- February 1
- Birth of Paul Fort; French poet/founder of Vers et Prose. [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis; Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister. [1]
- February 10
- Birth of Anne Anema; Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP). [1]
- February 24
- Birth of John Jarvis in England; swimmer (won 108 titles). [1]
- March 3
- Birth of Wee Willie Keeler; outfielder (Baltimore Orioles), hit .432 in 1897. [1]
- March 7
- Birth of Piet Mondrian in Holland; abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie). [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Billy Quaife; cricket player (England batsman 1899-1902). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of Vito Pardo; Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina). [1]
- March 28
- Birth of José Sanjurjo y Sacanell; Spanish General (Morocco). [1]
- March 31
- Birth of Arthur Griffith; Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Féin. [1]
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- Birth of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev in Russia; dance master (Imperial Ballet). [1]
- April 9
- Birth of Léon Blum; French premier (People's front government). [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Charles Burgess Fry; cricketer/world record long jumper. [1]
- May 1
- Birth of Hugo Alfvén in Stockholm, Sweden; composer (Midsommarvaka). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of G G van der Hoeven; Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Bertrand Russell in England; mathematician/philosopher (Nobel Prize 1950). [1]
- May 20
- Birth of Albert Steinrück; German actor (Golem). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Henry Warren in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; inventor (Telechon electric clock). [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Charles G Abbot; US astronomer (Constant Sun). [1]
- Birth of William Heath Robinson in England; illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote). [1]
- June 6
- Birth of Alexandra; last Russian tsarina (1894-1918). [1]
- June 27
- Birth of Paul Laurence Dunbar in Dayton, Ohio, USA; short story writer (Majors and Minors). [1]
- July 1
- Birth of Louis Blériot; first man to fly an airplane across English Channel. [1]
- July 4
- Birth of Calvin Coolidge; 29th US president (Republican, 1923-29) (dies 1933). [1] [5]
- July 16
- Birth of Roald Amundsen in Norway; explorer, discovered South Pole. [1]
- July 26
- Birth of George Louis Beer; historian (authority on British colonies). [1]
- August 3
- Birth of Haakon VII in Charlottenlund, Denmark; King of Norway. [1]
- August 21
- Birth of Aubrey Beardsley in England; artist (Salome). [1]
- August 24
- Birth of Max Beerbohm in England; caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review). [1]
- September 4
- Birth of Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, France; composer (Maximilien). [1]
- October 8
- Birth of John Cowper Powys; British writer (Wood and Stone). [1]
- October 11
- Birth of Harlan Fiske Stone in New Hampshire, USA; Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (1941-46). [1]
- October 12
- Birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams in Down Ampney, England; composer (Hugh the Drover). [1]
- October 27
- Birth of Emily Post; authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette). [1]
- November 11
- Birth of Frederick A Stock in Julich, Germany; conductor (Theodore Thomas Orchestra). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Johan Huizinga; Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens). [1]
- December 10
- Birth of Ludwig Klages; German philosopher (study of graves). [1]
- December 21
- Birth of Albert P Terhune; US novelist (Lad, a Dog). [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Pio Baroja Y Nessa in San Sebastian, Spain; writer (Camino de Perfección). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of William A Larned; tennis champion (US Open-1901). [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of Mariano Azuela in Mexico; novelist (The Flies, The Bosses). [1]
- Birth of Willis Robards in Texas, USA; actor/director (Mothers of Men, Every Woman's Problem). [1]
- January 2
- Birth of Anton Pannekoek; Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics). [1]
- January 7
- Birth of Adolph Zukor in Hungary; movie producer/director/executive (Paramount). [1]
- Birth of Charles Pierre Péguy in Orléans, France; Catholic writer (God Speaks). [1]
- January 11
- Birth of Joaquín Alvarez Quintéro; Spanish dramatist/playwright (Los Galeotes). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Johannes V Jensen in Denmark; novelist/poet/essayist (Energy Storage, Nobel Prize 1944). [1]
- January 28
- Birth of "Sidonie Gabrielle" Colette in Burgundy, France; novelist (Cheri, Gigi). [1]
- Birth of M A Noble; cricket player (great Australian all-rounder at turn of century). [1]
- January 29
- Birth of Luigi A, duke of the Abruzzes, in Italy; explorer/climber (Mount Saint Elias). [1]
- January 30
- Birth of Rose Melville; actress (Sis). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Clara Butt in Southwick, Sussex, England; contralto (Country of Hope and Glory). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath; German Secretary of State (1932-38). [1]
- Birth of Leopold Fall in Austria; operetta composer (Dollar Princess). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Feodor Chaliapine; Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Jón Trausti [Gudmundur Magnússon]; Icelandic writer (Heidarbylid). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Muhammad Iqbal; Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher. [1]
- February 25
- Birth of Enrico Caruso in Naples, Italy; operatic tenor (Faust). [480.56]
- March 3
- Birth of William Green; president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Jakob Wassermann in Germany; novelist (My Life as German and Jew). [1]
- March 14
- Birth of Joannes DJ Aengenent; sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35). [1]
- March 15
- Birth of Lee Shubert; producer (theatres in New York and Los Angeles named after him). [1]
