- February 5
- Birth of Jackson Showalter first US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-09). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Johan [Eliza J] de Meester Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Anders Zorn Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustav Vasa). [1]
- February 24
- Birth of Daniel Berkeley Updike printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of Menso Kamerlingh Onnes painter/water colors painter. [1]
- Birth of William James Ashley English economic-historian. [1]
- February 29
- Birth of Herman Hollerith inventor (first electric tabulating machine). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Suzanna Salter first US female mayor/temperance leader. [1]
- March 11
- Birth of Thomas Hastings New York City, New York, architect (New York Public Library). [1]
- March 12
- Birth of Salvatore Di Giacomo composer. [1]
- March 13
- Birth of Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Windisch-Gräz Austria, composer. [1]
- March 19
- Birth of William Jennings Bryan "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman. [1]
- March 23
- Birth of Horatio W Bottomley British journalist/swindler. [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Frederik W van Eeden Dutch utopian writer (Walden). [1]
- April 6
- Birth of René Lalique French jewel designer. [1]
- April 7
- Birth of W K Kellogg a real corn flake. [1]
- April 13
- Birth of James Ensor Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Charles Gordon Curtis US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine). [1]
- Birth of Pieter Jelles Troelstra Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Alphonse Ariëns Dutch pastor. [1]
- April 29
- Birth of Lorado Taft US, sculptor (Black Hawk). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of Sir D'Arcy Thompson zoologist/classicist (On Growth and Form). [1]
- Birth of Theodor Herzl Austria, journalist/founder (Zionist movement). [1]
- May 4
- Birth of Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana). [1]
- May 9
- Birth of Sir James Matthew Barrie Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Ellen Louise Axson Wilson first wife of Woodrow Wilson. [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Victor E Orlando Italy's premier (1917-19). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Willam Einthoven Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph). [1]
- May 29
- Birth of Isaac [Manuel F] Albéniz; Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia) (dies 1909). [1] [5]
- May 31
- Birth of Walter Richard Sickert Munich Danish/English painter (The Miner). [1]
- July 7
- Birth of Gustav Mahler Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan). [1]
- July 19
- Birth of Lizzie Borden murderer, gave her mother forty whacks. [1]
- August 3
- W.K. Dickson is born; Scottish inventor. [5]
- August 5
- Birth of Joseph Carey Merrick "Elephant Man". [1]
- August 13
- Birth of Annie Oakley Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West). [1]
- August 14
- Birth of Ernest T Seton naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding first lady. [1]
- August 16
- Birth of Jules Laforgue Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintes). [1]
- August 19
- Birth of John Kane Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait). [1]
- August 20
- Birth of Raymond Poincaré in France; Prime Minister (1912), president. [1]
- September 3
- Birth of Edward Albert Filene merchant, established US credit union movement. [1]
- September 6
- Birth of Jane Addams US, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel Prize 1931). [1]
- September 7
- Birth of (Anna Maria) "Grandma" Moses in New York; primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket). [1] [5]
- September 13
- Birth of General John J (Blackjack) Pershing US commander in WW I. [1]
- October 4
- Birth of Sidney Paget illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures. [1]
- October 12
- Birth of Elmer A Sperry inventor (gyrocompass). [1]
- October 31
- Birth of Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout founder. [1]
- November 6
- Birth of Ignace Jan Paderewski Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot. [1]
- November 23
- Birth of Karl Branting Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of C T Studd cricket player (brother of G B, five Tests for England). [1]
- December 13
- Birth of Lucien G Guitry French actor/theatre director (l'Odéon). [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Niels Ryberg Finsen Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel Prize 1903). [1]
- December 21
- Birth of Henrietta Szold founder (Hadassah). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Harriet Monroe Chicago Illinois, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You and I). [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Alexander von Fielitz composer. [1]
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- January 1
- Birth of Isaac Murphy thoroughbred jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5 percent). [1]
- Birth of William Morris Boston Massachusetts; actor (Brothers, The Roadhouse Murder). [1]
- January 2
- Birth of Helen Herron Taft first lady (1909-13). [1]
- Birth of Wilhelm Bölsche writer. [1]
