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== Events ==
=== January ===
[[File:Kingston.png|thumb|200px|[[January 14]]: Earthquake in [[Jamaica]]]]
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[1907 Kingston earthquake]]: A 6.5 [[Moment magnitude scale|M<sub>w</sub>]] [[earthquake]] in [[Kingston, Jamaica]], kills between 800 and 1,000.
=== February ===
* [[February 7]] &ndash; The "[[Mud March (suffragists)|Mud March]]", the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ([[NUWSS]]), takes place in [[London]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; The French warship [[French cruiser Jean Bart (1886)|''Jean Bart'']] sinks off the coast of [[Morocco]].
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The steamship ''Larchmont'' collides with the ''Harry Hamilton'' in [[Long Island Sound]]; 183 lives are lost.
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[SKF]], a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, [[Bearing (mechanical)|bearing]]s and [[Seal (mechanical)|seal]]s), is founded in [[Gothenburg]], Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|title=SKF|url=https://www.skf.com/us/organisation/about-skf/history-timeline|access-date=2022-01-30|website=www.skf.com|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130205529/https://www.skf.com/us/organisation/about-skf/history-timeline|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] &ndash; The English mail steamship ''Berlin'' is wrecked off the [[Hook of Holland]]; 142 lives are lost.
* [[February 24]] &ndash; The Austrian Lloyd steamship ''Imperatrix'', from [[Trieste]] to [[Bombay]], is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.
===March===
* [[March]]
** The steamship ''Congo'' collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship ''Nerissa''; 7 lives are lost.
** The [[1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt]] results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths.
** The ''[[Diamond Sutra|Diamond Sūtra]]'', a [[Woodblock printing|woodblock printed]] Buddhist scripture dated [[868]], is discovered by [[Aurel Stein]] in the [[Mogao Caves]] in China; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html |title=Sacred Texts: Diamond Sutra |publisher=[[British Library]] |date=2003-11-30 |access-date=2012-06-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110093610/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html |archive-date=November 10, 2013 }}</ref>
** [[Pablo Picasso]] completes his painting ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon''.
* [[March 5]] &ndash; At the opening of the new [[State Duma (Russian Empire)#Second Duma|State Duma]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops.
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]], [[Dimitar Petkov]], is assassinated by an anarchist in [[Sofia]].
* [[March 15]]&ndash;[[March 16|16]] &ndash; [[1907 Finnish parliamentary election|Elections]] to the new [[Parliament of Finland]] are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where [[universal suffrage]] is applied; 19 women are elected.
* [[March 22]] &ndash; The first [[taxicab]]s with [[taximeter]]s begin operating in London.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.posta.hu/stamps/stamps/2011_2006/2007/the_hungarian_university_sports_federation_is_100_years_old|title=Magyar Posta Zrt. - 404-es hiba, az oldal nem található!|website=www.posta.hu|access-date=July 26, 2016|archive-date=September 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917032930/https://www.posta.hu/stamps/stamps/2011_2006/2007/the_hungarian_university_sports_federation_is_100_years_old|url-status=live}}</ref>
* c. [[March 28]] &ndash; The volcano [[Ksudach]] [[Volcanic eruption|erupts]], in the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]].
=== April ===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Hershey Park]] opens in [[Hershey, Pennsylvania]].
* [[April 17]]
** The first [[Minas Geraes-class battleship|''Minas Geraes''-class battleship]] is [[Keel laying|laid down]] for [[Brazil]], by [[Armstrong Whitworth]] on the [[River Tyne]], in England, triggering the [[South American dreadnought race]].
** Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the [[United States]] through [[Ellis Island]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/|title=Ellis Island|date=February 4, 2020|access-date=March 2, 2021|archive-date=June 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629161901/http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_timeline.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1&nbsp;million immigrants arriving.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ellis-island-closes|title=Ellis Island closes|publisher=History.com|work=This Day in History|date=1954-12-11|access-date=June 6, 2020|archive-date=June 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606211928/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ellis-island-closes|url-status=live}}<!-- Bot generated title --></ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Al Ahly SC]] is founded in [[Cairo]] by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian [[students' union]]s in the struggle against [[colonization]]; it is the first [[association football]] club officially founded in Egypt or [[Africa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/news/y=2009/m=2/news=ahly-spirit-success-1031856.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202072543/http://www.fifa.com/news/y=2009/m=2/news=ahly-spirit-success-1031856.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 2, 2016|title=Al Ahly: Spirit of success|publisher=[[FIFA]]|date=2009-02-25|access-date=2017-02-25}}</ref>
=== May ===
* [[May 13]] &ndash; The [[5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] convenes in secret in [[London]].
=== June ===
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Shastriji Maharaj|Shastri Yagnapurushdas]] consecrates the [[murti]]s of both [[Sahajanand swami|Sahajanand Swami]] and [[Gunatitanand Swami]] in a single central shrine, thus establishing the [[Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha]], later a [[United Nations]] affiliate organization.
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Persil]] [[laundry detergent]] is first marketed by [[Henkel]] of [[Düsseldorf]], Germany, the first to combine bleach with detergent commercially.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henkel.com/about-henkel/2006-18539-100-years-of-persil-11029.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214101029/http://www.henkel.com/about-henkel/2006-18539-100-years-of-persil-11029.htm|archive-date=2010-12-14|title=100 Years of Persil|publisher=Henkel AG|date=2006-12-22|access-date=2016-09-17}}</ref>
* [[June 10]]&ndash;[[August 10]] &ndash; The [[Peking to Paris]] motor race is won by [[Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona|Prince Scipione Borghese]], driving a 7-litre 35/45&nbsp;hp [[Itala (company)|Itala]].
