1925

1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year beginning on a Thursday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• January 1st: The capital of Norway officially ceases to be Christian and calls itself Oslo.
• January 1: In Germany the Barmat corruption scandal comes to light. The fact that it mainly affected the SPD and that some of its main stakeholders were Jews was widely used in propaganda by nationalist and anti-Semite groups such as the NSDAP.
• January 3: Benito Mussolini puts opposition parties out of the law, which leaves the Fascist National Party as the only one in Italy.
• January 5: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor of the United States.
• January 15: In Germany he is appointed as new Chancellor Hans Luther, independent politician, supported by DNVP, DVP, Zentrum, DDP and BVP parties.
• January 20: Leon Trotski is expelled as a member of the USSR (People's Council) government and as a leader of the Revolutionary Military Soviet, but will remain a member of the party.
• January 20: A treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union was signed by which the Japanese returned the Island of Sakhalin to Russia in exchange for economic concessions (Soviet-Japanese Basic Convention).
• January 23: coup in Chile for former President Arturo Alessandri, President Luis Altamirano is deposed and replaced by a temporary governing board chaired by Emilio Bello Codesido.
• January 26: In Morocco The rebel troops loyal to Abd el-Krim defeat and capture the leader rifeño Ahmed al-Raisuli, a former ally of Spain and abandoned by them after his withdrawal from Xauen.

February

• 1 February: In Berlin (Germany) the Front of the Red Combatants, an armed organization of the Communist Party of Germany, meets for the first time. The front aims to “unify the proletarian forces” to combat militarism and fascism.
• 1 February: at the Talia Theatre in Barcelona, a 36-hour dance championship is held.
• 1 February: the government of Turkey expelled from the country the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Greece Constantine VI of Constantinople, causing a serious conflict with Greece and the intervention of the League of Nations.
• February 6: In Spain, all the bands will go to ranks from the current replacement.
• 8 February: The Kurdish People led by the religious Sheikh Said rebelled against Turkey. The rebellion will last about a month, and will be severely repressed and its leading executed leaders.
• February 10: In Bilbao, the Bank of Credit and Mining Union announced the suspension of payments.
• 11 February: In Portugal the government of President José Domingues dos Santos falls, causing the division of the Democratic Party, being appointed new president Vitorino Guimarães, also a member of the same party.
• 19 February: in Venice the musical comedy is premiered Gli amanti sposiErmanno Wolf-Ferrari.
• 22 February: in Paris, France, the National Assembly votes to remove the embassy to the Holy See.
• 23 February: in Argentina, the poet Alfonsina Storni publishes Ocre.
• February 24: in Granada (Spain) the tram is opened to Sierra Nevada (with 14 tunnels and 21 bridges in its 20 km of route), which allows communication between many villages of the province.
• February 25: Columbia Records (now SonyBMG) performs the first commercial music recording in New York, USA. His interpreter was the American pianist and singer Art Gillham nicknamed The Whispering Pianist (the whispering pianist).
• February 28: President Friedrich Ebert died, causing the elections scheduled for the end of the year to advance in April. The President of the Reichsgericht Walter Simons will serve as the presidency.
• February 28: A 6.2 earthquake shakes the northeast of America, being one of the most powerful in Canada of the centuryXX..

