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Calendar overview 1907
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| 1907 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1355/56 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1899/1900 (September 11/12) |
| Baha'i calendar | 63/64 (20/21 March) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1312/13 (beginning of the year April 14 or 15) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2450/51 (Southern Buddhism); 2449/50 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Fire Sheep 丁未 ( from February 13 , before that Fire Horse丙午) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1269/70 (April turn of the year) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4240/41 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| Iranian calendar | 1285/86 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1324/25 (February 13/14) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 40 (
明治40年); Koki 2567 |
| Jewish calendar | 5667/68 (8/9 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 1623/24 (September 11/12) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1082/83 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1322/23 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2217/18 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 2218/19 (October turn of the year) |
| Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar) | 2449/50 (April 1) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1963/64 (April) |
events
politics and world affairs
alliance politics in Europe
- March 21: The United Kingdom rejects proposals to build a tunnel under the English Channel , fearing a French invasion despite the Entente Cordiale .
- April 8: The visit of the British King Edward VII to Alfonso XIII. in Cartagena is preparing the exchange of notes agreed on May 16 as the Cartagena Agreement , with which Spain is moving closer to the Entente.
- May 16: Agreement of Cartagena (1907) between Spain, Great Britain and France
- July 1: Germany , Austria-Hungary and Italy extend their Triple Alliance for another six years.
- October 31st: The Entente cordiale is extended by Russia to the Triple Entente .
Switzerland
- January 1: Eduard Müller becomes President of Switzerland for the second time .
- 10 December: The Civil Code is passed in Switzerland. The reform of private law comes into force on January 1, 1912.
German Empire/Denmark
- January 9: The law concerning copyright in works of fine art and photography is enacted in Germany. Its importance today lies primarily in its regulations on the right to one's own image .
- January 11: Germany and Denmark sign the Optantenververtrag , which gives Danes in North Schleswig the choice of German or Danish citizenship .
- January 25: In the so-called “ Hottentot election ” at the 12th German Reichstag, the SPD loses almost half of its mandates due to constituency agreements between the other parties . Bernhard von Bülow thus remains Chancellor of the German Empire . The election is referred to as the “Hottentot election” because the election campaign is determined by the Herero War in the colony of German South West Africa , but above all by the Nama uprising that was associated with it , who are pejoratively referred to as “ Hottentots ”.
- April 27: Beginning of the Harden-Eulenburg affair in the German Reich
- October 12: Karl Liebknecht is sentenced to one and a half years in prison for his work Militarism and Antimilitarism .
- March 16: The Social Democratic Party of Finland wins the first parliamentary elections in Finland , then still a part of Russia . For the first time in Europe, women also have the right to vote and stand for election. The Parliament, made up of 200 members, including 19 women, meets for the first time on May 25th.
- December 8: After the death of Oscar II , his eldest son Gustav V becomes King of Sweden . He refuses a coronation ceremony, making him the country's first "uncrowned" king.
Other events in Europe
- February 8: Bloody peasant uprisings against large landowners and Jews break out in the Romanian part of Moldova . Because of the rapid spread to other regions, a state of siege is imposed across the country in March. Around 11,000 farmers die when the uprising is suppressed.
- 9 February: 3,000 British suffragettes demonstrate in London for women's suffrage , led by Lady Frances Balfour and Lady Millicent Garrett Fawcett .
- May 14: In the Imperial Council elections in Cisleithania , the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary , general, secret and direct male suffrage applies for the first time. Women are still not allowed to vote. The Christian -Social and Social -Democratic mass parties achieved outstanding success.
- Prohibition begins in the Faroe Islands .
Canada
- September 11: Bloody riots in the Canadian port city of Vancouver – the riots are directed against Japanese immigrants who are being driven from their jobs by whites. When the Japanese fight back, whites storm the Asian neighborhood and burn it down.
United States of America
- January 23: Charles Curtis becomes the first Native American politician to be elected to the US Senate.
- February 8: The US takes over financial control of the Dominican Republic under an agreement signed in Santo Domingo . The country is heavily indebted.
- November 16: The Oklahoma Territory is united with the Indian Territory and incorporated under the name of Oklahoma as the 46th state in the United States of America .
- December 16: The Great White Fleet embarks on a circumnavigation of the world . The US Atlantic Fleet is to demonstrate the naval power of the United States with steam-powered ships of the line.
Central America
- December 20: At the end of the Central American Peace Conference in Washington DC, Nicaragua , Costa Rica , El Salvador , Honduras and Guatemala agree to set up the Central American Court of Justice, the first international court in legal history . Nicaragua's treaty withdrawal later ended the court's existence in 1918.
