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- January 1 - Kim Philby , British spy (d. 1988 )
- January 3 - Armand Lohikoski , Finnish director (d. 2005 )
- January 6 - Jacques Ellul , French philosopher (d. 1994 )
- January 7 - Charles Addams , American cartoonist (d. 1988 )
- January 8 - José Ferrer , Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992 )
- January 19 - Leonid Kantorovich , Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
- January 21 - Konrad Emil Bloch , German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2000 )
- January 28 - Jackson Pollock , American painter (d. 1956 )
- January 30
- --- Barbara Tuchman , American historian (d. 1989 )
- --- Francis Schaeffer , American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor (d. 1984 )
- February 3 - Mary Carlisle , American actress and singer
- February 4
- --- Erich Leinsdorf , Austrian conductor (d. 1993 )
- --- Byron Nelson , American golfer (d. 2006 )
- February 6 - Eva Braun , Adolf Hitler 's mistress (d. 1945 )
- February 11 - Roy Fuller , English poet and novelist (d. 1991 )
- February 20 - Pierre Boulle , French author (d. 1994 )
- February 25 - Brenda Joyce , American actress
- February 27 - Lawrence Durrell , British writer (d. 1990 )
- March 4
- --- Afro Basaldella , Italian painter (d. 1976 )
- --- Judith Furse , British character actress (d. 1974 )
- --- Carl Marzani , American documentarian (d. 1994 )
- March 5 - David Astor , British newspaper publisher (d. 2001 )
- March 8 - Preston Smith , Governor of Texas (d. 2003 )
- March 12 - Irving Layton , Canadian poet (d. 2006 )
- March 14
- --- Les Brown , American band leader (d. 2001 )
- --- W. Willard Wirtz , American administrator
- March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins , American musician (d. 1982 )
- March 16 - Pat Nixon , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1993 )
- March 17 - Bayard Rustin , American civil rights activist (d. 1987 )
- March 18
- --- Lucien Laurin , Canadian horse trainer (d. 2000 )
- --- Art Gilmore , American radio and television announcer
- March 22 - Karl Malden , American actor
- March 23
- --- Betty Astell , British actress (d. 2005 )
- --- Wernher Von Braun , German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977 )
- March 24 - Dorothy Height , American activist
- March 27 - James Callaghan , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 2005 )
- April 7 - Jack Lawrence , American composer
- April 8 - Sonja Henie , Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969
- April 11 - Gusti Wolf , Austrian actress (d. 2007 )
- April 12 - Walt Gorney , American actor (d. 2004 )
- April 15 - Kim Il Sung , President Of North Korea (d. 1994 )
- April 16 - Catherine Scorsese , Italian-American actress (d. 1997 )
- April 17 - Marta Eggerth , Hungarian-born actress and singer, naturalized citizen of the United States
- April 19 - Glenn T. Seaborg , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999 )
- April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier , British contralto (d. 1953 )
- April 26 - A. E. Van Vogt , Canadian-born writer (d. 2000 )
- April 28 - Odette Sansom , French World War II heroine (d. 1995 )
- May 3 - Virgil Fox , American organist (d. 1980 )
- May 8 - Gertrud Fussenegger , Austrian author
- May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz , Mexican actor (d. 1963 )
- May 11 - Foster Brooks , American actor and comedian (d. 2001 )
- May 12 - Archibald Cox , American Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2004 )
- May 14 - Ben Hogan , American golfer (d. 1997 )
- May 16 - Studs Terkel , American writer and broadcaster
- May 18
- --- Perry Como , American singer (d. 2001 )
- --- Walter Sisulu , South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003 )
- May 21 - Monty Stratton , baseball player (d. 1982 )
- May 22 - Herbert C. Brown , English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
- May 23
- --- Jean Françaix , French composer (d. 1997 )
- --- John Payne , American actor (d. 1989 )
