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British supercentenarian is the last surviving person who was born in 1909.

Events
January–February
  • January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across .
    (2025). 9780747572534, Bloomsbury Publications.
  • January 7 – recognizes the independence of .
  • January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition to the , led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies.
  • January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established.
  • January 16 – Members of the Nimrod Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect).
  • January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic sinks the day after a collision with SS Florida off . Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued.
  • January 28 – The last troops leave , after being there since the Spanish–American War of 1898.
  • February 2 – The Paris Film Congress opens. It is an attempt to create a cartel of leading European producers similar to the MPPC in the United States.
  • February 5 – announces the creation of hard thermosetting .

March–April
  • March 10 – The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 is signed in .
  • March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a transmitter in Denmark.
  • March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the Baháʼí Shrine of the Báb on in , at this time within the .
  • March 31 – accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • March 31 – Construction begins on the , at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in .
  • April 4 – The association football team Sport Club Internacional is founded in , Brazil.
  • April 6 – , and four explorers – Ootah, Ooqueah, and Egigingwah – come within a few miles of the . "North Pole." The Explorer's Club. Accessed 5 Feb 2014.
  • April 9 – The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act is passed in the United States Congress.
  • April 11 – The city of (known in its first year as ) is founded by the Jewish community, on the outskirts of (at this time in the Ottoman Empire).
  • April 13 (March 31 by Eastern reckoning) – A countercoup begins in the Ottoman Empire.
  • April 14 – : kill 15,000–30,000 Christians, in the .
  • April 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • April 19 – The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (modern-day BP) is incorporated.
  • April 23 – In Portugal, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes near Lisbon, killing at least 60 people.
  • April 27 – of the Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, . He is sent to the Ottoman Greek port city of (Selanik) the next day.

May–June
  • May 19 – is brought to the Western world when the opens a tour produced by at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with 55 dancers, including .
  • June 2 – French forces capture Abéché, capital of the in central Africa.
  • June 15 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket Ground in London and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.

July–August
  • July 1 – In London, Indian nationalist student Madan Lal Dhingra assassinates , political aide to the Secretary of State for India. This is a notable early escalation of violence in the Indian nationalist movement overseas.
  • July 16 – A revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah of the to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. He proceeds to leave for the , reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II of Russia in regaining the throne.
  • July 25 – Louis Blériot is the first man to fly across the (thus a large open body of water) in a craft.
  • July 25–August 2 – "Tragic Week" ( La Semana Trágica/la Setmana Tràgica): The city of experiences a workers' uprising.
  • July 26 – Blue Anchor Line passenger/cargo liner , on her second voyage from Australia to Britain, leaves and is lost without trace with all 211 aboard.
  • August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the .
  • August 8 – formally founds the Rosicrucian Fellowship in , Washington.

September–October
  • September 4 – Japan and sign the , which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in .
  • October – Suzuki Weaving Machine Manufacturing, predecessor of the and brand in Japan, is founded in Shizuoka Prefecture.
  • October 8 – An earthquake in the area leads Andrija Mohorovičić to identify the Mohorovičić discontinuity.
  • October 12 – The association football team Coritiba is founded in , .
  • October 13 – An agreement by , Italy and Switzerland gives the Germans and Italians access to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel.
  • October 16 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the to win the 1909 World Series.
  • October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by , an activist of the Korean independence movement, at the Harbin railway station in .

November–December
  • November 18 – In , 500 revolutionaries (including 2 Americans) are executed by order of dictator José Santos Zelaya. The United States responds by sending 2 warships.
  • November 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premièred in New York City with the composer as soloist.
  • December 4 – Montreal Canadiens, a well known professional club in , is founded.
  • December 14 – New South Wales Premier signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth, to create the Australian Capital Territory.
  • December 19 – The association football team Borussia Dortmund is founded in , Germany.
  • December 23 – King Albert I of Belgium succeeds his uncle, Leopold II (died December 17), on the throne.
  • December 28 – The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made at East London, by French aviator Albert Kimmerling, in a Voisin 1907 biplane. South African Power Flying Association - 1910 to 1920 - Early Flying in South Africa (Accessed on 26 November 2016)

