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== Births == {{BDToC|births|unknown=yes}} === January === [[File:Manuel Roxas 2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Manuel Roxas]]]] <!--[[File:J. R. R. Tolkien, 1940s.jpg|thumb|110px|[[J. R. R. Tolkien]]]]--> [[File:Olafur Thors.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ólafur Thors]]]] [[File:Ernst_Lubitsch_01.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ernst Lubitsch]]]] [[File:Juan Negrín.png|thumb|110px|[[Juan Negrín]]]] [[File:William P Murphy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William P. Murphy]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Artur Rodziński]], Polish conductor (d. [[1958]]) ** [[Manuel Roxas]], 5th [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[1948]]) * [[January 3]] – [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], English professor and writer (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carpenter |first=Humphrey |author-link=Humphrey Carpenter |url=https://archive.org/details/inklingscslewisj00carp |title=The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-395-27628-0 |location=Boston |page=14}}</ref> * [[January 12]] – [[Mikhail Kirponos]], Soviet general (d. [[1941]]) * [[January 14]] ** [[Martin Niemöller]], German theologian and prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust (d. [[1984]]) ** [[Hal Roach]], American film, television producer (d. [[1992]]) * [[January 15]] – [[Rex Ingram (director)|Rex Ingram]], Irish film director (d. [[1950]]) * [[January 18]] – [[Oliver Hardy]], American comedian, actor (d. [[1957]]) * [[January 19]] – [[Ólafur Thors]], Icelandic politician, 5-times prime minister (d. [[1964]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Marcel Dassault]], French aircraft industrialist (d. [[1986]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Takeo Takagi]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1944]]) * [[January 28]] **[[Ernst Lubitsch]], German-born film director (d. [[1947]]) **[[Fyodor Raskolnikov]], Soviet revolutionary, writer, journalist, naval commander and diplomat (d. [[1939]]) * [[January 31]] – [[Eddie Cantor]], American actor, singer (d. [[1964]]) === February === * [[February 3]] – [[Juan Negrín]], Spanish physician, politician and 67th [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (d. [[1956]]) * [[February 6]] – [[William P. Murphy]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1987]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Peggy Wood]], American actress (d. [[1978]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Alan Hale Sr.]], American actor (d. [[1950]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Robert H. Jackson]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]], chief prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials]] (d. [[1954]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Radola Gajda]], Czech commander and politician (d. [[1948]]) * [[February 15]] – [[James Forrestal]], first [[United States Secretary of Defense]] (d. [[1949]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Wendell Willkie]], U.S. Republican presidential candidate (d. [[1944]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Harry Stack Sullivan]], American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (d. [[1949]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], American writer (d. [[1950]]) * [[February 23]] – [[Kathleen Harrison]], English actress (d. [[1995]]) * [[February 27]] – [[William Demarest]], American actor (d. [[1983]]) * [[February 29]] – [[Augusta Savage]], American sculptor (d. [[1962]]) === March === [[File:Cesar vallejo 1929 RestauradabyJohnManuel.jpg|thumb|110px|[[César Vallejo]]]] [[File:Ferde Grofé.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ferde Grofé]]]] [[File:Mary Pickford cph.3c17995u.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mary Pickford]]]] [[File:Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Arthur Harris|Arthur "Bomber" Harris]]]] * [[March 1]] ** [[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]], Japanese writer (d. [[1927]]) ** [[Mercedes de Acosta]], American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. [[1968]]) * [[March 8]] – [[Mississippi John Hurt]] (some sources give his year of birth as [[1893]]), American [[country blues]] singer, guitarist (d. [[1966]]) * [[March 9]] ** [[David Garnett]], English novelist and writer (d. [[1981]]) ** [[Mátyás Rákosi]], 43rd prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1971]]) ** [[Vita Sackville-West]], English writer and gardener (d. [[1962]]) * [[March 10]] ** [[Arthur Honegger]], French-born Swiss composer (d. [[1955]]) ** [[Gregory La Cava]], American director, producer and