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== Births == {{BDToC|births|unknown=yes}} === January === [[File:JohnCurtin.jpg|thumb|110px|[[John Curtin]]]] [[File:ClaudeFuess3.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Claude Fuess]]]] * [[January 6]] – [[Florence Turner]], American actress (d. [[1946]]) * [[January 8]] – [[John Curtin]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1945]]) * [[January 11]] ** [[Jack Hoxie]], American actor, rodeo performer (d. [[1965]]) ** [[Alice Paul]], American women's rights activist (d. [[1977]]) * [[January 12]] ** [[Harry Benjamin]], American endocrinologist, sexologist (d. [[1986]]) ** [[Claude Fuess]], American author, historian and headmaster (d. [[1963]]) * [[January 14]] – [[Constantin Sănătescu]], 44th prime minister of Romania (d. [[1947]]) * [[January 16]] – [[Zhou Zuoren]], Chinese writer (d. [[1967]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Nikolaus von Falkenhorst]], German general and war criminal (d. [[1968]]) * [[January 21]] – [[Umberto Nobile]], Italian aviator and explorer (d. [[1978]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Roy Geiger]], American general (d. [[1947]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Harry Ricardo]], English mechanical engineer, engine pioneer (d. [[1974]]) * [[January 27]] ** [[Jerome Kern]], American composer (d. [[1945]]) ** [[Harry Ruby]], American musician, composer, and writer (d. [[1974]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Władysław Raczkiewicz]], [[President of Poland]] (d. [[1947]]) * [[January 30]] – [[John Henry Towers]], U. S.admiral and naval aviation pioneer (d. [[1955]]) === February === [[File:Bess Truman cropped.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bess Truman]]]] * [[February 1]] – [[Friedrich Kellner]], German diarist (d. [[1970]]) * [[February 7]] ** [[Sinclair Lewis]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1951]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Martin Bucco|author2=G. K. Hall & Company|title=Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o06vAAAAIAAJ|year=1986|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-8698-3|page=1}}</ref> ** [[Hugo Sperrle]], German field marshal (d. [[1953]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Alban Berg]], Austrian composer (d. [[1935]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Rupert Downes]], Australian general (d. [[1945]]) * [[February 13]] ** [[George Fitzmaurice]], French-American motion picture director (d. [[1940]]) ** [[Bess Truman]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1982]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Zengo Yoshida]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1966]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Abraham Grünbaum (activist)]], German Jewish activist. (d. [[1921]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Sacha Guitry]], Russian-born French dramatist, writer, director, and actor (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Radio Liberty Research Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4zwAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|page=8}}</ref> * [[February 22]] – [[Pat Sullivan (film producer)|Pat Sullivan]], Australian-born American director, animated film producer (d. [[1933]]) * [[February 24]] ** [[Chester W. Nimitz]], American admiral (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard R. Hobbs|title=Naval Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fYUfdr0WDBgC|year=1997|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=978-1-55750-373-2|page=160}}</ref> ** [[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]], Polish writer, painter (d. [[1939]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]] (d. [[1969]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Lyn |title=Heroes of the Holocaust: Ordinary Britons Who Risked Their Lives to Make a Difference |date=2012 |publisher=Ebury Publishing |isbn=978-0-09-194067-6 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DiO0_i4FVoQC&pg=PA171 |language=en}}</ref> * [[February 26]] – [[Aleksandras Stulginskis]], President of Lithuania (d. [[1969]]) === March === * [[March 6]] – [[Ring Lardner]], American writer (d. [[1933]]) * [[March 7]] – [[John Tovey]], British admiral of the fleet (d. [[1971]]) * [[March 11]] – Sir [[Malcolm Campbell]], English land, water racer (d. [[1948]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Raoul Lufbery]], French-born American World War I pilot (d. [[1918]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Mollie McNutt]], Australian poet (d. [[1919]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Julio Lozano Díaz]], President of Honduras (d. [[1957]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Jules Pascin]], Bulgarian painter (d. [[1930]]) === April === [[File:Clementine Churchill 1915.