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- January 16 - Margaret Booth , American film editor (d. 2002 )
- January 21 - Ahmad Shah Qajar , Shah Of Persia (d. 1930 )
- January 22 - Elazar Shach , Haredi Rabbi (d. 2001 )
- January 23
- --- Sergei Eisenstein , Russian film director (d. 1948 )
- --- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán , Colombian politician (d. 1948 )
- January 26 - Katarzyna Kobro , Russian sculptor (d. 1951 )
- February 1 - Leila Denmark , US-American pediatrician
- February 3 - Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect (d. 1976 )
- February 10 - Bertolt Brecht , German writer (d. 1956 )
- February 11 - Leó Szilárd , Hungarian-American physicist (d. 1964 )
- February 14 - Fritz Zwicky , Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974 )
- February 15 - Allen Woodring , American runner (d. 1982 )
- February 18
- --- Enzo Ferrari , Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer (d. 1988 )
- --- Luis Muñoz Marín , Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d. 1980 )
- February 24 - Kurt Tank , German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983 )
- February 28 - Hugh O'Flaherty , Irish Catholic priest (d. 1963 )
- March 4 - Georges Dumézil , French philologist (d. 1940 )
- March 11 - Dorothy Gish , American actress (d. 1968 )
- March 14 - Arnold Chikobava , Georgian linguist (d. 1985 )
- March 31 - Hermann Van Pels , German-Dutch father of Peter Van Pels , housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1944 )
- April 1 - William James Sidis , American mathematician (d. 1944 )
- April 3 - George Jessel , American comedian (d. 1981 )
- April 4 - Agnes Ayres , American actress (d. 1940 )
- April 6 - Jeanne Hébuterne , French painter (d. 1920 )
- April 26
- --- Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984 )
- --- John Grierson , Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. 1972 )
- May 3 - Golda Meir , Prime Minister Of Israel (d. 1978 )
- May 5 - Elsie Eaves , American civil engineer, George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (d. 1983 )
- May 13 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah , King of Malaysia (d. 1960 )
- May 15 - Arletty , French model and actress (d. 1992 )
- May 16 - Tamara De Lempicka , Art Deco painter (d. 1980 )
- May 17 - Alfred Joseph Casson , Canadian painter (d. 1992 )
- May 21 - Armand Hammer , American entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1990 )
- May 23 - Scott O'Dell , American author (d. 1989 )
- May 31 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale , American clergyman (d. 1993 )
- June 4 - Harry Crosby , American publisher and poet (d. 1929 )
- June 5 - Federico García Lorca , Spanish poet (d. 1936 )
- June 6 - Ninette De Valois , Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. 2001 )
- June 17
- --- M. C. Escher , Dutch artist (d. 1972 )
- ---Henry Harry Patch , Last Tommy Atkins
- June 22 - Erich Maria Remarque , German writer (d. 1970 )
- July 2 - Gen Paul , French artist (d. 1975 )
- July 3 - Donald Healey , English motor engineer and race car driver (d. 1988 )
- July 6 - Hanns Eisler , German composer (d. 1962 )
- July 17
- --- Berenice Abbott , American photographer (d. 1991 )
- --- George Robert Vincent , American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985 )
- July 22
- --- Stephen Vincent Benét , American writer (d. 1943 )
- --- Alexander Calder , American artist (d. 1976 )
- July 28 - Lawrence Gray , American actor (d.1970)
- July 29 - Isidor Isaac Rabi , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968 )
- July 30 - Henry Moore , English sculptor (d. 1986 )
- August 15 - Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet (d. 1966 )
- August 26 - Peggy Guggenheim , American art collector (d. 1979 )
- August 29 - Preston Sturges , American director and writer (d. 1959 )
- September 7 - Justin Burnette leader of Scottish Rebellion(d. 1927 )
- September 13 - Roger Désormière , French conductor (d. 1963 )
- September 22 - Katherine Alexander , American actress (d. 1981 )
- September 24 - Howard Walter Florey , Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1968 )
- September 25 - Robert Brackman , American artist (d. 1980 )
- September 26 - George Gershwin , American composer (d. 1937 )
- September 29 - Trofim Lysenko , Russian biologist (d. 1976 )
- September 30
- --- Renée Adorée , French actress (d. 1933 )
- --- Princess Charlotte Of Monaco (d. 1977 )
- October 10
- --- Lilly Daché , French milliner (d. 1989 )
- --- Marie Pierre Koenig , French general and politician (d. 1970 )
- October 15 - Boughera El Ouafi , Algerian athlete (d. 1959 )
- October 18 - Lotte Lenya , Austrian actress and singer (d. 1981 )
- November 8 - Marie Prevost , Canadian actress (d. 1937 )
- November 12 - Leon Štukelj , Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d. 1999 )
- November 17 - Maurice Journeau , composer (d. 1999 )
- November 18 - Joris Ivens , Dutch director (d. 1989 )
- November 19 - Arthur R. Von Hippel , German-born physicist (d. 2003 )
- November 21 - René Magritte , Belgian artist (d. 1967 )
- November 26 - Karl Ziegler , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
- November 29 - C. S. Lewis , British author (d. 1963 )
- November 30 - Firpo Marberry , baseball pitcher (d. 1976 )
- December 2 - Indra Lal Roy , Indian World War I pilot (d. 1918 )
- December 6 - Alfred Eisenstaedt , American photojournalist (d. 1995 )
- December 19 - Zheng Zhenduo , Chinese author and translator (d. 1958 )
- December 20 - Irene Dunne , American actress (d. 1990 )
- December 24 - Baby Dodds , (d. 1959 )
- ''date unknown'' - Mariya Klenova , Russian marine geologist (d. 1976 )
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- January 14 - Lewis Carroll , British writer, mathematician (b. 1832 )
- January 16 - Charles Pelham Villiers longest-serving MP in the British House Of Commons (b. 1802 )
- January 18 - Henry George Lidell , Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811 )
- March 1 - George Bruce Malleson , Indian officer and author (b. 1825 )
- March 15 - Henry Bessemer , British engineer and inventor (b. 1813 )
- March 16 - Aubrey Beardsley , British artist (b. 1872 )
- March 18 - Matilda Joslyn Gage , American feminist (b. 1826 )
- March 27 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan , Indian university founder (b. 1817 )
- April 15 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui , Maori military leader
- April 18 - Gustave Moreau , French painter (b. 1826 )
- May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom {b. 1809 )
- July 1 - Siegfried Marcus , Austrian automobile pioneer (b. 1831 )
- July 12 - Louis-François Richer Laflèche , Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières , Native American missionary (b. 1818 )
- July 30 - Otto Von Bismarck , German statesman (b. 1815 )
- August 8 - Eugène Boudin , French painter (b. 1824 )
- September 2 - Wilford Woodruff , fourth president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807 )
- September 5 - Sarah Emma Edmundson , Canadian nurse and spy (b. 1841 )
- September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet (b. 1842 )
- September 16 - Ramón Emeterio Betances , Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827 )
- September 20 - Theodor Fontane , German writer (b. 1819 )
- September 28 - Tan Sitong , Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b. 1865 )
- October 24 - Pierre Puvis De Chavannes , French painter (b. 1824 )
- November 2 - George Goyder , surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826 )
- December 24 - Sharbel Makhluf , Lebanese monk (b. 1828 )
: ''See also .''
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