* [[June 15]] &ndash; The [[Second Hague Peace Conference]] opens at [[The Hague]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; The [[London Underground]]'s [[Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway]] opens.
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[1907 Tiflis bank robbery|Tiflis bank robbery]]: [[Bolsheviks]] attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of [[Tbilisi|Tiflis]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], killing 40 people.
=== July ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; The [[Orange River Colony]] gains autonomy, as the [[Orange Free State (province)|Orange Free State]].
* [[July 6]] &ndash; Guardians of the [[Irish Crown Jewels]] notice that they have been stolen.
* [[July 15]] &ndash; The [[London Electrobus Company]] starts running the first ever service of [[battery-electric bus]]es between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street.
* [[July 21]] &ndash; The {{SS|Columbia|1880|6}} sinks after colliding with the [[lumber]] [[schooner]] ''San Pedro'', off [[Shelter Cove, California]], resulting in 88 deaths.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; The [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907]] brings the government and military of the [[protectorate]] of [[Korean Empire|Korea]] more firmly under [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]ese control.
=== August ===
* [[August 24]]&ndash;[[August 31|31]] &ndash; The [[International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam]] meets in the [[Netherlands]].
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[United Parcel Service|UPS]] is founded by [[James E. Casey|James E. (Jim) Casey]] in [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]].
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The partially completed [[superstructure]] of the [[Quebec Bridge]] collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; Count [[Alexander Izvolsky]] and Sir [[Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock|Arthur Nicolson]] sign the [[Anglo-Russian Entente]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], bringing a pause in [[The Great Game]] in Central Asia, and establishing the [[Triple Entente]].
=== September ===
* [[September 7]] &ndash; British [[Cunard Line]] passenger [[Ocean liner|liner]] {{RMS|Lusitania}} sets out on her maiden voyage, from [[Liverpool]] (England) to New York City.
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius X]] promulgates the [[encyclical]] ''[[Pascendi Dominici gregis]]'', opposing [[modernism in the Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_x/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis_en.html|title=Pascendi Dominici gregis|publisher=Libreria Editrice Vaticana}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Dominion of New Zealand|New Zealand]] and [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]] become [[dominion]]s of the British Empire.
=== October ===
* [[October]] &ndash; A committee of the [[Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language]], made up of academics including [[Otto Jespersen]], [[Wilhelm Ostwald]] and [[Roland Eötvös]], meet in Paris to select a [[international auxiliary language|language for international use]]. The committee ultimately decides to reform [[Esperanto]].
* [[October 6]] &ndash; The [[Deutscher Werkbund]] is founded in [[Germany]]. This organization aims to bring together [[artists]], [[architects]] and [[industrialists]] to promote the integration of art and [[Industry (economics)|industry]] for the betterment of [[society]] and plays a significant role in the development of modern industrial design in Germany.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tim|last=Kirk|title=Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History|location=London|year=2002|page=421}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Edvard Grieg]]'s ''[[Olaf Trygvason]]'', his only opera, is produced posthumously in Christiania, [[Norway]].
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Guglielmo Marconi]] initiates commercial transatlantic [[radio]] communications between his high power [[longwave]] wireless telegraphy stations in [[Clifden]], Ireland, and [[Glace Bay, Nova Scotia]].
* [[October 18]] &ndash; The [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Hague Convention]] is revised by the (second) [[Hague Peace Conference]] (effective [[26 January]] [[1910]]), focussing on naval warfare.
* [[October 24]] &ndash; A major [[United States]] financial crisis is averted when [[J. P. Morgan]], [[E. H. Harriman]], [[James Stillman]], [[Henry Clay Frick]] and other [[Wall Street]] financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging [[New York Stock Exchange]], ending the bank [[panic of 1907]].<ref>See also [[Federal Reserve System]].</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Černová massacre]]: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day [[Slovakia]]).
* [[October 31]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of Finland]] approves the [[Prohibition#Nordic countries|Prohibition Act]], but the law is not implemented because it is not ratified by Grand Duke [[Nicholas II]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Viljo |last=Hytönen |title=Suomen raittiusliikkeen historia |pages=266–267 |publisher=[[Bonnier Group|WSOY]] |location=[[Porvoo]] |year=1930 |language=fi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Vihtori |last=Karpio |title=Raittiuden ystävät 1883–1933 |pages=154, 157, 400, 403 |publisher=[[Gummerus]] |location=[[Jyväskylä]] |year=1938 |language=fi}}</ref>
=== November ===
* [[November 4]] &ndash; Russian immigrant bakers Perry and Ben Feigenson in Detroit begin transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to [[Faygo]].
* [[November 16]]
** British Cunard Line passenger liner [[RMS Mauretania (1906)|RMS ''Mauretania'']], the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.
** President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] proclaims that [[Oklahoma]] has become the 46th [[U.S. state]].
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Washington State College]] defeats the [[University of Washington]] 10-5 in the [[Apple Cup]] in college football, played in [[Seattle]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-9gUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7MADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6333,841575&hl=en |title=The Spokesman-Review |website=Google News Archive |access-date=March 2, 2017 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325131809/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-9gUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7MADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6333,841575&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 25]]
** The [[Church of God in Christ]], which becomes the fifth-largest [[African Americans|African-American]] [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]]-[[Holiness movement|Holiness]] [[Christian denomination]] in the United States, is founded by Bishop [[Charles Harrison Mason]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].
** [[Edeka]], a major [[retail]]ing group in [[Europe]], is founded as a purchasing cooperative in Germany.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
=== December ===
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Monongah Mining disaster]]: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in [[Monongah, West Virginia]].
