January •
January 1 –
Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d.
1966) •
January 3 -
Eddie Gribbon, American comedy actor (d.
1965) •
January 4 •
Augustus Agar, British
commodore,
Victoria Cross recipient (d.
1968) •
Victor Lustig, Bohemian-born con artist (d.
1947) •
January 5 –
Sarah Aaronsohn, member of the Jewish spy ring
Nili (d.
1917) •
January 8 –
Taixu, Chinese Buddhist activist (d.
1947) •
January 9 •
Kurt Tucholsky, German-born journalist and satirist (d.
1935) •
Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d.
1938) •
January 11 –
Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian
Modernist writer (d.
1954) •
January 13 –
Jüri Uluots, 8th Prime Minister of Estonia (d.
1945) •
January 19 –
Élise Rivet, French Roman Catholic nun and war heroine (d.
1945) •
January 20 –
Boris Kozo-Polyansky, Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist (d.
1957) •
January 22 –
Fred M. Vinson,
Chief Justice of the United States (d.
1953) •
January 28 •
Néstor Guillén, Bolivian politician, 40th
President of Bolivia (d.
1966) •
Robert Stroud,
Birdman of Alcatraz (d.
1963)
February •
February 10 –
Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (
Doctor Zhivago),
Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d.
1960) •
February 14 –
Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter (d.
1956) •
February 15 –
Matome Ugaki, Japanese admiral (d.
1945) •
February 16 –
Francesco de Pinedo, Italian aviator (d.
1933) •
February 17 –
Ronald Fisher, English statistician and geneticist (d.
1962) •
February 18 •
Edward Arnold, American actor (d.
1956) •
Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d.
1963) •
February 24 –
Marjorie Main, American actress (d.
1975) •
February 25 • Dame
Myra Hess, English pianist (d.
1965) •
Kiyohide Shima, Japanese admiral (d.
1973) •
February 27 •
Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d.
1933) •
Art Smith, American pilot (d.
1926)
March •
March 1 –
Theresa Bernstein, Polish-born American artist and writer (d.
2002) •
March 4 –
Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d.
1939) •
March 8 –
Eugeniusz Baziak, Polish
Roman Catholic archbishop (d.
1962) •
March 9 (new style) –
Vyacheslav Molotov,
Soviet politician (d.
1986) •
March 11 –
Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor and politician (d.
1960) •
March 19 –
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, African-American artist known for her sculpture (d.
1960) •
March 20 •
Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d.
1957) •
Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor (d.
1973) •
March 26 –
Aaron S. Merrill, American admiral (d.
1961) •
March 28 –
Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d.
1967) •
March 31 –
Lawrence Bragg, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1971)
April •
April 6 –
Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (d.
1939) •
April 7 –
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d.
1998) •
April 13 •
Frank Murphy, American politician and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1949) •
Dadasaheb Torne, Indian filmmaker (d.
1960) •
April 16 •
Fred Root, English cricketer (d.
1954) •
Vernon Sturdee, Australian general (d.
1966) •
April 17 –
Victor Chapman, French-American fighter pilot (d.
1916) •
April 18 –
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d.
1958) •
April 20 •
Maurice Duplessis,
premier of Quebec (d.
1959) •
Adolf Schärf,
President of Austria (d.
1965) •
April 21 –
Michitaro Tozuka, Japanese admiral (d.
1966) •
April 26 –
Edgar Kennedy, American comedic actor (d.
1948) •
April 30 –
Géza Lakatos, 36th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.
1967)
May •
May 1 –
Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (d.
1963) •
May 4 –
Franklin Carmichael, Canadian landscape painter and graphic designer (d.
1945) •
May 10 –
Alfred Jodl, German general (d.
1946) •
May 15 –
Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d.
1980) •
May 19 –
Ho Chi Minh, Prime minister/President of
North Vietnam (d.
1969) •
May 23 –
Herbert Marshall, English actor (d.
1966)
June •
June 1 –
Frank Morgan, American actor (d.
1949) •
June 6 •
Ted Lewis, American jazz musician and entertainer (d.
1971) •
Naomasa Sakonju, Japanese admiral and war criminal (d.
1948) •
June 10 –
William A. Seiter, American film director (d.
1964) •
June 11 –
Béla Miklós, 38th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.
1948) •
June 16 –
Stan Laurel, English-born actor (d.
1965) •
June 17 –
Hatazō Adachi, Japanese general (d.
1947) •
June 21 –
Lewis H. Brereton, American aviation pioneer and air force general (d.
1967) •
June 25 –
Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (d.
1977) •
June 26 –
Jeanne Eagels, American actress (d.
1929) •
June 29 •
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d.
2005) •
Pietro Montana, Italian-American sculptor, painter and teacher (d.
1978) •
June 30 –
Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d.
1962)
July •
July 11 –
Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, British air force air marshal (d.
