•
January 1 –
Boris Morros, an American
Communist Party member, Soviet agent, and
FBI double agent (d.
1963) •
January 3 –
Osip Mandelstam, poet (d.
1938) •
January 8 –
Bronislava Nijinska, ballet dancer (d.
1972) •
January 20 –
Mischa Elman, violinist (d.
1967) •
January 21 –
Nikolai Golovanov, conductor and composer (d.
1953) •
January 23 –
Abram Besicovitch, mathematician (d.
1970) •
February 14 –
Liubov Kemularia-Nathadze, botanist (d.
1985) •
February 18 –
Artur Artuzov, security officer and
spymaster of the Soviet Union (d.
1937) •
February 23 –
Vladimir Karelin, revolutionary, one of the organizers of the
Left Socialist Revolutionary Party (d.
1938) •
March 9 –
Arkadi Maslow, politician (d.
1941) •
March 17 –
Matvey Manizer, a sculptor (d.
1966) •
March 24 –
Sergey Vavilov,
physicist, the President of the
Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, brother of
Nikolai Vavilov (d.
1951) •
April 4 –
Lidija Liepiņa, a
physical chemist, professor (d.
1985) •
April 23 –
Sergei Prokofiev, composer (d.
1953) •
May 19 –
Hamo Beknazarian, film director, actor and screenwriter (d.
1965) •
May 26 –
Vladimir Lebedev, a painter, a political cartoonist and a poster artist (d.
1967) •
May 27 –
Jaan Kärner, a poet and writer (d.
1958) •
May 15 –
Mikhail Bulgakov, writer, medical doctor, and playwright (d.
1940) •
May 15 –
Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii, poet and writer, playwright (d.
1966) •
June 25 –
Pavel Lazimir, a Russian revolutionary and Soviet military leader (d.
1920) •
July 1 –
Aron Baron,
anarchist revolutionary (d.
1937) •
July 16 –
Boris Lavrenyov, a writer and playwright (d.
1959) •
July 29 –
Mikhail Zavadovsky, biologist (d.
1940) •
August 2 –
Viktor Zhirmunsky, literary historian and linguist (d.
1971) •
August 17 –
Aleksandr Kasyanov, composer, conductor, pianist and professor (d.
1982) •
September 3 –
Evgeny Messner, professional soldier and military theorist (d.
1974) •
September 11 –
Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, artist, graphic designer and sculptor (d.
1966) •
September 30 –
Mikhail Medvedev-Kudrin, a Russian revolutionary,
Chekist, direct participant in the
execution of the Romanov family (d.
1964) •
September 30 –
Ivan Mezhlauk, politician and statesman (d.
1938) •
October 5 –
Mykola Liubynsky, a politician and diplomat (d.
1938) •
October 19 –
Asja Lācis, an actress and theatre director (d.
1979) •
October 22 –
Hans Kruus, historian, academic and politician (d.
1976) •
October 26 –
Alexander Beloborodov,
Bolshevik revolutionary,
Soviet politician,
party figure and statesman (d.
1938) •
November 9 –
Rodion Kuzmin,
mathematician, known for his works in
number theory and
analysis (d.
1949) •
November 11 –
Lilya Brik, author and socialite, the lover and muse of
Vladimir Mayakovsky (d.
1978) •
November 12 –
Władysław Bortnowski, historian and military commander (d.
1966) •
November 20 –
Izrail Agol, geneticist and philosopher (d.
1937) •
November 29 –
Ivan Mikhailov, politician, economist, and
White émigré (d.
1946) •
December 9 –
Maksim Bahdanovič, poet, journalist,
translator,
literary critic and historian of literature (d.
1917) •
December 14 –
Nikolay Belov,
crystallographer and
geochemist (d.
1982) •
December 20 –
Maria Skobtsova, a
Russian noblewoman,
poet,
nun, and member of the
French Resistance during
World War II (d.
1945) •
December 25 –
Leonid Kubbel,
composer of
chess endgame studies and problems (d.
1942) •
December 30 –
Nina Koshetz,
operatic lyric
soprano,
recital singer, and the niece of
Alexander Koshetz (d.
1965) •
December 31 –
Mikhail Alafuso, general (d.
1937) ==Deaths==