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Events

January

File:Kingston.png|thumb|200px|January 14: Earthquake in Jamaica Jamaica

January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.

February

February 7 – The “Mud March”, the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.
February 11 – The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
February 16 – SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, bearing and seal), is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.WEB, SKF,www.skf.com/us/organisation/about-skf/history-timeline, 2022-01-30, www.skf.com, January 30, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220130205529/https://www.skf.com/us/organisation/about-skf/history-timeline, live,
February 21 – The English mail steamship Berlin is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost.
February 24 – The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.

March

March
- The steamship Congo collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives are lost.
- The 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths.
- The Diamond SÅ«tra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China; it is “the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book”.WEB,www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html, Sacred Texts: Diamond Sutra, British Library, 2003-11-30, 2012-06-02, dead,www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20131110093610www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html,">web.archive.org/web/20131110093610www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html, November 10, 2013,
- Pablo Picasso completes his painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
March 5 – At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops.
March 11 – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia.
March 15–16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied; 19 women are elected.
March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London.
March 25 – The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges.WEB,www.posta.hu/stamps/stamps/2011_2006/2007/the_hungarian_university_sports_federation_is_100_years_old, Magyar Posta Zrt. - 404-es hiba, az oldal nem talÃ¡lhatÃ³!, www.posta.hu, July 26, 2016, September 17, 2016,web.archive.org/web/20160917032930/https://www.posta.hu/stamps/stamps/2011_2006/2007/the_hungarian_university_sports_federation_is_100_years_old, live,
c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

July

July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy, as the Orange Free State.
July 6 – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
July 15 – The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London’s Victoria Station and Liverpool Street.
July 21 – The {{SS|Columbia|1880|6}} sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro, off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths.
July 24 – The Japanâ€“Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.

August

August 24–31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.
August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
August 29 – The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers.
August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia, and establishing the Triple Entente.

September

September 7 – British passenger liner {{RMS|Lusitania}} sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England) to New York City.
September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions of the British Empire.

October

October – A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland EÃ¶tvÃ¶s, meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto.
October 8 – Edvard Grieg’s Olaf Trygvason, his only opera, is produced posthumously in Christiania, Norway.
October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
October 18 – The Hague Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910), focussing on naval warfare.
October 24 – A major United States financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907.See also Federal Reserve System.
October 27 – ÄŒernovÃ¡ massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).
October 31 – The Parliament of Finland approves the Prohibition Act, but the law is not implemented because it is not ratified by Grand Duke Nicholas II.BOOK, Viljo, HytÃ¶nen, Suomen raittiusliikkeen historia, 266â€“267, Bonnier Group, WSOY, Porvoo, 1930, fi, BOOK, Vihtori, Karpio, Raittiuden ystÃ¤vÃ¤t 1883â€“1933, 154, 157, 400, 403, Gummerus, JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, 1938, fi,

November

November 4 – Russian immigrant bakers Perry and Ben Feigenson begin transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to Faygo.
November 16
- British passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world’s largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.
- President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims that Oklahoma has become the 46th state in the United States.
November 21 – Washington State College defeats the University of Washington 10-5 in the Apple Cup in college football, played in Seattle.NEWS,news.google.com/newspapers?id=-9gUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7MADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6333,841575&hl=en, The Spokesman-Review, Google News Archive, March 2, 2017, March 25, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220325131809/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-9gUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7MADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6333,841575&hl=en, live,
November 25
- The Church of God in Christ, which becomes the fifth-largest African-American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination in the United States, is founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Edeka, a major retailer group in Europe, is founded in Germany.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

December

December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V, as king of Sweden.
December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly.
December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first Druk Gyalpo (king of Bhutan).
December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
December 21 – Santa MarÃa School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa MarÃa School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed.
December 31 – The first ever “ball drop” is held in Times Square, in New York City.

