Deaths
- February 3 - A. K. Erlang (born 1878), Danish mathematician.
- March 6 - David Dunbar Buick (born 1854), Scottish American automobile pioneer.
- April 4 - Karl Benz (born 1844), German automotive pioneer and mechanical engineer
- August 10 - Pierre Fatou (born 1878), French mathematician.
- August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung (born 1892), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.
- November 17 - Herman Hollerith (born 1860), American statistician, punched card data processing inventor.
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