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== Births == === January–March === [[Image:Felix Hoffman.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Felix Hoffmann]]]] [[File:Countess Markiewicz.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Countess Markiewicz]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[Snitz Edwards]], Hungarian-born actor (d. [[1937]]) * [[January 6]] – [[Vittorio Monti]], Italian composer (d. [[1922]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip James Bone|title=The Guitar and Mandolin: Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers|publisher=Schott|year=1914|page=243}}</ref> * [[January 9]] – [[S. P. L. Sørensen]], Danish chemist (d. [[1939]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Cai Yuanpei]], Chinese educator (d. [[1940]]) * [[January 15]] – [[Otto von Lossow]], Bavarian and German general (d. [[1938]]) * [[January 18]] – [[Kantarō Suzuki]], 29th Prime Minister of Japan (d. [[1948]]) * [[January 21]] – [[Felix Hoffmann]], German chemist (d. [[1946]]) * [[January 31]] – [[Theodore William Richards]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1928]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Constance Markievicz]], Irish politician (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Henry Kautt|author2=William Kautt|title=The Anglo-Irish War, 1916-1921: A People's War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e9GS8cYrWkC&pg=PA169|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-96311-8|pages=169}}</ref> * [[February 5]] – [[Maxine Elliott]], American actress (d. [[1940]]) * [[February 12]] – [[William Faversham]], English actor (d. [[1940]]) * [[February 16]] – [[Edward S. Curtis]], American photographer, ethnologist, and film director (d. [[1952]]) * [[February 23]] – [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], African American civil rights leader (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{cite book|author=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.|title=The Crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NCoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA399|date=November 1980|publisher=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.|pages=399}}</ref> * [[February 25]] **[[Constantin Dumitrescu (general)|Constantin Dumitrescu]], Romanian general (d. [[1935]]) **[[Matsumura Tatsuo (admiral)|Matsumura Tatsuo]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1932]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Venceslau Brás]], Brazilian president (d. [[1966]]) * [[March 1]] – [[Adolf von Trotha]], German admiral (d. [[1940]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Emily Murphy]], Canadian woman's rights activist (d. [[1933]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Robert Andrews Millikan]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1953]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert A. Millikan – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1923/millikan-bio.html|website=nobelprize.org}}</ref> * [[March 25]] – [[Bill Lockwood (cricketer)|Bill Lockwood]], English cricketer (d. [[1932]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Maxim Gorky]], Russian author (d. [[1936]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Marshall Borras|title=Maxim Gorky, the Writer: An Interpretation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-pfAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Oxford|page=ix}}</ref> * [[March 29]] – [[Joseph Cawthorn]], American actor (d. [[1949]]) === April–June === [[File:Face Nicholas II.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nicholas II of Russia]]]] [[File:John L. Hines.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John L. Hines]]]] [[File:Scott of the Antarctic crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Falcon Scott]]]] [[File:Karl Landsteiner nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karl Landsteiner]]]] [[File:Horthy the regent.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Miklós Horthy]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Edmond Rostand]], French poet and playwright (d. [[1918]])<ref>{{cite book|author=E. J. Freeman|title=Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9pcAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=University of Glasgow French and German Publications|isbn=978-0-85261-467-9|page=10}}</ref> * [[April 10]] – [[George Arliss]], English actor (d. [[1946]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Akiyama Saneyuki]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1918]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková]], Moravian pioneer of female education (d. [[1915]]) * [[April 25]] ** [[John Moisant]], American aviator (d. [[1910]]) ** [[Willie Maley]], Scottish football player and manager (d. [[1958]]) * [[May 6]] ** [[Gaston Leroux]], French writer (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Laura Paola Pellegrini|title=Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux: The novel's evolution and its theatrical and cinematic adaptations in the twentieth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PnbQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|date=April 27, 2012|publisher=LED Edizioni Universitarie|isbn=978-88-7916-584-6|pages=20}}</ref> ** [[Nicholas II of Russia]] (d. [[1918]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander Wasil Benko|title=Emperor Alexander the First of Russia: A Sketch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPAiAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=A.W. Benko|page=88}}</ref> * [[May 12]] – [[Al Shean]], German-born actor (d. [[1949]]) * [[May 21]] – [[John L. Hines]], American general, [[Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army]] (d. [[1968]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Abdülmecid II]], last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (d. [[1944]]) * [[June]] – [[Fusajiro Yamauchi]], Japanese entrepreneur and founder of Nintendo (d. [[1929]] or [[1940]]) * [[June 5]] – [[James Connolly]], Irish-Scots socialist (d. [[1916]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Robert Falcon Scott]], English Antarctic explorer (d. [[1912]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Robert Falcon Scott|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqOb9LEd98wC&pg=PA7|publisher=In the Hands of a Child|pages=7}}</ref> * [[June 7]] ** [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]], Scottish architect (d. [[1928]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Douglas Percy Bliss|title=Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Glasgow School of Art: Furniture in the School Collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2pIAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=The School|page=7}}</ref> ** [[John Sealy Townsend]], Irish mathematical physicist (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Von Engel | first1 = A. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1957.0018 | title = John Sealy Edward Townsend. 1868-1957 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 3 | pages = 256–272| year = 1957 | s2cid = 186208966 | doi-access = }}</ref> * [[June 14]] ** [[Anna B. Eckstein]], German peace campaigner (d. [[1947]]) ** [[Karl Landsteiner]], Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1943]])<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Rous | first1 = P.| title = Karl Landsteiner. 1868–1943 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1947.0002 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 5 | issue = 15 | pages = 294–324| year = 1947 |jstor=769085| s2cid = 161789667}}</ref> * [[June 21]] – [[Edward Chaytor]], New Zealand general (d. [[1939]])<ref>''Fiery Ted: Anzac Commander'' by Michael Smith (2008, Christchurch NZ) {{ISBN|978-0-473-13363-4}}</ref> === July–September === * [[July 2]] – [[Traian Moșoiu]], Romanian general and politician (d. [[1932]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]], American astronomer (d. [[1921]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0705/p15s01-bogn.html |title=Before computers, there were these humans... |work=The Christian Science Monitor|first=Gregory M. |last=Lamb |date=July 5, 2005 |access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref> * [[July 12]] – [[Stefan George]], German poet (d. [[1933]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Gertrude Bell]], English archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator (d. [[1926]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Myers|title=Myers' Literary Guide: The North East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_C8gAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Mid Northumberland Arts Group|isbn=978-1-85754-199-1|page=8}}</ref> * [[July 15]] – [[Nobuyoshi Mutō]], Japanese field marshal and ambassador (d. [[1933]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Mikhail Bakhirev]], Russian admiral (d. [[1920]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Florence Foster Jenkins]], American socialite and amateur operatic soprano (d. [[1944]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nicholas Martin|author2=Jasper Rees|title=Florence Foster Jenkins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gtYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|date=5 May 2016|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-1-5098-2469-4|pages=12}}</ref> * [[July 20]] – [[Patriarch Miron of Romania]], 38th Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1939]]) * [[July 24]] – Princess [[Srivilailaksana]] The Princess of Suphanburi daughter of King [[Chulalongkorn]] of Siam and Chao Chom Manda Pae Bunnag (d.