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- January 1 - Buster Nupen , South African cricketer (d. 1977 )
- January 9
- --- Rudolph Bing , Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997 )
- --- Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975 )
- January 11 - Maurice Duruflé , French composer (d. 1986 )
- January 12 - King Saud Of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969 )
- January 16 - Eric Liddell , Scottish runner (d. 1945 )
- January 20 - Kevin Barry , Irish republican (d. 1920 )
- January 22 - Daniel Kinsey , American hurdler (d. 1970 )
- January 24 - E. A. Speiser , American Bible scholar (d. 1965 )
- January 25 - André Beaufre , French general (d. 1975 )
- January 26 - Menno Ter Braak , Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940 )
- January 31
- --- Tallulah Bankhead , American actress (d. 1968 )
- --- Alva Myrdal , Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986 )
- February 1 - Langston Hughes , American writer (d. 1967 )
- February 4
- --- Charles Lindbergh , American aviator (d. 1974 )
- --- Hartley Shawcross , British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 2003 )
- February 6 - George Brunies , American jazz trombonist (d. 1974 )
- February 8 - Demchugdongrub , Mongolian politician (d. 1966 )
- February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
- February 11 - Arne Jacobsen , Danish architect and designer (d. 1971 )
- February 19
- --- Kay Boyle , American writer (d. 1992 )
- --- Eddie Peabody , American musician (d. 1970 )
- February 20 - Ansel Adams , American photographer (d. 1984 )
- February 26 - Albert Anastasia , American gangster (d. 1957 )
- February 27
- --- Gene Sarazen , American golfer (d. 1999 )
- --- John Steinbeck , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968 )
- March 7 - Heinz Rühmann , German actor (d. 1994 )
- March 9 - Will Geer , American actor (d. 1978 )
- March 16 - Leon Roppolo , American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943 )
- March 17 - Bobby Jones , American golfer (d. 1971 )
- March 21 - Son House , American musician (d. 1988 )
- March 24 - Thomas Dewey , American politician (d. 1971 )
- March 28 - Dame Flora Robson , English actress (d. 1984 )
- March 29
- --- William Walton , English composer (d. 1983 )
- --- Marcel Aymé , French writer (d. 1967 )
- March 30 - Brooke Astor , American socialite and philanthropist (d. 2007 )
- April 4 - Louise Leveque De Vilmorin , French actress (d. 1969 )
- April 4 - Stanley G. Weinbaum , American science-fiction author (d. 1935 )
- April 8 - Andrew Irvine , British mountaineer, disappeared on Mount Everest (d. 1924 )
- April 12 - Louis Beel , Prime Minister Of The Netherlands (d. 1977 )
- April 23 - Halldór Laxness , Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
- April 25 - Werner Heyde , German psychiatrist (d. 1964 )
- April 30 - Theodore Schultz , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
- May 3 - Alfred Kastler , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984 )
- May 6
- --- Max Ophüls , German-born director (d. 1957 )
- --- Harry Golden , American journalist (d. 1981 )
- May 8 - Andre Michael Lwoff , French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1994 )
- May 10
- --- Anatole Litvak , Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974 )
- --- David O. Selznick , Hollywood film producer (d. 1965 )
- May 15 - Richard J. Daley , Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976 )
- May 18 - Meredith Willson , American composer (d. 1984 )
- May 21
- --- Earl Averill , baseball player (d. 1983 )
- --- Marcel Lajos Breuer , Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981 )
- May 22 - Al Simmons , baseball player (d. 1956 )
- June 18 - Barbara McClintock , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1992 )
- June 28 - Richard Rodgers , American composer (d. 1979 )
- July 4
- --- George Murphy , American dancer, actor, and US Senator from California (d. 1992 )
- --- Meyer Lansky , Russian-born mobster (d. 1983 )
- July 10 - Kurt Alder , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958 )
- July 28
- --- Karl Raimund Popper , Austrian philosopher (d. 1994 )
- --- Albert Namatjira , Australian painter (d. 1959 )
