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- January 8 - William Hartnell , British actor (d. 1975 )
- January 9 - Simone De Beauvoir , French feminist writer (d. 1986 )
- January 12 - Jean Delannoy , French film director
- January 14 - Russ Columbo , singer, bandleader, and composer (d. 1934 )
- January 15 - Edward Teller , Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003 )
- January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968 )
- January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli , French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997 )
- January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page , American jazz musician (d. 1954 )
- February 1 - George Pál , Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980 )
- February 5 - Daisy And Violet Hilton , English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969 )
- February 10 - Onni Määttänen , the oldest living Knight Of The Mannerheim Cross
- February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs , English geologist and explorer (d. 1999 )
- February 12
- --- Jean Effel , French painter and journalist (d. 1982 )
- --- August Neo , Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist (d. 1982 )
- February 17
- --- Red Barber , American baseball announcer and sports journalist (d. 1992 )
- --- Bo Yibo , Chinese politician and one of the Eight Immortals Of The Communist Party Of China (d. 2007 )
- February 22 - John Mills , English actor (d. 2005 )
- February 23 - William McMahon , twentieth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1988 )
- February 26
- --- Tex Avery , American cartoonist (d. 1980 )
- --- Jean-Pierre Wimille , French race car driver (d. 1949 )
- February 29
- --- Balthus , French painter (d. 2001 )
- --- Dee Brown , American writer and historian (d. 2002 )
- March 2 - Walter Bruch , German engineer (d. 1990 )
- March 4 - T.R.M. Howard , civil rights leader & surgeon (d. 1976 )
- March 5 - Rex Harrison , English actor (d. 1990 )
- March 7 - Anna Magnani , Italian actress (d. 1973 )
- March 12 - Rita Angus , New Zealand painter (d. 1970 )
- March 13 - Walter Annenberg , American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002 )
- March 17 - Brigitte Helm , German actress (d. 1996 )
- March 20
- ---Sir Michael Redgrave , English actor (d. 1985 )
- --- Frank Stanton , American businessman (d. 2006 )
- March 22 - Louis L'Amour , American author (d. 1988 )
- March 25
- --- Helmut Käutner , German actor and director (d. 1980 )
- --- David Lean , English film director (d. 1991 )
- March 27 - Semprini , English musician (d. 1990 )
- March 29 - Arthur O'Connell , American actor (d. 1981 )
- April 1 - Abraham Maslow , American psychologist (d. 1970 )
- April 2 - Buddy Ebsen , American actor and dancer (d. 2003 )
- April 4
- --- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey , American author (d. 2006 )
- --- Frances Ford Seymour , American socialite (d. 1950 )
- April 5
- --- Bette Davis , American actress (d. 1989 )
- --- Herbert Von Karajan , Austrian conductor (d. 1989 )
- --- Jagjivan Ram , Indian politician (d. 1986 )
- April 6 - John P. Davies , American diplomat (d. 1999 )
- April 7 - Percy Faith , Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976 )
- April 8 - Tito Guízar , Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1999 )
- April 15 - Eden Ahbez , American musician (d. 1995 )
- April 20 - Lionel Hampton , American musician and bandleader (d. 2002 )
- April 24 - Józef Gosławski , Polish sculptor and medallic artist (d. 1963 )
- April 25 - Edward R. Murrow , American journalist (d. 1965 )
- April 28 - Oskar Schindler , Austria-Hungary industrialist (d. 1974 )
- April 29 - Jack Williamson , American science fiction author (d. 2006 )
- April 30 - Bjarni Benediktsson , Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970 )
- May 5 - Kurt Böhme , German bass (d. 1989 )
- May 7 - Max Grundig , German inventor and industrialist (d. 1989 )
- May 8 - Cristian Vasile , Romanian singer (d. 1974 )
- May 19 - Percy Williams , Canadian athlete (d. 1982 )
- May 20 - James Stewart , American actor (d. 1997 )
- May 23
- --- John Bardeen , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- --- Max Abramovitz , Architect of the New York City firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe (d. 2004 )
- May 25 - Theodore Roethke , American poet (d. 1963 )
- May 28 - Ian Fleming , English writer (d. 1964 )
- May 30
- --- Hannes Alfvén , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- --- Mel Blanc , American voice actor (d. 1989 )
- May 31 - Don Ameche , American actor (d. 1993 )
- June 12 - Marina Semenova , Russian ballerina
- June 18 - Bud Collyer , American voice actor and game show host (d. 1969 )
- June 20 - Billy Werber , American baseball player
- June 21 - Yoon Bong-Gil , Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (d. 1932 )
- June 24 - Hugo Distler , German composer (d. 1942 )
- June 27 - Bill Kennedy , American actor (d. 1997 )
- June 29 - Leroy Anderson , American composer (d. 1975 )
- June 30 - Winston Graham , English writer (d. 2003 )
- July 12 - Milton Berle , American comedian (d. 2002 )
- July 25 - Bill Bowes , English cricketer (d. 1987 )
- July 27 - Joseph Mitchell , American writer (d. 1996 )
- August 2 - Al Alquist , California politician (d. 2006 )
- August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn , German conductor (d. 1994 )
- August 5 - Harold Holt , Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1967 )
- August 9 - A. I. Bezzerides , American screenwriter (d. 2007 )
- August 10 - Rica Erickson , Australian botanist
- August 16 - William Maxwell , American novelist and editor (d. 2000 )
