- January 11
- Birth of Chester Conklin in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA; actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed). [1]
- January 15
- Birth of Joseph Henabery in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; director (Cobra). [1]
- January 24
- Birth of Ernst Heinrich Heinkel; German inventor (first rocket-powered aircraft). [1]
- Birth of Hedwig "Vicki" Baum; Austrian/US author (Men Never Know). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Frank Lloyd in Scotland; actor/director (Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver Twist). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Joris Baers; Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Paul Althaus; German theologist (The Christian Truth). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Ljudmil Stojanow; Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Georgios Papandreou; Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier. [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck; actress (Bouwmeester Award). [1]
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- Birth of Otto Stern; German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel Prize 1943). [1]
- Birth of Ronald Aburthnott Knox; English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Gladys Cooper in England, actress (Margaret - The Rogues). [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Marie Rambert in Warsaw, Poland; English ballet producer/director/teacher. [1]
- Birth of Georges Bernanos in France; novelist (Diary of a Country Priest). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Florence Bates in Texas, USA; actress (Moon and Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio). [1]
- Birth of Willem Banning; Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of John Foster Dulles; US Secretary of State (1953-59). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Lotte Lehmann in Perleberg, Germany; soprano (Fidello). [1]
- March 4
- Birth of Knute Rockne; Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame). [1] [5]
- March 5
- Birth of Friedrich Schnack; German journalist/writer (Rosewood). [1]
- March 7
- Birth of Alidius van Starkenborch Stachouwer; Governor of Netherland Indies (1936-45). [1]
- March 8
- Birth of Stuart Chase in Somersworth, New Hampshire, USA; writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Barry Fitzgerald in Dublin, Ireland; actor (Academy Award - Going My Way). [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Frank Buck; actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs). [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Josef Albers; German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Jameson Thomas in London, England; actor (Farmer's Wife). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Sigurd Erixon; Swedish etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folk culture). [1]
- March 29
- Birth of Adrianus M de Jong; Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje and Bonestaak). [1]
- Birth of James E Casey; founder (United Parcel Service). [1]
- March 30
- Birth of Anna Q Nilsson in Ystad, Sweden; actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Neville Cardus; cricket player (doyen of cricket writers). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Tris Speaker; baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose. [1]
- April 6
- Birth of Daniel Andersson; Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader). [1]
- April 9
- Birth of Florence Smith Price; US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932). [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Donald Calthrop in London, England; actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express). [1]
- April 15
- Birth of Florence Bates in San Antonio, Texas, USA; actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama). [1]
- April 28
- Birth of Henry Crerar; Canadian General (WWI/Italy/Netherlands). [1]
- April 30
- Birth of John Crowe Ransom; American poet/critic (God Without Thunder). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Emmanuel Celler; American politician (Representative-Democrat-New York, 1923-73). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Selmer Jackson in Lake Mills, Iowa, USA; actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria; composer (Gone With the Wind). [1]
- May 11
- Birth of Irving Berlin AKA Israel Isidor Baline in Temum, Siberia, Russia; songwriter ("There's No Business Like Show Business", "God Bless America", "White Christmas", Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1968)). [1] [457]
- Birth of P A J Losecaat Vermeer; leader of Dutch High Council. [1]
- May 13
- Birth of Inge Lehmann in Denmark; discovered the inner core of the Earth, a zone of solid material, at a depth of 5150 km, in the early 1930s. [53]
- May 14
- Birth of Miles Mander in Wolverhampton, England; actor (Tower of London). [1]
- May 17
- Birth of A P "Tich" Freeman' cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent and England). [1]
- May 23
- Birth of Adrian Roland Holst; Dutch poet (Raged and Tired). [1]
- May 25
- Birth of Miles Malleson; writer/actor (Phantom of the Opera, Postman's Knock). [1]
- May 28