March

• March 1st: in Chile, Pablo Neruda publishes the text "Imperial del Sur" in the newspaper Mercury.
• March 1st: in Spain, the Board agrees to create the Abbes Management.
• March 4: Republican Calvin Coolidge swears as president of the United States for a second term.
• March 7: Foreign Mongolia is occupied by the Red Army of the Soviet Union.
• March 10: Austrian Jewish writer Hugo Bettauer is shot in Vienna by a young member of the German Nazi party, in response to a novel where anti-Semitism was satisfied. The writer died a few days after the wounds.
• March 12: The government of the United Kingdom chaired by the conservative Stanley Baldwin decides to reject the Geneva Protocol on Inter-Country Arbitration that had been agreed upon by the previous government of the laborer Ramsay MacDonald.
• 13 March: Vicente Lombardo Toledano chooses this day to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the foundation of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
• March 13: The USA. The U.S. ratified the Hay-Quesada Treaty, negotiated since 1903, which recognizes Cuba's sovereignty over Pinos Island, today Youth Island.
• 16 March: In the Chinese province of Yunnan an earthquake of 7.0 leaves a balance of 5,000 dead.
• March 18: The "Three States' Tornado" crosses Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, leaving 695 dead and 2027 wounded. Hit the cities of Murphysboro and Gorham (Illinois); Ellington (Misuri) and Griffin (Indiana).
• March 21: In Spain, the directory approved the 1925 Provincial Statute written by José Calvo Sotelo. One of its main measures is the definitive dissolution of the Commonwealth of Catalonia.
• March 23: The state of Tennessee (in the United States) prohibits the teaching of the theory of evolution.
• March 25: In Chile that day returns from exile in Europe President Arturo Alessandri Palma.
• March 25: Scottish inventor John Logie Baird performs his first public demonstration on sending images in motion.

April

• 1 April: In Dessau, Germany, the Bauhaus School is installed.
• April 6: Spanish anarchist Rafael Torres Escartín is sentenced to death for the murder of Cardinal Juan Soldevila.
• April 9: Serious train accident in Barcelona with 24 dead and more than 100 wounded.
• April 10: Motion of censorship in France. President Édouard Herriot presents the government's resignation.
• April 12: Bolivia founded the Bolivar Club.
• 13 April: the Moroccan rifeños led by Abd el-Krim attack the French positions along the Uarga River, extending their Republic of the Rif to the French Morocco. In 2 months they will conquer 48 French positions and cause more than 5000 casualties, causing a serious military and political crisis in France.
• April 16: In Sofia, communist militants fly the Sveta-Nedelya Cathedral producing 128 dead and more than 500 wounded, including numerous military and government members. This is one of the biggest attacks in the history of Europe. (Sveta-Nedelya Cathedral).
• April 18: failed coup in Portugal.
• April 19: Chile founded the Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo.
• April 20: In Iran, Reza Jan troops enter Ahvaz and arrest the sheij Jazal.
• 26 April: in Republic of Weimar the second round of the presidential elections, for the purpose of choosing the Reichspräsident. The winner turns out to be Paul von Hindenburg, against his main rival Wilhelm Marx.
• April 28: The International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industries, which would give rise to Art Deco, takes place in Paris.

May

• 1 May: in the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador) the Barcelona Sporting Club is founded.
• 5 May: in the USA. The famous Scopes Judgment on the conflict between creationism and evolutionism takes place. Although the creationist stance was victorious, his defender, former Democratic leader William Jennings Bryan was very discredited and died a few days later.
• 7 May: Russian writer Borís Sávinkov, captured by the Bolsheviks through Operation Trust, sentenced to death and recently pardoned, commits suicide by throwing himself through a window of the prison where he was locked up, although it is speculated that he could be killed.
• May 16: The French politician Louis-Jean Malvy travels to Madrid to begin negotiations with the Spanish government with the aim of jointly resolving the Moroccan problem of Abd el-Krim.
• 17 May: the state of war is lifted throughout Spain through a decree.
• The mayors of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón decided that the anthem of the Regional Exhibition of Valencia of 1909 would become the anthem of the Kingdom of Valencia.
• 17 May: in Vatican City the French Carmelite Teresa de Lisieux is canonized by Pope Pius XI
• May 20: General Gerardo Machado began his term as president of Cuba, after winning the elections.
• 23 May: In Toyooka, Japan, there is a devastating earthquake of 6.8 and a fire that leaves more than 400 dead, 1,000 wounded and more than 7,000 destroyed buildings.
• May 30: In Shanghai there is a student revolt that has just expanded in the form of xenophobic strikes and riots all over China (see May 30 Movement).