* [[December 8]] &ndash; Upon the death of [[Oscar II of Sweden|Oscar II]], he is succeeded by his son [[Gustaf V of Sweden|Gustaf V]], as [[Monarchy of Sweden|king]] of [[Sweden]].
* [[December 14]] &ndash; The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned ''[[Thomas W. Lawson (ship)|Thomas W. Lawson]]'', is wrecked in the [[Isles of Scilly]].
* [[December 16]] &ndash; The American [[Great White Fleet]] begins its circumnavigation of the world.
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Ugyen Wangchuck]] becomes the first ''[[Druk Gyalpo]]'' (king of [[Bhutan]]).
* [[December 19]] &ndash; An explosion in a coal mine in [[Jacobs Creek (Pennsylvania)|Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania]] kills 239.
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Santa María School massacre]]: In [[Chile]], soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in [[Iquique]]; over 2,000 are killed.
* [[December 31]] &ndash; The first ever "[[Times Square Ball|ball drop]]" is held in [[Times Square]], in [[New York City]].
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* [[Indiana]], in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting [[compulsory sterilization]] for [[Eugenics in the United States|eugenic]] purposes on the statute book.
* The [[triode]] thermionic amplifier invented by [[Lee de Forest]], starting the development of [[electronics]] as a practical technology.
* The ''[[Autochrome Lumière]]'' is the first commercial [[color photography]] process.
* James Murray Spangler invents the first [[The Hoover Company|Hoover]] [[vacuum cleaner]].
* The [[Moine Thrust Belt]] in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peach, B. N.|author-link=Ben Peach|title=The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland|series=Memoirs of the [[Geological Survey of Great Britain]], Scotland|location=Glasgow|publisher=H.M.S.O|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
* The ''[[Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret]]'', a Danish national association for [[women's suffrage]], is founded.
* ''[[Anino ng Kahapon]]'', a [[Tagalog-language]] novel is published.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697 | title = Anino ng kahapon | language = Tagalog | last = Laksamana | first = Francisco | publisher = National Library of the Philippines | accessdate = July 3, 2011 | archive-date = March 17, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120317120853/http://koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697 | url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[Henri Matisse]] begins to teach at the ''Académie Matisse'' in Paris, a private and non-commercial [[art school]].
* A statue of [[J. E. B. Stuart]], Confederate general, is dedicated on [[Richmond, Virginia]]'s [[Monument Avenue]].
* ''[[Staviteľský robotník]]'', a Slovak language biweekly newspaper, ends publication.<ref name=p4>Ondrej Pavlík. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=zJ0bAQAAMAAJ Pedagogická encyklopédia Slovenska, Volume 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002175755/https://books.google.com/books?id=zJ0bAQAAMAAJ |date=October 2, 2023 }}''. Veda, 1984. p. 646</ref>
== Births ==
=== January ===
[[File:Ray Milland Markham 1959.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Ray Milland]]]]
[[File:Pierre Mendès France 1968.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pierre Mendès France]]]]
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* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Aftab Ali]], Bengali politician, social reformer (d. [[1972]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Ray Milland]], Welsh actor, film director (d. [[1986]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Volmari Iso-Hollo]], Finnish athlete (d. [[1969]])
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Keizō Hayashi]], Japanese civil servant, military official (d. [[1991]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Pierre Mendès France]], French politician, 142nd [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1982]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Sergei Korolev]], Russian rocket scientist (d. [[1966]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Alexander Knox]], Canadian actor, novelist (d. [[1995]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Henk Badings]], Dutch composer (d. [[1987]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Lina Haag]], German World War II resistance fighter (d. [[2012]])
* [[January 20]]
** [[Manfred von Ardenne]], German research and applied physicist, inventor (d. [[1997]])
** [[Paula Wessely]], Austrian actress (d. [[2000]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Dixie Dean]], English football player (d. [[1980]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Hideki Yukawa]], Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1981]])
* [[January 24]]
** [[Maurice Couve de Murville]], [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1999]])
** [[Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah]], King of Malaysia (d. [[1979]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Joyce Compton]], American actress (d. [[1997]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Bil Dwyer (cartoonist)|Bil Dwyer]], American cartoonist and humorist (d. [[1987]])
=== February ===
[[File:Cesar Romero 3 Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cesar Romero]]]]
[[File:Robert Young 1957.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young]]]]
[[File:Milton Caniff cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Milton Caniff]]]]
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Günter Eich]], German writer (d. [[1972]])
* [[February 5]]
** [[Birgit Dalland]], Norwegian politician (d. [[2007]])
** [[Pierre Pflimlin]], French politician (d. [[2000]])
** [[Sergio Méndez Arceo]], Roman Catholic bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca|Cuernavaca]], Mexico 1953–1983 (d. [[1992]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Russell Gleason]], American actor (d. [[1945]])
* [[February 9]]
** [[Pierre Aliker]], French-Martinican politician (d. [[2013]])
** [[Trường Chinh]], [[President of Vietnam]] (d. [[1988]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Clifton C. Edom]], American photojournalism educator (d. [[1991]])
* [[February 15]]
** [[Jean Langlais]], French composer, organist (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ann Labounsky|title=Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMoHAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-054-7|page=23|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122302/https://books.google.com/books?id=iMoHAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Cesar Romero]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Oscar Brodney]], American screenwriter (d. [[2008]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[W. H. Auden]], English poet (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stan Smith|title=W.H. Auden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90VvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3|date=October 1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-7463-0731-1|pages=3|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122241/https://books.google.com/books?id=90VvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 22]]
** [[Sheldon Leonard]], American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. [[1997]])
** [[Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young]], American actor (d. [[1998]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Kathryn Wasserman Davis]], American philanthropist (d. [[2013]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Dub Taylor]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
** [[Rosebud Yellow Robe]], Native American folklorist, educator, and author (d. [[1992]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Mildred Bailey]], American singer (d. [[1951]])<ref>{{cite book|author=American Council of Learned Societies|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tnYRAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-520635-7|page=894|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122255/https://books.google.com/books?id=tnYRAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Milton Caniff]], American cartoonist (d. [[1988]])
=== March ===
[[File:KaramanlisNatsinasAgora crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Konstantinos Karamanlis]]]]
