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- January 4 - Yone Minagawa , world's oldest person (d. 2007 )
- January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda , Indian guru (d. 1952 )
- January 12
- --- Hermann Göring , Nazi official (d. 1946 )
- --- Alfred Rosenberg , Nazi official (d. 1946 )
- January 15 - Ivor Novello , Welsh actor and musician (d. 1951 )
- January 22 - Conrad Veidt , German actor (d. 1943 )
- January 27 - Soong Ching-ling (宋慶齡), one of the Soong Sisters , wife of Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙, 孫文) (d. 1981 )
- February 3 - Gaston Julia , French mathematician (d. 1978 )
- February 10 - Jimmy Durante , American actor, singer, and comedian (d. 1980 )
- February 12 - Omar Bradley , American general (d. 1981 )
- February 13 - Ana Pauker , Romanian communist politician (d. 1960 )
- February 16 - Katharine Cornell , American actress (d. 1974 )
- February 21 - Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist (d. 1987 )
- March 1 - Mercedes De Acosta , American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968 )
- March 3
- --- Beatrice Wood , American artist and ceramicist (d. 1998 )
- --- Ivon Hitchens , English painter (d. 1979 )
- March 11 - Wanda Gag , children's Author and Artist (d. 1946 )
- March 18 - Wilfred Owen , English soldier and poet (d. 1918 )
- March 26 - Palmiro Togliatti , Italian communist leader (d. 1964 )
- April 3 - Leslie Howard , English actor (d. 1943 )
- April 9 - Victor Gollancz , British publisher (d. 1967 )
- April 12 - Robert Harron , American actor (d. 1920 )
- April 20 - Harold Lloyd , American actor (d. 1971 )
- April 20 - Edna Parker , world's oldest person (fluorit Aug 15 2007)
- April 23 - Allen Dulles , American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969 )
- April 29 - Harold C. Urey , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981 )
- May 3 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia , Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975 )
- May 26 - Norma Talmadge , American actress (d. 1957 )
- May 23 - Ulysses S. Grant IV , American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977 )
- June 14 - Siggie Nordstrom , model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (d. 1980 )
- June 24 - Roy Oliver Disney , brother and business partner of Walter Elias Disney (d. 1971 )
- June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy , American blues singer and composer (d. 1958 )
- July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt , American musician (d. 1966 )
- July 4 - Norman Washington Manley , Jamaican statesman (d. 1969 )
- July 9 - George Geary , English cricketer (d. 1981 )
- July 20 - George Llewelyn-Davies , one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (d. 1915 )
- July 25 - Dorothy Dickson , American-born actress and socialite (d. 1995 )
- July 30 - Fatima Jinnah , Pakistani Mother Of The Nation (d. 1967 )
- August 6 - Wright Patman , American politician (d. 1976 )
- August 15 - Leslie Comrie , New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950 )
- August 17 - Mae West , American Actress , Playwright , Screenwriter , and Sex Symbol (d. 1980 )
- August 22
- --- Dorothy Parker , American writer (d. 1967 )
- --- Wilfred Kitching , the 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977 )
- August 25 - Henry Trendley Dean , American dental researcher (d. 1962 )
- August 30 - Huey Long , Louisiana governor and senator (d. 1935 )
- September 12 - Frederick William Franz , a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 4th President of Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (d. 1992 )
- September 13 - Larry Shields , American musician (d. 1953 )
- September 16 - Albert Szent-Györgyi , Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
- September 18 - William March , American writer and soldier (d. 1954 )
- September 30 - Lansdale Sasscer , U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1964 )
- October 1 - Marianne Brandt , German industrial designer (d. 1983 )
- October 9 - Mário De Andrade , Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945 )
- October 14 - Lillian Gish , American actress (d. 1993 )
- October 15 - King Carol II Of Romania (d. 1953 )
- October 16 - Harry Donenfeld , Publisher who once owned DC Comics (d. 1965 )
- October 18 - Georges Ohsawa , Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966 )
- October 23 - Gummo Marx , American comedian and actor (d. 1977 )
- November 3 - Edward Adelbert Doisy , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1986 )
- November 8 - Clarence Williams , American jazz musician (d. 1965 )
- November 8 - Prajadhipok , Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941 )
- November 10 - John P. Marquand , American novelist (d. 1960 )
- December 8 - Pierre Etchebaster , French real tennis player (d. 1980 )
- December 24 - Ruth Chatterton , American actress (d. 1961 )
- December 26 - Mao Zedong , Chinese leader (d. 1976 )
- December 29 - Berthold Bartosch , Bohemian animator (d. 1968 )
- ''date unknown'' - Clement Martyn Doke , South African linguist (d. 1980 )
: ''See also .''
- January 2 - John Obadiah Westwood , British entomologist (b. 1805 )
- January 7 - Jožef Stefan , Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (b. 1835 )
- January 17 - Rutherford B. Hayes , 19th President Of The United States (b. 1822 )
- January 23 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar , U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1825 )
- February 1 - George Henry Sanderson , Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824 )
- February 18 - Serranus Clinton Hastings , American politician (b. 1814 )
- February 20 - P.G.T. Beauregard , American Confederate general (b. 1818 )
- March 16 - William H. Illingworth , American photographer (b. 1844 )
- March 30 - Jane Sym-Mackenzie , second wife of Canada's second prime minister (b. 1825 )
- April 8 - August Czartoryski , Polish prince (b. 1858 )
- June 14 - Jakob Frohschammer , theologian and philosopher (b. 1821 )
- June 21 - Amasa Leland Stanford , Governor of California (b. 1824 )
- June 23 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone , South African statesman (b. 1817 )
- July 2 - Georgiana Drew , actress-comedienne, mother of Ethel, Lionel & John.
- July 16 - Antonio Ghislanzoni , poet and novelist (b. 1824 )
- July 17 - Frederick A. Johnson , American politician (b. 1833 )
- August 6 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811 )
- August 7 - Alfredo Catalani , composer (b. 1854 )
- October 6 - Ford Madox Brown , painter (b. 1821 )
- October 8 - John Willis Menard , African-American politician (b. 1838 )
- October 10 - Lip Pike , baseball player (b. 1845 )
- October 18 - Charles Gounod , French composer (b. 1818 )
- October 22 - Duleep Singh , ruler of Punjab (b. 1838 )
- October 30 - Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott , Canadian politician (b. 1821 )
- November 6 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer (b. 1840 )
- November 22 - James Calder , 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826 )
: ''See also .''
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