- February 1
- Birth of Eddie Pola; composer (Lullabye of Broadway). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Annette Kolb; German/French author (Small Fanfare). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Ludwig Prandtl in Germany; physicist (father of aerodynamics). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Kanouse quintuplets in Watertown, Wisconsin, USA; first quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse. [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Walter Andrae; German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Jeanne Louise Calment in France; world's oldest woman (died at age 122). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Jozef E Stokvis; journalist/Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP). [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Emma Dunn; actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway). [1]
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- March 2
- Birth of Hans Lietzman; German theologist/church historian. [1]
- March 4
- Birth of Enrique Larreta [E R Maza]; Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro). [1]
- Birth of Suze Groeneweg; Dutch parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37). [1]
- March 7
- Birth of Maurice Joseph Ravel in Cibourne, France; composer (Boléro). [1]
- March 13
- Birth of Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh; Dutch painter (Caught Sultane). [1]
- March 14
- Birth of Isadore Gilbert Mudge; US librarian/author/bibliographer (Thackeray Dictionary). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of Spencer Charters in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Three Faces West). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Syngman Rhee AKA Yi Seungman in Whanghai Province, Korea; President of South Korea (1948-60). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Edgar Wallace in England; novelist/playwright/journalist (The Terror). [1]
- April 2
- Birth of Walter Percy Chrysler in Witchita, Kansas, USA; founder of Chrysler Corp (1925). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Pierre Monteux in Paris, France; conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919-24). [1]
- Birth of Samuel S Hinds in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (The Bribe, The Egg and I, The Great Alaskan Mystery). [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Albert I von Saksen-Coburg; king of Belgium (1909-34). [1]
- April 15
- Birth of Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker; Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of André Baillon; Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple). [1]
- Birth of Freddie Fane; cricket player (Hobbs' first Test opening partner). [1]
- Birth of Lumsden Hare in Ireland; actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess). [1]
- May 4
- Birth of Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney; Spanish writer (Don Quixote and Celestine). [1]
- Birth of Reggie Schwartz; cricket player (first of great South African googlists). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of William Daniel Leahy in Iowa, USA; five star Admiral/chief of staff (1949). [1]
- May 25
- Birth of Hans Schuler in Morange, Alsace-Lorraine; American sculptor (Ariadne, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), designer of 1934 Maryland Tercentenary commemorative half dollar. [443.80]
- June 6
- Birth of Thomas Mann in Germany; novelist (Magic Mountain - Nobel Prize 1929). [1]
- June 23
- Birth of Carl Milles near Uppsala, Sweden; sculptor (Irish Free State coinage, Wedding of the Waters, Hand of God). [1] [911.50]
- July 10
- Birth of Mary McLeod in Bethune, South Carolina, USA; slave/educator (Bethune-Cookman College). [1]
- July 15
- Birth of Frank "Pop" Morgenweck; basketball hall of famer (elected 1962). [1]
- July 26
- Birth of Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland; founded analytic psychology. [1]
- August 9
- Birth of Albert William Ketèlbey in Aston, England; composer (Wonder Worker). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in London, England; composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). [1]
- August 26
- Birth of John Buchan in Scotland; Governor-General of Canada/writer. [1]
- September 1
- Birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs; novelist (Tarzan, Mars Saga). [1]
- September 3
- Birth of Ferdinand Porsche; German automaker (dies 1951). [5]
- September 5
- Birth of Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie in Rhode Island, USA; hall of fame shortstop (.426 in 1901). [1]
- September 9
- Birth of Charles Keck in New York City, New York, USA; American sculptor (Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Duke, Booker T. Washington, Liberty Monument, Boy with Fish, Pandora's Box, statue of Mohammed), coin designer (US 1915 Panama-Pacific gold dollar, 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar). [464.66]
- September 16
- Birth of James Cash Penney; US department store founder (J.C. Penney). [1]
- September 27
- Birth of Grazia Deledda in Italy; novelist (Old Man of the Mountain - Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
- October 29
- Birth of Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of Frank Reicher in Munich, Germany; actor (King Kong, Son of Kong). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke in Germany; poet (Duino Elegies). [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Karl R G von Rundstedt; German general-fieldmarshal (Normandy). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Carter G Woodson in New Canton, Virginia, USA; American historian (black studies). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of T F Powys in Wales; writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of John P "Jan" Musch; Dutch actor (Dead Water). [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Theodor Innitzer; cardinal/archbishop Vienna. [1]
- Birth of Walter Lees; cricket player (Surrey pace bowler toured for England 1905-06). [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of Johan C Altorf; sculptor (October 3rd monument). [1]
- January 3
- Birth of Wilhelm Pieck in Germany; founding member of the German Communist Party (KPD), co-leader of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), President of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1960). [1] [37]
- January 5
- Konrad Adenauer is born in Cologne, Germany; Oberburgermeister of Cologne, first chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1963). [1] [37]
