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Events
Births
- January 7 - Rudolf Fernau, actor (d. 1985)
- January 16 - Margaret
Booth, film editor
- January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein, director
- February 3 - Alvar
Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
- February 10 - Bertolt Brecht - playwright, writer and poet
- February 14 - Fritz
Zwicky, physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
- February 14 - George Steed, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1988)
- February 15 - Allen
Woodring, American sprinter
- February 18 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (d. 1980)
- February 18 - Enzo
Ferrari, auto racer, manufacturer (d. 1988)
- February 24 - Kurt Tank,
aeronautical engineer (d. 1983)
- March 6 - Therese Giehse, actress (d. 1975)
- March 11 - Dorothy Gish,
actress (d. 1968)
- April 3 - George Jessel, comedian (d. 1981)
- May 3 - Golda Meir - Israeli Prime Minister
- May 15 - Arletty, model, actress (d. 1992)
- May 17 - Alfred Joseph Casson painter (d. 1992)
- May 21 - Armand Hammer,
entrepreneur, art collector
- May 23 - Scott O'Dell, author (d. 1989)
- May 31 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (clergyman)
- June 4 - Harry Crosby,
publisher, poet (d. 1929)
- July 6 - Hanns Eisler,
composer (d. 1962)
- June 17 - M. C. Escher,
Dutch graphic artist
- July 2 - Gen Paul, French artist (d.
1975)
- July 22 - Erich
Maria Remarque, a German writer (d. 1970)
- July 30 - Henry Moore -
sculptor
- August 26 - Peggy
Guggenheim, art collector
- August 29 - Preston
Sturges, director and writer
- September 22 - Katherine Alexander, actress (d. 1981)
- September 26 - George Gershwin, composer (d. 1937)
- September 30 - Renee
Adoree, french actress
- September 30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco
- October 10 - Lilly
Daché, milliner (d. 1989)
- October 15 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete
- November 8 - Marie
Prevost, actress (d. 1937)
- November 18 - Joris
Ivens, director
- November 21 - René
Magritte, surrealist artist
- November 29 - C. S.
Lewis, British author
- December 20 - Irene
Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
- December 24 - Baby
Dodds, jazz musician (d. 1959)
- Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman
Shah, later Sultan of Selangor and
2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Deaths
Heads of State
- China - Guāngxù Emperor of China,
Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
- Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
- France - Félix Faure,
President of France (1895-1899)
- 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 - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
- Spain - Alfonso
XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
- United Kingdom - Queen Victoria, Queen of the
United Kingdom and Empress of India (1837-1901)
- United States - William McKinley, President of the United States (1897-1901)
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