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* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Maria Branyas Morera]], Spanish supercentenarian (d. [[2024]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Thomas McKimson]], American animator (d. [[1998]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]], Greek politician (d. [[1998]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Mircea Eliade]], Romanian religious historian, writer (d. [[1986]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Arthur Hewlett]], British actor (d. [[1997]])
** [[Dorrit Hoffleit]], American astronomer (d. [[2007]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Zarah Leander]], Swedish actress, singer (d. [[1981]])
* [[March 16]]
** [[Frances Fuller]], American actress (d. [[1980]])
** [[Hans Kleppen]], Norwegian ski jumper (d. [[2009]])
* [[March 17]]
** [[Takeo Miki]], 41st [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1988]])
** [[Jean Van Houtte]], 38th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (d. [[1991]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[John Zachary Young]], English biologist (d. [[1997]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Daniel Bovet]], Swiss-born scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1992]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Mary Treen]], American actress (d. [[1989]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Lúcia Santos]], Portuguese nun, visionary (d. [[2005]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Braguinha (composer)|Braguinha]], Brazilian songwriter (d. [[2006]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte]], German Luftwaffe officer (d. [[1994]])
=== April ===
[[File:President Germán Suárez Flamerich.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Germán Suárez Flamerich]]]]
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[[File:Fred Zinnemann 1940s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fred Zinnemann]]]]
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Shivakumara Swami]], Hindu religious figure and humanitarian (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Sanya Dharmasakti]], Thai Politician, Prime Minister (1973&ndash;1975) (d. [[2002]])
* [[April 10]]
** [[Marcel Deviq]], French Algerian engineer, businessman, and politician (d. [[1972]])
** [[Germán Suárez Flamerich]], Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th [[President of Venezuela]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[April 11]]
** [[Paul Douglas (actor)|Paul Douglas]], American actor (d. [[1959]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Felix de Weldon]], Austrian-born sculptor (d. [[2003]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Harold Stassen]], American politician (d. [[2001]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[François Duvalier]], 32nd [[President of Haiti]] (d. [[1971]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]], Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1988]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]], Canadian inventor, founder of [[Bombardier Inc.]] (d. [[1964]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Martti Miettunen|Martii Miettunen]], 2x Prime Minister of Finland (d. [[2002]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Wade Mainer]], American singer, banjoist (d. [[2011]])
* [[April 23]]
** [[James Hayter (actor)|James Hayter]], British actor (d. [[1983]])
** [[Fritz Wotruba]], Austrian sculptor (d. [[1975]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[William Sargant]], British psychiatrist (d. [[1988]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Ilias Tsirimokos]], [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (d. [[1968]])
* [[April 29]]
** [[Tino Rossi]], French singer (d. [[1983]])
** [[Fred Zinnemann]], Austrian director (d. [[1997]])
=== May ===
[[File:Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Katharine Hepburn]]]]
[[File:Muhammed Ayub Khan.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Ayub Khan]]]]
[[File:Lord Olivier 18 Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Laurence Olivier]]]]
[[File:John Wayne - still portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Wayne]]]]
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Oliver Hill (attorney)|Oliver Hill]], American lawyer (d. [[2007]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Pinky Lee]], American comedian (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Young]], American entertainer (d. [[2011]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Walter Walsh]], American FBI agent, Olympic shooter, and USMC instructor (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Iryna Vilde]], Ukrainian writer (d. [[1982]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Baldur von Schirach]], Nazi official (d. [[1974]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Kent Taylor]], American actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Katharine Hepburn]], American actress (d. [[2003]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; Dame [[Daphne du Maurier]], English author (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFddDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|date=11 November 1982|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-06127-3|pages=218}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[May 14]]
** [[Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)|Ayub Khan]], President of Pakistan (d. [[1974]])
** [[Johnny Moss]], American poker player (d. [[1995]])
** [[Bob Tisdall]], Irish Olympic athlete (d. [[2004]])
* [[May 22]]
** [[Hergé]], Belgian cartoonist (d. [[1983]])
** [[Laurence Olivier]], English stage, screen actor and director (d. [[1989]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[U Nu]], Burmese politician (d. [[1995]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[John Wayne]], American actor, film director (d. [[1979]])
* [[May 27]]
** [[Rachel Carson]], American environmental writer (d. [[1964]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Craig Waddell|title=And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWTCtG3jRc0C&pg=PA3|year=2000|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-2219-0|pages=3|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122248/https://books.google.com/books?id=UWTCtG3jRc0C&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Carl Falck]], Norwegian businessman (d. [[2016]])
* [[May 30]]
** [[Elly Beinhorn]], German pilot (d. [[2007]])
** [[Germaine Tillion]], French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. [[2008]])
=== June ===
[[File:RozRussell.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rosalind Russell]]]]
[[File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1907–1973).jpg|thumb|100px|[[J. Hans D. Jensen]]]]
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Frank Whittle]], British jet engine developer (d. [[1996]])
* [[June 4]]
** [[Rosalind Russell]], American actress (d. [[1976]])
** [[Jacques Roumain]], Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism (d. [[1944]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Peierls]], German-British physicist (d. [[1995]])
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Arthur Marshall Davis]], American judge (d. [[1963]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[René Char]], French poet (d. [[1988]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Jack Albertson]], American actor, comedian (d. [[1981]])
* [[June 19]]
** [[Bae Hee-han]], Korean master carpenter (d. 1997)
** [[Clarence Wiseman]], Salvation Army general (d. [[1985]])
** [[George de Mestral]], Swiss inventor (d. [[1990]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Wesley E. Brown]], American district court judge (d. [[2012]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[James Meade]], English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1995]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Jean Schlumberger (jewelry designer)|Jean Schlumberger]], French jewelry designer (d. [[1987]])
* [[June 25]]
** [[Franca Dominici]], Italian actress, voice actress (d. [[1999]])
** [[J. Hans D. Jensen]], German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1973]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Joan Harrison (screenwriter)|Joan Harrison]], English screenwriter, producer (d. [[1994]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[John McIntire]], American actor (d. [[1991]])
* [[June 28]]
** [[Junius Driggs]], American businessman (d. [[1994]])
** [[Franciszka Themerson]], Polish-born British artist, filmmaker (d. [[1989]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Junji Nishikawa]], Japanese football player (d. ?)