- March 16
- Birth of Hippoliet Daeye; Flemish painter (Sereniteit). [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Chard Somerset; Cabinet minister (1929-31). [1]
- Birth of Margaret Bondfield; British Labour leader/cabinet member. [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Max Reger Brand in Bavaria; composer/pianist/professor (Leipzig University). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of [Louise] Sophie de Vries; actress (On Hope of Blessing). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov in Novgorod Provine, Russia; composer (Prelude in C# Minor). [1]
- April 19
- Birth of Sydney Barnes; cricket player (probably England's greatest bowler). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow in Richmond, Virginia, USA; novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of Theodor Körner von Siegringen; Austrian General/President. [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Walter John de la Mare in Kent, England; poet/author (Behold the Dreamer). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Otto zur Linde; German author (Charon). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Harry M O'Connor in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Stranger than Fiction). [1]
- April 28
- Birth of Harold Bauer; English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association). [1]
- April 29
- Birth of Alida J M Tartaud-Klein; actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage). [1]
- May 3
- Birth of [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll; Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark). [1]
- May 8
- Birth of Henry Leveson-Gower; cricket player (England captain 1909-10 later official). [1]
- May 9
- Birth of Lilian Mary Baylis; manager (Old Vic and Sadler's Wells Theater). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Jan Kalf; literary/art historian (Preservation of museums). [1]
- May 17
- Birth of Henri Barbusse in Asnieres, France; novelist (Le Feu). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Everard Verachtert; Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch). [1]
- May 23
- Birth of Leo Baeck; rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Cornelis G N de Vooys; translator/founder (New Taalgids). [1]
- June 28
- Birth of Alexis Carrel in France; surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel Prize 1912). [1]
- July 19
- Birth of Adam Pietz in Offenbach-am-Main, Germany; sculptor, medalist, engraver, etcher, assistant engraver at the US Mint (1927-1946). [403.62]
- August 18
- Birth of Otto Harbach; songwriter ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"). [1]
- August 20
- Birth of Eliel Saarinen in Finland; architect (GM Tech Institute, Michigan). [1]
- August 26
- Birth of Lee De Forest in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA; inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube). [1] [457]
- September 8
- Birth of David O McKay in Huntsville, Utah, USA; 9th president of Mormon church. [1]
- Birth of Max Reinhardt in Austria; theatrical director (Oedipus Rex). [1]
- October 8
- Birth of Ejnar Hertzsprung in Denmark; astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram). [1]
- October 14
- Birth of Raymond C Ewry in Indiana, USA; won ten Olympic golds. [1]
- October 26
- Birth of Thorvald Stauning in Denmark; Prime Minister (1924-26, 1929-42). [1]
- October 30
- Birth of Francisco Madero in Mexico; revolutionary, president (1911-13). [1]
- November 4
- Birth of GE Moore; English philosopher (Ethics). [1]
- November 10
- Birth of Henri Rabaud in Paris, France; composer (Le Premer Glaire). [1]
- November 16
- Birth of William Christopher Handy in Alabama, USA; jazz star (Saint Louis Blues). [1]
- November 20
- Birth of Daniel Gregory Mason in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA; composer (Chanticker). [1]
- December 1
- Birth of Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck; premier of Netherlands (1918-25, 1929-33). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Willa Cather; US author (My Antonia). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Ford Madox in Ford, England; novelist/editor (The Inheritors). [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Hubert Cuypers; Dutch composer/choir conductor (Minstrels). [1]
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- January 4
- Birth of Josef Suk; Czech violinist/composer (Asrael). [1]
- January 5
- Birth of Joseph Erlanger; doctor (shock therapy-Nobel Prize 1944). [1]
- January 13
- Birth of Jozef E van Roey; Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin. [1]
- January 14
- Birth of Thornton Waldo Burgess; author (Peter Rabbit). [1]
- January 16
- Birth of Robert Service in England; Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee). [1]
- January 22
- Birth of Wincenty Witoz in Galicia; Prime Minister of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926). [1]
- January 25
- Birth of Hewlett Johnson; English bishop, Red Dean of Canterbury. [1]
- Birth of [William] Somerset Maugham in Paris, France; novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage). [1]
- January 28
- Birth of Ernst Rabel; Austrian/US law historian (Grundzüge). [1]
- January 29
- Birth of John David Rockefeller Junior in Cleveland, Ohio; philanthropist (dies 1960). [1] [5]
- February 3
- Birth of Franklyn Dyall in Liverpool, England; actor (Easy Virtue). [1]
- Birth of Gertrude Stein in Pennsylvania, USA; author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Robert Liefmann; German economist (Unternehmersverbände). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Milton Bennett Medary; US architect (Washington Chapel). [1]
- February 9
- Birth of Amy Lowell; US critic/Imagist poet (Patterns, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed). [1]
- Birth of Vsevolod Meyerhold; Russian theatrical producer/director/actor (Houligan). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Elsa Beskow [Maartman]; Swedish children's book/fairy tales author. [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Hendrik Spiekman; Dutch politician (social-democratic). [1]
- February 15
