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Wills, successions and estate fights from 1914 to 1945, newest first.

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How were estates passed on, 1914 to 1945?

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150
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Europe, North America, Latin America
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Literature and art, European families, Fame and fortune
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Common law, Civil law
Updated
30 October 2026

Every story, 1914 to 1945

  1. 1944Charles Bedaux hosted the Windsor wedding at Candé, died in FBI custody awaiting treason charges, and his widow gave the château to Francedomainecande.fr and 2 more
  2. 1944Louis Renault died in custody before trial, and France took his company without paying his heirsconseil-etat.fr and 6 more
  3. 1944Banker Fritz Gutmann was killed at Theresienstadt, and his heirs sued an American collector to get back his DegasDutch Restitutions Committee and 6 more
  4. 1944Rommel took poison on 14 October 1944 in exchange for a state funeral and pensions for his familyifz-muenchen.de and 3 more
  5. 1944The last emir of Bukhara fled across a river on a raft in 1920 and left three sons behind; two were shot and the third publicly renounced himperipheralhistories.co.uk and 2 more
  6. 1944Japan hanged Soviet spy Richard Sorge and Moscow refused to claim him; his Japanese partner moved his body to her own grave plot and tended it until she diednippon.com and 2 more
  7. 1944Revolutionaries demolished Reza Shah's mausoleum in 1980 and could not find his body, and a mummified body turned up on the site in 2018Encyclopaedia Britannica and 3 more
  8. 1944Glenn Miller vanished over the English Channel; his widow licensed his name for $1, and his children lost it in courtcacd.uscourts.gov and 1 more
  9. 1944Armed men took Munch's The Scream and Madonna from Oslo's Munch Museum in 2004, a court ordered two thieves to pay the city 750 million kroner, and police recovered both in 2006The Irish Times and 3 more
  10. 1943Oscar Hartzell sold shares in a $22 billion Sir Francis Drake estate that did not exist, and about 70,000 Midwesterners paidCaselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School and 4 more
  11. 1943Credit Suisse demanded a death certificate for a banker killed at Majdanek; his daughter waited until 1998 for his accountjweekly.com and 6 more
  12. 1943The US government sealed Nikola Tesla's papers after he died, his nephew took them to Belgrade, and the church and scientists later fought over his ashesCornell Law School, LII and 4 more
  13. 1943Russia's culture minister demanded Rachmaninoff's remains back from New York, and his descendants said noSmithsonian Magazine and 3 more
  14. 1943Beatrix Potter left more than 4,000 acres and 14 or 15 farms to the National Trust, with a life interest for her husbandbeatrixpottersociety.org.uk and 3 more
  15. 1942Britain blew up Burmah Oil's installations in 1942, the House of Lords ruled the Crown must pay, and Parliament passed a law backdated to cancel the debtlegislation.gov.uk and 2 more
  16. 1942A ploughman and his employer kept the Mildenhall Treasure at home for four years, used the dishes, and got a reduced rewardmildenhallmuseum.co.uk and 2 more
  17. 1942Thessaloniki destroyed its 450-year-old Jewish cemetery in December 1942, used the stones to build, and put a university on the landtheworld.org and 2 more
  18. 1942Bruno Schulz was shot in the street in Drohobych in November 1942 in a feud between two SS men; in 2001 Yad Vashem cut his murals from a pantry wall and flew them to Israelnewrepublic.com and 3 more
  19. 1942L.M. Montgomery's death certificate said coronary thrombosis; her granddaughter wrote in 2008 that she took her own lifecbc.ca and 3 more
  20. 1941Franz Koenigs lost his drawings to a bank five weeks before the German invasion; Hitler bought 528 and the Dutch state has refused his heirs four timesDutch Restitutions Committee and 5 more
  21. 1941Oklahoma oilman E.W. Marland annulled his adoption of his wife's niece and married her, then lost his company to J.P. Morgan's bankersokhistory.org and 4 more
  22. 1941James Joyce's grandson destroyed his aunt Lucia's letters and threatened scholars until the copyrights ran out in 2012historynewsnetwork.org and 4 more
