January •
January 5 –
Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (d.
1955) •
January 6 •
Fan Noli, Albanian poet, political figure (d.
1965) •
Ferdinand Pecora, Sicilian-born American lawyer (d.
1971) •
Sam Rayburn,
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
1961) •
January 9 –
Otto Ruge, Norwegian general (d.
1961) •
January 12 –
Milton Sills, American actor (d.
1930) •
January 17 •
Arnold Rothstein, American gangster (d.
1928) •
Noah Beery, American actor (d.
1946) •
January 18 –
A. A. Milne, British author (d.
1956) •
January 20 –
Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (d.
1957) •
January 22 –
Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor (d.
1956) •
January 23 –
Anna Abrikosova, Soviet
Roman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (d.
1936) •
January 25 –
Virginia Woolf, English writer (d.
1941) •
January 28 •
Mary Boland, American actress (d.
1965) •
Gengo Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (d.
1976) •
Pascual Orozco, Mexican revolutionary (d.
1915) •
January 30 –
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd
President of the United States (d.
1945) •
January 31 –
Fritz Leiber, American stage, screen actor (d.
1949)
February •
February 1 •
Vladimir Dimitrov, Bulgarian artist (d.
1960) •
Louis St. Laurent, 12th
Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1973) •
February 2 •
Anne Bauchens, American film editor (d.
1967) •
James Joyce, Irish author (d.
1941) •
February 4 –
E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d.
1964) •
February 5 –
Louis Wagner, French Grand Prix racer, aviator (d.
1960) •
February 11 •
Valli Valli, German-born British actress (d.
1927) •
Joe Jordan, American ragtime composer (d.
1971) •
February 12 –
Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d.
1968) •
February 15 –
John Barrymore, American actor (d.
1942) •
February 18 –
Petre Dumitrescu, Romanian general (d.
1950) •
February 20 –
Alexander Carrick, Scottish sculptor (d.
1966) •
February 22 –
Eric Gill, English sculptor, writer (d.
1940) •
February 24 –
Bosman di Ravelli, South African concert pianist, composer, and writer (d.
1967) •
February 26 –
Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d.
1968) •
February 28 •
Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d.
1967) •
Herbert Silberer, Austrian psychoanalyst (d.
1923)
March •
March 3 –
Charles Ponzi, Italian-born American con man (d.
1949) •
March 6 –
F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d.
1980) •
March 8 –
Alfred A. Cunningham, first United States Marine Corps aviator (d.
1939) •
March 12 –
Carlos Blanco Galindo, 32nd
President of Bolivia (d.
1943) •
March 14 •
Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (d.
1969) •
Giuseppe Tellera, Italian general (d.
1941) •
March 15 –
Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner (d.
1953) •
March 18 –
Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d.
1973) •
March 20 –
René Coty, 17th
President of France (d.
1962) •
March 22 –
John W. Wilcox Jr., American admiral (d.
1942) •
March 23 –
Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d.
1935) •
March 24 –
George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th
Governor-General of New Zealand (d.
1943) •
March 30 •
Melanie Klein, Austrian-born British child psychoanalyst (d.
1960) •
Vittorio Tur, Italian admiral (d.
1969)
April •
April 7 –
Kurt von Schleicher,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1934) •
April 17 –
Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d.
1951) •
April 18 •
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (d.
1948) •
Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d.
1977) •
April 19 –
Getúlio Vargas, 14th and 17th president of Brazil (d.
1954) •
April 20 •
Nicolae Ciupercă, Romanian general and politician (d.
1950) •
Holland Smith, American general (d.
1967) •
April 21 –
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1961) •
April 24 –
Hugh Dowding, commander of the
RAF Fighter Command during the
Battle of Britain (d.
1970) •
April 29 –
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist, printer (d.
1945)
May •
May 2 –
James F. Byrnes, American politician, Secretary of State and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1972) •
May 5 •
Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (d.
1960) • Sir
Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (d.
1958) •
May 6 –
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir-apparent of Emperor
Wilhelm II (d.
1951) •
May 9 –
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d.
1967) •
May 10 –
Thurston Hall, American stage & screen actor (d.
1958) •
May 13 –
Georges Braque, French painter (d.
1963) •
May 16 –
Mary Gordon, Scottish stage and screen actress (d.
1963) •
May 20 •
Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1949) •
Fannie Salter, American lighthouse keeper (d.
1966) •
May 25 –
Marie Doro, American stage, silent film actress (d.
1956) •
May 26 –
Jess McMahon, American professional boxing, wrestling promoter (d.
1954) •
May 28 –
Avery Hopwood, American playwright (d.
1928) •
May 30 –
Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (d.
1915)
June •
June 4 –
Karl Valentin, German actor (d.
1948) •
June 9 –
Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d.
1963) •
June 10 –
Nevile Henderson, British diplomat (d.
1942) •
June 12 –
Roi Cooper Megrue, American playwright (d.
1927) •
June 15 –
Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister, dictator (d.
1946) •
June 16 –
Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 35th
Prime Minister of Iran (d.
1967) •
June 17 •
Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d.
1918) •
Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d.
