- February 17
- Birth of Otto Liman von Sanders; German general in Turkey (WWI). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Alice Freeman Palmer; educator (Hall of Fame). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of George Bonnor; cricket player (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888). [1]
- March 13
- Birth of Percival "Percy" Lowell; US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto). [1]
- March 15
- Birth of Lútzen Wagenaar; Frisian writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Andrew W Mellon; founder (Mellon Bank)/US Secretary of Treasury. [1]
- Birth of Olive Schreiner; South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Abraham Bredius; Dutch art historian (Jan Steen). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Ernst L Wolzogen; German writer/founder (Cabaret Überbrettl). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Anatol Konstantinovich Liadov in Saint Petersburg, Russia; composer (Enchanted Lake). [1]
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- May 15
- Birth of Eduard, earl of Keyserling; German writer (Dritte Stiege). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Emile A G Verhaeren; Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes). [1]
- June 14
- Birth of Robert Marion in La Follette, Wisconsin, USA; presidential candidate (Progressive). [1]
- July 30
- Birth of James Edward Kelly; US sculptor "Sculptor of American History". [1]
- October 12
- Birth of Arthur Nikisch in Szent-Miklós, Hungary; conductor (Berlin Philharmonic). [1]
- October 26
- Birth of Charles Post; breakfast cereal maker (Post). [1]
- November 5
- Birth of Eugene V Debs; labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate. [1]
- December 25
- Birth of James Galvin; pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884. [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Juan Zorrilla de San Martin; Uruguay's diplomat/poet (Tabaré). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of Heinrich Hart; German writer (Song of Humanity). [1]
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- January 9
- Birth of Anton Askerc; Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar). [1]
- Birth of Lizette Woodworth Reese; US poet (Branch of May, Tears). [1]
- January 12
- Birth of John Singer Sargent; US portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Otto Brahm; German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Frank Harris in England; journalist/writer (My Life and Loves). [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Willem Kes; Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Hendrik P Berlage; architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Florimond Fonteyne; Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw). [1]
- March 7
- Birth of Matilde Serao [Tuffolina]; Italian writer (Land of Cockayne). [1]
- March 16
- Birth of E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte; French/English prince. [1]
- March 20
- Birth of Frederick Winslow Taylor; father of scientific management. [1]
- March 26
- Birth of David Alfred Thomas in Glamorganshire, United Kingdom; first Viscount Rhondda. [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Arthur Shrewsbury; cricket player (dominant England bat late 19th cent). [1]
- Birth of Constantly Lievens; Flemish missionary in India. [1]
- April 12
- Birth of William M Conway; English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of [Marie] Louise Hens; Flemish actress (Two Orphans). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of Henri POBJ Pétain; French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Robert Edwin Peary; American Arctic explorer (North Pole-April 6, 1909). [1]
- Birth of Sigmund Freud in Freiberg, Moravia; father of psycho-analysis. [1] [5]
- May 13
- Birth of Peter Henry Emerson; first to promote photography as an independent art. [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Lyman Frank Baum in Chittenango, New York, USA; children's book author (The Wizard of Oz) (dies 1919). [1] [5]
- June 14
- Birth of Andrey Markov in Russia; mathematician (Markov Chain). [1]
- June 19
- Birth of Elbert Hubbard; US editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia). [1]
- June 22
- Birth of H Rider Haggard; author (King Solomon's Mine, She). [1]
- July 10
- Birth of Nikola Tesla; physicist, developed alternating current (dies 1943). [1] [5] [403.46]
- July 26
- Birth of George Bernard Shaw in Dublin Ireland; dramatist (Pygmalion - Nobel Prize 1925). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of J Keir Hardie; first Labour representative in British Parliament. [1]
- September 2
- Birth of Yang Hsiu-ch'ing; commander in chief of the Taiping Rebellion. [1]
- September 3
- Birth of Louis Henri Sullivan in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; father of modern US architecture. [1]
- September 28
- Birth of Edward Thompson; US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins. [1]
- Birth of Kate Douglas Wiggins; author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm). [1]
- November 13
- Birth of Louis D Brandeis in Massachusetts, USA; US Supreme Court Justice (1916-39). [1]
- November 22
- Birth of Heber J Grant in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 7th President of Mormon church. [1]
- November 25
