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== Births == === January === [[File:Hoover-JEdgar-LOC.jpg|thumb|100px|[[J. Edgar Hoover]]]] [[File:L.A Mayer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leo Aryeh Mayer]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Bert Acosta]], American aviator (d. [[1954]]) ** [[J. Edgar Hoover]], American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. [[1972]]) * [[January 4]] – [[Leroy Grumman]], American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (d. [[1982]]) * [[January 9]] – [[Lucian Truscott]], American general (d. [[1965]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Graciela Amaya de García]], Mexican feminist, organizer (d. [[1995]]) * [[January 15]] ** [[Leo Aryeh Mayer]], Israeli professor, scholar of Islamic art (d. [[1959]]) ** [[Artturi Ilmari Virtanen]], Finnish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Husayn Khalidi]], [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] (d. [[1966]]) * [[January 19]] ** [[Isamu Chō]], Japanese general (d. [[1945]]) ** [[Arthur Coningham (RAF officer)|Arthur Coningham]], British air marshal (d. [[1948]]) * [[January 21]] – [[Cristóbal Balenciaga]], Spanish-French couturier (d. [[1972]]) * [[January 30]] ** [[Marianne Golz]], Austrian-born opera singer and World War II resistance member (d. [[1943]]) ** [[Wilhelm Gustloff]], German-born Swiss Nazi party leader (d. [[1936]]) === February === [[File:Babe Ruth2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Babe Ruth]]]] [[File:Louise Lovely Witzel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Louise Lovely]]]] * [[February 2]] – [[George Halas]], American football player and coach, co-founder of the National Football League (d. [[1983]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Babe Ruth]], American baseball player (d. [[1948]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Khorloogiin Choibalsan]], [[Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic]], Prime Minister of the [[Mongolian People's Republic]] (d. [[1952]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Victor Jacob Koningsberger]], Dutch botanist (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Arisz |first=W.H. |chapter= Levensbericht V.J. Koningsberger |trans-chapter=Obituary of V.J. Koningsberger |publisher=[[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] |pages= 329–339 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601081100/https://dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensberichten/PE00001345.pdf |archivedate=1 June 2023 |url=https://dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensberichten/PE00001345.pdf |language=Dutch |location=Amsterdam |year=1967 |title=Jaarboek, 1965-1966 |trans-title=Yearbook, 1965–1966 }}</ref> * [[February 14]] – [[Max Horkheimer]], German philosopher, sociologist (d. [[1973]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Earl Thomson]], Canadian athlete (d. [[1971]]) * [[February 18]] (O.S. 6 February) – [[Semyon Timoshenko]], Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. [[1970]]) * [[February 19]] **[[Louis Calhern]], American actor (d. [[1956]]) **[[Diego Mazquiarán]], Spanish matador (d. [[1940]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Henrik Dam]], Danish biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1976]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Edward Brophy]], American character actor (d. [[1960]]) * [[February 28]] ** [[Louise Lovely]], Australian actress (d. [[1980]]) ** [[Marcel Pagnol]], French novelist, playwright (d. [[1974]]) === March === [[File:Robert Benoist Monza 1927 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Benoist]]]] [[File:McCuddenportrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James McCudden]]]] * [[March 3]] ** [[Ragnar Frisch]], Norwegian economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]]) ** [[Matthew Ridgway]], United States Army Chief of Staff, Commander of NATO (d. [[1993]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Robert Carney]], American admiral (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite web| access-date=2008-08-16| url=http://www.history.navy.mil/library/Bios/carney_rb.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310000046/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/Bios/carney_rb.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=March 10, 2009| title=Admiral Robert B. Carney| work=Biographies in Naval History| publisher=Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy| date=August 11, 2008}}</ref> * [[March 11]] – [[Shemp Howard]], American actor, comedian (''The Three Stooges'') (d. [[1955]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Tobie Goedewaagen]], Dutch philosopher and Nazi collaborator (d. [[1980]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Robert Benoist]], French race car driver, war hero (d. [[1944]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Encarnacion Alzona]], Filipino historian and suffragist (d. [[2001]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Ruth Snyder]], American murderer (d. [[1928]]) * [[March 28]] ** [[Spencer W. Kimball]], 12th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1985]]) ** [[James McCudden]], British World War I flying ace (d. [[1918]]) * [[March 29]] ** [[Ernst Jünger]], German military hero, philosopher and entomologist (d. [[1998]]) ** [[George Alan Vasey|George Vasey]], Australian general (d. [[1945]]) * [[March 30]] – [[Carl Lutz]], Swiss-American World War II humanitarian (d. [[1975]]) === April === [[File:Stanley Rous.