- January 9
- Birth of Robert Michels in Cologne, Germany; political sociologist and economist, developed the thesis that all organizations develop into authoritarian oligarchies. [37]
- January 12
- Birth of Jack London; writer/socialist (Call of the Wild). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt]; German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros). [1]
- February 8
- Birth of Paula Modersohn-Becker; German "entartet" painter. [1]
- February 9
- Birth of Aloïs Walgrave; Flemish writer/pastor (Silent hours). [1]
- Birth of Martin Stixrud in Norway; figure skater (Olympics-bronze-1920). [1]
- February 16
- Birth of George Macauley Trevelyan in England; historian (Giuseppe Garibaldi). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Constantin Brancusi; Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X). [1]
- February 24
- Birth of Victor Moore in Hammonton, New Jersey, USA; comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, Seven Year Itch). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of Charles Freer; art collector, endowed Freer Gallery. [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Agustin P Justo y Rolon; President of Argentina (1931-38). [1]
- Birth of Pauline Musters; shortest known adult (58.9 cm; 23.2 inches). [1]
- February 28
- Birth of John Alden Carpenter in Chicago, Illinois, USA; composer (Sea Drift). [1]
- March 2
- Birth of Euhenio MGG Pacelli AKA Pope Pius XII; 260th Pope (1939-58). [1]
- March 8
- Birth of Franco Alfano; Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio). [1]
- March 11
- Birth of Carl Ruggles in East Marion, Massachusetts, USA; composer (Evocations). [1]
- March 16
- Birth of Charles Halton in Washington, DC, USA; actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Maurice de Vlaminck in Paris, France; Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow). [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Murray Bisset; cricket player (South African wicket-keeper 1899 and 1910). [1]
- April 17
- Birth of Ian Hay in Scotland; novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On). [1]
- April 19
- Birth of Hendrik, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands. [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Gerard J Arbous; actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of O E Rölvaag; Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth). [1]
- Birth of Robert Bárány in Sweden; otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel Prize 1914). [1]
- May 3
- Birth of Bert Hopkins; cricket player (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's). [1]
- Birth of John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quick Carrington Dwyer; cricket player (Sussex). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Ivan Cankar; Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica). [1]
- May 12
- Birth of Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria. [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Saint-Georges de Bouchélier; French author (Le Rois Sans Couronne). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Jack Root; boxing's first light heavyweight champion. [1]
- June 23
- Birth of Irvin S Cobb in Kentucky, USA; writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest). [1]
- July 17
- Birth of Rosa Jackson in Lumpkin, Georgia, USA; lived to be 115 (died in 1991). [1]
- July 19
- Birth of Ignaz Seipel in Vienna, Austria; Catholic priest, author (Nation und Staat), chancellor of Austria (1922-24, 1926-29). [482.66]
- July 26
- Birth of Ernest Schelling in Belvidere, New Jersey, USA; composer/conductor (Victory Ball). [1]
- August 5
- Birth of Mary R Beard in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; historian (Woman as a Force in History). [1]
- August 7
- Birth of Mata Hari; dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I) (dies 1917). [1] [5]
- August 12
- Birth of Mary Roberts Rinehart; mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton). [1]
- August 17
- Birth of Eric Drummond; first Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33). [1]
- August 29
- Birth of Charles F Kettering in Ohio, USA; inventor (auto self-starter). [1]
- September 13
- Birth of Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio, USA; author/publisher (Winesburg). [1]
- September 15
- Birth of Bruno Walter (B.W. Schlesinger) in Berlin, Germany; conductor (New York Philharmonic). [1]
- Birth of Frank E Gannett in Rochester, New York, USA; newspaper publisher (Gannett). [1]
- September 26
- Birth of Edith Abbott; dean of University of Chicago Social Sciences. [1]
- November 4
- Birth of James Fraser; designed US buffalo nickel coin. [1]
- November 5
- Birth of Raymond Duchamp-Villon; cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire). [1]
- November 7
- Birth of Culbert Olson in Fillmore, Utah, USA; American politician (Governor-Democrat-California). [1]
- November 8
- Birth of Frank L Gillespie in Arkansas, USA; founded Supreme Life Insurance Company. [1]
- November 23
- Birth of Manuel de Falla in Cádiz, Spain; composer (El Amor Brujo). [1]
- November 24
- Birth of Walter Griffin; US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Australia. [1]
- November 26
- Birth of Willis Haviland Carrier; developed air-conditioning equipment. [1]
- November 29
- Birth of Nellie Davis Tayloe AKA Nellie Tayloe Ross in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; governor (Wyoming, 1925-1926), U.S. Mint director (1933-1952). [1835.43] [547.38] [763.104] [1835.43]
- December 1
- Birth of Johanna W "Mina" Bakker; Dutch actress (Boefje). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Dimitur Poljanov [Popov] in Bulgaria; poet (Iron Poems). [1]
- December 6
- Birth of Dewi Angrènie [Martha CA Giese]; Flemish/Dutch actress (Champagne). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Ludwig Schiedermair; German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Júlio Afrânio Peixoto; Brazilian writer (O esfinge). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Jan Van Oudshoorn [Jan K Feylbrief]; Dutch writer (Maze of Senses). [1]
- Birth of Walter S Adams; US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson (1923-46). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; Italian writer (Futurism e Futurista). [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi; founded Pakistan (1947)/Governor (1947-58). [1]
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