1904

Events

January

• January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 12 – The Herero Wars in German South West Africa begin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard («Вишнëвый сад», Vishnevyi sad), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski, 6 month's before the author's death.
• January 23 – The Ålesund fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics.<ref>Template:Cite journal, cited in Template:Cite journal</ref>

February

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February 7: Aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire.

• February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 buildings in 31 hours.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Port Arthur from Gold Hill

• February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
• February 17 – Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, with a background theme of Japan–United States relations, debuts at La Scala in Milan, to no great acclaim. On May 28 a revised version opens in Brescia, to huge success.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 26 – The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, is almost entirely destroyed by fire after a gas jet ignites the newly varnished ceiling.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

March

• March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
• March 4 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria, followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• March 6 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 26 – 20,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South African gold mines.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• March 31 – British expedition to Tibet: The Battle of Guru – British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

April

• April 4 – 1904 Kresna earthquakes: two earthquakes strike near Kresna, Bulgaria, killing at least 200 people.<ref name="NGDC">Template:Cite journal</ref>
• April 6 – Joseph F. Smith announces the Second Manifesto in General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory, prohibiting the practice of polygamy, which has continued to be sanctioned by some of its leaders in violation of the 1890 Manifesto officially banning the practice.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• April 8
  • The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square, after The New York Times.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• April 8–10 – Aleister Crowley writes Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema, in Cairo.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• April 19 – The Great Fire of Toronto destroys much of the city's downtown, but there are no fatalities.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• April 27 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news
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May

• May 4
  • United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time, in Manchester (England), to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars; the first produced under their joint names in Manchester are launched in December.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • German Association football club FC Schalke 04 is established.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 5
  • British expedition to Tibet: Hundreds of Tibetans attack the British camp at Changlo, and hold the advantage for a while, before being defeated by superior weapons, and losing at least 200 men.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 9 – Great Western Railway of England 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro possibly becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed Template:Convert.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 15 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about Template:Convert off Port Arthur, and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons with 496 crew, and Yashima. On the same day, the Japanese protected cruiser Yoshino sinks after being accidentally rammed by the armored cruiser Kasuga, killing over 270 crew, including Captain Sayegi and his second-in-command, Commander Hirowateri.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Japan will keep the loss of Yashima secret for over a year.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• May 21 – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta, which becomes an international sorority, is founded by 11 women at Syracuse University.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

June

• June 3 – The International Alliance of Women is founded.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• June 16
  • Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland, in Helsinki.<ref name="Yle">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walks out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on June 10), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He sets the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on this date.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• June 28
  • Danish ocean liner Template:SS runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing approximately 627 people, many of whom are Russian-Polish and Scandinavian emigrants.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan is stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • English Association football club Hull City A.F.C. is established.
• June 29 – The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

July

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1904 Summer Olympics

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Pavlos Melas

• July – Pavlos Melas enters Macedonia with a small unit of men during the Macedonian Struggle.
• July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games open in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, as part of the World's Fair.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 22 – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 23 – A continuous track tractor is patented by David Roberts of Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham in England.<ref>British Patent No. 16,345. Template:Cite book</ref>

August

• August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa, Tibet.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• August 11 – Battle of Waterberg: Lothar von Trotha defeats the Herero people in German South West Africa, and drives them into the Omaheke desert, starting the Herero and Namaqua genocide.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 14 – Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 17 – Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur.
• August 18 – Chris Watson resigns as the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid (Free Trade Party).<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 24 – Faroese Association football club Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag is established.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Summer – Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered the starting point of Fauvism.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

September

• September – Stuyvesant High School opens in New York City as Manhattan's first manual trade school for boys.
• September 1 – Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opens in London.
• September 2 – John Voss sails the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westabout.
• September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
• September 17 – An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease is published in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• September 26 – New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack is individually protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

October

• October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University, is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune.
• October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and 8 of his friends, at Cornell University Medical College.
• October 4 – Swedish Association football club IFK Göteborg is founded, becoming the 39th IFK-association.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed professional business fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University.
• October 9 – German journalist Anna Rüling, in a speech to the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin, makes the first known public statement of the socio-legal problems faced by lesbians.
• October 11 – Loftus Road football stadium opens in London.
• October 13 – Pavlos Melas is encircled at Statista and killed during the Macedonian Struggle.
• October 15 – Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
• October 18 – In Germany:
  • The Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum opens in Berlin for the display of fine art.
  • Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.
• October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School, through the superintendence of American C. A. O'Reilley.
• October 21 – Russo-Japanese War: Dogger Bank incident – The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the North Sea.
• October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
• October 28 – Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic relations.
• Late October – The first members of what will become the Bloomsbury Group move to the Bloomsbury district of London; they will be joined about November 8 by the future novelist Virginia Woolf.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

November

• November 8 – 1904 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
• November 16
  • The settlement at Grytviken, on the British South Atlantic island territory of South Georgia, is established by Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen, as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • English engineer John Ambrose Fleming patents the first thermionic vacuum tube, the two-electrode diode ("oscillation valve" or Fleming valve).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company in the United States. The "caterpillar track" will come to revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare.

