- February 12
- Birth of Kazimierz P Tetmajer; Polish writer/poet (Young Poland). [1]
- February 19
- Birth of Adrian van Oordt; Dutch writer (neo-romantic). [1]
- Birth of Sven Hedin in Sweden; scientist/explorer (Tibet). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Barney Dreyfuss; baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates). [1]
- February 28
- Birth of Arthur Symons; Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Gerard Vissering; Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Richard Zsigmondy in Germany; chemist (Nobel Prize-1925). [1]
- April 9
- Birth of Charles Proteus Steinmetz in Germany; experimented with alternating current electricity. [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Max HHR Nettlau; Austrian historian (Le Première Internationale). [1]
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- April 27
- Birth of Emile Erens; Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Albert Verwey; Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of William Heinemann in England; publisher (Chemical Instrumental). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of C J Thomsen in Denmark; archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages. [1]
- May 25
- Birth of Frederick Augustus III; King of Saxon (1904-18). [1]
- Birth of John Raleigh Mott; organizer (YMCA, Nobel Prize 1946). [1]
- Birth of Pieter Zeeman; Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel Prize 1902). [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Gerrit Grijns; Dutch physiologist (Vitamin E). [1]
- June 3
- Birth of George Frederick Ernest Albert in Marlborough House, London, United Kingdom; King George V of England (1910-36). [1] [241.9]
- June 9
- Birth of Carl Nielsen in Norre-Lyndelse, Denmark; composer (Det Uuslukkelige). [1]
- June 13
- Birth of William Butler Yeats in Ireland; poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel Prize 1923). [1]
- June 19
- Birth of May Whitty in Liverpool, England; actress (Mrs Minerva). [1]
- June 25
- Birth of Robert Henri; US painter, leader of the Ashcan school. [1]
- June 26
- Birth of Bernard Berenson; art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance). [1]
- June 29
- Birth of Shigechiyo Izumi; achieved oldest authenticated age (120 years, 237 days). [1]
- Birth of William E Borah; lawyer, American politician (Senator-Republican-Idaho). [1]
- July 2
- Birth of Lili Braun in Prussia; feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen). [1]
- July 18
- Birth of Laurence Housman in England; author/playwright (Victoria Regina). [1]
- July 19
- Birth of Charles Horace Mayo; surgeon, cofounded Mayo Clinic. [1]
- August 10
- Birth of Alexander Glazunov in Saint Petersburg, Russia; composer (Chopiniana). [1]
- August 27
- Birth of Charles Gates Dawes; 30th US Vice President (Republican, 1925-29, Nobel Prize 1925). [1] [5]
- October 1
- Birth of Paul Dukas in Paris, France; composer (Velléda). [1]
- November 2
- Birth of Warren Gamaliel Harding; 29th USA President (1921-23). [1] [5]
- November 27
- Birth of Jose Asuncion Silva in Colombia; poet (Nocturno III). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Edith Louisa Cavell in England; nurse (WWI). [1]
- December 8
- Birth of Jacques Hadamard; French mathematician (Taylor series). [1]
- Birth of Jean Sibelius in Tavastehus, Finland; composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Hermann Hirt in Magdeburg, Prussia; linguist (Indo-European Grammar). [1]
- Birth of Minnie Maddern Fiske in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; stage actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays). [1]
- Birth of Tikhon Toropets in Pskov, Russia; patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint. [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Maude Gonne; Irish nationalist (Irish Joan of Arc). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Albrecht; duke of Württemberg/general-fieldmarshal. [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Evangeline Cory Booth; Salvation Army general (1904-34). [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Félix E Vallotton; Swiss/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of Rudyard Kipling in Bombay; author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din - Nobel Prize 1907). [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of [Lars] Peter Elfelt [Petersen] in Denmark; director (Henrettelsen). [1]
- January 10
- Birth of Karl Aschoff in Berlin; pathologist, discovered phagocytes (cells which ingest foreign substances) and Aschoff's bodies (nodules in the heart related to the rheumatic process). [37]
- January 15
- Birth of Nathan Soderblom; Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel Prize 1930). [1]
- January 19
- Birth of Harry Davenport in New York City, New York, USA; actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Richard Le Gallienne; English writer (Maker of Gainborg). [1]
- January 25
