- January 29
- Birth of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in Spain; writer (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Casper A Lingbeek; vicar/Dutch Member of Parliament. [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder in Wisconsin, USA; children's book author (Little House on the Prairie). [1]
- February 9
- Birth of Natsume Sôseki AKA Natsume Kinnosuke; Japanese author (Kokoro). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Hedwig Courths-Mahler; German author (Warbride). [1]
- Birth of Joe Howard in New York City, New York, USA; singer (Gay Nineties Revue). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of William Cadbury in England; chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Otto Hermann Kahn Banker; organized Metropolitan Opera Company. [1]
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- February 26
- Birth of Siegfried Passarge; German geographer (Cameroon/South Africa/America). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Irving Fisher; US economist (compensating dollar). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Theodor Zöckler; German theologist (Stanislauer Anstalten). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Lillian D Wald; US sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses). [1]
- March 15
- Birth of Lionel Pigot Johnson in England; poet/critic (Ireland and Other Poems). [1]
- March 18
- Birth of Michael G de Boer; historian (Harbor of Amsterdam). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of Gutzon Borglum; sculptor (Mount Rushmore). [1]
- March 29
- Birth of Cy [Denton True] Young in Gilmore, Ohio, USA; winningest pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911). [1]
- April 11
- Birth of John P Lotsy; Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics). [1]
- April 13
- Birth of Sammy Woods; cricket bowler (Australia and England Rugby wing-forward). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of José de Diego in Puerto Rico; patriot/Puerto Rican Secretary of Justice. [1]
- Birth of Wilbur Wright; of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Simon Abramsz; Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of Fannie Thomas; became oldest known American (113 years 273 days at death). [1]
- May 3
- Birth of Jack Hearne; cricket player (cousin of George and Alec 12 Tests for England). [1]
- Birth of Valère-Gille; Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk]; actress (Hope of Blessing). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Jim Kelly; cricket wicket-keeper (Australian 1896-1905). [1]
- May 12
- Birth of Hugh Trumble; cricket off-spinner (great Australian at turn of century). [1]
- May 13
- Birth of Frank Brangwyn in Wales; painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris). [1]
- May 14
- Birth of Kurt Eisner; German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of John James Ferris; cricket player (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880s). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes to Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge and Franz of Teck, in London England; queen of Great Britain/North Ireland. [1] [859.30]
- May 27
- Birth of Arnold Bennett in England; novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon). [1]
- May 30
- Birth of Arthur Vining Davis in Sharon, Massachusetts, USA; CEO (Alcoa-1910-57). [1]
- June 4
- Birth of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim in Finland; military hero, President of Finland (1944-46). [1]
- June 11
- Birth of Charles Fabry; found ozone layer in upper atmosphere. [1]
- June 17
- Birth of John Robert Gregg in Ireland inventor (shorthand). [1]
- June 28
- Birth of Luigi Pirandello in Italy; writer (Six Characters - Nobel Prize 1934). [1]
- July 4
- Birth of Stephen Mather; organized US National Park Service. [1]
- July 8
- Birth of Käthe Kollwitz in Germany; print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg). [1]
- July 10
- Birth of Finley Peter Dunne; US journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley). [1]
- July 27
- Birth of Enrique Granados in Lérida, Spain; composer (Maria del Carmen). [1]
- August 3
- Birth of Stanley Earl Baldwin; British Prime Minister (Conservative, 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37). [1]
- August 11
- Birth of Joseph Weber; comedian (Weber and Fields). [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Edith Hamilton; US writer (Mythology). [1]
- August 14
- Birth of John Galsworthy in England; author (Forsyte Saga - Nobel Prize 1932). [1]
- September 14
- Birth of Charles Dana Gibson; illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl". [1]
- September 19
- Birth of Arthur Rackham in England; artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales). [1]
- October 14
- Birth of Masaoka Shiki in Japan; haiku and tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads). [1]
- November 7
- Birth of Marie Sklodowska Curie; discovered radium (Nobel Prize 1903, 1911). [1]
- November 27
- Birth of Charles Koechlin in Paris, France; composer (Jacob Chez Luban). [1]
- December 5
- Birth of Antti Aarne; Finnish sociologist (Verzeichnis is der Märchentypen). [1]
- December 11
- Birth of Bela Lyon Pratt; American coin designer. [460.36]
- December 22
- Birth of Joseph [Maria] Olbrich in Silesia; German architect (Wiener Sezession). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Madame C J Walker [Sarah Breedlove] in Delta, Louisiana, USA; cosmetics mogul. [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Tevfik Fikret; Turkish poet (Servet-i Fünun, Sis). [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Julien Benda; French philosopher/writer (Dialogues à Byzance). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of Simon Guggenheim; philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic). [1]
