Birthdays in History
- Jan 5 Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror), born in Hed socken (d. 1909)
- Jan 7 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
- Jan 10 Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer, born in Radeburg, Germany (d. 1929)
- Jan 11 Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
- Jan 13 Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)
- Jan 15 Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter
- Jan 17 Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra)
Daniel Williams
Jan 18 Daniel Williams, American heart surgeon who performed the 1st open heart surgery, born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1931)
Daniel Williams
- Jan 19 Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries)
- Jan 22 Beatrice Potter Webb, English sociologist, economist ( founded London School of Economics) and writer (My Apprenticeship), born in Standish (d. 1943)
- Jan 22 Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron (Congo)
- Jan 25 Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese entrepreneur & pearl farm pioneer, born in Toba, Japan (d. 1954)
- Feb 14 Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), born in Penpont, Dumfries, Scotland (d. 1895)
- Feb 15 William Pickering, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1938)
- Feb 16 Laurence "Lon" Myers, American track star (top US miler)
- Feb 18 Louise M A, princess of Belgium
- Feb 26 Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
- Feb 28 Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
- Mar 1 Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
- Mar 13 Maximilien Luce, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1941)
- Mar 15 Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
Rudolf Diesel
Mar 18 Rudolf Diesel, French-born German engineer (invented the diesel engine), born in Paris, France (disappeared 1913)
Rudolf Diesel
- Mar 23 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
- Apr 1 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
- Apr 1 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
- Apr 3 Matthew Ricketts, 1st African American man elected to Neb State Legislature, born in Henry County, Kentucky (d. 1917)
- Apr 4 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, born in Bazoches-en-Houlmes, France (d. 1915)
- Apr 7 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
- Apr 15 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social), born in Épinal, France (d. 1917)
- Apr 23 Max Planck, German physicist, father of Quantum Physics (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918), born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein (d. 1947)
- Apr 30 Mary Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893) as second wife of the 23rd United States president Benjamin Harrison, born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania (d. 1948)
- May 8 John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
- May 11 Carl Hauptmann, writer
- May 19 Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and president of the Société de Géographie, born in Paris, France (d. 1924)
- May 21 Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
- May 24 Johan Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1940)
- May 28 Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (blowtorch), born in Arboga, Sweden (d. 1939)
- Jun 1 William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
- Jun 16 Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50)
- Jun 17 Eben Sumner Draper, American businessman and politician (44th Governor of Massachusetts), born in Hopedale, Massachusetts (d. 1914)
- Jun 18 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
- Jun 19 Dirk Fock, Dutch politician and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1921-26), born in Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands (d. 1941)
- Jun 20 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1928)
- Jun 20 Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (The Conjure Woman), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1932)
- Jun 23 William Ernst Johnson, mathematician, born in Cambridge, England
- Jun 25 Georges Courteline [Moineau], French playwright, born in Tours, France (d. 1929)
- Jun 29 George Washington Goethals, American army general and civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1928)
- Jul 9 Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (Mind of Primitive Man), born in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia (d. 1942)
- Jul 13 Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
Emmeline Pankhurst
Jul 15 Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette who formed the Women's Social & Political Union (1903), born in Moss Side, Manchester (d. 1928)
Emmeline Pankhurst
- Jul 20 Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
- Jul 21 Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
- Jul 21 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, born in Židlochovice Castle, Moravia (d. 1929)
- Jul 21 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist, born in Sandhurst, Victoria (d. 1941)
- Jul 24 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920), born in NYC, New York (d. 1922)
- Jul 31 Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1936)
- Aug 1 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, born in Oleśnica, Poland (d. 1922)
- Aug 2 Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen consort of William and Regent of the Netherlands, born in Arolsen Castle, Arolsen, Waldeck and Pyrmont, German Confederation (d. 1934)
- Aug 2 William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest), born in Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire (d. 1935)
Christiaan Eijkman
Aug 11 Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1929), born in Nijkerk, Netherlands (d. 1930)
Christiaan Eijkman
- Aug 15 Edith Nesbit, British children books author (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It), born in London, England (d. 1924)
- Aug 16 Arthur Achleitner, German writer, born in Straubing, Germany (d. 1927)
- Aug 27 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and glottologist, born in Spinetta, Piedmont, Italy (d. 1932)
- Sep 9 Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
- Sep 12 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter and sculptor, born in Grembergen, Dendermonde, Belgium (d. 1921)
- Sep 15 Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit
Bonar Law
Sep 16 Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), born in Kingston, Colony of New Brunswick (now Canada)
Bonar Law
- Sep 24 Eugene Foss, American politician (45th Governor of Massachusetts), born in St. Albans, Vermont (d. 1939)
- Sep 27 Þorsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Pyrnar), born in Iceland (d. 1914)
- Oct 4 Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and telephone pioneer, born in Idvor, Military Frontier of Austria (d. 1935)
- Oct 5 Henry von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Queen Victoria, born in Milan, Lombardy–Venetia (d. 1896)'
- Oct 9 Gerard Philips, Dutch industrialist and manufacturer (Philips), born in Zaltbommel, Netherlands (d. 1942)
- Oct 19 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
- Oct 20 John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
- Oct 21 Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer
Theodore Roosevelt
Oct 27 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (R: 1901-09; Nobel 1906), born in NYC, New York (d. 1919)
Theodore Roosevelt
Selma Lagerlöf
Nov 20 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils), born in Mårbacka, Värmland (d. 1940)
Selma Lagerlöf
Chester Greenwood
Dec 4 Chester Greenwood, American inventor (invented earmuffs at 15), born in Farmington, Maine (d. 1937)
Chester Greenwood