- Jan 16 Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
- Jan 17 Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
- Jan 21 John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille)
- Jan 21 Paul E Kahle, German professor of oriental studies
- Jan 22 Bonifacius C de Jonge, governor (Dutch East Indies)
- Feb 2 Annette Kolb, German author (Small Fanfare) and pacifist, born in Munich (d. 1967)
- Feb 4 Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (father of aerodynamics)
- Feb 6 Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
- Feb 18 Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur)
- Feb 21 Jeanne Louise Calment, French world's oldest woman (d. 1997 at 122)
- Mar 2 Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian
- Mar 4 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
- Mar 4 Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat and writer (Gloria de Don Ramiro), born in Buenos Aires (d. 1961)
- Mar 4 Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
- Mar 13 Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1959)
- Mar 14 Isadore Gilbert Mudge, American librarian and author (Thackeray Dictionary), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1957)
- Mar 29 Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady (1929-33), wife of the 31st President, Herbert Hoover, born in Waterloo, Iowa (d. 1944)
Edgar Wallace
Apr 1 Edgar Wallace, English novelist, playwright and journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men) who created King Kong, born in Greenwich, England (d. 1932)
Edgar Wallace
Walter Chrysler
Apr 2 Walter Chrysler, American founder of car company Chrysler, born in Wamego, Kansas (d. 1940)
Walter Chrysler
Syngman Rhee
Apr 18 Syngman Rhee, First President of South Korea (1948-60), born in Haeju, North Korea (d. 1965)
Syngman Rhee
- Apr 18 Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
- Apr 27 Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)
- Apr 29 Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
- May 4 Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
- May 6 William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star admiral/chief of staff (1949)
- May 11 Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
- May 23 Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
- May 30 Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
Thomas Mann
Jun 6 Thomas Mann, German novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1955)
Thomas Mann
- Jun 9 Henry Dale, physiologist (Nobel-1936), born in London, England
- Jun 13 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, US politician, 1st US elected woman governor, Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), born in Bell County, Texas (d. 1961)
- Jun 15 Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
- Jun 17 Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
- Jun 20 Othenio Able, Austrian paleontologist
- Jun 23 Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
- Jun 28 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
- Jul 3 Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
- Jul 4 Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italian siamese twins, born in Locana (probable date),
- Jul 10 Mary McLeod Bethune, SC, educator (Bethune-Cookman College)
- Jul 15 Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter
- Jul 26 Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (Campos de Castilla), born in Seville, Spain (d. 1939)
- Aug 2 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
- Aug 8 Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
- Aug 18 Johan E. Elias, Dutch historian (Amsterdam's regency), born in Amsterdam (d. 1960)
- Aug 19 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
- Aug 21 Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1956)
- Aug 23 William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer, born in Barrow-in-Furness, England (d. 1966)
- Aug 23 Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist, born in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1946)
- Aug 26 John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme)
- Aug 27 Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
- Sep 1 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga)
- Sep 3 Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle, Mercedes-Benz SS) and founder of the Porsche car company, born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1951)
James Cash Penney
Sep 16 James Cash Penney, American department store founder (J C Penney), born in Hamilton, Missouri (d. 1971)
James Cash Penney
- Sep 18 Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d. 1945)
- Oct 11 Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), born in Brașov, Romania (d. 1913)
- Oct 12 Aleister Crowley, British occultist, founded the religion of Thelema, born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire England (d. 1947)
- Oct 17 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer (Yes & No!)
- Oct 18 James E K Aggrey, Ghana, US theologian/educationalist
- Oct 23 Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
- Oct 24 Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
- Oct 28 Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
- Oct 29 Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
- Oct 31 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Dutch Coasts) (d. 1961)
- Oct 31 Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman, born in Gujarat, India (d. 1950)
- Nov 6 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron, diplomat and senator, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1949)
- Nov 7 Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet communist leader and statesman, born in Verkhnyaya Troitsa, Russia (d. 1946) [OS]
- Nov 8 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer considered a national heroine in China, born in Shanyin, Shaoxing, Qing Dynasty (d. 1907)
- Nov 11 Vesto Slipher, Mulberry Indiana, American Astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory
- Nov 14 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater
- Nov 14 Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
- Nov 19 Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state
Hiram Bingham
Nov 19 Hiram Bingham, American archaeologist who re-discovered the Incan site of Machu Picchu, born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 1956)
Hiram Bingham
- Nov 22 Georges Rency, Belgian poet
- Nov 23 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, author and literary critic, born in Poltava, Russian Empire (d. 1933)
- Nov 27 Wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane)
- Dec 3 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist
- Dec 3 Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (d. 1955)
- Dec 4 Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (Ana, The City, Duino Elegies), born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1926)
- Dec 5 Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (d. 1933)
- Dec 6 Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941)
- Dec 12 Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
- Dec 12 Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-fieldmarshal (Normandy)
Gerd von Rundstedt
Dec 12 [Karl Rudolf] Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal during World War II (Commander-in-Chief in the West), born in Aschersleben, German Empire (d. 1953)
Gerd von Rundstedt