January–February •
January 3 •
Marion Davies, American actress (d.
1961) •
Pola Negri, Polish-born American actress (d.
1987) •
January 6 –
Ferenc Szálasi, 37th prime minister of Hungary (d.
1946) •
January 8 –
Dennis Wheatley, English writer (d.
1977) •
January 11 –
Georges Stuttler, French footballer (d.
1976) •
January 14 –
Hasso von Manteuffel, German general, politician (d.
1978) •
January 23 •
Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian political leader, led the
Indian National Army (d.
1945?) •
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect, anti-Nazi activist (d.
2000) •
January 26 –
Yakov Alksnis, Soviet aviator, commander of the Red Army Air Forces (d.
1938) •
January 28 –
Ivan Stedeford, British industrialist (d.
1975) •
February 1 –
Denise Robins, British romance novelist (d.
1985) •
February 4 –
Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (d.
1977) •
February 8 –
Zakir Husain, Indian politician, 3rd
President of India (d.
1969) •
February 9 –
Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator famous for his trans-Pacific flight (d.
1935) •
February 10 •
Judith Anderson, Australian-born British actress (d.
1992) •
John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1985) •
February 19 –
Elizabeth Rummel, German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist (d.
1980) •
February 21 –
Celia Lovsky, Austrian-born American actress (d.
1979) •
February 25 –
Peter Llewelyn Davies, British publisher, inspiration for
Peter Pan (d.
1960) •
February 27 •
Marian Anderson, African-American contralto (d.
1993) •
Ferdinand Heim, World War II German general (
Scapegoat of Stalingrad) d.
1977)
March–April •
March 1 –
Shoghi Effendi, Ottoman Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (d.
1957) •
March 4 –
Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player, restaurateur (d.
1969) •
March 5 –
Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d.
1960) •
March 11 –
Henry Cowell, American avant-garde composer (d.
1965) •
March 16 –
Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian (d.
1956) •
March 18 –
John Langdon-Davies, British writer (d.
1971) •
March 19 –
Betty Compson, American actress (d.
1974) •
March 24 –
Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (d.
1957) •
March 28 •
Frank Hawks, American aviator (d.
1938) •
Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d.
1977) •
March 31 –
Oto Iskandar di Nata, Indonesian politician (d.
1945) •
April 7 •
Erich Löwenhardt, German World War I fighter ace (d.
1918) •
Walter Winchell, American broadcast journalist (d.
1972) •
April 8 –
Herbert Lumsden, British general (d.
1945) •
April 10 –
Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician and
Chief Minister of West Bengal (d.
1990) •
April 13 –
Werner Voss, German World War I fighter ace (d.
1917) •
April 17 –
Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d.
1975) •
April 19 •
Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, world's longest lived man, last surviving man born in the 19th century and last surviving person born in 1897 (d.
2013) •
Vivienne Segal, American actress (d.
1992) •
April 20 –
Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Indian Vedic scholar and longevity claimant (d.
2020) •
April 21 –
A. W. Tozer, American Protestant pastor (d.
1963) •
April 23 –
Lester B. Pearson, 14th
Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1972) •
April 24 –
Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican general, politician, and 45th
President of Mexico, 1940-1946 (d.
1955) •
April 25 –
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, British princess (d.
1965) •
April 26 •
Eddie Eagan, American boxer, bobsledder (d.
1967) •
Douglas Sirk, German film director (d.
1987)
May–June •
May 2 –
John Frederick Coots, American songwriter (d.
1985) •
May 4 –
Phelps Phelps, 38th
Governor of American Samoa,
United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (d.
1981) •
May 10 –
Einar Gerhardsen, 15th prime minister of Norway (d.
1987) •
May 12 –
Earle Nelson, American serial killer and rapist (d.
1928) •
May 14 –
Sidney Bechet, American-born jazz saxophonist (d.
1959) •
May 17 •
Laura Bromwell, American stunt pilot (d.
1921) •
Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1981) •
May 18 –
Frank Capra, American film producer, director and writer (d.
1991) •
May 19 –
Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d.
1918) •
May 27 –
John Cockcroft, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1967) •
May 29 –
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d.
1957) •
June 2 –
Tan Malaka, Indonesian teacher, philosopher, founder of Struggle Union and Murba Party, guerilla and fighter (d.
1949) •
June 5 –
Charles Hartshorne, American philosopher, theologian and ornithologist (d.
2000) •
June 7 •
Kirill Meretskov, Soviet military officer,
Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.
1968) •
George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d.
1970) •
June 8 •
John G. Bennett, British mathematician (d.
1974) •
Mariano Suárez, 27th president of Ecuador (d.
1980) •
June 10 –
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d.
1918) •
June 11 –
Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary (
H.R.A. founder) (d.
1927) •
June 12 –
Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1977) •
June 13 –
Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d.