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July 23 & November 24: continuous track

December

• December 2 – The St. Petersburg Soviet urges a run on the banks; the attempt fails, and the executive committee is arrested.
• December 3 – Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, later called Himalia, at California's Lick Observatory.
• December 4 – The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen in Denmark.
• December 6 – Theodore Roosevelt announces his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States will intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
• December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
• December 27
  • The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.
  • The Abbey Theatre in Dublin opens.
• December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens, for streetcars.
• December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.

Date unknown

• Global cosmetics companies are founded in Paris (France): Coty, by François Coty,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Garnier, by Alfred Amour Garnier.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Canada Dry Ginger Ale is created by John J. McLaughlin.

Births

January

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Ray Bolger

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Cary Grant

• January 1
  • Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (died 1982)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Quatre Sou Quatre, a Chad politician (died 1963)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 5 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (died 1997)
• January 6 – Ramiro Prialé, Peruvian politician (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 10 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer and dancer, best known for his role in The Wizard of Oz (died 1987)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 13 – Richard Addinsell, British composer (died 1977)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• January 14
  • Cecil Beaton, English photographer (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Hector Grey, Scottish street trader and company director (died 1985)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Ernst Wellmann, highly decorated German Army officer (died 1970)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 18 – Cary Grant, English actor (died 1986)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 19 – Leo Soileau, American Cajun musician (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray Carson, American medical researcher (died 1990)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• January 22
  • George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (died 1983)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (died 1941)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• January 26
  • Ancel Keys, American scientist (died 2004)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • Donald Macintyre, British naval officer and naval historian (died 1981)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 27 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• January 28 – Canuplin, Filipino magician, bodabil entertainer (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 29 – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (died 1976)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

February

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Keith Holyoake

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Jimmy Dorsey

• February 1
  • Ángel Borlenghi, Argentine labor leader, politician (died 1962)
  • S. J. Perelman, American humorist, author (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 2 – Valery Chkalov, Soviet test pilot (died 1938)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• February 3
  • Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (died 1975)<ref>Template:BrahmsOnline</ref>
  • Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (died 1934)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• February 4 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer, historian (died 1977)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 10
  • Emil Bodnăraș, Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (died 1976)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • John Farrow, Australian film director (died 1963)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• February 11
  • Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1983)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Roy MacNairy, English cricketer (died 1962)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • José do Patrocínio Oliveira, Brazilian musician and voice actor (died 1987)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1904<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> (died 2023)
• February 13 – Erwin Canham, journalist (died 1982)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• February 16
  • James Baskett, African-American actor (Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South) (died 1948)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • George F. Kennan, American diplomat (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Philip Rabinowitz, South African record-breaking sprinter (died 2008)
• February 21 – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• February 22 – Ernst Jakob Henne, German motorcycle racer and racing driver (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 23
  • Gaston Marie Jacquier, French Roman Catholic bishop in Algeria (died 1976)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Self-published source</ref>
  • William L. Shirer, American journalist, author (died 1993)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (died 1957)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

March

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Dr. Seuss

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Joan Crawford

• March 1
  • Paul Hartman, American actor, dancer (died 1973)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Glenn Miller, American bandleader (died 1944)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 2 – Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 4
  • Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1973)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (died 1968)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor, actor (died 1942)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Chief Tahachee, American-born stage, film actor (died 1978)
• March 5 – Mao Bangchu, Republic of China air force general (died 1987)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 6 – Hugh Williams, English actor, dramatist (died 1969)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 7 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi official (died 1942)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• March 14 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress (died 2010)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 15 – J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (died 1985)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 20
  • Frank Mills (politician), American politician in Ohio legislature (died 1969)
  • B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (died 1990)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 22 – Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (died 2006)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 23 – Joan Crawford, American actress (died 1977)<ref name="Bret">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Knowles">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Crawford">Template:Cite book</ref> (other sources report her year of birth as 1905,<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> 1906,<ref name="Knowles"/> or 1908<ref name="Bret"/><ref name="Knowles"/><ref name="Crawford"/>)
• March 26
  • Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (died 1944)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (died 1987)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Emilio Fernández, Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter (died 1986)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 30
  • Alexandrina Maria da Costa, Portuguese Roman Catholic mystic, victim soul and blessed (died 1955)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Shin Matsushita, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2019)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