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Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world’s first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.
The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee de Forest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
The Autochrome LumiÃ¨re is the first commercial color photography process.
James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.
The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.BOOK, Peach, B. N., Ben Peach, The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Scotland, Glasgow, H.M.S.O, etal,
The Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret, a Danish national association for women’s suffrage, is founded.
Anino ng Kahapon, a Tagalog-language novel is published.WEB,koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697, Anino ng kahapon, Tagalog, Laksamana, Francisco, National Library of the Philippines, July 3, 2011, March 17, 2012,koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697," title="web.archive.org/web/20120317120853koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697,">web.archive.org/web/20120317120853koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697, live,
Henri Matisse begins to teach at the AcadÃ©mie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial art school.
A statue of J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate general, is dedicated on Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue.
StaviteÄ¾skÃ½ robotnÃk, a Slovak language biweekly newspaper ends publication.Ondrej PavlÃk. PedagogickÃ¡ encyklopÃ©dia Slovenska, Volume 1 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002175755books.google.com/books?id=zJ0bAQAAMAAJ |date=October 2, 2023 }}. Veda, 1984. p. 646

Births

January

January 1 – Aftab Ali, Bengali politician, social reformer (d. 1972)
January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director (d. 1986)
January 5 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (d. 1969)
January 8 – KeizÅ Hayashi, Japanese civil servant, military official (d. 1991)
January 11 – Pierre MendÃ¨s France, French politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
January 12 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
January 16 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor, novelist (d. 1995)
January 17 – Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
January 18 – Lina Haag, German World War II resistance fighter (d. 2012)
January 20
- Manfred von Ardenne, German research and applied physicist, inventor (d. 1997)
- Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
January 22 – Dixie Dean, English football player (d. 1980)
January 23 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
January 24
- Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999)
- Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
January 27 – Joyce Compton, American actress (d. 1997)
January 29 – Bil Dwyer, American cartoonist and humorist (d. 1987)

February

February 1 – GÃ¼nter Eich, German writer (d. 1972)
February 5
- Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
- Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (d. 2000)
- Sergio MÃ©ndez Arceo, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico 1953â€“1983 (d. 1992)
February 6 – Russell Gleason, American actor (d. 1945)
February 9
- Pierre Aliker, French-Martinican politician (d. 2013)
- TrÆ°á»ng Chinh, President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
February 12 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
February 15
- Jean Langlais, French composer, organist (d. 1991)BOOK, Ann Labounsky, Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music,books.google.com/books?id=iMoHAQAAMAAJ, 2000, Amadeus Press, 978-1-57467-054-7, 23, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122302/https://books.google.com/books?id=iMoHAQAAMAAJ, live,
- Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
February 18 – Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
February 21 – W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)BOOK, Stan Smith, W.H. Auden,books.google.com/books?id=90VvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3, October 1995, Oxford University Press, 978-0-7463-0731-1, 3, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122241/https://books.google.com/books?id=90VvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3v=onepage&q&f=false, live,
February 22
- Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)
- Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist (d. 2013)
February 26
- Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
- Rosebud Yellow Robe, Native American folklorist, educator, and author (d. 1992)
February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)BOOK, American Council of Learned Societies, American National Biography,books.google.com/books?id=tnYRAQAAMAAJ, 1999, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-520635-7, 894, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122255/https://books.google.com/books?id=tnYRAQAAMAAJ, live,
February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)

March

File:KaramanlisNatsinasAgora crop.jpg|thumb|100px|Konstantinos Karamanlis Konstantinos Karamanlis

March 4 – Maria Branyas Morera, Spanish supercentenarian, oldest living person
March 5 – Thomas McKimson, American animator (d. 1998)
March 8 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian, writer (d. 1986)
March 12
- Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
- Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress, singer (d. 1981)
March 16
- Frances Fuller, American actress (d. 1980)
- Hans Kleppen, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 2009)
March 17
- Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
- Jean Van Houtte, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1991)
March 18 – John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997)
March 23 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
March 27 – Mary Treen, American actress (d. 1989)
March 28 – LÃºcia Santos, Portuguese nun, visionary (d. 2005)
March 29 – Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
March 30 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (d. 1994)

