- January 21
- Birth of Wolfgang Köhler; German/US Gestalt psychologist (Mentality of Apes). [1]
- January 23
- Birth of Miklós Kállay; premier of Hungary (1942-44). [1]
- January 25
- Birth of Diego Valeri; Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze). [1]
- January 26
- Birth of Marc A "Pete" Mitscher; US Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58). [1]
- January 27
- Birth of Carl Blegen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos). [1]
- January 29
- Birth of Albert Conti in Trieste, Austria; actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Georg Trakl; Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely). [1]
- Birth of Silvio d'Amico; Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore). [1]
- February 9
- Birth of Henry Zimmerman; baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 home runs). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstängl; German/US pianist/politician (NSDAP). [1]
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- Birth of John van Melle; South African writer (Dawid Booysen). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Alvin York; famed US soldier with 25 kills in WWI. [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Hesketh Pearson in England; biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Mary Ellen Chase; educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award). [1]
- February 24
- Birth of Mary Ellen Chase; US linguistic/author (White Gate). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of Leonard Carey in England; actor (Laughter). [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Grover Cleveland Alexander; Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs). [1]
- Birth of Benegal Narsing Rau in India; president of United Nations Security Council (1950). [1]
- Birth of William Frawley in Burlington, Iowa, USA; actor (Fred Mertz - I Love Lucy, Bub - My Three Sons). [1] [457]
- February 28
- Birth of William Zorach in Lithuania; US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Heitor Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; composer (Salon Waltz). [1]
- March 9
- Birth of Phil Mead; cricket player (strong batsman for England pre- and post-WWI). [1]
- March 21
- Birth of Edwin Scharff; German "entartet" painter/sculptor. [1]
- March 22
- Birth of Leonard Marx AKA Chico Marx in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Marx Brothers). [1]
- March 23
- Birth of Anthony van Hoboken; Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog). [1]
- Birth of Felix Felixovitch Yussupov; Russian prince, murderer of Rasputin. [1]
- Birth of Juan Gris in Spain; cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window). [1]
- Birth of Sidney Hillman; union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Roscoe Arbuckle AKA Fatty Arbuckle in Smith Center, Kansas, USA; actor (Keystone comedies). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of Josef Capek; Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic (Kulhavy Poutník). [1]
- March 30
- Birth of Albert P Termote; Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great). [1]
- March 31
- Birth of Saint-John Perse [MRA Alexis Léger]; French poet (Nobel Prize 1960). [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Walter Connolly in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl). [1]
- April 10
- Birth of Bernardo A Houssay; Argentine physiologist (Nobel Prize 1947). [1]
- May 1
- Birth of Alan Gordon Cunningham; Irish/British general/director of Palestine (1945-48). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of Edward Collins New York, USA; Hall of Fame infielder (Chicago White Sox, Athletics). [1]
- May 5
- Birth of Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth; archbishop of Canterbury. [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Henri Pourrat; French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Jacobus C Bloem; Dutch poet (Sintels). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of Bull Montana in Vogliera, Italy; actor (Brass Buttons, Victory). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Mabel Taliaferro in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Emiel van der Straeten; Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends). [1]
- Birth of Erich Kuttner; German journalist/historian (Vorwärts). [1]
- Birth of Frank Woolley; cricket player (long-running England left-arm all-rounder). [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Hank Mann in New York City, New York, USA; actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road). [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Gunnar Olof Björling; Finnish/Swedish language poet (Vilande Dag). [1]
- Birth of Saint-John Perse in France; poet/diplomat (Nobel Prize 1960). [1]
- June 5
- Birth of Ruth Benedict; US anthropologist (Patterns of Culture). [1]
- June 22
- Birth of Julian Huxley in London, England; biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog. [1]
- June 23
