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Events
Births
- January 1 - Anton Melik,
Slovene geographer
- January 4 - Victor
Lustig, con artist (d. 1947)
- January 7 - Henny Porten, actress (d. 1960)
- January 9 - Kurt
Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
- January 9 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
- February 10 - Boris Pasternak, writer, winner Nobel Prize in literature
- January 19 - Elise
Rivet, Roman Catholic nun and war hero (d. 1945)
- February 11 - John de Vries, fairy tale writer
- February 14 - Nina
Hamnett, artist
- February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (d. 1963)
- February 24 - Marjorie Main, actress (d. 1975)
- February 25 - (old date) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
- February 27 - Freddie Keppard, jazz musician (d. 1933)
- March 9 - (new date) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
- March 11 - Vannevar
Bush, author of As We May Think (d. 1974)
- March 20 - Beniamino
Gigli, tenor (d. 1957)
- March 20 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer (d. 1973)
- March 28 - Paul
Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
- April 6 - Anthony
Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer
- May 10 - Alfred Jodl, German
general (d. 1946)
- May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, author (d. 1980)
- May 19 - Ho Chi Minh, President
of North Vietnam (d. 1969)
- May 23 - Herbert Marshall, actor (d. 1966)
- June 6 - Ted
Lewis, jazz musician and entertainer (d. 1971)
- June 16 - Arthur Stanley Jefferson, British actor later known as Stan Laurel
- June 26 - Jeanne Eagels,
American actress (d. 1929)
- July 18 - Frank Forde,
fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1983)
- August 20 - Howard Phillips Lovecraft, horror writer.
- August 24 - Duke
Kahanamoku, US swimmer
- September 10 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French
couturiere (d. 1973)
- September 15 - Agatha Christie, English mystery writer
- September 20 - Jelly Roll Morton. Jazz pianist, composer, bandleader (d. 1941)
- October 2 - Groucho
Marx, comedian (d. 1977)
- October 14 - Dwight David Eisenhower, US general and president
- October 16 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
- October 16 - Paul Strand, American photographer.
- November 22 - Charles de Gaulle, French president
- December 5 - David
Bomberg, painter
- December 8 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer
- December 30 - Lanoe
Hawker, British fighter pilot
Deaths
Heads of State
- China - Guāngxù Emperor of China,
Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
- Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
- France - Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)
- Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
- Holy See - Pope Leo
XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
- Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
- Norway - Oscar
II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
- Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of
the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
- Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
- Spain - Alfonso
XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
- United States - Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States (1889-1893)
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