April

April 1 – Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure and humanitarian (d. 2019)
April 10
- Marcel Deviq, French Algerian engineer, businessman, and politician (d. 1972)
- GermÃ¡n SuÃ¡rez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th President of Venezuela (d. 1990)
April 11
- Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959)
April 12 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
April 13 – Harold Stassen, American politician (d. 2001)
April 14 – FranÃ§ois Duvalier, 32nd President of Haiti (d. 1971)
April 15 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor, founder of Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964)
April 21 – Wade Mainer, American singer, banjoist (d. 2011)
April 23
- James Hayter, British actor (d. 1983)
- Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
April 24 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
April 26 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
April 29
- Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
- Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)

May

May 1 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (d. 2007)
May 2 – Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
May 3 – Dorothy Young, American entertainer (d. 2011)
May 4 – Walter Walsh, American FBI agent, Olympic shooter, and USMC instructor (d. 2014)
May 5 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (d. 1982)
May 9 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
May 11 – Kent Taylor, American actor (d. 1987)
May 12 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
May 13 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)BOOK, Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers,books.google.com/books?id=pFddDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA218, 11 November 1982, Macmillan International Higher Education, 978-1-349-06127-3, 218, {{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
May 14
- Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
- Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
- Bob Tisdall, Irish Olympic athlete (d. 2004)
May 22
- HergÃ©, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
- Laurence Olivier, English stage, screen actor and director (d. 1989)
May 25 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
May 26 – John Wayne, American actor, film director (d. 1979)
May 27
- Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)BOOK, Craig Waddell, And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,books.google.com/books?id=UWTCtG3jRc0C&pg=PA3, 2000, SIU Press, 978-0-8093-2219-0, 3, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122248/https://books.google.com/books?id=UWTCtG3jRc0C&pg=PA3v=onepage&q&f=false, live,
- Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman (d. 2016)
May 30
- Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
- Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)

June

June 1 – Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer (d. 1996)
June 4
- Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
- Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism (d. 1944)
June 5 – Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist (d. 1995)
June 7 – Arthur Marshall Davis, American judge (d. 1963)
June 14 – RenÃ© Char, French poet (d. 1988)
June 16 – Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian (d. 1981)
June 19
- Bae Hee-han, Korean master carpenter (d. 1997)
- Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985)
- George de Mestral, Swiss inventor (d. 1990)
June 22 – Wesley E. Brown, American district court judge (d. 2012)
June 23 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
June 24 – Jean Schlumberger, French jewelry designer (d. 1987)
June 25
- Franca Dominici, Italian actress, voice actress (d. 1999)
- J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
June 26 – Joan Harrison, English screenwriter, producer (d. 1994)
June 27 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
June 28
- Junius Driggs, American businessman (d. 1994)
- Franciszka Themerson, Polish-born British artist, filmmaker (d. 1989)
June 29 – Junji Nishikawa, Japanese football player (d. ?)

July

July 3
- Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician (d. 1993)
- Nora Thompson Dean, Indigenous American (Lenape) linguist (d. 1984)
July 4
- Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish engineer and businessman (d. 2003)
- Emilio Ochoa, Cuban dentist, politician (d. 2007)
July 6
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- George Stanley, Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer (d. 2002)
July 7
- Walter Dieminger, German space scientist (d. 2000)
- Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
- Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1996)
- Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1989)
July 9
- Teresa Jungman, English socialite (d. 2010)
- Philip Klutznick, American administrator (d. 1999)
July 10
- John Michaels, American pitcher (d. 1996)
- LÃª Duáº©n, Vietnamese politician (d. 1986)
July 13 – George Weller, American novelist, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
July 14
- Annabella, French actress (d. 1996)
- Maria Matray, German screenwriter and actress (d. 1993)
July 15
- Paterson Fraser, English Royal Air Force (d. 2001)
- ShÅshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (d. 1997)
- Mona Rico, Mexican-born American actress (d. 1994)
July 16 â€“ Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
July 19
- Giulio Balestrini, Italian football player (d. ?)
- Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
- Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d. 2001)
July 21
- A. D. Hope, Australian poet and essayist (d. 2000)
- Georg Rydeberg, Swedish actor (d. 1983)
July 22
- Jack Dennington, Australian rules footballer (d. 1994)
- Aldo Donelli, American football player and coach, soccer player, and college athletics administrator (d. 1994)
- Zubir Said, Singaporean composer of Singapore’s national anthem (d. 1987)
July 25 – Johnny Hodges, American alto saxophonist (d. 1970)
July 27
- Ross Alexander, American actor (d. 1937)
- Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)
July 29 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer (d. 1996)

