14 March — In the USSR, in connection with the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Emperor Alexander II, nine former participants in the assassination attempt were granted personal pensions.
25 May — In Paris, Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura was killed by the Jewish terrorist Sholom Schwartzbard in revenge for the Jewish pogroms in Ukraine.
21 April — Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, was born.
2 September — Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov, a theatre and film actor, was born.
9 October — Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev, an actor, was born.
19 October — In the USSR, after Stalin’s victory in the intra-party struggle, Trotsky and Zinoviev were removed from the Politburo of the RCP(b).
5 December — Claude Monet, a French painter and founder of Impressionism, died.