writer (d. [[1952]]) ** [[Eva Turner]], English operatic soprano (d. [[1990]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Charles Nungesser]], French aviator, World War I fighter ace (d. [[1927]]) * [[March 16]] – [[César Vallejo]], Peruvian poet (d. [[1938]]) * [[March 25]] – [[Andy Clyde]], Scottish-born screen actor (d. [[1967]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Ferde Grofé]], American pianist, composer (d. [[1972]]) * [[March 28]] ** [[Corneille Heymans]], Belgian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]]) ** [[Tom Maguire]], Irish republican (d. [[1993]]) * [[March 30]] ** [[Stefan Banach]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1945]]) ** [[Erhard Milch]], German field marshal, ''Luftwaffe'' officer (d. [[1972]]) ** [[Sanzō Nosaka]], Japanese Communist Party chairman and leader of [[Japanese People's Emancipation League|JPEL]] (d. [[1993]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Stanisław Maczek]], Polish general (d. [[1994]]) === April === * [[April 6]] ** [[Donald Wills Douglas Sr.]], American industrialist (d. [[1981]]) ** [[Lowell Thomas]], American journalist (d. [[1981]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Julius Hirsch]], German footballer (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The imperishable story of Julius Hirsch: the great goalscorer murdered at Auschwitz who adorns Stamford Bridge mural|first=Sam|last=Wallace|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=January 25, 2020|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * [[April 8]] – [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian actress, studio founder (d. [[1979]]) * [[April 12]] ** [[Johnny Dodds]], American jazz clarinettist (d. [[1940]]) ** [[Henry Darger]], American [[outsider art]]ist and writer (d. [[1973]]) * [[April 13]] ** [[Arthur Harris|Sir Arthur Harris]], British World War II Royal Air Force commander (d. [[1984]]) ** [[Sir Robert Watson-Watt]], Scottish inventor of radar (d. [[1973]]) * [[April 16]] – [[Dora Richter]], German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female [[gender-affirming surgery]] (d. 1966)<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 May 2023 |title=Was wurde aus Dora? |trans-title=What became of Dora? |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/rbb-was-wurde-aus-dora-100.html |website=[[Tagesschau (German TV programme)|Tagesschau]] |language=de}}</ref> * [[April 19]] – [[Germaine Tailleferre]], French composer (d. [[1983]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Richard L. Conolly]], American admiral (d. [[1962]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Raizō Tanaka]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1969]]) * [[April 28]] – [[Joseph Dunninger]], American mentalist (d. [[1975]]) === May === [[File:Manfred von Richthofen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Manfred von Richthofen]]]] [[File:Josip Broz Tito uniform portrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Josip Broz Tito]]]] [[File:Mieczyslaw Horszowski Polish pianist.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mieczysław Horszowski]]]] [[File:Pearl Buck 1972.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pearl S. Buck]]]] * [[May 2]] – [[Manfred von Richthofen]] (the "Red Baron"), German World War I fighter pilot (d. [[1918]]) * [[May 3]] ** [[George Paget Thomson]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]]) ** [[Jacob Viner]], Canadian economist (d. [[1970]]) * [[May 7]] ** [[Archibald MacLeish]], American poet (d. [[1982]]) ** [[Josip Broz Tito]], [[President of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1980]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Zita of Bourbon-Parma]], Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. [[1989]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Margaret Rutherford]], English actress (d. [[1972]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Fritz Kortner]], Austrian-born director (d. [[1970]]) * [[May 15]] – [[Shigeyoshi Miwa]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1959]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Manton S. Eddy]], American general (d. [[1962]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Ezio Pinza]], Italian bass (d. [[1957]]) * [[May 23]] – [[Pichichi (footballer)|Pichichi]], Spanish footballer (d. [[1922]]) * [[May 26]] – [[Maxwell Bodenheim]], American poet and novelist (k. [[1954]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Fernando Amorsolo]], Filipino painter (d. [[1972]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Gregor Strasser]], German Nazi politician (d. [[1934]]) === June === * [[June 1]] – [[Amānullāh Khān]], ruler of Afghanistan (d. [[1960]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Nikolai