- Birth of Emile Vandervelde; leader of Belgian BWP party. [1]
- January 29
- Birth of Romain Rolland in France; writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel Prize 1915). [1]
- January 30
- Birth of Gelett Burgess; author (Purple Cow). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Emil Strauss in Germany; writer (Naked Man). [1]
- Birth of Henry Forster; cricket player (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Australian Governor-General). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Henri [Hendrik J] Hall; Dutch Member of Parliament/comic (Put a Lid on it). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Karl T Sapper; German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde). [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Raf[ael] Verhulst [Koen Ravestein]; Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus). [1]
- February 9
- Birth of George Ade; US journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang). [1]
- February 15
- Birth of Bannister Fletcher in London, England; architect and architectural historian. [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Johann Strauss in Austria; composer (Waltz King). [1]
- Birth of William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton in New Jersey, USA; hall of fame baseball player. [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Herbert Henry Dow; pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical). [1]
- February 28
- Birth of Vyacheslav I Ivanov; Russian philosopher/classical/Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars). [1]
- March 18
- Birth of John Loudon; Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Jack McAuliffe; US lightweight boxing champion, hall of famer. [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Ferruccio D M B Busoni in Italy; pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of James B Hertzog; South African General/premier (1914-39). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of George P Baker; US playwright (47 Workshop). [1]
- April 6
- Birth of Butch Cassidy AKA Robert Parker; US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage). [1]
- Birth of Joseph Lincoln Steffens; muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities). [1]
- April 19
- Birth of Henri Deterding; Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of Hans von Seeckt; German General (Future of the Reich). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Cornelis J K van Aalst; president (Dutch Trading Company). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of Ernest Watson Burgess; US sociologist (ecological school). [1]
- May 17
- Birth of Erik Alfred Satie Honfleur in France; composer (Mémoirs d'un Ambésique). [1]
- May 24
- Birth of Armando Frid in Argentina; lives 124 years. [1]
- May 26
- Birth of John Eigenhuis; writer (Tough Workers). [1]
- July 28
- Birth of Beatrix Potter in England; children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit). [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Jacinto Benavente y Martínez; Spanish dramatist (Nobel Prize 1922). [1]
- September 1
- Birth of James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett; heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97). [1]
- September 2
- Birth of Hiram Johnson; American politician (Governor-Progressive-California). [1]
- September 13
- Birth of Adolf Meyer; US psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene). [1]
- September 21
- Birth of Charles Jean Henri Nicolle in France; bacteriologist (Nobel Prize-1928). [1]
- Birth of Herbert George Wells in Bromley, England; author (War of the Worlds). [1] [5]
- September 25
- Birth of Thomas Hunt Morgan; US biologist (Nobel Prize-1933). [1]
- October 6
- Birth of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden at Milton [East Bolton], Quebec, Canada; radio pioneer, made first two-way radio voice transmission (1906) between Scotland and Massachusetts, made world's first public program of music and voice transmitted to ships, holder of 300 patents. [1] [457]
- October 7
- Birth of Martha McChesney Berry; founded US Berry School for Children. [1]
- October 12
- Birth of Ramsay MacDonald; British Prime Minister (Liberal, 1924, 1929-35). [1]
- November 20
- Birth of Kenesaw Mountain Landis; judge/first commissioner of baseball. [1]
- November 28
- Birth of Henry Bacon; architect (Lincoln Memorial). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of Henry Thacker Burleigh in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Springarn Medal). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Vassily Kandinsky; Russian/German/French abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration). [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Alfred Werner; Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Joseph Limburg; liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19). [1]
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