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== Births == === January === [[File:George Charles Beresford - Virginia Woolf in 1902 - Restoration.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Virginia Woolf]]]] [[File:FDR 1944 Color Portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]]] * [[January 5]] – [[Edwin Barclay]], 18th president of Liberia (d. [[1955]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunn|first1= Elwood D.|last2=Beyan|first2=Amos J.|last3=Burrowes|first3=Carl Patrick|author-link= |date=2000|title=Historical Dictionary of Liberia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC|location=Lanham, Maryland|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9781461659310|pages=33–34}}</ref> * [[January 6]] ** [[Fan Noli]], Albanian poet, political figure (d. [[1965]]) ** [[Ferdinand Pecora]], Sicilian-born American lawyer (d. [[1971]]) ** [[Sam Rayburn]], [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. [[1961]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Milton Sills]], American actor (d. [[1930]]) * [[January 17]] ** [[Arnold Rothstein]], American gangster (d. [[1928]]) ** [[Noah Beery]], American actor (d. [[1946]]) * [[January 18]] – [[A. A. Milne]], British author (d. [[1956]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Scott Kastan|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlMUSz-hiuEC&pg=RA1-PA502|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-516921-8|pages=1}}</ref> * [[January 20]] – [[Johnny Torrio]], Italian-born American gangster (d. [[1957]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Theodore Kosloff]], Russian-born actor (d. [[1956]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Anna Abrikosova]], Soviet [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister and servant of God (d. [[1936]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Virginia Woolf]], English writer (d. [[1941]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Virginia Woolf |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf |website=The British Library |accessdate=28 March 2019 |archive-date=August 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811113204/https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[January 28]] ** [[Mary Boland]], American actress (d. [[1965]]) ** [[Gengo Hyakutake]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1976]]) ** [[Pascual Orozco]], Mexican revolutionary (d. [[1915]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], 32nd [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{cite book|last= Burns |first= James MacGregor |year= 1956 |title= Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox |publisher= Easton Press |isbn= 978-0-15-678870-0 |url= https://archive.org/details/rooseveltliont00jame|page=7 }}</ref> * [[January 31]] – [[Fritz Leiber (actor)|Fritz Leiber]], American stage, screen actor (d. [[1949]]) === February === [[File:Louisstlaurent.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Louis St. Laurent]]]] [[File:Revolutionary Joyce Better Contrast.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Joyce]]]] * [[February 1]] ** [[Vladimir Dimitrov]], Bulgarian artist (d. [[1960]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Dimitrov-Maistora, Vladimir |encyclopedia=[[Grove Art Online]] |date=2003 |last=Katzarova |first=Mariana |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location= |id= |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/display/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000022809 |access-date=20 February 2024 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T022809}}</ref> ** [[Louis St. Laurent]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (d. [[1973]]) * [[February 2]] ** [[Anne Bauchens]], American film editor (d. [[1967]]) ** [[James Joyce]], Irish author (d. [[1941]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/what-does-joyce-mean-to-you-1.678911|title=What does Joyce mean to you?|first=Rosita|last=Bol|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=17 December 2018|archive-date=August 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818075209/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/what-does-joyce-mean-to-you-1.678911|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[February 4]] – [[E. J. Pratt]], Canadian poet (d. [[1964]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Louis Wagner (driver)|Louis Wagner]], French Grand Prix racer, aviator (d. [[1960]]) * [[February 11]] ** [[Valli Valli]], German-born British actress (d. [[1927]]) ** [[Joe Jordan (musician)|Joe Jordan]], American ragtime composer (d. [[1971]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Walter Nash]], 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. [[1968]]) * [[February 15]] – [[John Barrymore]], American actor (d. [[1942]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Petre Dumitrescu]], Romanian general (d. [[1950]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Alexander Carrick]], Scottish sculptor (d. [[1966]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Eric Gill]], English sculptor, writer (d. [[1940]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Bosman di Ravelli]], South African concert pianist, composer, and writer (d. [[1967]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Husband E. Kimmel]], American admiral (d. [[1968]]) * [[February 28]] ** [[Geraldine Farrar]], American soprano (d. [[1967]]) ** [[Herbert Silberer]], Austrian psychoanalyst (d. [[1923]]) === March === [[File:Carlos Blanco Galindo.jpg|thumb|153x153px|[[Carlos Blanco Galindo]]]] [[File:René Coty-1929.jpg|thumb|100px|[[René Coty]]]] [[File:Noether.