South America
- December 21: During the Iquique massacre , several hundred to 3,600 striking workers in the Chilean saltpeter industry and their families are shot dead by the military.
Africa
- February 23: Boers win overwhelming victory in first general election in Britain 's Transvaal .
- August 5: Casablanca is bombarded by two French warships that have arrived to appease xenophobic unrest .
Central Asia
- January 19: Mohammed Ali Shah is crowned Shah of Persia as the sixth ruler of the Qajars . He is trying to reverse the constitutional reforms made by his father Mozaffar ad-Din Shah , who died on January 9, and to govern the country in an absolutist manner without regard to parliament. He is supported in this by the conservative clergy, who reject the newly introduced democratic institutions as too secular and too Western.
- August 31: In the Treaty of Saint Petersburg , Great Britain and Russia coordinate their spheres of interest in Central Asia . Persia is divided into three zones. Afghanistan becomes the British zone of influence. Tibet is declared a neutral zone in the Anglo-Russian Convention (1907) . China's claims are recognized.
East Asia
- July 19: Treaty between Russia and Japan : Japan annexes Korea and southern part of Manchuria , Russia annexes northern Manchuria.
- July 19: Korean Emperor Gojong is forced to abdicate by Japan. Reason: He had sent a Korean delegation to the Hague Peace Conference to liberate Korea from Japanese dependence.
- July 24: Korea is forced to sign an annexation treaty, becoming a Japanese protectorate .
Other events in Asia
- March 23: Siam cedes the provinces of Battambang , Sisophon and Siem Reap in western Cambodia to France by treaty .
- March to November: Chulalongkorn , King of Siam , makes his second European voyage.
- December 17: Ugyen Wangchuk is crowned 1st King of Bhutan .
International Conferences
- June 15: Second Hague Peace Conference (until October 18) with 44 participating States on questions of martial law, disarmament and the peaceful settlement of international conflicts.
- Congress of the Second International in Stuttgart
business
Panic of 1907
Crowds on Wall Street in October 1907
- March 14: The New York Stock Exchange sells shares, which are reflected in the Dow Jones index with a minus of 8.29 percent. The uncertainty of the investors leads to the panic of 1907 in the autumn .
- October 21: New York's National Bank of Commerce stops accepting drafts from Bank Knickerbocker Trust Company . Deposit recalls from unsettled investors make the bank illiquid . The panic that broke out in 1907 spread further.
- As the leader of a group of investors, the entrepreneur JP Morgan buys large amounts of government bonds and thus saves the USA from national bankruptcy.
start-ups
- January 23: Deutsche gummi AG (later: Ekona AG ) is founded in Berlin. The company operates plantations in the German colony of Cameroon.
- February 17: The Bell & Howell corporation is formed in Chicago. It produces film equipment.
- March 27: The luxury department store Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) opens in Berlin-Schoeneberg . In the same year, the Hotel Adlon and the Strandbad Wannsee also open in Berlin .
- In Switzerland, Colonel Jakob Spreng from Bern founds Securitas AG .
- Shell is the result of a merger between NV Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company), The Hague, and The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company plc, London.
traffic
- 1 October: Uniformly attached motor vehicle registration plates are introduced in the German Reich.
- October 26: The Langenthal-Jura-Bahn , based in Langenthal , opens its meter-gauge railway line, mostly in the canton of Bern , from Langenthal via Niederbipp to Oensingen Schulhaus in the canton of Solothurn . When it opened, the route was fully electrified with 1200 volts direct current .
- At Patiala in British India , the Patiala State Monorail Trainways construct the world's only steam-powered monorail , utilizing the Ewing system developed by William Thorold .
- In Sweden, the first section of the inland railway begins.
Other Economic Events
- Henkel launched the detergent Persil in Germany.
- October 26: The “ HOMA ” brand for margarine is entered in the German commercial register.
science and technology
- May 7th: The animal dealer Carl Hagenbeck founds the first zoo in the world without bars in Stellingen , north of Hamburg , on the basis of a patent , which still exists today as Tierpark Hagenbeck . This founding is in competition with the Zoological Garden in Hamburg and is soon boycotted by a majority of German zoological gardens
- June 10: In France, color photos of the brothers Louis Jean and Auguste Lumière are published for the first time.
- June 15: The Urania observatory in Zurich , the first public observatory in Switzerland, is opened to the public after two years of renovation work.
- July 14: The Alpine Museum in Munich is founded.
