- January 7
- Birth of Andrew Browne; Irish/British admiral (WWII). [1]
- January 10
- Birth of Aleksei Tolstoi; Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj). [1]
- Birth of Florence Reed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; silent film actress (Dancing Girl). [1]
- Birth of Francis X Bushman in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; silent film actor (Ben Hur, Spy's Defeat). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Betram Home Ramsay; English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces. [1]
- January 24
- Birth of Estelle Winwood [Goodwin] in England; actress (Miracle on 34th Street). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Jevgeni B Vachtangov; Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Clarence Mulford in Illinois, USA; western writer (Hopalong Cassidy). [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Eubie Blake; ragtime composer/pianist ("I'm Just Wild About Harry", "Memories of You"). [1]
- February 8
- Birth of Joseph A Schumpeter; Austria/US economist/minister of finance. [1]
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- February 11
- Birth of Paul August von Klenau; Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Ludwig Stossel in Austria; actor (Man With a Camera). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Tom Walls in Kingsthorpe, England; actor/producer (Undercover). [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Shiga Naoya in Japan; novelist (Road Through the Dark Night). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of J M M "Mick" Commaille; cricket player (dual South African cricket/soccer representative). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Alfred Wikenhauser; German Roman Catholic exegetist (John-Apokalyps). [1]
- Birth of Marguerite Clark; voice of Snow White - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Victor Fleming in Pasadena, California, USA; director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind). [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Erich R Jaensch; German psychologist (eidetism). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Thomas Shelvin; college football player great (Yale). [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Joseph W Stilwell; US General (China). [1]
- March 20
- Birth of Colin Campbell in Falkirk, Scotland; actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys). [1]
- March 23
- Birth of Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali; first king of Iraq/Syria. [1]
- March 24
- Birth of James I Wedgwood; British theosophist/old-catholic bishop. [1]
- March 29
- Birth of Donald Dexter Van Slyke; US chemist (Micromanometric analysis). [1]
- March 30
- Birth of Jo Davidson; US sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Lon Chaney in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera). [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Leonard Mudie in England; actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence). [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Imogen Cunningham; photographer (1965 ASMP award). [1]
- April 19
- Birth of Getúlio Vargas; President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer. [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Elsa Maxwell in Keokuk, Iowa, USA; writer (Jack Paar Show). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Hubert Harrison in Saint Croix, Virgin Island; writer/freedom fighter. [1]
- April 30
- Birth of Jaroslav Hasekin Prague, Austria-Hungary; writer (Brave soldier Schweik). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Martin Albertz; German theologist (Church Jesus Christ). [1]
- May 9
- Birth of José Ortega y Gasset in Spain, philosopher (Revolt of the Masses). [1]
- May 13
- Birth of Henk JFM Sneevliet; leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies). [1]
- May 14
- Birth of Jan Olieslagers; Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Walter Gropius in Berlin, Germany; architect (founded Bauhaus school of design). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Henricus Keuls; Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp). [1]
- May 23
- Birth of Douglas Fairbanks in Denver, Colorado, USA; actor (Zorro, Three Musketeers, Robin Hood). [1] [5]
- June 5
- Birth of John Maynard Keynes in Cambridge, England; economist/math/journalist. [1]
- June 11
- Birth of Frank O. King in Cashton, Wisconsin, USA; Gasoline Alley cartoonist. [1]
- July 3
- Birth of Alfred Korzybski in Poland; scientist (Science and Sanity). [1]
- Birth of Franz Kafka in Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire; author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika) (dies 1924). [1] [5]
- July 4
- Birth of Rube Goldberg; cartoonist, made the easy outrageously difficult (dies 1970). [1] [5]
- July 25
- Birth of Alfredo Casella in Turin, Italy; composer (La Giara). [1]
- July 29
- Birth of Benito Mussolini AKA Il Duce; Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43). [1]