1967) •
July 18 –
Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1983) •
July 19 –
George II of Greece, King of Greece (d.
1947) •
July 20 –
Verna Felton, American character actress (d.
1966) •
July 22 –
Rose Kennedy, American
philanthropist and matriarch of the
Kennedy family (d.
1995) •
July 26 •
Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (d.
1942) •
Seiichi Itō, Japanese admiral (d.
1945) •
July 29 –
P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri, Indian Sanskrit scholar (d.
1978)
August •
August 2 –
Marin Sais, American film actress (d.
1971) •
August 3 –
Konstantin Melnikov, Russian avant-garde architect (d.
1974) •
August 5 –
Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d.
1956) •
August 10 •
Angus Lewis Macdonald,
Nova Scotia Premier (d.
1954) •
Bechara El Khoury, 2-Time Prime Minister and 2-Time President of Lebanon (d.
1964) •
August 15 •
Jacques Ibert, French composer (d.
1962) •
Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1890 (d.
2006) •
August 18 –
Walther Funk, German politician (d.
1960) •
August 20 –
H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d.
1937) •
August 22 •
Hans-Joachim Buddecke, German
World War I fighter pilot and ace (d.
1918) •
Cecil Kellaway, South African
character actor (d.
1973) •
August 24 –
Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (d.
1968)
September •
September 8 –
Dorothy Price, Irish physician (d.
1954) •
September 9 –
Colonel Sanders, American founder of
KFC (d.
1980) •
September 10 •
Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d.
1973) • Sir
Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist (d.
1976) •
September 15 •
Agatha Christie, English writer (d.
1976) •
Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d.
1974) •
September 20 •
Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader (d.
1941) •
Rachel Bluwstein, Israeli poet (d.
1931) •
September 21 –
Max Immelmann, German World War I fighter ace (d.
1916) •
September 23 •
Kakuji Kakuta, Japanese admiral (d.
1944) •
Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (d.
1957) •
September 24 –
A. P. Herbert, English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist (d.
1971)
October •
October 1 •
Stanley Holloway, English actor (d.
1982) •
Alice Joyce, American silent film actress (d.
1955) •
Blanche Oelrichs, American poet, second wife of
John Barrymore (d.
1950) •
October 2 –
Groucho Marx, American comedian (d.
1977) •
October 3 –
Emilio Portes Gil, Mexican teacher, journalist, lawyer and substitute
President of Mexico, 1928–1930 (d.
1978) •
October 8 •
Henrich Focke, German aviation pioneer (d.
1979) •
Eddie Rickenbacker, American race car driver and World War I fighter pilot (d.
1973) •
October 9 –
Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American Pentecostal Evangelist (d.
1944) •
October 13 –
Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer (d.
1968) •
October 14 –
Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th
President of the United States (d.
1969) •
October 16 •
Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d.
1922) •
Paul Strand, American photographer (d.
1976) •
October 17 –
Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d.
1928) •
October 20 –
Sherman Minton, American politician and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1965) •
October 23 –
Abdul Hamid Karami, 16th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.
1950) •
October 25 –
Floyd Bennett, American aviator and explorer (d.
1928) •
October 29 –
Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general (d.
1944)
November •
November 4 –
Saadi Al Munla, 17th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.
1975) •
November 7 •
Tomitarō Horii, Japanese general (d.
1942) •
Jan Matulka, American painter (d.
1972) •
November 9 –
Grigory Kulik, Soviet military officer,
Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.
1950) •
November 16 •
George Seldes, American investigative journalist (d.
1995) •
Elpidio Quirino, 6th
President of the Philippines (d.
1956) •
November 22 –
Charles de Gaulle,
President of France (d.
1970) •
November 23 –
El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d.
1941)
December •
December 5 •
David Bomberg, English painter (d.
1957) •
Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director, screenwriter and actor (d.
1976) •
December 6 –
Dion Fortune, British occultist (d.
1946) •
December 8 –
Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (d.
1959) •
December 10 •
László Bárdossy, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d.
1946) •
Henry Louis Larsen, American Marine Corps General;
Governor of American Samoa and
Governor of Guam (d.
1962) •
December 11 –
Carlos Gardel,
Argentine tango singer (d.
1935) •
December 17 –
Prince Joachim of Prussia (suicide
1920) •
December 20 –
Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1967) •
December 21 –
Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1967) •
December 25 –
Robert Ripley, American collector of odd facts (d.
1949) •
December 26 –
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and professor, 152nd
Prime Minister of Greece (d.
1973) •
December 30 –
Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot (d.
1916)
Date unknown •
Sava Caracaș, Romanian general (d.
1945) •
Hatı Çırpan, Turkish politician (d.
1956) •
Frederic Johnson, English civil servant (d.
1972) •
Arthur Herbert Thompson, English soldier and football player (d.
1916) == Deaths ==