Year (''' MCMV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday
of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
: Rotary founded.]]
- February - In Austin, Texas and San Antonio, TX , it is the coldest February on record, with average monthly temperature of 42.3F and 43.9F degrees (the previous record was -1F and 4F on February 12 , 1899 ).
- February 12 - In Christchurch, New Zealand , the Cathedral Of The Blessed Sacrament is opened.
- February 16 - At Haulbowline Base in Ireland , two explosions onboard the HM Submarine A5, due to petrol fumes after refueling, kill 6 of 11 crew.
- February 17 - At Fremantle, Western Australia , the R.M.S. ''Orizaba'' wrecks, but all 160 passengers and the mail are saved.
- February 19 - In Manchuria , the Battle Of Mukden begins, the largest world battle of that era.
- February 23 - Rotary International is founded.
: Nicholas II creates the Duma .]]
- January 2 - Michael Tippett , English composer (d. 1998 )
- January 3 - Anna May Wong , American actress (d. 1961 )
- January 3 - Ray Milland , Welsh Actor (d. 1986 )
- January 8 - Giacinto Scelsi , Italian composer (d. 1988 )
- January 12
- --- James Bennett Griffin , American archaeologist (d. 1997 )
- --- Tex Ritter , American actor and singer (d. 1974 )
- January 18 - Joseph Bonanno , American gangster (d. 2002 )
- January 19 - Stanley Hawes , British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991 )
- January 21 - Christian Dior , French couturier (d. 1957 )
- January 26
- --- Charles Lane , American actor (d. 2007 )
- --- Maria Von Trapp , Austrian singer (d. 1987 )
- January 29 - Barnett Newman , American painter (d. 1970 )
- January 31 - John O'Hara , American writer (d. 1970 )
- February 1 - Emilio G. Segrè , Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
- February 2 - Ayn Rand , American author (d. 1982 )
- February 7 - Paul Nizan , French author (d. 1940 )
- February 14 - Thelma Ritter , American actress (d. 1969 )
- February 15 - Harold Arlen , American composer of popular music (d. 1986 )
- February 23 - Derrick Henry Lehmer , American mathematician (d. 1991 )
- February 27 - Franchot Tone , American actor (d. 1968 )
- March 3 - Marie Glory , French silent screen actress
- March 6 - Bob Wills , American singer (d. 1975 )
- March 15 - Berthold Schenk Graf Von Stauffenberg , German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944 )
- March 16 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt , German actress (d. 1977 )
- March 18
- --- Thomas Townsend Brown , American scientist (d. 1985 )
- --- Robert Donat , English actor (d. 1958 )
- --- Benny Friedman , American football player (d. 1982 )
- March 19 - Albert Speer , Nazi official (d. 1981 )
- March 20 - Vera Panova , Soviet-Russian writer (d. 1973 )
- March 23
- --- Lale Andersen , German singer (d. 1972 )
- --- Joan Crawford , American actress (d. 1977 )
- March 27 - Elsie MacGill , Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980 )
- April 21 - Edmund G. Brown , Govenor of California (d. 1996 )
- July 4 - Irving Johnson , American sail training pioneer (d. 1991 )
- July 5 - Jock Cameron , South African cricketer (d. 1935 )
- July 12
- --- Edward Bernds , American director (d. 2000 )
- --- Prince John Of The United Kingdom (d. 1919 )
- July 15 - Dorothy Fields , American songwriter (d. 1988 )
- July 22 - Doc Cramer , Major League Baseball player (d. 1990 )
- July 23 - Leopold Engleitner , Holocaust survivor
- July 25 - Elias Canetti , Bulgarian-born British writer (d. 1994 )
- July 29 - Dag Hammarskjöld , Swedish United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1961 )
- August 2 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann , German composer (d. 1963 )
- August 3 - Franz König , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (d. 2004 )
- August 5 - Wassily Leontief , Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999 )
- August 8 - André Jolivet , French composer (d. 1974 )
- August 11 - Erwin Chargaff , Austrian biochemist (d. 2002 )
- August 16 - Marian Rejewski , Polish mathematician and cryptologist (d. 1980 )
- August 20 - Jean Gebser , author, linguist and poet (d. 1973 )
- August 21 - Friz Freleng , American animator (d. 1995 )
- August 23 - Constant Lambert , British composer (d. 1951 )
- August 29 - Dhyan Chand , Indian hockey legend. (d. 1979 )
- August 31 - Dore Schary , American film writer, director, and producer (d. 1980 )
- September 1 - Elvera Sanchez , Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000 )
- September 3 - Carl David Anderson , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- September 18
- --- Eddie Anderson , American actor (d. 1977 )
- --- Greta Garbo , Swedish actress (d. 1990 )
- September 22
- --- Eugen Sänger , Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964 )
- --- Haakon Lie , Norwegian politician
- September 24 - Severo Ochoa , Spanish–American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
- September 26 - Emilio Navarro , Puerto Rican baseball player
- September 28 - Max Schmeling , German boxer (d. 2005 )
- September 30
- --- Savitri Devi , Greek writer and National Socialist philosopher (d. 1982 )
- --- Nevill Francis Mott , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- --- Michael Powell , British director (d. 1990 )
- October 5 - Helen Wills Moody , American tennis player (d. 1998 )
- October 23 - Felix Bloch , Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983 )
- November 4 - Dragutin Tadijanović , Croatian poet (d. 2007 )
- November 7 - William Alwyn , English composer (d. 1985 )
- November 9 - Erika Mann , oldest daughter of Thomas Mann (d. 1969 )
- November 15 - Mantovani , Italian-born conductor and arranger (d. 1980 )
- November 17 - Queen Astrid Of Belgium (d. 1935 )
- November 26 - Bob Johnson , baseball player (d. 1982 )
- December 11 - Gilbert Rowland , Mexican-born American actor (d. 1994 )
- December 17 - Simo Häyhä , Sniper (d. 2002 )
- December 21 - Anthony Powell , British author (d. 2000 )
- December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth , American poet (d. 1982 )
- December 24 - Howard Hughes , American film maker, industrialist, aircraft designer, and airline founder (d. 1976 )
- December 27 - Leonard Goldenson , American television executive (d. 1999 )
- December 30 - Jule Styne , English-born composer (d. 1994 )
- ''date unknown'' - Sada Abe , Japanese actress (d. 1970 )
- January 14 - Ernst Abbe , German physicist (b. 1840 )
- January 19 - Debendranath Tagore , Indian philosopher (b. 1817 )
- February 4 - Louis-Ernest Barrias , French sculptor (b. 1841 )
- February 20 - Jeremiah W. Farnham , American merchant captain
- March 6 - John Henninger Reagan , American Confederate politician (b. 1818 )
- March 24 - Jules Verne , French author (b. 1828 )
- March 28 - Huang Zunxian , Chinese poet and writer
- May 9 - Anna Jarvis , model for Mother's Day
- June 3 - James Hudson Taylor , founder of the China Inland Mission (b. 1832 )
- June 22 - Francis Lubbock , Governor of Texas (b. 1815 )
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