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== Births == === January–February === [[File:Kallay Miklos 1942.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Miklós Kállay]]]] [[File:Arturrubenstein.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Arthur Rubinstein]]]] [[File:Farrel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edelmiro Julián Farrell]]]] [[File:Joseph Bech (detail).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph Bech]]]] [[File:Chico Marx - signed.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chico Marx]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Wilhelm Canaris]], head of German military intelligence in [[World War II]] (d. [[1945]]) ** [[Max Ritter von Müller]], German World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]]) * [[January 2]] – [[Mayme Ousley]], American politician and the first female mayor in [[Missouri]] history (d. [[1970]]) * [[January 3]] – [[August Macke]], German painter (d. [[1914]])<ref>{{cite book |first1=Anna |last1=Meseure |first2=August |last2=Macke |author-link2=August Macke |title=August Macke, 1887-1914 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44ErAQAAMAAJ |year=1993 |publisher=[[Benedikt Taschen]] |isbn=978-3-8228-0551-0 |page=7}}</ref> * [[January 10]] – [[Robinson Jeffers]], American poet (d. [[1962]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Jorge Chávez]], Peruvian aviator (d. [[1910]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Ola Raknes]], Norwegian psychoanalyst, philologist (d. [[1975]]) * [[January 19]] – [[Alexander Woollcott]], American intellectual (d. [[1943]]) * [[January 23]] ** [[Miklós Kállay]], 34th prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Tibor |last=Szy |title=Hungarians in America: A Biographical Directory of Professionals of Hungarian Origin in the Americas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGUOAQAAMAAJ |year=1966 |publisher=Kossuth Foundation |page=218}}</ref> ** [[Dorothy Payne Whitney]], American-born philanthropist, social activist (d. [[1968]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Arthur Rubinstein]], Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. [[1982]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Opus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2EM9AQAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Warwick Publishing Group |page=30}}</ref> * [[February 2]] – [[Ernst Hanfstaengl]], German-born American businessman and politician (d. [[1975]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Georg Trakl]], Austrian poet (d. [[1914]])<ref>{{cite book |first1=Georg |last1=Trakl |author-link1=Georg Trakl |first2=Robin |last2=Skelton |author-link2=Robin Skelton |title=Dark Seasons: A Selection of Poems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5SLUMh-2gcC&pg=PA9 |year=1994 |publisher=Broken Jaw Press |isbn=978-0-921411-22-2 |page=9}}</ref> * [[February 5]] – [[Corneliu Dragalina]], Romanian general (d. [[1949]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Josef Frings]], Archbishop of Cologne (d. [[1978]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Edelmiro Julián Farrell]], Argentine general, 28th [[President of Argentina]] (d. [[1980]]) * [[February 17]] ** [[Joseph Bech]], Luxembourgish politician, 2-time prime minister of Luxembourg (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Journal of the European Communities: Debates of the European Parliament |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDIHAQAAMAAJ |date=March 1975 |publisher=[[Office for Official Publications of the European Communities]] |page=2}}</ref> ** [[Leevi Madetoja]], Finnish composer (d. [[1947]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Mark |last=Morris |title=A Guide to 20th-century Composers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] |isbn=978-0-413-45601-4 |page=112}}</ref> * [[February 20]] – [[Vincent Massey]], Governor General of Canada (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Claude |last=Bissell |author-link=Claude Bissell |title=The Young Vincent Massey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzpEDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT10 |date=15 December 1981 |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]], Scholarly Publishing Division |isbn=978-1-4426-3371-1 |page=10}}</ref> * [[February 21]] – [[Korechika Anami]], Japanese general (d. [[1945]]) === March–April === [[File:Julian Huxley 1964.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Julian Huxley]]]] [[File:Chagall France 1921.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marc Chagall]]]] [[File:Gustav Hertz.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]]]] [[File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Erwin Schrödinger]]]] [[File:Giovanni Gronchi.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Giovanni Gronchi]]]] * [[March 5]] – [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian composer (d. [[1959]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Gerard |last=Béhague |author-link=Gerard Béhague |title=Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil's Musical Soul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGQIAQAAMAAJ |year=1994 |publisher=Institute of Latin American Studies, [[University of Texas at Austin]] |isbn=978-0-292-70823-5 |page=2}}</ref> * [[March 11]] – [[Raoul Walsh]], American film director (d. [[1980]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Alexander Vandegrift]], American general (d. [[1973]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Sylvia Beach]], American publisher in Paris (d. [[1952]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Bruce |last=Kellner |title=A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui7uAAAAMAAJ |year=1988 |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |isbn=978-0-313-25078-1 |page=153}}</ref> * [[March 18]] – [[Aurel Aldea]], Romanian general and politician (d. [[1949]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal]] (d. [[1908]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Chico Marx]], American comedian and actor (d. [[1961]]) * [[March 23]] ** [[Juan Gris]], Spanish-born painter, graphic artist (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Marcel |last=Brion |author-link=Marcel Brion |title=Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u74YAAAAYAAJ |year=1958 |publisher=[[Thames and Hudson]] |page=95}}</ref> ** Prince [[Felix Yusupov]], Russian assassin of [[Rasputin]] (d. [[1967]]) * [[March 24]] – [[Roscoe Arbuckle]], American actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter (d. [[1933]]) * [[March 25]] – [[Chūichi Nagumo]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1944]]) * [[April 3]] – [[Nishizō Tsukahara]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1966]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Bernardo Houssay]], Argentine physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1971]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Harold Lockwood]], American film actor (d.