  23. 1941The Kaiser's heirs claimed thousands of artworks and compensation, dropped the suits over the Nazi question, and settled after 99 yearspreussischer-kulturbesitz.de and 2 more
  24. 1941Thailand's finance ministry sued its abdicated king for 6.27 million baht in 1939 and won an order freezing everything he ownedth.wikisource.org and 4 more
  25. 1941Fritz Grünbaum died at Dachau owning about 70 Schieles; his heirs won them back in New York, then one heir sued Christie's over the restpaw.princeton.edu and 2 more
  26. 1941Rabindranath Tagore's 1913 Nobel gold medal and 49 other items were stolen from the Visva-Bharati museum in March 2004 and have not been recoveredtribuneindia.com and 3 more
  27. 1940Jacques Goudstikker died fleeing the Nazis, Göring took his paintings, and the Netherlands returned 202 of them in 2006cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov and 2 more
  28. 1940The Vestey meat brothers left Britain over income tax, set up a Paris trust and bought a peerageThe Gazette and 7 more
  29. 1940Stalin's agents killed Trotsky and members of his family; he sealed his exile papers at Harvard until 1980, and the grandson who survived kept his house as a museumguides.library.harvard.edu and 5 more
  30. 1940German units emptied the French Masonic headquarters in June 1940, the Red Army took the archives to Moscow, and France got them back in 2001gadlu.info and 3 more
  31. 1940Paul Klee's widow sold his estate for SFr120,000 two days before dying; his son sued the foundation that received it, and the case settled after four yearsarchive.zpk.org and 3 more
  32. 1940F. Scott Fitzgerald left an estate of about $35,000 in 1940, and the Catholic church refused his burial plot until his daughter petitioned in 1975blogs.library.duke.edu and 3 more
  33. 1939Sir Henry Pellatt built Casa Loma with Home Bank loans, the bank failed, and Toronto took the castle for unpaid taxesDictionary of Canadian Biography and 3 more
  34. 1939Banker Fritz Mannheimer died ten weeks after his wedding, his bank failed, and Hitler bought his collection from the creditorsresources.huygens.knaw.nl and 2 more
  35. 1939The Wittgenstein siblings gave the Reichsbank their Swiss-held fortune in 1939 for "half-Jewish" status, and Vienna paid Paul's heirs €7,400 in 2008entschaedigungsfonds.org and 3 more
  36. 1939Switzerland made bank secrecy a crime in 1934, and the night guard who took bank files from a UBS shredder in 1997 had to seek asylum in the United Statesdaily.jstor.org and 3 more
  37. 1939The Wertheims lost Berlin's Leipziger Platz store under Nazi laws, Germany gave the land to Karstadt in 1991, and Karstadt paid €88 million in 2007jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com and 3 more
  38. 1938Atatürk left his İş Bankası shares to his party, and the state took them twicesozcu.com.tr and 3 more
  39. 1938Robert Johnson died in 1938 with nothing, and a Mississippi court found his heir 62 years laterThe Seattle Times and 3 more
  40. 1938Brașov gave Bran Castle to Queen Marie in 1920, her daughter lost it in 1948, and Romania returned it to her grandchildren's generation in 2006bran-castle.com and 5 more
  41. 1938Mexico expropriated the foreign oil companies in 1938, crowds brought chickens and jewelry to help pay, and Mexico paid the companies in fullhistory.state.gov and 2 more
  42. 1938Bukharin made his wife memorise his last letter before his arrest, and she carried it through 20 years of camps and exile until he was cleared in 1988colinshindler.com and 2 more
  43. 1938Comstock heir Clarence Mackay cut his daughter out of his will for marrying Irving Berlin, and after her baby died he took her backnnbw.com and 2 more
  44. 1937J.M. Barrie gave Peter Pan to a children's hospital, and Parliament made the hospital's royalty permanentlegislation.gov.uk and 3 more
  45. 1937Brazil's largest industrial group lost its chosen heir in a car race, passed to the founder's twelfth child, and filed for court protection in 1983vivant.it and 4 more
  46. 1937George Gershwin died at 38 without a will, and the Gershwin trusts lobbied Congress for 20 more years of copyrightLibrary of Congress and 5 more
  47. 1937H. P. Lovecraft's literary executor died in 1951, his papers went to August Derleth, and no court has settled who owns his copyrightsfindingaids.library.tamu.edu and 3 more
  48. 1936John Ringling left his Venetian mansion and art museum to Florida and died with $311 in the bank, and the state fought his creditors for ten yearsringlingdocents.org and 4 more
