Year (''' MCMIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Thursday
of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry , Pakistani politician (d. 1982 )
- January 3 - Jeane Dixon , American astrologer (d. 1997 )
- January 10 - Ray Bolger , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987 )
- January 13 - Richard Addinsell , British composer (d. 1977 )
- January 14 - Cecil Beaton , English photographer (d. 1980 )
- January 18 - Cary Grant , English actor (d. 1986 )
- January 22
- --- George Balanchine , Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983 )
- --- Arkady Gaidar , Russian children's writer (d. 1941 )
- January 26
- --- Ancel Keys , American scientist (d. 2004 )
- --- Seán MacBride , Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1988 )
- January 27 - J. J. Gibson , American psychologist (d. 1979 )
- January 29
- --- Arnold Gehlen , German philosopher (d. 1976 )
- February 1 - S. J. Perelman , American humorist and author (d. 1979 )
- February 3
- --- Luigi Dallapiccola , Italian composer (d. 1975 )
- --- Pretty Boy Floyd , American gangster (d. 1934 )
- February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor , American writer and historian (d. 1977 )
- February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake , Prime Minister Of New Zealand (d. 1983 )
- February 16
- --- George F. Kennan , American diplomat (d. 2005 )
- --- Philip Rabinowitz , South African record breaking sprinter
- February 20 - Aleksei Kosygin , Premier Of The Soviet Union (d. 1980 )
- February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey , American bandleader (d. 1957 )
- March 1 - Glenn Miller , American bandleader (d. 1944 )
- March 2 - Dr. Seuss , American author (d. 1991 )
- March 4
- --- George Gamow , Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968 )
- --- Joseph Schmidt , Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942 )
- --- Chief Tahachee (actor) , American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978 )
- March 6 - Joseph Schmidt , Austrian tenor (d. 1942 )
- March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich , Nazi official (d. 1942 )
- March 14 - Doris Eaton Travis , American actress
- March 20 - B. F. Skinner , American behavioral psychologist (d. 1990 )
- March 22 - Itche Goldberg , Yiddish author (d. 2006 )
- March 26
- --- Joseph Campbell , American author on mythology (d. 1987 )
- --- Xenophon Zolotas , Prime Minister Of Greece (d. 2004 )
- April 1 - Nikolai Berzarin , Russian Red Army General (d. 1945 )
- April 3 - Sally Rand , American dancer and actress (d. 1979 )
- April 8 - John Hicks , English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
- April 9 - Sharkey Bonano , American jazz musician (d. 1972 )
- April 14 - Sir John Gielgud , English actor (d. 2000 )
- April 15 - Arshile Gorky , Armenian-born painter (d. 1948 )
- April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay , Canadian actress (d. 1983 )
- April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist (d. 1967 )
- April 24 - Willem De Kooning , Dutch artist (d. 1997 )
- April 26 - Jimmy McGrory , Scottish footballer (d. 1982 )
- April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis , English poet (d. 1972 )
- April 29 - Pedro Vargas , Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989 )
- May 6
- --- Moshe Feldenkrais , Ukrainian-born engineer (d. 1984 )
- --- Harry Martinson , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978 )
- May 8 - John Snagge , British radio personality (d. 1996 )
- May 11 - Salvador Dalí , Spanish artist (d. 1989 )
- May 17 - Jean Gabin , French actor (d. 1976 )
- May 21
- --- Fats Waller , American pianist and comedian (d. 1943 )
- --- Robert Montgomery , American actor and director (d. 1981 )
- May 27 - Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete (d. 1997 )
- June 2
- --- Frantisek Planicka , Czech footballer (d. 1996 )
- --- Johnny Weissmuller , American swimmer and actor (d. 1984 )
- June 3 - Jan Peerce , American tenor (d. 1984 )
- June 6 - Francisco López Merino , Argentine poet (d. 1928 )
- June 26 - Peter Lorre , Hungarian-born film actor (d. 1964 )
- July 5 - Ernst Mayr , German-born biologist and author (d. 2005 )
- July 6 - Erik Wickberg , General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996 )
- July 8 - Henri Cartan , French mathematician
- July 12 - Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
- July 15 - Rudolf Arnheim , German-born author (d. 2007 )
- July 28 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
- July 31 - Brett Halliday , American writer (d. 1977 )
- August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz , Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969 )
- August 7 - Ralph Bunche , American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971 )
- August 12 - Tsarevich Alexei Of Russia (d. 1918 )
- August 16 - Wendell Meredith Stanley , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- August 17