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Stanley Rous]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Alberta Hunter]], American singer (d. [[1984]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Down Beat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMUJAQAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Maher Publications|page=22}}</ref> * [[April 3]] – [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], Italian composer (d. [[1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=Music Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=W.W. Norton, Incorporated|page=446}}</ref> * [[April 4]] – [[John Kotelawala]], 3rd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. [[1980]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Mike O'Dowd]], American boxer (d. [[1957]]) * [[April 13]] – [[Olga Rudge]], American violinist (d. [[1996]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Anton Reinthaller]], Austrian right-wing politician (d. [[1958]]) * [[April 25]] – [[Stanley Rous]], English administrator, 6th President of FIFA (d. [[1986]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Hans Kopfermann]], German physicist (d. [[1963]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Malcolm Sargent]], English conductor (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Reid|title=Malcolm Sargent: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1c8AAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Hamilton|isbn=978-0-241-91316-1|page=12}}</ref> === May === [[File:Rudolph Valentino.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rudolph Valentino]]]] [[File:Jiddu Krishnamurti 01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jiddu Krishnamurti]]]] * [[May 1]] – [[Nikolai Yezhov]], Soviet politician and police chief, Great Purge Perpetrator (d. [[1940]]) * [[May 2]] – [[Lorenz Hart]], American lyricist (d. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Caryl Brahms|author2=Ned Sherrin|title=Song by Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vaMHAQAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=R. Anderson Publications|isbn=978-0-86360-013-5|page=236}}</ref> * [[May 5]] – [[Charles Lamont]], Russian-born film director (d. [[1993]]) * [[May 6]] – [[Rudolph Valentino]], Italian actor (d. [[1926]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Fulton J. Sheen]], American Catholic archbishop, television personality (d. [[1979]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Richard Barthelmess]], American actor (d. [[1963]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]], Indian philosopher, speaker and writer (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Christine V.|year=2004|title=Jiddu Krishnamurti: world philosopher (1895–1986): his life and thoughts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzDar6XfICEC|location=[[Delhi]]|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|isbn=978-81-208-2032-6|access-date=3 October 2011}}</ref> * [[May 12]] – [[William Giauque]], Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1982]]) * [[May 15]] – [[Prescott Bush]], American banker and politician (d. [[1972]]) * [[May 17]] – [[Saul Adler]], Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (d. [[1966]]) * [[May 21]] – [[Lázaro Cárdenas]], 44th [[President of Mexico]], 1934–1940 (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://independenciademexico.com.mx/biografia-de-lazaro-cardenas/|title=Biografía de Lázaro Cárdenas|publisher=Independencia de Mexico.com|language=es|access-date=May 31, 2019}}</ref> * [[May 25]] – [[Dorothea Lange]], American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. [[1965]]) === June === [[File:Jack Dempsey 3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jack Dempsey]]]] * [[June 3]] – [[K. M. Panikkar]], Indian scholar, diplomat and journalist (d. [[1963]]) * [[June 4]] ** [[Dino Grandi]], Italian Fascist politician (d. [[1988]]) ** [[Russell Hicks]], American actor (d. [[1957]]) * [[June 5]] – [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]], American actor (d. [[1972]]) * [[June 10]] – [[Cemal Gürsel]], Turkish army officer, President (d. [[1966]]) * [[June 12]] ** [[Eugénie Brazier]], French cook (d. [[1977]]) ** [[Wilfrid Kent Hughes]], Australian Olympian and politician (d. [[1970]]) * [[June 15]] – [[Irina Odoyevtseva]], Russian poet, novelist and memoirist (d. [[1990]]) * [[June 17]] ** [[Louise Fazenda]], American actress (d. [[1962]]) ** [[Ruben Rausing]], Swedish entrepreneur, founder of [[Tetra Pak]] (d. [[1983]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Jack Dempsey]], American boxer (d. [[1983]]) === July === [[File:Carl Orff um 1970.