[[1904]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Theodor Wulf]], German physicist and Jesuit (d. [[1946]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Oskar Merikanto]], Finnish composer (d. [[1924]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Paul Claudel]], French poet, dramatist and diplomat (d. [[1955]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Claudel|title=The Correspondence, 1899-1926, Between Paul Claudel and André Gide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4R4mAQAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Beacon Press|page=242}}</ref> * [[August 7]] ** [[Oo Zun]], Burmese social worker and Buddhist nun (d. [[1944]]) ** [[Martin Wetzer]], Finnish general (d. [[1954]]) * [[August 10]] – [[Hugo Eckener]], German dirigible engineer, Commander of ''[[Graf Zeppelin I]]'' (d. [[1954]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Edgar Lee Masters]], American poet, biographer and dramatist (d. [[1950]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Charles Stewart (Alberta politician, born 1868)|Charles Stewart]], [[Premier of Alberta]] (d. [[1946]]) * [[September 1]] – [[Henri Bourassa]], Canadian politician and publisher (d. [[1952]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Heinrich Häberlin]], Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (d. [[1947]]) * [[September 17]] – [[James Alexander Calder]], Canadian politician (d. [[1956]]) * [[September 22]] – [[John T. Raulston]], American state judge (Scopes Monkey Trial) (d. [[1956]]) === October–December === [[File:Mary Brewster Hazelton, est 1900-1910.png|thumb|100px|[[Mary Brewster Hazelton]]]] [[File:Alessandri Ulk (1932).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Arturo Alessandri]]]] [[File:Fritz Haber.png|110px|thumb|[[Fritz Haber]]]] * [[October 4]] – [[Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear]], President of Argentina (d. [[1942]]) * [[October 15]] – [[J. B. Johnson (Florida politician)|J. B. Johnson]], American attorney and politician (d. [[1940]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Ernest Swinton]], British Army general (d. [[1951]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Alexandra David-Néel]], French explorer (d. [[1969]]) * [[October 30]] – [[António Cabreira]], Portuguese polygraph (d. [[1953]])<ref>[[:File:Assento de baptismo António Cabreira (17Fev1869).png|Livro de Registo de Baptismos 1869 (folha 15 v.), Paróquia de Santa Maria do Castelo, Tavira]] – Arquivo Distrital de Faro</ref> * [[November 7]] – [[Delfim Moreira]], Brazilian president (d. [[1920]]) * [[November 8]] – [[Felix Hausdorff]], German mathematician (d. [[1942]]) * [[November 9]] – [[Marie Dressler]], Canadian actress (d. [[1934]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Gichin Funakoshi]], Japanese founder of Shotokan karate, "father of modern karate" (d. [[1957]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Korbinian Brodmann]], German neurologist (d. [[1918]]) * [[November 23]] – [[Mary Brewster Hazelton]], American portrait painter (d. [[1953]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Arnold Sommerfeld]], German theoretical physicist (d. [[1951]])<ref>Born, Max, ''Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, 1868–1951'', ''Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society'' Volume 8, Number 21, pp. 274–296 (1952)</ref> * [[December 9]] – [[Fritz Haber]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1934]])<ref>{{cite book | last=Goran | first=Morris | title=The Story of Fritz Haber | publisher=University of Oklahoma Press | year=1967 | isbn=978-0-8061-0756-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=im24AAAAIAAJ | access-date=30 April 2021 | page=38}}</ref> * [[December 19]] – [[Eleanor H. Porter]], American novelist (d. [[1920]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Eleanor H Porter|title=Pollyanna : Om Illustrated Classics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LEjDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT117|date=September 2018|publisher=Om Books International|isbn=978-93-80070-87-2|pages=117}}</ref> * [[December 20]] – [[Arturo Alessandri]], Chilean statesman, 3-Time [[President of Chile]] (d. [[1950]]) * [[December 21]] – [[George W. Fuller]], American sanitation engineer (d. [[1934]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Jaan Tõnisson]], 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. [[1941]]?) * [[December 25]] – [[Eugenie Besserer]], American silent film actress (d. [[1934]]) *''probable'' – [[Scott Joplin]], African American ragtime composer and pianist (d. [[1917]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alyn Shipton|title=Jazz Makers: Vanguards of Sound|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0DRCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|date=21 February 2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976130-2|pages=13}}</ref>
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