April

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Sharkey Bonano

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John Gielgud

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

• April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet general (died 1945)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 3 – Sally Rand, American dancer, actress (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• April 4 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian author, educator (died 1999)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 6
  • William Challee, American actor (died 1989)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 8 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (died 1972)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 10 – Nino Pavese, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 13 – Elwood Richard Quesada, American air force general (died 1993)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 14 – John Gielgud, English actor (died 2000)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 15 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (died 1948)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (died 1983)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 22 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (died 1967)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 24 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (died 1997)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 26
  • Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (died 1982)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia, cited in Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2004)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 27
  • Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (died 1972)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Syd Nathan, American record producer, music industry executive and founder of King Records (died 1968)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 29 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer, actor (died 1989)

May

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Salvador Dalí

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Fats Waller

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Robert Montgomery

• May 4
  • Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (died 1975)
  • Joaquín García Morato, Spanish fighter ace (died 1939)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 6
  • Raymond Bailey, American actor (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 8 – John Snagge, British radio personality (died 1996)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• May 10 – James Roy Andersen, American general (died 1945)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 11 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (died 1989)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• May 17
  • Marie-Anne Desmarest, French novelist (died 1973)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Jean Gabin, French actor (died 1976)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 20 – Margery Allingham, British detective fiction writer (died 1966)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 21
  • Robert Montgomery, American actor, director (died 1981)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Fats Waller, American pianist, comedian (died 1943)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 22 – Anne de Vries, Dutch writer (died 1964)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• May 24 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (died 1997)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 25 – Charles L. Melson, United States Navy admiral (died 1981)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 26 – George Formby, English singer, comedian (died 1961)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 28 – George Beck, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (died 1978)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Self-published source</ref>
• May 29 – Abu Bakar of Pahang, sultan of Pahang (died 1974)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 30 – Doris Packer, American actress (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

June

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Johnny Weissmuller

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Ralph Bellamy

• June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer, actor (Tarzan) (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 3 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 5 – Edith Clark, French aviator, parachutist (died 1937)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 6 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (died 1928)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 12
  • Bill Cox, American athlete (died 1996)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Johnny Murray, American voice actor (died 1956)
• June 17
  • Ralph Bellamy, American actor (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • J. Vernon McGee, American theologian, pastor, author, and Bible teacher (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• June 18 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born American actor (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 20 – Heinrich von Brentano, German politician (died 1964)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 21 – Orian Landreth, American football coach (died 1996)
• June 22 – William O. Gallery, American admiral (died 1981)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 24
  • Francis Leslie Ashton, British writer (died 1994)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Phil Harris, American actor (died 1995)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• June 26
  • Virginia Brown Faire, American actress (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born film actor (died 1964)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

July

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Gordon Gunson

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Pablo Neruda

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Pavel Cherenkov

• July 1
  • Mary Calderone, American physician, public health advocate (died 1998)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Gordon Gunson, English football player (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 2
  • René Lacoste, French tennis player, businessman (died 1996)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • František Plánička, Czech footballer (died 1996)<ref>Template:NFT player</ref>
• July 5
  • Harold Acton, British writer, scholar, and aesthete (died 1994)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Eugenia Clinchard, American child actress (died 1989)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist, author (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• July 6
  • Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari, Pakistani broadcaster (died 1975)Template:Citation needed
  • Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation Army (died 1996)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Self-published source</ref>Template:Citation needed
• July 7
  • Nick Connor, American politician (died 1995)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Josephine Wilson, British stage, film actress (died 1990)Template:Citation needed
• July 8 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (died 2008)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 9 – Hideo Oguni, Japanese writer (died 1996)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 10
  • Haim Ben-Asher, Israeli politician (died 1998)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Lili Damita, French-American actress, singer (died 1994)<ref name="Shipman 1994 s604">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Tom Tippett, English footballer (died 1997)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Unreliable source?
• July 12 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 13 – Jim Burrows, New Zealand teacher, sportsman, administrator, and military leader (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• July 14
  • Richard Clarkson, British aeronautical engineer (died 1996)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Zita Johann, Austrian-American actress (died 1993)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 15
  • Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (died 2007)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Dorothy Fields, American librettist (died 1974)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Self-published source</ref>
• July 16 – Geraldine Knight Scott, pioneering American woman landscape architect (died 1989)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 18 – Stella Skopal, Croatian Jewish sculptor (died 1992)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 19 – Mark Koenig, American baseball shortstop (died 1993)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 20 – René Couzinet, French aeronautics engineer, aircraft manufacturer (died 1956)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 21
  • Wilhelm Harster, German officer (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Louis Meyer, American Hall of Fame race car driver (died 1995)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 24 – Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Soviet admiral (died 1974)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 26 – Edwin Albert Link, American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (died 1981)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 28 – Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian businessman (died 1993)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