1971) •
June 18 –
Georgi Dimitrov, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d.
1949) •
June 21 –
Lluís Companys, President of Catalonia (d.
1940) •
June 28 –
Valeska Suratt, American stage actress, silent film star (d.
1962) •
June 29 –
Ole Singstad, Norwegian-American civil engineer (d.
1969)
July •
July 1 –
Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician,
Chief Minister of West Bengal (d.
1962) •
July 8 –
Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d.
1961) •
July 10 –
Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d.
1975) •
July 17 –
James Somerville, British admiral (d.
1949) •
July 22 –
Edward Hopper, American painter (d.
1967) •
July 25 –
George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain,
Navy Cross winner (d.
1942) •
July 27 •
Donald Crisp, English actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer (d.
1974) •
Geoffrey de Havilland, British
aviation pioneer,
aircraft company founder (d.
1965) •
July 31 •
Itamar Ben-Avi, first native speaker of
Modern Hebrew (d.
1943)
August •
August 11 –
Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general (d.
1955) •
August 14 –
Gisela Richter, English art historian (d.
1972) •
August 16 –
Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian, oldest verified male ever at the time of his death (d.
1998) •
August 19 –
MacGillivray Milne,
United States Navy Captain, 27th
Governor of American Samoa (d.
1959) •
August 22 –
Raymonde de Laroche, French aviator, first woman to receive an aviators license (d.
1919) •
August 25 –
Seán T. O'Kelly, second
President of Ireland (d.
1966) •
August 26 –
James Franck, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1964)
September •
September 1 –
Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist, oceanographer, and surveyor (d.
1953) •
September 8 –
Sada Cowan, American playwright and screenwriter (d.
1943) •
September 10 –
Károly Huszár, 25th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.
1941) •
September 11 –
William T. Bovie, American biophysicist, inventor (d.
1958) •
September 12 –
Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (d.
1963) •
September 13 –
Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d.
1969) •
September 15 -
Otto Weddigen, German U-boat commander during World War I (killed in action) (d.
1915) •
September 16 –
Robert Hichens, RMS
Titanic quartermaster, man at the wheel when
Titanic hit the iceberg (d.
1940) •
September 22 –
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d.
1946) •
September 29 –
Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (d.
1937) •
September 30 •
George Bancroft, American film actor (d.
1956) •
Hans Geiger, German physicist (d.
1945)
October •
October 2 –
Boris Shaposhnikov, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.
1945) •
October 3 –
A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d.
1974) •
October 5 –
Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d.
1945) •
October 6 –
Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d.
1937) •
October 8 –
Harry McClintock, American singer (d.
1957) •
October 14 •
Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz, Polish military leader (d.
1915) •
Éamon de Valera,
Taoiseach and third
President of Ireland (d.
1975) •
Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d.
1959) •
October 17 –
Giulio Gavotti, Italian aviator (d.
1939) •
October 20 –
Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (d.
1956) •
October 24 –
Sybil Thorndike, British stage, film actress (d.
1976) •
October 25 •
Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d.
1955) •
Tony Jackson, American jazz musician (d.
1921) •
October 30 •
William Halsey Jr., American admiral (d.
1959) •
Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d.
1944)
November •
November 6 –
Feng Yuxiang, Chinese
warlord and general (d.
1948) •
November 8 –
Ethel Clayton, American silent screen star (d.
1966) •
November 11 •
T. F. O'Rahilly, Irish academic (d.
1953) • King
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d.
1973) •
November 15 –
Felix Frankfurter,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1965) •
November 18 •
Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (d.
1973) •
Frances Gertrude McGill, Canadian
forensic pathologist (d.
1959) •
November 21 –
Harold Lowe, Welsh 5th Officer of RMS
Titanic (d.
1944) •
November 27 –
Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch, American dentist (d.
1944) •
November 29 –
Henri Fabre, French inventor of the first seaplane, the
Fabre Hydravion (d.
1984)
December •
December 9 •
Percy C. Mather, English Protestant missionary (d.
1933) •
Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d.
1949) •
December 11 •
Subramania Bharati, Tamil Indian poet (d.
1921) •
Max Born, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1970) •
December 12 –
Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral (d.
1960) •
December 16 •
Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d.
1963) •
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d.
1967) •
Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (d.
1974) •
December 18 –
Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer (d.
1950) •
December 22 –
Hisao Tani, Japanese general and war criminal (d.
1947) •
December 23 –
Mokichi Okada, Japanese religious leader (d.
1955) •
December 24 –
Georges Legagneux, French aviator (d.
1914) •
December 28 –
Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, astrophysicist and mathematician (d.
1944) •
December 29 –
Raymond Stanton Patton, American admiral, engineer and second Director of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (d.
1937)
Date unknown •
Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (d.
1961) •
Nellie Yu Roung Ling, Chinese dancer, lady-in-waiting in Qing imperial court (d.
1973) •
T. Sathasiva Iyer,
Ceylon Tamil scholar,
Tamil language writer (d.
1950) •
Ioryi Mucitano,
Aromanian revolutionary (d.
1911) •
Nicolae Velo, Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania (d.
1924) == Deaths ==