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- June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle .
- June 2 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister Of Australia for the third time.
- June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey , a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey , becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drives a Maxwell Automobile 3,800 miles, from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California .
- June 15 - Representatives from England , Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference .
- June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal , which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts , United States .
- January 1 - Barry Goldwater , American politician (d. 1998 )
- January 3 - Victor Borge , Danish entertainer (d. 2000 )
- January 4 - J. R. Simplot , American businessman
- January 5 - Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician (d. 1994 )
- January 8 - Willy Millowitsch , German actor (d. 1999 )
- January 9 - Anthony Mamo , Maltan President (1974-1976)
- January 13 - Marinus Van Der Lubbe , Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (d. 1934 )
- January 15
- --- Jean Bugatti , German-born automobile designer (d. 1939 )
- --- Gene Krupa , American drummer (d. 1973 )
- January 16 - Clement Greenberg , American art critic (d. 1994 )
- January 19 - Hans Hotter , German bass-baritone (d. 2003 )
- January 21 - Todor Skalovski , Macedonian composer (d. 2004 )
- January 22
- --- Ann Sothern , American actress (d. 2001 )
- --- U Thant , Burmese United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974 )
- January 24 - Martin Lings , British Islamic scholar (d. 2005 )
- February 1 - George Beverly Shea , American gospel singer and Songwriter
- February 3 - Simone Weil , French philosopher (d. 1943 )
- February 9
- --- Carmen Miranda , Portuguese-born actress and singer (d. 1955 )
- --- Dean Rusk , United States Secretary Of State (d. 1994 )
- --- Harald Genzmer , German composer
- February 11
- --- Max Baer , American boxer and actor (d. 1959 )
- --- Joseph Mankiewicz , American filmmaker (d. 1993 )
- February 15
- --- Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes , Spanish footballer (d. 1966 )
- --- Miep Gies , Dutch friend and biographer of Anne Frank
- February 18 - Wallace Stegner , American writer (d. 1993 )
- February 19 - Enrico Donati , Italian-born American painter
- February 21 - Hans Erni , Swiss painter and sculptor
- February 24 - August Derleth , American writer (d. 1971 )
- February 26 - King Talal Of Jordan (d. 1972 )
- March 2 - Mel Ott , baseball player (d. 1958 )
- March 4 - Harry Helmsley , American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997 )
- March 9 - Daryl E. Shreve , Founder and President of Ambus bus drivers union (d. 1984)
- March 19 - Louis Hayward , South African-born actor (d. 1985 )
- March 22 - Gabrielle Roy , Canadian author (d. 1983 )
- March 27 - Golo Mann , German historian (d. 1994 )
- April 7 - Robert Charroux , French writer (d. 1978 )
- April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam , Polish-born mathematician (d. 1984 )
- April 22 - Rita Levi-Montalcini , Italian neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- April 25 - William Pereira , American architect (d. 1985 )
- April 30
- ---Queen Juliana Of The Netherlands (d. 2004 )
- --- F. E. McWilliam , Northern Irish sculptor (d. 1992 )
- May 6 - Loyd Sigmon , American Amateur ("ham") Radio broadcastor (d. 2004 )
- May 7 - Edwin H. Land , American camera inventor (d. 1991 )
- May 10 - Mother Maybelle Carter , American musician (d. 1978 )
- May 15 - James Mason , British actor (d. 1984 )
- May 18 - Fred Perry , English tennis player (d. 1995 )
- May 19 - Nicholas Winton , British humanitarian
- May 20 - Matt Busby , Scottish football manager ( Manchester United ) (d. 1994 )
- May 23 - Hugh E. Blair , American linguist (d. 1967 )
- May 24 - Victoria Hopper , Blonde Canadian stage and film actress and singer (d. 2007 )
- May 27 - Dolores Hope , American singer, wife of Bob Hope
- May 30 - Benny Goodman , American musician (d. 1986 )
- June 3 - Ira D. Wallach , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007 )
- June 6 - Isaiah Berlin , Russian historian of ideas (d. 1997 )
- June 7 - Jessica Tandy , English actress (d. 1994 )
- June 12 - Archie Bleyer , American song arranger & band leader (d. 1989 )
- June 14 - Burl Ives , American singer (d. 1995 )
- June 17 - Elmer Lee Andersen , Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004 )
- June 20 - Errol Flynn , Australian actor (d. 1959 )
- June 26 - Colonel Tom Parker , Dutch-born celebrity manager (d. 1997 )
- July 3 - Earl Butz , Former U.S. Secretary Of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford . Oldest living former cabinet official.
