- January 19
- Birth of Sophie Taeuber/Täuber-Arp Swiss sculptor/wife of Hans Arp (Dada). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter in Mooringsport, Louisiana, USA; blues 12-string guitarist (Rock Island Line). [1]
- January 21
- Birth of Bert Collins; cricket player (Aussie batsman in the post WWI years). [1]
- Birth of Pitirim A Sorokin; Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility). [1]
- January 23
- Birth of Franklin Pangborn in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living). [1]
- Birth of Prosper Arents; Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography). [1]
- January 27
- Birth of Balthasar van der Pol; physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of F R Foster; cricket player (330 runs and 45 wickets for England). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Gertrude Caton-Thompson; British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, Southern Arabia). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Carl Theodor Dreyer; Danish movie director (Leaves from Satan's Body, Passion of Jeanne d'arc). [1]
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- Birth of Risto Ryti; Finnish premier/president. [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Walter Catlett in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Front Page, Tale of Two Cities). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren; cricket player (prolific England bat of 1920s). [1]
- Birth of Ernest Tyldesley; cricket player (first Lancastrian to score 100 100's). [1]
- February 10
- Birth of Howard Spring; British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of John Mills; dancer (Mills Brothers). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Haroldson L Hunt; Texas oil multi-millionaire. [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Sybold van Ravesteyn; architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht). [1]
- February 19
- Birth of José Eustasio in Rivera, Colombia; poet/novelist (Vortex). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Felix Aylmer; actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, Saint Joan). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Robin G Collingwood; English philosopher (Roman Britain). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Cyril Delevanti in England; actor (Lucius - Jefferson Davis, Black Eye). [1]
- Birth of Frederik M; baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer (League of Nations). [1]
- February 28
- Birth of Victor Sutherland in Paducah, Kentucky, USA; actor (Captive City). [1]
- March 4
- Birth of Pearl White [Victoria]; US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Frits Slomp AKA Frits de Rover; Dutch vicar/resistance fighter. [1]
- March 8
- Birth of Oscar Ewing; US government official (Everybody's Business). [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Manoel II; last king of Portugal (1908-10). [1]
- March 29
- Birth of Howard Lindsay in Waterford, New York, USA; playwright/actor/director (State of Union). [1]
- Birth of Warner Baxter in Columbus, Ohio, USA; actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid). [1]
- April 7
- Birth of Gabriela Mistral; Chilean poet (Desolación, Tenderness, Nobel Prize 1945). [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Adrian Boult in Chester, England; conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra). [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Nick La Rocca; US coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag). [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Pierre-Étienne Flandin; French premier (1934-35), Minister of Foreign affairs. [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Arnold Toynbee in England; historian (A Study of History). [1]
- Birth of James Stephenson; actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew). [1]
- April 15
- Birth of Asa Philip Randolph; labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union). [1]
- Birth of Thomas Hart Benton in Neosho, Missouri, USA; painter/muralist (Lonesome Road). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of Charlie Chaplin in Lambeth, London, England; comedian/actor/director (City Lights) (dies 1977). [1] [5]
- April 18
- Birth of Jessie Street; Australian professional women's/aborigine rights fighter. [1]
- Birth of John Kilbane; US featherweight boxing champion (1912-23). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Adolf Hitler in Braunau, Austria; dictator of Germany (1936-45). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of [Richard] Stafford Cripps; English Minister of Plane manufacturing (1942-45). [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Charles Kellaway; cricket player (great Australian all-rounder of 1920s). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Ludwig Wittgenstein in Austria; philosopher (Tractatus). [1]
- April 28
- Birth of António de Oliveira Salazar; premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68). [1]
- Birth of Bryant Washburn in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga). [1]
- Birth of Karel Doorman; Dutch Rear Admiral. [1]
- May 5
- Birth of Herbie Taylor; cricket player (prolific South African pre- and post-WWI). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Bessie Hillman; founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of Joan Collette; Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft). [1]
- May 17
- Birth of Alfonso Reyes; Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel). [1]
- Birth of Marcel Moyse in Saint-Amour, France; flutist (20 Exercises et études). [1]
- May 25
- Birth of Igor Sikorsky; developed a working helicopter. [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Athene Seyler in London, England; actress (Make Mine Mink). [1]
- June 19
- Birth of Enrico Celio; president of Switzerland. [1]
- July 5
- Birth of Jean Cocteau in France; writer/artist/film maker (Le Potamak). [1]
- July 15
- Birth of Marjorie Rambeau in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song). [1]
- July 17
- Birth of Erle Stanley Gardner; author (created Perry Mason). [1]
- July 30
- Birth of Vladimir Zworykin; electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV. [1]
- August 1
- Birth of Dr John F Mahoney; developed pencillin treatment of syphillis. [1]
- August 10
- Birth of Irene Steer in England; 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1912). [1]
- August 31
- Birth of A Provost Idell; father of modern volleyball. [1]
- September 8
- Birth of Robert A Taft; American politician (Senator-Republican-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act). [1]
- September 15
- Birth of Robert Benchley; author (My Ten Years in a Quandary). [1]
- September 19
- Birth of Ernest Truex in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; actor (Pop - Pete and Gladys, Mr Peepers). [1]
- September 23
- Birth of Walter Lippmann in New York City, New York, USA; journalist/political writer (Men of Destiny). [1]
- September 26
- Birth of Martin Heidegger in Germany; existentialist (Being and Time). [1]
- October 4
- Birth of John B Kelly; Olympic champion rower, father of Grace Kelly. [1]
- October 7
- Birth of Clarence Muse in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (Sam - Casablanca). [1]
- October 13
- Birth of Douglass Dumbrille in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; actor (Mr Deeds Goes to Town). [1]
- October 27
- Birth of Enid Bagnold; novelist (1956 Award of Merit). [1]
- November 1
- Birth of Philip John Noel-Baker; statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel Prize 1959). [1]
- November 10
- Birth of Claude Rains in London, England; actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca). [1]
- November 12
- Birth of DeWitt Wallace in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921). [1]
- November 14
- Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru; first Indian Prime Minister (1947-64). [1]
- November 16
- Birth of George S Kaufman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; playwright (This is Show Business). [1] [5]
- November 18
- Birth of Amelita Galli-Curci in Italy; operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds). [1]
- November 20
- Birth of Edwin Hubble; astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift) (dies 1953). [1] [5]
- November 24
- Birth of Albert J Sylvester in England; ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Buck Jones AKA Charles F Gebhart; US actor (War Horse). [1]
- Birth of Isabel Randolph in Illinois, USA; actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks). [1]
- December 8
- Birth of W Hervey Allen; US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse). [1]
- December 9
- Birth of John P "Hannes" Kolehmainen; Finnish long-distance runner (Olympics-gold 1912). [1]
- December 10
- Birth of Ray Collins in Sacramento, California, USA; actor (Homecoming, Good Sam, Rose Marie). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Vaslav F Nijinski; Ukraine/US ballet dancer (l'après-midi d'une faune). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Minor Watson in Marianna, Arkansas; actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Vladimir Sokoloff in Moscow, Russia; actor (Road to Morocco). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of Georg von der Vring; German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren). [1]
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