June

• 6 June: the Spanish police captured some Catalan terrorists belonging to the Black Flag who were trying to attack the royal family.
• June 15: After 24 days lost by the Arctic and killed, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team managed to reach the island of Svalbard.
• June 17: in Madrid the broadcasts of Unión Radio, one of the first stations in Spain and one of the most important ones, with the license number EAJ-7. Also released on the same day, the radio magazine Ondas, associated with that broadcaster.
• 17 June: the Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use of chemical and biological weapons, is signed.
• 21 June: Italy has the fourth and last fascist congress, for which fascism is fully integrated into the Italian state.
• June 25: in Greece General Theodoros Pangalos gives a coup d'etat and is made with power, destituting the former president Andreas Michalakopulos.
• June 27: In the state of Montana there is an earthquake of 6.9.
• June 29: In Santa Barbara, California there is an earthquake of 6.8 that leaves 13 dead and destroys the historic center of the city, with estimated damage of 8 million dollars.

July

• July 9: the Julian Revolution that defeats President Gonzalo Córdova takes place in Ecuador.
• 9 July: in Paris, the French parliament agrees by majority the war against Abd el-Krim and approves a special budget for this.
• 11 July: in Madrid, French and Spanish delegates agree on action in Morocco against Abd el-Krim
• 13 July: by agreement between Greeks and Turks, Basil III is elected a new patriarch of the Greek church of Constantinople, thus solving the problem between the two countries following the expulsion of Turkey from the former patriarch.
• July 18: The book of Hitler is published in Berlin Mein Kampf (My struggle.) Approximate date, since in the foreword of the work mentions that the first part was written in 1924 and the second in 1926 according to the translator.
• 19 July: the evacuation of the Ruhr basin by the French and Belgian troops begins.
• July 19: Druze tribes attack the French in the city of Salkhad, starting the Great Syrian Revolt.
• July 20: Italy and Yugoslavia sign the Nettuno Agreements.
• 21 July: Political crisis in Portugal, the majority Democratic Party is divided into two, leaving President Antonio Maria da Silva in a minority, so he is forced to resign.
• July 26: In St. Petersburg, the USSR opened Petrovsky Stadium.

August

• 2 August: in the Bolivian parliament, supporters of President Bautista Saavedra Mallea cancel the previous elections and call for new ones by December, in order to prevent the winner José Gabino Villanueva from taking over the country.
• August 3: serious diplomatic crisis between Germany and Poland. German citizens are expelled from Poland. In response, Polish citizens are expelled from Germany.
• August 11: French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand meets in London with his British equivalent Austen Chamberlain to discuss the issue of war debts between the two countries, as well as the response to the security pact proposed by German Minister Gustav Stresemann.
• 21 August: In Algeciras, French General Pétain and Spanish General Miguel Primo de Rivera draw a joint action plan against Abd el-Krim in the Moroccan war.
• 25 August: The last French soldiers evacuate the cities of Düsseldorf and Duisburg, thus ending the evacuation of the Rhur basin, which it had occupied since January 1923.

September

• September 1st: In Mexico, the Bank of Mexico was founded.
• September 1: Tarata Province is returned by Chile to Peru, according to the arbitration of the president of the United States. U.S. Calvin Coolidge in the Tacna and Arica Question.
• September 5: USS Shenandoah is crashing in Ohio, killing 14 of its crew.
• 8 September: in Morocco, the forces of the Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera (1870-1930) carry out the Alhucemas Landing.
• 11 September: the French army in charge of Philippe Pétain began his offensive in the south against Abd el-Krim, according to what was agreed with Spain.
• 14 September: in Bolivia the company Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano began its activities.
• September 18: In Chile, the 1925 Constitution was promulgated, which puts an end to the parliamentary regime and initiates presidentialism.