- August 2 - Pope Cyril VI Of Alexandria , Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1971 )
- August 4 - Clara Peller , American actress (d. 1987 )
- August 8 - Paul Dirac , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984 )
- August 9 - Zino Francescatti , French violinist (d. 1991 )
- August 10
- --- Norma Shearer , Canadian actress (d. 1983 )
- --- Arne Tiselius , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- August 11 - Alfredo Binda , Italian cyclist (d. 1986 )
- August 18 - Adamson-Eric , Estonian artist (d. 1968 )
- August 19 - Ogden Nash , American poet (d. 1971 )
- August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl , German film director (d. 2003 )
- August 24 - Carlo Gambino , American gangster (d. 1976 )
- August 25 - Stefan Wolpe , German-born composer (d. 1972 )
- September 12 - Juscelino Kubitschek De Oliveira , President Of Brazil (d. 1976 )
- September 14 - Giorgos Papasideris , Greek Country Singer , Composer and Lyricist (d. 1977 )
- September 21 - Luis Cernuda , Spanish Poet (d. 1963 )
- September 22 - John Houseman , Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988 )
- September 24 - Ruhollah Khomeini , Iranian Shia cleric (d. 1989 )
- September 29 - Miguel Alemán Valdés , President Of Mexico (d. 1983 )
- October 5
- --- Larry Fine , American actor and comedian (d. 1975 )
- --- Ray Kroc , American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984 )
- October 13 - Arna Wendell Bontemps , American writer (d. 1973 )
- October 18
- --- Miriam Hopkins , American actress (d. 1972 )
- --- Pascual Jordan , German physicist (d. 1980 )
- October 25 - Eddie Lang , American jazz guitarist (d. 1933 )
- November - Peter Pitseolak , Inuit photographer and author (d. 1973 )
- November 1 - Eugen Jochum , German conductor (d. 1987 )
- November 2 - Princess Mafalda Of Savoy (d. 1944 )
- November 9 - Anthony Asquith , British film director (d. 1968 )
- November 17 - Eugene Wigner , Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- November 21 - Mikhail Suslov , Soviet politician and Politburo member (d. 1982 )
- November 23 - Victor Jory , Canadian actor (d. 1982 )
- December 2 - Wilfredo Lam , Cuban artist (d. 1982 )
- December 5 - Strom Thurmond , U.S. Senator (d. 2003 )
- December 9 - Margaret Hamilton , American actress (d. 1985 )
- December 20 - Prince George, Duke Of Kent (d. 1942 )
- December 23 - Norman Maclean , American author (d. 1990 )
- December 28
- --- Mortimer Adler , American philosopher (d. 2001 )
- --- Shen Congwen , Chinese writer (d. 1988 )
::''(See 1902 list of deaths by name: .)''
- January 11 - Johnny Briggs , English cricketer (b. 1862 )
- February 15 - Viggo Hørup , Danish politician (b. 1841 )
- February 27 - Breaker Morant , soldier (b. 1864 ) (executed)
- March 26 - Cecil Rhodes , British imperialist (b. 1853 )
- April 2 - Esther Hobart Morris , suffragist and the first American woman judge (b. 1814 )
- April 15 - Jules Dalou , sculptor (b. 1838 )
- April 21 - Ethna Carbery , Irish poet (b. 1866 )
- May 6 - Bret Harte , American writer (b. 1836 )
- May 26 - Almon Strowger , American inventor (b. 1839 )
- June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer , Catalan poet (b. 1845 )
- June 18 - Samuel Butler , British author (b. 1835 )
- July 4 - Swami Vivekananda , Indian religious leader (b. 1863 )
- July 6 - Maria Goretti , Italian Catholic saint (b. 1890 )
- August 8 - James Tissot , French artist (b. 1836 )
- September 5 - Rudolf Virchow , German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821 )
- September 6 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel , British chemist (b. 1827 )
- September 29 - Emile Zola , French author (b. 1840 )
- October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton , American women's rights activist (b. 1815 )
- November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes , Welsh social reformer (b. 1847 )
- December 3 - Robert Lawson , New Zealand architect (b. 1833 )
- December 22 - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing , German sexologist (b. 1840 )
- December 23 - Frederick Temple , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1821 )
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