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Emmy Noether]]]] * [[March 3]] – [[Charles Ponzi]], Italian-born American con man (d. [[1949]]) * [[March 6]] – [[F. Burrall Hoffman]], American architect (d. [[1980]]) * [[March 8]] – [[Alfred A. Cunningham]], first United States Marine Corps aviator (d. [[1939]]) * [[March 12]] – [[Carlos Blanco Galindo]], 32nd [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[1943]]) * [[March 14]] ** [[Wacław Sierpiński]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1969]]) ** [[Giuseppe Tellera]], Italian general (d. [[1941]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Jim Lightbody]], American middle-distance runner (d. [[1953]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Gian Francesco Malipiero]], Italian composer (d. [[1973]]) * [[March 20]] – [[René Coty]], 17th [[President of France]] (d. [[1962]]) * [[March 22]] – [[John W. Wilcox Jr.]], American admiral (d. [[1942]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Emmy Noether]], German mathematician (d. [[1935]]) * [[March 24]] – [[George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway]], English politician, 5th [[Governor-General of New Zealand]] (d. [[1943]]) * [[March 30]] **[[Melanie Klein]], Austrian-born British child psychoanalyst (d. [[1960]]) **[[Vittorio Tur]], Italian admiral (d. [[1969]])<ref>[http://www.difesa.it/Area_Storica_HTML/editoria/2016/uomini-mm/Pagine/files/basic-html/page527.html Biographical Dictionary Men of the Navy.]</ref> === April === [[File:Leopold Stokowski LOC 26447u.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leopold Stokowski]]]] * [[April 7]] – [[Kurt von Schleicher]], [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1934]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Artur Schnabel]], Polish pianist (d. [[1951]]) * [[April 18]] ** [[Monteiro Lobato]], Brazilian writer (d. [[1948]]) ** [[Leopold Stokowski]], English conductor (d. [[1977]]) * [[April 19]] – [[Getúlio Vargas]], 14th and 17th president of Brazil (d. [[1954]]) * [[April 20]] ** [[Nicolae Ciupercă]], Romanian general and politician (d. [[1950]]) ** [[Holland Smith]], American general (d. [[1967]]) * [[April 21]] – [[Percy Williams Bridgman]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1961]]) * [[April 24]] – [[Hugh Dowding]], commander of the [[RAF Fighter Command]] during the [[Battle of Britain]] (d. [[1970]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman]], Dutch artist, printer (d. [[1945]]) === May === [[File:Georges Braque, 1908, photograph published in Gelett Burgess, The Wild Men of Paris, Architectural Record, May 1910.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Georges Braque]]]] * [[May 2]] – [[James F. Byrnes]], American politician, Secretary of State and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1972]]) * [[May 5]] ** [[Sylvia Pankhurst]], English suffragette (d. [[1960]]) ** Sir [[Douglas Mawson]], Australian Antarctic explorer (d. [[1958]])<ref>{{cite journal|author=August Howard|title=Sir Douglas Mawson Centenary 1982|journal=The Polar Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53tQAQAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=American Polar Society}}</ref> * [[May 6]] – [[Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany]], heir-apparent of Emperor [[Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II]] (d. [[1951]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Henry J. Kaiser]], American industrialist (d. [[1967]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Thurston Hall]], American stage & screen actor (d. [[1958]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Georges Braque]], French painter (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Wolf Stubbe|title=History of Modern Graphic Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJ1Vd_pH7VcC|year=1963|publisher=Thames and Hudson|page=257}}</ref> * [[May 16]] – [[Mary Gordon (actress)|Mary Gordon]], Scottish stage and screen actress (d. [[1963]]) * [[May 20]] **[[Sigrid Undset]], Norwegian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1949]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mitzi Brunsdale|title=Sigrid Undset, Chronicler of Norway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzhcAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Berg|isbn=978-0-85496-027-9|page=1}}</ref> **[[Fannie Salter]], American lighthouse keeper (d. [[1966]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Marie Doro]], American stage, silent film actress (d. [[1956]]) * [[May 26]] – [[Jess McMahon]], American professional boxing, wrestling promoter (d. [[1954]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Avery Hopwood]], American playwright (d. [[1928]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Wyndham Halswelle]], British runner (d. [[1915]]) === June === [[File:Karl Valentin by Eugen Rosenfeld (1870 - 1940).