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- January 1
- --- Artur Rodziński , Polish conductor (d. 1958 )
- --- Manuel Roxas , President of the Philippines (d. 1948 )
- January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien , professor and author of The Lord Of The Rings (d. 1973 )
- January 14
- --- Hal Roach , American film and television producer (d. 1992 )
- --- Martin Niemöller , Prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust (d. 1984 )
- January 18
- --- Oliver Hardy , American comedian and actor (d. 1957 )
- --- Paul Rostock , German surgeon (d. 1956 )
- January 19 - Ólafur Thors , Icelandic politician and five times prime minister (d. 1964 )
- January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch , German-born film director (d. 1947 )
- January 31 - Eddie Cantor , American actor, singer (d. 1964 )
- February 6 - William Parry Murphy , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1987 )
- February 13 - Grant Wood , American painter (d. 1942 )
- February 15 - James Forrestal , first United States Secretary Of Defense (d. 1949 )
- February 18 - Wendell Wilkie , U.S. Presidential candidate (d. 1944 )
- February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay , American writer (d. 1950 )
- February 27 - William Demarest , American actor (d. 1983 )
- March 10
- --- Arthur Honegger , French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955 )
- --- Gregory La Cava , American director, producer, and writer (d. 1952 )
- March 28 - Corneille Heymans , Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968 )
- March 30 - Stefan Banach , Polish mathematician (d. 1945 )
- April 6
- --- Donald Wills Douglas , American industrialist (d. 1981 )
- --- Lowell Thomas , American journalist (d. 1981 )
- April 8 - Mary Pickford , Canadian actress and studio founder (d. 1979 )
- April 12 - Johnny Dodds , American jazz clarinettist (d. 1940 )
- April 13 - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt , British (Scottish) inventor of the RADAR (d.December 5, 1973)
- April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre , French composer (d. 1983 )
- April 28 - Joseph Dunninger , American mentalist (d. 1975 )
- May 2 - Manfred Von Richthofen (the Red Baron), German fighter pilot (d. 1918 )
- May 3 - George Paget Thomson , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- May 7
- --- Archibald MacLeish , American poet (d. 1982 )
- --- Josip Broz Tito , President Of Yugoslavia (d. 1980 )
- May 9 - Zita Of Bourbon-Parma , Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989 )
- May 11 - Margaret Rutherford , English actress (d. 1972 )
- May 12 - Fritz Kortner , Austrian-born director (d. 1970 )
- May 16 - Manton S. Eddy , U.S. general (d. 1962 )
- May 18 - Ezio Pinza , Italian bass (d. 1957 )
- May 31 - Michel Kikoine , Belarusian painter (d. 1968 )
- June 21 - Reinhold Niebuhr , American theologian (d. 1971 )
- June 25 - Katherine K. Davis , American composer (d. 1980 )
- June 26 - Pearl S. Buck , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
- July 6 - Willy Coppens , Belgium flying ace from WWI (d. 1986 )
- July 8 - Richard Aldington , English poet (d. 1962 )
- July 11 - Thomas Mitchell , American actor (d. 1962 )
- July 12 - Bruno Schulz , Polish writer and painter (d. 1942 )
- July 23 - Haile Selassie I , Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975 )
- July 26 - Sad Sam Jones , baseball player (d. 1966 )
- July 29 - William Powell , American actor (d. 1984 )
- August 2 - Jack Warner , Canadian film producer (d. 1978 )
- August 8 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi , Spanish footballer (d. 1922 )
- August 11 - Hugh MacDiarmid , Scottish poet (d. 1978 )
- August 15 - Louis, 7th Duc De Broglie , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
- September 4 - Darius Milhaud , French composer (d. 1974 )
- September 5 - Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist (d. 1973 )
- September 6 - Edward Victor Appleton , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965 )
- September 10 - Arthur Compton , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962 )
- September 12 - Alfred A. Knopf , American publisher (d. 1984 )
- October 7 - Dwain Esper , Director (d. 1982 )
- October 9 - Ivo Andrić , Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- October 9 - Marina Tsvetaeva , Russian poet (d. 1941 )
- October 23 - Gummo Marx , American actor and comedian (d. 1977 )
- October 28 - Dink Johnson , American jazz musician (d. 1954 )
- October 30 - Charles Atlas , Italian-American Strongman and Sideshow performer (d. 1972 )
- October 31 - Alexander Alekhine , Russian chess champion (d. 1946 )
- November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane , British geneticist (d. 1964 )
- November 12 - Guo Moruo , Chinese author and poet (d. 1978 )
- November 16 - Tazio Nuvolari , Italian racing driver (d. 1953 )
- November 22 - Emma Tillman , briefly the world's oldest living person (d. 2007 )
- December 2 - Leo Ornstein , Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002 )
- December 4 - Francisco Franco , Spanish dictator (d. 1975 )
- December 6 - Osbert Sitwell , English writer (d. 1969 )
- December 8 - Bert Hinkler , Australian pioneer aviator (d. 1933 )
- December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung , Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929 )
- December 28 - Alfred Edwin McKay , Canadian World War One flying ace (d. 1917 )
- ''date unknown'' - Gerald Haxton , secretary and lover of the famous novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham (d. 1944 )
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- January 14 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke Of Clarence , second in line for the throne of the United Kingdom (b. 1864 )
- January 21 - John Couch Adams , English astronomer (b. 1819 )
- January 31 - Charles Spurgeon , English preacher (b. 1834 )
- February 5 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish novelist (b. 1807 )
- March 13 - Ludwig IV, Grand Duke Of Hesse And By Rhine
- March 16 - Samuel F. Miller , American politician (b. 1827 )
- March 26 - Walt Whitman , American poet (b. 1819 )
- April 4 - José María Castro Madriz , President of Costa Rica (b. 1818 )
- April 19 - Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC , Anglo-Catholic Clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821 )
- April 22 - Edouard Lalo , French composer (b. 1823 )
- April 25 - William Backhouse Astor, Jr. , American businessman (b. 1830 )
- April 26 - Sir Provo William Perry Wallis , British admiral and naval hero
- May 29 - Bahá'u'lláh , Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817 )
- June 9 - William Grant Stairs , Canadian explorer (b. 1863 )
- June 10 - Ezra Fitch & Daivid Abercrombie , Abercrombie & Fitch is established.(b. 1863 )
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