- January 17
- Birth of Mack Sennett; movie creator (Keystone Kops). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Paul Ehrenfest; Austria/Netherlands physicist (adiabates hypothesis). [1]
- January 24
- Birth of Elisabeth Achelis; creator (World Calendar). [1]
- January 26
- Birth of Douglas MacArthur in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; General of the Army (WWII). [1]
- January 28
- Birth of Herbert Strudwick; cricket player (England wicket-keeper before and after WWI). [1]
- Birth of Mary Boland in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; comedienne/actress (Ruggles of Red Gap). [1]
- January 29
- Birth of W C Fields AKA William Claude Dukenfield in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (My Little Chickadee, Bank Dick) (dies 1946). [1] [5] [457]
- February 3
- Birth of Arnoldus Aerts; bishop of Netherlands-Guinea (1920-42). [1]
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- February 8
- Birth of Franz Marc; German painter (Blaue Reiter). [1]
- February 10
- Birth of Jesse G Vincent in Arkansas, USA; engineer, designed first V-12 engine. [1]
- February 12
- Birth of John Llewellyn Lewis; union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Aida Overton; Walker US dancer/singer (In Dahomey, Salome). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Alvaro Obregon; General/President of Mexico (1920-24). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Frank Orth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Lytton Strachey; biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923). [1]
- March 12
- Birth of House Peters in Bristol, England; silent film actor (Kansas Territory). [1]
- March 14
- Birth of Oscar (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire; actor/director (Pink Kate). [1]
- March 21
- Birth of Hans Hofmann; German/US painter (Search for the Real). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Duncan Hines; US restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens). [1]
- March 28
- Birth of Rosina Lhévinne in Kiev, Ukraine; pianist/professor (Juilliard Graduate School). [1]
- March 30
- Birth of Sean O'Casey in Ireland; playwright (Playboy of the Western World). [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Victor Schertzinger; composer/director (Uptown New York). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Mikhail Fokine in Russia; choreographer/founder of modern dance. [1]
- May 1
- Birth of Conrad Weiss; German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of William Edmund Ironside, First Baron Ironside of Archangel and Ironside; British fieldmarshal. [1]
- Birth of Ernst L Kirchner; German painter (Die Brücke). [1]
- May 12
- Birth of Lincoln Ellsworth; led first transarctic, transantarctic flights. [1]
- Birth of W Hupkes; engineer/director (Dutch Rail 1938). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Otto Dibelius; German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of Julius Tannen in New York, USA; comedian (Great Moment, House of Frankenstein). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Allard R Hulshoff; architect of Amsterdam (1924). [1]
- May 29
- Birth of Oswald Spengler in Germany; philosopher (Decline of the West). [1]
- June 11
- Birth of Jeannette Rankin; US Congressman (Montana). [1]
- June 27
- Birth of Helen Keller; blind-deaf author/lecturer (dies 1968). [1] [5]
- July 4
- Birth of Pat Rooney; vaudevillian/actor (Night Club). [1]
- July 14
- Birth of Donald Meek in Glasgow, Scotland; actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach). [1]
- July 24
- Birth of Ernest Bloch in Geneva, Switzerland; composer (MacBeth). [1]
- July 27
- Birth of Donald Crisp in Scotland; actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana). [1]
- Birth of Joseph Tinker; baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of famous double play combo. [1]
- July 30
- Birth of Robert Rutherford McCormick; US editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune). [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Christy Mathewson; Hall Of Fame baseball pitcher (won 37 games in 1908). [1]
- August 26
- Birth of Guillaume Apollinaire in France; poet/movie critic (Alcoola). [1]
- August 31
- Birth of Queen Mother Wilhelmina in the Netherlands (1890-1948). [1]
- September 9
- Birth of Viking Eggeling in Sweden; artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony). [1]
- September 12
- Birth of Henry L Mencken in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; newspaperman/critic (Prejudices) (dies 1956). [1] [5]
- September 16
- Birth of Alfred Noyes in England; poet (The Highwayman). [1]
- September 23
- Birth of John Boyd Orr; nutritionist, United Nations' FAO (Nobel Prize 1949). [1]
- September 27
