1942

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This article is about the year. For the 1984 Capcom arcade game, see 1942 (video game).

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1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar).

Contents

Events

January

January 1 - World War II: The term "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact.
January 2 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese Admiral stays in Solvec (owned by Charles Henry de Silva), Philippines.
January 7 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins
January 11 - World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
January 11 - World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
January 19 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
January 20 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination.
January 23 - World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins.
January 25 - World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom
January 26 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
January 31 - World War II: The last organised Allied forces leave Malaya, ending the 54-day battle.

February

February 9 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
February 9 - Daylight-saving time goes into effect in the United States.
February 11 - Operation Cerberus - Flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships dash from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports; British fail to sink any one of them
February 15 - World War II: Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces.
February 19 - World War II: 242 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia.
February 19 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones. These zones affect the Japanese on the West Coast, and Germans and Italians primarily on the East Coast.
February 20 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace
February 22 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense of the nation collapses.
February 23 - Japanese submarine I-17 fires sixteen high-explosive shells toward an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing little damage.
February 24 - Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting.
February 25 - Princess Elizabeth registers for war service
February 26 - The worst Coal dust explosion to date occurs in Honkeiko, China. It claims 1549 lives. The growth of the coal mining industry was a major goal of Mao Zedong's first Five-Year Plan"Year by Year 1942" -- History Channel International.
February 27 - World War II: the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes off Java.

March-April

March 9 - The Secretary of War reorganized the United States Army into three major commands - Army Ground Forces, Army Air Forces, and Services of Supply, later redesignated Army Service Forces

The Japanese aircraft carrier, Hiryu under attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway.

April 3 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
April 5 - World War II: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
April 9 - World War II: Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the country's East Coast.
April 18 - Tokyo, Japan is bombed by B-25 Mitchells commanded by then-Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.
April 27 - World War II: A national plebiscite is held in Canada on the issue of conscription.

May

May - first test of an undersea oil pipeline in Operation Pluto
May 5 - World War II: Operation Ironclad - United Kingdom forces invades french colony of Madagascar.
May 6 - World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
May 8 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end. This is the first time in the naval history where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other's fleets.
May 8/May 9 - World War II: On the night of 8/9 May 1942, gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
May 12 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov - In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
May 15 - World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
May 20 - First African-American seamen taken into US Navy
May 27 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague

June

June 1 - World War II: Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan.
June 4 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid)
June 4-June 7 - World War II: The Battle of Midway.
June 7 - World War II- Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands. This is the first invasion of American soil in 128 years.
June 9 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
June 10 - World War II: the Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
June 12 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
June 13 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.

July

July 1 - July 27 - World War II: the First Battle of El Alamein
July 3 - Guadalcanal falls to the Japanese.
July 9 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
July 13 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
July 16 - Holocaust: On order from the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.
July 16 - Georges Bégué and others escape from Mauzac prison camp
July 18 - World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
July 19 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to an effective American convoy system.
July 21 - Japanese establish beachhead on the north coast of New Guinea in the Buna-Gona area; small Australian force begins rearguard action on the Kokoda Track Campaign.
July 22 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
July 31 - The Oxford Committee of Famine Relief (OXFAM) founded

August-September

August 7 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
August 8 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others were cooperative and received life imprisonment instead).
August 8 - Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), which led to the start of a historical civil disobidience movement across India
August 9 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.
August 9 - FC Start, led by Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev. Against all odds, they win 5-3. They are later arrested and tortured, and most are killed.
August 13-14 night - In London instruments detect a massive burst of cosmic rays
August 16 - Polish-Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak follows a group of Jewish children into Treblinka death camp
August 19 - World War II: The Dieppe Raid - Allied forces raid Dieppe, France.
August 22 - World War II: Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy.
August 25 - World War II: Japanese marines land at Milne Bay.
August 30 - Luxembourg is formally annexed to the German Reich.
September 3 - Francisco Franco fires foreign minister Serrano Súñer
September 3 - An attempt by the Germans to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva leads to an uprising.
September 5 - World War II: Japanese forces suffer their first defeat on land at the Battle of Milne Bay.
September 12 - RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.
September 24 - Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac became the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France.

October

October 2 - British cruiser Curacao collides with the liner Queen Mary off the coast of Donegal and sinks - 338 drowned
October 3 - First successful launch of A-4 rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. The rocket flew 147 kilometres wide and reached a height of 84.5 kilometres and was therefore the first man-made object reaching space.
October 9 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
October 11 - World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
October 14 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.
October 16 - Hurricane and flooding in Bombay - 40,000 dead
October 23 - November 4 - World War II: the Second Battle of El Alamein
October 28 - The Alaska Highway is completed.
October 29 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

November

German troops at the Battle of Stalingrad.