August

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Dolores del Río

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Ralph Bunche

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Deng Xiaoping

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Christopher Isherwood

• August 3 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (died 1983)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• August 4
  • Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist, dramatist (died 1969)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Helen Kane, American singer, dancer, comedian and actress (died 1966)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 5 – Hugh Greer, American basketball coach (died 1963)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 6 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (died 1988)Template:Citation needed
• August 7 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 11 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• August 12 – Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> (died 1918)
• August 13
  • Jonathan Hole, American actor (died 1998)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor, jazz musician (died 1999)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 16
  • Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician (died 1989)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 17
  • Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 19 – George de la Warr, British alternative physician (died 1969)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 21 – Count Basie, African-American musician, bandleader (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 22
  • Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader (died 1997)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Jay Novello, American actor (died 1982)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 23
  • Viscountess Furness (born Thelma Morgan), American socialite twin (died 1970)
  • Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Gloria Morgan), American socialite twin (died 1965)
  • William Primrose, Scottish violist (died 1982)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• August 24
  • Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (died 1986)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Aparicio Méndez, 50th President of Uruguay (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• August 26
  • Christopher Isherwood, English writer (died 1986)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Georgia Schmidt, American actress (died 1997)
• August 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• August 29 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

September

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Umberto II of Italy

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Greer Garson

• September 7 – Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• September 9 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• September 12 – Lou Moore, American race car driver, team owner (died 1956)
• September 13 – Gladys George, American actress (died 1954)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• September 14
  • Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist (died 1962)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister (died 1957)
• September 15 – Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy (died 1983)
• September 19 – Elvia Allman, American actress (died 1992)
• September 22 – Lessie Brown, oldest living American (died 2019)
• September 26 – Constantin Doncea, Romanian communist activist and politician (died 1973)
• September 29
  • Greer Garson, English actress (died 1996)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer (died 1965)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Unreliable source?

October

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Tita Merello

• October 1
  • Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias (died 1982)
  • A. K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (died 1977)
• October 2
  • Graham Greene, English author (died 1991)
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nd Prime Minister of India (died 1966)
• October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
• October 7 – Cyril Horn, English speed skater (died 1987)
• October 9 – Wally Brown, American actor, comedian (died 1961)
• October 11 – Tita Merello, Argentine actress, singer, and tango dancer (died 2002)
• October 12 – Anthony F. DePalma, American orthopedic surgeon and professor (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• October 18 – Haim Shirman, Russian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (died 1981)
• October 20 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (died 1986)
• October 23 – Harvey Penick, American golfer (died 1995)
• October 25 – Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (died 1968)
• October 29 – Casimiro Montenegro Filho, Brazilian army and air force officer (died 2000)

November

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Dick Powell

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Michael Ramsey

• November 1 – Laura La Plante, American silent film actress (died 1996)
• November 2 – Hugh Lygon, English aristocrat (died 1936)
• November 4 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician, textilist (died 1967)
• Horace Mann Bond – African American historian and college administrator (died 1972)
• November 11
  • J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (died 1960)
  • Alger Hiss, American lawyer, government official, author and lecturer (died 1996)
• November 12 – Jacques Tourneur, French director (died 1977)
• November 14
  • Dick Powell, American actor, singer (died 1963)
  • Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1988)
  • William H. Brockman Jr., United States Navy admiral (d. 1979)
• November 16 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (died 1996)
• November 18 – Masao Koga, Japanese composer (died 1978)
• November 22 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• November 25
  • Lillian Copeland, American Olympic athlete (died 1964)
  • Toni Ortelli, Italian composer, alpinist (died 2000)
• November 30 – Clyfford Still, American painter (died 1980)