August

August 1 – Elisabeth Johansen, Greenlandic midwife and politician (d. 1993)
August 2 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (d. 1984)
August 3
- Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil (d. 1996)
- Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People’s Republic of China (d. 1998)
- Irene Tedrow, American actress (d. 1995)
August 7
- Bernard Brodie, English-American chemist and “founder of modern pharmacology” (d. 1989)
- Albert Kotin, American painter (d. 1980)
August 8 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
August 12
- Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)
- Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore (d. 1981)
August 13 – Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966)
August 14 – Stanley Adams, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 1994)
August 15 – Bob Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. 1985)
August 20 – Alan Reed, American actor and voice actor (d. 1977)
August 21
- John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (d. 1985)
- Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (d. 2007)NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/03zaret.html, Hy Zaret, 99, Tin Pan Alley Lyricist, Is Dead, New York Times, July 3, 2007, Douglas, Martin, 2007-07-03, August 10, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200810002754/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/03zaret.html, live,
August 24
- Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect (d. 2012)
- Gil Perkins, Australian actor and stuntman (d. 1999)
August 28 – Rupert Hart-Davis, British publisher (d. 1999)
August 29 – Lurene Tuttle, American character actress (d. 1986)
August 31
- Argentina Brunetti, Argentinian actress and writer (d. 2005)
- Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
- Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957)

September

September 2
- Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist (d. 1996)
- Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
September 3 – Loren Eiseley, American author (d. 1977)
September 4
- Frances Griffiths, Cottingley Fairies girl (d. 1986)
- Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (d. 1991)
September 12
- Spud Chandler, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)
September 15
- Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality (d. 1972)
- Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
September 17 – Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
September 18
- Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
- Elza Brandeisz, Hungarian dancer, teacher (d. 2018)
- Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
September 19 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1998)
September 22 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher, writer (d. 2003)
September 23
- Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (d. 1998)BOOK, Flower, John, Historical Dictionary of French Literature, 17 January 2013, Scarecrow Press, 978-0-8108-7945-4, 44â€“45,books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44, en, March 18, 2023, April 21, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230421095419/https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44, live,
- Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
September 26
- Anthony Blunt, British art historian, spy (d. 1983)
- Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
September 27
- Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)
- Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
September 28 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1997)
September 29
- Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
- George W. Jenkinsat, American businessman (d. 1996)

October

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October 1 – Ã–dÃ¶n PÃ¡rtos, Hungarian-Israeli violist, composer (d. 1977)
October 2
- Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)WEB, Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd {{!, British biochemist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Robertus-Todd-Baron-Todd |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 September 2021 |language=en |archive-date=September 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925051202www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Robertus-Todd-Baron-Todd |url-status=live }}
- VÃctor Paz Estenssoro , 45th President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
October 5 – Elva Ruby Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
October 6 – Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer, composer (d. 1990)
October 9 – Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001)
October 15 – Varian Fry, American journalist, rescuer (d. 1967)
October 17 – John Marley, American actor (d. 1984)
October 19 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
October 20 – Arlene Francis, Amcerican actress (d. 2001)
October 24 – Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)
October 28
- John Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
- Sergio MÃ©ndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953â€“1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (d. 1991).WEB,www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx/Diocesis_de_Cuernavaca/Mendez.html, Mons. Sergio MÃ©ndez Arceo (1952-1983) Septimo Obispo, DiÃ³cesis de Cuernavaca, Jan 14, 2019, es, Mons. Sergio Mendez Arceo, seventh bishop (1952-1983), January 29, 2018,www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx/Diocesis_de_Cuernavaca/Mendez.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20180129004035www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx/Diocesis_de_Cuernavaca/Mendez.html,">web.archive.org/web/20180129004035www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx/Diocesis_de_Cuernavaca/Mendez.html, dead,
October 30 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

