1920

1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday.

Events

January

• January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.
• January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk.
• January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full.
• January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit
• January 16 - Prohibition begins in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.
• January 16 - Allies demand that the Netherlands extradite the German Kaiser, who has fled there.
• January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
• January 22 - The Australian Country Party is officially formed.
• January 23 - The Netherlands refuses to extradite the German Kaiser.
• January 28 - The Spanish legion is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in Morocco.
• January 28 - Turkey gives up the Ottoman Empire and all non-Turkish areas.

February

• February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
• February 2 - Estonia's independence is recognised.
• February 2 - France occupies Memel.
• February 9 - League of Nations gives Spitzbergen to Norway.
• February 10 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 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 mental hospital, where she claims she is Anastasia.
• 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.

March

• March - World's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
• March 1 - Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary
• March 1 - The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
• March 13-March 17 - Wolfgang Kapp fails in his coup attempt in Germany due to public resistance and a general strike.
• March 15 - Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
• March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty.
• March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
• March 26 - German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
• March 26 - The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland
• March 29 - Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
• March 31 - Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.

April-May

• April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Red Ruhr Army.
• April 4 - Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 ? Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem ? governor declares the state of siege
• April 6 - The short-lived Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern Siberia
• April 11 - Mexican Revolution - Alvaro Obregon flees from Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to Guerrero where he joins Fortunato Maycotte
• April 19 - Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
• April 20 - Alvaro Obregon announces in Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza
• April 23 - National council in Turkey denounces the government of sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
• April 24 - Polish-Soviet War: Polish and Anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.
• May 2 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• May 7 - Polish-Soviet War: Polish troops occupy Kyiv. The government of Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
• May 7 - Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.
• May 7 - Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
• May 9 - Alvaro Obregon's troops enter Mexico City
• May 15 - Maria Bochkareva executed in Soviet Russia
• May 16 - Referendum in Switzerland is favorable to joining League of Nations.
• May 16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
• May 17 - French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
• May 17 - First flight of KLM, Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London.
• May 20 - Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
• May 24 - Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City - all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president
• May 27 - Tomáš Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia.
• May 29 - Great Horncastle flood. 20 people killed.
• May 29 - The Snorkel was invented in Greenland.

June-July

• June 4 - Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
• June 12 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army retakes Kyiv.
• June 13 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
• June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
• June 22 - Greece attacks Turkish troops.
• July 1 - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
• July 2 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army continues offensive into Poland.
• July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.
• July 12 - Bolshevist Russia recognizes independent Lithuania.
• July 13 - London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.
• July 14 - France declares that Faisal I of Syria is deposed and occupies Damascus and Aleppo
• July 17 - Republic of Mirdite proclaimed near Albanian-Serbian border with Yugoslav support
• July 22 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia.
• July 25 - First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast?
• July 26 - Pancho Villa takes over Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in July 28
• July 29 - The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

August-September

• August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in Ireland, suspending jury trials.
• August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast.
• August 10 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres.
• August 11 - Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia.
• August 13 - August 25 - Polish-Soviet War: The Red Army is defeated in the Battle of Warsaw.
• August 15 - Town Hall of Templemore, Ireland, is burned down during the riots.
• August 19-August 25 - Second Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
• August 20 - The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
• August 26 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
• September 4 - La Tercio de Extranjenos, the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day Spanish Legion) inaugurated in Spain
• September 5 - Presidential elections begin in Mexico
• September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume.
• September 16 - The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 39 dead, 400 injured
• September 18- Jack Warden, American actor is born.
• September 20 - The first soldier joins the Spanish Legion.
• September 22 - Flying Squad formed in London Metropolitan Police.
• September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10.
• September 29 - Adolf Hitler makes first public political speech, in Austria.

