January–February •
January 2 –
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English polar explorer with the
Terra Nova expedition and author of
The Worst Journey in the World • January 2 –
Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born American actress (d.
1938) • January 2 –
Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Norwegian-Swedish feminist (d. 1973) •
January 5 –
Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (d.
1976) •
January 7 –
Amedeo Maiuri, Italian archaeologist (d.
1963) •
January 11 •
George Zucco, English–born American character actor (d.
1960) •
Chester Conklin, American actor (d.
1971) •
January 13 –
Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer, comedian (d.
1966) •
January 14 –
Hugh Lofting, English-born American author (d.
1947) •
January 17 –
Joe Masseria, Italian-born American gangster (d.
1931) •
January 25 –
Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d.
1954) •
January 27 –
Frank Nitti, Italian-born American gangster (d.
1943) •
January 28 –
Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d.
1976) •
January 31 –
Alfonso López Pumarejo, 14th and 16th President of Colombia (d.
1959) •
February 2 –
Frank Lloyd, English-born American film director, scriptwriter and producer (d.
1960) •
February 4 –
Edward Sheldon, American playwright (d.
1946) •
February 7 –
Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born British rabbi (d.
1976) •
February 8 –
Charlie Ruggles, American actor (d.
1970) •
February 9 –
Edwin Maxwell, Irish actor (d.
1948) •
February 12 –
Margarita Fischer, American silent film actress (d.
1975) •
February 17 –
Aeneas Francon Williams, English missionary, Church of Scotland minister, writer and poet (d.
1971) •
February 19 –
José Abad Santos, Filipino jurist, lawyer (d.
1942) •
February 22 –
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (d.
1980) •
February 27 –
Hugo Black,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1971)
March–April •
March 2 •
Willis H. O'Brien, American
stop motion animator (d.
1962) •
Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football player and manager (d.
1968) •
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (d.
1974) •
March 4 –
Kazimierz Świtalski, Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18th
Prime Minister of Poland (d.
1962) •
March 6 •
Saburō Kurusu, Japanese diplomat (d.
1954) •
Nella Walker, American actress, vaudevillian (d.
1971) •
March 7 –
Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress (d.
1958) •
March 8 –
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1972) •
March 9 –
Robert L. Eichelberger, American general (d.
1961) •
March 11 –
Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish politician,
Marshal of Poland (d.
1941) •
March 15 –
Sergey Kirov, Soviet revolutionary (d.
1934) •
March 18 •
Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d.
1970) •
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German U-boat ace (d.
1941) •
March 19 –
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, Italian-born American airplane designer, manufacturer (d.
1960) •
March 20 –
Grace Brown, American murder victim whose story became a famous court case (d.
1906) •
March 22 –
Kálmán Darányi, 31st Prime Minister of Hungary (d.
1939) •
March 24 –
Edward Weston, American photographer (d.
1958) •
March 25 –
Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (d.
1972) •
March 27 –
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d.
1969) •
April 4 –
William R. Munroe, American admiral (d.
1966) •
April 5 –
Gustavo Jiménez, President of Peru (d.
1933) •
April 14 –
Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d.
1956) •
April 16 •
Ernst Thälmann, German Communist leader (d.
1944) •
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American singer;
Presidential daughter (d.
1944) •
April 26 –
Ma Rainey, American singer (d.
1939) •
April 30 –
Dick Elliott, American actor (d.
1961)
May–June of Spain •
May 2 –
Gottfried Benn, German poet (d.
1956) •
May 3 –
Marcel Dupré, French composer (d.
1971) •
May 5 –
Émile Eddé, 4th Prime Minister and 3rd President of Lebanon (d.
1949) •
May 10 •
Karl Barth, Swiss
Protestant theologian (d.
1968) •
Felix Manalo, Filipino Executive Minister (
Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan) of the (d.
1963) •
Olaf Stapledon, British author, philosopher (d.
1950) •
May 17 – King
Alfonso XIII of Spain (d.
1941) •
May 18 –
Ture Nerman, Swedish communist leader (d.
1969) •
May 20 –
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, American-born British businessman (d.
1971) •
May 26 –
Al Jolson, American entertainer (d.
1950) •
June 6 –
William A. Glassford, American admiral (d.
1958) •
June 7 –
Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d.
1972) •
June 9 –
Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer, conductor (d.
1965) •
June 18 –
George Mallory, English climber (d.
1924) •
June 23 –
Olaf M. Hustvedt, American admiral (d.
1978) •
June 24 –
Ion Gigurtu, 42nd Prime Minister of Romania (d.
1959) •
June 25 –
Henry H. Arnold, American general, aviation pioneer (d.
1950) •
June 28 –
Hitoshi Imamura, Japanese general (d.