November

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November 1 – Homero Manzi, Argentine tango lyricist, author (d. 1951)
November 6 – Charles W. Yost, American ambassador (d. 1981)
November 7 – Dumitru Coliu, Romanian communist activist and politician (d. 1979)
November 9 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (d. 1994)
November 10
- John Moore, British author (d. 1967)
- Salme Reek, Estonian actress (d. 1996)
November 11
- Viktoria Brezhneva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (d. 1995)
- GÃ¼nter Fronius, Transylvanian Saxon entrepreneur (d. 2015)
November 14
- Howard W. Hunter, 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
- Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children’s writer (d. 2002)BOOK, Kim A. Summers, Sally M. Walker, The Teacher’s Calendar, School Year 2000-2001: The Day-by-day Directory to Holidays, Historic Events, Birthdays and Special Days, Weeks and Months,books.google.com/books?id=ESUSAQAAMAAJ, 2000, Contemporary Books, 978-0-8092-2521-7, 72, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122242/https://books.google.com/books?id=ESUSAQAAMAAJ, live,
- William Steig, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
November 15 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, military officer (d. 1944)
November 16 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, director (d. 1997)
November 18
- Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
- Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998)
November 19
- Luigi Beccali, Italian Olympic athlete (d. 1990)
- Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (d. 1983)Manfred H. Grieb: Liska, Hans. In: NÃ¼rnberger KÃ¼nstlerlexikon: Bildende KÃ¼nstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und MÃ¤zene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Walter de Gruyter, 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-11-091296-8}}, p. 930 (books.google.de {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405141839books.google.com/books?id=hoRcf4LFZUcC&dq=HANS+LISKA&pg=PA930 |date=April 5, 2023 }} - preview).
November 23 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul (d. 2014)
November 26 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (d. 2013)
November 27 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)BOOK, Giuliano Dego, Moravia,books.google.com/books?id=60w_AAAAIAAJ, 1967, Barnes & Noble, 2, 9789070077068, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122251/https://books.google.com/books?id=60w_AAAAIAAJ, live,
November 28 – Katharine Bartlett, American physical anthropologist, museum curator (d. 2001)
November 30 – Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian (d. 2012)

December

December 1 – Joey Aiuppa, American mobster (d. 1997)
December 5 – Lin Biao, Chinese communist military leader (d. 1971)
December 6 – Helli Stehle, Swiss actress, radio presenter (d. 2017)
December 10 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
December 12 – Roy Douglas, British composer (d. 2015)
December 14 – Beatriz Costa, Portuguese actress (d. 1996)
December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (d. 2012)
December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian silent film actress (d. 2011)
December 19 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004)
December 22 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (d. 1991)
December 23 – James Roosevelt, American businessman, politician (d. 1991)
December 25
- Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (d. 1994)BOOK, Bruce Kellner, The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era,books.google.com/books?id=HoIYAAAAIAAJ, 1984, Greenwood Press, 978-0-313-23232-9, 65, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122405/https://books.google.com/books?id=HoIYAAAAIAAJ, live,
- Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon, businessman (d. 1988)
December 27 – Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

Deaths

January

January 3 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran (b. 1853)
January 13 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist (b. 1839)
January 14 – Hermann Iseke, German doctor (b. 1856)
January 19 – Giuseppe Saracco, 15th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1821)
January 21 – Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Italian linguist (b. 1829)
January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)

February

February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
February 7 – Preston Leslie, 26th Governor of Kentucky and 9th territorial Governor of Montana (b. 1819)
February 12 – Muriel Robb, English tennis player (b. 1878)
February 13 – Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, French geologist (b. 1847)
February 16
- GiosuÃ¨ Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)BOOK, Italy; Documents and Notes,books.google.com/books?id=7jgbAQAAIAAJ, 1976, Centro di documentazione, 346, May 11, 2021, December 7, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231207122252/https://books.google.com/books?id=7jgbAQAAIAAJ, live,
- ClÃ©mentine of OrlÃ©ans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)
February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott, American officer, theosophist (b. 1832)
February 20 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
February 21 – Erik Gustaf BostrÃ¶m, 7th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)
February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)