October

• October 2: In Chile President Arturo Alessandri Palma resigns for the second time to the government.
• 2 October: The Spanish army arrives in Axdir, the capital of the Republic of Rif, a city that is looted and rooted.
• October 5: The Locarno Conference begins, regulating relations between Germany and its neighbouring countries.
• October 19: The Spanish newspaper La Nación, organ of the regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera, of ultra-nationalist ideology, is broadcast for the first time.
• October 19: On the border between Greece and Bulgaria, a Greek sentinel persecuting his dog was struck by Bulgarian sentries, causing a serious incident between the two countries, and the invasion of Pétrich by the Greek army.
• October 24: In Chile Emiliano Figueroa wins the Presidential Election.
• October 27: In Germany the National Party abandons the government as a result of the signing of the Locarno Treaties
• October 28: In Luxor, archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the mummy of Tutankamon.
• October 31: In Paris, actor Max Linder, one of the most important in the world, together with his wife, are killed in a hotel with open veins.

November

• November 2nd: In Lima, Peruvian writer José Santos Chocano shot his professional colleague Edwin Elmore.
• 4 November: After the success of the Alhucemas landing and the taking of Axdir, General Miguel Primo de Rivera withdrew from Morocco, appointing his substitute as Commissioner of Morocco to General José Sanjurjo.
• 4 November: The Italian police discovered a plot to kill Benito Mussolini with a sniper rifle while giving a speech at the Chigi Palace. The socialist deputy Tito Zaniboni and General Luigi Capello are arrested and the PSU is illegal.
• 5 November: Thanks to Operation Trust, the Soviet OGPU manages to capture and execute the British spy Sidney Reilly.
• 11 November: Le Faisceau, the first French fascist party, was founded.
• November 23: In Manchuria General Guo Songling began a rebellion against his superior Zhang Zuolin supported by rival general Feng Yuxiang, starting the Anti-Fengtian War.
• November 23: Crisis of government in France. Socialists withdraw their support to President Paul Painlevé, breaking the Gauches Cartel and forcing the formation of a concentration government chaired by Aristide Briand.
• November 23: Astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrates that the nebula of the andromeda is actually another galaxy outside the Milky Way.
• 25 November: In Honduras the Marathon Sports Club is founded.
• November 29: In Argentina begins the Ninth American Cup Edition.

December

• December 1st: Locarno's treaty is signed in London, England.
• December 1st: The evacuation of the area of Cologne begins by allied occupation troops.
• 2 December: The League of Nations dictates that Greece must pay 30 million levas to Bulgaria as a result of the invasion of Pétrich.
• December 3: In Spain the government of the military directorate ends and the civil directorate begins, also presided by General Miguel Primo de Rivera.
• December 5: In Portugal, the newspaper O Século brings to light a large plot of forgery of Portuguese tickets, directed by Artur Virgílio Alves dos Reis
• 14 December: In the Netherlands, the police discovered a plot of Hungarian nationalists to forge French francs and sink the value of this currency.
• December 16: In Iran, the National Consultation Assembly deposes the Qayar dynasty and installs Reza Jan on the throne as Reza Shah.
• 18 December: the 14th Communist Congress takes place in Moscow, where the faction of Iosif Stalin is imposed on the faction of Grigori Zinoviev.
• December 21: In the Soviet Union, the film is released The Potemkin Warehouse Serguéi Eisenstein.
• 23 December: the Wahabit Muslims of the House of Saúd conquer the city of Yeda, ending the conquest of the Kingdom of Hiyaz.
• December 24: During the Anti-Fengtian War, General Guo Songling fails to take over Mukden, being defeated and executed by his rival Zhang Zuolin, but the war continues.
• December 25: In Buenos Aires (Argentina) the Copa América and Argentina is champion for the Second Vez.
• December 26: In India the Communist Party of India was founded.
• December 26: English adventurer Gordon Canning presents to the French government a request for peace by Abd el-Krim.
• December 28: Prince Charles the heir of Romania abdicates to the throne of Romania for his son Michael to escape with his lover.

Unknown date

• In Mongolia: the Mongolian dollar is replaced by the tugrik.

Births

January

• 1 January:
  • Raúl Valerio, Mexican film and television actor (f. 2017).
  • Eugenio Rincón, a Spanish painter (f. 2007).
• January 3: Jill Balcon, English actress (f. 2009).
• 6 January:
  • John DeLorean, U.S. automotive entrepreneur (f. 2005).
  • Jane Harvey, American jazz singer (f. 2013).
• 7 January: Gerald Durrell, a naturalist and a British writer (f. 1995).

