Hussein Kamel of Egypt, (b. 1853) October 11 – Duke Philipp of Württemberg (b. 1838) October 13 – Florence La Badie, American actress (accident) (b. 1888) October 15 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer, spy (executed) (b. 1876) October 17 – Bobby Atherton, Welsh footballer (b. 1876) October 22 – Bob Fitzsimmons, British boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1863) October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845) October 27 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1897) October 28 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831) October 30 – Heinrich Gontermann, German fighter ace (flying accident) (b. 1896) November 2 – Tringe Smajli, Albanian guerrilla fighter and sworn virgin (b. 1880) November 3 – Frederick Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1842) November 7 – Margaret Cleaves, American physician and writer (b. 1848) November 8 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879) November 11 – Liliʻuokalani, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1838) November 15 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858) November 16 – Adolf Reinach, German philosopher (killed in action) (b. 1883) November 17 Neil Primrose, British Liberal MP (killed in action) (b. 1882) Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840) December 8 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian Yiddish, Hebrew writer (b. 1836) December 10 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823) December 12 – Andrew Taylor Still, American father of osteopathy (b. 1828) December 17 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and suffragette (b. 1836) December 19 – Richard Maybery, British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1895) December 20 – Eric Campbell, Scottish actor (accident) (b. 1879) December 22 Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American canonized as a saint (b. 1850) Stanisław Tondos, Polish painter (b. 1854) December 24 – Ivan Goremykin, Russian prime minister (b. 1839) December 28 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1892) Nobel Prizes Physics – Charles Glover Barkla Chemistry – not awarded Medicine – not awarded Literature – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross References Further reading Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 175–242. Primary sources and year books New International Year Book 1917 (1918), Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 904 pp American Year Book: 1917 (1918), large compendium of facts about the U.S. online complete edition