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== Births == [[File:Carl Sandburg NYWTS.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Carl Sandburg]]]] [[File:Theodoros Pangalos.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]]]] [[File:Joseph Gordon Coates, 1931.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Gordon Coates]]]] [[File:Kohki Hirota suit cropped.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Kōki Hirota]]]] [[File:Vicente Mejía Colindres.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Vicente Mejía Colindres]]]] [[File:Lionel Barrymore 2.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Lionel Barrymore]]]] [[File:Roy Atwell, from The Little Broadcast (1933).png|thumb|right|100px|[[Roy Atwell]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-040-27, Gustav Stresemann.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Gustav Stresemann]]]] [[File:Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Princess Ingeborg of Denmark]]]] [[File:Alfred Doeblin 1930.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alfred Döblin]]]] [[File:Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lise Meitner]]]] [[File:Stalin Full Image.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph Stalin]]]] ===January–March=== * [[January 2]] – [[Jaakko Mäki]], Finnish politician (d. [[1938]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Jaakko Mäki |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911109.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501004312/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911109.aspx |archive-date=1 May 2019 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref> * [[January 4]] ** [[A. E. Coppard]], English short story writer and poet (d. [[1957]]) ** [[Augustus John]], Welsh painter (d. [[1961]]) * [[January 6]] – [[Carl Sandburg]], American poet and historian (d. [[1967]]) * [[January 9]] – [[John B. Watson]], American psychologist (d. [[1958]]) * [[January 11]] **[[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]], Greek general, politician and [[List of heads of state of Greece|President of Greece]] (d. [[1952]]) **[[Leopoldo Saro]], Spanish general (d. [[1936]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Ferenc Molnár]], Hungarian-born author (d. [[1952]]) * [[January 16]] – [[Harry Carey (actor)|Harry Carey]], American actor (d. [[1947]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Finlay Currie]], Scottish actor (d. [[1968]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Constance Collier]], English stage, screen actress (d. [[1955]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Rutland Boughton]], English composer (d. [[1960]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Ernst Alexanderson]], Swedish-born American television pioneer (d. [[1975]]) * [[January 26]] ** [[Luís of Orléans-Braganza (1878–1920)|Luís of Orléans-Braganza]], Brazilian royalty ** [[Harry Rountree]], New Zealand illustrator (d. [[1950]]) * [[February 1]] – [[Milan Hodža]], Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (d. [[1944]]) * [[February 2]] ** [[Alfréd Hajós]], Hungarian swimmer, architect (d. [[1955]]) ** [[Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn]], American suffragist (d. [[1951]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Gordon Coates]], 21st [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. [[1943]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Grigory Petrovsky]], Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik (d. [[1958]]) * [[February 5]] – [[André Citroën]], French automobile manufacturer (d. [[1935]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Martin Buber]], Austrian philosopher (d. [[1965]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Kōki Hirota]], 21st [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1948]]) * [[February 16]] – [[Big Jim Colosimo]], Italian-born American gangster (d. [[1920]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Kate Gordon Moore]], American psychologist (d. [[1963]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Mirra Alfassa]], multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of [[Auroville]], India (d. [[1973]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Emmy Destinn]], Czech soprano (d. [[1930]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Pierre Fatou]], French mathematician (d. [[1929]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]], British poet (d. [[1917]]) * [[March 4]] ** [[Egbert Van Alstyne]], American songwriter, pianist (d. [[1951]]) ** [[Arishima Takeo]], Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist (d. [[1923]]) * [[March 5]] – [[P. D. Ouspensky]], Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. [[1947]]) * [[March 7]] – [[Boris Kustodiev]], Soviet painter and designer (d. [[1927]]) * [[March 16]] ** [[Reza Shah Pahlavi]], Shah of Iran (d. [[1944]]) ** [[Clemens August Graf von Galen]], German Catholic cardinal (d. [[1946]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz]] (d. [[1927]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Michel Théato]], Luxembourg athlete (d. [[1923]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Franz Schreker]], Austrian composer (d. [[1934]]) * [[March 25]] – [[Frances Glessner Lee]], American forensic scientist; known as "mother of forensic science" (d. [[1962]]) * [[March 26]] – [[Henry Gullett]], Australian politician (d. [[1940]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Jack Johnson (boxer)|Jack Johnson]], American boxer (d. [[1946]]) ===April–June=== * [[April 1]] – [[C. Ganesha Iyer]], [[Ceylon Tamil]] philologist (d. [[1958]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Stylianos Lykoudis]], Greek admiral (d. [[1958]]) * [[April 6]] ** [[Erich Mühsam]], German author (d. [[1934]]) ** [[Vicente Mejía Colindres]], 23rd [[President of Honduras]] (d. [[1966]]) * [[April 24]] – [[Jean Crotti]], Swiss artist (d. [[1958]]) * [[April 28]] ** [[Lionel Barrymore]], American actor (d. [[1954]]) ** [[Willem Mengelberg]], Dutch conductor (d. [[1951]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Władysław Witwicki]], Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (d. [[1948]]) * [[May 2]] – [[Roy Atwell]], American actor, comedian and composer (d. [[1962]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Gustav Stresemann]], [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1929]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Julia Dean (actress, born 1878)|Julia Dean]], American actress (d. [[1952]]), * [[May 16]] – [[Taylor Holmes]], American actor (d. [[1959]]) * [[May 21]] – [[Glenn Curtiss]], American aviation pioneer (d. [[1930]]) * [[May 22]] – [[The Great Gama]], Punjabi wrestler (d. [[1960]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Bill Robinson]], African-American tap dancer (d. [[1949]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Paul Pelliot]], French sinologist (d. [[1945]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Zelmira Segreda Solera de Cappella]], Costa Rican soprano (d. [[1923]]) * [[June 1]] – [[John Masefield]], English poet, novelist (d. [[1967]]) * [[June 3]] – [[Barney Oldfield]], American automobile racer, pioneer (d. [[1946]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Pancho Villa]], Mexican revolutionary (d. [[1923]]) * [[June 10]] – [[William Skelly]], American oil magnate (d. [[1957]]) * [[June 12]] – [[James Oliver Curwood]], American writer, conservationist (d. [[1927]]) * [[June 19]] – [[Yakov Yurovsky]], Russian [[Old Bolshevik]], revolutionary, and [[Cheka|Chekist]] (d.[[1938]]) * [[June 22]] – [[John Burton Cleland]], Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist (d. [[1971]]) * [[June 27]] – [[He Xiangning]], Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter and poet (d. [[1972]]) ===July–September=== * [[July 3]] – [[George M. Cohan]], American singer, dancer, composer, actor and writer (d. [[1942]]) * [[July 8]] – [[Jimmy Quinn (footballer, born 1878)|Jimmy Quinn]], Scottish footballer (d. [[1945]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Andreas Hermes]], German agricultural scientist, politician (d. [[1964]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Lord Dunsany]], Irish author (d. [[1957]]) * [[August 1]] ** [[Konstantinos Logothetopoulos]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1961]]) ** [[José Pedro Montero]], 27th [[President of Paraguay]] (d. [[1927]]) ** [[Eva Tanguay]], Canadian-born vaudeville performer (d. [[1947]]) * [[August 2]] ** [[Princess Ingeborg of Denmark]], Princess of Sweden (d. [[1958]]) ** [[Aino Kallas]], Finnish-Estonian author (d. 1956) * [[August 9]] – [[Eileen Gray]], Irish architect, furniture designer (d. [[1976]]) * [[August 10]] – [[Alfred Döblin]], German writer (d. [[1957]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Paa Grant]], Ghanian politician (d. [[1956]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Manuel L. Quezon]], 2nd [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[1944]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Maria Assunta Pallotta]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and blessed (d. [[1905]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Lina Stern]], Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist (d. [[1968]]) * [[August 27]] – [[Pyotr Wrangel]], Russian general, anti-Bolshevik leader (d. [[1928]]) * [[August 28]] – [[George Whipple]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1976]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Frank Jarvis (athlete)|Frank Jarvis]], American athlete (d. [[1933]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Werner