Paul Newman

• January 9: Lee Van Cleef, American actor (f. 1989).
• January 14: Yukio Mishima, a Japanese writer (f. 1970).
• 15 January:
  • Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor.
  • Mirta Acuña de Baravalle, activist and activist for the cause of Argentine human rights.
• January 20: Ernesto Cardenal, writer, politician, priest and Nicaraguan theologian (f. 2020).
• January 26: Paul Newman, American actor, director and producer (f. 2008).
• 27 January:
  • Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez, a Cuban guerrilla and peasant, who was killed in Bolivia (f. 1967).
  • Hugo Villar, Uruguayan scientist (f. 2017).
• January 30: Douglas Engelbart, American inventor and computer, known for inventing the mouse (f. 2013).

February

Amparo Rivelles

• February 6: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian writer (f. 2006).
• February 8: Jack Lemmon, American actor (f. 2001).
• 11 February:
  • Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (f. 2013).
  • Virginia Johnson, American sexologist (f. 2013).
• February 17: Hal Holbrook, an American actor candidate for Oscar for the best cast actor (f. 2021).
• February 20: Robert Altman, American filmmaker (f. 2006).
• 21 February:
  • Tom Gehrels, American astronomer born in the Netherlands (f. 2011).
  • Sam Peckinpah, American filmmaker (f. 1984).
• February 25: Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria (f. 2018).
• February 26: Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress of Czechoslovak origin (f. 1955).
• 27 February: Marin Constantin, musician, orchestra director and Romanian composer (f. 2011).

March

• 4 March: Inezita Barroso, singer, actress, librarian, teacher and Brazilian presenter (f. 2015).
• 5 March: Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (f. 2013).
• March 7: Manuel Gago García, Spanish hysterist (f. 1980).
• March 12: Rosario Granados, Mexican actress (f. 1997).
• March 16: Luis Ernesto Miramontes, Mexican chemical (f. 2004).
• 21 March:
  • Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican actress (f. 2019).
  • Peter Brook, director of theatre, films and opera English.(f.2022).
• 25 March:
  • Flannery O'Connor, American writer (f. 1964).
  • Ravindra Kelekar, Indian writer, translator and activist (f. 2010).
• 26 March:
  • Pierre Boulez, French composer and director (f. 2016).
  • James Moody, American musician (f. 2010).
• March 27: Miguel Frank, a filmmaker and a Chilean writer (f. 1994).

April

• April 3: Tony Benn, British politician (f. 2014).
• April 5: Rubén Lena, Uruguayan musician (f. 1995).
• April 14: Rod Steiger, American actor (f. 2002).
• April 21: Rita Macedo, Mexican actress (f. 1993).
• April 27: Alfonso Grados Bertorini, a Peruvian journalist and politician (f. 2010).

May

• May 1st: Scott Carpenter, American astronaut and acuanauta (f. 2013).
• 4 May: Luis Herrera Campíns, politician and Venezuelan journalist (f. 2007).
• May 6: John Bayard Britton, an American doctor killed by an anti-abortionist (f. 1994).
• May 8: Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian politician, second president.
• May 9: Miguel Allamand, a Chilean engineer, businessman and politician (f. 2010).
• May 10: Sagrario Martínez Carrera, Spanish chemistry (f. 2011).
• 14 May: Ana Raquel Satre, Uruguayan soprano (f. 2014).

