- January 14
- Birth of Hal Roach; early film director/producer (One Million BC). [1]
- Martin Niemöller born in Lippstadt, Germany; commander of a submarine in World War I, pastor in Berlin, a leader in the resistance against Hitler, arrested in 1937 and sent to the camp in Dachau, pacivist during the Cold War, recipient of Lenin Peace Prize in 1967 and the German "Grand Cross of Merit" in 1971. [1] [37]
- January 15
- Birth of Rex Ingram AKA Reginald IM Hitchcock; director (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Oliver Hardy in Harlem, Georgia, USA; comedy team member (Laurel and Hardy) (dies 1957). [1] [5]
- January 19
- Birth of Olafur Thors; Icelandic Prime Minister (six times, 1942-63). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Roscoe Ates in Grange, Mississippi, USA; actor (Deputy Roscoe - Marshal of Gunsight Pass). [1]
- January 22
- Birth of Marcel Dassault [Bloch]; French airplane builder. [1]
- January 26
- Birth of Zara Cully in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Mother Jefferson - The Jeffersons). [1]
- January 28
- Birth of Ernst Lubitsch in Germany; actor (Love Parade). [1]
- January 29
- Birth of Clifford Gray; US bobsled (Olympics-gold-1928). [1]
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- January 30
- Birth of Grigore Gafencu; Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Eddie Cantor in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of K Rudolf Mengelberg; composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall). [1]
- February 8
- Birth of Fritz Todt; German Reichs minister (Organization Todt). [1]
- February 9
- Birth of Barend ter Haar; Dutch lawyer (Indonesian adat justice). [1]
- Birth of Peggy Wood in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (One Life to Live, Mama). [1]
- February 10
- Birth of Alan Hale AKA Rufus Alan Mackahan in Washington DC, USA; actor (Little John - Adventures of Robin Hood). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Grant Wood; US painter (American Gothic). [1]
- Birth of Robert Houghwout Jackson; 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Nikolaj A Orloff; Russian/British pianist (Chopin). [1]
- February 15
- Birth of James Forrestal; American banker/minister of Navy. [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Theodor Plievier; German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Wendell Wilkie; US Presidential candidate (Republican-1940)/author (One World). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of David Dubinsky; labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom). [1]
- Birth of Edna Saint Vincent Millay; poet/writer/feminist (Harp Weaver - Pulitzer Prize). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Kathleen Harrison; actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of William Demarest in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actor (Uncle Charlie - My Three Sons) (dies 1983). [1] [5]
- March 1
- Birth of Ryunosuke Akutagawa in Japan; writer (Rashomon in Kappa). [1]
- March 8
- Birth of Mátyás Rákosi; Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53). [1]
- March 9
- Birth of David Garnett in England; novelist/editor (Lady into Fox). [1]
- Birth of Frank Puglia in Sicily, Italy; actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book). [1]
- Birth of Joseph Weinheber in Austria; poet/writer (Adel und Untergang). [1]
- Birth of Vita Sackville-West in England; novelist/poet (The Land). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Arthur Oscar Honnegger in Le Havre, France; composer (King David). [1]
- March 11
- Birth of Raoul Walsh in New York City, New York, USA; director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry). [1]
- Birth of Wladyslaw Anders; Polish General (WWI, WWII). [1]
- March 13
- Birth of Janet Flanner; journalist (New Yorker). [1]
- March 14
- Birth of Olive Netta Parsons; co-founder (Collet's Bookshop). [1]
- March 16
- Birth of César Vallejo; Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros). [1]
- March 18
- Birth of Robert P Tristram Coffin; poet/reporter (WWII). [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Siegfried T Bok; neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of Andy Clyde in Scotland; actor (Mack Sennett Comedies, California Carlson - Hopalong Cassidy radio show, Cully - Lassie, George - Real McCoys TV show, No Time for Sergeants, Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Fury, The Texan, Gunsmoke, The Tall Man, Circus Boy). [1] [457]
- March 27
- Birth of Thorne Smith; author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb). [1]
- March 31
- Birth of Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek; Polish/British General-Major/commandant. [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Cyril Smith in Peterhead, Scotland; actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot). [1]
- Birth of Esther Howard in Montana, USA; actress (Born to Kill, Murder My Sweet, A Fool's Advice). [1]
- April 6
- Birth of Donald Wills Douglas; US aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas). [1]
- Birth of Lowell Thomas in Woodington, Ohio, USA; newscaster (NBC, CBS, host of Lowell Thomas Remembers on National Public Radio, High Adventure). [1] [457]
- April 8
- Birth of Richard J Neutra; Austrian/US architect (Who Built America?). [1]
- April 10
- Birth of Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt; German anthropologist (Rassenkunde). [1]
- Birth of Victor de Sabata in Trieste, Italy; conductor/composer (Il Macigno). [1]
- April 13
- Birth of Arthur Harris Cheltenham; Marshal of the British RAF. [1]
- Birth of Robert A Watson-Watt in England; physicist (radar). [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Giorgio Cesana in Italy; coxswain, (Olympics-gold-1906). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of Jack Hulbert in Ely, England; actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Louis Victor de Broglie; physicist (studied electrons). [1]
- April 28
- Birth of Joseph Dunninger in New York City, New York, USA; mentalist (Amazing Dunninger). [1]
- May 1
- Birth of Howard Barlow in Plain City, Ohio, USA; conductor (Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Voice of Firestone radio and TV show). [1] [457]
- May 2
- Birth of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen; the Red Baron, German WWI ace. [1]
- May 3
