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.
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In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 (Julian Calendar) was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 (Gregorian Calendar) . 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the last country to officially adopt the Gregorian Calendar, which ended the 344-year calendrical switch around the world that took place in October, 1582 by virtue of the Papal Bull made by Pope Gregory XIII .
May
May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.
May 9
Following the general strike which began May 4, martial law is declared in the United Kingdom.
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.[9] An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996 , suggests that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.[10]
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.
May 12
May 12 – 14 – 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 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 .
August
August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes the Cristero War from August 3.
August 2 – The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.[11]
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 .[12]
August 6 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel , from France to England.[13]
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
September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with Charles Debbas as its president.[14]
September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations .
September 11 – In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt.[15]
September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 are ratified in Geneva , and come into effect.
September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane : A strong hurricane devastates Miami , leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion in the modern day).
September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium , well known among sports venues in Italy , officially opens in Milan .[16]
September 20 – The North Side Gang attempts to assassinate Al Capone , at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm.[17] [18]
September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize . Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed.
September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
September 25
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January
Sir George Martin
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin
Patricia Neal
Abdus Salam
January 1
January 3
January 6 – Mickey Hargitay , Hungarian actor, bodybuilder (d. 2006 )
January 7 – Kim Jong-pil , South Korean politician (d. 2018 )[25]
January 8 – Evelyn Lear , American soprano (d. 2012 )
January 10 – Júlio Pomar , Portuguese painter (d. 2018 )[26]
January 11
January 12
January 13 – Michael Bond , English fiction writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017 )
January 14 – Tom Tryon , American actor and novelist (d. 1991 )
January 15 – Maria Schell , Austrian actress (d. 2005 )
January 17
January 18 – Hannie van Leeuwen , Dutch politician (d. 2018 )
January 19 – Fritz Weaver , American actor (d. 2016 )[28]
January 20 – Patricia Neal , American actress (d. 2010 )[29]
January 21
January 23 – Bal Thackeray , Indian politician (d. 2012 )
January 26 – Franco Evangelisti , Italian composer (d. 1980 )
January 27 – Ingrid Thulin , Swedish actress (d. 2004 )
January 28 – Amin al-Hafez , 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2009 )
January 29
January 30 – Vasily Arkhipov , Soviet naval officer (d. 1998 )
February
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Garret FitzGerald
Leslie Nielsen
February 1
February 2
February 3 – Hans-Jochen Vogel , German politician (d. 2020 )
February 4 – Gyula Grosics , Hungarian footballer (d. 2014 )
February 7
February 8
February 9 – Garret FitzGerald , Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011 )
February 10
February 11
February 12 – Charles Van Doren , American professor, subject of film Quiz Show (d. 2019 )
February 14 – Alfred Körner , Austrian footballer (d. 2020 )
February 15 – Muhammad al-Badr , King of Yemen (d. 1996 )
February 16 – John Schlesinger , British film director (d. 2003 )
February 17 – John Meyendorff , French-born American Orthodox scholar, protopresbyter and educator (d. 1992 )
February 18 – Jeanne Wilson , American swimmer (d. 2018 )
February 19 – György Kurtág , Hungarian composer and academic
February 20
February 22 – Kenneth Williams , English actor (d. 1988 )
February 24 – Knut Kleve , Norwegian philologist (d. 2017 )
February 26 – Henry Molaison , American memory disorder patient (d. 2008 )
February 27 – David H. Hubel , Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013 )[34]
February 28 – Svetlana Alliluyeva , Russian author (d. 2011 )
March
Andrzej Wajda
Ralph Abernathy
Jerry Lewis
Siegfried Lenz
March 2 – Murray Rothbard , American economist (d. 1995 )[35]
March 3
March 4 – Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma , French royal, businessman (d. 2018 )
March 6
March 8 – Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor (d. 2001 )
March 10 – Aleksandr Zatsepin , Soviet and Russian composer
March 11
March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina , President of Honduras (d. 2003 )
March 14 – Carlos Heitor Cony , Brazilian journalist, writer (d. 2018 )
March 16
March 17 – Siegfried Lenz , German writer (d. 2014 )
March 18
March 21 – Heikki Hasu , Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
March 23 – Berta Loran , Brazilian-Polish actress
March 24
March 25 – László Papp , Hungarian boxer (d. 2003 )
March 26 – Aldo Tarlao , Italian Olympic rower (d. 2018 )[40]
March 28 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba , Spanish aristocrat (d. 2014 )
March 30
March 31 – John Fowles , English writer (d. 2005 )
April
Gus Grissom
Ian Paisley
Hugh Hefner
Elizabeth II
Harper Lee
Cloris Leachman
April 1
April 2
April 3 – Gus Grissom , American astronaut (d. 1967 )[42]
April 5
April 6
April 8 – Jürgen Moltmann , German theologian and academic (d. 2024 )
April 9 – Hugh 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