- August 6
- Birth of Scott Nearing; US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life). [1]
- August 9
- Birth of George Hoyt; NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961). [1]
- August 23
- Birth of Art Van Harvey in Chicago, Illinois, USA; radio actor (Vic - Vic and Sade). [457]
- September 6
- Birth of Lord Birkett in England; judge (Nüremburg Trials). [1]
- September 18
- Birth of Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt) in England; composer (first Childhood). [1]
- November 8
- Birth of Arnold Bax in London, England; composer (Farewell My Youth). [1]
- November 11
- Birth of Ernest Ansermet in Vevey, Switzerland; conductor (Ruilles de Printemps). [1]
- November 23
- Birth of Jose Clemente in Orozco, Mexico; painter (Epic of Culture in New World). [1]
- December 3
- Birth of Albert "Tibby" Cotter; cricket player (great Aussie quick of early century). [1]
- December 9
- Birth of Alexander Papagos; Greek fieldmarshal/supreme commander. [1]
- December 10
- Birth of Andrej J Vysjinski; Russian lawyer, foreign minister, UN ambassador. [1]
- December 14
- Birth of Morihei Ueshiba; founder (Aikido). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Max Linder in Caverne, France; actor/comic/director (Max Prend un Bain). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Arthur James Cook in England; union leader (coal miners). [1]
- Birth of Edgard Victor Achille C Varèse in Paris, France; composer (Innisation). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Hubert M E Pierlot; Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45). [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Maurice Utrillo in France; painter (Port Saint Martin, Montmartre). [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Carl Oscar Ahues in Germany; International Chess Master (1950). [1]
- December 30
- Birth of Lester Patrick; NHL pioneer. [1]
- Birth of Mary Forbes in Hornsey, England; actress (Terror by Night). [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of George W Meyer in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; composer/lyricist ("Bells of St. Mary's", "Broadway Babies"). [1]
- January 2
- Birth of Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau]; French writer (l'Epithalame). [1]
- January 3
- Birth of Eli S Jones; US evangelist (Christ of Indian road). [1]
- January 13
- Birth of Johannes Elsensohn; Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Arthur Ransome; English author (Swallows and Amazons). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Abraham P Merritt; US sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!). [1]
- January 21
- Birth of Katie Sandwina in Germany; legendary woman weight-lifter. [1]
- Birth of Roger Nash Baldwin; founder (American Civil Liberties Union). [1]
- January 26
- Birth of Edward Sapir in Germany; linguist/anthropologist (Indians). [1]
- January 28
- Birth of Auguste Piccard in Switzerland; scientist/explorer (balloonist). [1]
- Birth of Lucien H d'Azambuja in France; astronomer (chromosphere of sun). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Nicholas Joy in Paris, France; actor (Boss Lady). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Yevgeny Zamyatin in Russia; novelist/playwright (We). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Julis Deutsch in Austria; politician/General Spanish Republican Army. [1]
- Birth of S Z Sakall in Budapest, Hungary; actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Rolland Beaumont; cricket player (South African batsman in five tests 1912-14). [1]
- February 7
- Birth of George Ward Linn, in Ohio, USA; founder and editor of Linn's Weekly Stamp News. [795.3]
- February 10
- Birth of Herbert Hordern; cricket player (pioneering leggie for Australia and Philadelphia). [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Robert Flaherty in Michigan, USA; father of documentary film (Nanook of the North). [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Arthur Vanderpoorten; Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Burt Mustin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Abraham "Abe" Attell; boxing hall of famer. [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Frank Cellier in Surbiton, England; actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Stuart Holmes in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Prisoner of Zenda). [1]
- March 11
- Birth of Jan Lemaire; Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet). [1]
- March 13
- Birth of Emanuel Stickelberger; Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit). [1]
- Birth of Oskar Loerke; German writer (Longest Day - 1926). [1]
- Birth of Hugh S Walpole in New Zealand; novelist/critic/dramatist (Jeremy, Maradick at 40). [1]
- March 16
- Birth of Harrison Ford in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; silent screen actor (Just Married, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear, Rubber Tires). [1]
- March 21