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Clementine Churchill]]]] * [[April 1]] ** [[Wallace Beery]], American actor (d. [[1949]]) ** [[Clementine Churchill]], wife of British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] (d. [[1977]]) * [[April 3]] ** [[Allan Dwan]], Canadian-born American film director (d. [[1981]]) **[[Bud Fisher]], American cartoonist (''[[Mutt and Jeff]]'') (d. [[1954]]) ** [[St John Philby]], Ceylonese-born British orientalist (d. [[1960]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Hermann Hoth]], German general (d. [[1971]]) * [[April 13]] ** [[John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer)|John Cunningham]], British admiral (d. [[1962]]) ** [[Otto Plath]], American father of poet [[Sylvia Plath]], entomologist (d. [[1940]]) * [[April 15]] – [[Tadeusz Kutrzeba]], Polish general (d. [[1947]]) * [[April 16]] – [[Charles Debbas]], 1st president, 5th prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1935]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Karen Blixen]], Danish author (d. [[1962]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=O. Classe|author2=[Anonymus AC02468681]|title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA158|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-36-7|pages=158}}</ref> * [[April 29]] – [[Frank Jack Fletcher]], American admiral (d. [[1973]]) === May === [[File:Otto Klemperer.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Otto Klemperer]]]] * [[May 2]] – [[Hedda Hopper]], American columnist (d. [[1966]]) * [[May 5]] – [[Agustín Barrios]], Paraguayan guitarist, composer (d. [[1944]]) * [[May 7]] – [[George "Gabby" Hayes]], American actor (d. [[1969]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Thomas B. Costain]], Canadian author and journalist (d. [[1965]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeeiQW67jAsC|date=June 1953|publisher=Hw Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0119-7|page=124}}</ref> * [[May 9]] – [[Eduard C. Lindeman]], American social worker, author (d. [[1953]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Otto Klemperer]], German conductor (d. [[1973]]) * [[May 15]] **[[Robert James Hudson]], [[Governor of Southern Rhodesia]] (d. [[1963]]) **[[Naokuni Nomura]], Japanese admiral and Minister of the Navy (d. [[1973]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Faisal I of Iraq]] (d. [[1933]]) * [[May 21]] – [[Sophie, Princess of Albania]], consort of [[William, Prince of Albania|William of Wied, Prince of Albania]] (d. [[1936]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Toyoda Soemu]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1957]]) * [[May 24]] – [[Susan Sutherland Isaacs]], English educational psychologist, psychoanalyst (d. [[1948]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Richmond K. Turner]], American admiral (d. [[1961]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Arthur E. Andersen]], American accountant (d. [[1947]]) === June === * [[June 2]] – [[Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt]], German neuropathologist (d. [[1964]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Arturo Rawson]], President of Argentina (d. [[1952]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Georges Mandel]], French politician, World War II hero (d. [[1944]]) * [[June 9]] ** [[John Edensor Littlewood]], British mathematician (d. [[1977]]) ** [[Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski]], Prime Minister of Poland (d. [[1962]]) ** [[Harry Gribbon]], American comedy actor (d. [[1961]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Harry A. Marmer]], Ukrainian-born American mathematician, oceanographer (d. [[1953]]) * [[June 22]] – [[Milan Vidmar]], Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player (d. [[1962]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Guilhermina Suggia]], Portuguese cellist (d. [[1950]])<ref>Obituary, ''[[The Musical Times]]'', September 1950, p. 362</ref> * [[June 29]] – [[Izidor Kürschner]], Hungarian football player and coach (d. [[1941]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtkbudapest.hu/en/hirek/multidezes/ezen-a-napon-szuletett-kurschner-izidor-a-kivalo-jatekos-es-vilagjaro-edzo-akinek-braziliaban-szobrot-allitottak|title=Ezen a napon született Kürschner Izidor, a kiváló játékos és világjáró edző, akinek Brazíliában szobrot állítottak|website=www.mtkbudapest.hu}}</ref> === July === * [[July 2]] – [[Nikolai Krylenko]], Russian [[Bolshevik]] and Soviet politician (d. [[1938]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Louis B. Mayer]], American film producer (d. [[1957]]) * [[July 6]] – [[Ernst Busch (field marshal)|Ernst Busch]], German field marshal (d. [[1945]]) * [[July 8]] – [[Paul Leni]], German film director (''[[The Cat and the Canary (1927 film)|The Cat and the Canary]]'') (d. [[1929]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Luo Meizhen]], Chinese supercentenarian (d. [[2013]]) * [[July 14]] – King [[Sisavang Vong]] of [[Laos]] (d. [[1959]]) * [[July 15]] ** [[Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi]], 1st prime minister of Sudan (d. [[1959]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Hakuun Yasutani]], Japanese [[Sōtō]] [[rōshi]] (d. [[1973]]) * [[July 19]] **[[Dumitru Coroamă]], Romanian soldier and fascist activist (d. [[1956]]) **[[Aristides de Sousa Mendes]], Portuguese diplomat, humanitarian (d. [[1954]]) * [[July 20]] – [[Michitarō Komatsubara]], Japanese general (d. [[1940]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Monte Attell]], American boxer (d. [[1960]]) * [[July 29]] – [[Theda Bara]], American [[silent film]] actress (d. [[1955]]) === August === [[File:D H Lawrence passport photograph.jpg|thumb|110px|[[D H Lawrence]]]] * [[August 1]] – [[George de Hevesy]], Hungarian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1966]]) === September === [[File:Benchifley.