- Birth of John Finley Williamson in Canton, Ohio, USA; conductor (Westminster Choir). [1]
- June 25
- Birth of George Abbott in Forestville, New York, USA; producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game). [1]
- June 26
- Birth of Anthony G de Rothschild; British philanthropist. [1]
- July 2
- Birth of Marcel Tabuteau in Compiègne, France; oboist (Philadelphia Orchestra 1915-54). [1]
- July 7
- Birth of Marc Chagall in Vitebsk, Russia; artist (I and The Village). [1]
- July 9
- Birth of Samuel Eliot Morison; historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea). [1]
- July 13
- Birth of Anthony de Francisci; designer of US Peace dollar coin. [418.44] [451.38]
- July 16
- Birth of Joe Jackson AKA Shoeless Joe; black sox player (Say it ain't so, Joe). [1]
- July 22
- Birth of Gustav Hertz; German quantum physicist (Nobel Prize 1925). [1]
- July 28
- Birth of Marcel Duchamp; painter (Nude Descending a Staircase). [1]
- July 29
- Birth of Sigmund Romberg in Nagykanizsa, Hungary; operetta composer (Blossom Time). [1]
- July 30
- Birth of Timothy Mara; NFL owner (New York Giants). [1]
- August 3
- Birth of Rupert Brooke; British WW I poet (1914). [1]
- August 8
- Birth of Malcolm Keen in Bristol, England; actor (Uncle Chris - Mama). [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Erwin Schrödinger in Austria; physicist (had a cat). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of Ferber Edna in Michigan, USA; writer (Showboat, Cimarron, Giant). [1]
- August 17
- Birth of Marcus Garvey; began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks. [1]
- September 9
- Birth of Alfred Landon; American politician (Republican-Kansas) presidential candidate (1932, 1936). [1]
- September 10
- Birth of Giovanni Gronchi; president of Italy. [1]
- September 14
- Birth of Karl Taylor Compton; physicist/atomic bomb scientist. [1]
- Birth of Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel; heavyweight boxing champion (1908-10). [1]
- September 16
- Birth of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France; music teacher (Lasiréne Ideology). [1]
- September 25
- Birth of May Sutton Bundy; first US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904). [1]
- September 28
- Birth of Avery Brundage; Amateur Athletic Union and International Olympic Committee president. [1]
- October 5
- Birth of René Cassin; pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968). [1]
- October 6
- Birth of Le Corbusier in Switzerland; architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme). [1]
- Birth of Martín Luis Guzmán in Mexico; novelist (The Eagle and the Serpent). [1]
- October 7
- Birth of Jack Mulhall in Wappinger Falls, New York, USA; actor (Ken Murray Show). [1]
- October 20
- Birth of Addison Richards in Zanesville, Ohio, USA; actor (Colonel - Pentagon). [1]
- October 22
- Birth of John Reed; journalist who reported on Mexican and Russian revolutions. [1]
- October 30
- Birth of Eduardo Ciannelli in Italy; actor (Waldo - Johnny Staccato). [1]
- October 31
- Birth of Chiang Kai-shek in Chekiang Province, China; president of Nationalist China. [1]
- Birth of Edouard Lalonde in Canada; NHL player (Montreal Canadiens), lacrosse player. [1]
- November 6
- Birth of Walter Johnson in Kansas, USA; Washington Senators' pitcher (1907-27) (414-218). [1]
- November 15
- Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA; painter (Cow's Skull). [1]
- Birth of Marianne Moore in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; poet (Pulitzer Prize - 1951 - Collected Poems). [1]
- November 17
- Birth of Bernard L Montgomery; British general (WW II-African campaign). [1]
- November 23
- Birth of Boris Karloff AKA William H Pratt in Dulwich, England; actor (Frankenstein) (dies 1969). [1] [5]
- December 6
- Birth of Lynn Fontanne in in Woodford, England; actress (Dulcy, Arms and the Man, The Magnificent Yankee (Emmy award), US Steel Hour, Producer's Showcase), narrator (Peter Pan (1960)). [1] [457]
- December 7
- Birth of Ernst Toch, Vienna, Austria; composer (Melodie Lehre). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Pieter C A Geyl; historian (History of the Dutch Tribe). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan; Indies mathematician ('pi'/Notebooks). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Eric Blore in London, England; actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad). [1]
- Birth of John Cromwell in Toledo, Ohio, USA; actor/director (Spitfire, Of Human Bondage). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Louis Jouvet in Crozon, France; actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise). [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Conrad Hilton; hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels). [1]
- Birth of Jacobus W G Balfoort; Dutch actor (Bulldog Drummond). [1]
- Birth of John Davidson in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Charlie Chan - Chinese Cat). [1]
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