March

March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Canadian Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society, native statesman, scholar, rights campaigner and international shooter (b. 1841)
March 7 – Charlotta Raa-Winterhjelm, Swedish actress (b. 1838)
March 9 – Frederic George Stephens, English art critic (b. 1828)
March 10 – George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, Welsh industrialist (b. 1836)
March 11
- Jean Casimir-Perier, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
- Dimitar Petkov, 14th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1847)
March 18 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (b. 1827)
March 19
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)BOOK, Francis Fisher Browne, The Dial,books.google.com/books?id=zcBPAAAAYAAJ, 1968, Jansen, McClurg, 211,
- Mariano Baptista , 23rd President of Bolivia (b. 1832)
March 23 – Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Russian statesman (b. 1827)
March 25 – Ernst von Bergmann, Baltic German surgeon (b. 1836)

April

April 6 – William Henry Drummond, Irish-Canadian poet (b. 1854)
April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn, American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor, and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1836)
April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal (b. 1842)

May

May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta, American poet (b. 1834)
May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (b. 1821)
May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect, civil engineer (b. 1830)
May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
May 19 – Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer (b. 1840)
May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
May 27 – Kevork Chavush, Armenian national hero (b. 1870)

June

June 4 – Agathe Backer-GrÃ¸ndahl, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1847)
June 6 – J. A. Chatwin, English architect (b. 1830)
June 23 – Hod Stuart, Canadian professional ice hockey player, killed in diving accident (b. 1879)
June 25 – Sir John Hall, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
June 29 – Maximilian Cercha, Polish painter and drawer (b. 1818)

July

July 13 – Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer (b. 1854)
July 14 – Sir William Perkin, English chemist (b. 1838)
July 15 – Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet, executed (b. 1875)
July 28 – Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (b. 1840)

August

August – Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815)
August 1
- Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, American physician and writer (b. 1843)
- Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849)
August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. 1848)
August 4 – Richard Meade, Lord Gilford, British admiral (b. 1832)
August 13 – Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist (b. 1841)
August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
August 25
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist (b. 1861)
- Alexandre Franquet, French admiral (b. 1828)
August 30 – Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American actor (b. 1857)

September

September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
September 9 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
September 12 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer, Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1837)
September 19 – Jacob Morenga, Namibian rebel leader (b. 1875)
September 22 – Wilbur Olin Atwater, American chemist (b. 1844)
September 30 – Sir John Ardagh, British army general (b. 1840)

October

October 10 – Adolf FurtwÃ¤ngler, German archaeologist, historian (b. 1853)
October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, American author (b. 1824)

November

November 1 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
November 6 – Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)BOOK, Dell, R.K., Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1990, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand,teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james, 13 October 2021, Hector, James, March 28, 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190328015221/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james, live,
November 14 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian jurist and politician (b. 1848)
November 15 – Raphael Kalinowski, Polish Discalced Carmelite friar and saint (b. 1835)
November 16 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
November 17 – Sir Francis McClintock, Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy (b. 1819)
November 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
November 22 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (b. 1829)
November 23 – Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1832)
November 25 – Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Danish explorer (b. 1872)
November 28 – StanisÅ‚aw WyspiaÅ„ski, Polish writer, painter and architect (b. 1869)
November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German architect (b. 1854)

December

December 4 – Luis SÃ¡enz PeÃ±a, 12th President of Argentina (b. 1822)
December 8 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
December 15 – Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony (b. 1833)
December 17 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
December 20 – Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird, American author (b. 1826)
December 21 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860)
December 23 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (b. 1824)
December 28 – Kate Stone, American diarist (b. 1841)
December 31 – Jules de Trooz, 18th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1857)

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Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist (b. 1837)
Sarah Gibson Humphreys, American author and suffragist (b. 1830)
Joseph Stannah, Founder of Stannah Lifts (b. 1836)

Nobel Prizes

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Physics – Albert Abraham Michelson
Chemistry – Eduard Buchner
Medicine – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Literature – Rudyard Kipling
Peace – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault

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