Deaths
- January 11 - Kazimierz Zalewski, Polish dramatist, critic and newspaper publisher, 69
- January 31 - Paul Lindau, German dramatist, 79
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author, 62 (stroke)
- May 10 - Ferdinando Fontana, Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet, 69
- May 17 - Guido von List, Viennese) poet, dramatist, journalist and occultist writer, 70
- June 14 - Weedon Grossmith, writer, painter, actor and playwright, co-author of Diary of a Nobody, 65
- June 23 - Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao, Indian dramatist, 65
- July 8 - John Fox, Jr., American journalist, novelist, and short story writer, 56 (pneumonia)
- September 12 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, 48 (heart failure)
- October 22 - W. N. P. Barbellion, author of the Journal of a Disappointed Man, 30 (multiple sclerosis)
- October 30 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 68
- November 3 - Abraham Valdelomar, Peruvian poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist, 31 (injuries from accidental fall)
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