Horacio Guarany

• 15 May:
  • Eugenio Martin, screenwriter and Spanish film director (f.2023).
  • Horacio Guarany, Argentine folk singer (f. 2017).
• 17 May: Michel de Certeau, French historian and philosopher (f. 1986).
• 16 May: Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian musician (f. 2010).
• May 19: Malcolm X, American political activist (f. 1965).
• May 22: Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (f. 1991).
• 25 May:
  • Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and writer (f. 1974).
  • Aldo Clementi, Italian composer (f. 2011).
  • Jeanne Crain, American actress (f. 2003).
  • Berto Fontana, actor and Uruguayan theatre director (f. 2017).
  • José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (f. 1963).
  • Claude Pinoteau, French film director and screenwriter (f. 2012).
  • Alekséi Túpolev, Soviet aeronautical designer (f. 2001).
• May 26: Carmen Montejo, Cuban-Mexican actress (f. 2013).
• 28 May:
  • Bülent Ecevit, politician and Turkish prime minister (f. 2006).
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone (f. 2012).
• May 30: John Cocke, American computer scientist (f. 2002).
• May 31: Joan Bosch Palau, Spanish film director (f. 2015).

June

• June 1: Dilia Díaz Cisneros, educator and Venezuelan poet (f. 2017).

Tony Curtis.

• June 3: Tony Curtis, American actor (f. 2010).
• 4 June:
  • Nicomedes Santa Cruz Gamarra, Peruvian journalist, poet and decimist (f. 1992).
  • Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (f. 2013).
• June 7: Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine businesswoman; director of Clarín. (f. 2017).
• June 8: Barbara Bush, the first lady of the United States (f. 2018).
• 14 June:
  • Serge Moscovici, French social psychologist (f. 2014).
  • Eliseo Herrera, Colombian singer and composer (f. 2016).
  • Dalton Trevisan, Brazilian writer.
• June 18: Anderssen Banchero, Uruguayan writer (f. 1987).
• June 20: Andrés Aylwin, a Chilean lawyer and politician (f. 2018).
• June 21: Stanley Moss, American poet and art dealer.
• 25 June:
  • June Lockhart, American actress.
  • Robert Venturi, American architect (f. 2018).
• June 29: Giorgio Napolitano, president of Italy.
• June 30: Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (f. 2021).

July

• July 3: Néffer Kröger, Uruguayan musicologist and concertist (f. 1996).
• July 6: Bill Haley, American musician (f. 1981).
• July 8: Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, Portuguese historian (f. 2020).
• 10 July: Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian politician; 4.o and 7.o Prime Minister of Malaysia.
• July 15: Josep Mussons, entrepreneur and Spanish sports leader.(f.2021)
• July 16: Rosita Quintana, actress, singer and Argentine-Mexican composer.(f.2021).
• July 20: Fermín Palma Rodríguez, doctor, surgeon, historian and Spanish humanist.
• July 23: Quett Masire, former President of Botswana (f. 2017).
• July 24: Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (f. 1969).
• July 25: Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (f. 2018).
• July 26: Ana María Matute, Spanish novelist (f. 2014).
• July 28: Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer (f.2002)
• July 29: Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer and intellectual.(f.2021).
• July 30: Welcome Brens, Dominican musician and composer (f. 2007).

August

• 1 August:
  • Alicia Berdaxagar, Argentine actress (f. 2018).
  • Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer.(f.2020)
• 2 August:
  • Jorge Rafael Videla, military, dictator and Argentine convict, dictator of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, during the last dictatorship (f. 2013).
  • Alan Whicker, journalist and TV presenter and British announcer (f. 2013).
• August 9: Valentin Pimstein, Chilean telenovelas producer (f. 2017).
• 12 August:
  • Guillermo Cano, a Colombian journalist (f. 1986).
  • José Sazatornil, Spanish actor. (f. 2015).
• 13 August:
  • Carlitos Balá, Argentine comic actor.(f.2022)
  • José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Minister of Argentine Economy during the last dictatorship (f. 2013).
• August 15: Oscar Peterson, Canadian musician (f. 2007).
• August 16: José María Obaldía, writer, lexicographer, teacher and Uruguayan oral narrator.
• August 22: Honor Blackman, British actress (f. 2020).
• August 23: Edgardo Boeninger, engineer, economist, polytologist, academic and political Chilean (f. 2009).
• August 25: Juanita Reina, Spanish singer and actress (f. 1999).
• August 28: Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer and actor (f. 2003).

