(d. 2004) Deaths January January 3 – Joseph Joffre, French World War I general (b. 1852) January 4 Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890) Roger Connor, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1857) Louise, Princess Royal, British royal, eldest daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) January 10 – James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, historian, and author (b. 1852) January 14 – Hardy Richardson, American baseball player (b. 1855) January 17 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864) January 22 – Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897) January 23 Anna Pavlova, Soviet ballerina (b. 1881) Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg, former Minister-President of Austria (b. 1862) January 24 – Sir Percy FitzPatrick, South African author, politician and mining financier (b. 1862) January 28 – Bernardo Soto Alfaro, 14th President of Costa Rica (b. 1854) January 29 – Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general (b. 1861) February February 1 – Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendome (b. 1872) February 9 – Mammad Hasan Hajinski, last Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (b.1875) February 11 – Sir Charles Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854) February 13 – Martin von Feuerstein, German painter (b. 1865) February 16 – Wilhelm von Gloeden, German photographer (b. 1856) February 18 – Louis Wolheim, American actor (b. 1880) February 19 – Tovmas Nazarbekian, Armenian general (b. 1855) February 23 Eduard von Capelle, German admiral (b. 1855) Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861) February 24 – Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1852) February 26 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847) February 28 – Thomas S. Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1858) March March 5 – Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman (b. 1839) March 7 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (b. 1865) Theo van Doesburg, Dutch painter (b. 1883) March 11 – F. W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888) March 16 – Sir Charles Eliot, British diplomat (b. 1862) March 20 Alfred Giles, Australian explorer (b. 1846) Hermann Müller, German journalist, politician and 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876) Joseph B. Murdock, United States Navy admiral, New Hampshire politician (b. 1851) March 22 – James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer, politician (b. 1851) March 23 Harold Edward Elliott, Australian army officer and politician (b. 1878) Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary hero (b. 1907) March 24 – Robert Edeson, American actor (b. 1868) March 25 – Ida B. Wells, African-American