietnam People's Army (d. 2013 )
August 29 – John Charnley , English orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer of hip replacement operation (d. 1982 )
August 31 – Ramón Vinay , Chilean operatic tenor (d. 1996 )
September
Todor Zhivkov
Sir John Gorton
Konstantin Chernenko
September 1 – Kōmei Abe , Japanese composer (d. 2006 )
September 2 – Romare Bearden , American artist (d. 1988 )
September 6 – Harry Danning , American baseball player (d. 2004 )
September 7 – Todor Zhivkov , 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1998 )
September 8 – Byron Morrow , American actor (d. 2006 )
September 9
September 10
September 13 – Bill Monroe , American musician (d. 1996 )
September 15 – Joseph Pevney , American director (d. 2008 )
September 19 – William Golding , English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
September 24
September 25 – Eric Williams , 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981 )
September 27 – John Harvey , American actor (d. 1982 )
September 29 – Charles Court , Australian politician (d. 2007 )
September 30
October
Joe Rosenthal
Ashok Kumar
Lê Đức Thọ
October 3 – Edgar Sanabria , Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, Interim President of Venezuela (d. 1989 )
October 4 – Mary Two-Axe Earley , Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (d. 1996 )
October 5
October 9 – Joe Rosenthal , American photographer (d. 2006 )
October 10 – Clare Hollingworth , English journalist (d. 2017 )
October 12 – Vijay Merchant , Indian cricketer (d. 1987 )
October 13
October 14 – Lê Đức Thọ , Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990 )
October 15 – James H. Schmitz , German-born American science fiction writer (d. 1981 )[ 19]
October 21
October 26
October 27 – Leif Erickson , American actor (d. 1986 )
October 30
November
Odysseas Elytis
Jorge Negrete
November 1
November 2 – Odysseas Elytis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
November 5 – Roy Rogers , American singer, actor (d. 1998 )
November 7
November 12
November 13 – Buck O'Neil , American baseball player, manager (d. 2006 )
November 15 – Kay Walsh , British actress (d. 2005 )
November 24 – Erik Bergman , Finnish composer (d. 2006 )
November 25 – Roelof Frankot , Dutch painter (d. 1984 )
November 26 – Robert Marchand , French cyclist (d. 2021 )
November 27
November 28 – Václav Renč , Czech poet, dramatist and translator (d. 1973 )
November 30 – Jorge Negrete , Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953 )[ 20]
December
Broderick Crawford
Naguib Mahfouz
Trygve Haavelmo
Hans von Ohain
Niels Kaj Jerne
December 1 – Walter Alston , American baseball player, manager (d. 1984 )
December 3 – Nino Rota , Italian composer (d. 1979 )[ 21]
December 5 – Władysław Szpilman , Polish pianist, memoirist (d. 2000 )
December 8 – Lee J. Cobb , American actor (d. 1976 )
December 9 – Broderick Crawford , American actor (d. 1986 )
December 10 – Chet Huntley , American television reporter (d. 1974 )
December 11
December 13
December 14
December 15 – Stan Kenton , American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. 1979 )[ 22]
December 17 – André Claveau , French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1958 winner (d. 2003 )
December 18 – Jules Dassin , American director (d. 2008 )
December 20 – Hortense Calisher , American author (d. 2009 )
December 21 – Josh Gibson , African-American baseball player (d. 1947 )
December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne , English-born immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
December 25 – Louise Bourgeois , French-born American artist (d. 2010 )
December 26
December 27
December 28 – Sam Levenson , American humorist and author (d. 1980 )
December 29 – Klaus Fuchs , German theoretical physicist, spy (d. 1988 )
Deaths
January
Marcelina Darowska
Sir Francis Galton
January 1 – John I. Curtin , American general (b. 1837)
January 3
January 4
January 5
January 6 – Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet , English civil engineer (b. 1833)
January 8 – Pietro Gori , Italian lawyer, journalist and poet (b. 1865)
January 12 – Georg Jellinek , Austrian legal philosopher (b. 1851 )
January 13 – Władysław Czachórski , Polish painter (b. 1850)
January 15 – Carolina Coronado , Spanish poet (b. 1820)
January 17 – Sir Francis Galton , British explorer, biologist (b. 1822)
January 23 – Edmund Beswick , English rugby football player (b. 1858)
February
Saint Giuditta Vannini
Alice Morse Earle
February 1 – Charles Stillman Sperry , American admiral (b. 1847)
February 2 – Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (b. 1852)
February 4
February 8 – Joaquín Costa , Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and historian (b. 1846)
February 10 – Gustavo Maria Bruni , Italian childhood Roman Catholic servant of God (b. 1903)
February 14 – David Boyle , Canadian archaeologist (b. 1842)
February 15
February 16 – Alice Morse Earle , American historian (b. 1851)
February 18 – Buttons Briggs , American baseball player (b. 1875)
February 21 – Isidre Nonell , Spanish painter (b. 1873)
February 23
February 25 – Fritz von Uhde , German painter (b. 1848)
March
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dragan Tsankov
April
George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
May
Gustav Mahler
Baron Dezső Bánffy
June
Maurice Rouvier
June 1 – Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido , Cuban violinist (b. 1852)
June 2 – Axel Olof Freudenthal , Finnish philologist, politician (b. 1836)
June 5 – Édouard Bague , French aviator (b. 1879)
June 7
June 9 – Carrie Nation , American temperance activist (b. 1846)
June 16 – Joshua H. Berkey , American publisher, minister and political activist (b. 1852)
June 20 – Ghazaros Aghayan , Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure (b. 1840)
June 23 – Cecrope Barilli , Italian painter (b. 1839)
June 25 – Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (b. 1843)
June 26 – Lucy Hughes Brown , American physician (b. 1863)
July
George Johnstone Stoney