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carl Orff]]]] [[File:Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kirsten Flagstad]]]] * [[July 2]] – [[Pavel Sukhoi]], Russian aircraft engineer (d. [[1975]]) * [[July 8]] – [[Igor Tamm]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1971]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Frederick Hanson (engineer)|Frederick Hanson]], New Zealand soldier, engineer, military leader and public servant (d. [[1979]]) * [[July 10]] ** [[Carl Orff]], German composer (d. [[1982]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Morris|title=A Guide to 20th-century Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-45601-4|page=191}}</ref> ** [[Nahum Goldmann]], Russian-born Zionist (d. [[1982]]) * [[July 12]] ** [[Kirsten Flagstad]], Norwegian soprano (d. [[1982]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Record Collector: A Magazine for Collectors of Recorded Vocal Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Vs5AQAAIAAJ|year=1962|page=20|last1 = Dennis|first1 = James F. E.}}</ref> ** [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], American musical theater lyricist, (d. [[1960]]) ** [[Buckminster Fuller]], American architect (d. [[1983]]) * [[July 14]] ** [[Jin Yuelin]], Chinese philosopher (d. [[1984]]) ** [[LeRoy Prinz]], American choreographer, director and producer (d. [[1983]]) * [[July 18]] – [[Olga Spessivtseva]], Russian ballerina (d. [[1991]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Xu Beihong]], Chinese painter (d. [[1953]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Ken Maynard]], American actor (d. [[1973]]) * [[July 22]] – [[León de Greiff]], Colombian poet (d. [[1976]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Aileen Pringle]], American actress (d. [[1989]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Robert Graves]], English writer (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alan Bold|author2=Allen Freer|title=Cambridge Book of English Verse 1939-1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sko7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35|date=4 March 1976|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-09840-3|pages=35}}</ref> * [[July 26]] – [[Gracie Allen]], American actress and comedian (d. [[1964]]) === August === [[File:HRH Tuanku Abdul Rahman Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Muhammad. The Tuanku Ja'afar Royal Gallery, Seremban.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan]]]] * [[August 8]] – [[Jean Navarre]], French World War I fighter ace (d. [[1919]]) * [[August 16]] ** [[Liane Haid]], Austrian actress (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Lucien Littlefield]], American actor (d. [[1960]]) * [[August 24]] **[[Guido Masiero]], Italian World War I flying ace, aviation pioneer (d. [[1942]]) **[[Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan]], King of Malaysia (d.[[1960]]) === September === [[File:Sara García in No Basta Ser Madre (1937).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Sara García]]]] [[File:John G. Diefenbaker.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Diefenbaker]]]] * [[September 1]] ** [[Chembai]], Indian Carnatic musician (d. [[1974]]) ** [[Engelbert Zaschka]], German helicopter pioneer (d. [[1955]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Margery Perham]], English Africanist (d. [[1982]]) * [[September 7]] – Sir [[Brian Horrocks]], British general (d. [[1985]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Sara García]], Mexican actress (d. [[1980]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Vinoba Bhave]], Indian religious leader (d. [[1982]]) * [[September 13]] **[[Ruth McDevitt]], American actress (d. [[1976]]) **[[Bernard Warburton-Lee]], British naval officer, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (d. [[1940]]) * [[September 18]] ** [[John Diefenbaker]], 13th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (d. [[1979]]) ** [[Tomoji Tanabe]], Japanese [[supercentenarian]] (d. [[2009]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Joseph Frank Wehner]], American World War I [[flying ace]] (d. [[1918]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/wehner.php|title=Joseph Wehner|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=theaerodrome.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630060340/http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/wehner.php|archive-date=30 June 2019|access-date=}}</ref> * [[September 21]] – [[Juan de la Cierva]], Spanish civil engineer, aviator, aeronautical engineer and inventor of the autogyro (d. [[1936]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Paul Muni]], Austro-Hungarian-born American actor (d. [[1967]]) * [[September 24]] – [[André Frédéric Cournand]], French-born physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1988]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Joseph Banks Rhine]], American parapsychologist (d. [[1980]]) * [[September 30]] – [[Aleksandr Vasilevsky]], Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. [[1977]]) === October === [[File:Busterkeaton edit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Buster Keaton]]]] [[File:Juan_Domingo_Perón.