Deaths
- February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen (born 1845), physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate.
- February 24 - Edward Morley (born 1838), chemist.
- March 8 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals (born 1837), physicist.
- March 27 - James Dewar (born 1842), chemist.
- July 16 - Sydney Mary Thompson (born 1847), geologist and botanist.
- August 23 - Hertha Ayrton (born 1854), electrical engineer.
- December 2 - Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (born 1834), surveyor, geologist and naturalist.
- December 7 - Sir Frederick Treves (born 1853), surgeon.
- December 27 - Gustave Eiffel (born 1832), structural engineer.
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