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- January 8
- Birth of Frank Dyson; proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity. [1]
- January 14
- Birth of Catharina A M de Savornin Lohman; Dutch author (Belief). [1]
- January 15
- Birth of Noach Zjordanija; Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Wilhelm Schäfer; German writer (Ein Totschläger). [1]
- January 27
- Birth of Cato Engelen-Sewing; Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Theodore William Richards; chemist (atomic weights, Nobel Prize-1914). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy; Irish patriot/playwright/Member of Parliament. [1]
- February 10
- Birth of William Allen White in Emporia, Kansas, USA; editor (Pulitzer 1942). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Johan H A Schaper; Dutch Member of Parliament/founder (SDAP). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Henricus A Poels; Dutch Roman Catholic theologist/social foreman. [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Wilhelm Schmidt; German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Henri Polak; union leader/politician (Social-Democrat). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of William E B Du Bois in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA; civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of Anthony J Block; Dutch lawyer (strafproces). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Prosper Poullet; Belgian viscount/jurist/minister. [1]
- March 20
- Birth of Obe Postma; Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm). [1]
- March 22
- Birth of Henry W Methorst; lawyer/director (Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics). [1]
- Birth of Robert A Millikan; US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel Prize 1923). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of Bill Lockwood; cricket player (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36). [1]
- March 27
- Birth of Patty Smith Hill; author/songwriter ("Happy Birthday To You"). [1]
- March 28
- Birth of Aleksei Peshikov AKA Maxim Gorki in Russia; playwright (The Lower Depths, Night Asylum). [1]
- March 31
- Birth of Karl Bonhoeffer German psychiatrist/neurologist. [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Edmond Rostand in France; poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac). [1] [242.4]
- April 2
- Birth of Eduard Jacobs; singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret). [1]
- April 5
- Birth of J F "Flooi" Du Toit; cricket player (one Test South Africa 1892). [1]
- April 10
- Birth of George Arliss in London, England; actor (Devil, Green Goddess). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of Spottiswoode Aitken in Edinburgh, Scotland; actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home). [1]
- April 17
- Birth of Charles R Gallas; Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Didericus G van Epen; genealogist (Dutch Patriciate). [1]
- April 19
- Birth of Max Von Schillings; German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Harold Sidney Harmsworth; first Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher. [1]
- Birth of Robert Herrick; US writer (Common lot). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont in Poland; novelist (Chiopi, Nobel Prize-1924). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj; last tsar of Russia (1894-1917). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of William Hartman Woodin in Berwick, Pennsylvania, USA; US Treasury Secretary. [743.81]
- May 28
- Birth of Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer]; French writer (Fille Perdue). [1]
- June 6
- Birth of Robert Falcon Scott; leader of ill-fated south polar expedition. [1] [5]
- June 14
- Birth of Karl Landsteiner; immunologist/pathologist (Nobel Prize 1930). [1]
- June 20
- Birth of Helen Miller Shepard; philanthropist, established Hall of Fame for Great Americans. [1]
- July 12
- Birth of Stefan George in Germany; lyric poet (Algabal). [1]
- August 6
- Birth of Paul Claudel in France; diplomat/poet (L'Otage - 1909). [1]
- August 16
- Birth of Bernard MacFadden; publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances). [1]
- September 9
- Birth of Mary Austin in Illinois, USA; feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain). [1]
- October 23
- Birth of Rama V [Chulalongkorn], leader of Siam (-1910). [1]
- November 22
- Birth of John Nance Garner; American politician, 32nd Vice President (Democrat, 1933-41). [1]
- November 24
- Birth of Scott Joplin; US entertainer/composer ("The Entertainer"). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of Francis Jammes; French poet/writer (Jammisme). [1]
- December 9
- Birth of Fritz Haber; German phycist-chemist (Nobel Prize 1918). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Harvey S Firestone; industrialist, self-named tire company. [1]
- December 22
- Birth of John Nance in Garner, Texas, USA; American politician (Vice-President-Democrat-1933-41). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Emanuel Lasker in Germany; world chess champion (1894-21). [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Eugenie Besserer in Watertown, New York, USA; actress (Jazz Singer). [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Marie van Regteren Altena; Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers). [1]
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- January 9