=== July ===
[[File:Frida Kahlo, by Guillermo Kahlo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frida Kahlo]]]]
[[File:heinlein-face.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Robert A. Heinlein]]]]
[[File:BarbaraS39.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Barbara Stanwyck]]]]
* [[July 3]]
** [[Horia Sima]], Romanian fascist politician (d. [[1993]])
** [[Nora Thompson Dean]], Indigenous American (Lenape) linguist (d. [[1984]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Henning Holck-Larsen]], Danish engineer and businessman (d. [[2003]])
** [[Emilio Ochoa]], Cuban dentist, politician (d. [[2007]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Frida Kahlo]], Mexican painter (d. [[1954]])
** [[George Stanley]], Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer (d. [[2002]])
* [[July 7]]
** [[Walter Dieminger]], German space scientist (d. [[2000]])
** [[Robert A. Heinlein]], American science fiction author (d. [[1988]])
** [[Pavel Sudoplatov]], Russian Lieutenant General (d. [[1996]])
** [[Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia]] (d. [[1989]])
* [[July 9]]
** [[Teresa Jungman]], English socialite (d. [[2010]])
** [[Philip Klutznick]], American administrator (d. [[1999]])
* [[July 10]]
** [[John Michaels]], American pitcher (d. [[1996]])
** [[Lê Duẩn]], Vietnamese politician (d. [[1986]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[George Weller]], American novelist, playwright, and journalist (d. [[2002]])
* [[July 14]]
** [[Annabella (actress)|Annabella]], French actress (d. [[1996]])
** [[Maria Matray]], German screenwriter and actress (d. [[1993]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Paterson Fraser]], English Royal Air Force (d. [[2001]])
** [[Shōshin Nagamine]], Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (d. [[1997]])
** [[Mona Rico]], Mexican-born American actress (d. [[1994]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Barbara Stanwyck]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Giulio Balestrini]], Italian football player (d. ?)
** [[Isabel Jewell]], American actress (d. [[1972]])
** [[Paul Magloire]], President of Haiti (d. [[2001]])
* [[July 21]]
** [[A. D. Hope]], Australian poet and essayist (d. [[2000]])
** [[Georg Rydeberg]], Swedish actor (d. [[1983]])
* [[July 22]]
** [[Jack Dennington]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[1994]])
** [[Aldo Donelli]], American football player and coach, soccer player, and college athletics administrator (d. [[1994]])
** [[Zubir Said]], Singaporean composer of Singapore's national anthem (d. [[1987]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Johnny Hodges]], American alto saxophonist (d. [[1970]])
* [[July 27]]
** [[Ross Alexander]], American actor (d. [[1937]])
** [[Richard Beesly]], British Olympic gold medal rower (d. [[1965]])
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Melvin Belli]], American lawyer (d. [[1996]])
=== August ===
[[File:Ernesto Geisel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ernesto Geisel]]]]
[[File:Yang Shangkun 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Yang Shangkun]]]]
[[File:Lurene Tuttle 1947.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Lurene Tuttle]]]]
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* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth Johansen]], Greenlandic midwife and politician (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Mary Hamman]], American writer and editor (d. [[1984]])
* [[August 3]]
** [[Ernesto Geisel]], 29th [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1996]])
** [[Yang Shangkun]], 4th [[President of the People's Republic of China]] (d. [[1998]])
** [[Irene Tedrow]], American actress (d. [[1995]])
* [[August 7]]
**[[Bernard Brodie (biochemist)|Bernard Brodie]], English-American chemist and "founder of modern pharmacology" (d. [[1989]])
**[[Albert Kotin]], American painter (d. [[1980]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Benny Carter]], American musician (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Joe Besser]], American comedian (d. [[1988]])
** [[Benjamin Sheares]], 2nd President of Singapore (d. [[1981]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor|Viscount William Waldorf Astor]], British politician (d. [[1966]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Stanley Adams (singer)|Stanley Adams]], American lyricist and songwriter (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Bob and Alf Pearson|Bob Pearson]], British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. [[1985]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Alan Reed]], American actor and voice actor (d. [[1977]])
* [[August 21]]
** [[John G. Trump]], American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (d. [[1985]])
** [[Hy Zaret]], American lyricist and composer (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/03zaret.html | title=Hy Zaret, 99, Tin Pan Alley Lyricist, Is Dead | work=[[New York Times]] | date=July 3, 2007 | first=Douglas | last=Martin | access-date=2007-07-03 | archive-date=August 10, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810002754/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/03zaret.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 24]]
**[[Bruno Giacometti]], Swiss architect (d. [[2012]])
**[[Gil Perkins]], Australian actor and stuntman (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Rupert Hart-Davis]], British publisher (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Lurene Tuttle]], American character actress (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 31]]
** [[Argentina Brunetti]], Argentinian actress and writer (d. [[2005]])
** [[Augustus F. Hawkins]], American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. [[2007]])
** [[Ramon Magsaysay]], 7th [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[1957]])
=== September ===
[[File:Wray, Fay 01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fay Wray]]]]
[[File:Warren e burger photo.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Warren E. Burger]]]]
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[[File:Gene Autry.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Gene Autry]]]]
* [[September 2]]
** [[Evelyn Hooker]], American psychologist (d. [[1996]])
** [[Miriam Seegar]], American actress (d. [[2011]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Loren Eiseley]], American author (d. [[1977]])
* [[September 4]]
** [[Frances Griffiths]], ''Cottingley Fairies'' girl (d. [[1986]])
** [[Reggie Nalder]], Austrian actor (d. [[1991]])
* [[September 12]]
** [[Spud Chandler]], American baseball player (d. [[1990]])
** [[Louis MacNeice]], Northern Irish poet (d. [[1963]])
* [[September 15]]
** [[Jimmy Wallington]], American radio personality (d. [[1972]])
** [[Fay Wray]], Canadian-born actress (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Warren E. Burger]], 15th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[1995]])
* [[September 18]]
