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- September 3 - The first professional Football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania , between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
- September 18
- --- Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise Speech.
- ---D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, delivers the first chiropractic adjustment of the spine to Harvey Lillard, allegedly restoring his hearing and founding what would become the largest licensed non-medical doctorate level health care profession in the U.S.
- January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover , American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 1972 )
- January 15 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen , Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
- January 21 - Cristobal Balenciaga , Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972 )
- January 23 - Raymond Griffith , American actor (d. 1957 )
- January 24 - Eugen Roth , German writer (d. 1976 )
- January 30 - Wilhelm Gustloff , German-born Swiss Nazi party leader (d. 1936 )
- February 1 - John Ford , American film director (d. 1973 )
- February 2 - George Halas , American football player, coach, and co-founder of the National Football League (d. 1983 )
- February 6 - Babe Ruth , baseball player (d. 1948 )
- February 14 - Max Horkheimer , German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973 )
- February 15 - Earl Thomson , Canadian athlete (d. 1971 )
- February 21 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam , Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1976 )
- February 25 - Lew Andreas , American basketball coach (d. 1984 )
- March 3
- --- Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch , Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
- --- Matthew Ridgway , Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993 )
- March 4
- --- Shemp Howard , American actor and comedian (d. 1955 )
- --- Bjarne Brustad , Norwegian violinist, composer and teacher (d. 1978 )
- --- Milt Gross , American comic book illustrator and animator (d. 1953 )
- March 12 - William C. Lee , U.S. general (d. 1948 )
- March 20 - Robert Benoist , French race car driver and war hero (d. 1944 )
- March 28 - Spencer W. Kimball , twelfth president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985 )
- March 29 - Ernst Jünger , German author (d. 1998 )
- April 1 - Alberta Hunter , American singer (d. 1984 )
- April 3 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Italian composer (d. 1968 )
- April 9 - Mance Lipscomb , American singer (d. 1976 )
- April 15 - Corrado Alvaro , Italian writer a journalist (d. 1968 )
- April 15 - Clark McConachy , New Zealand snooker and billiards player (d. 1980 )
- April 20 - Emile Christian , American musician (d. 1973 )
- April 29 - Malcolm Sargent , English conductor (d. 1967 )
- May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino , Italian actor (d. 1926 )
- May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen , American Catholic archbishop and television personality (d. 1979 )
- May 12 - William Giauque , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982 )
- May 15 - William D. Byron , U.S. Congressman (d. 1941 )
- May 18 - Emma Carroll , the U.S. state of Iowa's oldest person (d. 2007 )
- May 30
- --- Nikolai Bulganin , Premier Of The Soviet Union (d. 1975 )
- --- Maurice Tate , English cricketer (d. 1956 )
- June 10 - Hattie McDaniel , American actress (d. 1952 )
- July 2 - Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi , Russian aircraft engineer (d. 1975 )
- July 8 - Igor Tamm , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- July 10 - Carl Orff , German composer (d. 1982 )
- July 12
- --- Kirstin Flagstad , Norwegian soprano (d. 1982 )
- --- Buckminster Fuller , American architect (d. 1983 )
- July 19 - Xu Beihong , Chinese painter (d. 1953 )
- July 24 - Robert Graves , English writer (d. 1985 )
- July 25 - Yvonne Printemps , French singer and actress (d. 1977 )
- July 26 - Gracie Allen , American actress and comedian (d. 1964 )
- August 16 - Liane Haid , Austrian actress (d. 2000 )
- August 24 - Tuanku Abdul Rahman , King Of Malaysia (d. 1960 )
- September 1 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar , Carnatic Musician (d. 1974 )