September

• September 1st: Roy Jay Glauber, American physicist (f. 2018).
• September 6: Andrea Camilleri, writer and director of television and Italian theatre (f. 2019).
• September 8: Peter Sellers, British actor (f. 1980).
• September 16: B. B. King, American musician (f. 2015).
• 20 September:
  • Ananda Mahidol, Thai king (f. 1946).
  • Kléber Silva Iribarnegaray, Uruguayan priest (f. 1977).
• 25 September:
  • Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (f. 2016).
  • Ana Sacerdote, abstract artist ílo-argentina (f. 2019).
• September 28: Joaquín Vargas Gómez, Mexican businessman (f. 2009).

October

• October 2: José Martínez Suárez, director of film and Argentine screenwriter (f. 2019).
• October 3: Gore Vidal, American writer (f. 2012).
• October 11: Luis González and González, Mexican historian (f. 2003).
• October 12: Ernesto Schoo, writer, journalist, critic, chronist, translator and Argentine screenwriter (f. 2013).
• 13 October:
  • Margaret Thatcher, British policy, Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990 (f. 2013).
  • Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti, monk, scientist and Benedictine exorcist who allegedly helped build the Chronovisor (f. 1994).
• October 16: Angela Lansbury, British actress.(f.2022)
• October 18: Ramiz Alia, a politician and President of Albania (f. 2011).
• October 19: Emilio Eduardo Massera, militar, dictator and Argentine convict (f. 2010).

Celia Cruz

• 21 October:
  • Celia Cruz, Cuban salsa singer (f. 2003).
  • Concepción Llaguno Marchena, Spanish chemistry (f. 2010)
• October 22: Robert Rauschenberg, visual artist pop (f. 2008).
• October 24: Luciano Berio, Italian composer of academic music (f. 2003).
• 29 October:
  • Robert Hardy, British actor (f. 2017).
  • Haim Hefer, Israeli composer, poet and writer (f. 2012).
  • Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophoneist (f. 1985).
• October 31: John Pople, British chemical, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 (f. 2004).

November

• 2 November: Modest Cuixart, Spanish painter (f. 2007).
• 8 November: Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (f. 2019).
• November 10: Jaime Agudelo, Colombian actor and humorist (f. 2009).
• November 20: Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (f. 1968).
• 23 November: José Napoleón Duarte, president of El Salvador between 1984 and 1989 (f. 1990).
• 25 November: Maria Asquerino, Spanish actress (f. 2013).
• November 26: Gregorio Álvarez, Uruguayan dictator (f. 2016).
• November 30: William H. Gates Mr., American lawyer (f. 2020).

December

• 3 December: Kim Dae-Jung, politician, South Korean president between 1998 and 2003 and Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 (f. 2009).

Carmen Martín Gaite

• December 8: Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish writer (f. 2000).
• 13 December:
  • Dick Van Dyke, American actor.
  • Klavdia Kudriashova, a Soviet opera singer (f. 2012).
• December 21: Olga Aróseva, Russian actress (f. 2013).
• December 28: Hildegard Knef, German actress (f. 2002).
• December 29: Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez, politician and Costa Rican president between 1982 and 1986 (f. 2016).
• December 30: Margarita Aguirre, Chilean writer and critic, friend and biologist of Pablo Neruda (f. 2003).

Unknown dates

• Abdal Salam al-Majali, doctor and Jordanian Prime Minister (f.2023).