- Birth of George D Birkhoff; US mathematician (Aesthetic measure). [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Peter Debye in Holland; physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1936). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Wilhelm Backhaus in Leipzig, Germany; pianist (Rubinstein 1905). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Laurette Taylor AKA Helen LM Cooney; US actress (Broadway). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Jackie Matthews; cricket player (Australia leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Isoroku Yamamoto; Admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet. [1]
- April 6
- Birth of Walter Huston in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre). [1]
- April 7
- Birth of Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal; Dutch politician/resistance fighter. [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Otto Meyerhof in Germany; psychologist/biochemist (Nobel Prize-1922). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Magda Janssens; Flemish/Netherlands actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of John van Capel; oldest man in Netherlands (dies September 3, 1992). [1]
- Birth of Otto Rank [Rosenfeld] in Austria; psychoanalysist (Künstler). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Harry Sothern; actor (Dr Huer - Buck Rogers). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Louis de Bree AKA Louis C Davids; actor (Bluejackets). [1]
- May 5
- Birth of Wang Tjing-Wei; premier of China (1932-35). [1]
- May 8
- Birth of Harry S Truman in Lamar, Missouri, USA; 33rd US President (Democrat) (1945-1953). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Arthur Meulemans; Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Charles Winninger in Athens, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Charlie Farrell Show). [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Edvard Benes; premier/President of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 1935-48). [1]
- July 2
- Birth of Otto Böhm in Prussia; scientist (helped create Radar in England). [1]
- July 6
- Birth of Harold Vanderbilt in New York, USA; America's Cup (1930, 1934, 1937), invented contract bridge. [1]
- July 12
- Birth of Amedeo Modigliani in Italy; painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude). [1]
- July 25
- Birth of Davidson Black in Canada; doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man). [1]
- August 2
- Birth of Rómulo Gallegos in Venezuela; novelist (Doña Bárbara), president (1948). [1]
- August 3
- Birth of Louis Gruenberg near Brest, Litovsk, Poland; composer (Daniel Jazz). [1]
- August 8
- Birth of Sara Teasdale; US poet (first Pulitzer Prize - 1918 - Love Songs). [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Frank Swinnerton in England; novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary). [1]
- August 16
- Birth of Hugo Gernsback; sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo). [1]
- August 26
- Birth of Earl Biggers; author ("Charlie Chan" detective series). [1]
- August 30
- Birth of Theodor Svedberg in Sweden; chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
- September 2
- Birth of Frank Laubach in Benton, Pennsylvania, USA; educator, taught reading through phonetics. [1]
- September 17
- Birth of Charles Tomlinson Griffes in Elmira, New York, USA; composer (White Peacock). [1]
- September 21
- Birth of Hugh (Shorty) Ray; supervisor of NFL officials, Hall of Fame member. [1]
- October 4
- Birth of V. Leon Belt; American Numismatic Association President. [551.22]
- October 6
- Birth of Lloyd Spooner; US marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920). [1]
- October 25
- Birth of Eduardo Barrios in Chile; novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy). [1]
- October 29
- Birth of Bela Lugosi; horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher). [1]
- November 4
- Birth of Harry Ferguson in Growell, Ireland; first to build and fly his own aircraft in Ireland, designed new plow and the Ferguson Black tractor. [421.40]
- November 5
- Birth of James Elroy Flecker; English poet/dramatist (Hassan). [1]
- November 20
- Birth of Norman Thomas in Marion, Ohio, USA; socialist (presidential candidate 1928-48). [1]
- December 1
- Birth of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; German painter/sculptor (Brücke). [1]
- Birth of Torben Myer in Copenhagen, Denmark; actor (Girl Who Came Back). [1]
- December 6
- Birth of Rose Schneiderman in New York, USA; Department of Labor Secretary (1937-44). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Antonín Zápotocky; premier/President of Czechoslovakia. [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl; Dutch nazi collaborator/traitor. [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Joseph Pholien; Belgian premier (1950-52), communist hunter. [1]
- December 30
- Birth of Tojo Hideki; Japanese Prime Minister during WWII. [1]
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