December 21 – Werner von Trapp, member of the Austrian Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007) December 22 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (d. 2010) December 27 Mary Kornman, American child actress (d. 1973) Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999) December 31 – Davuldena Gnanissara Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk (d. 2017) Deaths January January 9 – Yang Shoujing, Chinese historical geographer and calligrapher (b. 1839) January 10 – Marshall Pinckney Wilder, American actor, humorist, comedian and monologist (b. 1859) January 13 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary (b. 1848) January 14 – Richard Meux Benson, English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. 1824) January 18 – Anatoly Stessel, Russian baron and general (b. 1848) January 19 – Anna Leonowens (Anna of The King and I) (b. 1831) January 22 – James M. Spangler, American inventor (b. 1848) February February 3 – Bosnian Serb conspirators (executed for their part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria): Veljko Čubrilović (b. 1886) Danilo Ilić (b. 1891) Miško Jovanović (b. 1878) February 5 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player (b. 1850) February 18 Francisco Giner de los Ríos, Spanish philosopher, educator (b. 1839) Frank James, American outlaw (b. 1843) February 22 – Sir John Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (killed in action) (b. 1871) February 26 –Edward Richardson, New Zealand engineer and politician (b. 1831) March March 4 – William Willett, English promoter of daylight saving time (b. 1856) March 13 – Sergei Witte, Russian aristocrat, statesman and Prime Minister (b. 1849) March 14 – Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot (b. 1887) March 15 – George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier, inspiration for the "Lost Boys" of Peter Pan (killed in action) (b. 1893) March 21 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American engineer, economist (b. 1856) March 24 − Morgan Robertson, American author (b. 1861) March 31 Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (killed in action) (b. 1882) Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, British banker and politician (b. 1840) April April 4 – Andrew Stoddart, English sportsman (b. 1863) April 9 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (b. 1852) April 26 – Ida Hunt Udall, American Latter-day Saint diarist (b. 1858) April 16 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841) April 20 – Daniel Webster Jones, American Latter-day Saint pioneer (b. 1830) April 23 Rupert Brooke, English poet (sepsis from an infected mosquito bite on active service) (b. 1887) Frederick Fisher,