(b. 1843) August 17 – Leo Frank, Jewish-American factory superintendent who was falsely convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan (b. 1884) August 20 Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854) Carlos Finlay, Cuban pathologist (b. 1833) August 21 – Josiah T. Settle, American lawyer and politician (b. 1850) August 30 Antonio Flores Jijón, 13th President of Ecuador (b. 1833) Pascual Orozco, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1882) August 31 – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1889) September September 1 – August Stramm, German poet, playwright (killed in action) (b. 1874) September 9 Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker (b. 1839) Albert Spalding, American baseball player, sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850) September 11 – William Sprague IV, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1830) September 13 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero, 44th Governor of Ohio (b. 1835) September 21 – Anthony Comstock, American anti-indecency reformer (b. 1844) September 26 – Keir Hardie, British labour leader (b. 1856) September 27 – Fergus Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (killed in action) (b. 1889) October October 4 Karl Staaff, 11th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1860) John Rigby, grandfather of Eleanor Rigby, to whom Paul McCartney attributes a subconscious influence on naming the song with the same name (b.1843) October 7 – Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Austrian physicist (b. 1874) October 10 – Albert Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers, Irish American soldier (b. 1843) October 12 – Edith Cavell, British nurse, war heroine (shot) (b. 1865) October 13 – Charles Sorley, British poet (killed in action) (b. 1895) October 15 – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (b. 1862) October 16 – Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková, Moravian pioneer of female education (heart attack) (b. 1868) October 22 – Wilhelm Windelband, German philosopher (b. 1848) October 23 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848) October 26 – August Bungert, German composer, poet (b. 1845) October 30 – Sir Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821) October 31 – Blanche Walsh, American actress (b. 1873) November November 14 Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1830) Booker T. Washington, American educator (b. 1856) November 15 – Félix de Blochausen, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1834) November 21 – Dixie Haygood, American magician (b. 1861) November 28 – Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1837) December December 18 –