1973) •
June 16 –
Georg Wittig, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1987) •
June 19 •
Cyril N. Hinshelwood, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1967) •
Moe Howard, American comedian, actor (
The Three Stooges) (d.
1975) •
June 22 •
Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d.
1990) •
Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster, journalist (d.
1973) •
June 24 –
Daniel K. Ludwig, American businessman; billionaire philanthropist (d.
1992) •
June 26 –
Viola Dana, American actress (d.
1987)
July–August •
July 1 –
Bert Schneider, Canadian boxer (d.
1986) •
July 5 –
Mogens Wöldike, Danish conductor (d.
1988) •
July 9 –
Albert Coady Wedemeyer, American general (d.
1989) •
July 10 –
John Gilbert, American actor (d.
1936) •
July 11 –
Bull Connor, American civil rights opponent (d.
1973) •
July 14 –
Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai field marshal, prime minister, and dictator (d.
1964) •
July 20 –
Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1996) •
July 24 –
Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d.
1937) •
July 28 –
James Fairbairn, Australian pastoralist, aviator, and politician (d.
1940) •
July 29 – Sir
Neil Ritchie, British WWII general (d.
1983) •
August 4 –
José Nucete Sardi, Venezuelan historian and diplomat (d. 1972) •
August 5 –
Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d.
1972) •
August 10 –
Jack Haley, American actor (d.
1979) •
August 11 –
Enid Blyton, British children's writer (d.
1968) •
August 15 –
Jane Ingham, English botanist and scientific translator (d.
1982) •
August 16 •
Carlo Del Prete, Italian aviator (d.
1928) •
Hersch Lauterpacht, Ukrainian-born international lawyer (d.
1960) •
August 22 –
Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (d.
1986) •
August 26 –
Yun Posun, 2nd president of South Korea (d.
1990) •
August 31 –
Fredric March, American actor (d.
1975)
September–October •
September 7 –
Al Sherman, Russian-born American
Tin Pan Alley songwriter (d.
1973) •
September 8 –
Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (d.
1933) •
September 10 –
Otto Strasser, German Nazi politician (d.
1974) •
September 12 –
Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
1956) •
September 13 –
Michel Saint-Denis, French-born actor, theatre director, drama theorist and radio broadcaster (d.
1971) •
September 15 –
Kurt Daluege, German Nazi officer, war criminal (d.
1946) •
September 20 –
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, 26th
President of Brazil (d.
1967) •
September 22 –
Frank O'Connor, American actor, rancher, and painter (d. 1979) •
September 23 –
Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d.
1984) •
September 25 –
William Faulkner, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1962) •
September 26 •
Pope Paul VI (d.
1978) •
Arthur Rhys-Davids, British World War I fighter ace (d.
1917) •
September 30 –
Alfred Wintle, British army officer, eccentric (d.
1966) •
October 3 –
Louis Aragon, French author (d.
1982) •
October 7 –
Elijah Muhammad, African-American co-founder of the Nation of Islam (d.
1975) •
October 8 –
Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film, theatre director (d.
1987) •
October 15 –
Johannes Sikkar, Estonian statesman (d.
1960) •
October 20 –
Yi Un, Korean Crown Prince (d.
1970) •
October 28 –
Edith Head, American costume designer (d.
1981) •
October 29 –
Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi propagandist (d.
1945) •
October 30 –
Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and interpreter of songs and boleros (d.
1970)
November–December •
November 4 –
Dmitry Pavlov, Soviet general (d.
1941) •
November 9 –
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1978) •
November 12 –
Milward Simpson, American politician, governor and senator from Wyoming (d.
1993) •
November 15 •
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt, English author (d.
1988) •
Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (d.
1960) •
November 18 –
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1974) •
November 19 –
Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of American President
Theodore Roosevelt, killed in action as fighter pilot (d.
1918) •
November 23 –
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali author (d.
1999) •
November 24 –
Lucky Luciano, Sicilian-American Mafia boss
Salvatore Lucania (d.
1962) •
November 26 –
Robert Accard, French footballer (d.
1971) •
November 30 –
Virginia Henderson, American nurse theorist (d.
1996) •
December 2 –
Dean Alfange, American politician (d.
1989) •
December 5 –
Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher, historian (d.
1982) •
December 9 –
Hermione Gingold, English actress (d.
1987) •
December 14 •
Kurt Schuschnigg, 11th Chancellor of Austria (d.
1977) •
Margaret Chase Smith, American politician, U.S. Senator from
Maine ( d.
1995 ) •
December 18 –
Fletcher Henderson, American musician (d.
1952) •
December 24 –
Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French supercentenarian; last surviving officially recognized French veteran of the First World War (d.
2008) •
December 31 –
Rhys Williams, Welsh actor (d.
1969)
Date unknown •
Abd-al Karim, Afghan emir (d.
1927) •
Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai, Afghan revolutionary and decorated War Hero of the
Afghan War of Independence (d.
1937) == Deaths ==