- January 13
- Birth of Clarke Ashton Smith; US sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci). [1]
- January 15
- Birth of D Ivor D Novello in Cardiff, Wales; British actor/composer/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend, Truth Game). [1]
- Birth of Dragisa Cvetkovic; Serbian premier of Yugoslavia (1939-41). [1]
- January 16
- Birth of Henry C Rümke; Dutch psychiatrist (Periods in Man's Life). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Jorge Guillén in Valladolid, Spain; poet/critic (Cántico, Final). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Kaj Birket-Smith; Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos). [1]
- January 22
- Birth of Conrad Veidt in Potsdam, Germany; actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari). [1]
- January 23
- Birth of Frank Carlson; American politician (Governor/Republican/Senator-Republican-Kansas). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Bernard Rogers in New York City, New York, USA; composer ("Warrior", "Marriage of Aude", "Passion"). [1]
- Birth of Raymond Dart; Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus). [1]
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- February 5
- Birth of Roman Ingarden; Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Muhammad Zafrulla Khan; President of United Nations General Assembly (1962-63). [1]
- February 10
- Birth of Jimmy Durante in New York City, New York, USA; long-nosed comedian. [1]
- Birth of William [Bill] T Tilden II; tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 1929). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Johan C P Alberts; Dutch literary (Festival). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Omar Bradley; General of US Army WWII "The GI General". [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Ana Pauker-Rabensohn in Romania; communist/foreign minister (1945-52). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Kay Fisker; Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen). [1]
- February 15
- Birth of Walter Donaldson; US pianist/composer ("Girl Crazy", "Whoopee"). [1]
- February 19
- Birth of Cedric Hardwicke in Stourbridge, England; actor (Peter Pan, Richard III). [1]
- Birth of Pietro Pancrazi; Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi). [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Russel Crouse; journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Vsevolod Pudovkin; Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter). [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Ivor A "I A" Richards; English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Ralph Linton; US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture). [1]
- February 28
- Birth of Ben Hecht in New York City, New York, USA; novelist/playwright/screenwriter (The Front Page). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Theo Frenkel; actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy). [1]
- March 3
- Birth of Bill Nestell in California, USA; actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier). [1]
- Birth of Karel Lotsy; Dutch insurance director/Olympics-chief d'équipe. [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Emmett J Culligan; founder of water treatment organization. [1]
- March 16
- Birth of Isobel Elsom; actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger). [1]
- March 18
- Birth of Wilfred Owen in England; anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of George Harold Sisler AKA Gorgeous George in Manchester, Ohio, USA; pitcher/first base (Saint Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Boston Braves), 257 hits in 1920 (record until 2004), 0.420 batting average in 1922, American League MVP (1922), Baseball Hall of Fame (1939). [828.26]
- March 25
- Birth of Edward Hart; American politician (Representative-Democrat-New Jersey)/first chairman of Committee on Un-American Activities. [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Palmiro Togliatti; founder (Communist Party of Italy). [1]
- March 27
- Birth of Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic; Yugoslavian General/Nazi collaborator. [1]
- Birth of Karl Mannheim; Hungarian/German/British sociologist (Ideology and Utopia). [1]
- Birth of William Harrigan in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Affair of Three Nations, Cabaret). [1]
- March 31
- Birth of Clemens Krauss in Vienna, Austria; conductor (Berlin State Orchestra-1937). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Cicely Courtneidge in Sydney, Australia; actress (Double Exposure). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Leslie Howard [Stainer] in London, England; actor (Ashley Wilkes - Gone With the Wind). [1]
- April 5
- Birth of Clas Thunberg in Finland; speed skater (Olympics-gold-1924, 1928). [1]
- Birth of Pál Szabó; Hungarian farmer/author (Talpalatnyi Föld). [1]
- April 7
- Birth of Allan W Dulles; US diplomat/Central Intelligence Agency head 1953-61 (Germany's Underground). [1]
- Birth of Irene Castle; dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement). [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Grace Cunard in Columbus, Ohio, USA; silent screen actress (Resurrection). [1]
- Birth of Henri Puvrez; Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit). [1]
- Birth of Mary Pickford AKA Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actress (Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs). [1] (1892 [5])
- April 11
- Birth of Dean G Acheson; statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53). [1]
- Birth of Johannes T Thijsse; Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Edna Parker; died at age 115 in USA, world's oldest living person. [464.32]
- Birth of Harold Lloyd in Burchard, Nebraska, USA; silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last). [1]
- Birth of Joan Miró in Spain; painter/sculptor (Dog Barking at the Moon). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Frank Borzage in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of Robert Harron in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Anita Loos; author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Norman Bel Geddes in Adrian, Michigan, USA; theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End). [1]