Undated

Births
January to April
January
  • January 1
  • January 2 – , American politician (d. 1998)
  • January 3 – , Danish-born entertainer (d. 2000)
  • January 4 – J. R. Simplot, American businessman (d. 2008)
  • January 5 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
  • January 8 – Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
  • January 9
  • January 13 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist convicted of setting fire to the German Reichstag building in 1933 (executed 1934)
  • January 15
  • January 16 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d. 1994)
  • January 19 – , German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
  • January 21 – , Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
  • January 22
    • Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race-car driver and polo player (d. 1956)
    • , American actress (d. 2001)
    • , Burmese United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
  • January 24 – , British Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
  • January 25 – , 1st Premier of Niue (d. 1992)
  • January 28 – Colin Munro MacLeod, Canadian-American geneticist (d. 1972)
  • January 30 – , American community organizer (d. 1972)

February
  • February 1 – George Beverly Shea, American gospel singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
  • February 3 – , French philosopher (d. 1943)
  • February 6 – , Estonian actress (d. 1992)
  • February 7
  • February 9
    • Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 2002)
      (2007). 9780748626601, Edinburgh University Press. .
    • , German composer (d. 2007)
    • , Portuguese-born Brazilian actress, singer (d. 1955)
    • , Israeli mathematician, physicist (d. 1965)
    • , American politician (d. 1994)
  • February 11
    • Max Baer, American boxer, actor (d. 1959)
    • Joseph Mankiewicz, American filmmaker (d. 1993)
    • Saturnino de la Fuente García, Spanish supercentenarian, world's oldest living man from 2021 to 2022 (d. 2022)
  • February 12 – Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter (d. 2005)
  • February 14
    • Beatrice Miller, American singer, actress (d. 1999)
    • , Korean militant (d. )
  • February 15
    • , Austrian-born Dutch humanitarian (d. 2010)
    • Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish footballer (d. 1966)
  • February 16
  • February 18
    • Matti Järvinen, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1985)
    • , American writer (d. 1993)
  • February 19 – , Italian-born American painter (d. 2008)
  • February 20 – , German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet (d. 1979)
  • February 21 – , Swiss painter, sculptor (d. 2015)
  • February 22 – , American scientist (d. 1988)
  • February 24 – , American writer (d. 1971)
  • February 25 – , English electrical engineer (d. 2002)
  • February 26 – King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
  • February 28 – , English writer (d. 1995)

March
  • March 4 – , American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
  • March 7 – , American scientist, scholar (d. 1991)
  • March 10 – Henrietta Buckmaster, American activist, journalist, and author (d. 1983)
  • March 11 – , American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director and teacher (d. 2003)
  • March 12 – Virginia McLaurin, American community service volunteer (d. 2022)
  • March 19
  • March 22
  • March 24 – , American outlaw, member of (d. 1934)
  • March 26
    • Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (d. 1980)
    • , Australian actor (d. 1971)
  • March 27 – , German historian (d. 1994)
  • March 28 – , American author (d. 1981)
  • March 29 – , American country music singer (d. 1967)

April
  • April 6 – William M. Branham, American Christian minister (d. 1965)
  • April 7 – , French writer (d. 1978)
  • April 8 – , Italian-American writer (d. 1983)
    • John P. Metras, American coach of Canadian football (d. 1982)
  • April 13
  • April 22
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
    • Spyros Markezinis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2000)
    • , Italian journalist (d. 2001)
  • April 24
  • April 25 – , American architect (d. 1985)
  • April 26
  • April 27 – Guillermo León Valencia, 21st President of Colombia (d. 1971)
  • April 27 – , American actor and producer (d. 1994)
  • April 30
    • Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
    • F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (d. 1992)

May to August
May
  • May 1 – , Greek poet and activist (d. 1990)
  • May 4 – Howard Da Silva, American actor (d. 1986)
  • May 6 – , American amateur radio broadcaster (d. 2004)
  • May 7 – Edwin H. Land, American camera inventor (d. 1991)
  • May 10 – , American country musician (d. 1978)
  • May 11 – Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1989)
  • May 15
  • May 16 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (d. 1960)
  • May 17 – Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater (d. 1976)
  • May 18 – , English tennis player (d. 1995)
  • May 19 – , British humanitarian (d. 2015)
  • May 23 – Hugh E. Blair, American linguist (d. 1967)
  • May 24 – , Canadian stage, film actress and singer (d. 2007)
  • May 26
    • , Scottish-born football manager (d. 1994)
    • Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (d. 1969)
    • Papa Charlie McCoy, American musician, songwriter (d. 1950)
    • , Italian Roman Catholic from the Ancelle della carità (d. 1954)
  • May 27
    • , American singer and philanthropist (d. 2011)
    • Guillermo León Valencia, President of Colombia (d. 1971)
    • , American artist (d. 2004)
    • Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, Venezuelan farmer and supercentenarian, last surviving man born in the 1900s decade (d. 2024)
  • May 30 – , American swing clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
  • May 31 – John Spencer-Churchill, English painter, sculptor and stockbroker (d. 1992)