October-November

• October 9 - Polish troops take Vilnius
• October 10 - In the Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of Carinthia Province votes to become part of Austria rather than of the Yugoslavia.
• October 12 - Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
• October 18 - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
• October 26 - Alvaro Obregon is announced elected president of Mexico
• October 27 - League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneve, Switzerland
• November 2 - Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
• November 2 - In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
• November 11 - Unknown Soldier buried in Westminster Abbey.
• 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 McGinniss.
• November 17 - The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig.
• November 21 - Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a Football match in Dublin's Croke Park, following the assassinations of 12 British agents.
• November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael, County Cork. Kilmichael Ambush

December

• December 1 - Álvaro Obregón became president of Mexico.
• December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
• December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.
• December 16 - Finland joins the League of Nations.
• December 16 - 8.6 Richter scale Earthquake causes landslide in Gansu Province, China - 180.000 dead.
• December 23 - United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine.
• December 25 - Foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship's Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California (United States).

Undated

• Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the Prohibition
• France prohibits selling of contraceptives.
• Roman Ungern von Sternberg conquers Urga and declares himself as a ruler of Mongolia.
• Kurd rebellion in Turkey begins.
• Johnny Torrio invites Al Capone to Chicago from New York City.
• Bricks of wine are widely sold throughout U.S.

Ongoing events

• Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
  • Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)
  • Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923)

Births

January

• January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
• January 2 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
• January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
• January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
• January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
• January 6 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
• January 6 - Early Wynn, baseball player (d. 1999)
• January 9 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (d. 1998)
• January 12 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998)
• January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
• January 20 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
• January 20 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
• January 20 - John O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal
• January 23 - Gottfried Böhm, German architect
• January 27 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
• January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and film director

February

• February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
• February 11 - Farouk I, King of Egypt (d. 1965)
• February 11 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)
• February 11 - Paul Peter Piech, American artist (d. 1996)
• February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d. 2000)
• February 13 - Seneka Bibile, Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d. 1977)
• February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d. 2001)
• February 18 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
• February 18 - Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d. 1945)
• February 26 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
• February 26 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer, and traveler (d. 2006)
• February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)

March

• March 3 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
• March 3 - Ronald Searle, British cartoonist
• March 4 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
• March 10 - Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d. 1959)
• March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
• March 15 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
• March 15 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• March 16 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
• March 19 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)
• March 20 - Pamela Harriman, English-born U.S. Ambassador to France (d. 1997)
• March 22 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (d. 2000)
• March 25 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (d. 1987)
• March 25 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
• March 27 - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)

April

• April 1 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
• April 2 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
• April 5 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)
• April 6 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• April 7 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
• April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, British cartoonist and writer
• April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
• April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth President of Ireland
• April 21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
• April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
• April 29 - Harold Shapero, American composer

May

• May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
• May 2 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
• May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004)
• May 8 - Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
• May 9 - Richard Adams, English author
• May 11 - Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997)
• May 18 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
• May 18 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
• May 23 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
• May 26 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
• 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 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)

June

• June 2 - Tex Schramm, American football executive (d. 2003)
• June 12 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
• June 12 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
• June 16 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
• June 17 - François Jacob, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• June 25 - Ozan Marsh, American pianist
• June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, American animator

July

• July 10 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• July 11 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
• July 13 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
• July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
• July 21 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
• July 24 - Bella Abzug, American politician (d. 1998)
• July 25 - Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (d. 1958)

August

• August 3 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
• August 8 - Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (d. 2006)
• August 8 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
• August 16 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994)
• August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
• August 18 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
• August 18 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
• August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (d. 1996)
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
• August 26 - Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006)
• August 29 - Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)

September

• September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
• September 14 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
• September 14 - Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 18 - Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
• September 22 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
• September 23 - Mickey Rooney, American film actor
• September 27 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
• September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

October

• October 1 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d. 2001)
• October 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
• October 6 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
• October 8 - Frank Herbert, American author (d. 1986)
• October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
• October 15 - Mario Puzo, American author (d. 1999)
• October 22 - Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)
• October 29 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• October 31 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)

December

• December 6 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
• December 6 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
• December 21 - J. Roderick MacArthur American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1984
• December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
• December 30 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)