- Birth of Jacques Thibaud in Bordeaux, France; violinist (Café Rogue). [1]
- September 28
- Birth of Ralph Edward Flanders in Barnet, Vermont, USA; politician (Senator-Vermont). [1]
- October 4
- Birth of Damon Runyon; writer (Guys and Dolls was based on his work). [1]
- October 22
- Birth of Joe Carr in Ohio, USA; NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39). [1]
- November 1
- Birth of Grantland Rice; sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37). [1]
- Birth of Sholem Asch in Poland; Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities). [1]
- November 3
- Birth of Edmond Barrett; heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908). [1]
- November 10
- Birth of Jacob Epstein; sculptor (Adam, Jacob and the Angel). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of George C Marshall in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA; authored Marshall Plan (Nobel Prize 1953). [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of Carry van Bridges [de Haan]; Dutch author (Heleen, Eva). [1]
- Birth of Richard Kean in England; actor (Story of Will Rogers, Ten Commandments). [1]
- January 4
- Birth of Wilhelm Lehmbruck in Meiderich, German; painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth). [1] [37]
- January 9
- Birth of Giovanni Papini in Italy; writer (Il Diavolo). [1]
- Birth of Lascelles Abercrombie; English poet/critic (Revaluations). [1]
- January 17
- Birth of Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne; British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Gaston Gallimard; French publisher (Librairie Gallimard). [1]
- January 25
- Birth of Emil Ludwig; German biographer (Diana, Son of Man). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Irving Langmuir; physical chemist/colloid researcher/inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel Prize 1932). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Karl Frederick; pistol champion (Olympics-gold-1920). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Fernand Léger in France; painter/ceramist/cubist (The City). [1]
- Birth of Kliment J Woroshilov; Marshal/President USSR (1953-60). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Frederick Leonard Lonsdale; British playwright (Balkan Princess). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Eleanor Farjeon; English writer (Martin Pippin). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of William John Gruffydd; Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud). [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Maurits H E Uyldert; Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet). [1]
- February 19
- Birth of Armin Knab; German composer (Eichendorff-cycle). [1]
- Birth of Evert Gorter; founder of Dutch medical child care. [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Pedro Muñoz Seca; Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of William Foster in Massachusetts, USA; Communist Presidential candidate (1924,28,32). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Sveinn Björnsson; first President of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild). [1]
- March 9
- Birth of Enver Pasja; Turkish General/politician. [1]
- Birth of Ernest Bevin; British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs. [1]
- March 12
- Birth of Daniel Webster in Hoan, Wisconsin; American politician (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee). [1]
- Birth of Kemal Atatürk; first President of Republic of Turkey. [1]
- Birth of Väinö A Tanner; premier of Finland (1926-27). [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Kristian Elster; Norwegian author (Less bror Harris). [1]
- March 18
- Birth of Oliver Seibert; hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963). [1]
- March 23
- Birth of Hermann Staudinger in Germany; chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel Prize 1953). [1]
- Birth of Roger Martin du Guard in France; novelist (Les Thibault - Nobel Prize 1937). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of Béla Bartók in Hungary; composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra). [1]
- Birth of Louis Dosfel; Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Alcide de Gasperi; Italian premier (1945-53). [1]
- Birth of Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford; English author (Young Sisters). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Charles Funk in Ohio, USA; Encylopediest (Funk and Wagnalls). [1]
- April 13
- Birth of Ludwig Binswanger; Swiss psychiatrist (Über Ideenflucht). [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Anton Wildgans; Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of Edward Frederick Wood; first Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Hermann KJ Zilcher; German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Nikolai Miaskovsky in Novogeorievsk, Poland; composer (Kirov is With Us). [1]