November 3 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
November 8 - World War II: Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
November 8 - World War II: French Resistance Coup in Algiers, by which 400 French civil resistants neutralized the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), so allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, and from there in the whole French North Africa.
November 9 - World War II: U.S serviceman Edward Leonswki hanged at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison for the "Brown-Out" Murders of three women in May
November 10 - World War II: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
November 12 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - A naval battle near Guadalcanal starts between Japanese and American forces.
November 13 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei.
November 15 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends - Although the United States Navy suffered heavy losses, it was able to retain control of Guadalcanal.
November 19 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
November 21 - The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the "highway" was not usable by general vehicles until 1943, however).
November 22 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is surrounded.
November 23 - German U-boat sinks SS Ben Lomond off the coast of Brazil. One crewman, Chinese second steward Poon Lim, is separated from the others and spends 130 days adrift until he is rescued April 3 1943
November 27 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
November 28 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club kills 491 people.
November 28 - The large-scale German "pacification" of Zamojszczyzna region of Poland begins.

December

December 2 - Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" was then sent to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
December 4 - Holocaust: In Warsaw, two Christian women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews.
December 7 - British commandos conduct Operation Frankton a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
December 24 - French Admiral Darlan, the former Vichy leader who had switched over to the Allies following the Torch landings, assassinated in Algiers.

Undated

Catavi massacre - Bolivian soldiers shoot miners
Serial killer Singing Strangler in Melbourne
Grand Coulee Dam finished in Columbia River
DDT first used as a pesticide

Ongoing events

World War II (1939-1945)
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
1942 in art
1942 in film
*Mrs. Miniver
*Bambi
*Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
*Quattro passi fra le nuvole by Alessandro Blasetti.
1942 in literature
*Mythology
1942 in music
*"White Christmas" - Bing Crosby
1942 in rail transport
1942 in sports
1942 in television
*April 13 - The FCC minimum programming time required of TV stations is cut from 15 hours to four hours a week during the war.

Births

Unknown date

Roger Angleton, American murderer (d. 1998)
Priscilla Davis, American socialite (d. 2001)

January

January 1 - Martin Frost, American politician
January 1 - Gennadi Sarafanov, cosmonaut
January 2 - Hugh Shelton, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
January 3 - John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
January 5 - Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
January 5 - Charlie Rose, American talk show host
January 7 - Vasily Alexeev, Soviet weightlifter
January 8 - Stephen Hawking, British physicist
January 8 - Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
January 8 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
January 8 - George Passmore, English artist (Gilbert and George)
January 14 - Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal, Chief Justice of India
January 15 - Charo, American singer and actress
January 17 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
January 17 - Cus D'Amato, boxing manager (d. 1985)
January 17 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
January 17 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
January 19 - Michael Crawford, singer and actor
January 25 - Carl Eller, American football player
January 25 - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
January 31 - Derek Jarman, English director and writer (d. 1994)

February

February 1 - Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer
February 2 - Graham Nash, English musician
February 5 - Roger Staubach, American football player
February 9 - Carole King, American singer and composer
February 12 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
February 13 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor
February 14 - Andrew Robinson, American actor
February 19 - Paul Krause, American football player
February 20 - Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player
February 21 - Margarethe von Trotta, German actress, film director, and writer
February 24 - Joseph Lieberman, American politician
February 27 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 28 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)

March

March 2 - John Irving, American author
March 2 - Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist
March 4 - Charles C. Krulak, U.S. Marine Corps commander
March 5 - Felipe González Márquez, Spanish politician
March 7 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist
March 7 - Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
March 9 - John Cale, Welsh composer and musician
March 13 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer
March 13 - Scatman John, American musician (d. 1999)
March 16 - James Soong, Taiwan politician
March 17 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994)
March 23 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
March 25 - Aretha Franklin, American singer
March 25 - Richard O'Brien, English-born actor and writer
March 26 - Erica Jong, American author
March 27 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
March 27 - Michael York, English actor
March 28 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman
March 28 - Mike Newell, British film director
March 28 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
March 28 - Jerry Sloan, American basketball coach

April

April 2 - Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef
April 3 - Marsha Mason, American actress
April 3 - Wayne Newton, American singer
April 4 - Elizabeth Levy, American author
April 5 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh filmmaker
April 5 - Pascal Couchepin, Swiss Federal Councilor
April 6 - Barry Levinson, American film producer and director
April 8 - Roger Chapman, British rock singer (Family, Streetwalkers)
April 14 - Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (d. 2003)
April 14 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
April 15 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
April 26 - Bobby Rydell, American singer
April 26 - Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
April 27 - Jim Keltner, American drummer