- July 11 - Fritz Leonhardt , German structural engineer (d. 1999 )
- July 18 - Mohammed Daoud Khan , President Of Afghanistan (d. 1978 )
- July 23 - John William Finn , World War II hero
- July 28 - Malcolm Lowry , British novelist (d. 1957 )
- July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson , British historian and author (d. 1993 )
- August 9 - Adam Von Trott Zu Solz , German lawyer and diplomat (d. 1944 )
- August 10 - Leo Fender , One of the most influential people in the development of electrical instruments (d. 1991 )
- August 19 - Jessie Mary Johnson, My Beloved Nanna J. Died On Her Birthday 2007, Age 98
- August 25
- --- Ruby Keeler , Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993 )
- --- Michael Rennie , English actor (d. 1971 )
- August 26 - Jim Davis , American actor (d. 1981 )
- September 1 - E. Herbert Norman , Canadian diplomat (d. 1957 )
- September 7 - Elia Kazan , Hungarian-born film director (d. 2003 )
- September 14 - Peter Scott , British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989 )
- September 15 - Jean Batten , New Zealand aviator (d. 1982 )
- September 17 - Ernie Koy , former baseball player (d. 2007 )
- September 21 - Kwame Nkrumah , Ghanaian politician (d. 1972 )
- September 24 - Carl Sigman , American songwriter (d. 2000 )
- September 28 - Al Capp , American cartoonist (d. 1979 )
- October 5 - Tony Malinosky , former baseball player
- October 14 - Bernd Rosemeyer , German race car driver (d. 1938 )
- October 19 - Cozy Cole , American jazz drummer (d. 1981 )
- October 24 - Bill Carr , American athlete (d. 1966 )
- October 27 - Henry Townsend , American bluegrass musician (d. 2006 )
- October 28 - Francis Bacon , British painter (d. 1992 )
- November 4 - Skeeter Webb , baseball player (d. 1986 )
- November 9 - Kay Thompson , American author and actress. (d. 1998 )
- November 10 - Pawel Jasienica , Polish historian (d. 1970 )
- November 18 - Johnny Mercer , American songwriter (d. 1976 )
- November 23 - Nigel Tranter , Scottish historian and writer (d. 2000 )
- November 24 - Gerhard Gentzen , German mathematician (d. 1945 )
- November 26 - Eugene Ionesco , Romanian-born playwright (d. 1994 )
- November 27 - James Agee , American writer (d. 1955 )
- December 14 - Edward Lawrie Tatum , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1975 )
- December 16 - Emil Mailho , former baseball player (d. 2007 )
- December 20 - Vakkom Majeed , Indian Freedom Fighter , Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (d. 2000 )
- December 20 - Vagn Holmboe , Danish composer (d. 1996 )
- December 22 - Alan Carney , American actor (d. 1973 )
- December 23
- --- Barney Ross , American boxer (d. 1967 )
- --- Donald Coggan , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 2000 )
- December 23 - Giulio Racah , Israeli mathematician and physicist (d. 1965 )
- January 8 - Harry Seeley , palaeontologist (b. 1839 )
- January 10 - Charles Vernon Culver , US politician (b. 1830 )
- January 12 - Hermann Minkowski , German mathematician (b. 1864 )
- January 14 - Arthur William A Beckett , British journalist (b. 1844 )
- February 17 - Geronimo , Apache leader (b. 1829 )
- March 16 - Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton Of Tatton , chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal (b. 1832 )
- April 10 - Algernon Charles Swinburne , English poet (b. 1837 )
- April 28 - Frederick Holbrook , Vermont governor (b. 1813 )
- May 10 - Futabatei Shimei , author and translator (b. 1864 )
- May 18 - Isaac Albéniz , Spanish composer (b. 1860 )
- June 24 - Sarah Orne Jewett , American writer (b. 1849 )
- July 18 - Carlos, Duke Of Madrid (b. 1848 )
- July 19 - Arai Ikunosuke , samurai (b. 1836 )
- August 5 - Miguel Antonio Caro , Colombian political leader (b. 1843 )
- August 15 - Euclides Da Cunha , Brazilian author (b. 1866 )
- August 27 - Emil Christian Hansen , Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842 )
- September 2 - Louis Delacenserie , Belgian architect (b. 1838 )
- September 4 - Clyde Fitch , American dramatist (b. 1865 )
- September 27 - Gyula Donáth , sculptor (b. 1850 )
- September 29 - Vladimir Vidrić , poet (b. 1875 )
- October 26 - Prince Ito Hirobumi , 1st Prime Minister Of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841 )
- November 9 - William Powell Frith , painter (b. 1819 )
- December 10 - Red Cloud
- December 15 - Francisco Tárrega , guitarist and composer (b. 1852 )
- December 17 - Leopold II Of Belgium (b. 1835 )
- December 26 - Frederic Remington , cowboy artist and sculptor
- ''date unknown'' - Gideon T. Stewart , American educator and politician (b. 1824 )
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