- January 10
- Birth of Emile van Bosch Dutch revue/operetta-artist (Fair Folks). [1]
- January 11
- Birth of Chester Conklin Oskaloosa Iowa; actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed). [1]
- January 12
- Birth of Claude Delvincourt composer. [1]
- January 15
- Birth of Joseph Henabery Omaha Nebraska, director (Cobra). [1]
- January 24
- Birth of Ernst Heinrich Heinkel German inventor (first rocket-powered aircraft). [1]
- Birth of Hedwig "Vicki" Baum Austrian/US author (Men Never Know). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Candelario Huizar composer. [1]
- Birth of Frank Lloyd Scotland; actor/director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Joris Baers Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Paul Althaus German theologist (The Christian Truth). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Ljudmil Stojanow Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera). [1]
- February 8
- Birth of Matthijs Vermeulen Dutch composer/music critic. [1]
- February 10
- Birth of G Ungaretti writer. [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Georgios Papandreou Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier. [1]
- Birth of Heintje Davids [Hendrika], Dutch revue star. [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck actress (Bouwmeester Award). [1]
- Birth of Otto Stern German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel Prize 1943). [1]
- Birth of Ronald Aburthnott Knox English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder). [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Gladys Cooper England, actress (Margaret-The Rogues). [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Dame Marie Rambert Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher. [1]
- Birth of Georges Bernanos France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest). [1]
- February 21
- Birth of Florence Bates Texas, actress (Moon and Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio). [1]
- Birth of Willem Banning Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of John Foster Dulles US Secretary of State (1953-59). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Lotte Lehmann Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello). [1]
- March 4
- Birth of Knute Rockne; Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame). [1] [5]
- March 5
- Birth of Friedrich Schnack German journalist/writer (Rosewood). [1]
- March 7
- Birth of Alidius van Starkenborch Stachouwer Governor of Netherland Indies (1936-45). [1]
- March 8
- Birth of Stuart Chase Somersworth New Hampshire, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Barry Fitzgerald Dublin Ireland; actor (Academy Award-Going My Way). [1]
- Birth of Krsto Odak composer. [1]
- March 12
- Birth of Hall Johnson composer. [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Frank Buck actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs). [1]
- March 18
- Birth of Joseph Csaky Hungarian/French sculptor. [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Josef Albers German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus). [1]
- March 20
- Birth of S V Vegesack writer. [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Jameson Thomas London England; actor (Farmer's Wife). [1]
- March 26
- Birth of Sigurd Erixon Swedish etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folk culture). [1]
- March 29
- Birth of Adrianus M de Jong Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje and Bonestaak). [1]
- Birth of James E Casey founder (United Parcel Service). [1]
- March 30
- Birth of Anna Q Nilsson Ystad Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Neville Cardus cricket player (doyen of cricket writers). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Tris Speaker baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose. [1]
- April 6
- Birth of Daniel Andersson Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader). [1]
- April 9
- Birth of Florence Smith Price US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932). [1]
- Birth of Sol Hurok theatrical impresario. [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Donald Calthrop London; actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express). [1]
- April 15
- Birth of Florence Bates San Antonio Texas, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Arnold Henry Moore Lunn skier. [1]
- April 19
- Birth of William L Axt composer. [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Aleksandr Mikhailov USSR, astronomer. [1]
- April 28
- Birth of Henry Crerar Canadian General (WWI/Italy/Netherlands). [1]
- April 30
- Birth of John Crowe Ransom American poet/critic (God Without Thunder). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Emmanuel Celler (Representative-Democrat-New York, 1923-73). [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Selmer Jackson Lake Mills Iowa; actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Max(imilian Raoul Walter) Steiner Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind). [1]
- May 11
- Birth of Irving Berlin [Isadore Balin] Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas). [1]
- Birth of P A J Losecaat Vermeer leader of Dutch High Council. [1]
- May 13
- In Denmark, Inge Lehmann is born; discovered the inner core of the Earth, a zone of solid materal, at a depth of 5150 km, in the early 1930s. She died in 1993 at the age of 105. [53]
- May 14
- Birth of Miles Mander Wolverhampton England; actor (Tower of London). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Jean Wahl French philosopher. [1]
- May 17
- Birth of A P "Tich" Freeman cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent and England). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of May Aufderheide composer. [1]
- May 23
