- July 25 - Frank McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City who was purportedly the only person using Touch Typing at the time, won a decisive victory over Louis Taub in a Typing Contest held in Cincinnati. This date can be called as the birthday of touch typing method that is widely used now.
- July 27 - British Parliament passes an act that permits Bicycle s on road on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway. The law is abolished 1930
- January 1 - Victor Goldschmidt , Swiss geochemist (d. 1947 )
- January 8 - Matt Moore , Irish-born actor (d. 1960 )
- January 24 - Vicki Baum , Austrian writer (d. 1960 )
- --- Ernst Heinkel , German aircraft designer (d. 1958 )
- February 2 - Frederick Lane , Australian swimmer (d. 1969 )
- February 17 - Otto Stern , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969 )
- February 19 - José Eustasio Rivera , Colombian writer (d. 1928 )
- February 20 - Georges Bernanos , French writer (d. 1948 )
- February 25 - John Foster Dulles , United States Secretary Of State (d. 1959 )
- February 27 - Lotte Lehmann , German singer (d. 1976 )
- March 1 - Ewart Astill , English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d. 1948 )
- March 4 - Knute Rockne , American football player and coach (d. 1931 )
- March 10 - Barry Fitzgerald , Irish actor (d. 1966 )
- March 26 - Elsa Brändström , Russian nurse (d. 1948 )
- April 4 - Tris Speaker , Baseball Hall Of Fame r (d. 1958 )
- April 6 - Hans Richter , German filmmaker (d. 1976 )
- April 18 - Duffy Lewis , Major League Baseball player (d. 1979 )
- April 26 - Anita Loos , American writer (d. 1981 )
- April 27 - Florence La Badie , Canadian actress (d. 1917 )
- May 10 - Karl Barth , Protestant theologian (d. 1968 )
- --- Max Steiner , Austrian-American composer (d. 1971 )
- May 11 - Irving Berlin , American composer (d. 1989 )
- May 17 - Tich Freeman , English cricketer (d. 1965 )
- May 23 - Zack Wheat , Baseball Hall Of Fame r (d. 1972 )
- May 25 - Miles Malleson , English actor (d. 1969 )
- May 27 - Louis Durey , French composer (d. 1979 )
- June 3 - Tom Brown , American jazz musician (d. 1958 )
- June 6 - Pete Wendling , American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. 1974 )
- June 9 - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite , Australian illustrator (d. 1960 )
- June 13 - Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese writer (d. 1935 )
- June 24 - Gerrit Rietveld , Dutch architect (d. 1964 )
- June 27 - Antoinette Perry , New York Stage Director, Tony Award named for her (d. 1946 }
- July 5 - Herbert Spencer Gasser , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963 )
- July 10 - Giorgio Chirico , Italian painter (d. 1978 )
- July 16 - Frits Zernike , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966 )
- July 17 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970 )
- July 22 - Selman Waksman , Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1973 )
- July 23 - Raymond Chandler , American-born novelist (d. 1959 )
- August 14 - John Logie Baird , Scottish inventor (d. 1946 )
- August 16 - Armand J. Piron , American jazz musician (d. 1943 )
- August 16 - T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d. 1935 )
- September 5 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , President Of India (d. 1975 )
- September 6 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. , American politician (d. 1969 )
- September 12 - Maurice Chevalier , French singer and actor (d. 1972 )
- September 16 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää , Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964 )
- September 26 - J. Frank Dobie , American folklorist and journalist (d. 1964 )
- September 26 - T. S. Eliot , American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965 )
- October 6 - Roland Garros , French pilot (d. 1918 )
- October 7 - Henry A. Wallace , Vice President Of The United States (d. 1965 )
- October 8 - Ernst Kretschmer , German psychiatrist (d. 1964 )
- October 9 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , Russian politician (d. 1938 )
- October 16 - Eugene O'Neill , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953 )
- October 16 - Paul Popenoe , American eugenicist (d. 1979 )
- November 7 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman , Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 )
- November 15 - Harald Sverdrup , Norwegian scientist (d. 1957 )
- November 15 - José Raúl Capablanca , World Chess Champion 1921-1927 (d. 1942 )
- November 23 - Harpo Marx , American comedian (d. 1964 )
- November 26 - Francisco Canaro , Uruguayan-born violinist and composer (d. 1964 )
- November 30 - Ralph Hartley , American electronics researcher and inventor (d. 1970 )
- December 4 - King Alexander Of Yugoslavia (d. 1934 )
- December 7 - Joyce Cary , Northern Irish author (d. 1957 )
- December 19 - Fritz Reiner , Hungarian conductor (d. 1963 )
- December 28 - F.W. Murnau , German film director (d. 1931 )
- January 19 - Anton De Bary , German biologist (b. 1831 )
- January 29 - Edward Lear , British artist and writer (b. 1812 )
- January 31 - John Bosco , Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815 )
- February 3 - Henry Maine , British jurist (b. 1822 )
- March 6 - Louisa May Alcott , American novelist (b. 1832 )
- March 9 - German Emperor Wilhelm I (b. 1797 )
- March 12 - Henry Bergh , founder of the American Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (b. 1811 )
- March 23 - Morrison Waite , Chief Justice Of The United States (b. 1816 )
- April 15 - Matthew Arnold , English poet (b. 1822 )
- April 15 - Father Damien , Belgian priest (b. 1811 )
- June 15 - German Emperor Friedrich III (b. 1831 )
- July 20 - Paul Langerhans , German pathologist and biologist (b. 1847 )
- August 9 - Charles Cros , French poet (b. 1831 )
- August 23 - Philip Henry Gosse , British scientist (b. 1810 )
- August 24 - Rudolf Clausius , German physicist, contributions to Thermodynamics (b. 1822 )
- October 16 - John Wentworth , Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815 )
- October 16 - Horatio Spafford , author of hymn ''"It is well with my soul"''
- December 31 - Samson Raphael Hirsch , German rabbi (b. 1808 )
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