- February 15
- Birth of William Pickering in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; astronomer (9th and 10th moons of Saturn). [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Laurence "Lon" Myers; US track star (top US miler). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Louise M A; princess of Belgium. [1]
- February 28
- Birth of Jacob P Vis; Dutch industrialist (founder Nevada Royal Salt Industries). [1]
- March 15
- Birth of Liberty Hyde Bailey; US botanist (Plantbreeding). [1]
- March 18
- Birth of Rudolph C K Diesel; German engineer (Diesel motor). [1]
- March 23
- Birth of Ludwig Quidde; German historian/politician (Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Arnold Aletrino; Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life). [1]
- Birth of Gaetano Mosca; Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Rémy de Gourmont; French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour). [1]
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- April 7
- Birth of Adrien H Gerhard; Dutch socialist politician (SDAP). [1]
- April 15
- Birth of Emile Durkheim; French sociologist (Division du travail social). [1]
- April 19
- Birth of May Robson AKA Mary J Robison in Melbourne, Australia; actress (Apple Annie). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Max Ludwig Planck; German physicist (Quanta Physics, Planck Constant, Nobel Prize 1918). [1]
- May 8
- Birth of John Meade Falkner; novelist (Moonfleet). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Roland Napoleon Bonaparte; French officer/traveller (Surinam). [1]
- May 24
- Birth of Johan C Braakensiek; political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer). [1]
- June 17
- Birth of Eben Sumner Draper; Massachusetts Governor. [1]
- June 22
- Birth of Giacomo Puccini in Italy; operatic composer (Madama Butterfly). [1]
- June 29
- Birth of George Washington Goethals; engineer (built Panama Canal). [1]
- July 9
- Birth of Franz Boas; anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man). [1]
- July 14
- Birth of Emmeline Pankhurst in England; founder (Women's Social and Political Union). [1]
- July 16
- Birth of Eugène Ysaÿe in Belgium; violinist/conductor/composer (Pierill Houïou). [1]
- July 31
- In Dublin, Ireland, Richard Dixon Oldham is born; geologist and seismologist, discovered the evidence for the existence of the Earth's core. [53]
- August 19
- Birth of Edith Nesbit in England; children books author (Railway Children). [1]
- August 21
- Birth of (Crown Prince Archduke) Rudolf to Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Elisabeth, of the House of Hapsburg. [389.22]
- September 16
- Birth of A Bonar Law; (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1922-23). [1]
- September 27
- Birth of Giuseppe Peano; Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic. [1]
- October 15
- Birth of John L Sullivan in Massachusetts, USA; heavyweight boxing champion (1882-92). [1]
- October 27
- Birth of Theodore Roosevelt; (Republican) 26th US President (1901-09) (Nobel Prize 1906). [1] [450.78]
- November 20
- Birth of Selma Lagerlof in Sweden; novelist (Tales of a Manor - Nobel Prize 1909). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Billy Gunn; cricket player (Notts and England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop; Dutch painter/graphic artist (Three Brides). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Giacomo Puccini Lucca in Italy; opera composer (La Bohème, La Tosca). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko; playwright (Life in Russian Theater). [1]
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- January 5
- Birth of DeWitt B Brace; inventor (spectrophotometer). [1]
- January 6
- Birth of Samuel Alexander; English philosopher (Moral order and progress). [1]
- January 9
- Birth of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt; women's rights leader/founder (League of Women Voters). [1]
- Birth of Frederik Pijper; Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries). [1]
- January 11
- Birth of [Gerard] Jan Ligthart; Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot and Sien). [1]
- January 13
- Birth of Karl Bleibtreu; German author (Revolution of Literature). [1]
- Birth of Kostís Palamás; Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília). [1]
- January 19
- Birth of Alice Eastwood in Toronto; botanist (Handbook of Trees of California). [1]
- January 27
- Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Potsdam; German emperor (1888-1918). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Victor August Herbert in Dublin, Ireland; composer (Babes in Toyland). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Havelock Ellis; US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of George Washington Gale Ferris; engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz]; author (Fiddler on the Roof). [1]
- February 19
- Birth of Svante August Arhenius; Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
- Birth of Knut Hamsun in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway; author (Hunger, Growth of the Soil, Nobel Prize 1920). [506.50]
- February 23
- Birth of Theodor Batthyányi; Hungarian statesman, contra revolutionary. [1]
- March 8
- Birth of Kenneth Grahame; author (The Wind, Willows). [1]
- March 9
- Birth of Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg] in Austria; author (Lebensabend). [1]
- March 13
- Birth of Ivo Bligh; cricket player [Lord Darnley] England captain versus Australia 1882-83. [1]
- March 26
- Birth of A[lfred] E[dward] Housman in England; poet (Shropshire Lad). [1]
- March 27
- Birth of George Giffen; cricket player (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders). [1]
- March 28
- Birth of Joséphin Péladan; French writer/founder (French Rosicrucians). [1]
- April 7
- Birth of Walter Camp in Connecticut, USA; father of American football (Yale). [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Edmund Husserl; German philosopher (founded Phenomenology). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Eduard G H H Cuypers; architect (Sanatorium High-Laren). [1]
- May 3
- Birth of Andy Adams; US writer (Log of a Cowboy). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Willem J T Kloos; Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Pierre Curie in France; physicist (Nobel Prize 1903) (dies 1906). [1] [5]
- May 19
- Birth of Nellie Melba [Heal Mitchell]; Australian soprano (Peach Melba). [1]
- May 22
- Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle in United Kingdom; author (Sherlock Holmes) (dies 1930). [1] [5]
- May 26
- Birth of Alfred Edward Housman in Bromsgrove, England; poet (A Buried Life). [1]
- June 22
- Birth of Frank Heino Damrosch; author/musician/teacher (founder of Institute of Music). [1]
- July 6
- Birth of Verner von Heidenstam in Sweden; poet/novelist (Nobel Prize 1916). [1]
- July 17
- Birth of Luis Muñoz Rivera in Puerto Rico; journalist (founded Federalist Party). [1]
- July 28
- Birth of Balington Booth; founded Volunteers of America. [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Katharine Lee Bates; US author (America the Beautiful). [1]
- August 19
- Birth of Charles Comiskey; first basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox). [1]
- October 3
- Birth of Elenora Duse in Italy; actress (Hedda Gabler). [1]
- October 9
- Birth of Alfred Dreyfus in Mulhouse, Alsace; French artillery officer, falsely convicted of spying for the Germans in 1894 (dies 1935). [5] [1321.10]
- October 17
- Birth of William "Buck" Ewing; hall of fame catcher (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds). [1]
- October 18
- Birth of Henri Bergson in France; philosopher (Creative Evolution - Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
- October 20
- Birth of John Dewey in Vermont, USA; philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing), founding member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [1] [1321.11]
- November 1
- Birth of Charles Brantley Aycock; American politician (Governor-North Carolina). [1]
- November 19
- Birth of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov in Russia; musician (Armenian Rhapsody). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of Georges Seurat in France; painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte). [1]
- December 5
- Birth of John Jellicoe in Southampton, England; admiral, commander of British Grand Fleet, governor-general of New Zealand. [1458.11]
- December 12
- Birth of Edward Bradley; horse owner (first to own four Kentucky Derby winners). [1]
- Birth of Maurice Donnay; French playwright (Lovers). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Ludwik L Zamenhof in Bialystok, Poland; physician/linguist (inventor of Esperanto language). [1] [1458.10]
- December 17
- Birth of Willem C Grünings; Curaçao publisher (People's Friend). [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Venustiano Carranza; Governor of state of Coahuila, President of México (1915-20). [1] [1028.627]
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