June
  • June 1 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-born Israeli philologist, Hebrew linguist (d. 1971)
  • June 3 – Ira D. Wallach, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 2007)
  • June 6 – , Russian-born historian of ideas (d. 1997)
  • June 7 – , English actress (d. 1994)
  • June 10 – , American film actress (d. 1996)
  • June 12
    • , American song arranger, band leader (d. 1989)
    • Tom Steele, Scottish-born actor, stuntman (d. 1990)
  • June 14 – , American folk singer (d. 1995)
  • June 19 – , Japanese novelist (d. 1948)
  • June 20
  • June 21 – , Chinese journalist and politician (d. 2000)
  • June 22
    • Infanta Beatriz of Spain (d. 2002)
    • , American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (d. 2006)
  • June 23 – , President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1992)
  • June 24 – William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician, physicist (d. 1991)
  • June 25 – , Danish actress (d. 2001)
  • June 26
    • Mavis Thorpe Clark, Australian novelist, writer (d. 1999)
    • Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (d. 1997)
    • Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and producer (d. 1985)
  • June 27 – Giuseppe Ballerio, Italian football player (d. 1999)
  • June 28 – , British author (d. 1998)
  • June 30 – Juan Bosch, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2001)

July
  • July 1 – Antonina Pirozhkova, Russian civil engineer, writer (d. 2010)
  • July 2 – , American professional baseball third baseman (d. 1996)
  • July 5
    • Douglas MacArthur II, American diplomat (d. 1997)
    • Douglas Dodds-Parker, British politician and administrator (d. 2006)
  • July 6
  • July 7
    • , American second baseman and manager (d. 1992)
    • Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (d. 1998)
    • Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (d. 1976)
  • July 8 – , American football back (d. 1995)
  • July 9
    • Pavle Đurišić, Montenegrin Serb army commander (k. 1945)
    • , Argentine football goalkeeper (d. 2002)
  • July 11
  • July 12
  • July 13
  • July 14
    • , New Zealand organic chemist (d. 1999)
    • Alejandro Morera Soto, Costa Rican football player (d. 1995)
  • July 15
  • July 16
    • Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist (d. 1996)
    • , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1994)
    • , English rugby union footballer (d. 2000)
  • July 18
    • , Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1989)
    • Mohammed Daoud Khan, 5th Prime Minister of Afghanistan and 1st President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
    • , American singer, actress (d. 1994)
  • July 19 – , Indian poet (d. 2004)
  • July 20
  • July 21 – , Italian gymnast (d. 1997)
  • July 22 – , Italian-born American operatic soprano (d. 2014)
  • July 23 – , American actress (d. 2000)
  • July 24
    • Theodore J. Conway, American four-star general, former commander (d. 1990)
    • John William Finn, American WWII hero (d. 2010)
  • July 25 – Elizabeth Francis, American supercentenarian (d. 2024)
  • July 26 – , American actress (d. 1979)
  • July 28 – , English novelist ( Under the Volcano) (d. 1957)
  • July 30 – C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian, author (d. 1993)
  • July 31 – Olivér Halassy, Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer (d. 1946)

August
  • August 8
    • Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer, politician and 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1977)
    • , Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1987)
  • August 9
    • Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer, diplomat, anti-Nazi (k. 1944)
    • Yūji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989)
  • August 10
    • , American guitar inventor, manufacturer (d. 1991)
    • Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (d. 1992)
    • , American pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1965)
  • August 13 – , Australian bandleader (d. 1983)The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/464K
  • August 18 – , American marine biologist, fisheries scientist (d. 1998)
  • August 21 – , English supercentenarian, oldest living person, last surviving person born in 1909, last surviving subject of King Edward VII
  • August 25 – , English actor (d. 1971)
  • August 26 – Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
  • August 30 – , British actress (d. 1994)
  • August 31 – Ferenc Fejtő, Hungarian-born French journalist, political scientist (d. 2008)

