Editing 1888 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–February ===
[[File:Carlos Quintanilla. Unknown author. c. 1939–1940. Cekota Studio, La Paz.png|thumb|160x160px|[[Carlos Quintanilla]]]]
[[File:Otto Stern 1950s.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Otto Stern]]]]
[[File:Lotte Lehmann in Beethoven's Fidelio.jpg|thumb|160x160px|Lotte Lehmann]]
* [[January 1]]&nbsp;– [[Victor Goldschmidt]], Swiss geochemist (d. [[1947]])
* [[January 8]]&nbsp;– [[Matt Moore (actor)|Matt Moore]], Irish-born American actor (d. [[1960]])
* [[January 18]]&nbsp;– [[Thomas Sopwith]], [[English people|English]] aviation pioneer, yachtsman (d. [[1989]])
* [[January 19]]&nbsp;– [[Millard Harmon]], American general (d. [[1945]])
* [[January 20]]&nbsp;– [[Lead Belly]], American [[Folk music|folk]], [[blues]] singer (d. [[1949]])
* [[January 22]]&nbsp;– [[Carlos Quintanilla]], 37th [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[1964]])
* [[January 23]]&nbsp;– [[Aritomo Gotō]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1942]])
* [[January 24]]
** [[Vicki Baum]], Austrian writer (d. [[1960]])
** [[Ernst Heinkel]], German aircraft designer (d. [[1958]])
* [[January 29]]&nbsp;– [[Wellington Koo]], Chinese statesman (d. [[1985]])
* [[February 2]]&nbsp;– [[Frederick Lane]], Australian swimmer (d. [[1969]])
* [[February 5]]&nbsp;– [[Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape|Bruce Fraser]], British admiral (d. [[1981]])
* [[February 8]]&nbsp;– [[Edith Evans]], British actress (d. [[1976]])
* [[February 11]]&nbsp;– [[John Warren Davis (college president)|John Warren Davis]], American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (d. [[1980]])<ref name="WVAH 1">{{cite web |url= http://www.wvculture.org/history/archives/blacks/jwdavis.html |title= John Warren Davis  |author= West Virginia Archives and History |year= 2019 |publisher= West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History |access-date= February 29, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200229171815/http://www.wvculture.org/history/archives/blacks/jwdavis.html |archive-date= February 29, 2020}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Georgios Papandreou]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1968]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Chandrashekhar Agashe]], Indian industrialist (d. [[1956]]){{sfn|Ranade|1974|p=61}}
* [[February 17]]&nbsp;– [[Otto Stern]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1969]])
* [[February 19]]
** [[Tom Phillips (Royal Navy officer)|Tom Phillips]], British admiral (d. [[1941]])
** [[Aurora Quezon]], [[First Lady of the Philippines]] (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 20]]&nbsp;– [[Georges Bernanos]], French writer (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 25]]&nbsp;– [[John Foster Dulles]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. [[1959]])
* [[February 27]]
** [[Lotte Lehmann]], German singer (d. [[1976]])
** [[Arthur Schlesinger Sr.]], American historian (d. [[1965]])

=== March–April ===
[[File:Mrs. Henry Wallace.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Ilo Wallace]]]]
* [[March 4]]&nbsp;– [[Knute Rockne]], American football player, coach (d. [[1931]])
* [[March 5]]&nbsp;– [[Peg Leg Howell]], American country blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. [[1966]])
* [[March 7]]&nbsp;– [[William L. Laurence]], American journalist (d. [[1977]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Barry Fitzgerald]], Irish actor (d. [[1961]])
** [[Ilo Wallace]], [[Second Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6ng7dhw|title=Wallace, Ilo Browne, 1888-1981|publisher=[[SNAC]]|access-date=Sep 12, 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 17]]&ndash; [[Paul Ramadier]], 63rd Prime Minister of France (d. [[1961]])
* [[March 18]]&ndash; [[Jerry Dawson (footballer, born 1888)|Jerry Dawson]], English footballer, Burnley and national team (d. [[1970]])
* [[March 26]]&nbsp;– [[Elsa Brändström]], Swedish nurse (d. [[1948]])