December

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Clarence Nash

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George Stevens

• December 2 – Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, First Lady of Cuba (1940-1944) (d. 1993)
• December 3 – Roberto Marinho, Brazilian publisher, businessman and media mogul (died 2003)
• December 4 – Albert Norden, German politician (died 1982)
• December 6 – Ève Curie, French author (died 2007)
• December 7 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor (died 1985)
• December 10 – Antonín Novotný, 7th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1975)
• December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor, socialite (died 1981)
• December 17 – Paul Cadmus, American artist (died 1999)
• December 18 – George Stevens, American film director (died 1975)
• December 19 – Benjamin W. Fortson Jr, American politician and Georgia Secretary of State from 1946 to 1979 (died 1979)
• December 20 – Rambai Barni Svastivatana, queen consort of King Prajadhipok of Siam, (died 1984)
• December 21 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter (died 2001)
• December 24
  • Joseph M. Juran, American engineer, philanthropist (died 2008)
  • Herbert D. Riley, United States Navy admiral (died 1973)
• December 25
  • Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
  • Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, American nutritionist (died 1980)
• December 26 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (died 1980)
• December 27 – Linwood G. Dunn, American special effects artist (died 1998)
• December 30
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (died 1987)
  • David M. Shoup, American general (died 1983)

Date unknown

• Salise Abanozoğlu, Turkish teacher and politician (died 1983)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Tevfik Esenç, Turkish-born last speaker of the Ubykh language (died 1992)

Deaths

January

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Blessed Laura Vicuña

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Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt

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Elphège Gravel

• January 1 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer (born 1836)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• January 2
  • Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (born 1820)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • James Longstreet, American Confederate Civil War general (born 1821)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 7
  • Parke Godwin, American journalist (born 1816)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck, German engineer (born 1845)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer (born 1836)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 9
  • John Brown Gordon, American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (born 1832)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Hannah Lynch, Irish translator (born 1859)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter (born 1824)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 13 – Samuel G. Havermale, American Methodist minister (born 1824)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• January 17
  • Sir Henry Keppel, British admiral (born 1809)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Joseph Nirschl, German Roman Catholic theologian (born 1823)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• January 22 – Laura Vicuña, Chilean Roman Catholic holy figure and blessed (born 1891)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 23 – Gédéon Bordiau, Belgian architect (born 1832)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• January 24 – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (born 1831)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 28
  • Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian novelist (born 1848)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Elphège Gravel, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and bishop (born 1838)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• January 30
  • Józef Gosławski, Polish architect (born 1865)
  • Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait, American physician (born 1838)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

February

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Vladimir Markovnikov

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Prince Henry of Prussia

• February 3 – John James McDannold, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1851)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 8
  • Alfred Ainger, British biographer (born 1837)<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref>
  • Malvina Garrigues, Portuguese soprano (born 1825)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 10 – Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Russian writer (born 1842)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• February 11 – Vladimir Markovnikov, Russian chemist (born 1838)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• February 12 – Rudolf Maison, German sculptor (born 1854)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 13
  • John Ellison-Macartney, Irish politician (born 1818)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Émile Metz, Luxembourgish politician, industrialist and engineer (born 1835)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 14 – Alvinza Hayward, American financier and businessman (born 1822)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• February 15 – Mark Hanna, United States Senator from Ohio (born 1837)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 17 – Hermann Emminghaus, German psychiatrist (born 1845)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• February 19 – Alice Sudduth Byerly, American temperance activist (born 1855)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• February 22 – Sir Leslie Stephen, British writer and critic (born 1832)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 26 – Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1900)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• February 27 – Richard Hawksworth Barnes, English coffee grower, naturalist and meteorologist (born 1831)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• February 28 – Anthony Durier, American Roman Catholic bishop (born 1833)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Self-published source</ref>
• February 29 – Antonio De Martino, Italian physician (born 1815)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

March

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Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

• March 2 – Mary C. Billings, American evangelist and missionary (born 1824)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• March 5
  • John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British founder of the Army Post Office Corps (born 1829)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Alfred von Waldersee, Imperial German Army marshal (born 1832)<ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
• March 7 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (born 1828)<ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
• March 12 – Oliver Harriman, American businessman (born 1829)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• March 14 – Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow, Prussian explorer (born 1831)
• March 17
  • Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III (born 1819)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • William Elbridge Sewell, American naval officer, Governor of Guam (born 1851)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• March 21 – Aurélie Ghika, French writer (born 1820)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 24 – Emma Herwegh, German writer (born 1817)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• March 31
  • Mifflin E. Bell, American architect (born 1847)
  • Valentine Blake Dillon, Irish politician (born 1847)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