April 14
April 15 – Jurriaan Schrofer , Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (d. 1990 )[43]
April 19 – Rawya Ateya , Egyptian politician, first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997 )
April 21
April 22
April 24 – Thorbjörn Fälldin , twice Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016 )[45]
April 27
April 28 – Harper Lee , American novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird ) (d. 2016 )[47]
April 29 – Paul Baran , American internet pioneer (d. 2011 )[48]
April 30
May
Sir David Attenborough
Don Rickles
Miles Davis
May 1 – Peter Lax , Hungarian-American mathematician, academic
May 3
May 5 – Ann B. Davis , American actress (d. 2014 )
May 7 – Rebiha Khebtani , French Algerian politician (d. 2006 )
May 8
May 10 – Hugo Banzer , 51st President of Bolivia (d. 2002 )
May 14 – Eric Morecambe , English comedian, author (d. 1984 )
May 15
May 17
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
May 26 – Miles Davis , African-American Jazz musician (d. 1991 )
May 27 – Rashidi Kawawa , 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009 )
May 29 – Abdoulaye Wade , 3rd President of Senegal
July
Carl Hahn
Nuon Chea
Leopoldo Galtieri
Stef Wertheimer
Maunu Kurkvaara
Norman Jewison
July 1
July 2
July 3 – María Lorenza Barreneche , First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016 )
July 4
July 5
July 6
July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 12 – Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali , spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
July 13 – Cheng Chi-sen , Taiwanese sports shooter
July 14 – Harry Dean Stanton , American film and television actor (d. 2017 )
July 15
July 16
July 17 – Édouard Carpentier , Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010 )
July 18
July 19
July 20
July 21
July 22 – Bryan Forbes , English film director (d. 2013 )
July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler , German show jumping rider (d. 2018 )
July 25
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
August
Tony Bennett
Fidel Castro
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Jiang Zemin
August 2
August 3
August 5 – Clifford Husbands , 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017 )
August 6
August 7 – Stan Freberg , American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015 )
August 8
August 9 – Frank M. Robinson , American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014 )
August 10
August 11
August 12
August 13
August 14
August 15
August 16
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 (d. 2024 )
August 23 – Clifford Geertz , American anthropologist (d. 2006 )
August 29
September
Prince Claus
Masatoshi Koshiba
Donald A. Glaser
John Coltrane
Julie London
September 1
September 2 – Ibrahim Nasir , Maldivian president (d. 2008 )
September 3
September 4
September 5 – Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud , Saudi prince (d. 2017 )
September 6 – Claus van Amsberg , German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002 )
September 7 – Ivone Ramos , Cape Verdean writer (d. 2018 )
September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina , Italian automobile designer (d. 2012 )[63]
September 9 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi , Egyptian Islamic theologian (d. 2022 )
September 11 – Gerrit Viljoen , South African government minister (d. 2009 )
September 13 – Emile Francis , Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2022 )
September 14
September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre , French mathematician
September 17
September 19
September 21
September 22 – Bill Smith , American clarinet player and composer (d. 2020 )
September 23
September 25
September 26
September 28 – Ozzie Van Brabant , Canadian baseball player (d. 2018 )
September 30 – Frank O'Neill , Australian swimmer (d. 2024 )
October
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Julie Adams
Chuck Berry
Jimmy Heath
Necmettin Erbakan
October 1 – Max Morath , American musician (d. 2023 )
October 2
October 4 – Phar Lap , New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. 1932 )
October 7
October 8 – Carmencita Lara , Peruvian singer (d. 2018 )
October 9 – Ruth Ellis , British murderess (d. 1955 )
October 11
October 12 – César Pelli , Argentine-American architect (d. 2019 )
October 13
October 15
October 16 – Charles Dolan , American billionaire
October 17
October 18
October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief , American ballerina (d. 2021 )
October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky , Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017 )
October 21 – Waldir Pires , Brazilian politician (d. 2018 )
October 22 – Chan Sui-kau , Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2018 )
October 25
October 27 – Henri Fertet , French Resistance fighter (d. 1943 )[68]
October 28 – Bowie Kuhn , American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007 )
October 29
October 30 – Richard Hu – Singaporean politician, Minister for Finance (d. 2023 )
November
Valdas Adamkus
Jeffrey Hunter
Beji Caid Essebsi
November 1 – Betsy Palmer , American actress (d. 2015 )
November 2
November 3 – Valdas Adamkus , Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
November 4 – Laurence Rosenthal , American composer
November 5
November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland , Australian soprano (d. 2010 )
November 8
November 9 – Stu Griffing , American Olympic rower (d. 2021 )
November 11
November 15 – Helmut Fischer , German actor (d. 1997 )
November 16 – Ton de Leeuw , Dutch composer (d. 1996 )
November 17 – Christopher Weeramantry , Sri Lankan lawyer (d. 2017 )
November 19 – Jeane Kirkpatrick , American ambassador (d. 2006 )
November 20
November 23
November 24 – Tsung-Dao Lee , Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024 )
November 25
November 26 – Rabi Ray , Indian politician (d. 2017 )
November 28 – Umberto Veronesi , Italian oncologist and politician (d. 2016 )
November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi , Tunisian politician, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2019 )
November 30
December
Raif Dizdarević
December 1
