- February 17
- Birth of Mori Ogai AKA Mori Rintarô; Japanese author (Maihime/Gan). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen]; Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli). [1]
- March 2
- Birth of John Jay Chapman; US advocate/poet/writer (Learning and Other Essays). [1]
- March 4
- Birth of Robert Emden; Swiss geologist/astro-physicist (Emden-polytroop). [1]
- March 12
- Birth of Jane Delano; US nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross). [1]
- March 28
- Birth of Aristide Briand in France; premier (1909-22) (Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
- April 2
- Birth of Nicholas Murray Butler; Columbia University president/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1931). [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Charles Evans Hughs; 11th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1930-41). [1]
- Birth of William W Campbell; US astronomer/director of Lick Observatory. [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Pyotr A Stolypin; premier of Russia (1906-11). [1]
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- April 25
- Birth of Edward Grey; English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs. [1]
- May 1
- Birth of Marcel Prévost; French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of Marie F M Emmanuel; French composer/musicologist (Salamine). [1]
- May 5
- Birth of Max Elskamp; Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Arthur Schnitzler in Austria; playwright/novelist (La Ronde). [1]
- May 23
- Birth of William "Dummy" Hoy; professional baseball player who lived to age 99. [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Henry W Slocum Junior; tennis champion (US Open-1888). [1]
- June 27
- Birth of May Irwin; US comedienne/singer ("A Hot Time in the Old Town"). [1]
- July 2
- Birth of William Henry Bragg near Wigtown, Cumberland, England; physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1915). [1388.10]
- August 11
- Birth of Carrie Jacobs Bond in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA; songwriter ("I Love You Truly"). [1]
- August 16
- Birth of Amos Alonzo Stagg; football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy). [1]
- August 22
- Birth of Claude Debussy in Saint Germain-en-Laye; composer (La Mer, Clair de lune). [1] [5]
- August 29
- Birth of Maurice Maeterlinck in Belgium; Symbolist poet (Nobel Prize 1911). [1]
- October 6
- Birth of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge; US politician/author (Progressive). [1]
- October 19
- Birth of Auguste Lumière; made first movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory). [1]
- November 4
- Birth of Eden Phillpotts in England; novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes). [1]
- November 15
- Birth of Gerhart Hauptmann in Germany; writer (Before Dawn - Nobel Prize 1912). [1]
- November 23
- Birth of Alberto Williams in Buenos Aires, Argentina; composer (Etrerno Reposo). [1]
- December 3
- Birth of Jules Renkin; Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Paul Adam; French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde). [1]
- December 8
- Birth of Georges Feydeau; French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's). [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Daniel Halévy; French historian/writer (La fin des notables). [1]
- December 14
- Birth of John M Acket; Dutch literary (Grammatic Conceptions). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Eugène Demolder; Belgian writer (Sous la robe). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Connie Mack; Hall of Fame baseball executive/manager (Philadelphia Athletics 1900-1950). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Henri Pirenne; Belgian historian (History of Belgium). [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of Aleko Konstantinov; Bulgarian writer (To Chicago and Back). [1]
- Birth of Pierre de Coubertin in France; baron, reviver of the Olympic games. [1] [1054.179]
- January 2
- Birth of Lucia Zarate; became lightest known adult human (2.1kg at age 17). [1]
- January 8
- Birth of Paul Scheerbart [Bruno Küfer]; German writer (The Seasnake). [1]
- January 12
- Birth of Vivekananda in Calcutta; Hindu religious leader/reformer. [1]
- January 15
- Birth of Wilhelm Marx in Cologne, Germany; Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, founder and first president of the Catholic Schools Organization. [1] [37]
- January 17
- Birth of David Lloyd George; British politician (Labour-Prime Minister-Britain, 1916-22). [1]
- Birth of Konstantin S Stanislavski in Russia; director (Stanislavski Method). [1]
- January 19
- Birth of Werner Sombart; German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of F Henri Berz; French existentialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis). [1]
- February 19
- Birth of Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo; President of Perú (1908, 1919). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Franz von Stuck; German painter (Der Krieg). [1]
- March 11
- Birth of Andrew Stoddart; cricket player (My Dear Victorious Stod). [1]
- March 12
- Birth of Gabriele D'Annunzio in Italy; writer/military hero (The Intruder). [1]
- March 23
- Birth of Godfried CE van Daalen; Dutch General/Governor of Atjeh. [1]
- March 27
- Birth of Henry Royce; automobile founder (Rolls-Royce) (dies 1933). [1] [5]
- April 2
- Birth of Henry C Van de Velde; Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau). [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Raul d'Avila Pompeia; Brazilian writer (Boarding School). [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Belisario Domínguez in Mexico; senator, critic of President Victoriano Huerta. [446.50]
- April 29
- Birth of William Randolph Hearst in San Francisco, California, USA; American publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (dies 1951). [1] [5] [491.48] [1103.61]
- May 5
- Birth of Frederik A Stoett; linguist (Dutch Proverbs). [1]
- June 2
- Birth of Felix Weingartner in Germany; conductor (Zara, Dalmatia). [1]
- June 29
- Birth of James Harvey Robinson in Bloomington, Illinois, USA; historian (Ordeal of Civilization). [1]
- July 21
