Deaths
- February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz (born 1853), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
- March 19 - David Ferrier (born 1843), neurologist.
- March 21 - E. Walter Maunder (born 1851), astronomer.
- May 21 - Hideyo Noguchi (born 1876), bacteriologist.
- August 30 - Wilhelm Wien (born 1864), physicist.
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