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karl Valentin]]]] [[File:Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ion Antonescu]]]] [[File:Mossadeghmohammad.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mohammad Mosaddegh]]]] [[File:Igor Stravinsky LOC 32392u.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Igor Stravinsky]]]] * [[June 4]] – [[Karl Valentin]], German actor (d. [[1948]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Robert Kerr (athlete)|Robert Kerr]], Canadian sprinter (d. [[1963]]) * [[June 10]] – [[Nevile Henderson]], British diplomat (d. [[1942]]) * [[June 12]] – [[Roi Cooper Megrue]], American playwright (d. [[1927]]) * [[June 15]] – [[Ion Antonescu]], Romanian prime minister, dictator (d. [[1946]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]], Iranian politician, 35th [[Prime Minister of Iran]] (d. [[1967]]) * [[June 17]] ** [[Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (d. [[1918]]) ** [[Igor Stravinsky]], Russian composer (d. [[1971]]) * [[June 18]] – [[Georgi Dimitrov]], 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. [[1949]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Lluís Companys]], President of Catalonia (d. [[1940]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Valeska Suratt]], American stage actress, silent film star (d. [[1962]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Ole Singstad]], Norwegian-American civil engineer (d. [[1969]]) === July === * [[July 1]] – [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], Indian physician and politician, [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (d. [[1962]]) * [[July 8]] – [[Percy Grainger]], Australian composer (d. [[1961]]) * [[July 10]] – [[Ima Hogg]], American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d. [[1975]]) * [[July 17]] – [[James Somerville]], British admiral (d. [[1949]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Edward Hopper]], American painter (d. [[1967]]) * [[July 25]] – [[George S. Rentz]], United States Navy Chaplain, [[Navy Cross]] winner (d. [[1942]]) * [[July 27]] ** [[Donald Crisp]], English actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer (d. [[1974]]) ** [[Geoffrey de Havilland]], British [[aviation]] pioneer, [[aircraft]] company founder (d. [[1965]]) * [[July 31]] ** [[Itamar Ben-Avi]], first native speaker of [[Modern Hebrew]] (d. [[1943]]) === August === * [[August 11]] – [[Rodolfo Graziani]], Italian general (d. [[1955]]) * [[August 14]] – [[Gisela Richter]], English art historian (d. [[1972]]) * [[August 16]] – [[Christian Mortensen]], Danish supercentenarian, oldest verified male ever at the time of his death (d. [[1998]]) * [[August 19]] – [[MacGillivray Milne]], [[United States Navy]] [[Captain (USN)|Captain]], 27th [[Governor of American Samoa]] (d. [[1959]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Raymonde de Laroche]], French aviator, first woman to receive an aviator{{'}}s license (d. [[1919]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Seán T. O'Kelly]], second [[President of Ireland]] (d. [[1966]]) * [[August 26]] – [[James Franck]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1964]]) === September === [[File:Hans geiger.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Hans Geiger]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Nicholas H. Heck]], American geophysicist, oceanographer, and surveyor (d. [[1953]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Sada Cowan]], American playwright and screenwriter (d. [[1943]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Károly Huszár]], 25th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1941]]) * [[September 11]] – [[William T. Bovie]], American biophysicist, inventor (d. [[1958]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Ion Agârbiceanu]], Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (d. [[1963]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Ramón Grau]], Cuban president (d. [[1969]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Robert Hichens (sailor)|Robert Hichens]], RMS ''Titanic'' quartermaster, man at the wheel when ''Titanic'' hit the iceberg (d. [[1940]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Wilhelm Keitel]], German field marshal (d. [[1946]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Lilias Armstrong]], English phonetician (d. [[1937]]) * [[September 30]] ** [[George Bancroft (actor)|George Bancroft]], American film actor (d. [[1956]]) ** [[Hans Geiger]], German physicist (d. [[1945]]) === October === [[File:Dr. Robert H. Goddard - GPN-2002-000131.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Robert H. Goddard]]]] [[File:Sybil Thorndike.