Polikarpov]], Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer (d. [[1944]]) * [[June 13]] – [[Basil Rathbone]], British actor (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Redmond | first = Christopher | title = A Sherlock Holmes handbook | publisher = Simon & Pierre | location = Toronto Oxford | year = 1993 | isbn = 9781554880577 | page=167}}</ref> * [[June 21]] ** [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], American theologian (d. [[1971]]) ** [[Hilding Rosenberg]], Swedish composer (d. [[1985]]) * [[June 22]] – [[Robert Ritter von Greim]], German field marshal (d. [[1945]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Mieczysław Horszowski]], Polish pianist (d. [[1993]]) * [[June 25]] ** [[Katherine Kennicott Davis]], American composer (d. [[1980]]) ** [[Shirō Ishii]], Japanese microbiologist, lieutenant general of [[Unit 731]] (d. [[1959]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Pearl S. Buck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]]) * [[June 28]] ** [[Clifford Campbell]], Jamaican educator, politician (d. [[1991]]) ** [[E. H. Carr]], English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist (d. [[1982]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Oswald Pohl]], German S.S. officer (d. [[1951]]) === July === [[File:Haile Selassie in full dress (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie I]]]] [[File:William Powell by Hurrell.jpg|110px|thumb|[[William Powell]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[James M. Cain]], American author and journalist (d. [[1977]]) * [[July 2]] – [[Daniel Mercier]], French footballer and soldier (d. [[1914]]) * [[July 4]] – [[A. G. Gaston]], American businessman (d. [[1996]]) * [[July 6]] – [[Willy Coppens]], Belgian World War I flying ace (d. [[1986]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[Richard Aldington]], English poet (d. [[1962]]) ** [[Dean O'Banion]], American gangster (d. [[1924]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Cromwell Dixon]], American pioneer aviator (d. [[1911]]) * [[July 11]] **[[Trafford Leigh-Mallory]], British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (d. [[1944]]) **[[Thomas Mitchell (actor)|Thomas Mitchell]], American actor (d. [[1962]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Bruno Schulz]], Polish writer and painter (d. [[1942]]) * [[July 15]] ** [[Walter Benjamin]], German philosopher and cultural critic (suicide [[1940]]) ** [[Milena Rudnytska]], Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer (d. [[1979]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Michel Coiffard]], French World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Lenore Ulric]], American actress (d. [[1970]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]], Austrian Nazi politician (d. [[1946]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Haile Selassie I]], Ethiopian emperor (d. [[1975]]) * [[July 29]] – [[William Powell]], American actor (d. [[1984]]) === August === [[File:Jack Warner portrait copy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jack L. Warner]]]] * [[August 2]] – [[Jack L. Warner]], Canadian film producer (d. [[1978]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Hoot Gibson]], American actor, film director (d. [[1962]]) * [[August 11]] **[[Władysław Anders]], Polish general, politician (d. [[1970]]) **[[Hugh MacDiarmid]], Scottish poet (d. [[1978]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Alfred Lunt]], American actor, stage director (d. [[1977]]) * [[August 15]] ** [[Louis de Broglie]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1987]]) ** [[Walther Nehring]], German general (d. [[1983]]) * [[August 17]] – [[Tamon Yamaguchi]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1942]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Gabriel Guérin]], French World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Elizebeth Smith Friedman]], American cryptographer (d. [[1980]]) === September === [[File:Appleton.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Edward Victor Appleton]]]] [[File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Arthur Compton]]]] [[File:Pinto Colvig in Jacksonville School.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pinto Colvig]]]] [[File:S. Kragujevic, Ivo Andric, 1961.