[[1918]]) * [[April 22]] – [[Harald Bohr]], Danish mathematician and footballer (d. [[1951]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Salomon |last=Bochner |author-link=Salomon Bochner |title=Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUIBUzD75UAC&pg=PA73 |year=1992 |publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]] |isbn=978-0-8218-7054-9 |page=73}}</ref> * [[April 26]] – [[Kojo Tovalou Houénou]], Beninese critic of the French colonial empire in Africa (d. [[1936]]) === May–June === * [[May 2]] ** [[Vernon Castle]], British-born American dancer (d. [[1918]]) ** [[Eddie Collins]], American baseball player (d. [[1951]]) * [[May 5]] – [[Geoffrey Fisher]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1972]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Paul Wittgenstein]], Austrian-born pianist (d. [[1951]]) * [[May 15]] – [[John H. Hoover]], American admiral (d. [[1970]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Jim Thorpe]], American athlete (d. [[1953]]) * [[May 23]] – [[C. R. M. F. Cruttwell]], English historian (d. [[1941]])<ref name= EllisODNB>{{cite ODNB|last= Ellis|first= Geoffrey|title= Cruttwell, Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser|url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32655|year= 2007|doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/32655|access-date= 1 November 2010}} {{subscription required}}</ref> * [[May 25]] – [[Padre Pio]], Italian saint (d. [[1968]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Saint-John Perse]], French diplomat, writer and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard S. Schlessinger|author2=June H. Schlessinger|title=The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFRqAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-0-89774-599-4|page=74}}</ref> * [[June 3]] – [[Carlo Michelstaedter]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1910]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Tom Longboat]], Canadian distance runner (d. [[1949]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Ruth Benedict]], American anthropologist (d. [[1948]]) * [[June 22]] – [[Julian Huxley]], British biologist (d. [[1975]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Ganna Walska]], Polish-born American opera singer and horticulturist (d. [[1984]]) === July–August === * [[July 1]] – [[Morton Deyo]], American admiral (d. [[1973]]) * [[July 6]] – [[Annette Kellermann]], Australian swimmer and actress (d. [[1975]]) * [[July 7]] – [[Marc Chagall]], Russian-born French painter (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anthony Mason|title=Marc Chagall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-KH8_EHX1wC&pg=PA6|date=5 July 2004|publisher=Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP|isbn=978-0-8368-5649-1|pages=6}}</ref> * [[July 9]] ** [[Emilio Mola]], Spanish Nationalist commander (d. [[1937]]) ** [[Samuel Eliot Morison]], American historian (d. [[1976]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Curtis Shake]], American jurist (d. [[1978]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Shoeless Joe Jackson]], American baseball player (d. [[1951]]) * [[July 18]] – [[Vidkun Quisling]], Norwegian politician, traitor (d. [[1945]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Luis A. Eguiguren]], Peruvian historian and politician (d. [[1967]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Marcel Duchamp]], French artist (d. [[1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Marcel Brion|title=Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u74YAAAAYAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Thames and Hudson|page=94}}</ref> * [[July 29]] **[[Sigmund Romberg]], Hungarian-born American composer (d. [[1951]]) **[[Mamoru Shigemitsu]], Japanese diplomat and politician (d. [[1957]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Mitsuru Ushijima]], Japanese general (d. [[1945]]) * [[August 3]] ** [[Rupert Brooke]], British war poet (d. [[1915]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Lehmann|title=Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5FFaAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|isbn=978-0-297-77757-1|page=20}}</ref> ** [[August Wesley]], Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (d. ?){{cn|date=August 2024}} * [[August 6]] – [[Oliver Wallace]], English film composer (d. [[1963]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Erwin Schrödinger]], Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1961]]) * [[August 17]] ** Emperor [[Charles I of Austria]] (d. [[1922]]) ** [[Marcus Garvey]], Jamaican-born American publisher, entrepreneur and [[Pan Africanist]] (d. [[1940]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marcus Garvey|author2=Robert A. Hill|title=Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47UwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|date=17 August 1987|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06265-8|pages=35}}</ref> * [[August 22]] – [[Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine]], British trade unionist (d. [[1983]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Harry Hooper]], American baseball player (d. [[1974]]) === September–October === [[File:Avery Brundage 1964.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Avery Brundage]]]] [[File:Le_Corbusier_1933.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Le Corbusier]]]] [[File:Chiang Kai-shek Colour.