- August 20 - Al Lopez , baseball player and manager (d. 2005 )
- August 21 - M. M. Kaye , British writer (d. 2004 )
- August 22 - Henri Cartier-Bresson , French photographer (d. 2004 )
- August 23 - Hannah Frank , Scottish artist and sculptor
- August 26 - Bernard Bierman , Lyricist, Songwriter (still living as of Aug 23, 2007 )
- August 27
- ---Sir Donald Bradman , Australian cricketer (d. 2001 )
- --- Lyndon Johnson , President Of The United States (d. 1973 )
- August 28
- --- Roger Tory Peterson , American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. 1996 )
- --- Robert Merle , French writer (d. 2004 )
- August 30 - Leonor Fini , Argentine artist (d. 1996 )
- September 2 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev , Russian astronomer/astrophysicist. (d. 1983 )
- September 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin , Russian mathematician (d. 1988 )
- September 4 - Richard Wright , American author (d. 1960 )
- September 6
- --- Louis Essen , English physicist (d. 1997 )
- --- Korczak Ziolkowski , American sculptor (d. 1982 )
- September 7
- --- Paul Brown , American football coach (d. 1991 )
- --- Michael E. DeBakey , American physician
- September 12 - Reginald C. Fuller , Roman Catholic priest and writer in England
- September 13 - Mae Questel , American actress (d. 1998 )
- September 15 - Penny Singleton , American actress (d. 2003 )
- towards September 15 - Miško Kranjec , Slovenian writer (d. 1983 )
- September 19 - Paul Bénichou , French intellectual (d. 2001 )
- September 21 - Charles Upham , New Zealand soldier (d. 1994 )
- September 29 - Eddie Tolan , American athlete (d. 1967 )
- September 30 - David Oistrakh , Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1974 )
- October 1 - Umar Dimayev , Chechen folk singer (d. 1972 )
- October 6 - Carole Lombard , American actress (d. 1942 )
- October 14 - Ruth Hale , American playwright and actress (d. 2003 )
- October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith , Canadian economist (d. 2006 )
- October 16 - Enver Hoxha , dictator of Albania (d. 1985 )
- October 17 - Kenji Miyamoto , Japanese politician (d. 2007 )
- October 19
- --- Sydney MacEwan , Scottish singer (d. 1990 )
- --- Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer (d. 1981 )
- October 20 Carl Stuart Hamblen , American musician and Presidential candidate (d. 1989 )
- October 21 - Jorge Oteiza , Spanish painter (d. 2003 )
- October 22 - John Gould , American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003 )
- October 23
- --- Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov , Chechen historian (d. 1997 )
- --- Ilya Frank , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
- October 25
- --- Tauno Palo , Finnish actor (d. 1982 )
- --- Edmond Pidoux , Swiss writer (d. 2004 )
- October 28 - Arturo Frondizi , President of Argentina (d. 1995 )
- November 2 - Fred Bakewell , English cricketer (d. 1983 )
- November 4 - Józef Rotblat , Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2005 )
- November 12 - Harry Blackmun , American judge (d. 1999 )
- November 16 - Sœur Emmanuelle , French nun
- November 18 - Imogene Coca , American actress (d. 2001 )
- November 20 - Alistair Cooke , English-born journalist (d. 2004 )
- November 23 - Nelson S. Bond , American science fiction writer (d. 2006 )
- November 26 - Charles Forte , Scottish businessman (d. 2007 )
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss , Belgian-born anthropologist
- December 3 - Edward Underdown , film and stage veteran (d. 1989 )
- December 4 - Alfred Hershey , American bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1997 )
- December 6 - Pierre Graber , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003 )
- December 10 - Olivier Messiaen , French composer (d. 1992 )
- December 11
- --- Elliott Carter , American composer
- --- Manoel De Oliveira , Portuguese film director
- December 17 - Willard Libby , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 )
- December 23 - Sol Carter , American baseball player
- December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal , Austrian Nazi-hunter (d. 2005 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- George Rodger , British photojournalist (d. 1995 )
- --- Howard Cary , American engineer (d. 1991 )
- --- Aden Abdullah Osman Daar , Somali politician
- July 3 - Joel Chandler Harris , author (b. 1848 )
- July 5 - Jonas Lie , Norwegian author (b. 1833 )
- July 6 - Felipe Calderón Y Roca , Filipino politician (b. 1868 )
- July 10 - Phoebe Knapp , American hymn composer (b. 1839 )
- July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas , Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835 )
- July 22 - William Randal Cremer , English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828 )
- August 4 - Radoje Domanović , controversial Serbian writer (b. 1873 )
- August 25 - Henri Becquerel , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
- August 26 - Tony Pastor , American vaudeville and theater impresario (b. 1837 )
- September 20 - Pablo De Sarasate , Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844 )
- September 29 - Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis , Brazilian author (b. 1839 )
- October 30 - Caroline Astor , American socialite (b. 1830 )
- November 4
- --- Richard Gerstl , artist (b. 1883 )
- --- Tomás Estrada Palma , first President of Cuba (b. 1832 )
- November 14 - The Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871 )
- November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi , ruler of China (b. 1835 )
- ''date unknown'' - Harro Magnussen , German sculptor (b. 1861 )
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