- Birth of Adrian Roland Holst Dutch poet (Raged and Tired). [1]
- May 25
- Birth of Miles Malleson writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Louis Durey composer. [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Jim [James Francis] Thorpe in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA; decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912) (dies 1953). [1] [5]
- May 30
- Birth of James A Farley postmaster general (1933-38). [1]
- May 31
- Birth of Jack Holt US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone). [1]
- June 15
- Birth of Maria Dermoût Java, Dutch novelist (The 10,000 Things). [1]
- July 8
- Birth of John Sinnock; US Mint Chief Engraver. [512.36]
- July 10
- Birth of Giorgio De Chirico Greece, Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer). [1]
- Birth of Graham McNamee sportscaster (first Rose Bowl). [1]
- Birth of Toyohiko Kagawa Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer. [1]
- July 11
- Birth of Dr Lyman Bryson Valentine Nebraska, educator (UN Casebook). [1]
- July 16
- Birth of Frits Zernike invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel Prize 1953). [1]
- July 17
- Birth of Shmuel Agnon Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel Prize 1966). [1]
- July 22
- Birth of Raymond Chandler Chicago, mystery writer (The Long Goodbye). [1]
- July 23
- Birth of Dr Milan Stoyadinovich Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister (1935-9). [1]
- Birth of Gluyas Williams San Francisco, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen). [1]
- August 13
- Birth of John Logie Baird Scotland, inventor (father of TV). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of T.E. Lawrence Tremadoc Wales, soldier/writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia). [1]
- August 17
- Birth of Monty Wooley New York City; actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner). [1]
- September 6
- Birth of Joseph P Kennedy financier/diplomat, father of John, Robert, and Edward. [1]
- September 12
- Birth of Maurice Chevalier Paris, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi). [1]
- September 16
- Birth of Frans Sillanpää Finland, writer (Meek Heritage-Nobel Prize 1939). [1]
- September 26
- Birth of T.S. Eliot Saint Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel Prize 1948). [1]
- October 3
- Birth of Carl von Ossietzky Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel Prize 1935). [1]
- October 6
- Birth of Li Ta-chao cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party. [1]
- October 7
- Birth of Henry A Wallace (D/P) 33rd Vice President, Progressive presidential candidate. [1]
- October 9
- Birth of Hank Patterson Alabama; actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres). [1]
- October 14
- Birth of Katherine Mansfield New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party). [1]
- October 16
- Birth of Eugene O'Neill in New York City, New York, USA; dramatist (Desire Under the Elms - Nobel Prize 1936) (dies 1953). [1] [5]
- October 25
- Birth of Richard E Byrd Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926). [1]
- October 31
- Birth of Sir George Hubert Wilkins Australia, polar explorer (Flying the Arctic). [1]
- November 7
- Birth of Sir Chandrasekhara Raman India, physicist (Nobel Prize 1930). [1]
- November 16
- Birth of Burnet Corwin Tuthill New York City, composer (Laurentia). [1]
- Birth of Clinton Golden Pennsylvania founder (United Steelworkers of America). [1]
- November 19
- Birth of Jose Raul Capablanca Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27). [1]
- November 23
- Birth of Harpo Marx [Adolph] in New York City; actor/comedian (Marx brothers) (dies 1964). [1] [5]
- November 24
- Birth of Cathleen Nesbitt Belfast Ireland, actress (Agatha-Farmer's Daughter). [1]
- Birth of Dale Carnegie author (How to Win Friends and Influence People). [1]
- December 1
- Birth of Benjamin Crémieux French author (Le premier the la Classe). [1]
- December 3
- Birth of Ion Nonna Otescu composer. [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Aleksandar I Karadordjevic king of Yugoslavia (1921-34). [1]
- December 5
- Birth of Askell Snorrason composer. [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Hamilton Fish US congress leader/isolationist. [1]
- Birth of Joyce Cary Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children). [1]
- Birth of Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun first president of American Newspaper Guild. [1]
- December 8
- Birth of Fiske Kimball US architect/art historian. [1]
- Birth of Paul Cavanagh Chislehurst England; actor (Tarzan and his Mate). [1]
- Birth of Vesey D'Davoren character actor. [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Artturi A Leinonen Finnish journalist/writer (Kati)/politician. [1]
- Birth of Jan Greshoff Dutch poet/author/journalist (Bric à Brac). [1]
- Birth of Maxwell Anderson US, dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Alphonse Juin French marshal. [1]
- December 18
- Birth of Gladys Cooper Lewisham England, actress (My Fair Lady). [1]
- Birth of Robert Moses power broker (built Long Island and New York City parks and roads). [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Fritz Reiner Budapest Hungary, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony 1938-48). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Joseph Arthur Rank English film magnate/baron. [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Friedrich Wolf writer. [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi Japanese stagewriter (Tjitj Kaeru). [1]
- December 28
- Birth of Gabriel von Wayditch composer. [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Joseph Beran Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal. [1]
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