* [[March 29]]&nbsp;– [[Enea Bossi Sr.]], Italian-born American aerospace engineer, aviation pioneer (d. [[1963]])
* [[March 30]]&nbsp;– [[Anna Q. Nilsson]], Swedish-American silent film star (d. [[1974]])
* [[April 1]]&nbsp;– [[Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr.]], American general (d. [[1969]])
* [[April 2]]&nbsp;– Sir [[Neville Cardus]], British cricket, music writer (d. [[1975]])
* [[April 3]]&nbsp;– [[Thomas C. Kinkaid]], American admiral (d. [[1972]])
* [[April 4]]&nbsp;– [[Tris Speaker]], American professional baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. [[1958]])
* [[April 6]]
** [[Hans Richter (artist)|Hans Richter]], German artist and filmmaker (d. [[1976]])
** [[Gerhard Ritter]], German historian (d. [[1967]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola]], 28th president of Ecuador (d. [[1952]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Duffy Lewis]], American [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1979]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Anita Loos]], American writer (d. [[1981]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Florence La Badie]], Canadian actress (d. [[1917]])

=== May–June ===
[[File:Irving Berlin NYWTS.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Irving Berlin]]]]
[[File:David Dougal Williams (artist).jpg|100px|thumb|[[David Dougal Williams]]]]
* [[May 8]]&nbsp;– [[Maurice Boyau]], French World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 9]]&nbsp;– [[Francesco Baracca]], Italian World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 10]]&nbsp;– [[Max Steiner]], Austrian-American composer (d. [[1971]])
* [[May 11]]
** [[Irving Berlin]], American composer (d. [[1989]])
** [[Willis Augustus Lee]], American admiral (d. [[1945]])
* [[May 13]]&nbsp;– [[Inge Lehmann]], Danish seismologist, geophysicist (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 17]]&nbsp;– [[Tich Freeman]], English cricketer (d. [[1965]])
* [[May 18]]&nbsp;– [[William Hood Simpson]], American general (d. [[1980]])
* [[May 23]]&nbsp;– [[Zack Wheat]], American [[National Baseball Hall of Fame|Baseball Hall of Famer]] (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 25]]&nbsp;– [[Miles Malleson]], English actor (d. [[1969]])
* [[May 26]]&nbsp;– [[Anne Azgapetian]], Russian Red Cross worker (d. [[1973]])
* [[May 28]]&nbsp;– [[Kaarel Eenpalu]], 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. [[1942]])
* [[May 31]]&nbsp;– [[Jack Holt (actor)|Jack Holt]], American actor (d. [[1951]])
* June&nbsp;– [[David Dougal Williams]], British painter and art teacher (d. [[1944]])
* [[June 13]]&nbsp;– [[Fernando Pessoa]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1935]])
* [[June 17]]&nbsp;– [[Heinz Guderian]], German general (d. [[1954]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Milton Allen]], Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (d. [[1981]])
** [[Harold Hitz Burton]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1964]])
* [[June 24]]&nbsp;– [[Gerrit Rietveld]], Dutch architect (d. [[1964]])
* [[June 27]]&nbsp;– [[Antoinette Perry]], American stage director for whom the [[Tony Award]] is named (d. [[1946]])
* [[June 29]]&nbsp;– [[Squizzy Taylor]], Australian underworld figure (d. [[1927]])

=== July–August ===
[[File:Herbert Spencer Gasser nobel.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Herbert Spencer Gasser]]]]
[[File:Zernike.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Frits Zernike]]]]
* [[July 5]]&nbsp;– [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1963]])
* [[July 10]]&nbsp;– [[Giorgio de Chirico]], Italian painter (d. [[1978]])
* [[July 16]]
** [[Percy Kilbride]], American actor (d. [[1964]])
** [[Frits Zernike]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1966]])
* [[July 17]]&nbsp;– [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], Israeli writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])
* [[July 22]]&nbsp;– [[Selman Waksman]], Ukrainian-born American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1973]])
