Editing 1889 (section)

== Births ==

=== January ===
* [[January 2]] – [[Walter Baldwin]], American actor (d. [[1977]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad]], 2nd [[Caliph]] of [[Ahmadiyya Muslim Community]] in [[Islam]] (d. [[1965]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Edith Tolkien]], English wife of, and inspiration for, [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (d. [[1971]])

=== February ===
[[File:Ernest Tyldesley c1925.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ernest Tyldesley]]]]
* [[February 2]] – [[Jean de Lattre de Tassigny]], French general, posthumous [[Marshal of France]] (d. [[1952]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Risto Ryti]], [[Prime Minister of Finland|Prime Minister]] and [[President of Finland]] (d. [[1956]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Ernest Tyldesley]], English cricketer (d. [[1962]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Harry Nyquist]], Swedish-American contributor to [[information theory]] (d. [[1976]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Hawthorne C. Gray]], American balloonist (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Ernest Marsden]], British physicist (d. [[1970]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl]], South African politician (d. [[1975]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Olave Baden-Powell]], English founder of the Girl Guides (d. [[1977]])
** [[R. G. Collingwood]], English philosopher and historian (d. [[1943]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Victor Fleming]], American motion picture director (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Homer S. Ferguson]], American politician (d. [[1982]])

=== March ===
[[File:Oren E. Long (PP-75-4-020).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Oren E. Long]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Kanoko Okamoto]], Japanese novelist, poet and Buddhist scholar (d. [[1939]])
** [[Watsuji Tetsuro]], Japanese philosopher (d. [[1960]])
* [[March 4]]
** [[Oren E. Long]], American politician, 10th [[Governor of Hawai'i]] (d. [[1965]])
** [[Pearl White]], American silent film actress (d. [[1938]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Hiroaki Abe]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1949]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Reggie Walker (sprinter)|Reggie Walker]], South African sprinter (d. [[1951]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Aleksandr Vertinsky]], Russian singer, actor (d. [[1957]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Albert Hill (athlete)|Albert Hill]], British distance runner (d. [[1969]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Warner Baxter]], American actor (d. [[1951]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Herman Bing]], German-American character, voice actor (d. [[1947]])

=== April ===
[[File:Charlie Chaplin portrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Charlie Chaplin]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H1216-0500-002, Adolf Hitler.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Adolf Hitler]]]]
[[File:Manuel Prado Ugarteche 1961.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Manuel Prado Ugarteche]]]]
* [[April 4]]
** [[Hans-Jürgen von Arnim]], German general (d. [[1962]])
** [[Angelo Iachino]], Italian admiral (d. [[1976]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Gabriela Mistral]], Chilean writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marjorie Agosin|author2=Marjorie Agosín|title=Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sd6AAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-89680-230-8|page=270}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – [[Adrian Boult]], English conductor (d. [[1983]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Nick LaRocca]], American jazz cornetist (d. [[1961]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Arnold J. Toynbee]], English historian (d. [[1975]])
* [[April 15]]
** [[Thomas Hart Benton (painter)|Thomas Hart Benton]], American painter (d. [[1975]])
** [[A. Philip Randolph]], African-American civil rights activist (d. [[1979]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Charlie Chaplin]], English comic actor, film director (d. [[1977]])
* [[April 20]]
**[[Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland]], Swedish and Norwegian prince (d. [[1918]])
**[[Adolf Hitler]], Austrian-born dictator of Nazi Germany (suicide [[1945]])
* [[April 21]]
** [[Paul Karrer]], Swiss chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1971]])
** [[Manuel Prado Ugarteche]], [[President of Peru]] (d. [[1967]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Karel Doorman]], Dutch admiral (killed in action [[1942]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], Austrian-born philosopher (d. [[1951]])
* [[April 28]]
** [[Takeo Kurita]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1977]])
** [[António de Oliveira Salazar]], Portuguese dictator (d. [[1970]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Fritz Pfeffer]], German-Dutch housemate of [[Anne Frank]] (d. [[1944]])