1968) •
June 29 –
Robert Schuman, German-French politician, a
founding father of the European Union (d.
1963)
July–August •
July 3 •
Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist (d.
1957) •
Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral, ambassador (d.
1969) •
July 5 –
Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, 30th
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d.
1988) •
July 6 –
Lou Skuce, Canadian cartoonist (d.
1951) •
July 12 –
Jean Hersholt, Danish-born American actor (d.
1956) •
July 15 –
William Edmunds, Italian stage, screen character actor (d.
1981) •
July 18 –
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (d.
1945) •
July 23 –
Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d.
1976) •
July 24 –
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d.
1965) •
July 25 –
Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d.
1946) •
July 31 –
Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965) •
August 2 –
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviation pioneer, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d.
1961) •
August 6 •
Florence Goodenough, American child psychologist (d. 1959) •
Inez Milholland, American suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent and public speaker (d.
1916) •
August 12 –
Campbell Tait, British admiral and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d.
1946) •
August 20 –
Paul Tillich, German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, theologian (d.
1965) •
August 26 –
Ceferino Namuncurá, Argentine
Roman Catholic lay brother and blessed (d.
1905) •
August 27 •
Nicolette Bruining, Dutch theologian, humanitarian (d.
1963) •
Rebecca Clarke, English composer, violist (d.
1979) •
Eric Coates, English composer (d.
1957) •
August 28 –
Andrew Higgins, American boatbuilder, industrialist (d.
1952)
September–October •
September 1 •
Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist painter (d.
1973) •
Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer (d.
1957) •
September 5 –
Nell Brinkley, American illustrator, comic artist (d.
1944) •
September 8 –
Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d.
1967) •
September 11 –
Khaled Chehab, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.
1978) •
September 13 –
Robert Robinson, British chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1975) •
September 14 –
Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (d.
1948) •
September 16 –
Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter and poet (d.
1966) •
September 20 –
Charles Williams, English novelist, playwright, poet, theologian and critic (d.
1945) •
September 24 •
Edward Bach, English metaphysician, homeopath (d.
1936) •
Roberto María Ortiz,
President of Argentina (d.
1942) •
September 25 –
Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (d.
1953) •
September 26 –
Archibald Hill, English physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1977) •
September 30 –
Wilhelm Marschall, German admiral (d.
1976) •
October 3 –
Alain-Fournier, French writer (killed in action
1914) •
October 6 –
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist, conductor (d.
1960) •
October 11 –
Conrad Helfrich, Dutch admiral (d.
1962) •
October 14 –
Salvador Moreno Fernández, Spanish admiral and politician (d.
1966) •
October 15 –
Jonas H. Ingram, American admiral (d.
1952) •
October 16 –
David Ben-Gurion, Polish-born first
Prime Minister of Israel (d.
1973) •
October 17 –
Spring Byington, American actress (d.
1971) •
October 22 –
Oscar Griswold, American general (d.
1959) •
October 30 –
Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet and author (d.
1958)
November–December •
November 1 –
Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d.
1951) •
November 2 –
Gheorghe Tătărescu, 2-time prime minister of Romania (d.
1957) •
November 6 –
André Marty,
French Communist Party leader (d.
1956) •
November 9 –
Ed Wynn, American actor (d.
1966) •
November 10 –
Walden L. Ainsworth, American admiral (d.
1960) •
November 11 –
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi, 11th
Prime Minister of Iraq (d.
1969) •
November 12 –
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, Spanish prince, military aviator (d.
1975) •
November 15 –
René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d.
1951) •
November 17 –
Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (d.
1967) •
November 18 –
Ferenc Münnich, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.
1967) •
November 20 –
Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1982) •
November 26 –
Margaret C. Anderson, American publisher, editor (d.
1973) •
December 2 –
Lester P. Barlow, American inventor and engineer (d.
1967) •
December 3 –
Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1978) •
December 5 •
Masakazu Kawabe, Japanese general (d.
1965) •
Rose Wilder Lane, American author (d.
1968) •
December 8 –
Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d.
1957) •
December 10 –
Victor McLaglen, English actor, boxer (d.
1959) •
December 12 –
Owen Moore, Irish-born American actor (d.
1939) •
December 18 –
Ty Cobb, American baseball player and a member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame (d.
1961) •
December 25 •
Gotthard Heinrici, German general (d.
1971) •
Kid Ory, American jazz musician (d.
1973) •
December 26 –
Gyula Gömbös, 30th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.
1936) •
December 30 –
Austin Osman Spare, English artist, magician (d.
1956)
Unknown •
Gabriel of Dionysiou -Greek Orthodod Archimandrite in Mount Athos (d. 1983) •
Cola Nicea, Aromanian soldier (d. unknown) •
Petro Trad, 5th President and 14th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.
1947) == Deaths ==