* [[July 23]]&nbsp;– [[Raymond Chandler]], American-born novelist (d. [[1959]])
* [[August 4]]&nbsp;– [[Taher Saifuddin]], Indian Bohra spiritual leader (d. [[1965]])
* [[August 6]]&nbsp;– [[Heinrich Schlusnus]], German baritone (d. [[1952]])
* [[August 9]]
**[[Auguste Cornu]], French Marxist philosopher and historian of philosophy (d. [[1981]])
**[[Eduard Ritter von Schleich]], German fighter ace, air force general (d. [[1947]])
* [[August 13]]&nbsp;– [[John Logie Baird]], Scottish inventor (d. [[1946]])
* [[August 16]]&nbsp;– [[T. E. Lawrence]] ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer and academic (d. [[1935]])
* [[August 17]]&nbsp;– [[Monty Woolley]], American actor (d. [[1963]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Tôn Đức Thắng]], 2nd president of Vietnam (d. [[1980]])
* [[August 25]]&nbsp;– [[Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi]], Pakistani scholar, politician (d. [[1963]])
* [[August 28]]&nbsp;– [[Evadne Price]], Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (d. [[1985]])
* [[August 29]]&nbsp;– [[Gunichi Mikawa]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1981]])

=== September–October ===
[[File:Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. 1938.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.]]]]
[[File:Maurice Chevalier-publicity.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Maurice Chevalier]]]]
[[File:Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934).jpg|thumb|120px|[[T. S. Eliot]]]]
* [[September 5]]&nbsp;– [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], Indian philosopher, politician and 2nd [[President of India]] (d. [[1975]])
* [[September 6]]
** [[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.]], American politician (d. [[1969]])
** [[Zeng Junchen]], Chinese drug baron (d. [[1964]])
* [[September 8]]&nbsp;– [[Ida McNeil]], American broadcaster and designer of the [[flag of South Dakota]] (d. [[1974]])<ref>{{cite journal |title=Dakota Images: Ida Anding McNeil |journal=South Dakota History |date=1981 |volume=11 |issue=2 |url=https://www.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-11-2/dakota-images-ida-anding-mcneil/vol-11-no-2-dakota-images-ida-anding-mcneil.pdf |access-date=April 4, 2024 |publisher=[[South Dakota State Historical Society]]}}</ref>
* [[September 12]]&nbsp;– [[Maurice Chevalier]], French singer and actor (d. [[1972]])
* [[September 16]]
** [[Frans Eemil Sillanpää]], Finnish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1964]])
** [[W. O. Bentley]], English engineer, entrepreneur (d. [[1971]]) 
* [[September 17]]&nbsp;– [[Michiyo Tsujimura]], Japanese agricultural scientist (d. [[1969]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.jagatgururampalji.org/google-doodle-on-michiyo-tsujimura/|title=Google Doodle on Michiyo Tsujimura: Synopsis of Michiyo Tsujimura's Life|author=SA NEWS|date=Sep 18, 2021|access-date=Sep 12, 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 18]]&nbsp;– [[Grey Owl]], British conservationist, impostor, writer (d. [[1938]])
* [[September 20]]&nbsp;– [[John Painter (supercentenarian)|John Painter]], American supercentenarian, [[Oldest people|world's oldest man]] between 1999 and 2001 (d. [[2001]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[J. Frank Dobie]], American folklorist, journalist (d. [[1964]])
** [[T. S. Eliot]], American-born British poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]])
* [[September 28]]&nbsp;– [[Seán Lester]], Irish diplomat (d. [[1959]])
* [[October 4]]&nbsp;– [[Friedrich Olbricht]], German general (d. [[1944]])
* [[October 6]]&nbsp;– [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], French pilot (killed in action [[1918]])
* [[October 7]]
