July 15 – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) July 17 – Charles Conrad Abbott, American naturalist (b. 1848) July 18 – Raymonde de Laroche, French aviator, the first woman to receive an aviators license (b. 1882) July 21 Eremia Grigorescu, Romanian general (b. 1863) Gustaf Retzius, Swedish physician and anatomist (b. 1842) July 26 – Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) August August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impresario and composer (b. 1847) August 7 – Felice Abrami, Italian painter (b. 1872) August 9 Ralph Albert Blakelock, American romanticist painter (b. 1847) Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist and philosopher (b. 1834) Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857) August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1835) August 23 – Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, English chemist (b. 1834) August 24 – Friedrich Naumann, German politician and pastor (b. 1860) August 27 – Louis Botha, Boer general, statesman, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1862) September September 16 – Alfred Parland, Russian architect (b. 1842) September 20 – Ramón Barros Luco, 15th President of Chile (b. 1835) September 22 – Alajos Gáspár, Slovene writer in Hungary (b. 1848) September 27 – Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer (b. 1843) September 28 – Venancio Antonio Morin, Venezuelan military officer and politician (b. 1843). September 29 – Masataka Kawase, a.k.a. Kogorō Ishikawa, Japanese political activist and diplomat (b. 1840) October October 1 – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, German royal (b. 1850) October 2 – Victorino de la Plaza, Argentinian politician, 18th President of Argentina, leader (b. 1840) October 6 – Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer (b. 1833) October 7 – Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856) October 11 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) October 18 – William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, American financier and statesman (b. 1848) October 22 W. N. P. Barbellion, English naturalist and diarist (b. 1889) John Cyril Porte, Irish-born British flying boat pioneer (b. 1884) November November 3 – Terauchi Masatake, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852) November 7 – Hugo Haase, German Socialist politician and jurist (b. 1863) November 9 – Eduard Müller, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1848) November 15 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) December December 2 Henry Clay Frick, American industrialist (b. 1849) Sir Evelyn Wood, British field marshal and Victoria Cross recipient