Deaths
- 7 February – William Evans Hoyle, director of the National Museum of Wales (born 1855)
- 12 July – Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (born 1868)
- 25 September – Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (born 1862)
- 5 October – Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley), artist (born 1855)
- 12 October – Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster and theologian (born 1838)
- 13 October – Eliseus Williams, poet (born 1867)
- 4 November – John Owen, Bishop of St David's (born 1854)
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