Deaths
- February 10 – Joseph Lister (born 1827), British inventor of antiseptic.
- February 12 – Osborne Reynolds (born 1842), British physicist.
- March 29
- Robert Falcon Scott (born 1868), English Antarctic explorer.
- Edward Wilson (born 1872), English physician and naturalist.
- May 30 – Wilbur Wright (born 1867), American aviation pioneer.
- July 17 – Henri Poincaré (born 1854), French mathematician.
- August 7 – François-Alphonse Forel (born 1841), Swiss pioneer of limnology.
- November 23 – Charles Bourseul (born 1829), French telegraph engineer.
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