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| * [[February 22]] - [[Luis Buñuel]], Spanish film director (d. [[1983]]) | * [[February 22]] - [[Luis Buñuel]], Spanish film director (d. [[1983]]) | ||
| * [[March 23]] - [[Erich Fromm]], German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. [[1980]]) | * [[March 23]] - [[Erich Fromm]], German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. [[1980]]) | ||
| - | * [[March 29]] - [[John McEwen]], eighteenth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1980]]) | ||
| - | * [[March 31]] - [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]] (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 2]] - [[Roberto Arlt]], Argentine writer (d. [[1942]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 5]] - [[Spencer Tracy]], American actor (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 16]] - [[Polly Adler]], Russian author (d. 1962) | ||
| - | * [[April 25]] - [[Wolfgang Ernst Pauli]], Austrian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 26]] - [[Charles Richter]], American geophysicist and inventor (d. [[1985]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 27]] – [[August Koern]], Estonian statesman and diplomat (d. [[1989]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 30]] - [[Cecily Lefort]], English World War II heroine (executed) (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 1]] - [[Ignazio Silone]], Italian author (d. [[1978]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 12]] - [[Helene Weigel]], Austrian actress (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 15]] - [[Zheng Ji]], Chinese nutritionist and biochemist | ||
| - | * [[May 17]] - [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]], leader of Iran (d. [[1989]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 27]] - [[Uładzimir Zylka]], Belarusian poet (d. [[1933]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 28]] - [[Tommy Ladnier]], American jazz trumpeter (heart attack) (d. [[1939]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 3]] - [[Rolland Fisher]], American temperance activist (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 4]] - [[George Watkins]], owner of [[rookie]] [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] [[batting average]] record (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 5]] - [[Dennis Gabor]], Hungarian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1979]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 7]] - [[Glen Gray]], American saxophonist and leader of the [[Casa Loma Orchestra]] (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 15]] - [[Paul Mares]], American jazz trumpeter (d. [[1949]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 29]] - [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]], French pilot and writer (d. [[1944]]) | ||
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| * [[July 4]] - [[Robert Desnos]], French poet (d. [[1945]]) | * [[July 4]] - [[Robert Desnos]], French poet (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| * [[July 6]] - [[Frederica Sagor Maas]], American playwright, essayist and author | * [[July 6]] - [[Frederica Sagor Maas]], American playwright, essayist and author | ||
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Births
- January 5 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- February 4 - Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d. 1977)
- February 11 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- February 22 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d. 1983)
- March 23 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
- July 4 - Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
- July 6 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, essayist and author
- July 13 - George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1968)
- July 29 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
- August 3 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d. 1945)
- August 4 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
- August 6 - Cecil H. Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (d. 2003)
- August 10 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
- August 11 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
- August 18 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
- August 19 - Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)
- August 19 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
- August 22 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- August 25 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)
- August 26 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
- September 3 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (d. 1986)
- September 6 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
- September 22 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
- September 23 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (d. 1988)
- September 28 - Boris Efimov, Russian political cartoonist and propaganda artist
- September 29 - Auguste van Pels, German-Dutch mother of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- October 1 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
- October 6 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
- October 7 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)
- October 30 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
- November 4 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
- November 5
- Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
- Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
- November 8
- Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
- Margaret Mitchell, American writer (d. 1949)
- November 11 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
- November 13 - David Marshall Williams, American inventor (d. 1975)
- November 14 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
- November 16 - Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (d. 1962)
- December 3
- Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)
- Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
- December 4 - John Axon, British railwayman (d. 1957)
- December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
- December 20 - Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dutch politician, At the time of his death in Wassenaar at the age of 104 he was the longest lived politician on record in the world.(d. 2005)
Deaths
- (See 1900 list of deaths by name: Category:1900 deaths.)
January - June
- January 20 - John Ruskin, English writer and social critic (b. 1819)
- January 31 - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman and boxer (b. 1844)
- February 18 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
- March 6 - Gottlieb Daimler, German inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1834)
- March 6 - Carl Bechstein, German pianoforte maker. (b. 1826)
- April 5 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
- April 19 - James Dawson, Aboriginal Guardian (b. 1806)
- April 24 - George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician (b.1823)
- April 30 - Casey Jones, American railway engineer (b. 1864)
- May 18 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
- June 3 - Mary Kingsley, English explorer and writer (b. 1862)
- June 5 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- June 11 - Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy and actress (b.1843)
July - December
- July 8 - Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b. 1820)
- July 29 - Umberto I, King of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844)
- July 31 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1844)
- August 10 - Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England (b.1832)
- August 12 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-born chess player (b. 1836)
- August 16 - José Maria Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- August 25 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- September 23 - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (murdered) (b. 1816)
- September 29 - Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
- October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
- October 22 - John Sherman, American politician (b.1823)
- November 22 - Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
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