  49. 1936Lenin's 1918 decree took Sergei Shchukin's 258 paintings, and his heirs' claims in Paris and Los Angeles failedkommersant.ru and 6 more
  50. 1936George V's doctor injected him with morphine and cocaine so his death would make the morning papersThe New York Times and 1 more
  51. 1936Henry Wellcome left his drug company to trustees in 1936, and in 1995 they sold it to its rival GlaxoWikipedia (English) and 2 more
  52. 1936Four states and the United States claimed $37.7 million in death taxes from Hetty Green's son's $36 million estateCornell Law School, LII and 3 more
  53. 1936Franco's side shot Blas Infante in 1936, a tribunal fined him 2,000 pesetas in 1940, and his widow paidpublico.es and 3 more
  54. 1936Franco's forces seized the Masonic temple of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 19 July 1936, used it for interrogations, and Spain moved to declare it a memorial in 2025Boletín Oficial del Estado and 2 more
  55. 1936Federico García Lorca was shot with three other men in August 1936, and a 2009 dig at the supposed grave in Alfacar found no remainsforoporlamemoria.info and 4 more
  56. 1936The 1938 Moscow trial charged Yagoda and doctors with murdering Maxim Gorky and his son; 18 defendants were sentenced to be shotmarxists.org and 3 more
  57. 1936Robert E. Howard shot himself in June 1936 and his mother died a day or two later; a will naming a friend was reportedly lost, and the Conan rights passed to a nurse's daughterUPI and 2 more
  58. 1935Carlos Gardel's will said he was born in Toulouse and left everything to his mother, and his estate passed from her to his agent's family while Uruguay says he was born theretodotango.com and 4 more
  59. 1935Venezuela confiscated dictator Juan Vicente Gómez's fortune after his death in 1935, after first letting more than 90 relatives leave with moneyhistory.colostate.edu and 3 more
  60. 1935The Nazi state forced Hugo Junkers to give up his patents and his company, and he died under house arrest on his 76th birthdaystories.technik-museum.de and 3 more
  61. 1935Moïse de Camondo left his Paris house to France in memory of his son; the Nazis deported his daughter and grandchildren, and his ex-wife sold her Renoir portraitmadparis.fr and 6 more
  62. 1935A US consul bought Chichén Itzá for 200 pesos and shipped the Sacred Cenote's offerings to Harvard; his heirs won the land back in Mexico's Supreme Courtresearch.cgu.edu and 4 more
  63. 1935Max Liebermann's widow Martha killed herself in March 1943 as police came to deport her, and in 2025 a Dutch committee advised returning a Liebermann drawing from the Rijksmuseum to her heirsDutch Restitutions Committee and 3 more
  64. 1935Kazimir Malevich's heirs sued Amsterdam over 84 works held since 1958; in April 2008 the city returned five paintingsstedelijk.nl and 4 more
  65. 1935Alban Berg's widow kept the third act of Lulu unfinished for 41 years, and a composer finished it in secret for the publishernybooks.com and 2 more
  66. 1934Hungary seized Baron Herzog's collection of 2,000 artworks in 1944, and US courts ended his heirs' 15-year lawsuit in 2026CourtListener and 5 more
  67. 1934Hindenburg's Neudeck estate was put in his son's name, and Hitler's government added tax-free landtext-message.blogs.archives.gov and 5 more
  68. 1934A woman married "the world's richest Indian", the Interior Secretary gave away $1.1 million of his oil money, and the courts took it backCornell Law School, LII and 2 more
  69. 1934Göring took over "the Petschek question" in 1938, Flick's companies got the mines, and the Nuremberg court said the seizure was outside its jurisdictiondeutsche-biographie.de and 5 more
  70. 1933Anti-Treaty IRA men burned Moore Hall in 1923 because a Moore brother backed the Treaty, and the novelist's ashes lie on Castle Island in Lough Carracon-telegraph.ie and 3 more
  71. 1932Portugal's last king left his collections to the nation, and Salazar's government put the whole Bragança estate into a state foundation over the claimant's protestfiles.diariodarepublica.pt and 4 more
  72. 1932Ivar Kreuger shot himself in Paris in 1932, and auditors found his match empire rested on forged Italian bondsfortune.com and 5 more
  73. 1932Tomáš Baťa died in a plane crash, his half-brother took the shoe company, and the family litigated for 15 yearszpravy.aktualne.cz and 8 more
  74. 1932A recluse died in a New York hotel with a fortune in cash, 1,103 people claimed it, and the 10 real heirs had never met herSmithsonian Magazine and 2 more