- January 6
- Birth of Heinrich Gottlieb Noren composer. [1]
- January 14
- Birth of Mehmed VI last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22). [1]
- Birth of Wilhelm von Polenz German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Hans Goldschmidt in Berlin, Germany; chemist, invented the Goldschmidt alumino-thermic reduction process used in welding. [1] [37]
- Birth of Raymond Huntington Woodman composer. [1]
- January 22
- Birth of Karel Stecker composer. [1]
- January 30
- Birth of Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler Mulhouse Alsace, composer. [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Mehmed VI Vahideddin last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22). [1]
- Birth of Solomon R Guggenheim philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Léopold Courouble Belgian writer (Family Kaekebroeck). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Lou [Andreas-]Salomé Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Uchimura Kanzo Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian). [1]
- February 15
- Birth of Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician/philosopher (Adventures of Ideas). [1]
- Birth of Halford John Mackinder Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer. [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Nicolaas van Meeteren Curaçao, folklorist. [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Pierre Breville composer. [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Ferdinand I Vienna, first tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Rudolph Steiner Kraljevic Austria, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement). [1]
- April 9
- Birth of Charles Holroyd painter/etcher. [1]
- April 16
- Birth of Isaac Murphy US jockey (won 628 races). [1]
- April 19
- Birth of Warden Oncle [Edward Vermeulen] Flemish farmer/writer. [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Edmund Henry Hynman first viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal. [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer. [1]
- Birth of Johan M Skjoldborg Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Radindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel Prize 1913). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Rabindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913). [1]
- May 12
- Birth of Ivan Caryll English composer (Pink Lady). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Victoria E Matthews educator. [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Emily Perkins Bissell welfare worker (first christmas seal drive, 1907). [1]
- June 2
- Birth of Helen Taft; US first lady. [498.66]
- June 29
- Birth of William James Mayo surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota. [1]
- July 1
- Birth of Samuel D Riddle horse owner (Man 'o War). [1]
- July 3
- Birth of Peter Jackson heavyweight, boxing hall of famer. [1]
- July 11
- Birth of George William Norris (Republican-Nebraska). [1]
- July 29
- Birth of Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt first wife of Theodore Roosevelt. [1]
- August 6
- Birth of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt; second wife of Theodore Roosevelt. [1] [5]
- August 9
- Ernest von Rebeur-Paschwitz born in Germany; physicist, made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake. [53]
- October 4
- Birth of Frederic Remington US, artist/sculptor of the American West. [1]
- October 10
- Birth of Fridtjof Nansen Norweg Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel Prize 1922). [1]
- October 26
- Birth of Richard D Sears Boston, first to win US amateur national tennis match. [1]
- November 6
- Birth of James A Naismith; inventor (basketball). [1] [5]
- November 10
- Birth of Robert TA Innes Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri). [1]
- November 14
- Birth of Frederick Jackson Turner Wisconsin, historian/educator (Harvard University). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Lillian Russell [Helen Leonard] US, singer/actress (Great Mogul). [1]
- December 5
- Birth of Armando V Diaz Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24). [1]
- December 8
- Birth of Aristide Maillol France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman). [1]
- Birth of Georges Méliès Paris France, magician; first to film a fictional story. [1]
- Birth of William Crapo Durant founded General Motors. [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Charles Edgar Duryea inventor (first auto built and operated in US). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Fritz Volbach German musicologist/conductor/composer. [1]
- December 18
- Birth of Edward Alexander MacDowell New York City, New York, composer (Indian Suite, Cairo). [1]
- Birth of Lionel Monckton composer. [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Constance [Clara] Garnett Brighton England, Russian-English translator. [1]
- Birth of Italo Svevo Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Erich Schaeder German theologist (Theocentric Theology). [1]
- December 26
- In Tilsit, Germany, Emil Wiechert is born; pioneer in the science of seismology. [53]
- Birth of Friedrich Engel German mathematician (group theory). [1]
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