April

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Queen Isabella II of Spain

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King Norodom of Cambodia

• April 1 – Abby Morton Diaz, American teacher (born 1821)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• April 3
  • Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar (born 1827)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Théophile Pépin, French mathematician (born 1826)
  • Princess Piyamavadi Sri Bajarindra Mata (born 1838)
• April 5 – Tom Allen, British boxing champion (born 1840)
• April 6
  • Émile de Kératry, French author (born 1832)
  • Princess Sophie of Baden (born 1834)
• April 9 – Queen Isabella II of Spain (born 1830)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 12 – Elizaveta Akhmatova, Russian translator (born 1820)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• April 13 – Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral (killed in action) (born 1849)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 15 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (born 1888)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 17 – Joe Cain, American Mardi Gras parade organizer (born 1832)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• April 20 – Sara Jane Lippincott, American journalist (born 1823)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 21 – Piatus of Mons, Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (born 1815)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• April 24 – Norodom of Cambodia, King of Cambodia (born 1834)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• April 27 – Mykhailo Starytsky, Ukrainian poet and writer (born 1840)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

May

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Antonín Dvořák

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Manuel Candamo

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George Johnston Allman

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Henry Morton Stanley

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Fyodor Bredikhin

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François Coillard

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Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg

• May – Henry F. Frizzell, American soldier (born 1839)
• May 1
  • Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (born 1841)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Wilhelm His Sr., Swiss anatomist (born 1831)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 2
  • Émile Duclaux, French microbiologist (born 1840)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Mathilde Esch, Austrian genre painter (born 1815)
  • Edgar Fawcett, American poet and novelist (born 1847)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 3 – Tycho Kielland, Norwegian jurist and journalist (born 1854)
• May 6
  • Franz von Lenbach, German painter (born 1836)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Alexander William Williamson, English chemist (born 1824)<ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
• May 7
  • Manuel Candamo, Peruvian politician, 23rd President of Peru (born 1841)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Émile-Jules Dubois, French doctor (born 1853)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 8
  • Richard Xavier Baxter, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and venerable (born 1821)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Eadweard Muybridge, British photographer and motion picture pioneer (born 1830)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 9
  • George Johnston Allman, Irish mathematician, scholar and historian (born 1824)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Aleksandar Bresztyenszky, Croatian writer (born 1843)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Bonaventura Gargiulo, Italian Capuchin friar and Roman Catholic bishop (born 1843)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 10
  • Émile Sarrau, French chemist (born 1837)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Sir Henry Morton Stanley, British explorer (born 1841)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 11
  • Hans Grisebach, German architect (born 1846)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 12 – Isabella Eugénie Boyer, French model (born 1841)
• May 13
  • Walter Carpenter, British admiral (born 1834)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Eugen Kumičić, Croatian writer (born 1850)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Ottokar Lorenz, German genealogist (born 1832)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 14
  • Rita Barcelo y Pages, Spanish Augustinian religious sister and servant of God (born 1843)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Fyodor Bredikhin, Russian astronomer (born 1831)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• May 15 – Étienne-Jules Marey, French inventor (born 1830)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 16 – Harold Finch-Hatton, British politician (born 1856)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 17
  • Tomás Cámara y Castro, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop (born 1847)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1852)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• May 19
  • Auguste Molinier, French historian (born 1851)<ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
  • Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (born 1839)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 21 – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (born 1882)
• May 22 – Charles Elwood Brown, U.S. Representative from Ohio (born 1834)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 24 – Duchess Maria Isabella of Württemberg (born 1871)
• May 26 – Mary Ellen Bagnall-Oakeley, English antiquarian, author, and painter (born 1833)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• May 27
  • Anđelko Aleksić, Serbian general (born 1876)
  • François Coillard, French missionary (born 1834)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 29 – Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy, Mexican politician (born 1826)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 30
  • Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1819)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Marta Anna Wiecka, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (born 1874)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

June

• June 1 – Ivan Kondratyev, Russian writer (born 1849)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 4
  • Princess Marie of Hanover (born 1849)Template:Citation needed
  • Muhammad bin Yahya Hamid ad-Din, Imam of Yemen (born 1839)
  • George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born American military hero (born 1862)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 9 – Kwasi Boachi, Dutch engineer (born 1827)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• June 12 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian count (born 1836)
• June 16
  • Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier, politician and Governor-General of Finland (born 1839)<ref name="Yle"/>
  • Eugen Schauman, Finnish nationalist, assassin of Nikolay Bobrikov (born 1875)<ref name="Yle"/>
  • Manuel Uribe Ángel, Colombian physician (born 1822)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 18
  • Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (born 1850)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Celia Logan, American actress (born 1837)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 22 – Karl Ritter von Stremayr, former Minister-President of Austria (born 1832)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• June 24 – Richard Knill Freeman, British architect (born 1840)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• June 27 – Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist (born 1821)<ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
• June 28 – Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (born 1873)
• June 29
  • Pablo de Anda Padilla, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and venerable (born 1830)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Tom Emmett, English cricketer (born 1841)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