von Blomberg]], German field marshal (d. [[1946]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Robert von Lieben]], Austrian physicist (d. [[1913]]) * [[September 9]] ** [[Sergio Osmeña]], 4th [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[1961]]) ** [[Princess Catherine Yurievskaya]], daughter of daughter of Alexander II of Russia (d. [[1959]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Matilde Moisant]], American pilot (d. [[1964]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Karl Albiker]], German sculptor, lithographer and teacher (d. [[1961]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Upton Sinclair]], American writer (d. [[1968]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Shigeru Yoshida]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1967]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz]], Swiss writer (d. [[1947]]) * [[September 26]] – [[Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord]], German general and Commander-in-Chief of the [[Reichswehr]] (d. [[1943]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Jirō Tamon]], Japanese general (d. [[1934]]) ===October–December=== * [[October 1]] – [[Othmar Spann]], Austrian philosopher, economist (d. [[1950]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Louise Dresser]], American actress (d. [[1965]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Robert Warwick]], American actor (d. [[1964]]) * [[October 11]] – [[Nicole Girard-Mangin]], French physician in the French Army (d. [[1919]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Karl Buresch]], 9th Chancellor of Austria (d. [[1936]]) * [[October 15]] – [[Paul Reynaud]], 77th Prime Minister of France (d. [[1966]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Maxie Long]], American athlete (d. [[1959]]) * [[October 18]] – [[Miguel Llobet]], Spanish guitarist (d. [[1938]]) * [[October 26]] – [[William Kissam Vanderbilt II]], American motor racing driver and yachtsman (d. [[1944]]) * [[October 29]] – [[Alexander von Falkenhausen]], German general (d. [[1966]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Arthur Scherbius]], German electrical engineer, mathematician, cryptanalyst and inventor (d. [[1929]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Carlos Saavedra Lamas]], Argentine politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1959]]) * [[November 7]] ** [[Lise Meitner]], German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (d. [[1968]]) ** [[Margaret Cousins]], Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist (d. [[1954]]) ** [[Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz]], Belarusian-born Orthodox rabbi (d. [[1953]]) * [[November 8]] – [[Dorothea Bate]], British archaeologist and pioneer of archaeozoology (d. [[1951]]) * [[November 14]] ** [[Inigo Campioni]], Italian admiral (d. [[1944]]) ** [[Julie Manet]], French painter (d. [[1966]]) ** [[Leopold Staff]], Polish poet (d. [[1957]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Grace Abbott]], American social worker, activist (d. [[1939]]) * [[November 23]] ** [[Ernest Joseph King]], Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations (COMINCH-CNO) during World War II (d. [[1956]]) ** [[Frank Pick]], British transport administrator, designer (d. [[1941]]) * [[November 27]] – [[William Orpen]], Irish artist (d. [[1931]]) * [[December 1]] – [[Jeni Bojilova-Pateva]], Bulgarian women's rights activist and suffragist (d. [[1955]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry|Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart]], English noble (d. [[1959]]) * [[December 10]] – [[C. Rajagopalachari]], Indian politician, freedom fighter (d. [[1972]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Joseph Stalin]], leader of the Soviet Union (d. [[1953]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Myer Prinstein]], Polish-American athlete (d. [[1925]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cox |first1=Jay |title=The Original Orange Olympic Champ |journal=[[Syracuse University Magazine]] |date=1 January 2000 |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=44–45 |url=https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol16/iss4/13/ |access-date=22 December 2022}}</ref> * [[December 25]] ** [[Louis Chevrolet]], Swiss-born race driver, automobile builder (d. [[1941]]) ** [[Joseph M. Schenck]], Russian-born American film executive (d. [[1961]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Nikolai Bryukhanov]], Soviet statesman, political figure who served as People's Commissar of Finances (d. [[1938]]) * [[December 31]] ** [[Elizabeth Arden]], Canadian-born beautician, cosmetics entrepreneur (d. [[1966]]) ** [[Horacio Quiroga]], Uruguayan writer (d. [[1937]])
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