  75. 1932A tobacco heir was shot at Reynolda, his pregnant widow was indicted for murder, and their son was paid $6.25 milliondncr.nc.gov and 4 more
  76. 1932Paul Bern was found shot two months after marrying Jean Harlow, his common-law wife Dorothy Millette drowned days later, and a judge made Harlow executor of his estateebsco.com and 5 more
  77. 1931The British demanded the Asante Golden Stool in 1900 and never obtained itInternet Archive and 5 more
  78. 1931John Wendel kept his sisters from marrying to hold the family's Manhattan land together, and more than 2,000 people claimed the last sister's estateTime and 2 more
  79. 1931Shanghai's richest landlord left everything to his Eurasian Buddhist widow, his Iraqi relatives sued, and the People's Republic closed the case in 1957thechinaproject.com and 2 more
  80. 1931Lillian Leitzel fell to her death in 1931, and her widower Alfredo Codona shot his third wife and himself in 1937 during a property splitcircusringoffame.org and 3 more
  81. 1930A Philadelphia widow left $17 million and no will, and 26,000 people claimed to be her heirsCaselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School and 2 more
  82. 1930Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs charged licence fees for Sherlock Holmes until a court ruled the character was free to uselaw.justia.com and 2 more
  83. 1930Sakichi Toyoda sold his loom patents to a British firm, the money started Toyota, and the loom company went to an adopted son-in-lawtoyota-global.com and 3 more
  84. 1930Henrietta Garrett died in 1930 with $17 million and no will; more than 25,000 people claimed to be her kin, ten went to jail, and three cousins she never met inheritedlegalgenealogist.com and 2 more
  85. 1930D. H. Lawrence was exhumed in France in 1935 and cremated for a New Mexico shrine, and a scholar reported that the man who carried the ashes said he threw them awaydhlawrenceranch.unm.edu and 2 more
  86. 1929The oil heir who carried $100,000 to the Interior Secretary was shot dead in his new mansion five months after moving infjc.gov and 4 more
  87. 1928Earl Haig was given £100,000 by Parliament and an estate by public subscription, and his earldom has no heir in 2026The Gazette and 3 more
  88. 1928Thomas Hardy's heart was buried in his first wife's grave and his ashes in Westminster Abbey after his executor overruled his wish; a legend says a cat ate the heartarchive.spectator.co.uk and 3 more
  89. 1926Rudolph Valentino's will gave his ex-wife $1, and his body went into a borrowed cryptCaselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School and 2 more
  90. 1926A Merck grandson handed the family's American shares to the US government in 1917, and the two Merck companies have fought over the name ever sinceThe National Archives, Find Case Law and 4 more
  91. 1926A shipowner's widow reportedly tore up a will leaving her £1 million, inherited about £5.5 million, and died without a will of her ownTime and 2 more
  92. 1926Charles Vance Millar left his estate to the Toronto mother with the most babies in 10 years, and 4 mothers with 9 children each split itWikisource (primary text) and 5 more
  93. 1926Houdini's great-nephew and two authors announced a 2007 plan to exhume his body to test for poisonwildabouthoudini.com and 2 more
  94. 1925Adele Bloch-Bauer's will asked for her Klimt portraits to go to Austria; the Nazis took them, and her niece won them back in 2006plone.unige.ch and 4 more
  95. 1925A judge took 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt from her mother and gave her and her trust to her auntencyclopedia.com and 3 more
  96. 1925Siam's 1924 succession law barred princesses, so King Vajiravudh's only child, born as he lay dying, could not inherit his throneInternet Archive and 5 more
  97. 1925The Hagiwara family kept San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden for 47 years; the 1942 removal orders took it, and the city paid two survivors $5,000 each in 1983goldengatepark.substack.com and 3 more
  98. 1925Max Linder and his wife died in a Paris hotel in 1925, a letter said "He will kill me," and his brother won custody of his daughter and her fortuneThe New York Times and 3 more
  99. 1925Sergei Yesenin was found hanged in the Hotel Angleterre in 1925, his heirs went to court for three years, and his secretary died at his gravecalend.ru and 5 more
