María Orellana, Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th President of Guatemala (b. 1872) October–December October 7 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856) October 9 Vaso Abashidze, Georgian actor (b. 1854) Josias von Heeringen, German general (b. 1850) October 11 Hymie Weiss, American gangster (b. 1898) October 12 Edwin Abbott Abbott, English author and theologian (b. 1838) Paul Puhallo von Brlog, Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1856) October 16 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848) October 19 Victor Babeș, Romanian bacteriologist (b. 1854) Ludvig Karsten, German painter (b. 1876) October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855) October 24 – Salomon Ehrmann, Czech-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854) October 31 Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American escapologist (b. 1874) Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman (b. 1853) November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. 1860) November 6 – Carl Swartz, Swedish politician, 14th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1858) November 7 – Tom Forman, American actor and director (b. 1893) November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, Russian writer (b. 1869) November 19 – Thomas Cusack, American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician (b. 1858) November 21 – Joseph McKenna, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1843) December 2 – Gérard Cooreman, Belgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1852) December 3 – Siegfried Jacobsohn, German writer and critic (b. 1881) December 4 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861) December 5 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840) December 10 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd Prime Minister of Serbia and 4th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1855) December 16 – William Larned, American tennis champion (b. 1872) December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846) December 20 – Narcisa Freixas, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1859) December 22 – Mina Arndt, New Zealand painter (b. 1885) December 24 – Johan Castberg, Norwegian Radical politician (b. 1862) December 25 Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician (b. 1847) Emperor Taishō, Emperor of Japan, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1879) December 27 – Amalia Riégo, Swedish opera singer (b. 1850) December 28 – Robert William Felkin, British-born medical missionary, explorer, anthropologist and occultist (b. 1853) December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875) December 30 – Felice Napoleone Canevaro, Italian admiral (b. 1838) Nobel Prizes Physics – Jean Baptiste Perrin Chemistry –