Date unknown

• Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Norwegian resistance leader
• Patrick Campbell Rodger, Scottish Anglican bishop (d. 2002)
• Thomas John (T.J.) Smith Australian trainer (d. 1998)
• Amos Yarkoni, Israeli soldier (d. 1991)

Deaths

• January 2 - Paul Adam, French writer (b. 1862)
• January 3 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (b. 1888)
• January 4 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
• January 6 - Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b. 1839)
• January 7 - Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• January 18 - Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b. 1825)
• January 24 - William Percy French, Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. 1854)
• January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884)
• January 24 - William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator (b. 1864)
• January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani (suicide) (b. 1898)
• February 2 - Field E. Kindley, American World War I aviator (b. 1896)
• February 3 - Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (b. 1846)
• February 6 - Augustus F. Goodridge, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1839)
• February 7 - Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander (b. 1874)
• February 15 - Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. 1837)
• February 20 - Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu (b. 1872)
• February 20 - Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (b. 1856)
• February 27 - William Sherman Jennings, Governor of Florida (b. 1863)
• March 1 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama (b. 1842)
• March 1 - William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1846)
• March 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
• March 4 - Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1843)
• March 11 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
• March 13 - Charles Lapworth, English geologist (b. 1842)
• March 26 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon (b. 1834)
• March 26 - Mary Augusta Ward, Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851)
• March 31 - Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (b. 1837)
• March 31 - Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland (b. 1848)
• April 8 - John Brashear, American astronomer (b. 1840)
• April 8 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
• April 9 - Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (b. 1829)
• April 21 - Maria L. Sanford, American educator (b. 1836)
• April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
• May 1 - Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (b. 1882)
• May 11 - James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster (b. 1877)
• May 11 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
• May 16 - Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States (b. 1824)
• May 21 - Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• May 21 - Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (b. 1868)
• May 23 - Svetozar Borojevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1856)
• May 30 - George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer (b. 1862)
• June 5 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b. 1840)
• June 5 - Julia A. Moore, American poet (b. 1847)
• June 6 - James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b. 1851)
• June 13 - Essad Pasha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863)
• June 14 - Gabrielle Réjane, French actress (b. 1856)
• June 14 - Max Weber, German political economist (b. 1864)
• June 18 - Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b. 1835)
• June 18 - John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b. 1831)
• June 20 - Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839)
• June 20 - John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1838)
• June 27 - Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (b. 1839)
• July 1 - Delfim Moreira, President of Brazil (b. 1868)
• July 2 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
• July 10 - John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• July 11 - Empress Eugénie of France (b. 1826)
• July 14 - Albert Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
• July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, American heir (b. 1849)
• August 1 - Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana (b. 1863)
• August 1 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (b. 1856)
• August 2 - Ormer Locklear, American pilot (b. 1891)
• August 9 - Samuel Griffith, Australian politician and judge (b. 1845)
• August 10 - Adam Politzer, Austrian otologist (b. 1835)
• August 12 - Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1854)
• August 16 - Henry Daglish, Premier of Australia (b. 1866)
• August 16 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (b. 1836)
• August 17 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
• August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
• August 26 - James Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835)
• August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
• September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
• September 10 - Olive Thomas, American actress (b. 1894)
• September 18 - Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b. 1836)
• September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler (b. 1846)
• September 25 - Jacob Schiff, German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847)
• September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843)
• October 2 - Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853)
• October 10 - Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b. 1865)
• October 19 - John Reed, American journalist (b. 1887)
• October 20 - Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838)
• October 24 - Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853)
• November 1 - Kevin Barry, Irish republican (hanged) (b. 1902)
• November 4 - Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858)
• November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
• November 23 - George Callaghan, British admiral (b. 1852)
• November 25 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and manufacturer (b. 1892)
• November 30 - Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (b. 1852)
• December 3 - William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (b. 1843)
• December 11 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
• December 12 - Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. 1854)
• December 14 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)

Nobel prizes

• Physics - Charles Edouard Guillaume
• Chemistry - Walther Nernst
• Medicine - Schack August Steenberg Krogh
• Literature - Knut Hamsun
• Peace - Thomas Woodrow Wilson

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