1925 CE

The 1925 serum run to Nome sees mushers race across Alaska to deliver life-saving diphtheria antitoxin, capturing global attention; the deadly 1925 Tri-State tornado sweeps through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 and becoming the deadliest U.S. tornado; the Great Syrian Revolt erupts as Syrian nationalists rise against French rule; the Scopes Trial in Tennessee sparks a nationwide debate on evolution and religion in public education; the St. Nedelya Church bombing in Sofia, Bulgaria, kills hundreds during a funeral, escalating political violence; and the Locarno Treaties are signed to secure peace and stabilize postwar borders in Western Europe.

In the 1920s, the 20th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • 1 January –Turkey gained the right of duty tax (according to the treaty of Lausanne)Turkeysource
  • January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Fifteen days later, Miriam A. Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.source
  • 20 January – The Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention is signed.Soviet Unionsource
  • March 4 – İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government).source
  • 16 March – At a meeting of the Irish Boundary Commission in County Down witnesses from Newry and Kilkeel support being included in the Irish Free State.Northern Irelandsource
  • March 23 – 1925 Egyptian parliamentary electionEgyptsource
  • May 5 – The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over.source
  • 14 June – The administration of Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia is reformed into new counties. Some, like Alba remain into the next century; others, like Trei Scaune, only last until the reform of 1938.Romaniasource
  • July 25 – The Temporary Slavery Commission of the League of Nations files its report on their global investigation of slavery and the slave trade, preparing the ground for the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention.source
  • 1 August – The Palestinian Citizenship Order goes into effect granting Palestinian citizenship to previously Ottoman subjects "Habitually resident in the territory of Palestine"Mandatory Palestinesource
  • August 2: 1925 Uruguayan National Administration Council electionUruguaysource
  • October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.source
  • November 14 – 1925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton.source
  • December 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement.source
  • 11 December – Bernardino Machado takes over as PresidentPortugalsource

Conflict & Security

  • January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.source
  • January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship.source
  • 23 January – The 1925 Chilean coup d'état overthrows the September Junta.Chilesource
  • 24 February – The rebels captured ElazığTurkeysource
  • March 1 – New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn.source
  • 6 March – Annexation of Eupen and Malmedy to the Kingdom of Belgium.Belgiumsource
  • March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan.source
  • April 16 – A communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.source
  • April 20 – Iranian forces of Reza Shah occupy Ahvaz and arrest Sheikh Khazʽal Ibn Jabir.source
  • 8 May - The final attack in the Rif War is launched by France and Spain, who between them field 123,000 men, supported by 150 aircraft, against 12,000 Rifians.Spainsource
  • August 25 – The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.source
  • 29 August – Walther von Lüttwitz and members involved in the attempted "Kapp Putsch" coup of March 1920 are granted amnesty by the German government.Germanysource
  • October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.source
  • 4 November – Italian socialist deputy and expert marksman Tito Zaniboni took a hotel room opposite the Palazzo Chigi with the intent of shooting Benito Mussolini with a telescopic rifle when he came out to the balcony to make a speech. Police had been tipped off by an intercepted phone call and stopped the would-be assassin.Italysource
  • November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany.source
  • 18–31 December – 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)Soviet Unionsource
  • New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.source
  • Establishment of the National Revolutionary ArmyChinasource

Exploration & Expansion

  • 14 January – Captain Roig and his group of three biplanes Bréguet XIV Renault, land in Buenos Aires on a reconnaissance flight from Rio de Janeiro, to demonstrate the viability of a regular air mail service along the Buenos Aires – Bahía Blanca – Comodoro Rivadavia route.Argentinasource
  • 21 January – Transvaal – Rustenburg to Boshoek, 15 mi 17 ch.South Africasource
  • April 1 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.source
  • May 1 – Matsuya Department Store of Ginza was open in Tokyo.Japansource
  • May 29 – English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.source
  • 29 May - British explorer Percy Fawcett sent a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.Brazilsource
  • 29 May – Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.United Kingdomsource
  • July 21 – English racing motorist Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph on land when at Pendine Sands in Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobile at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.source
  • August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples.source
  • November 17 – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, a world's fair, opens in Dunedin, New Zealand.source
  • 17 November – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens at Logan Park, DunedinNew Zealandsource
  • December 12 – The first motel in the world, the Milestone Mo-Tel (later the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), opens in San Luis Obispo, California.source
  • The uninhabited Shiant Isles are acquired by writer and island-lover Compton Mackenzie.Scotlandsource
  • Mortimer Wheeler - Prehistoric & Roman WalesWalessource

