- Jan 6 Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
- Jan 16 Alfred Shaw, English cricket medium/spin bowler (7 Tests; bowled first ball in Test cricket; first to take 5 wickets in a Test innings; Nottinghamshire CCC, MCC), dies at 64
- Jan 25 René Pottier, French racing cyclist (Tour de France 1906), dies of suicide at 27
- Feb 12 Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), dies of lymphadenoma at 28
- Jun 14 Bob McLeod, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 12 wickets, BB 5/53; Victoria), dies at 39
- Jun 21 Lena Rice, Irish tennis player (Wimbledon 1890), dies of tuberculosis at 41
- Jul 18 Ted Pooley, English cricket wicket-keeper (1st class records: 8 stumpings in a match 1878; 12 dismissals in a match 1868; Surrey CCC, Middlesex CCC), dies at 65
- Nov 21 Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Aust's early Tests), dies
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