- Birth of C Aubrey Smith in London, England; actor (Prisoner of Zenda). [1]
- July 30
- Birth of Henry Ford in Dearborn Township, Michigan, USA; auto maker (Ford) (dies 1947). [1] [5]
- August 16
- Birth of Gabriel Pierné in Metz, France; composer (Edith). [1]
- September 13
- Birth of Arthur Henderson in Britain; socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel Prize 1934). [1]
- October 9
- Birth of Alexander Siloti in Kharkov, Russia; pianist/professor (Moscow Conservatory 1888-91). [1]
- October 16
- Birth of Austen Chamberlain; British Foreign Secretary (Nobel Prize 1925). [1]
- October 19
- Birth of John Huston in Finley, Illinois, USA; editor (New York Times (1937-38)). [1]
- November 14
- Birth of Leo Baekeland; Belgian chemist (Bakelite). [1]
- November 21
- Birth of Arthur Quiller-Couch; editor (Oxford Book of English Verse). [1]
- November 30
- Birth of Andres Bonifacio; leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain. [1]
- December 5
- Birth of Paul Prudent Painlevé in Paris, France; French mathematician, Prime Minister (1917, 1925). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Pietro Mascagni; Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana). [1]
- Birth of Svetolik Rankovic; Serbian writer (Forest King). [1]
- December 11
- Birth of Annie Jump Cannon; US stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification). [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Edvard Munch in Norway; painter/print maker (The Scream). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Arthur D Little; US chemist (patented rayon). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of George Santayana in Spain; philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan). [1]
- Birth of Ralph Adams Cram; US gothic architect (Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City). [1]
- December 18
- Birth of Franz Ferdinand; archduke of Austria (Sarajevo/WWI). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand in Thoissey, France; soldier/explorer (Sudan). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Alfredo Panzini; Italian author (Dizionario Moderno). [1]
1864
- January 1
- Birth of Alfred Stieglitz; US photographer-father of modern photography/art dealer (Camera Work). [1]
- January 6
- Birth of Ban Johnson in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA; baseball founder (American League). [1]
- January 11
- Birth of Thomas Dixon; US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword). [1]
- January 13
- Birth of Wilhelm Wien in Gaffken, Germany; physicist, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911. [1] [37]
- January 16
- Birth of Frank Bacon; actor/author (Lightnin). [1]
- January 17
- Birth of Lucien Herr in France; scientist (Corresp entre Schiller et Schiller). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of John Henry Mackay; Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists). [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Arthur Collins; singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Israel Zangwill in England; Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto). [1]
- Birth of Robert E Park; US sociologist (human ecology, marginal man). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson in New South Wales, Australia; poet (Waltzing Matilda). [1]
- February 19
- Birth of Aritius S Talma; Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Jules Renard in France; writer (Poil de Carotte). [1]
- March 14
- Birth of [John] Casey Jones; railroad engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones) (dies 1900). [1] (1863 [5])
- March 18
- Birth of Karl M Lybeck; Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten). [1]
- April 10
- Birth of Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert; German pianist/composer (Golem). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Richard Harding Davis; US journalist/author (In The Fig). [1]
- April 21
- Birth of Max Weber; German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of George Alting van Geusau; Director-General (PTT)/Dutch Minister of War (1918-20). [1]
- April 28
- Birth of William F A Ellison; Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory). [1]
- April 30
- Birth of Frans Netscher; Dutch writer/journalist (Studies of nude model). [1]
- May 1
- Birth of Anna Jarvis in Webster, West Virginia, USA; founder of Mother's Day in the USA. [428.5]
- May 18
- Birth of Jan P Veth in Bayern; Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian. [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Carl Ethan Akeley; US naturalist, developed animal mount process. [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Albert J M Bakker; Dutch actor (Teun the night watch). [1]
- June 3
- Birth of Ransom Eli Olds; auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer. [1]
- June 11
- Birth of Richard Strauss in München, Germany; composer (Till Eulenspiegel). [1]
- June 14
- Birth of Alois Alzheimer in Germany; psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer's Disease). [1]
- June 25
- Birth of Walther Hermann Nernst; Prussian physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1920). [1]
- July 20
- Birth of Erik Karlfeldt in Sweden; poet (Nobel Prize 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous). [1]
- July 21
- Birth of Frances Clara Folsom in Buffalo, New York, USA; spouse of US President Grover Cleveland. [1] [844.65]
- September 1
- Birth of Roger David Casement in Ireland; martyr (Irish Republican Army). [1]
- September 14
- Birth of Lord Cecil of Chelwood, United Kingdom; helped form League of Nations (Nobel Prize 1937). [1]
- October 5
- Birth of Louis Lumière; with brother Auguste made first motion picture in 1895. [1]
- October 17
- Birth of Elinor Glyn; British novelist (Three Weeks). [1]
- November 11
- Birth of Alfred Hermann Fried in Germany; pacifist (Nobel Prize 1911). [1]
- November 24
- Birth of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in France; painter (At the Moulin Rouge). [1]
- December 3
- Birth of Herman Heijermans Junior; Dutch writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Robert G Aitken; US astronomer (Binary Stars). [1]
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