Religion & Belief

  • 11 February – Establishment of the Prefecture Apostolic of TsingtaoChinasource
  • 12 February – The Romanian Orthodox Church becomes a patriarchate, with Miron Cristea elected the Patriarch of All Romania.Romaniasource
  • May 1 – In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud.source
  • 1 May – The founding of the kibbutz Givat HaShlosha by group of Jewish immigrants from Poland.Mandatory Palestinesource
  • 2 June – Foundation stone for the west front of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, is laid by Governor of Northern Ireland, the Duke of Abercorn.Northern Irelandsource
  • 26 June – Natal – Eshowe to Extension, 74 ch.South Africasource
  • 13 October – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop of Tournai, consecrates the new abbey church of Chimay Abbey.Belgiumsource
  • 30 November – Tekkes, traditional institutions were closedTurkeysource
  • December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.source
  • 24 December – The Decree on the Powers of the Head of the Government is passed, giving Mussolini sole executive power over parliament and solidifying the one party, police state of Fascist Italy. Mussolini's title is formally changed from "president of the Council of Ministers" to "head of the government". From here on, he is known as Il Duce, the supreme leader.Italysource
  • Islamic Bektashi Order lodges in Turkey are closed down by order of the country's President, Atatürk, and the leadership moves to Albania.source
  • Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State, arranges an annual government subsidy of £850 for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, making it the first state-supported theatre in the English-speaking world.source

Economy & Finance

  • January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler.source
  • 25 January – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister because of ill health and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler.Swedensource
  • 26 February – End of the Regie Company. An important step in the economicsTurkeysource
  • March 5 – Nippon Air Brake (Nabco) was founded in Kobe, as predecessor of Nabtesco.Japansource
  • 1 April – The Foodstuffs cooperative is registeredNew Zealandsource
  • 16 November – Carmaker Vauxhall Motors of Luton is purchased by American giant General Motors for $2.5 million.United Kingdomsource
  • December 25 – IG Farben is formed by the merger of six chemical companies in Germany.source
  • Major Seminary of Ghent relocates to new buildings (now part of Vlerick Business School)Belgiumsource
  • Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded.Estoniasource
  • Ybry, a French luxury perfume and fashion house is founded.Francesource

Technology & Infrastructure

  • January 25 – The tomb of Tutankhamun is reopened to allow Howard Carter to resume his archaeological investigation. Some artefacts are found to be damaged as a result of careless storage by the antiquities department.Egyptsource
  • February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.source
  • 25 February – Adolf Hitler makes his first public appearance since being released from prisonGermanysource
  • March – A nation's first license radio station, NHK Radio One, an official broadcasting service start in Tokyo, following start on June 1 in Osaka and July 15 in Nagoya.Japansource
  • April 1 – The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce.source
  • June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Chrysler in the United States.source
  • June 13 – American engineer Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision".source
  • 26 June – The aircraft manufacturer Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) is founded in Brașov.Romaniasource
  • 28 June – Antonio Ascari wins the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix, the first held on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.Belgiumsource
  • June – Start of the Canton–Hong Kong strikeChinasource
  • July 1 – The New Cape Central Railway and its 204 mi 69 ch long line between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways (SAR).South Africasource
  • July 10 – Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence.source
  • July 25 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.source
  • August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.source
  • August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line.source
  • October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.source
  • November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio programme Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".source
  • First electric tram begins operating on Narva Road in Tallinn.Estoniasource