July

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Theodor Herzl

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Joseph Blanc

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Édouard Thilges

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Paul Kruger

• July 1 – George Frederic Watts, British symbolist painter and sculptor (born 1817)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
• July 2 – Eugénie Joubert, French Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (born 1876)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 3
  • John Bell Hatcher, American paleontologist (born 1861)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism (born 1860)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• July 4 – Bódog Czorda, Hungarian politician (born 1828)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• July 5
  • Joseph Evans, British-born Australian politician (born 1837)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Matsudaira Yasuhide, Japanese daimyō (born 1830)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet (born 1845)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• July 7 – Adolph Friedländer, German lithographer (born 1851)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Citation needed
• July 8 – Joseph Blanc, French painter (born 1846)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 9 – Édouard Thilges, Luxembourgish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1817)Template:Citation needed
• July 14 – Paul Kruger, South African military and political figure, 3rd President of South Africa (born 1825)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news
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• July 15 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (born 1860)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 17 – Isaac Roberts, Welsh astronomer (born 1829)<ref>Template:Cite journal [1]</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 19 – Herbert Campbell, English actor (born 1844)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 22 – Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (born 1846)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
• July 23
  • Isaías Gamboa, Colombian poet (born 1872)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Rodolfo Amando Philippi, German–born Chilean paleontologist and zoologist (born 1808)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor, American admiral (born 1845)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• July 30 – Richard A. Harrison, U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (born 1824)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

August

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Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau

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Gaudensi Allar

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Sultan Murad V

• August 3 – Ernst Jedliczka, Russian-born German pianist (born 1855)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 6 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (born 1825)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• August 8 – John Innes, British philanthropist (born 1828)<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 9
  • Joseph David Everett, English physicist (born 1831)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (born 1844)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 10
  • Wilgelm Vitgeft, Russian admiral (killed in action) (born 1847)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician, 29th Prime Minister of France (born 1846)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• August 12
  • Kawamura Sumiyoshi, Japanese admiral (born 1836)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Self-published inline
  • William Renshaw, British tennis player (born 1861)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 13 – Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (born 1820)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 14 – Eduard von Martens, German zoologist (born 1831)
• August 15 – John Henry Kinkead, American businessman and politician, 1st Governor of Alaska and 3rd Governor of Nevada (born 1826)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 16
  • Joachim Grassi, Italian architect (born 1837)
  • Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (born 1843)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• August 21 – Gaudensi Allar, French architect (born 1841)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 22 – Kate Chopin, American author (born 1850)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (born 1836)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 29 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V (born 1840)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

September

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Saint José Maria de Yermo y Parres

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Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld

• September 2
  • James Brady, American criminal (born 1875)
  • Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso, New Zealander Protestant missionary (born 1821)
• September 3
  • James Archer, Scottish artist (born 1822)
  • Heinrich Koebner, German-born Israeli dermatologist (born 1838)
• September 4 – William McCallin, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1842)
• September 5 – Herbert von Bismarck, German politician (born 1849)
• September 13 – James Jameson, British Army surgeon (born 1837)
• September 17 – Kartini, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist (born 1879)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• September 20
  • R. W. H. T. Hudson, British mathematician (born 1876)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Better source needed
  • José Maria de Yermo y Parres, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint (born 1851)
• September 22 – Louis Massebieau, French historian and Protestant theologian (born 1840)
• September 23
  • George Adams, Australian businessman (born 1839)
  • Émile Gallé, French artist (born 1846)
• September 24
  • Niels Ryberg Finsen, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist (born 1860)
  • Gustav Frank, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian (born 1832)
  • Caleb C. Harris, American farmer and physician (born 1836)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• September 26
  • Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (born 1842)
  • Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Irish Japanese author (born 1850)
• September 27 – David Grant Colson, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky (born 1861)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

