Deaths
- 18 January - Rudyard Kipling, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
- 20 January - King George V (born 1865)
- 2 March - Princess Victoria, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (born 1876, Malta)
- 30 April - A. E. Housman, poet (born 1859)
- 14 June - G. K. Chesterton, English author (born 1874)
- 21 September - Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (born 1863)
- 2 November - Martin Lowry, chemist (born 1874)
- 10 December - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (born 1857)
- Edmond Holmes, writer and poet (born 1850)
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