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
July 2
July 5
July 6 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1830)
July 8 – Henry Perrine Baldwin , American businessman (b. 1842)
July 11 – Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse , American temperance activist and juvenile literature author (b. 1841)
July 14 – Ignaz von Peczely , Hungarian scientist, physician and homeopath (b. 1826)
July 15
July 16 – August Harambašić , Croatian writer (b. 1861)
July 17 – Rufino José Cuervo , Colombian linguist, philologist and writer (b. 1844)
July 19 – Manuel Iradier , Spanish explorer and Africanist (b. 1854)
July 20 – Caleb Cook Baldwin , American Presbyterian missionary (b. 1820)
July 25
July 26 – José Alves de Cerqueira César , Brazilian politician (b. 1835)
August
Konrad Duden
Mahbub Ali Khan
August 1
August 2 – Ioryi Mucitano , Aromanian revolutionary (b. 1882)[ 27]
August 6 – Florentino Ameghino , Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1853)
August 7
August 11
August 12 – Jules Brunet , French military leader (b. 1838)
August 14 – Henry Rathbone , Union Army officer and diplomat (b. 1837 )
August 15 – William R. Badger , American pioneer aviator (b. 1886)
August 16 – Patrick Francis Moran , Australian cardinal, Archbishop of Sydney (b. 1830)
August 17 – Petro Nini Luarasi , Albanian activist (b. 1854)
August 29 – Mahbub Ali Khan of Hyderabad (b. 1886)
August 31 – Benjamin Grierson , American Civil War general (b. 1826 )
September
Pyotr Stolypin
September 4 – John Francon Williams , Welsh-born journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
September 7 – Friedrich Breitfuss , Russian philatelist (b. 1851)
September 12 – William Alexander , Irish Anglican bishop, Primate of All Ireland (b. 1824 )
September 15 – Joel Benton , American writer, poet and lecturer (b. 1832)
September 16 – Edward Whymper , British explorer, mountaineer (b. 1840)
September 18 – Pyotr Stolypin , 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (assassinated) (b. 1862)
September 20 – Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet , British diplomat (b. 1835)
September 23 – John Arthur Barry , British-born Australian journalist, author (b. 1850)
September 25 – Emma Helen Blair , American journalist, editor (b. 1851)
September 29 – Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote , 3rd Governor-General of Australia (b. 1846)
September 30 – Sir Herbert Risley , British ethnographer and colonial administrator (b. 1851)
October
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
Antonio Borrero
José López Domínguez
October – Blanche Atkinson , British novelist (b. 1847)
October 1 – Wilhelm Dilthey , German psychologist, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1833)
October 2
October 3 – Carolina Beatriz Ângelo , Portuguese physician (b. 1878)
October 5 – William Astley , Australian writer (b. 1855)
October 7
October 8 – Lee Batchelor , Australian politician (b. 1865)
October 9
October 11
October 13 – Miguel Malvar , Filipino general (b. 1865)
October 14 – John Marshall Harlan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
October 17 – José López Domínguez , Spanish military officer, politician and 24th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1829)
October 18 – Alfred Binet , French psychologist (b. 1857)
October 19 – Eugene Burton Ely , American aviation pioneer (b. 1886)
October 24 – Ida Lewis , American lighthouse keeper (b. 1842)
October 27 – Arthur Lloyd , British Anglican missionary (b. 1852)
October 28 – Clement V. Rogers , Cherokee politician, father of Will Rogers (b. 1839)
October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born newspaper publisher, journalist (b. 1847 )[ 29]
October 30 – Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness Herbert of Lea , English Catholic writer, translator, philanthropist and social figure (b. 1822 )
October 31 – John Joseph Montgomery , American glider pioneer (b. 1858)
November
Christian Lundeberg
Ramón Cáceres
Nikola Hristić
November 2 – Kyrle Bellew , English actor (b. 1850)
November 3 – George Chrystal , British mathematician (b. 1851)
November 7
November 8 – Oscar Bielaski , American baseball player (b. 1847)
November 9 – Howard Pyle , American artist and fiction writer (b. 1853)
November 10 – Christian Lundeberg , Swedish politician, 10th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)
November 11 – Josef Roman Lorenz , Austrian naturalist (b. 1825)
November 14 – Francis Buxton , British barrister and politician (b. 1847)
November 19
November 20 – Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild , British needlework artist (b. 1824)
November 22
November 23
November 25 – Paul Lafargue , French Marxist theorist, activist (b. 1842)
November 26
November 28 – Preston Jacobus , American developer, businessman and politician (b. 1864)
November 29 – Stanley Calvert Clarke , British army officer, courtier
December
Vassily Maximov
Emilio Estrada Carmona
December 1 – Vassily Maximov , Russian painter (b. 1844)
December 2
George Davidson , English-born American geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer (b. 1825)
Eugène Alphonse Dyer , Canadian merchant, farmer and political figure (b. 1838)
December 7 – Robert Maitland Brereton , English railway engineer (b. 1834)
December 9 – Blessed Bernard Mary of Jesus , Italian Roman Catholic priest, blessed (b. 1831)
December 10 – Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist (b. 1817)
December 11 – Thomas Ball , American sculptor, musician (b. 1819)
December 13 – Nikolay Beketov , Russian chemist (b. 1827)
December 19 – John Bigelow , American lawyer, statesman (b. 1817)
December 20 – Rose Eytinge , American actress (b. 1835)
December 21
December 22
December 24 – Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski , American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1847)
December 25 – Arthur F. Griffith , American calculating prodigy (b. 1880)
Nobel Prizes
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