CENTENNIAL DEATHS
Departed Individuals of Note Who Died 100 Years Ago This Year
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Vladimir Lenin
Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist
04/22/1870 – 01/21/1924 |
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Woodrow Wilson
American president (1913–1921)
12/28/1856 – 02/03/1924 |
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Robert Nivelle
French military officer
10/15/1856 – 03/22/1924 |
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Louis Sullivan
American architect
09/03/1856 – 04/14/1924 |
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Eleonora Duse
Italian actress
10/03/1858 – 04/21/1924 |
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G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist
02/01/1844 – 04/24/1924 |
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E. Nesbit
English children's writer, Five Children and It, The Story of the Amulet
08/15/1858 – 05/04/1924 |
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Moses Fleetwood Walker
American baseball player
10/07/1856 – 05/11/1924 |
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Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant
French diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
11/22/1852 – 05/15/1924 |
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Bobby Franks
American murder victim, target of intellectual thrill killers Leopold and Loeb
09/19/1909 – 05/21/1924 |
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Victor Herbert
Irish-born American composer, Babes in Toyland
02/01/1859 – 05/26/1924 |
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Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer, The Metamorphosis, The Trial
07/03/1883 – 06/03/1924 |
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George Mallory
English explorer and mountaineer, leading member of early expeditions to Mount Everest
06/18/1886 – 06/08/1924 |
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Alfred Marshall
English economist, author of Principles of Economics
07/26/1842 – 07/13/1924 |
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Ferruccio Busoni
Italian pianist and composer
04/01/1866 – 07/27/1924 |
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George Shiras, Jr.
American Supreme Court justice (1892–1903)
01/26/1832 – 08/02/1924 |
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Joseph Conrad
Polish-born English writer, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
12/03/1857 – 08/03/1924 |
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Frank Chance
American baseball player and manager
09/09/1877 – 09/15/1924 |
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Lotta Crabtree
American actress and vaudevillian
11/07/1847 – 09/25/1924 |
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Anatole France
French Nobel Prize-winning writer, At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque, The Revolt of the Angels
04/16/1844 – 10/12/1924 |
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
English-born American children's writer, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, and playwright
11/24/1849 – 10/29/1924 |
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Gabriel Fauré
French composer, Pavane, Sicilienne
05/12/1845 – 11/04/1924 |
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Henry Cabot Lodge
American politician, Massachusetts senator (1893–1924)
05/12/1850 – 11/09/1924 |
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Dean "Dion" O'Bannion
American bootlegger and mob boss
07/08/1892 – 11/10/1924 |
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Thomas H. Ince
American filmmaker, known as the father of the Western
11/16/1882 – 11/19/1924 (Some sources cite an 1880 birth year) |
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Florence Harding
American First Lady (1921–1923)
08/15/1860 – 11/21/1924 |
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Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly
12/22/1858 – 11/29/1924 |
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Samuel Gompers
English-born American labor union leader
01/27/1850 – 12/13/1924 |
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Léon Bakst
Russian painter and stage designer
01/27/1866 – 12/27/1924 (Some sources cite a 05/10/1866 birth date) |
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss Nobel Prize-winning poet, The Olympic Spring
04/24/1845 – 12/29/1924 |
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