- Birth of Ernest H Shackleton in Kilkee, Ireland; explorer (Endurance, Antarctica). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Thomas J Watson; US representative/founder (IBM). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Konstantin Päts; Estonian Prime Minister (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40). [1]
- February 24
- Birth of Honus Wagner; Hall Of Fame shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17). [1]
- February 28
- Birth of Soledad Jiminez Santander in Spain; actor (Phantom of the Range). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Jean de Merode AKA Marie-Louise B Courtenay; Princess of Netherlands. [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Arthur van Schendel; Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party). [1]
- Birth of Henry Travers in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England; actor (Bells of Saint Mary's, High Sierra). [1]
- March 14
- Birth of Anton F Philips; president-director of Philips. [1]
- Birth of Mary Carr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles). [1]
- March 15
- Birth of Harold L Ickes; social activist, New Deal politician. [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Stephen Samuel Wise; US president of Zionist Organization of America. [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Arthur Hoyt in Georgetown, Colorado, USA; actor (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Harry Houdini AKA Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary; magician/escape artist. [1]
- Birth of Luigi Einaudi; economist/first President of Italy (1948-55). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Gerald du Maurier in London, England; actor (Power, Escape, Masks and Faces). [1]
- Birth of Robert Frost in San Francisco, California, USA; poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) (dies 1963). [1] [5]
- April 9
- Birth of Julius Bittner; Austrian composer (Little Violet). [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Count Alexander of Athlone; Governor-General (South Africa/Canada). [1]
- April 15
- Birth of Johannes Stark in Germany; physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel Prize 1919). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of John Russell Pope; US architect (Jefferson Memorial). [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Guglielmo Marconi in Bologna, Italy; inventor (radio/Nobel Prize 1909). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of J H "Biddy" Anderson; cricket player (one Test South Africa versus Australia 1902). [1]
- April 28
- Birth of Sidney Toler in Warrensburg, Missouri, USA; actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight). [1]
- May 9
- Birth of Howard Carter in Swaffham, Norfolk, England; British archaeologist/Egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb). [1] [5] [66.26]
- May 12
- Birth of Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet; Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Gilbert Laird Jessop; cricket player (The Croucher). [1]
- May 20
- Birth of Folkert E Posthuma; Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry. [1]
- May 22
- Birth of Daniel F Malan; premier of South Africa (1948-54). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Henry Farman; French aviation pioneer (double decker). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Dustin Farnum; US actor (Squaw Man, Virginian). [1]
- Birth of Richard von Schaukal in Austria; poet/writer (Eros Thanatos). [1]
- May 29
- Birth of Gilbert Keith Chesterton in England; journalist/poet/critic/novelist (Man Who Made Gold). [1]
- June 14
- Birth of Edward Bowes; radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour). [1]
- June 16
- Birth of Arthur Meighen; 9th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative, 1920-21, 1926). [1]
- July 3
- Birth of Apirana Turupa Ngata in Kawaka, New Zealand; Maori political/cultural leader. [1]
- July 14
- Birth of 'Abbas II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914). [1]
- July 26
- Birth of Serge Koussevitzky in Vishny-Volotchok, Russia; conductor (Boston Symphony). [1]
- July 28
- Birth of Ernst Cassirer in Germany; philosopher/educator (Essay on Man). [1]
- August 10
- Birth of Herbert Clark Hoover in West Branch, Iowa, USA; 31st US President (Republican, 1929-1933). [1]
- Birth of James (Tod) Sloan; jockey, created monkey crouch riding style. [1]
- September 13
- Birth of Arnold Schonberg in Vienna, Austria; composer (Second Quartet). [1]
- September 21
- Birth of Gustav Holst in Cheltenham, England; composer (Planets). [1]
- October 20
- Birth of Charles Edward Ives in Danbury, Connecticut, USA; composer (Holliday Quick Step). [1]
- November 15
- Birth of August Krogh in Denmark; physiologist (Nobel Prize-1920). [1]
- November 18
- Birth of Clarence Shepard Day in New York City, New York, USA; writer (Life with Father). [1]
- November 27
- Birth of Chaim Weizmann; Israeli statesman (first President). [1]
- Birth of Charles A Beard; American historian (American Continentalism). [1]
- November 29
- Birth of Antonio Egas Moniz in Portugal; lobotomist (Nobel Prize 1949). [1]
- November 30
- Birth of Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill at Blemheim Palace, England; British Conservative Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel Prize 1953). [1] [5] [289.164]
- December 4
- Birth of Jean H L Bossard; actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice). [1]
- December 11
- Birth of Paul Wegener; German actor/director (Student of Prag). [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Volter A Kilpi; Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa). [1]
- December 13
- Birth of Ludwig Curtius; German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 10th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal, 1921-30, 1935-48). [1]
- December 21
- Birth of Juan Bautista Sacasa; President of Nicaragua (1932-36). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Herman Harrell Horne in Clayton, North Carolina, USA; philosopher (idealism). [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Norman Angell [Lane]; English cowboy/journalist (Nobel Prize 1933). [1]
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