Editing 1888 (section)

=== 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]])