Deaths

• January 6: Ferdinand Löwe, director of Austrian orchestra and musician (n. 1865).
• January 10: António Sardinha, poet, essayist and Portuguese politician (n. 1888).
• January 25: Juan Vucetich, creator of the fingerprint identification dactiloscopic system (n. 1858).
• February 12: Antonio Dabán Vallejo, a Spanish general, a member of the Quadrilátero (dictator of Primo de Rivera) (n. 1877).
• 17 February: Ignacio Andrade, military, political and constitutional president of the United States of Venezuela (n. 1839).
• February 24: Karl Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (n. 1860).
• February 28: Friedrich Ebert, German politician, President of the Republic (n. 1871).
• March 5: Michel Verne, French writer and editor (n. 1861).
• March 11: Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and revolutionary, founder of the Kuomintang (n. 1866).
• March 11: José María del Canto Arteaga, Chilean military (n. 1840).
• 20 March: George Curzon, a British conservative politician (n. 1859).
• March 22: Julian Marchlewski, Polish Communist politician (n. 1866).
• March 30: Rudolf Steiner, Austrian esoteric, founder of anthroposophy (n. 1861).
• 7 April: Tijon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (n. 1865).
• April 15: Faustino Nicoli, Industrial and political Barcelonian (n. 1852).
• April 17: Ahmed al-Raisuli, leader rifeño (n. 1871).
• April 22: André Caplet, director of orchestra and French composer (n. 1878).
• May 21: Eisaburo Ueno, acronym engineer and Japanese teacher (n. 1872), owner of the famous faithful dog Hachiko (1923-1935).
• June 1: Helen Barnes: American actress (n. 1895).
• June 3: Manuel Comellas Coímbra, journalist, poet and founder of the Correo Gallego (n. 1857).
• June 11: José Ignacio Garmendia, military, writer and Argentine painter
• June 12: Gustave García, Italian baritone (n. 1837).
• June 12: Richard Teichmann, great German chess player (n. 1868).
• June 17: A. C. Benson, essayist and British poet (n. 1862).
• 1 July: Erik Satie, French musician (n. 1866).
• July 17: Juan Bautista Castagnino, entrepreneur and Argentine patron (n. 1884).
• July 9: Rene Quinton, pioneer of French self-taught aviation and naturalist (n. 1866).
• July 26: William Bryan, American politician (n. 1860).
• July 26: Gottlob Frege, German mathematician (n. 1848).
• August 4th: Charles W. Clark, American baritone (n. 1865).
• August 5: Georges Palante, French anarchist philosopher (n. 1862).
• August 7: Ricardo Mella, Spanish anarchist pedagogue (n. 1861).
• August 24: R. G. Bhandarkar, an Orientalist scholar and an Indian activist (n. 1837).
• August 24: Félix Sesúmaga, Spanish footballer (n. 1898).
• September 16: Leo Fall, Austrian composer of operetas (n. 1873).
• September 29: Léon Bourgeois, French politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1920 (n. 1851).
• October 31: Max Linder, French comic actor (n. 1883).
• 7 November: Francisco Bens, a Spanish military officer (n. 1867).
• 10 November: Ernesto Pérez Millán (26), a Catholic nationalist and an Argentine murderer; assassinated (n. 1899).
• December 5: Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 (n. 1867).
• December 9: Pablo Iglesias, a Spanish politician, founder of the PSOE and the UGT (n. 1850).
• 13 December: Antonio Maura and Montaner, politician, minister and Spanish president (n. 1853).
• December 25: Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (n. 1877).
• December 28: Sergéi Yesenin, Russian poet.

Art and literature

• December 14: Alban Berg premieres his opera Wozzeck.
• Sergéi Eisenstein: The Potemkin Warehouse (film).
• Rafael Alberti: Mariner on land.
• Gerardo Diego: Foam Manual.
• John Dos Passos: Manhattan transfer.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby.
• José Vasconcelos: The cosmic race.
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway.
• Agatha Christie: Chimneys' secret.
• Lion Feuchtwanger: The Jew Süß.
• Theodore Dreiser: An American tragedy.
• Franz Kafka: The process (published in a posthumous manner).
• Aldous Huxley: Art, love and everything else.
• Ernest Hemingway: In our time.
• André Gide: The false purses.
• Acceptance of the verb "piropear" in the RAE dictionary.

Sports

• February 24: Mexico founded the Mexican League of Baseball.
• March 10: In Greece the sports club Olympiacos is founded.
• April 19: Chile founded the Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo.
• 1 May: in Ecuador the Barcelona Sporting Club is founded.
• 25 November: the Marathon Sports Club is founded in Honduras.

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Nobel laureates

• Physics: James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
• Chemistry: Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
• Medicine: Special Fund of this section of the award
• Literature: George Bernard Shaw
• Peace: Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles Gates Dawes, Ricky Fort