- April 21
- Birth of Jules-Marie Canneel; Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of Alexander Kerensky Simbirsk; Russian Prime Minister (1917). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Claude Carter; South African slow lefty cricket player (1912-22). [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Hans Windisch; German new testament expert. [1]
- May 4
- Birth of Aleksandr F Kerenski; Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism). [1]
- May 11
- Birth of Jan van Gilse; composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren). [1]
- May 14
- Birth of Ed Walsh; pitcher, whose lifetime ERA of 1.82 is the lowest ever. [1]
- Birth of Julian Eltinge AKA William Dalton in Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA; vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator. [1]
- May 20
- Birth of Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski; chief of Polish general staff (1921), Prime Minister of Poland (1922-23), minister of military affairs (1924-25), Prime Minister of government in exile (1939-43). [1] [648.20]
- May 30
- Birth of George von Küchler; German fieldmarshal (Invasion Netherlands). [1]
- June 13
- Birth of Lois Weber; film director (What Do Men Want?). [1]
- August 6
- Birth of Alexander Fleming; cashed in on penicillin (Nobel Prize 1954). [1]
- Birth of Leo Carrillo in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Pancho - Cisco Kid TV show). [457]
- Birth of Louella Parsons in Freeport, Illinois, USA; gossip columnist (Hollywood Hotel and Hollywood Premiere on radio). [457]
- August 12
- Birth of Cecil B deMille in Massachusetts, USA; film director (The Ten Commandments) (dies 1959). [1] [5]
- August 19
- Birth of Georges Enescu in Romania; composer (Romanian Dances). [1]
- August 29
- Birth of Valery Nicolas Larbaud in France; novelist/translator (Enfantines). [1]
- September 6
- Birth of Leo Carrillo in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Pancho - Cisco Kid). [1]
- September 15
- Birth of Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti in Milan, Italy; race car builder (Amaz Bugattis). [1]
- September 27
- Birth of William Clothier; first president of tennis hall of fame. [1]
- October 1
- Birth of William Edward Boeing; founded aircraft company (Boeing) (dies 1956). [1] [5]
- October 11
- Birth of Hans Kelsen in Prague, Austria-Hungary; jurist, developed the "pure theory" of law, professor in Vienna, Cologne, Geneva and Prague, judge on the Austrian Constitutional Court (1920-30), taught at Harvard and University of California at Berkeley, author (Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre 1911, Allgemeine Staatslehre 1925, Reine Rechtslehre 1934, The Law of the United Nations 1950, Was ist Gerechtigkeit 1953). [37]
- October 15
- Birth of P.G. Wodehouse; British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves). [1]
- October 25
- Birth of Pablo Picasso in Malaga, Spain; one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century (dies in 1973). [1] [129]
- November 15
- Birth of Franklin P Adams in Chicago, Illinois, USA; columnist (Information Please). [1]
- November 18
- Birth of Percy Lesueur; hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove). [1]
- November 25
- Birth of Angelo Roncalli in Bergamo, Italy; 261st pope (John XXIII, 1958-63). [1]
- November 28
- Birth of Stefan Zweig in Vienna, Austria; poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Erwin von Witzleben; German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler). [1]
- December 8
- Birth of Padraic Colum; Irish poet/novelist (Collected Poems). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of James Schneider in New York, USA; actor (Keystone Kops). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Aubrey Faulkner; cricket player (great South Africa all-rounder early 20th century). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Branch Rickey; baseball executive (Brooklyn Dodgers). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Juan Ramón Jiménez in Spain; poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel Prize 1956). [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Joseph V McCarthy; baseball manager (New York Yankees). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Colin G Fink; US chemist (electro chemistry). [1]
- Birth of Jacob Israel de Haan; Dutch poet/writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song). [1]
- Birth of Max Pechstein; German "entartet" painter/graphic artist (The Bridge). [1]
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