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Juan Perón]]]] [[File:Portrait of prime minister Levy Eshkol. August 1963. D699-070.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Levi Eshkol]]]] [[File:Gerhard Domagk nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gerhard Domagk]]]] * [[October 1]] – [[Liaquat Ali Khan]], 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. [[1951]]) * [[October 3]] – [[Sergei Yesenin]], Russian lyric poet (d. [[1925]]) * [[October 4]] ** [[Buster Keaton]], American actor, film director (d. [[1966]]) ** [[Richard Sorge]], German-born Soviet spy (k. [[1944]]) * [[October 8]] ** [[Juan Perón]], two-time President of Argentina (d. [[1974]]) ** King [[Zog of Albania]] (d. [[1961]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Ivan Yumashev (admiral)|Ivan Yumashev]], Soviet admiral (d. [[1972]]) * [[October 10]] – [[Wolfram von Richthofen]], German field marshal (d. [[1945]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes]], 21st President of Guatemala (d. [[1982]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Lewis Mumford]], American historian (d. [[1990]]) * [[October 20]] – ** [[Evelyn Brent]], American actress (d. [[1975]]) ** [[Rex Ingram (actor)|Rex Ingram]], African American actor (d. [[1969]]) ** [[Morrie Ryskind]], American dramatist (d. [[1985]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Edna Purviance]], American actress (d. [[1958]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Rolf Nevanlinna]], Finnish mathematician (d. [[1980]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Charles Walter Allfrey]], British general (d. [[1964]]) * [[October 25]] ** [[Levi Eshkol]], Israeli Prime Minister (d. [[1969]]) ** [[Gilda Gray]], Polish-born American dancer and actress (d. [[1959]]) * [[October 30]] ** [[Gerhard Domagk]], German bacteriologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (declined) (d. [[1964]]) ** [[Dickinson W. Richards]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1973]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Basil Liddell Hart]], British military historian (d. [[1970]]) === November === [[File:Paul Hindemith 1923.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul Hindemith]]]] * [[November 4]] – [[Thomas G. W. Settle]], American record-setting balloonist and admiral (d. [[1980]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Walter Gieseking]], German pianist (d. [[1956]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Jack Northrop]], American airplane manufacturer (d. [[1981]]) * [[November 14]] – [[Walter Jackson Freeman II]], American neurologist (d. [[1972]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia]] (d. [[Murder of the Romanov family|1918]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Two - Russia's Lost Princesses - Beyond the portraits |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/HxprRdWRhF6G7zg54kFLnp/beyond-the-portraits |website=BBC |access-date=14 January 2022}}</ref> * [[November 16]] – [[Paul Hindemith]], German composer (d. [[1963]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Mikhail Bakhtin]], Russian philosopher, literary scholar (d. [[1975]]) * [[November 25]] ** [[Wilhelm Kempff]], German pianist (d. [[1991]]) ** [[Helen Hooven Santmyer]], American writer (d. [[1986]]) ** [[Ludvík Svoboda]], 8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. [[1979]]) * [[November 29]] ** [[Busby Berkeley]], American film director, choreographer (d. [[1976]]) ** [[William Tubman]], 19th President of Liberia (d. [[1971]]) === December === [[File:King George VI LOC matpc.14736 (cleaned).jpg|thumb|100px|[[George VI]]]] * [[December 2]] – [[Harriet Cohen]], English pianist (d. [[1967]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Sheng Shicai]], Chinese warlord (d. [[1970]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Mamerto Urriolagoitía]], 43rd [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[1974]]) * [[December 9]] ** [[Whina Cooper]], New Zealand schoolteacher, historian and activist (d. [[1994]]) ** [[Dolores Ibárruri]], Spanish republican leader (d. [[1989]]) * [[December 11]] – [[Leo Ornstein]], Russian-American composer (d. [[2002]]) * [[December 14]] ** [[Paul Éluard]], French poet (d. [[1952]]) ** King [[George VI]] of the United Kingdom (d. [[1952]]) ** [[Josef Hoop]], [[Prime Minister of Liechtenstein]] (d. [[1952]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Marguerite Williams]], African-American geologist (d.[[1991]]?) ===Date unknown=== * [[Tawfik Abu Al-Huda]], 4-Time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. [[1956]])
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