Deaths
- March 23 - Napier Shaw (born 1854), English meteorologist.
- May 14 - Isis Pogson (born 1852), English astronomer and meteorologist.
- August 4 - Gerhard Gentzen (born 1909), German mathematician.
- August 10 - Robert Goddard (born 1882), American rocket scientist.
- August 31 - Stefan Banach (born 1892), Polish mathematician.
- October 1 - Walter Bradford Cannon (born 1871), American physiologist.
- September 24 - Hans Geiger (born 1882), German inventor of the Geiger counter.
- December 4 - Thomas Hunt Morgan (born 1866), American biologist.
- December 21/22 - Arthur Korn (born 1870), German-born inventor.
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