Birthdays in History
Katherine Mansfield
Oct 14 Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry), New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 1923)
Katherine Mansfield
- Oct 15 S.S. Van Dine [pseudonym for William Huntingdon Wright], American art critic and crime writer (Philo Vance), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1939)
Eugene O'Neill
Oct 16 Eugene O'Neill, American playwright (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936), born in NYC, New York (d. 1953)
Eugene O'Neill
Richard E. Byrd
Oct 25 Richard E. Byrd, American aviator and polar explorer (1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air - disputed), born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1957)
Richard E. Byrd
- Oct 25 Nils Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter, born in Bettna, Södermanland, Sweden (d. 1943)
- Oct 26 Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros), born in Helsinki (d. 1925)
- Oct 26 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, born in Hulai-Pole, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
- Oct 31 George Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (Flying the Arctic), born in Hallett, Australia (d. 1958)
- Oct 31 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1944)
- Nov 7 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist (Nobel Prize 1930 for light scattering), born in Tiruchirappalli, India (d. 1970)
- Nov 9 Jean Monnet, French political economist and diplomat, born in Cognac, France (d. 1979)
- Nov 10 Andrej Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, born in Pustomazovo, Russia (d. 1972)
- Nov 11 Abul Kalam Azad, 1st Minister of Education in the Indian government, born in Makkah, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (d. 1958)
- Nov 16 Clinton Golden, Penn, founder (United Steelworkers of America)
- Nov 16 Henri Bosco, French author and poet (Gogol), born in Avignon, France (d. 1976)
- Nov 22 Tarzan of the Apes date of birth, according to author Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Nov 24 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends & Influence People)
- Nov 24 Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
- Nov 26 Franz Jung, German writer and political activist, born in Nysa (d. 1963)
- Nov 29 Joe Slater, Australian Rules footballer (d. 1917)
- Dec 4 Aleksandar I, King of Yugoslavia (1921-34), born in Cetinje, Montenegro (d. 1934)
- Dec 7 Hamilton Fish III, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Garrison, New York (d. 1991)
- Dec 7 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish writer (House of Children), born in Londonderry, Ireland (d. 1957)
- Dec 7 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild
- Dec 8 Fiske Kimball, American architect and art historian, born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1955)
- Dec 9 Mabel Stark, American tiger trainer "crazy Mabel", born in Tennessee or Kentucky (d. 1968)
- Dec 15 Artturi Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer (Kati), born in Ylihärmä, Finland (d. 1963)
Maxwell Anderson
Dec 15 Maxwell Anderson, American dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor), born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
Maxwell Anderson
- Dec 16 Alphonse Juin, French marshal
- Dec 16 Alexander I, king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1921–29) and of Yugoslavia (1929–34), born in Cetinje, Montenegro (d. 1934)
- Dec 18 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
- Dec 22 J. Arthur Rank, English industrialist, born in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom (d. 1972)
- Dec 23 Friedrich Wolf, German writer and diplomat, born in Neuwied, Germany (d. 1953)
- Dec 29 Joseph Beran, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, born in Pilsen, Czech Republic (d. 1969)