- Birth of Sergei Taneyev in Russia; composer (Oresteia). [1]
- December 18
- Birth of Joseph John Thomson in England; physicist, discovered electron (Nobel Prize 1906). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Frank Kellogg; US Secretary of State (1925-29), tried to outlaw war (Nobel Prize 1929). [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Staunton, Virginia, USA; American politician (28th US President, Democrat, 1913-21, Nobel Prize 1919). [1] [5]
- December 29
- Birth of Thomas J Stieltjes; mathematician (Stieltjes integral). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Charles A van Ophuysen; orientalist (Maleisisch Volksrecht). [1]
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- January 2
- Birth of Frederick Opper; cartoonist (Willie and His Papa, Maud the Mule, Alphonse and Gaston). [1]
- Birth of Martha Carey Thomas; educator/president (Bryn Mawr College). [1]
- January 9
- Birth of Henry B Fuller; American writer (Under the Skylights). [1]
- January 11
- Birth of Fred[erick J] Archer; English jockey (winner of five Derbys). [1]
- January 17
- Birth of Eugene Augustin Lauste; developer (first sound-on-film recording). [1]
- Birth of Wilhelm Kienzl; Austrian composer (Evangelimann). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Otto von Below; German commandant (WWI). [1]
- January 23
- Birth of Andrija Mohorovicic in Volosko, Croatia; meteorologist and geophysicist, discovered the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle. [1] [53]
- February 9
- Birth of Johannes T de Visser; theologist/Dutch first minister of Education. [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Bobby Peel; cricket player (great English lefty 1884-96). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Samuel Sidney McClure; Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher. [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Jules de Trooz; baron/premier of Belgium (1907). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Heinrich Hertz; physicist, first to broadcast and receive radio waves. [1]
- Birth of Robert Baden-Powell; founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides). [1]
- March 7
- Birth of Julius Wagner von Jauregg in Austria; psychiatrist (Nobel Prize 1927). [1]
- March 22
- Birth of Arnold Sauwen; Flemish poet (Along the Meuse). [1]
- Birth of Paul Doumer; Governor-General of Indo-China/13th President of France (1931-32). [1]
- April 5
- Birth of Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg; ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86). [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Edgar Stillman Kelley in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA; composer (Gulliver). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Clarence S Darrow; defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial. [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken; painter/author (HW Knife Day). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Ruggero Leoncavallo in Naples, Italy; composer (I Medici). [1]
- April 29
- Birth of Edouard Rod; France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Hendrik Zwaardemaker; Dutch physiologist (olfactometer). [1]
- May 13
- Birth of Ronald Ross in England; pathologist (Nobel Prize 1902). [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Ambrogio DA Ratti AKA Pope Pius XI in Italy; 259th Roman Catholic Pope (1922-39). [1]
- June 2
- Birth of Edward Elgar in Broadheath, England; composer ("Pomp and Circumstance"). [1]
- Birth of Karl Gjellerup in Denmark; poet/novelist (Nobel Prize 1917). [1]
- July 1
- Birth of Roger Connor; first baseman (New York Giants). [1]
- July 24
- Birth of Henrik Pontoppidan in Denmark; realist writer (Nobel Prize 1971). [1]
- July 27
- Birth of José Celso Barbosa in Puerto Rico; founder of Federalist Party in 1900. [1]
- July 30
- Birth of Thorstein Veblen; US economist (Theory of the Leisure Class - 1899). [1]
- August 8
- Birth of Henry Osborn in Connecticut, USA; paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research). [1]
- September 13
- Birth of Milton S Hershey; chocolate manufacturer/philanthropist. [1]
- September 15
- Birth of William Howard Taft in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; (Republican) 27th US President (1909-13), chief justice. [1]
- September 17
- Birth of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; pioneer in rocket and space research. [1]
- October 10
- Death of Thomas Crawford in London, England; sculptor (Freedom atop dome of US Capitol). [1058.796]
- October 14
- Birth of Elwood Haynes; auto pioneer, built one of first US autos. [1]
- November 22
- Birth of George Gissing; English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life). [1]
- November 26
- Birth of Ferdinand de Saussure in Switzerland; linguist (Cours de Laguistique Generale). [1]
- November 27
- Birth of Charles Scott Sherrington; 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology, author of the classic The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, discoverer of Sherrington's Law, coiner of the terms "neuron" and "synapse". [1]
- December 3
- Birth of Joseph Conrad in Poland; novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Edward Emerson Barnard in Tennessee, USA; astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite). [1]
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