=== May ===
[[File:Ouyang Yuqian1.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ouyang Yuqian]]]]
[[File:Sikorsky, Igor.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Igor Sikorsky]]]]
* [[May 3]]
** [[Beulah Bondi]], American actress (d. [[1981]])
** [[Gottfried Fuchs]], German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Otto Frank]], German publisher, businessman, father of [[Anne Frank]] (d. [[1980]])
** [[Abelardo L. Rodríguez]], Mexican professional baseball player, general and substitute [[President of Mexico]], 1932–1934 (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/10005/Abelardo_L._Rodriguez|title=Abelardo L. Rodríguez|language=es|access-date=May 31, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Ouyang Yuqian]], Chinese playwright, director and Peking opera performer (d. [[1962]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Thomas Midgley Jr.]], American chemist, inventor (d. [[1944]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Carlo Braga]], Filipino [[Roman Catholic]] priest, archbishop and servant of God (d. [[1971]])
* [[May 25]]
** [[Günther Lütjens]], German admiral (d. [[1941]])
** [[Igor Sikorsky]], Russian developer of the helicopter (d. [[1972]])

=== June ===
[[File:Beno Gutenberg.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Beno Gutenberg]]]]
* [[June 2]] – [[Martha Wentworth]], American actress (d. [[1974]])
* [[June 4]] –  [[Beno Gutenberg]], German-American seismologist (d. [[1960]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Sessue Hayakawa]], Japanese actor, film director (d. [[1973]])
* [[June 13]]
** [[Amadeo Bordiga]], Italian Marxist theorist, politician (d. [[1970]])
** [[Gao Qifeng]], Chinese painter (d. [[1933]])<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]]|work=rmzxb.com.cn|title=高奇峰《松猿图》：画海横舟 劈波至勇|trans-title=Gao Qifeng's "Pine and Monkey": Painting a Boat Crossing the Sea and Bravely Cutting through the Waves|language=zh|url=https://www.rmzxb.com.cn/c/2017-07-31/1690816.shtml|last=Zhu|first=Wanzhang|author1-mask=Zhu Wanzhang (朱万章)|date=July 31, 2017|access-date=September 17, 2024|archive-date=March 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316190429/https://www.rmzxb.com.cn/c/2017-07-31/1690816.shtml}}</ref>
** [[Adolphe Pégoud]], French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action [[1915]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Ralph Craig]], American sprinter (d. [[1972]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Anna Akhmatova]], Russian poet (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Анна Андреевна Ахматова|title=Полное Собрание Стихотворений|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uw5gAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Zephyr Press|isbn=978-0-939010-13-4|page=53}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] – [[John Morton-Finney]], American civil rights activist, lawyer and educator (d. [[1998]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Moroni Olsen]], American actor (d. [[1954]])

=== July ===
[[File:Jean Cocteau b Meurisse 1923.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jean Cocteau]]]]
[[File:Ante Pavelić StAF W 134 Nr. 026020 Bild 1 (5-92156-1).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ante Pavelić]]]]
* [[July 5]] – [[Jean Cocteau]], French writer (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale Cengage|title=Modern French Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-5252-4|page=154}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Takeo Itō]], Japanese general (d. [[1965]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Shiro Kawase]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1946]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Eugene Pallette]], American actor (d. [[1954]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Ante Pavelić]], Croatian [[Fascism|fascist]] dictator (d. [[1959]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Marjorie Rambeau]], American actress (d. [[1970]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Erle Stanley Gardner]], American author (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MvEpAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512787-4|page=703}}</ref>
* [[July 18]] – [[Kōichi Kido]], Japanese politician (d. [[1977]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Tony Jannus]], American aviator, aircraft designer (d. [[1916]])
* [[July 24]] – [[Murray Kinnell]], English actor (d. [[1954]])

=== August ===
* [[August 5]] – [[Conrad Aiken]], American writer (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Conrad Aiken|author2=Malcolm Lowry|title=The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9QfAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55022-168-8|page=xi}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] – [[George Kenney]], World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. [[1977]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Norman Scott (Medal of Honor)|Norman Scott]], American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (killed in action [[1942]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Ronald Fairbairn]], Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. [[1964]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Marthe Richard]], French prostitute, spy and politician (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Sir Richard O'Connor]], British general (d. [[1981]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Ioan Dumitrache]], Romanian general (d. [[1977]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Alfredo Obviar]], Filipino [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and Servant of God (d. [[1978]])

