– Edward Babiuch, Polish Communist politician (d. 2021) December 29 – Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985) December 30 Robert Hossein, French film director and actor (d. 2020) Hamed Karoui, 16th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020) Deaths January–February January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet (b. 1870) January 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-born German author (b. 1855) January 14 – Niels Thorkild Rovsing, Danish surgeon (b. 1862) January 15 David R. Francis, American politician and diplomat (b. 1850) Harald Giersing, Danish painter (b. 1881) January 16 Jovan Cvijić, Serbian geographer (b. 1865) Carl Theodore Vogelgesang, American admiral (b. 1869) January 17 – Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts USA (b. 1860) January 18 – Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter, British colonial administrator (b. 1848) January 19 Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840) Carl Gräbe, German chemist (b. 1841) January 26 – Lyman J. Gage, American financier and politician (b. 1836) January 27 – Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop and blessed (b. 1871) January 30 Constantin Cantacuzino-Pașcanu, Romanian politician (b. 1856) Friedrich Koch, German composer (b. 1862) Ferdinando Russo, Italian journalist (b. 1866) February 4 – Janko Vukotić, Montenegrin general (b. 1866) February 6 – Mateo Correa Magallanes, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1866) February 9 – Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist (b. 1850) February 10 – Laura Netzel, Swedish composer and conductor (b. 1839) February 16 Jonas Basanavičius, Lithuanian-Soviet activist (b. 1851) Friedrich Reinitzer, Austrian botanist (b. 1857) February 18 Turhan Pasha Përmeti, Albanian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Albania, leader of the World War I (b. 1846) Abd-al Karim, Afghan emir (b. 1897) February 19 Georg Brandes, Danish critic and scholar (b. 1842) Fernand de Langle de Cary, French general (b. 1849) Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847) February 20 – George McClellan, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1856) February 23 – Noda Utarō, Japanese entrepreneur and politician (b. 1853) February 25 – Kōgyo Tsukioka, Japanese artist (b. 1869) February 26 Austin M. Knight, American admiral (b. 1854) Hermann Obrist, German sculptor (b. 1862) March–April March 1 – Nakamura Yoshikoto, Japanese politician, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1867) March 3 – Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878) March 4 – Ira Remsen, American chemist, discoverer of saccharin (b. 1846) March 6 – Marie Spartali Stillman, British painter (b. 1844) March 8 – Manuel Gondra, Paraguayan author and journalist, 21st President