  100. 1924Kafka told Max Brod to burn his papers; Brod saved them, and the fight over them ended in a Swiss bank vault in 2019historynewsnetwork.org and 3 more
  101. 1924When the Bogd Khan died in 1924, Mongolia's government took his seal, declared a republic and banned the search for his reincarnationdalailama.com and 4 more
  102. 1924Lenin's widow opposed embalming him and gave the party his letter asking it to remove Stalin; the party put the body on display and kept the letter from the congress floormarxists.org and 5 more
  103. 1924Hugo Stinnes had a hand in more than 4,000 companies when he died in 1924, and his sons lost most of them within a yeardeutsche-biographie.de and 2 more
  104. 1924Baku oil baron Taghiyev lost his mansion to the Bolsheviks in 1920 and died two days after learning his daughter had fled to Persiaazer.com and 3 more
  105. 1924Puccini's fortune passed to his son's widow, then her brother, then reportedly a butler, before the son's illegitimate daughter won it in courtcsmonitor.com and 5 more
  106. 1923Nan Britton lost her libel suit over Warren Harding's daughter in 1931, and DNA proved the daughter was his in 2015The New York Times and 4 more
  107. 1923Egypt kept every object from Tutankhamun's tomb and paid the Carnarvon heirs their costs in 1930archive.aramcoworld.com and 6 more
  108. 1923Pancho Villa's grave was opened in 1926 and his head taken, and his widows' court fight ended with the government seizing his haciendarevistabicentenario.com.mx and 2 more
  109. 1923Villa's soldiers took Luis Terrazas's son from the British consulate for ransom, and Mexico bought the family's estates for 13.6 million pesos in 1922history.state.gov and 5 more
  110. 1922Shackleton died about £40,000 in debt, his widow chose his grave on South Georgia, and his brother went to prison for fraudsgmuseum.gs and 7 more
  111. 1922Sarah Winchester inherited a rifle fortune and built a San Jose mansion; the medium who supposedly ordered it was invented in 1967skeptoid.com and 2 more
  112. 1922Proust's sister-in-law burned his papers after her husband died in 1935, and a perfume heir bought his furniture for 1,500 francsbnf.fr and 3 more
  113. 1921Princess Isabel sued Brazil for her Rio palace in 1895, and her heirs lost the case 125 years laterjota.info and 4 more
  114. 1921Ivan Morozov's great-grandson sued Yale and the Met for a Van Gogh and a Cézanne seized by the Bolsheviks, and lost both casesCourtListener and 7 more
  115. 1921Oil made each Osage headright worth a fortune, at least 24 Osage were killed in the early 1920s, and Congress stopped non-Osage from inheriting headrights in 1925osagenation-nsn.gov and 2 more
  116. 1921Pink Chaffin said his dead father led him to a second will hidden in Genesis 27, and a North Carolina court admitted it in 1925mentalfloss.com and 2 more
  117. 1921Police raided Dan Cranmer's 1921 potlatch, and the masks surrendered to keep people out of prison went to museums, a collector and an official's own collectionumista.ca and 2 more
  118. 1921Enrico Caruso's body lay in a glass-topped coffin in Naples for years, and his estate was split by a Naples decree that two New Jersey courts reopenedcase-law.vlex.com and 2 more
  119. 1920Prince Paolo Borghese lost the family fortune in the Rome building crash, and the state bought the Borghese collection for 3.6 million lireTreccani and 5 more
  120. 1920Modigliani died poor, his partner jumped from a window the next day, and Italian police later closed a Modigliani show for fakesitsartlaw.org and 4 more
  121. 1920The Soviet state sold the Romanov jewels by the kilogram in 1926, while a British antiquarian helped a grand duchess get her jewels out and her daughter sold the tiara to Queen MaryInternet Archive and 2 more
  122. 1920The Dodge brothers sued Henry Ford for dividends, sold him their shares for $25 million, and both died within a yearTime and 3 more
  123. 1920Roche's founder lost control of his company in the 1919 crisis, and his heirs used a voting pool and a $20.7 billion buyback from Novartis to hold itassets.roche.com and 3 more
  124. 1919Confucius's 77th-generation heir was made a duke as a baby, and Red Guards later dug up his father and hung the body from a treearchive.spectator.co.uk and 5 more
  125. 1919Germany paid the last interest on its 1920s reparation loans on 3 October 2010, 92 years after the First World War endedpeacepalacelibrary.nl and 2 more