September to December
September
  • September 1 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
  • September 2 – , Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2025)
  • September 6 – Michael Gordon (film director), American actor and director (d. 1993)
  • September 7 – , Turkish-born film director (d. 2003)
  • September 10 – , Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (d. 1992)
  • September 14
    • , British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989)
    • , Greek communist politician, Resistance leader (d. 1972)
  • September 15
    • , American actor (d. 1968)
    • , New Zealand-born aviator (d. 1982)
    • Jan van Aartsen, Dutch politician (d. 1992)
  • September 17 – , Austro-Hungarian-born American comedian, member of the (d. 1970)
  • September 19 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer, businessman (d. 1998)
  • September 21 – , Ghanaian politician (d. 1972)
  • September 25 – , American songwriter (d. 2000)
  • September 26 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founder of (d. 1992)
  • September 28 – , American cartoonist (d. 1979)
  • September 29 – Vasco Bergamaschi, Italian road racing cyclist (d. 1979)

October
  • October 1
  • October 4 – , American political consultant (d. 1974)
  • October 7 – , American baseball player (d. 2011)
  • October 8 – Piotr Jaroszewicz, Polish politician, 49th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1992)
  • October 10
    • Robert F. Boyle, American production designer, art director (d. 2010)
    • Max Simon Ehrlich, American writer (d. 1983)
  • October 13 – , American editorial cartoonist (d. 2001)
  • October 14
  • October 17 – , American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
  • October 18 – , Italian philosopher of law and political sciences (d. 2004)
  • October 20 – , American actress (d. 2014)
  • October 24 – , American track & field athlete (d. 1966)
  • October 25 – , American actor (d. 1996)
  • October 25 – , German actor (d. 1982)
  • October 27 – Henry Townsend, American blues musician (d. 2006)
  • October 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British painter (d. 1992)

November
  • November 6 – Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1990)
  • November 7 – , American civil rights activist (d. 1980)
    (2025). 9780674014886, Harvard University Press. .
  • November 9 – , American author, actress (d. 1998)
  • November 10 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
  • November 13 – , Maltese sculptor (d. 2003)
  • November 16 – Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Indian Islamic leader (d. 1982)
  • November 18 – , American songwriter (d. 1976)
  • November 22 – , Russian helicopter manufacturer (d. 1970)
  • November 23 – , Scottish historian and novelist (d. 2000)
  • November 24 – , German mathematician (d. 1945)
  • November 26 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (d. 1994)
    (1994). 9780872499812, University of South Carolina Press.
  • November 27 – , American writer (d. 1955)

December
  • December 2 – Marion Dönhoff, German journalist (d. 2002)
  • December 3 – Charlotte Kretschmann, German supercentenarian (d. 2024)
  • December 5 – Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player (d. 2016)
  • December 7 – , American actor, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director (d. 1987)
  • December 9 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor and naval officer (d. 2000)
  • December 14 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
  • December 20
  • December 21 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer, journalist (d. 1992)
  • December 22
  • December 27 – Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (d. 2003)
  • December 29 – Thomas Beck, American actor (d. 1995)
  • December 31 – , American jazz trumpeter (d. 2000)

Deaths
January
  • January 1 – Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, American poet, writer and editor (b. 1844)
  • January 2 – , Cuban philanthropist (b. 1845)
  • January 6 – George Dixon, Canadian-born American boxer (b. 1870)
  • January 8 – , British palaeontologist (b. 1839)
  • January 10
    • , American temperance educator, activist, editor and writer (b. 1828)
    • Charles Vernon Culver, American politician (b. 1830)
  • January 11 – , American industrialist and educationist. (b. 1826)
  • January 12 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
  • January 14
    • Arthur William à Beckett, British journalist (b. 1844)
    • Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral (b. 1848)
  • January 15 – , German priest and saint (b. 1837)
  • January 22 – Hattie Tyng Griswold, American author (b. 1842)
  • January 24 – Petre S. Aurelian, 19th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1833)
  • January 29 – , Italian British photographer (b. 1832)
  • January 30 – , American teacher, author (b. 1828)

February
  • February 5 – Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist (b. 1842)
  • February 8 – Catulle Mendès, French poet (b. 1841)
  • February 13 – Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Danish chemist (b. 1826)
  • February 17
    • , Apache leader (b. 1829)
    • Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Russian army officer and nobleman (b. 1847)
  • February 20 – , French painter (b. 1864)
  • February 26
    • Caran d'Ache, French political cartoonist (b. 1858)
    • Hermann Ebbinghaus, German psychologist (b. 1850)

March
  • March 6 – Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish novelist (b. 1858)
  • March 13 – William Jackson Palmer, American founder of Colorado Springs (b. 1836)
  • March 16 – Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal (b. 1832)
  • March 24 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
  • March 25 – Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer (b. 1854)