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ivo Andrić]]]] * [[September 4]] – [[Darius Milhaud]], French composer (d. [[1974]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Joseph Szigeti]], Hungarian violinist (d. [[1973]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Edward Victor Appleton]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]]) * [[September 9]] – [[Tsuru Aoki]], Japanese American actress (d. [[1961]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Arthur Compton]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1962]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Pinto Colvig]], American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor and circus performer (original voice of Goofy) (d. [[1967]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Alfred A. Knopf Sr.]], American publisher (d. [[1984]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Patricia Collinge]], Irish-American actress (d. [[1974]]) === October === * [[October 2]] – [[Ilie Crețulescu]], Romanian general (d. [[1971]]) * [[October 4]] ** [[Engelbert Dollfuss]], Austrian statesman, chancellor (d. [[1934]]) ** [[Luis Trenker]], South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect and alpinist (d. [[1990]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], Russian poet (d. [[1941]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Ivo Andrić]], Serbo-Croatian writer, [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Andrei Yeremenko]], Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. [[1970]]) * [[October 17]] – [[R. K. Shanmukham Chetty]], Indian jurist, economist (d. [[1953]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Gummo Marx]], American actor, comedian (d. [[1977]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Graciliano Ramos]], Brazilian writer (d. [[1953]]) * [[October 29]] – [[Stanisław Ostrowski]], [[President of Poland]] (d. [[1982]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Charles Atlas]], Italian-American [[strongman (strength athlete)|strongman]], [[sideshow]] performer (d. [[1972]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Alexander Alekhine]], Russian chess champion (d. [[1946]]) === November === [[File:Franco0001.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Francisco Franco]]]] [[File:Rebecca West.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Rebecca West]]]] * [[November 2]] – [[Alice Brady]], American actress (d. [[1939]]) * [[November 5]] – [[J. B. S. Haldane]], British geneticist (d. [[1964]]) * [[November 9]] – [[Erich Auerbach]], German philologist (d. [[1957]]) * [[November 12]] – [[Guo Moruo]], Chinese author, poet (d. [[1978]]) * [[November 16]] **[[Richard Hale]], American singer, actor (d. [[1981]]) **[[Tazio Nuvolari]], Italian racing driver (d. [[1953]]) *[[November 20]] **[[James Collip]], Canadian [[biochemist]] (d. [[1965]]) * [[November 22]] – [[Emma Tillman]], American supercentenarian, briefly the world's oldest living person and last surviving person born in 1892 (d. [[2007]]) === December === * [[December 4]] – [[Francisco Franco]], Spanish dictator (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Francisco Franco {{!}} Biography, Nickname, Beliefs, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Franco |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=19 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[December 5]] – [[Cyril Ring]], American film actor (d. [[1967]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Osbert Sitwell]], English writer (d. [[1969]]) * [[December 7]] – [[Max Ehrlich]], German actor, screenwriter and humor writer (d. [[1944]] in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Bert Hinkler]], Australian aviator (d. [[1933]]) * [[December 11]] – [[Arnold Majewski]], Finnish military hero of Polish descent (d. [[1942]])<ref name="castrén">Castrén, Klaus: [https://www.genealogia.fi/genos-old/70/70_38.htm Majewski-suku Suomessa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202929/https://www.genealogia.fi/genos-old/70/70_38.htm |date=June 24, 2021 }}, GENOS - journal of the Finnish genealogy society, issue #70/1999. Accessed on 24 June 2021.</ref> * [[December 12]] **[[Edward Almond]], American general (d. [[1979]]) **[[Herman Potočnik]], Slovenian rocket engineer (d. [[1929]]) * [[December 15]] – [[J. Paul Getty]], American industrialist (d. [[1976]]) * [[December 21]] – [[Rebecca West]], English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer (d. [[1983]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Ruth Chatterton]], American actress, novelist and aviator (d. [[1961]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Don Barclay (actor)|Don Barclay]], American actor (d. [[1975]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Emory Parnell]], American actor (d. [[1979]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Stanley Price]], American film, television actor (d. [[1955]]) === Date unknown === * [[Ahmad Daouk]], two-time prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1979]]) * [[Abdallah Khalil]], third Prime Minister of Sudan (d. [[1970]])
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