  126. 1919Griffith J. Griffith gave Los Angeles a 3,015-acre park, shot his wife and went to prison, and used his will to build the Griffith Observatorycdcr.ca.gov and 3 more
  127. 1919Anenecuilco gave Zapata its colonial land titles in 1909; the man he left them to was killed in a land fight with Zapata's soninehrm.gob.mx and 2 more
  128. 1918Russia buried the last tsar's family 80 years after the shooting, the Church has not accepted the bones, and two of the children's remains have been in archive boxes since 2007meduza.io and 3 more
  129. 1918Singapore took the Ong clan's burial hill for a public cemetery, then dug up more than 4,000 of its graves for a highway, and unclaimed remains were to be scattered at seawiki.sg and 2 more
  130. 1918After Gustav Klimt died in 1918, the mothers of his children claimed support from his estate and were paid 4,000 to 10,000 crowns eachklimt-database.com and 4 more
  131. 1917Hawaii's last queen was imprisoned in an upstairs bedroom of her own palace, and the building served as the capitol of the government that removed her until 1969iolanipalace.org and 2 more
  132. 1917Queen Liliʻuokalani sued the United States for Hawaii's crown lands and lostWikipedia (English) and 2 more
  133. 1917The Bolsheviks sold the tsars' Fabergé eggs abroad, and one sold in New York in 1964 as a gold watch turned up with a man who had bought it for scrapvam.ac.uk and 3 more
  134. 1917Henry Flagler's widow left $5 million to her new husband in a codicil signed eight days before she died, and her family dug up her bodyebsco.com and 2 more
  135. 1917Germans gave Count Zeppelin 6 million marks after his airship burned, and his great-grandson has spent ten years trying to take the foundation back from a cityaerointernational.de and 5 more
  136. 1917Russia repudiated the tsar's bonds, France settled for $400 million in 1997, and the holders' association tried to seize a Russian sailing ship and a cathedralmoneyvox.fr and 3 more
  137. 1917The priest of Rennes-le-Château put his buildings in his servant's name, a restaurant owner spread a treasure story in 1956, and Pierre Plantard tied it to an invented secret ordercesnur.org and 2 more
  138. 1917Scott Joplin died in a state hospital without a will, his papers were lost in a trustee's estate, and his widow's trust won $177,980 in 1977academic.oup.com and 3 more
  139. 1917Rodin gave all his works and reproduction rights to France in 1916, and the Musee Rodin spent 18 years in court over about 1,700 casts it called fakesmusee-rodin.fr and 3 more
  140. 1917Buffalo Bill's 1913 will gave everything to Louisa; Denver newspaper owners held his $20,000 debt, and Wyoming has claimed his body since 1917cowboystatedaily.com and 2 more
  141. 1917Mata Hari's body went unclaimed after her 1917 execution, and the embalmed head kept in a Paris anatomy museum was found missing in 2000library.georgetown.edu and 3 more
  142. 1916King Thibaw handed Burma's crown jewels to a British colonel in 1885, and the Nga Mauk ruby was never seen againInternet Archive and 8 more
  143. 1916Ishi asked to be cremated by Yahi custom, and the university sent his brain to the Smithsonian, which returned it 84 years laterhearstmuseum.berkeley.edu and 2 more
  144. 1916Britain hanged Roger Casement in 1916 and buried him in quicklime, returned him to Dublin in 1965 on condition he stay out of the North, and in October 2026 his supporters applied to move himirishnews.com and 2 more
  145. 1916Jack London left nearly his entire estate to his wife Charmian in 1916; she kept the ranch, evicted a biographer, and her 1938 will turned it into a state parkparks.ca.gov and 3 more
  146. 1915Talaat asked the US ambassador for the list of Armenians insured by American companies, and 89 years later New York Life paid $20 million to their heirsProject Gutenberg and 3 more
  147. 1914George Vanderbilt's widow sold most of Biltmore's land to the United States, and his grandsons split the house from the dairyncpedia.org and 5 more
  148. 1914Nigeria vested ownership of the looted Benin Bronzes in the Oba of Benin in 2023nms.ac.uk and 10 more
  149. 1914Senator Bacon left Macon a park for white people only; when the courts opened it to all, it went back to his heirs and became a strip mallCornell Law School, LII and 2 more
  150. 1914Ambrose Bierce vanished in Mexico in 1913 or 1914, and a priest put a plaque in a Sierra Mojada cemetery in 2004 for the grave a witness describeddonswaim.com and 1 more