- Birth of Richard Abegg in Danzig, Prussia; physical chemist, concept of valence. [37]
- January 13
- Birth of Emanuele F; duke of Aosta, Italian General (WWI)/fascist. [1]
- January 19
- Birth of Alfred R Zimmerman; mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22), Director (League of Nations). [1]
- January 23
- Birth of Herbert David Croly; US author (Promise of American Life). [1]
- January 28
- Birth of Ozaki Kôyô in Japan; novelist/essayist/haiku poet (The Heart). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Henry graaf Carton de Wiart; Belgian literary/premier (1920-21). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Johannes F "Frits" Bakker; actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap). [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Jindrich S Baar; Czechoslovakia pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Helene ELJ Kröller-Müller; Dutch founder (Kröller-Müller Museum). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Hendrik P Marchant; Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Charles Wilson; English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel Prize). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya; Russian revolutionary (Social-Democrat). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Alice Hamilton; physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws). [1]
- March 3
- Birth of Henry J Wood; English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Michael von Faulhaber; cardinal/archbishop of Munich. [1]
- March 18
- Birth of Arthur Neville Chamberlain; British Prime Minister (Conservative, 1937-40). [1]
- March 21
- Birth of Florenz Ziegfeld; producer (Ziegfield Follies). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Émile Fabre in France; playwright, administrator of Comédie Française. [1]
- March 29
- Birth of Ales Hrdlicka; US anthropologist/curator (US National Museum). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Peter A Egge; Norwegian writer (De Droom). [1]
- April 5
- Birth of Albert Roussel Tourcoing in France; composer (Rapsodie Flamande). [1]
- Birth of Karl Wagenfeld Low; German writer (Daud un Düwel). [1]
- April 7
- Birth of David Grandison Fairchild; US botanist/explorer, brought plants to US. [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Harvey Cushing; US neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of Tyrone Power in London, England; actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band). [1]
- May 5
- Birth of Hans Erich Pfitzner in Moscow, Russia; composer (Krakquer Begrüs). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Jan R Slotemaker de Bruïne; Dutch clergyman/politician (CHU). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Ruprecht; crown prince of Bavaria/general-fieldmarshall. [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Jules Poncelet; Belgian minister of State. [1]
- June 27
- Birth of Emma Goldman; anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth). [1]
- July 14
- Birth of Owen Wister; US novelist (The Virginian). [1]
- July 29
- Birth of Booth Tarkington; US novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons). [1]
- August 10
- Birth of Lawrence Binyon in Vienna, Austria; writer (Symbolic Wounds). [1]
- August 14
- Birth of Armas Järnefelt in Vyborg, Finland; composer (Berceuse). [1]
- August 23
- Birth of James (Sunny Jim) Rolph; San Francisco mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer. [1]
- September 17
- Birth of Christian Lange in Norway; pacifist/internationalist (Nobel Prize 1921). [1]
- September 23
- Birth of Edgar Lee Masters; poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology). [1]
- October 2
- Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi AKA Mahatma Gandhi in Porbandar Kathiawad, India; pacifist. [1] [5] [1113.50] [1321.10]
- October 8
- Birth of J Frank Duryea; inventor (first auto built and operated in the US). [1]
- October 14
- Birth of Joseph Duveen in England; art connoisseur (Elgin marbles). [1]
- October 25
- Birth of John Heisman; pioneering football coach/trophy namesake. [1]
- November 11
- Birth of Victor Emmanuel III; king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia. [1]
- November 18
- Birth of James E Sullivan; founder (Amateur Athletic Union). [1]
- November 20
- Birth of Clark Griffith in Missouri, USA; baseball player/manager (New York Yankees). [1]
- November 22
- Birth of Andre Gide in France; novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures - Nobel Prize 1947). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of Jonas Cohn; German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Albert F Pollard; British historian (Dictionary of natural biography). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Eduard Hermann in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; German linguist (Homer). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Charley Grapewin in Xenia, Ohio, USA; actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide in Paris, France; writer (Nobel Prize 1947). [1]
- Birth of Edwin Arlington Robinson; US poet (Richard Corey). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Henriëtte Roland Holst-van der Schalk; Dutch poet (Women in Forest). [1]
- December 27
- Birth of Aurélien FM Lugné-Poe; French actor/stage manager (La Parade). [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Bill Howell; cricket player (Australian bowler at turn of century). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of Adolphe Max; Belgian Representative (Liberal). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Henri Matisse in France; impressionist painter (Odalisque). [1]
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