October

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George, King of Saxony

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Maurice Baldwin

• October 4
  • Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (born 1834)
  • Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (born 1847)
  • Edmund Francis Dunne, American politician, jurist and Catholic orator (b 1835)
  • Violet Nicolson, British poet (born 1865)
  • Pierre Sainsevain, French settler (born 1818)
• October 8 – Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian philosopher (born 1842)
• October 11
  • Mary Tenney Gray, American club-woman
  • Archie Hooper, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1881)
• October 13 – Pavlos Melas, Greek revolutionary and army officer (born 1870)
• October 15 – George, King of Saxony (born 1832)
• October 17
  • Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (born 1880)
  • Ștefan Petică, Romanian poet and writer (born 1877)
• October 19 – Maurice Baldwin, Canadian Anglican bishop (born 1836)
• October 21
  • Euphemia Vale Blake, British-born American critic (born 1817)
  • Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer (born 1877)
  • Braulio Orue-Vivanco, Cuban Roman Catholic bishop (born 1843)
• October 23 – Emilia Dilke, English author (born 1840)
• October 24 – Moultrie Kelsall, Scottish film, television actor (d. 1980)
• October 26 – Princess Srivilailaksana of Suphanburi, daughter of King Rama V and Pae Bunnag (born 1868)

November

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Blessed Mary of the Passion

• November 2 – Henry Austin, American baseball player (born 1844)
• November 3 – Carl Daniel Ekman, Swedish engineer (born 1845)
• November 7 – Guillermo Blest Gana, Chilean writer (born 1829)
• November 9 – Joseph C. Hendrix, U.S. Representative from New York (born 1853)
• November 10
  • Augustus Brandegee, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut (born 1828)
  • Oreste Recchione, Italian painter (born 1841)
• November 12
  • Daniel Read Anthony, American publisher and abolitionist (born 1824)
  • Eliza Ann Otis, American poet, newspaper publisher, philanthropist (born 1833)
  • Georges Rohault de Fleury, French archaeologist (born 1835)
• November 14
  • John Murray Mitchell, British missionary (born 1815)
  • Mario Mocenni, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1823)
  • Isadore Rush, American actress (born 1866)
• November 15 – Mary of the Passion, French Roman Catholic religious sister, missionary and blessed (born 1839)
• November 16 – Clara Conway, American teacher (born 1844)
• November 18 – Justus van Maurik, Dutch author (born 1846)
• November 19 – Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney, American writer, reformer, philanthropist (born 1824)
• November 27
  • Annie Chambers Ketchum (religious name, Sister Amabilis), American school founder (born 1824)
  • Paul Tannery, French mathematician (born 1843)
• November 28 – Fanny Janauschek, Czech actress (born 1829)
• November 29 – Helen Abbott Michael, American scientist (born 1857)

Day unknown:

• Charles D. F. Phillips, British medical doctor (born 1830)

December

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Johanna Anderson

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Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

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Mahmoud Samy El Baroudy

• December 1
  • Johanna Anderson, Swedish Baptist missionary (born 1856)
  • Hector Giacomelli, French artist (born 1822)
• December 2
  • Enrico Carfagnini, Italian Roman Catholic friar and bishop (born 1823)
  • Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born 1843)
• December 4 – Cristiano Banti, Italian painter (born 1824)
• December 8 – John Kirkpatrick, British-born Australian politician (born 1840)
• December 11
  • Spencer Charrington, English brewer and politician (born 1818)
  • Mahmoud Samy El Baroudy, Egyptian political figure, 5th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1839)
• December 13
  • Bob Murphy, American baseball player (born 1866)
  • Nikolay Sklifosovsky, Russian surgeon (born 1836)
  • Henry Freeman, English fisherman and lifeboatmen (born 1835)
• December 14 – Mélanie Calvat, French Roman Catholic nun, Marian visionary and saint (born 1831)
• December 15 – Roman Kondratenko, Russian general (born 1857)
• December 16 – Daniel W. Mills, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1838)
• December 19 – Lewis Tappan Barney, American army officer (born 1844)
• December 20 – Princess Alexandrine of Baden (born 1820)
• December 21 – Edward H. Dewey, American physician (born 1837)
• December 22 – Horace Sumner Lyman, American journalist (born 1855)
• December 24 – Gustav Bauernfeind, German painter (born 1848)
• December 25 – Guido Bodländer, German chemist (born 1855)
• December 27 – William F. Mahoney, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1856)
• December 29 – Friedrich Moritz Brauer, German entomologist (born 1832)
• December 30 – Frederick Clifford, English journalist (born 1828)

Nobel Prizes

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• Physics – The Lord Rayleigh
• Chemistry – Sir William Ramsay
• Physiology or Medicine – Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
• Literature – Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray
• Peace – Institut de Droit International

Further reading

• Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp. 89–104.