- Birth of Beulah Bondi in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (It's a Wonderful Life). [1]
- Birth of George Thomson; demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel Prize 1937). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Archibald MacLeish in Glencoe, Illinois, USA; political essayist/poet/dramatist (JB). [1]
- Birth of Josip Broz Tito in Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary; leader of Yugoslavia (1945-80). [1]
- May 9
- Birth of Zita; empress (Austria), Queen (Hungary). [1]
- May 11
- Birth of Margaret Rutherford Balham in London, England; actress (Murder Most Foul, Murder She Said, Arabella). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of Coenraad B van Haeringen; linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Ezio Pinza in Rome, Italy; bass singer (New York Metropolitan - South Pacific). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Konstatin G Paustovski; Russian author (Povestj Zjizni). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of John Peale Bishop; US poet (This Side of Paradise). [1]
- May 22
- Birth of Louis van Tulder; Dutch tenor (From Office Stool to High C). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Sara Heyblom; Dutch actress (Pygmalion, Fietsen naar de Maan). [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Minna Gombell in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actress (Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister). [1]
- May 29
- Birth of Alfonsina Storni; Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal). [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Gregor Strasser; German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader. [1]
- Birth of Konstatin G Paustovski; Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj). [1]
- June 9
- Birth of Cole Porter in Peru, Indiana, USA; songwriter-composer ("Anything Goes", "Kiss Me Kate", "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "Let's Do It"). [1] [457]
- June 13
- Birth of Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South Africa; actor (Sherlock Holmes in 12 films and hundreds of radio plays). [1] [5] [457]
- June 21
- Birth of Hilding Rosenberg in Bosjökloster, Sweden; composer (Babels Torn). [1]
- Birth of Reinhold Niebuhr; US theologian (Nature and Destiny of Man). [1]
- June 26
- Birth of Hubert Julian (Jay) Stowitts; first American star in the Russian ballet, and Anna Pavlova's only American partner. [1]
- Birth of Pearl S Buck in China; author (The Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938) (dies 1973). [1] [5]
- July 1
- Birth of James M Cain in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice). [1]
- July 11
- Birth of Thomas Mitchell in New Jersey, USA; academy award winning actor (Outlaw, Adventures). [1]
- July 22
- Birth of Arthur Seyss-Inquart; Austrian chancellor (1930s). [1]
- July 23
- Birth of Haile Selassie; emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74). [1]
- July 28
- Birth of Joe E Brown in Holgate, Ohio, USA; comedian (Buck Circus Hour). [1]
- July 29
- Birth of William Powell; actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey). [1]
- August 2
- Birth of John Kieran in New York City, New York, USA; columnist/author (Natural History of New York City). [1]
- August 11
- Birth of Hugh MacDiarmid in Scotland; writer (Scots Unbound). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of Louis-Victor due de Broglie in France; physicist (Nobel Prize 1929). [1]
- August 16
- Birth of Harold Foster; cartoonist (created Prince Valiant). [1]
- August 19
- Birth of Alfred Lunt; Broadway actor (Emmy 1965). [1]
- September 5
- Birth of Joseph Szigeti in Budapest, Hungary; violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933). [1]
- September 12
- Birth of Alfred A Knopf; American publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal) (dies 1984). [1] [5]
- September 22
- Birth of Frank Sullivan; humorist (New Yorker Magazine). [1]
- October 4
- Birth of Engelbert Dollfuss; Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis. [1]
- October 10
- Birth of Ivo Andric in Yugoslavia; novelist (Bridge on the Drina, Nobel Prize 1961). [1]
- November 1
- Birth of Alexander Alekhine in Russia; world chess champion (1927-46). [1]
- November 6
- Birth of John Sigvard Olsen in Wabash, Indiana, USA; comedian (Olsen and Johnson). [1]
- November 14
- Birth of James Meredith; 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1912). [1]
- November 26
- Birth of Joe Guyon; NFL halfback (Canton Bulldogs, Washington Senators, Union Quakers of Philadelphia, Cleveland Indians, Oorang Indians, Rock Island Independents, Kansas City Cowboys, New York Giants). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Francisco Franco y Bahamonde; general/dictator of Spain (1936-75). [1]
- December 5
- Birth of Cyril Ring in Massachusetts, USA; actor (Body and Soul). [1]
- December 6
- Birth of F Osbert S Sitwell in London, England; poet/writer (Out of the Flame). [1]
- Birth of Lina Carstens in Wiesbaden, Germany; actress (Homeland, Broken Jug). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Nora Nicholson in Leamington, England; actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow). [1]
- December 11
- Birth of Leo Ornstein in Kremenchug, Russia; composer (Bio in Sonata Form). [1]
- December 13
- Birth of Brand Dirck Ochse; filmer/co-founder (Polygoon). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of J Paul Getty in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; oil magnate (Getty Oil). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Cameron Prud'Homme in Auburn, California, USA; actor (Rainmaker). [1]
- December 21
- Birth of Rebecca West AKA Cicily I F Andrews in England; journalist/novelist/critic/feminist (Meaning of Treason). [1]
- Birth of Walter Hagen in Rochester, New York, USA; PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 1919). [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Emory Parnell in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actress (Rocket Man, County Fair). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of John Litel in Albany, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Virginia City, My Hero). [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Jason Robards in Hillsdale, Michigan, USA; actor (Acapulco). [1]
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