May

May 2 - Jacques Rogge, Belgian International Olympic Committee president
May 5 - Tammy Wynette, American musician (d. 1998)
May 8 - Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
May 9 - John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
May 12 - Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
May 17 - Taj Mahal, American singer and guitarist
May 18 - Albert Hammond, English-born musician and composer
May 18 - Nobby Stiles, English footballer
May 19 - Gary Kildall, American computer scientist (d. 1994)
May 22 - Theodore Kaczynski, American bomber
May 22 - Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk)
May 26 - Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)
May 28 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

June

June 3 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
June 10 - Preston Manning, Canadian politician
June 12 - Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 17 - Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
June 18 - Roger Ebert, American film critic
June 18 - Paul McCartney, English musician and composer (The Beatles)
June 18 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
June 19 - Ralna English, American singer
June 20 - Brian Wilson, American singer (The Beach Boys)
June 24 - Mick Fleetwood, English drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
June 24 - Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
June 24 - Michele Lee, American singer, dancer and actress

July

July 4 - Floyd Little, American football player
July 4 - Prince Michael of Kent
July 7 - Carmen Duncan, Welsh-born actress
July 10 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
July 10 - Ronnie James Dio, American singer
July 13 - Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
July 13 - Roger McGuinn, American musician
July 15 - Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English radio and television personality
July 18 - Adolf Ogi, member of the Swiss Federal Council
July 23 - Myra Hindley, English murderer
July 24 - Chris Sarandon, American actor
July 27 - Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
July 29 - Tony Sirico, American actor

August

August 1 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (d. 1995)
August 2 - Isabel Allende, Chilean writer
August 4 - David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
August 7 - Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
August 19 - Fred Dalton Thompson, U.S. Senator and actor
August 20 - Isaac Hayes, American singer and actor
August 26 - Dennis Turner, British politician
August 28 - Sterling Morrison, American musician (d. 1995)

September

September 1 - John Lange, American scientist
September 14 - Bernard MacLaverty, Irish writer
September 19 - Freda Payne, American singer and actress
September 22 - David Stern, American commissioner of the National Basketball Association
September 28 - Marshall Bell, American actor
September 29 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
September 29 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
September 30 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)

October

October 10 - Peter Coyote, American actor
October 11 - Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
October 12 - Melvin Franklin, American musician (d. 1995)
October 13 - Jerry Jones, American football team owner
October 19 - Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
October 20 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
October 20 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 21 - Elvin Bishop, American musician
October 22 - Annette Funicello, American actress
October 23 - Michael Crichton, American author
October 26 - Bob Hoskins, British actor

November

November 1 - Larry Flynt, American publisher
November 1 - Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta
November 8 - Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
November 8 - Fernando Sorrentino, Argentine writer
November 10 - Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 10 - Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
November 13 - John P. Hammond, American singer
November 15 - Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born pianist and conductor
November 17 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
November 20 - Joe Biden, U.S. Senator from Delaware
November 22 - Francis K. Butagira, Ugandan Ambassador
November 27 - Henry Carr, American athlete
November 27 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (d. 1970)
November 28 - Paul Warfield, American football player
November 29 - Michael Craze, British actor (d. 1998)
November 29 - Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone

December

December 4 - Gemma Jones, British actress
December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
December 7 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (d. 2006)
December 9 - Dick Butkus, American football player
December 11 - Donna Mills, American actress
December 17 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
December 20 - Bob Hayes, American athlete
December 21 - Carla Thomas, American singer
December 29 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
December 31 - Andy Summers, English Guitarist

Unknown date

Moammar Al Qadhafi, leader of Libya

Deaths

January-April

January 6 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
January 14 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883)
January 16 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
January 26 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (suicide) (b. 1868)
February 14 - Mirosław Ferić, Polish pilot of the No. 303 Squadron in Northolt (b. 1915)
February 19 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
February 28 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (sinking ship) (b. 1889)
March 1 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer, inventor, and engineer (b. 1873)
March 8 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
March 10 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
March 21 - J.S Woodsworth, Canadian politician (b. 1874)
April 15 - Robert Musil, Austrian-born novelist (b. 1880)
April 17 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and socialite (b. 1875)
April 24 - Dinanath Mangeshkar, Indian singer and composer (b. 1900)

May-December

May 3 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
May 7 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
May 27 - Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1879)
May 29 - John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
June 4 - Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi Reich Main Security Office and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia (assassinated) (b. 1904)
June 7 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
June 30 - William Henry Jackson, American photographer (b. 1843)
July 23 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer and senator (suicide) (b. 1880)
July 26 - Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (b. 1900)
July 28 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
August 3 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
August 6 - Jonathan Campbell, American film pioneer (b. 1875)
September 14 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (b. 1855)
November 1 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
November 5 - George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer (b. 1878)
November 19 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
November 21 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
December 7 - Orland Steen Loomis, Governor-elect of Wisconsin (b. 1893)
December 22 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)

Nobel prizes

Physics - not awarded
Chemistry - not awarded
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - not awarded
Peace - not awarded

References

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