December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye , Nigerian academic and educator
December 9
December 10
December 13 – George Rhoden , Jamaican athlete
December 14 – María Elena Marqués , Mexican actress (d. 2008 )
December 15
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
December 21
December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia , Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015 )
December 23
December 24
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 )
January– March
Camillo Golgi
Kato Takaaki
Theodosius of Skopje
Jan Cieplak
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
January 4 – Margherita of Savoy , Queen consort of Italy (b. 1851 )
January 6 – John Bowers , British Anglican bishop (b. 1854 )
January 12 – Sir Austin Chapman , Australian politician (b. 1864 )
January 15
January 21
January 23 – Désiré-Joseph Mercier , Belgian Catholic cardinal and philosopher (b. 1851 )
January 26
January 28
January 30 – Barbara La Marr , American film actress (b. 1896 )
February 1 – Theodosius of Skopje , Bulgaria Orthodox religious leader and saint (b. 1846 )
February 5 – Gustav Eberlein , German sculptor, painter and writer (b. 1847 )
February 6 – Carrie Clark Ward , American stage and film character actress (b. 1862 )
February 8 – William Bateson , British geneticist (b. 1861 )
February 10 – Aqif Pasha Elbasani , Albanian political figure (b. 1860 )
February 12 – Art Smith , American pilot (b. 1890 )
February 13 – Francis Ysidro Edgeworth , Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist (b. 1845 )
February 14 – John Jacob Bausch , German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830 )
February 17 – Jan Cieplak , Polish Roman Catholic priest, bishop and servant of God (b. 1857 )
February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853 )
February 24 – Eddie Plank , American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1875 )
March 3 – Eugenia Mantelli , Italian opera singer (b. 1860 )
March 4 – Patriarch Macarius II (b. 1835 )
March 11 – Maibelle Heikes Justice , American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1871 )
March 12 – E. W. Scripps , American newspaper publisher (b. 1854 )
March 16 – Sergeant Stubby , World War I American hero war dog (b. 1916 )
March 17 – Aleksei Brusilov , Russian general (b. 1853 )
March 19 – Friedrich Brodersen , German opera singer (b. 1873 )
March 20
March 24 – Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1860 )
March 26 – Constantin Fehrenbach , German politician and 13th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852 )
March 28 – Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans (b. 1869 )
March 29 – Charles Williamson Crook , British teacher, trade unionist and politician (b. 1862 )
April– June
Emperor Sunjong
Sultan Mehmed VI
Antoni Gaudí
Mary Cassatt
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. 1862 )
May 7 – Lillian Lawrence , American actress (b. 1868 )
May 9 – J. M. Dent , British publisher (b. 1849 )
May 10
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
June 9 – Sanford B. Dole , President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii (b. 1844 )
June 10 – Antoni Gaudí , Spanish architect (b. 1852 )[71]
June 13 – Nikolay Chkheidze , Soviet politician (b. 1864 )
June 14
June 18 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia (b. 1851 )
June 23 – Jón Magnússon , Icelandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1857 )
July– September
Mother Mary Alphonsa
King Ugyen Wangchuck
Rudolph Valentino
José María Orellana
July 1 – Carlo Luigi Spegazzini , Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. 1858 )
July 2
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
July 23
July 26
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
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
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 )
October– December
Harry Houdini
Annie Oakley
Claude Monet
Nikola Pašić
Emperor Taishō
October 7 – Emil Kraepelin , German psychiatrist (b. 1856 )
October 9
October 11
October 12
October 16 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848 )
October 18 – José Maria Mora Cuban born portrait photographer (b. 1847 )
October 19
October 20 – Eugene V. Debs , American labor and political leader (b. 1855 )
October 24 – Salomon Ehrmann , Czech-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854 )
October 31
November 3 – Annie Oakley , American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. 1860 )[73] [74]
November 6 – Carl Swartz , Swedish politician, 14th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1858 )
November 7 – Tom Forman , American actor and director (b. 1893 )
November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya , Russian writer (b. 1869 )
November 19 – Thomas Cusack , American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician (b. 1858 )
November 21 – Joseph McKenna , American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1843 )
December 2 – Gérard Cooreman , Belgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1852 )
December 3 – Siegfried Jacobsohn , German writer and critic (b. 1881 )
December 4 – Ivana Kobilca , Slovenian painter (b. 1861 )
December 5 – Claude Monet , French painter (b. 1840 )[75]
December 10 – Nikola Pašić , Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd Prime Minister of Serbia and 4th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1855 )
December 16 – William Larned , American tennis champion (b. 1872 )
December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson , Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846 )
December 20 – Narcisa Freixas , Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1859 )
December 22 – Mina Arndt , New Zealand painter (b. 1885 )
December 24 – Johan Castberg , Norwegian Radical politician (b. 1862)
December 25
December 27 – Amalia Riégo , Swedish opera singer (b. 1850 )
December 28 – Robert William Felkin , British-born medical missionary, explorer, anthropologist and occultist (b. 1853 )
December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian poet (b. 1875 )[76]
December 30 – Felice Napoleone Canevaro , Italian admiral (b. 1838 )
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