- May 25 - Princess Dukhye Of Korea (d. 1989 )
- May 27 - Sam Snead , American golfer (d. 2002 )
- May 28
- --- Patrick White , Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
- --- Herman Johannes , Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (d. 1992 )
- May 29 - Pamela Hansford Johnson , English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (d. 1981 )
- May 30 - Julius Axelrod , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2004 )
- May 31 - Alfred Deller , English countertenor (d. 1979 )
- June 5 - Dean Amadon , American ornithologist (d. 2003 )
- June 6 - Maria Montez , Dominican actress (d. 1951 )
- June 8 - Harry Holtzman , American artist (d. 1987 )
- June 21 - Kazimierz Leski , Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (d. 2000 )
- June 23 - Alan Turing , British mathematician (d. 1954 )
- June 24 - Brian Johnston , British cricket commentator (d 1994 )
- June 25 - William T. Cahill , American politician (d. 1996 )
- June 26 - Jay Silverheels , American actor (d. 1980 )
- June 27 - Chen Kenmin , Japanese chef (d. 1990 )
- June 30 - Ludwig Bölkow , German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003 )
- July 1
- --- David R. Brower , American environmentalist (d. 2000 )
- --- Sally Kirkland , American fashion editor (d. 1989 )
- July 6 - Heinrich Harrer , Austrian mountaineer and explorer (d. 2006 )
- July 14 - Woody Guthrie , American folk musician (d. 1969 )
- July 17 - Art Linkletter , American television host
- July 31
- --- Milton Friedman , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006 )
- --- July 31 - Irv Kupcinet , American newspaper columnist (d. 2003 )
- August 1 - Frank K. Edmondson , American astronomer
- August 3 - Fritz Hellwig , German politician (CDU) and former European Commissioner For Science & Research
- August 9 - Anne Brown , American soprano
- August 10 - Jorge Amado De Faria , Brazilian author (d. 2001 )
- August 11 - Thanom Kittikachorn , Prime Minister Of Thailand (d. 2004 )
- August 11 - Norman Levinson , American mathematician (d. 1975 )
- August 13 - Salvador Luria , Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1991 )
- August 15 - Julia Child , American chef (d. 2004 )
- August 16
- --- Ted Drake , English footballer (d. 1995 )
- --- Wendy Hiller , English actress (d. 2003 )
- August 23 - Gene Kelly , American actor (d. 1996 )
- August 25 - Erich Honecker , East German leader (d. 1994 )
- August 27 - Gloria Guinness , Fashionicon (d. 1980 )
- August 30
- --- Edward Mills Purcell , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997 )
- --- Nancy Wake , New Zealand World War II heroine
- September 5
- --- John Cage , American composer (d. 1992 )
- --- Frank Thomas , American animator (d. 2004 )
- September 11 - David Packard , American electrical engineer (d. 1996 )
- September 19 - Kurt Sanderling , German conductor
- September 21
- --- Chuck Jones , American animator (d. 2002 )
- --- György Sándor , Hungarian pianist (d. 2005 )
- September 22 - Martha Scott , American actress (d. 2003 )
- September 24 - Don Porter , American actor (d. 1997 )
- September 27 - Tauno Marttinen , Finnish composer
- September 29 - Michelangelo Antonioni , Italian film director
- October 5
- --- Karl Hass , Nazi war criminal (d. 2004 )
- --- Kristina Söderbaum , German actress (d. 2001 )
- October 17 - Pope John Paul I (d. 1978 )
- October 21 - Georg Solti , Hungarian conductor (d. 1997 )
- October 22 - Johan Hendrik Weidner , Belgian World War II resistance fighter (d. 1994 )
- October 25 - Minnie Pearl , American humorist (d. 1996 )
- October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow , American composer (d. 1997 )
- November 3 - Alfredo Stroessner , President Of Paraguay (d. 2006 )
- November 4 - Vadim Salmanov , Russian composer (d. 1978 )
- November 10 - Birdie Tebbetts , baseball player and manager (d. 1999 )
- November 11 - Larry LaPrise , American songwriter (d. 1996 )
- November 13 - Claude Pompidou , wife of President of France Georges Pompidou (d. 2007 )
- November 14
- --- Barbara Hutton , American socialite (d. 1979 )