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Sybil Thorndike]]]] * [[October 2]] – [[Boris Shaposhnikov]], Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. [[1945]]) * [[October 3]] – [[A. Y. Jackson]], Canadian painter (d. [[1974]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Robert H. Goddard]], American rocket scientist (d. [[1945]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Karol Szymanowski]], Polish composer (d. [[1937]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Harry McClintock]], American singer (d. [[1957]]) * [[October 14]] **[[Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz]], Polish military leader (d. [[1915]]) ** [[Éamon de Valera]], [[Taoiseach]] and third [[President of Ireland]] (d. [[1975]]) ** [[Charlie Parker (cricketer)|Charlie Parker]], English cricketer (d. [[1959]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Giulio Gavotti]], Italian aviator (d. [[1939]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Bela Lugosi]], Hungarian-born American actor (d. [[1956]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Sybil Thorndike]], British stage, film actress (d. [[1976]]) * [[October 25]] ** [[Florence Easton]], English opera soprano (d. [[1955]]) ** [[Tony Jackson (pianist)|Tony Jackson]], American jazz musician (d. [[1921]]) * [[October 30]] ** [[William Halsey Jr.]], American admiral (d. [[1959]]) ** [[Günther von Kluge]], German field marshal (d. [[1944]]) === November === [[File:Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden 1962.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden]]]] * [[November 6]] – [[Feng Yuxiang]], Chinese [[warlord]] and general (d. [[1948]]) * [[November 8]] – [[Ethel Clayton]], American silent screen star (d. [[1966]]) * [[November 11]] ** [[T. F. O'Rahilly]], Irish academic (d. [[1953]]) ** King [[Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden]] (d. [[1973]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Felix Frankfurter]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1965]]) * [[November 18]] ** [[Jacques Maritain]], French Catholic philosopher (d. [[1973]]) ** [[Frances Gertrude McGill]], Canadian [[forensic pathologist]] (d. [[1959]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Harold Lowe]], Welsh 5th Officer of RMS ''Titanic'' (d. [[1944]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch]], American dentist (d. [[1944]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Henri Fabre]], French inventor of the first seaplane, the ''[[Fabre Hydravion]]'' (d. [[1984]]) === December === [[File:Max Born.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Max Born]]]] [[File:Kodály Zoltán 1930s.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Zoltán Kodály]]]] * [[December 9]] **[[Percy C. Mather]], English Protestant missionary (d. [[1933]]) **[[Joaquín Turina]], Spanish composer (d. [[1949]]) * [[December 11]] ** [[Subramania Bharati]], Tamil Indian poet (d. [[1921]]) ** [[Max Born]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Ioannis Demestichas]], Greek admiral (d. [[1960]]) * [[December 16]] ** [[Jack Hobbs]], English cricketer (d. [[1963]]) ** [[Zoltán Kodály]], Hungarian composer (d. [[1967]]) ** [[Walther Meissner]], German technical physicist (d. [[1974]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Richard Maury]], American naturalized Argentine engineer (d. [[1950]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Hisao Tani]], Japanese general and war criminal (d. [[1947]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Mokichi Okada]], Japanese religious leader (d. [[1955]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Georges Legagneux]], French aviator (d. [[1914]])<ref>{{Cite web| author=<!--not stated-->|url=https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/226329|title=Legaganeux, Georges Theophile LH//1554/17 |date=<!--not stated-->|website=Léonore database|publisher=French Ministry of Culture|language=fr}}</ref> * [[December 28]] – [[Arthur Eddington]], English astronomer, astrophysicist and mathematician (d. [[1944]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Raymond Stanton Patton]], American admiral, engineer and second Director of the [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey]] (d. [[1937]]) === Date unknown === * [[Sediqeh Dowlatabadi]], Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (d. [[1961]]) * [[Nellie Yu Roung Ling]], Chinese dancer, lady-in-waiting in Qing imperial court (d. [[1973]]) * [[T. Sathasiva Iyer]], [[Ceylon Tamil]] scholar, [[Tamil language]] writer (d. [[1950]]) * [[Ioryi Mucitano]], [[Aromanians|Aromanian]] revolutionary (d. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HlIUAQAAIAAJ|title=Ми-Анова енциклопедија: М-П|first=Jovan|last=Pavlovski|publisher=Knigoizdatelstvo MI-AN|volume=3|year=2006|page=1137|language=mk|isbn=9789989613944}}</ref> * [[Nicolae Velo]], Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania (d. [[1924]])<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=161359|title=Contacte macedo-române – rememorări, completări, rectificări|first=Constantin Ioan|last=Mladin|journal=Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica|volume=15|issue=1|pages=37–48|year=2014|language=ro|access-date=March 25, 2023|archive-date=October 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021220105/https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=161359|url-status=live}}</ref>
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