Science & Discovery

  • 1 January – National scheme for vehicle registration plates comes into forceNew Zealandsource
  • March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.United Statessource
  • 9 April – Administration of Estates Act abolishes the legal rule of primogeniture in England and Wales and the remnants of gavelkind in Kent; Law of Property Act modernises the law relating to real estate (both Acts come into effect 1 January 1926).United Kingdomsource
  • July 29 – Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan published their Umdeutung paper, reporting a breakthrough in quantum physics, in Zeitschrift für Physik in Germany.source
  • Quando Elas Querem, directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and starring Luiz de BarrosBrazilsource
  • George Bernard Shaw is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Irelandsource
  • Allen Adair published by Jane ManderNew Zealandsource

Health & Medicine

  • 1 January – Ernest Rutherford is appointed to the Order of MeritNew Zealandsource
  • January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic.source
  • May 12 – The Public Security Preservation Law is enacted.Japansource
  • The Cactoblastis moth is introduced in Queensland to control prickly pear cactus.Australiasource
  • Sikh Gurdwaras (Supplementary) ActIndiasource

Crime & Justice

  • March 2 – In an appeal originating in a Prohibition era bootlegging case, Carroll v. United States is decided in the Supreme Court, affirming the motor vehicle exception, that a warrantless search of an automobile does not contravene the Fourth Amendment, subject to probable cause and exigent circumstances.United Statessource
  • 12 April – Sheikh Said was arrestedTurkeysource
  • April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany.source
  • April–October – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.source
  • July 10–21 – Scopes trial: in a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a (state-mandated) textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the "Butler Act". He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow.source
  • 19 July – Lucien Buysse comes second in the 1925 Tour de FranceBelgiumsource
  • August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1 September – Thomas Blamey becomes Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.Australiasource
  • October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal.source
  • November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile.source
  • 29 December – Alexander Munro MacRobert appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing David FlemingScotlandsource
  • La Mujer de medianoche, directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Paulo BenedettiBrazilsource
  • Men's fours champions – H. J. Wernham, F. T. Wilson, A. C. McIntyre, R. N. Pilkington (skip) (Hamilton Bowling Club)New Zealandsource
  • A single Class GG 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt on fast mainline passenger service.South Africasource

Disasters & Accidents

  • March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius.source
  • May 8 – African-American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River.source
  • May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman, a steamboat sinking in the Mississippi.United Statessource
  • June 26 – A strike of miners in Drumheller, Alberta ends in violent confrontations.Canadasource
  • 7 July – the original Kelvin Hall in Glasgow is destroyed by fire.Scotlandsource
  • 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy.Francesource
  • The manor house of Groot Constantia is gutted by a fire.South Africasource
  • September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen.source
  • September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line over Ohio en route to Scottfield, St. Louis; 14 crewmen are killed.United Statessource
  • October 4 – S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, is sunk during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with her the whole crew of 53.source
  • 12 November – Submarine HMS M1 sinks in the English Channel after collision with a civilian surface vessel with the loss of all 69 hands.United Kingdomsource

Climate & Environment

  • February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.source
  • March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people.source
  • March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.source
  • March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. The storm's damage path is indicated at 378 km (235 mi).United Statessource
  • 20 May – The Murrumbidgee River floods for eight days killing four people, as up to 500 mm falls in its upper catchment.Australiasource
  • May 23 – 1925 Kita Tajima earthquakeJapansource
  • June 29 – The 6.8 Mw Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.source
  • 8 August – South Sydney record the only perfect season in NSWRFL history, winning all twelve of their matches.Australiasource
  • September 1–30 – In the first year for which statewide data are reliable, this month with a statewide average water equivalent of 7.54 in remains Alaska's wettest calendar month on record.United Statessource
  • November 13 – The University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute is founded.Japansource
  • December – Flooding in CharleroiBelgiumsource
  • 1–30 June – The second-driest month in the EWP series (and driest of the twentieth century) with an average rainfall of only 4.3 mm.United Kingdomsource

