1877) September 18 – F. H. Bradley, English philosopher (b. 1846) September 22 – Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1854) September 24 Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala (b. 1857) Consort Jin, Qing Dynasty imperial consort (b. 1873) September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, American stage actress (b. 1847) October October 12 Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844) Kate Lester, American stage and silent screen actress (b. 1857) October 18 Giovanni Ancillotto, Italian World War I flying ace (b. 1896) Franz Schrader, French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer, and landscape painter (b. 1844) October 26 – Luigi Pelloux, 14th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1839) October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anglo-American writer (b. 1849) November November 3 – Mario di Carpegna, Italian general, politician (b. 1856) November 4 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845) November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850) November 10 – Sir Archibald Geikie, British geologist (b. 1835) November 12 – E. D. Morel, French-born British journalist and politician (b. 1873) November 19 – Thomas Ince, American film producer (b. 1882) November 20 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football (b. 1831) November 21 – Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States (b. 1860) November 29 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858) December December 2 Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist (b. 1879) Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer (b. 1849) December 4 – Cipriano Castro, Venezuelan military officer, politician and 38th President of Venezuela (b. 1858) December 5 – S. Subramania Iyer, Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (b. 1842) December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863) December 8 – Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1850) December 13 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (b. 1850) December 15 – Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1853) December 19 – Luis Emilio Recabarren, Chilean politician, founder of the Communist Party of Chile. (b. 1876) December 20 – Ricardo Bellver, Spanish sculptor (b. 1845) December 21 – Anna Hierta-Retzius, Swediah women's rights activist (b. 1841) December 27 – Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse, healthcare profession activist (b. 1866) December 29 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) December 31 – Sir Samuel Knaggs, British civil servant (b. 1856) Nobel Prizes Physics – Manne Siegbahn Chemistry – (not awarded) Physiology or Medicine – Willem Einthoven Literature –