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ben Chifley]]]] * [[September 6]] – [[Otto Kruger]], American actor (d. [[1974]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Jovita Idar]], Mexican-American journalist and political activist (d. [[1946]]) * [[September 11]] – [[D. H. Lawrence]], English novelist (d. [[1930]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Worthen|title=D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_tSP0DZzK0C&pg=PR23|date=31 July 1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-43772-1|pages=23}}</ref> * [[September 20]] – [[Enrico Mizzi]], 6th [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (d. [[1950]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Thomas de Hartmann]], Russian composer (d. [[1956]]) * [[September 22]] ** [[Ben Chifley]], 16th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1951]]) ** [[Erich von Stroheim]], Austrian-born motion picture actor, director (d. [[1957]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Mineichi Koga]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1944]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Harry Blackstone Sr.]], American magician and illusionist (d. [[1965]]) === October === [[File:Niels Bohr.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Niels Bohr]]]] * [[October 3]] – [[Sophie Treadwell]], American playwright, journalist (d. [[1970]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Niels Bohr]], Danish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1962]]) * [[October 11]] – [[François Mauriac]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{cite book|author=K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar|title=Francois Mauriac: Novelist & Moralist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ay4nAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Asia Publishing House|page=2}}</ref> * [[October 19]] – [[Charles E. Merrill]], American banker, co-founder of [[Merrill Lynch]] (d. [[1956]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Rachel Katznelson-Shazar]], Zionist political figure, wife of third President of Israel (d. [[1975]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Per Albin Hansson]], 2-time prime minister of Sweden (d. [[1946]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Ezra Pound]], American poet (d. [[1972]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lawrence S. Rainey|title=Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajVbyQLNRLwC&pg=PA43|date=15 December 1991|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-70316-9|pages=43}}</ref> === November === [[File: General George S Patton.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[George S. Patton]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0630-504, Heinrich Brüning.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Heinrich Brüning]]]] * [[November 1]] – [[Anton Flettner]], German aviation engineer, inventor (d. [[1961]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Harlow Shapley]], American astronomer (d. [[1972]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Will Durant]], American philosopher, writer (d. [[1981]]) * [[November 8]] – [[Tomoyuki Yamashita]], Japanese general (d. [[1946]]) * [[November 9]] ([[October 28]] (O.S.)) – [[Velimir Khlebnikov]], Russian poet (d. [[1922]]) * [[November 11]] – [[George S. Patton]], American general (d. [[1945]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Frederick Handley Page|Frederick Handley-Page]], British aviation pioneer, aircraft company founder (d. [[1962]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Heinrich Brüning]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] 1930-1932 (d. [[1970]]) * [[November 30]] ** [[Albert Kesselring]], German field marshal (d. [[1960]]) ** [[Ma Zhanshan]], Chinese general (d. [[1950]]) === December === * [[December 2]] – [[George Minot]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1950]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Mario Talavera]], Mexican songwriter (d. [[1960]]) * [[December 19]] ** [[John Lavarack]], Australian general, [[Governor of Queensland]] (1946-1957) (d. [[1957]]) ** [[King Oliver]], American jazz musician (d. [[1938]]) ===Date unknown=== * [[Geza von Hoffmann]], Austrian-Hungarian eugenicist and writer (d. [[1921]])<ref name=Turda1>Turda, Marius, and Paul Weindling. "Blood and Homeland": Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940. Budapest: Central European UP, 2007. pp. 1 Print.</ref> * [[Alessandro Tonini]], Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer and manufacturer (d. [[1932]])
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