- --- Leopold Nowak , Austrian musicologist (d. 1991 )
- --- Mary Cain , Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984 )
- August 21 - Count Basie , American musician and bandleader (d. 1984 )
- August 22 - Deng Xiaoping , Chinese leader (d. 1997 )
- August 23
- --- Thelma Morgan , Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin (d. 1970 )
- --- Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt , American socialite twin (d. 1965 )
- August 28 - Secondo Campini , Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980 )
- August 29 - Werner Forssmann , German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1979 )
- September 9 - Feroze Khan , Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005 )
- September 22 - Joseph Valachi , gangster (d. 1971 )
- September 29 - Greer Garson , English actress (d. 1996 )
- October 1 - A.K. Gopalan , Indian communist leader (d. 1977 )
- October 3 - Charles J. Pedersen , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
- October 9 - Wally Brown , American actor and comedian (d. 1961 )
- October 20 - Tommy Douglas , Canadian politician (d. 1986 )
- October 23 - Harvey Penick , American golfer (d. 1995 )
- October 25 - Vladimir Peter Tytla , American animator (d. 1968 )
- November 2 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000 )
- November 4 - Tadeusz Żyliński , Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967 )
- November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead , British mathematician (d. 1960 )
- November 12 - Jacques Tourneur , French director (d. 1977 )
- November 14
- --- Dick Powell , American actor and singer (d. 1963 )
- --- Michael Ramsey , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 1988 )
- November 25
- --- Lillian Copeland , American athlete (d. 1964 )
- --- Toni Ortelli , Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000 )
- November 30 - Clyfford Still , American painter (d. 1980 )
- December 6 - Eve Curie , French author and daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie
- December 12 - Baron Nicolas De Gunzburg , French-born magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981 )
- December 18 - George Stevens , American film director (d. 1975 )
- December 24 - Joseph M. Juran , American engineer and philanthropist
- December 25 - Gerhard Herzberg , German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999 )
- December 26 - Alejo Carpentier , Cuban writer (d. 1980 )
- December 30 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky , Russian composer (d. 1987 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Gustave Biéler , Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (d. 1944 )
- --- Bernard Castro , Italian inventor (d. 1991 )
- --- Tevfik Esenç , Turkish-born last speaker of the Ubykh Language (d. 1992 )
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- January 2 - James Longstreet , American Confederate general (b. 1821 )
- January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev , Russian chemist (b. 1834 )
- February 8 - Alfred Ainger , biographer (b. 1837 )
- February 22 - Leslie Stephen , English writer and critic (b. 1832 )
- March 5 - John Lowther Du Plat Taylor , British founder of the Army Post Office Corps (b. 1829 )
- March 17 - Prince George, Duke Of Cambridge , grandson of King George III (b. 1819 )
- April 10 - Queen Isabella II Of Spain (b. 1830 )
- May 1 - Antonín Dvořák , Czech composer (b. 1841 )
- May 8 - Eadweard Muybridge , English photographer and motion picture pioneer (b. 1830 )
- May 10 - Henry Morton Stanley , Welsh explorer and journalist (b. 1841 )
- May 19 - Auguste Molinier , French historian (b. 1851 )
- June 4 - George Frederick Phillips , Canadian-born military hero (b. 1862 )
- June 12 - Camille De Renesse , Belgian Count (b. 1836 )
- July 3 - Theodor Herzl , Austrian founder of Zionism (b. 1860 )
- July 5 - Abai Kunanbaiuli , Kazakh poet (b. 1845 )
- July 14
- --- Anton Chekhov , Russian writer (b. 1860 )
- --- Paul Kruger , South African resistance leader (b. 1825 )
- July 22 - Wilson Barrett , English actor (b. 1846 )
- August 6 - Eduard Hanslick , Austrian music critic (b. 1825 )
- August 22 - Kate Chopin , American author (b. 1851 )
- August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour , French painter (b. 1836 )
- August 29 - Murad V , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840 )
- September 25 - Niels Ryberg Finsen , Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1860 )
- September 26
- --- Lafcadio Hearn , American-Japanese author (b. 1850 )
- --- John F. Stairs , Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848 )
- October 4
- --- Frédéric Bartholdi , Alsatian sculptor (b. 1834 )
- --- Laurence Hope , English poetess (b. 1865 )
- October 21 - Isabelle Eberhardt , explorer (b. 1877 )
- Sometime in this year, the events of Raimuiro Senkitan took place.
- Three of the short novels about Samantha Edwards took place in this year.
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