April
  • April 1 – , British colonial administrator (b. 1841)
  • April 3 – Pascual Cervera y Topete, Spanish admiral (b. 1839)
  • April 8 – , Polish actress (b. 1840)
  • April 10 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1837)
  • April 13 – , British shipping magnate (b. 1825)
  • April 14 – Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, 10th President of Argentina (b. 1844)
  • April 19 – , Greenland-born Danish writer, ethnologist (b. 1836)
  • April 28 – Frederick Holbrook, Vermont governor (b. 1813)

May
  • May 2 – Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (b. 1833)
  • May 4 – Helen Marr Hurd, American teacher and poet (b. 1839)
  • May 7 – , Russian Orthodox church leader and saint (b. 1853)
  • May 9 – Augusta Jane Evans, American author of Southern literature (b. 1835)
  • May 10 – , Japanese author, translator (b. 1864)
  • May 12
    • Sir Hugh Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1833)
    • , American tennis champion (b. 1869)
  • May 17 – Helge Alexander Haugan, American banking executive (b. 1847)
  • May 18
    • Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (b. 1860)
    • , English novelist, poet (b. 1828)
  • May 20 – , African-American dancer, musician and comedian (b. 1865)
    (1998). 9780028647425, Schirmer Books, Prentice Hall International. .

June
  • June 10
    • Edward Everett Hale, American author and historian (b. 1822)
    • Gideon T. Stewart, American educator, politician (b. 1824)
  • June 14 – , 6th President of Brazil (b. 1847)
  • June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)

July
  • July 8 – Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, French general (b. 1830)
  • July 9 – Kasimir Felix Graf von Badeni, 13th Minister-President of Cisleithania (b. 1846)
  • July 11 – , Canadian-American astronomer, mathematician (b. 1835)
  • July 18 – Carlos, Duke of Madrid (b. 1848)
  • July 19 – , Japanese samurai (b. 1836)
  • July 20 – , German archaeologist (b. 1828)
  • July 22 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (b. 1844)
  • July 23 – , 19th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)

August
  • August 5 – Miguel Antonio Caro, Colombian political leader (b. 1843)
  • August 8 – , Australian nun and saint (b. 1842)
  • August 14 – William Stanley, British inventor, engineer (b. 1829)
  • August 15 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian author (b. 1866)
  • August 22 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist (b. 1846)
  • August 25 – Besarion Jughashvili, Georgian cobbler, father of (b. 1850)
  • August 27 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)

September
  • September 2 – Louis Delacenserie, Belgian architect (b. 1838)
  • September 4 – , American dramatist (b. 1865)
  • September 5 – , French chemist (b. 1864)
  • September 7 – Eugène Lefebvre, pioneer French aviator (b. 1878)
  • September 18 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folklorist (b. 1850)
  • September 22 – , French Army officer, pioneer aviator (b. 1862)
  • September 27 – Gyula Donáth, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1850)
  • September 29 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (b. 1875)

October
  • October 7 – William Thomas Pipes, Canadian politician, 6th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1850)
  • October 9 – , German tenor (b. 1842)
  • October 13 – , Spanish anarchist (executed) (b. 1859)
  • October 17 – , Japanese physician and dietitian (b. 1850)
  • October 19 – , Italian criminologist, physician (b. 1835)
  • October 24 – Rufus W. Peckham, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1838)
  • October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)
  • October – George Smart (skater), English Fen skater (industrial accident)

November
  • November 9 – William Powell Frith, English painter (b. 1819)
  • November 14 – , Canadian-born American seaman and adventurer (b. 1844)
  • November 18 – Renée Vivien, British-born American poet (b. 1877)

December
  • December 10 – , Sioux warrior (b. 1822)
  • December 14 – Agustí Querol Subirats, Spanish sculptor (b. 1860)
  • December 15 – Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist, composer (b. 1852)
  • December 17 – King Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
  • December 16
    • Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1831)
    • , German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist (b. 1830)
  • December 18 – Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich, Russian royal (b. 1832)
  • December 26 – Frederic Remington, American cowboy artist, sculptor (b. 1864)

Date unknown
  • Martha Foster Crawford, American writer and missionary in China (b. 1830)

Nobel Prizes
  • Physics – Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Chemistry –
  • Medicine – Emil Theodor Kocher
  • Literature – Selma Lagerlöf
  • Peace – Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

Primary sources and year books

Further reading
  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 185 – 205.

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