- Birth of James Francis Thorpe AKA Jim Thorpe AKA Wa-Tho-Huk (Bright Path) in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA; decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912) (dies 1953). [1] [5] [1020.812]
- May 30
- Birth of James A Farley; US postmaster general (1933-38). [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Jack Holt; US golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone). [1]
- June 15
- Birth of Maria Dermoût in Java; Dutch novelist (The 10,000 Things). [1]
- July 8
- Birth of John Sinnock; US Mint Chief Engraver. [512.36]
- July 10
- Birth of Giorgio De Chirico in Greece; Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer). [1]
- Birth of Graham McNamee; sportscaster (first Rose Bowl). [1]
- July 11
- Birth of Lyman Bryson in Valentine, Nebraska, USA; educator (UN Casebook). [1]
- July 16
- Birth of Frits Zernike; invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel Prize 1953). [1]
- July 17
- Birth of Shmuel Agnon in Israel; novelist (Day Before Yesterday - Nobel Prize 1966). [1]
- July 22
- Birth of Raymond Chandler in Chicago, Illinois, USA; mystery writer (The Long Goodbye). [1]
- July 23
- Birth of Dr Milan Stoyadinovich in Serbia; fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister (1935-39). [1]
- Birth of Gluyas Williams in San Francisco, California, USA; cartoonist (Fellows Citizen). [1]
- August 13
- Birth of John Logie Baird in Scotland; inventor (father of TV). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of T.E. Lawrence AKA Lawrence of Arabia in Tremadoc, Wales; soldier/writer. [1]
- August 17
- Birth of Monty Wooley in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Pied Piper, The Man Who Came to Dinner). [1]
- September 6
- Birth of Joseph P Kennedy; financier/diplomat, father of John, Robert, and Edward. [1]
- September 12
- Birth of Maurice Chevalier in Paris, France; actor (Gigi). [1]
- September 16
- Birth of Frans Sillanpää in Finland; writer (Meek Heritage - Nobel Prize 1939). [1]
- September 26
- Birth of T.S. Eliot in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land - Nobel Prize 1948). [1]
- October 3
- Birth of Carl von Ossietzky in Germany; journalist, pacifist (Nobel Prize 1935). [1]
- October 6
- Birth of Li Ta-chao; cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party. [1]
- October 7
- Birth of Henry A Wallace; 33rd US Vice President, Progressive presidential candidate. [1]
- October 9
- Birth of Hank Patterson in Alabama, USA; actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel - Green Acres). [1]
- October 14
- Birth of Katherine Mansfield; New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party). [1]
- October 16
- Birth of Eugene O'Neill in New York City, New York, USA; dramatist (Desire Under the Elms - Nobel Prize 1936) (dies 1953). [1] [5]
- October 25
- Birth of Richard E Byrd in Virginia, USA; admiral/polar explorer (1926). [1]
- October 31
- Birth of George Hubert Wilkins in Australia; polar explorer (Flying the Arctic). [1]
- November 7
- Birth of Chandrasekhara Raman in India; physicist (Nobel Prize 1930). [1]
- November 16
- Birth of Burnet Corwin Tuthill in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Laurentia). [1]
- Birth of Clinton Golden in Pennsylvania, USA; founder (United Steelworkers of America). [1]
- November 19
- Birth of Jose Raul in Capablanca, Cuba; world chess champion (1921-27). [1]
- November 23
- Birth of Harpo Marx [Adolph] in New York City, New York, USA; actor/comedian (Marx brothers) (dies 1964). [1] [5]
- November 24
- Birth of Cathleen Nesbitt in Belfast, Ireland; actress (Agatha - Farmer's Daughter). [1]
- Birth of Dale Carnegie; author (How to Win Friends and Influence People). [1]
- December 1
- Birth of Benjamin Crémieux; French author (Le premier the la Classe). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Aleksandar I Karadordjevic; king of Yugoslavia (1921-34). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Joyce Cary; Anglo-Irish writer (House of Children). [1]
- Birth of Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun; first president of American Newspaper Guild. [1]
- December 8
- Birth of Paul Cavanagh in Chislehurst, England; actor (Tarzan and his Mate). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Artturi A Leinonen; Finnish journalist/writer (Kati), politician. [1]
- Birth of Jan Greshoff; Dutch poet/author/journalist (Bric à Brac). [1]
- Birth of Maxwell Anderson; US dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Alexander in Montenegro; King Alexander I. [1268.85]
- December 18
- Birth of Gladys Cooper in Lewisham, England; actress (My Fair Lady). [1]
- Birth of Robert Moses; power broker (built Long Island and New York City parks and roads). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Fritz Reiner in Budapest, Hungary; conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony 1938-48). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Joseph Arthur Rank; English film magnate/baron. [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi; Japanese stagewriter (Tjitj Kaeru). [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Joseph Beran; Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal. [1]
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