Year (''' MDCCCLXXX ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 6 - Tom Mix , American actor (d. 1940 )
- January 17 - Mack Sennett , Canadian director and producer (d. 1960 )
- January 26 - Douglas MacArthur , American general (d. 1964 )
- January 28 - Herbert Strudwick , English cricketer (d. 1970 )
- January 29 - W.C. Fields , American actor (d. 1946 )
- February 5 - Gabriel Voisin , French aviation pioneer (d. 1973 )
- February 8 - Franz Marc , German artist (d. 1916 )
- February 12 - George Preca , 1st Maltese Saint (d. 1962 )
- February 12 - John L. Lewis , American labor union leader (d. 1969 )
- February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels , German writer (d. 1952 )
- February 22 - Frigyes Riesz , Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956 )
- March 1 - Giles Lytton Strachey , British writer and biographer (d. 1932 )
- March 4 - Channing Pollock (writer) , American playwright and critic (d. 1946 )
- March 10 - Bronco Billy Anderson , American actor (d. 1971 )
- March 11 - Harry H. Laughlin , American Eugenicist (d. 1943 )
- March 22 - Kuniaki Koiso , Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 1950 )
- March 23 - Heikki Ritavuori , Finnish Minister of Interior (d. 1922 )
- March 30 - Sean O'Casey , Irish writer (d. 1964 )
- April 13 - Charles Christie , Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955 )
- April 15 - Max Wertheimer , Father of Gestalt Theory (d. 1943 )
- April 18 - Sam Crawford , Baseball Hall Of Fame r (d. 1968 )
- May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , German painter (d. 1938 )
- May 14 - B.C. Forbes , Scottish-born financial publisher (d. 1954 )
- May 21 - Tudor Arghezi , Romanian writer (d. 1967 )
- May 25
- --- Jean Alexandre Barré , French neurologist (d. 1967 )
- --- Alf Common , English footballer (d. 1946 )
- May 29 - Oswald Spengler , German philosopher (d. 1936 )
- June 3 - Didier Bonvitesse , Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 1945 )
- June 6 - W.T. Cosgrave , Irish politician (d. 1965 )
- June 17 - Carl Van Vechten , American writer and photographer (d. 1964 )
- June 21 - Josiah Stamp , 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941 )
- June 27 - Helen Keller , American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968 )
- July 5 - Jan Kubelík , Czech violinist (d. 1940 )
- July 21 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik , Slovak General, politician, and astronomer (d. 1919 ).
- July 24
- --- Ernest Bloch , Swiss-born composer (d. 1959 )
- --- Kristian Hellström , Swedish athlete (d. 1946 )
- August 6 - Hans Moser , Austrian actor (d. 1964 )
- August 8 - Earle Page , eleventh Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1961 )
- August 10 - Robert L. Thornton , American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964 )
- August 22 - George Herriman , American cartoonist (d. 1944 )
- August 26 - Guillaume Apollinaire , French poet (d. 1918 )
- August 30 - Nikolai Astrup , Norwegian painter (d. 1928 )
- August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina Of The Netherlands (d. 1962 )
- September 12 - H. L. Mencken , American journalist (d. 1956 )
- September 14 - Archie Hahn , American athlete (d. 1955 )
- September 16 - Alfred Noyes , English poet (d. 1958 )
- September 22 - Christabel Pankhurst , English suffragette (d. 1958 )
- September 23 - John Boyd Orr , Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971 )
- September 24 - Sarah Knauss , American woman, notable for living 119 years (d. 1999 )
- October 23 - Una O'Connor , Irish actress (d. 1959 )
- November 1
- --- Grantland Rice , American sportswriter (d. 1954 )
- --- Alfred Wegener , German scientist and meteoroligist
- November 2 - John Foulds , British classical music composer (d. 1939 )
- November 5 - Richard Oswald , Austrian film director (d. 1963 )
- November 6 - Robert Musil , Austrian novelist (d. 1942 )
- November 10 - Jacob Epstein , American-born sculptor (d. 1959 )
- December 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor , Russian Zionist (d. 1920 )
- December 4 - Garfield Wood , American motorboat racer (d. 1971 )
- December 11 - Frank Tarrant , Australian cricketer (d. 1951 )
- December 24 - Johnny Gruelle , American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 1938 )
- December 31 - George Marshall , United States Secretary Of State , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- William J. Simmons , Founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (d. 1945 )
- --- D. Leigh Colvin , American Temperance Movement leader and Prohibition Party candidate for presidency in 1936 (d. ?)
- --- Reginald John Farrer , English botanist (d. 1920 )
- --- Li Shutong , Chinese artist and art teacher (d. 1942 )
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- July 7 - Lydia Child , American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802 )
- July 17 - Tomasz Chołodecki , Polish political activist (b. 1813 )
- July 21 - Hiram Walden , American politician (b. 1800 )
- August 15 - Adelaide Neilson , English actress (b. 1847 )
- August 17 - Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist (b. 1810 )
- October - Victorio , Apache chief
- October 4 - Jacques Offenbach , German-born composer (b. 1819 )
- November 11 - Ned Kelly , Australian bush ranger (hanged)
- November 28 - Aires De Ornelas E Vasconcelos , ( Portuguese ) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837 )
- December 22 - George Eliot , English Writer (b. 1819 )
- unknown - Károly Alexy , a Sculptor .
: ''See also .''
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