** [[Leon Askin]], Austrian actor (d. [[2005]])
** [[Elza Brandeisz]], Hungarian dancer, teacher (d. [[2018]])
** [[Edwin McMillan]], American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1991]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Lewis F. Powell Jr.]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1998]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Maurice Blanchot]], French philosopher, writer (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 23]]
**[[Anne Desclos]], French journalist and author (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Flower |first1=John |title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature |date=17 January 2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4 |pages=44–45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |language=en |access-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-date=April 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421095419/https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |url-status=live }}</ref>
**[[Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza|Duarte Nuno]], Duke of Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. [[1976]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[Anthony Blunt]], British art historian, spy (d. [[1983]])
** [[Bep van Klaveren]], Dutch boxer (d. [[1992]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Zhang Chongren]], Chinese artist (d. [[1998]])
** [[Bhagat Singh]], Indian revolutionary (d. [[1931]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Heikki Savolainen (gymnast)|Heikki Savolainen]], Finnish artistic gymnast (d. [[1997]])
* [[September 29]]
** [[Gene Autry]], American actor, singer, and businessman (d. [[1998]])
** [[George W. Jenkinsat]], American businessman (d. [[1996]])
=== October ===
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[[File:Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1964) (Non-Sepia).png|thumb|100px|[[Víctor Paz Estenssoro]]]]
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Ödön Pártos]], Hungarian-Israeli violist, composer (d. [[1977]])
* [[October 2]]
** [[Alexander R. Todd]], Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd {{!}} British biochemist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Robertus-Todd-Baron-Todd |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 September 2021 |language=en |archive-date=September 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925051202/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Robertus-Todd-Baron-Todd |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Víctor Paz Estenssoro]], 45th [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[2001]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Mrs. Miller|Elva Ruby Miller]], American singer (d. [[1997]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Francisco Gabilondo Soler]], Mexican singer, composer (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone|Lord Hailsham]], British politician (d. [[2001]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Varian Fry]], American journalist, rescuer (d. [[1967]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[John Marley]], American actor (d. [[1984]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Roger Wolfe Kahn]], American bandleader (d. [[1962]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Arlene Francis]], Amcerican actress (d. [[2001]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Rafael Godoy]], Colombian composer (d. [[1973]])
* [[October 28]]
** [[John Hewitt (poet)|John Hewitt]], Irish poet (d. [[1987]])
** [[Sergio Méndez Arceo]], 7th Mexican bishop of [[Cuernavaca]] 1953–1982, and advocate of [[Liberation theology]] (d. [[1991]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx/Diocesis_de_Cuernavaca/Mendez.html |title=Mons. Sergio Méndez Arceo (1952-1983) Septimo Obispo |publisher=Diócesis de Cuernavaca |access-date=Jan 14, 2019 |language=es |trans-title=Mons. Sergio Mendez Arceo, seventh bishop (1952-1983) |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004035/http://www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx/Diocesis_de_Cuernavaca/Mendez.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Sol Tax]], American anthropologist (d. [[1995]])
=== November ===
[[File:Lindgren 1960.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Astrid Lindgren]]]]
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* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Homero Manzi]], Argentine tango lyricist, author (d. [[1951]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Charles Woodruff Yost|Charles W. Yost]], American ambassador (d. [[1981]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Dumitru Coliu]], Romanian communist activist and politician (d. [[1979]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia]] (d. [[1994]])
* [[November 10]]
**[[John Moore (British author)|John Moore]], British author (d. [[1967]])
**[[Salme Reek]], Estonian actress (d. [[1996]])
* [[November 11]]
** [[Viktoria Brezhneva]], [[First Lady of the Soviet Union]] (d. [[1995]])
** [[Günter Fronius]], Transylvanian Saxon entrepreneur (d. [[2015]])
* [[November 14]]
** [[Howard W. Hunter]], 14th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1995]])
** [[Astrid Lindgren]], Swedish children's writer (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kim A. Summers|author2=Sally M. Walker|title=The Teacher's Calendar, School Year 2000-2001: The Day-by-day Directory to Holidays, Historic Events, Birthdays and Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESUSAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-2521-7|page=72|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122242/https://books.google.com/books?id=ESUSAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[William Steig]], American cartoonist (d. [[2003]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg]], German aristocrat, military officer (d. [[1944]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Burgess Meredith]], American actor, director (d. [[1997]])
* [[November 18]]
** [[Compay Segundo]], Cuban musician (d. [[2003]])
** [[Gustav Nezval]], Czech actor (d. [[1998]])
* [[November 19]]
** [[Luigi Beccali]], Italian Olympic athlete (d. [[1990]])
** [[Hans Liska]], Austrian-German artist (d. [[1983]])<ref name="grieb">Manfred H. Grieb: ''Liska, Hans''. In: ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und Mäzene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Walter de Gruyter, 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-11-091296-8}}, p. 930 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=hoRcf4LFZUcC&dq=HANS+LISKA&pg=PA930 books.google.de] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405141839/https://books.google.com/books?id=hoRcf4LFZUcC&dq=HANS+LISKA&pg=PA930 |date=April 5, 2023 }} - preview).</ref>
* [[November 21]] – [[Ben C. Duniway]], American judge whom served on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] from 1961 until 1986 (d. [[1986]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Run Run Shaw]], Hong Kong media mogul (d. [[2014]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Ruth Patrick]], American botanist (d. [[2013]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[L. Sprague de Camp]], American writer (d. [[2000]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Alberto Moravia]], Italian novelist (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Giuliano Dego|title=Moravia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=60w_AAAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Barnes & Noble|page=2|isbn=9789070077068|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122251/https://books.google.com/books?id=60w_AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Katharine Bartlett]], American physical anthropologist, museum curator (d. [[2001]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Jacques Barzun]], French-born American historian (d. [[2012]])
=== December ===