=== September ===
* [[September 7]] – [[Albert Plesman]], Dutch aviation pioneer (d. [[1953]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Robert A. Taft]], U.S. Senator from Ohio (d. [[1953]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Ugo Pasquale Mifsud]], 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. [[1942]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Masao Maruyama (Japanese Army officer)|Masao Maruyama]], Japanese general (d. [[1957]])
* [[September 14]] – [[María Capovilla]], Ecuadorian [[supercentenarian]], the last surviving person verified as born in 1889 (d. [[2006]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Charles Reidpath]], American sprinter (d. [[1975]])
* [[September 22]] - [[Alice Golsen]], German quantum physicist (d. [[1940]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Martin Heidegger]], German philosopher (d. [[1976]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joy A. Palmer|author2=David E. Cooper|author3=David Cooper|title=Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7ml-rrcTboC&pg=PA189|date=September 11, 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75624-7|pages=189}}</ref>

=== October ===
[[File:Carl von Ossietzky.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Carl von Ossietzky]]]]
* [[October 2]] – [[Margaret Chung]], Chinese-American physician (d. [[1959]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Carl von Ossietzky]], German pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1938]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Collett E. Woolman]], American airline executive (d. [[1966]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Kermit Roosevelt]], American explorer, author (d. [[1943]])
** [[Han van Meegeren]], Dutch painter, art forger (d. [[1947]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Troy H. Middleton]], American general and educator (d. [[1976]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[Douglass Dumbrille]], Canadian-born actor (d. [[1974]])
** [[Cedric Holland]], British admiral (d. [[1950]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Suzanne Duchamp]], French painter (d. [[1963]])

=== November ===
[[File:Claude Rains in Now Voyager trailer.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Claude Rains]]]]
[[File:Jawaharlal Nehru, 1947.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jawaharlal Nehru]]]]
* [[November 1]] – [[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker]], Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Claude Rains]], English-born American actor (d. [[1967]])
* [[November 12]] – [[DeWitt Wallace]], American magazine publisher (''[[Reader's Digest]]'') (d. [[1981]])
* [[November 14]]
** [[Taha Hussein]], Egyptian writer and intellectual (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|title=World Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYQ-AQAAIAAJ|year=1954|publisher=Institute for Research in Biography|page=568}}</ref>
** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[1st Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[1964]])
* [[November 15]] – King [[Manuel II of Portugal]] (d. [[1932]])
* [[November 16]] – [[George S. Kaufman]], American playwright (d. [[1961]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Zoltán Tildy]], [[President of Hungary]] (d. [[1961]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Clifton Webb]], American actor, dancer and singer (d. [[1966]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Edwin Hubble]], American astronomer (d. [[1953]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Alexander Patch]], American general (d. [[1945]])
* [[November 25]] – [[George McMillin]], American admiral, last [[Naval Governor of Guam]] (d. [[1983]])
* [[November 30]]
** [[Edgar Adrian]], English physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1977]])
** [[Shōji Nishimura]], Japanese admiral (killed in action [[1944]])

=== December ===
[[File:Robert S Maestri signed photo.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert Maestri]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Vasily Blyukher]], Soviet general, [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (k. [[1938]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Oei Hui-lan]] (Madame Wellington Koo), Chinese-Indonesian socialite and First Lady of the Republic of China (d. [[1992]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Walton Walker]], American general (d. [[1950]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Isabel Randolph]], American actress (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 9]]
** [[Shigeyoshi Inoue]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1975]])
** [[Hannes Kolehmainen]], Finnish Olympic distance runner (d. [[1966]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Robert Maestri]], 53rd [[Mayor of New Orleans]] (d. [[1974]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Daniel E. Barbey]], American admiral (d. [[1969]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Adolfo Ruiz Cortines]], 47th President of Mexico (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/ruiz_cortines.htm|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|title=Adolfo Ruiz Cortines|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Nezihe Muhiddin]], Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader (d. [[1958]])