- September 7 - Sir Brian Horrocks , British general (d. 1985 )
- September 11 - Vinoba Bhave , Indian religious leader (d. 1982 )
- September 24 - André Frédéric Cournand , French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1988 )
- September 29 - Joseph Banks Rhine , American parapsychologist (d. 1980 )
- October 3 - Giovanni Comisso , Italian writer (d. 1969 )
- October 4 - Buster Keaton , American actor and film director (d. 1966 )
- October 6 - Caroline Gordon , American writer and critic (d. 1981 )
- October 8 - Juan Domingo Perón , President Of Argentina (d. 1974 )
- ---King Zog Of Albania (d. 1961 )
- October 10 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja , Indian religious leader (d. 1988 )
- October 13 - Cemal Gürsel , Turkish army officer, political leader and the 4th president of Turkey (d. 1966 )
- October 14 - Silas Simmons , Pre-Negro League Baseball Player, and oldest professional Baseball Player in 2006 . (d.2006)
- October 19 - Lewis Mumford , American historian (d. 1990 )
- October 21 - Edna Purviance , American actress (d. 1958 )
- October 22 - Rolf Nevanlinna , Finnish mathematician (d. 1980 )
- October 25 - Levi Eshkol , Prime Minister Of Israel (d. 1969 )
- October 30 - Gerhard Domagk , German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964 )
- October 30 - Dickinson W. Richards , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1973 )
- October 31 - Basil Liddell Hart , military historian (d. 1970 )
- November 5 - Walter Gieseking , German pianist (d. 1956 )
- November 10 - John Knudsen Northrop , American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981 )
- November 15 - Antoni Słonimski , Polish poet and writer (d. 1976 )
- November 16 - Paul Hindemith , German composer (d. 1963 )
- November 17 - Mikhail Bakhtin , Russian philosopher and literary scholar (d. 1975 )
- November 25
- --- Wilhelm Kempff , German pianist (d. 1991 )
- --- Helen Hooven Santmyer , American writer (d. 1986 )
- November 29 - Busby Berkeley , American film director and choreographer (d. 1976 )
- December 2 - Harriet Cohen , English pianist (d. 1967 )
- December 14
- --- Paul Eluard , French poet (d. 1952 )
- ---King George VI Of The United Kingdom (d. 1952 )
- ''date unknown'' - Ruth Manning-Sanders , children's author (d. 1988 )
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- January 9 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison , American watchmaker (b. 1812 )
- January 10 - Benjamin Godard , French composer (b. 1849 )
- January 24 - Lord Randolph Churchill , British statesman (b. 1849 )
- February 2 - Archduke Albert , Austrian general (b. 1817 )
- February 20 - Frederick Douglass , American ex-slave and author (b. 1818 )
- February 25 - Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare , politician (b. 1815 )
- February 26 - Salvador De Itúrbide Y De Marzán , Prince of Mexico (b. 1849 )
- March 2 - Berthe Morisot , French painter (b. 1841 )
- March 10 - Charles Frederick Worth , English-born couturier (b. 1826 )
- April 4 - Nikolai Baranov , Russian politician (b. 1843 )
- May 19 - José Martí , Cuban independence leader (b. 1853 )
- May 21 - Franz Von Suppé , Austrian composer (b. 1819 )
- May 26 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha , Ottoman statesman (b. 1822 )
- June 6 - Gustaf Nordenskiöld , Swedish explorer (b. 1868 )
- June 29
- --- Thomas Henry Huxley , English biologist (b. 1825 )
- --- Green Clay Smith , American politician (b. 1826 ).
- August 4 - Louis-Antoine Dessaulles , Quebec journalist and politician (b. 1818 )
- August 5 - Friedrich Engels , German socialist philosopher (b. 1820 )
- August 22 - Luzon B. Morris , American politician (b. 1827 )
- September 28 - Louis Pasteur , French microbiologist and chemist (b. 1822 )
- October 8 - Empress Myeongseong (Queen Min), last Korean empress (b. 1851 )
- October 25 - Charles Hallé , German-born pianist and conductor (b. 1819 )
- November 5 - Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan (b. 1847 )
- November 23 - Mauritz De Haas , marine painter (b. 1832 )
- November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, Fils , French author and playwright (b. 1824 )
- December 13 - Anyos Jedlik , Hungarian physicist, the inventor of the Dynamo
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