[[File:Oscar Niemeyer 1968b.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Oscar Niemeyer]]]]
[[File:James Roosevelt-Harris & Ewing.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Roosevelt]]]]
[[File:Cab Calloway.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cab Calloway]]]]
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Joey Aiuppa]], American mobster (d. [[1997]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Lin Biao]], Chinese communist military leader (d. [[1971]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Helli Stehle]], Swiss actress, radio presenter (d. [[2017]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Lucien Laurent]], French footballer (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Roy Douglas]], British composer (d. [[2015]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Beatriz Costa]], Portuguese actress (d. [[1996]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Oscar Niemeyer]], Brazilian architect (d. [[2012]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Barbara Kent]], Canadian silent film actress (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Irish-born boxer (d. [[2004]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Peggy Ashcroft]], British actress (d. [[1991]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[James Roosevelt]], American businessman, politician (d. [[1991]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Cab Calloway]], American jazz singer and bandleader (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce Kellner|title=The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoIYAAAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-23232-9|page=65|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122405/https://books.google.com/books?id=HoIYAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Glenn McCarthy]], American oil tycoon, businessman (d. [[1988]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Johann Wilhelm Trollmann]], German boxer (d. [[1943]])
== Deaths ==
=== January ===
[[File:Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906) (14763794285).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]]]]
[[File:Imckinley.jpeg|thumb|110px|[[Ida Saxton McKinley]]]]
[[File:DIMendeleevCab.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Dmitri Mendeleev]]]]
[[File:Henri Moissan HiRes.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Henri Moissan]]]]
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]], [[Shah of Iran]] (b. [[1853]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Jakob Hurt]], Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist (b. [[1839]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Hermann Iseke]], German doctor (b. [[1856]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Saracco]], 15th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Graziadio Isaia Ascoli]], Italian linguist (b. [[1829]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Timothy Eaton]], Canadian department store founder (b. [[1834]])
=== February ===
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], Russian chemist (b. [[1834]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Preston Leslie]], 26th [[Governor of Kentucky]] and 9th territorial Governor of Montana (b. [[1819]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Muriel Robb]], English tennis player (b. [[1878]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Marcel Alexandre Bertrand]], French geologist (b. [[1847]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Giosuè Carducci]], Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1835]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Italy; Documents and Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jgbAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Centro di documentazione|page=346|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122252/https://books.google.com/books?id=7jgbAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Clémentine of Orléans]], daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. [[1817]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Henry Steel Olcott]], American officer, theosophist (b. [[1832]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Henri Moissan]], French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Erik Gustaf Boström]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (b. [[1842]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[C. W. Alcock]], English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. [[1842]])
=== March ===
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Oronhyatekha]], Canadian Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society, native statesman, scholar, rights campaigner and international shooter (b. [[1841]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Charlotta Raa-Winterhjelm]], Swedish actress (b. [[1838]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Frederic George Stephens]], English art critic (b. [[1828]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn]], Welsh industrialist (b. [[1836]])
* [[March 11]]
** [[Jean Casimir-Perier]], 6th President of France (b. [[1847]])
** [[Dimitar Petkov]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (assassinated) (b. [[1847]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Marcellin Berthelot]], French chemist (b. [[1827]])
* [[March 19]]
** [[Thomas Bailey Aldrich]], American poet and novelist (b. [[1836]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Francis Fisher Browne|title=The Dial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcBPAAAAYAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Jansen, McClurg|page=211}}</ref>
** [[Mariano Baptista]], 23rd [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1832]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Konstantin Pobedonostsev]], Russian statesman (b. [[1827]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Ernst von Bergmann]], Baltic German surgeon (b. [[1836]])
=== April ===
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[William Henry Drummond]], Irish-Canadian poet (b. [[1854]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Frank Manly Thorn]], American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor, and 6th Superintendent of the [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey]] (b. [[1836]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Alferd Packer]], American cannibal (b. [[1842]])
=== May ===
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta]], American poet (b. [[1834]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[John Watts de Peyster]], American author, philanthropist, and soldier (b. [[1821]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Emanuele Luigi Galizia]], Maltese architect, civil engineer (b. [[1830]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], French author (b. [[1848]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; Sir [[Benjamin Baker (engineer)|Benjamin Baker]], English civil engineer (b. [[1840]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Ida Saxton McKinley]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1847]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Kevork Chavush]], Armenian national hero (b. [[1870]])
=== June ===
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Agathe Backer-Grøndahl]], Norwegian pianist and composer (b. [[1847]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[J. A. Chatwin]], English architect (b. [[1830]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Bartolomé Masó]], Cuban patriot (b. [[1830]])
