- February 6
- Birth of Johan [Eliza J] de Meester; Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery]; French author (Monsieur Venus). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Anders Zorn; Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustav Vasa). [1]
- February 24
- Birth of Daniel Berkeley Updike; printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types). [1]
- February 29
- Birth of Herman Hollerith; inventor (first electric tabulating machine). [1]
- March 11
- Birth of Thomas Hastings in New York City, New York, USA; architect (New York Public Library). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Frederik W van Eeden; Dutch utopian writer (Walden). [1]
- April 13
- Birth of James Ensor; Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Charles Gordon Curtis; US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine). [1]
- Birth of Pieter Jelles Troelstra; Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP). [1]
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- April 29
- Birth of Lorado Taft; US sculptor (Black Hawk). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of D'Arcy Thompson; zoologist/classicist (On Growth and Form). [1]
- Birth of Theodor Herzl in Austria; journalist/founder (Zionist movement). [1]
- May 4
- Birth of Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek in Vienna, Austria; composer (Donna Diana). [1]
- May 9
- Birth of James Matthew Barrie in Scotland; novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Victor E Orlando; Italy's premier (1917-19). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Willam Einthoven; Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph). [1]
- May 29
- Birth of Isaac [Manuel F] Albéniz; Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia) (dies 1909). [1] [5]
- May 31
- Birth of Walter Richard Sickert in Munich; Danish/English painter (The Miner). [1]
- July 7
- Birth of Gustav Mahler Kalischat in Bohemia, Austria; composer/conductor (Titan). [1]
- August 13
- Birth of Annie Oakley in Drake, Ohio, USA; frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West). [1]
- August 14
- Birth of Ernest T Seton; naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind - 1938). [1]
- August 16
- Birth of Jules Laforgue in Uruguay; French poet (Les Complaintes). [1]
- August 19
- Birth of John Kane in Scotland; US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait). [1]
- August 20
- Birth of Raymond Poincaré in France; Prime Minister (1912), president. [1]
- September 3
- Birth of Edward Albert Filene; merchant, established US credit union movement. [1]
- September 6
- Birth of Jane Addams; US pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel Prize 1931). [1]
- September 7
- Birth of Anna Maria "Grandma" Moses in New York, USA; primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket). [1] [5]
- September 13
- Birth of General John J (Blackjack) Pershing; US commander in WW I. [1]
- October 4
- Birth of Sidney Paget; illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures. [1]
- October 12
- Birth of Elmer A Sperry; inventor (gyrocompass). [1]
- October 31
- Birth of Juliette Gordon Low; Girl Scout founder. [1]
- November 12
- Birth of Sun Yat-sen in China; first president of Republic of China (1912), founded Chinese Nationalist Party. [1113.54]
- November 23
- Birth of Karl Branting in Sweden; statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of C T Studd; cricket player (brother of G B Studd, five Tests for England). [1]
- December 13
- Birth of Lucien G Guitry; French actor/theatre director (l'Odéon). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Niels Ryberg Finsen in Copenhagen, Denmark; physician/phototherapist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
- December 21
- Birth of Henrietta Szold; founder (Hadassah). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Harriet Monroe in Chicago, Illinois, USA; poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You and I). [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of Isaac Murphy; thoroughbred jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5 percent). [1]
- Birth of William Morris in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Brothers, The Roadhouse Murder). [1]
- January 14
- Birth of Mehmed VI; last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22). [1]
- Birth of Wilhelm von Polenz; German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Hans Goldschmidt in Berlin, Germany; chemist, invented the Goldschmidt alumino-thermic reduction process used in welding. [1] [37]
- February 3
- Birth of Léopold Courouble; Belgian writer (Family Kaekebroeck). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Lou [Andreas-]Salomé; Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Uchimura Kanzo in Tokyo, Japan; religious writer (How I Became a Christian). [1]
- February 15
- Birth of Alfred North Whitehead; English mathematician/philosopher (Adventures of Ideas). [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Ferdinand I in Vienna; first tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Rudolph Steiner in Kraljevic, Austria; founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of Isaac Murphy; US jockey (won 628 races). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Edmund Henry Hynman; first viscount Allenby of Megiddo, Fieldmarshal. [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Johan M Skjoldborg; Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Rabindranath Tagore; Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
- May 12
- Birth of Ivan Caryll; English composer (Pink Lady). [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Emily Perkins Bissell; welfare worker (first Christmas seal drive, 1907). [1]
- June 29
- Birth of William James Mayo; surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota, USA. [1]
- July 3
- Birth of Peter Jackson; heavyweight, boxing hall of famer. [1]
- July 11
- Birth of George William Norris; American politician (Republican-Nebraska). [1]
- August 9
- Ernest von Rebeur-Paschwitz born in Germany; physicist, made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake. [53]
- October 4
- Birth of Frederic Remington; US artist/sculptor of the American West. [1]
- October 10
- Birth of Fridtjof Nansen; Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel Prize 1922). [1]
- October 26
- Birth of Richard D Sears in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; first to win US amateur national tennis match. [1]
- November 6
- Birth of James A Naismith; inventor (basketball) (dies 1939). [1] [5]
- November 10
- Birth of Robert TA Innes in Edinburgh, Scotland; astronomer (Proxima Centauri). [1]
- November 14
- Birth of Frederick Jackson Turner in Portage, Wisconsin, USA; historian/educator (Harvard University). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Lillian Russell [Helen Leonard]; US singer/actress (Great Mogul). [1]
- December 5
- Birth of Armando V Diaz; Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24). [1]
- December 8
- Birth of Aristide Maillol in France; painter/sculptor (Seated Woman). [1]
- Birth of Georges Méliès in Paris, France; magician, first to film a fictional story. [1]
- Birth of William Crapo Durant; founded General Motors. [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Charles Edgar Duryea; inventor (first auto built and operated in US). [1]
- December 18
- Birth of Edward Alexander MacDowell in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Indian Suite, Cairo). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Italo Svevo in Trieste, Austria; Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Erich Schaeder; German theologist (Theocentric Theology). [1]
- December 26
- In Tilsit, Germany, Emil Wiechert is born; pioneer in the science of seismology. [53]
- Birth of Friedrich Engel; German mathematician (group theory). [1]
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