- --- T. Y. Lin , Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003 )
- November 19 - George Emil Palade , Romanian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- November 21
- --- Eleanor Powell , American actress and dancer (d. 1982 )
- --- Abd-al-Aziz Ibn Abd-Allah Ibn Baaz ,the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1993 until 1999 (d. 1999 )
- November 24 - Bernard Delfgaauw , Dutch philosopher (d. 1993 )
- November 30 - Gordon Parks , American photographer and artist (d. 2006 )
- December 1 - Sirvart Karamanuk , Armenian classical composer
- December 10 - Philip Hart , a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until 1976 (d. 1976 )
- December 11 - Carlo Ponti , Italian film producer (d. 2007 )
- December 12 - Henry Armstrong , American boxer (d. 1988 )
- December 22 - Lady Bird Johnson , First Lady Of The United States (d. 2007 )
- December 25 - Natalino Otto , Italian singer (d. 1969 )
- December 27 - Conroy Maddox , British painter (d. 2005 )
- January 28 - Gustave De Molinari , Belgian economist (b. 1819 )
- February 16 - Nikolai Of Japan , Eastern Orthodox monk and saint (b. 1836 )
- February 21 - Osborne Reynolds , Irish physicist (b. 1842 )
- February 25 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke Of Luxembourg (b. 1852 )
- March 1 - George Grossmith , English actor and comic writer (b. 1847 )
- March 29 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:
- --- Henry Robinson Bowers (b. 1883 )
- --- Edgar Evans , Welsh naval officer (b. 1876 )
- --- Lawrence Oates , English army officer (b. 1880 )
- --- Robert Falcon Scott , English explorer (b. 1868 )
- --- Edward Adrian Wilson , English physician and naturalist (b. 1872 )
- March 30 - Karl May , German author (b. 1842 )
- April 12 - Clara Barton , American nurse (b. 1821 )
- April 15 - 9 out of 1500 victims of the RMS Titanic sinking:
- --- Thomas Andrews, Jr. , Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873 )
- --- John Jacob Astor IV , American businessman (b. 1864 )
- --- Archibald Butt , American presidential aide (b. 1865 )
- --- Thomas R.D. Byles , English-born Catholic priest (b. 1870 )
- --- Benjamin Guggenheim , American businessman (b. 1865 )
- --- Edward J. Smith , English ship's captain (b. 1850 )
- --- William Thomas Stead , English journalist (b. 1849 )
- --- Isidor Straus , German-born owner of Macy's (b. 1845 )
- --- Ida Straus , Wife of Isidor Straus (1 of only 4 Titanic First-class female fatalities) (b. 1849 )
- April 20 - Bram Stoker , English writer (b. 1847 )
- May 14
- --- August Strindberg , Swedish playwright and painter (b. 1849 )
- --- Frederick VIII , King of Denmark (b. 1843 )
- May 25 - Austin Lane Crothers , American politician (b. 1860 )
- May 30 - Wilbur Wright , American aviation pioneer (b. 1867 )
- June 12
- --- Anton Aškerc , Slovene poet (b. 1856 )
- --- Frédéric Passy , French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822 )
- July 1 - Harriet Quimby , American pilot (b. 1875 )
- July 2 - Tom Richardson , English cricketer (b. 1870 )
- July 17 - Henri Poincaré , French mathematician (b. 1854 )
- July 30 - Meiji Emperor of Japan (b. 1852 )
- August 7 - François-Alphonse Forel , Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841 )
- August 8 - Ross Winn , American anarchist writer and publisher (b. 1871 )
- August 20
- --- Walter Goodman , British painter, illustrator and author (b. 1838 )
- --- William Booth , English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829 )
- October 6 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert , Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829 )
- October 24 - Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (b. 1842 )
- October 30 - James S. Sherman , Vice President Of The United States (b. 1855 )
- November 10 - Louis Cyr , Canadian strongman (b. 1863 )
- November 28 - Walter Benona Sharp , American oil pioneer (b. 1870 )
- December 23 - Otto Schoetensack , German anthropologist (b. 1850 )
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