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== Births ==
=== January – June ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Charles Bickford]], American actor (d. [[1967]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Zora Neale Hurston]], Harlem Renaissance writer (d. [[1960]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Walther Bothe]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[1957]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Antonio Gramsci]], Italian Communist writer and politician (d. [[1937]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Ilya Ehrenburg]], Russian writer (d. [[1967]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Ronald Colman]], English actor (d. [[1958]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Jack Hearne (John William Hearne)|J.W. Hearne]], English cricketer (d. [[1965]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Sean Heuston]], Irish rebel (d. [[1916]])
* [[February 27]] – [[David Sarnoff]], Russian-born American broadcasting pioneer (d. [[1971]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Sam Jaffe (actor)|Sam Jaffe]], American actor (d. [[1984]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Earl Warren]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[1974]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Yvan Goll]], French lyricist and dramatist (d. [[1950]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Max Ernst]], German painter (d. [[1976]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Ole Kirk Christiansen]], founder of the Lego group (d. [[1958]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Nella Larsen]], American novelist (d. [[1964]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Wallace Reid]], American actor (d. [[1923]])
* [[April 17]] – [[George Adamski]], Polish-born alleged UFO traveler (d. [[1965]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Sergei Prokofiev]], Soviet composer (d. [[1953]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Harry McShane]], Scottish socialist (d. [[1988]])
* [[May 15]]
** [[Mikhail Bulgakov]], Russian writer (d. [[1940]])
** [[Fritz Feigl]], Austrian-born chemist (d. [[1971]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Richard Tauber]], Austrian tenor (d. [[1948]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Rudolf Carnap]], German philosopher (d. [[1970]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Oswald Boelcke]], German World War I pilot (d. [[1916]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Eddie Edwards]], American jazz trombonist (d. [[1963]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Pär Lagerkvist]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])
* [[May 24]] – [[William F. Albright]], American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. [[1971]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Cole Porter]], American composer and songwriter (d. [[1964]])
* [[June 20]] – [[John A. Costello]], second [[President of Ireland]] (d. [[1976]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Hermann Scherchen]], German conductor (d. [[1966]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Carl Panzram]], [[serial killer]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Man Mountain Dean]], American professional wrestler (d. [[1953]])

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* [[July 5]] – [[John Howard Northrop]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1987]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky]], Russian literary historian, linguist (d. [[1971]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Emiliano Mercado del Toro]], Puerto Rican, longest-lived war veteran ever and last verified person born in 1891 (d. [[2007]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Bessie Delany]], African American physician and writer (d. [[1995]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Pedro Albizu Campos]], advocate of Puerto Rican independence (d. [[1965]])
* [[September 14]] – [[William F. Friedman]], American cryptographer (d. [[1969]])
* [[September 16]]
** <!--September 16-->[[Karl Dönitz]], [[President of Germany]] (d. [[1980]])
** <!--September 16-->[[Stephanie von Hohenlohe]], Austrian-born German World War II spy (d. [[1972]])
** <!--September 16-->[[Julie Winnefred Bertrand]], Canadian supercentenarian (d. [[2007]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Charles Munch]], French conductor and violinist (d. [[1968]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Myrtle Gonzalez]], American movie and stage actress (d. [[1918]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Fumimaro Konoe]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1945]])
* [[October 20]] – [[James Chadwick]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Rafael Leónidas Trujillo]], dictator of the Dominican Republic (d. [[1961]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Frederick Banting]], Canadian physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1941]])
* [[November 15]]
** <!--November 15-->[[Vincent Astor]], American philanthropist (d. [[1959]])
** <!--November 15-->[[Erwin Rommel]], German field marshal (d. [[1944]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Gregorio Perfecto]], Filipino jurist & politician (d. [[1949]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Maksim Bahdanovič]], Belarusian poet (d. [[1917]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Nelly Sachs]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Henry Miller]], American writer (d. [[1980]])

== Deaths ==
=== January – June ===
* [[January 5]] – [[Emma Abbott]], American opera singer (b. [[1849]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Léo Delibes]], French composer (b. [[1836]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Calixa Lavallée]], Canadian composer (b. [[1842]])
* [[February 14]] – [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], American Civil War General (b. [[1820]])
[[March 15]]
** <!--March 15-->[[Théodore de Banville]], French writer (b. [[1823]])
** <!--March 15-->[[Joseph Bazalgette|Sir Joseph Bazalgette]], English civil engineer (b. [[1819]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Georges Seurat]], French painter (b. [[1859]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Ahmed Vefik Pasha]], Turkish statesman (b. [[1823]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Phineas Taylor Barnum|P. T. Barnum]], American showman (b. [[1810]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder]], Prussian field marshal (b. [[1800]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Nathaniel Woodard]], educationalist (b. [[1811]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]], Russian-born writer and theosophist (b. [[1831]])
* [[June 6]] – [[John A. MacDonald]], first [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1815]])

=== July – December ===
* [[July 4]] – [[Hannibal Hamlin]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1809]])
* [[August 12]] – [[James Russell Lowell]], American poet and essayist (b. [[1819]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Sarah Childress Polk]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1803]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Pierre Lallement]], French inventor of the [[bicycle]] (b. [[1843]]?)
* [[September 7]] – [[Lorenzo Sawyer]], 9th Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of California]] (b. [[1820]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Antero de Quental]], Portuguese poet (b. [[1842]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Ivan Goncharov]], Russian writer (b. [[1812]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Herman Melville]], American novelist (b. [[1819]])
* [[October 6]]
** [[Charles I of Württemberg]] (b. [[1823]])
** [[Charles Stewart Parnell]], Irish nationalist leader (b. [[1846]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Gilbert Arthur a Beckett]], English writer (b. [[1837]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Ambrosius of Optina]], Russian Orthodox saint (b. [[1812]])
* [[November 6]] – [[J. Gregory Smith]], Vermont governor (b. [[1818]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Arthur Rimbaud]], French poet (b. [[1854]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Pedro II of Brazil|Pedro II]], Brazilian deposed emperor (b. [[1826]])

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