- April 29
- Birth of Harold C Urey in Walkerton, Indiana, USA; physicist (discovered Deuterium, Nobel Prize 1934). [1]
- April 30
- Birth of Joachim von Ribbentrop; German SS führer/foreign minister. [1]
- May 4
- Birth of Edgar Dearing in Ceres, California, USA; actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy). [1]
- May 8
- Birth of Francis Quimet in Massachusetts, USA; shop assistant who won golf's US Open (1913). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Stanley Lupino; English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of José Calvo Sotelo; Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Arthur Carr; cricket captain (England versus Australia 1926). [1]
- Birth of Simon Delmonte; actor/director (Boemeladvocaat). [1]
- May 24
- Birth of W H Walter Baade; German/US astronomer (Andromeda). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Norma Talmadge in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; actress (Sign on the Door, Camille). [1]
- Birth of Eugene Goossens in London, England; conductor/composer (Perseus). [1]
- June 13
- Birth of Dorothy L Sayers in England; novelist (Nine Taylors) (dies 1957). [1] [5]
- June 24
- Birth of Roy Oliver Disney in Chicago, Illinois, USA; CEO of Walt Disney Productions 40+ years, president for 25+ years (dies 1971). [510.138]
- June 25
- Birth of Charlotte Greenwood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami). [1]
- June 26
- Birth of Big Bill Broonzy in Mississippi, USA; blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy). [1]
- July 7
- Birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky in Soviet Georgia; poet (Ode to Revolution). [1]
- July 8
- Birth of Fritz Perls; father of Gestalt therapy. [1]
- July 14
- Birth of Spencer Williams in Vidalia, Louisiana, USA; actor (Andy - Amos 'n' Andy). [1]
- July 23
- Birth of Karl Menninger; psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic). [1]
- August 6
- Birth of Guthrie McClintic in Seattle, Washington, USA; Broadway producer/director (Winterset). [1]
- August 10
- Birth of Douglas Stuart Moore in Cutchogue, New York, USA; composer (Good Night Harvard). [1]
- Birth of Viscount Dunrossil in Scotland; Governor General of Australia (1959-61). [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Howard Smith in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Harvey Griffin - Hazel). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of Harlow H Curtice; president of General Motors (1953-58). [1]
- August 17
- Birth of Mary Jane West AKA Baby Mae AKA Jane Mast AKA Mae West in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Klondike Annie, My Little Chickadee) (dies 1980). [1] [5]
- August 22
- Birth of Dorothy Parker; American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award). [1] [5]
- August 30
- Birth of Huey "Kingfish" Long in Louisiana, USA; American politician, governor of Louisiana (1928-32), US Senator (Louisiana, Democrat, 1932-35). [1] [910.40]
- September 10
- Birth of Al "Fuzzy" Saint John in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor (Lash of the West). [1]
- September 16
- Birth of Albert Szent-Györgyi in Hungary; biochemist (Nobel Prize 1937). [1]
- September 18
- Birth of Arthur Benjamin in Sydney, Australia; composer (Jamaican Rumba). [1]
- September 29
- Birth of Fabien Sevitzky in Vishny Volotchok, Russia; conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra). [1]
- October 1
- Birth of Faith Baldwin in New Rochelle, New York, USA; author/novelist (They Who Love). [1]
- October 18
- Birth of Sidney Holland in New Zealand; Prime Minister of New Zealand (1949-57). [1]
- October 31
- Birth of Sara Allgood in Dublin, Ireland; actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase). [1]
- December 1
- Birth of Herman Griffith; cricket player (pioneering West Indies pace bowler). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of William Gaxton in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Destry, Convoy). [1]
- December 6
- Birth of Lou Little; college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960). [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Edward G Robinson [Goldenberg] in Romania; actor (The Ten Commandments). [1]
- December 13
- Birth of Curt Jurgens in Munich, Germany; actor (Enemy Below, The Longest Day). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Vladimir Golschmann in Paris, France; conductor with Immortal Downbeat. [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Erwin Piscator; German stage director (Der Stellvertreter). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Harry Blomberg; Swedish author (Mäster Jacob). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Ann O'Neal in Missouri, USA; actress (Nana - Professional Father). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Carl Brisson in Copenhagen, Denmark; actor (Murder at the Vanities). [1]
- Birth of Ruth Chatterton; US actress (Madame X, Sarah and Son). [1]
- Birth of Harry Warren AKA Salvatore Guaragna in Brooklyn, New York, USA; songwriter ("I Only Have Eyes for You", "42nd Street", "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", "Serenade in Blue", "Jeepers Creepers", "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me", won Best Song Oscars for "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know", "On the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe"). [457]
- December 25
- Birth of Bert Bertram; actor (How to Steal a Million). [1]
- Birth of Fred Hillebrand in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Martin Kane). [1]
- Birth of Ropert L Ripley in Santa Rosa, California, USA; cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not). [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Mao Tse-tung; Prime Minister of People's Republic of China (1949-76). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of J M Blankenberg; cricket player (60 wickets in 18 Tests for South Africa). [1]
- Birth of Max Lamberty; Flemish sociologist/author (Flemish Resurrection). [1]
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