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chiang Kai-shek]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Blaise Cendrars]], Swiss writer (d. [[1961]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Flower|title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4|pages=118}}</ref> * [[September 5]] – [[Irene Fenwick]], American actress (d. [[1936]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Jacob L. Devers]], American general (d. [[1979]]) * [[September 9]] – [[Alf Landon]], American Republican politician, presidential candidate (d. [[1987]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Giovanni Gronchi]], 3rd president of Italy (d. [[1978]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli]], Azerbaijani statesman, writer and claimed "core author" of novel ''[[Ali and Nino]]'' (d. in [[Gulag]] [[1943]]) * [[September 13]] ** [[Lancelot Holland]], British admiral (d. [[1941]]) ** [[Leopold Ružička]], Croatian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1976]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Nadia Boulanger]], French composer and composition teacher (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Kendall|title=The Tender Tyrant, Nadia Boulanger: A Life Devoted to Music : a Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nK4QAQAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Macdonald and Jane's|isbn=978-0-356-08403-9|page=8}}</ref> * [[September 26]] – [[William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse]], British aviator, first airman to receive the Victoria Cross (d. [[1915]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Avery Brundage]], American sports official, 5th [[President of the International Olympic Committee]] (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Apostal Lucas|title=The Modern Olympic Games|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w7eBAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=A. S. Barnes|isbn=978-0-498-02447-4|page=161}}</ref> * [[October 2]] – [[Violet Jessop]], Argentine-born British [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] survivor (d. [[1971]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Charles Alan Pownall]], American admiral, 3rd Military Governor of Guam (d. [[1975]]) * [[October 5]] – [[René Cassin]], French judge, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1976]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Le Corbusier]], Swiss architect (d. [[1965]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Juan Antonio Ramírez|title=The Beehive Metaphor: From Gaudí to Le Corbusier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=es5Nb92a5t4C&pg=PA116|year=2000|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-86189-056-6|pages=116}}</ref> * [[October 13]] – [[Jozef Tiso]], Prime Minister of Slovakia (d. [[1947]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Prince Yasuhiko Asaka]], Japanese prince (d. [[1981]]) * [[October 22]] – [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist (d. [[1920]])<ref>{{cite book|title=New Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=afkSAQAAMAAJ|date=September 1987|page=28}}</ref> * [[October 23]] – [[Lothar Rendulic]], Austrian-born German general (d. [[1971]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg]], Queen Consort of Spain (d. [[1969]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Chiang Kai-shek]], 1st president of the Republic of China (d. [[1975]]) === November–December === [[File:General Sir Bernard Montgomery in England, 1943 TR1037 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bernard Montgomery]]]] [[File:Boris Karloff.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Boris Karloff]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H01757, Erich von Manstein.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Erich von Manstein]]]] * [[November 1]] – [[L. S. Lowry]], English painter (d. [[1976]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Allen Andrews|title=The Life of L. S. Lowry, 1887-1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QRs3AQAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Jupiter Books|isbn=978-0-904041-60-6|page=30}}</ref> * [[November 6]] – [[Walter Johnson]], American baseball player (d. [[1946]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Arnold Zweig]], German writer (d. [[1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Irene Harand|title=His Struggle (an Answer to Hitler)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tQZ02whlxZoC|year=1937|publisher=Artcraft Press|page=240}}</ref> * [[November 11]] – [[Roland Young]], English actor (d. [[1953]]) * [[November 14]] – [[Amadeo de Souza Cardoso]], Portuguese painter (d. [[1918]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], American painter (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Britta Benke|title=Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qggwE6o5ykAC&pg=PA5|year=2000|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-5861-5|pages=5}}</ref> * [[November 17]] – [[Bernard Montgomery]], British World War II commander (d. [[1976]]) * [[November 19]] – [[James B. Sumner]], American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1955]]) * [[November 23]] **[[Boris Karloff]], British horror film actor (d. [[1969]]) **[[Henry Moseley]], English physicist (d. [[1915]]) * [[November 24]] – [[Erich von Manstein]], German field marshal (d. [[1973]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Nikolai Vavilov]], Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist (d. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Sputnik|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NlA8AQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Novosti Printing House|page=5}}</ref> * [[November 27]] – [[Masaharu Homma]], Japanese general (d. [[1946]]) * [[November 28]] **[[Jacobo Palm]], Curaçao-born composer (d. [[1982]]) **[[Ernst Röhm]], German Nazi [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] leader (d. [[1934]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni]], prime minister of Japan (d. [[1990]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Lynn Fontanne]], British actress (d. [[1983]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Kurt Atterberg]], Swedish composer (d. [[1974]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Alvin York]], American [[World War I]] hero (d. [[1964]]) * [[December 16]] – [[Adone Zoli]], Italian politician, 35th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (d. [[1960]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]], Indian mathematician (d. [[1920]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Conrad Hilton]], American hotelier (d. [[1979]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Arthur Percival]], British general (d. [[1966]])
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