Culture & Society

  • March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union.source
  • March 7 – The Public Security Preservation Law of 1925 (治安維持法, Chian Iji Hō) is passed in the diet. It forbade conspiracy and revolt, and it criminalized socialism and communism. It was one of the most significant laws of pre-war Japan.Japansource
  • March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas).source
  • March 21 – Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.source
  • 1 April – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus on Mount Scopus is opened at a gala ceremony attended by the leaders of the Jewish world, distinguished scholars and public figures, and British dignitaries, including the Earl of Balfour, Viscount Allenby and Sir Herbert Samuel.Mandatory Palestinesource
  • April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is published in New York.source
  • 12 April - The Coluna Prestes movement is launched at a meeting in Foz do Iguaçu.Brazilsource
  • April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago.source
  • April 28 – Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard.source
  • May 1 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China.source
  • May 16 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1639/40) takes place in Paris.source
  • June 14 – The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded.source
  • June 14 – The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded.source
  • 28 June - 1925 Campeonato de Portugal Final, in Viana do Castelo, between Porto and Sporting CP, won by PortoPortugalsource
  • July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany.source
  • 25 August – In Kastamonu Atatürk made a speech on traditional costume and expressed his preference for western style hatTurkeysource
  • September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: a celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.source
  • October 1 – The United States Congress grants permission for Gutzon Borglum to begin constructing Mount Rushmore National Memorial on federal land in South Dakota.source
  • 10 November – 8 December – Moscow 1925 chess tournamentSoviet Unionsource
  • November 14 – The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.source
  • November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam.source
  • 12 December – Prince Carol, having eloped with Magda Lupescu, writes to King Ferdinand renouncing his right to the throne from Venice causing a dynastic crisis.Romaniasource
  • December 14 – Wozzeck, Alban Berg's first opera, is premiered at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Erich Kleiber.source
  • December 15 – Reza Shah takes the oath to become the first shah of Persia of the Pahlavi dynasty.source
  • Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany.source
  • The El Salvador Olympic Committee was established.El Salvadorsource

Births

  • January 14 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (died 1970)source
  • January 26 – Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 2008)source
  • February 25: Eduardo Risso, Olympic rowerUruguaysource
  • 8 March – Efim Geller, chess GrandmasterSoviet Unionsource
  • March 13 – Samir Gharbo, Egyptian water polo player (died 2018)Egyptsource
  • April 3 – Tony Benn, British politician (died 2014)source
  • May 19 – Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (died 1998)source
  • May 19 – Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (died 1965)source
  • 28 May – Bülent Ecevit, journalist, prime minister (37th, 40th, 42nd, 56th, and 57th government of Turkey)Turkeysource
  • June 29 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and 11th President of Italy (died 2023)source
  • July 2 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence leader (died 1961)source
  • July 10 – Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian politician; Former prime minister of Malaysiasource
  • September 16 – Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of the Republic of Ireland) (died 2006)source
  • October 13 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 (died 2013)source
  • October 23 – Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (died 2005)source
  • November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor, better known for his role in Cleopatra (died 1984)source
  • November 20 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (died 1968)source
  • November 24 – William F. Buckley Jr., American journalist, author and commentator (died 2008)source

Deaths

  • March 12 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary (born 1866)source
  • March 20 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (born 1859)source
  • March 30 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (born 1861)source
  • April 15 – John Singer Sargent, American artist (born 1856)source
  • April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (executed) (born 1879)source
  • May 13 – Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, British politician and colonial administrator (born 1854)source
  • May 21 – The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden.source
  • May 22 – John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (born 1852)source
  • 17 June – Anghel Saligny, engineer and designer of the Anghel Saligny Bridge (born 1854).Romaniasource
  • June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, American politician (born 1855)source
  • 29 June – Şeyh Said (born in 1865), rebel leader (executed)Turkeysource
  • July 1 – Erik Satie, French composer (born 1866)source
  • 16 July –Walid Khalidi, Palestinian Arab historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus (died 2026)Mandatory Palestinesource
  • July 26 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician (born 1860)source
  • 6 August - Grigory Kotovsky, Soviet military and political activist, commander of the Red Army and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1881)Soviet Unionsource
  • November 5 – Sidney Reilly, Russian spy (executed) (born c.1873)source
  • November 20 – Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, consort of King Edward VII (born 1844)source
  • November 26 – King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) of Siam (born 1880)source