**[[Renya Mutaguchi]], Japanese general (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/M/u/Mutaguchi_Renya.htm |title=Mutaguchi Renya (1888-1966) |last=Budge |first=Kent G. |date= |website=The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia |publisher= |access-date=3 January 2024 }}</ref>
**[[Henry A. Wallace]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|33rd]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1965]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000077|title=WALLACE, Henry Agard|publisher=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]|access-date=Sep 12, 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 8]]&nbsp;– [[Ernst Kretschmer]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1964]])
* [[October 9]]&nbsp;– [[Nikolai Bukharin]], Russian Bolshevik and Soviet politician (d. [[1938]])
* [[October 14]]&nbsp;– [[Katherine Mansfield]], New Zealand fiction writer (d. [[1923]])
* [[October 16]]
** [[Eugene O'Neill]], American playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1953]])
** [[Paul Popenoe]], American eugenicist (d. [[1979]])
** [[Mikhail Kaganovich]], Soviet politician (d. [[1941]])
* [[October 17]]&nbsp;– [[Paul Bernays]], Swiss mathematician (d. [[1977]])
* [[October 24]]&nbsp;– [[Carlo Bergamini (admiral)|Carlo Bergamini]], Italian admiral (d. [[1943]])
* [[October 25]]&nbsp;– [[Lester Cuneo]], American actor (d. [[1925]])
* [[October 30]]&nbsp;– [[Alan Goodrich Kirk]], American admiral (d. [[1963]])
* [[October 31]]&nbsp;– [[Hubert Wilkins]], Australian explorer of the Arctic (d. [[1958]])

===November–December===
[[File:Sir CV Raman.JPG|thumb|120px|[[C. V. Raman]]]]
[[File:Harpo Marx 1948.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Harpo Marx]]]]
[[File:GladysCooper.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Gladys Cooper]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.jpg|thumb|120px|[[F. W. Murnau]]]]
* [[November 1]]&nbsp;– [[Viliami Tungī Mailefihi]], 7th Premier of Tonga (d. [[1941]])
* [[November 7]]
** [[Nestor Makhno]], Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary (d. [[1934]])
** [[C. V. Raman]], Indian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])
* [[November 9]]&nbsp;– [[Jean Monnet]], French political economist, diplomat and a [[Founding fathers of the European Union|founding father of the European Union]] (d. [[1979]])
* [[November 15]]
** [[José Raúl Capablanca]], Cuban [[World chess champion]] (1921–1927) (d. [[1942]])
** [[Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)|Harald Sverdrup]], Norwegian scientist (d. [[1957]])
* [[November 23]]&nbsp;– [[Harpo Marx]], American comedian (d. [[1964]])
* [[November 24]]
** [[Dale Carnegie]], American writer, lecturer (d. [[1955]])
** [[Cathleen Nesbitt]], British actress (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 29]]&nbsp;– [[Oswald Rayner]], British [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] agent (d. [[1961]])
* [[November 30]]&nbsp;– [[Ralph Hartley]], American electronics researcher, inventor (d. [[1970]])
* [[December 3]]&nbsp;– [[Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog]], Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and Israel (d. [[1959]])
* [[December 4]]
** [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1934]])
** [[Donald B. Beary]], American admiral (d. [[1966]])
* [[December 6]]&nbsp;– [[Will Hay]], British actor, comedian (d. [[1949]])
* [[December 7]]
**[[Joyce Cary]], Northern Irish author (d. [[1957]])
**[[Jinichi Kusaka]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1972]])
* [[December 16]]&nbsp;– [[Alphonse Juin]], French general, [[Marshal of France]] (d. [[1967]])
* [[December 18]]
** Dame [[Gladys Cooper]], English actress (d. [[1971]])
** [[Robert Moses]], American civil engineer, public works director, highway and bridge builder (d. [[1981]])
* [[December 19]]&nbsp;– [[Fritz Reiner]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1963]])
* [[December 22]]&nbsp;– [[Theodore Stark Wilkinson]], American admiral (d. [[1946]])
* [[December 25]]&nbsp;– [[Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez]], American painter (d. [[1972]])
* [[December 28]]&nbsp;– [[F. W. Murnau]], German film director (d. [[1931]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Ibrahim Hashem]], 3-time prime minister of Jordan (d. [[1958]])