Explore notable deaths.

Jules Carpentier

1851–1921

engineer, photographer, inventor

Official cause

traffic collision

Jeanette Jerome

1854–1921

autobiographer, writer, socialite

Official cause

gangrene

Oswald Watt

1878–1921

aircraft pilot

Official cause

drowning

Bernard Coyne

1897–1921

Official cause

liver disease

Edward Douglass White Jr.

1845–1921

politician, lawyer, judge

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Michael Llewelyn Davies

1900–1921

student

Official cause

drowning

Gertrud Wilhelmine von Hindenburg

1860–1921

philanthropist

Official cause

cancer

Emilia Pardo Bazán

1851–1921

essayist, literary critic, novelist

Official cause

influenza

William Friese-Greene

1855–1921

street vendor, inventor, film director

Official cause

prostate cancer

Clarissa F. Dye

1832–1921

Official cause

kidney failure

Théodore Pilette

1883–1921

engineer, racing automobile driver

Official cause

traffic collision

Thomas Bryan

1897–1921

electrician

Official cause

hanging to death

Thomas Whelan

1898–1921

Official cause

hanging to death

Jenny Twitchell Kempton

1835–1921

opera singer

Official cause

disease

Pete Harrison

1885–1921

baseball umpire

Official cause

tuberculosis

Eduardo Dato

1856–1921

politician, diplomat, lawyer

Official cause

shot to the head

Frederick Carruthers Cornell

1867–1921

short story writer, writer, soldier

Official cause

traffic collision

Hilaria Aguinaldo

1877–1921

Official cause

tuberculosis

Anthon H. Lund

1844–1921

politician

Official cause

ulcer

Nicholas I of Montenegro

1841–1921

poet, writer, monarch

Official cause

cerebral hemorrhage

David Carlisle Humphreys

1855–1921

cartographer

Official cause

cancer

Eileen Rosaline O'Connor

1892–1921

religious sister

Official cause

tuberculosis

Konstantin Mereschkowski

1855–1921

biologist, lichenologist, mycologist

Official cause

asphyxia

Devil Anse Hatfield

1839–1921

patriarch

Official cause

pneumonia