- Feb 9 Jack Barrett, Australian cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies at 49
- Mar 9 Kenneth Hutchings, English cricketer (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies fighting at the Battle of the Somme at 33
- Apr 16 Tom Horan, Australian cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 1 x 100, 11 wickets; Victoria CA), dies a 62
- May 25 Jack Marsh, Australian cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03), dies in a pub brawl at 41 or 42
- Jul 1 William Booth, English Test cricket batsman (WWI 2 Tests), dies at the Somme at 39
- Aug 1 Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies
- Nov 13 Frederik Septimus Kelly, Australian-British composer and rower (Summer Olympic gold 1908), dies at 35
- Nov 23 Leonard Moon, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, Cambridge University CC, Middlesex CCC), dies in WWI action at 38
- Dec 26 Frank Penn, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1880), dies
- Dec 26 Willie Smith, Scottish golfer (US Open 1899), dies of pneumonia at 40
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