** [[William Le Baron Jenney]], American architect, engineer (b. [[1832]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Hod Stuart]], Canadian professional ice hockey player, killed in diving accident (b. [[1879]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[John Hall (New Zealand)|Sir John Hall]], 12th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. [[1824]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Cercha]], Polish painter and drawer (b. [[1818]])
=== July ===
[[File:Sully Prudhomme, René-François-Armand, BNF Gallica.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Sully Prudhomme]]]]
[[File:Ilia Chavchavadze by Alexander Roinashvili (digitally colorized).png|thumb|110px|Saint [[Ilia Chavchavadze]]]]
[[File:Kalinowski1897.jpg|thumb|110px|Saint [[Raphael Kalinowski]]]]
[[File:King Oscar II of Sweden in uniform.png|thumb|110px|King [[Oscar II of Sweden]]]]
[[File:Baron Kelvin 1906.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]]]]
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Kreutz]], German astronomer (b. [[1854]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[William Henry Perkin|Sir William Perkin]], English chemist (b. [[1838]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Qiu Jin]], Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet, executed (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham]], American travel writer (b. [[1840]])
=== August ===
* [[August]] &ndash; [[Dinqinesh Mercha]], empress consort of Ethiopia (b. [[1815]])
* [[August 1]]
** [[Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown]], American physician and writer (b. [[1843]])
** [[Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro]], 3-time [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1849]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]], Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. [[1848]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam|Richard Meade, Lord Gilford]], British admiral (b. [[1832]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Hermann Carl Vogel]], German astrophysicist (b. [[1841]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Joseph Joachim]], Austrian violinist (b. [[1831]])
* [[August 25]]
**[[Mary Elizabeth Coleridge]], British poet, novelist (b. [[1861]])
** [[Alexandre Franquet]], French admiral (b. [[1828]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Richard Mansfield]], Anglo-American actor (b. [[1857]])
=== September ===
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Edvard Grieg]], Norwegian composer (b. [[1843]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Sully Prudhomme]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1839]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Ernest Roland Wilberforce]], English bishop (b. [[1840]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Ilia Chavchavadze]], Georgian writer, [[Priesthood (Eastern Orthodox Church)|Orthodox priest]] and saint (b. [[1837]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[William Wales (optician)]], English-American inventor (b. {{circa}} [[1838]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Jacob Morenga]], Namibian rebel leader (b. [[1875]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Wilbur Olin Atwater]], American chemist (b. [[1844]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[John Charles Ardagh|Sir John Ardagh]], British army general (b. [[1840]])
=== October ===
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Adolf Furtwängler]], German archaeologist, historian (b. [[1853]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Caroline Dana Howe]], American author (b. [[1824]])
=== November ===
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Alfred Jarry]], French writer (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[James Hector|Sir James Hector]], Scottish geologist (b. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dell |first1=R.K. |title=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |date=1990 |publisher=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james |access-date=13 October 2021 |chapter=Hector, James |archive-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328015221/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Andrew Inglis Clark]], Australian jurist and politician (b. [[1848]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Raphael Kalinowski]], Polish [[Discalced Carmelite]] friar and saint (b. [[1835]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Robert I, Duke of Parma]], last ruling Duke of Parma (b. [[1848]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Francis McClintock|Sir Francis McClintock]], Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy (b. [[1819]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Paula Modersohn-Becker]], German painter (b. [[1876]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Asaph Hall]], American astronomer (b. [[1829]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Naimuddin]], Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (b. [[1832]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen]], Danish explorer (b. [[1872]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Wyspiański]], Polish writer, painter and architect (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Levy]], German architect (b. [[1854]])
=== December ===
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Luis Sáenz Peña]], 12th [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1822]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; King [[Oscar II of Sweden]] (b. [[1829]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Carola of Vasa]], queen consort of Saxony (b. [[1833]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]], Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. [[1824]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird]], American author (b. [[1826]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Klara Hitler]], Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (b. [[1860]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Pierre Janssen]], French astronomer (b. [[1824]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Kate Stone]], American diarist (b. [[1841]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Jules de Trooz]], 18th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1857]])
=== Date unknown ===
* [[Ellen Russell Emerson]], American ethnologist (b. [[1837]])
* [[Sarah Gibson Humphreys]], American author and suffragist (b. [[1830]])
* [[Joseph Stannah]], Founder of [[Stannah Lifts]] (b. [[1836]])
== Nobel Prizes ==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] &ndash; [[Albert Abraham Michelson]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] &ndash; [[Eduard Buchner]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] &ndash; [[Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] &ndash; [[Rudyard Kipling]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] &ndash; [[Ernesto Teodoro Moneta]], [[Louis Renault (jurist)|Louis Renault]]
== References ==
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==Further reading==
* Gilbert, Martin. ''A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933'' (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 143–57.
* ''International Year Book: 1907'' (1908) 1002pp, worldwide coverage [https://books.google.com/books?id=C2AMAAAAYAAJ online edition]
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