The Nimrod the day before departure
- August 5: British Nimrod Expedition , commanded by Ernest Shackleton , leaves the Isle of Wight for Antarctica .
- September 11: The astronomer August Kopff discovers the asteroid (646) Kastalia in Heidelberg .
- October 21: Worker Daniel Hartmann finds the lower jaw of Mauer , the roughly 600,000-year-old type specimen of the hominin species Homo heidelbergensis , in a sand pit in Mauer near Heidelberg . The Heidelberg private scholar Otto Schoetensack had been urging the sand pit workers to look out for fossils for 20 years after the well-preserved skull of a forest elephant was unearthed in this sand pit in 1887. Schoetensack also taught the workers the appearance of human bones using recent examples and frequently checked the sand pit "for traces of humans".
- November 13th: The Frenchman Paul Cornu , with his “flying bicycle”, succeeds in making the world's first flight of a helicopter at a height of 30 cm above the ground and lasting 20 seconds.
- The Cornell expedition to Asia Minor and the Assyrian-Babylonian Orient begins.
- The Hamburg water tower Sander Dickkopp is built.
- Archaeologist Aurel Stein discovers the first printed version of the Diamond Sutra , dating from 868, in the Mogao Caves in China .
Culture
architecture
- February 6: The Weinhaus Rheingold in Berlin, built by the architect Bruno Schmitz in just two years, is opened. It can accommodate 4000 guests.
Visual arts
Joseph DeCamp : Sally , ca. 1907
Holger Drachmann : View from my studio, snowstorm, December 26, 1906
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Seated Lady (Dodo)
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- Gustav Klimt portrays the entrepreneur 's wife Adele Bloch-Bauer in the work Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
- Pablo Picasso : Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
- The Neue Schackgalerie is built in Munich.
- Founded the artist group Fitzroy Street Group .
literature
- Autobiography The Education of Henry Adams in Washington, DC
- Joseph Conrad 's secret agent in London
- Poem cycle The Seventh Ring by Stefan George in Berlin
- The Return of the Prodigal Son by André Gide in Paris
- Einhart der Slächler by Carl Hauptmann in Berlin (the role model for the hero is Otto Mueller )
- New poems by Rainer Maria Rilke in Leipzig
- Naturalistic novel Der Flachsacker by Stijn Streuvels in Amsterdam
- Development novel Siblings Tanner by Robert Walser in Berlin
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal publishes the dialogue fear in the Neue Rundschau . The Dancers' Conversation .
- Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov : The Red Star
music and theatre
- January 7: The world premiere of the operetta Mitislaw der Moderne by Franz Lehár at Kabaret Hölle in the Theater an der Wien , Vienna
- January 17: The premiere of the opera Le maschere by Pietro Mascagni takes place at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano .
- 26 January: John Millington Synge's tragic comedy The Playboy of the Western World premieres at Dublin's Abbey Theater and causes an uproar from the audience.
- February 7: World premiere of Jules Massenet's opera Thérèse in Monte Carlo
- February 20: World premiere of the opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (Orig.: Skasani je o newidimom grade Kiteshe i dewe Febronii ) by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov at the Court Opera in Saint Petersburg
- February 21: First performance of the comic opera Romeo and Juliet in the Village by Frederick Delius at the Komische Oper Berlin
- February 22: Premiere of the early Expressionist drama The Life of Man by Leonid Andreyev in Saint Petersburg
- March 2: The operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus with the libretto by Felix Dörmann is premiered at the Carl-Theater in Vienna.
- April 15: First performance of the opera Gloria by Francesco Cilea at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano
- 17 April: The play Ein Traumspiel , a 'dramatic-lyrical fantasy' by August Strindberg , premieres at the Svenska Teatern in Stockholm.
- 10 May: Premiere of the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleu ( Bluebeard ) by Paul Dukas at the Paris Opéra-Comique (libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck )
- July 27: The premiere of the operetta Der fidele Bauer by Leo Fall takes place in Mannheim under the direction of Robert Stolz . The libretto of the work from the Silver Operetta era is by Victor Léon .
- October 26: Premiere of the opera Die rote Gred by Julius Bittner in Frankfurt am Main
- 2 November: The world premiere of Leo Fall 's operetta Die Dollarprinzessin takes place at the Carltheater in Vienna. The libretto of the piece, which belongs to the silver era of operettas , was written by the author duo Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum .
- December 17: The operetta Die Försterchristl by Georg Jarno is premiered at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna with Johanna Niese in the title role.
Others
- January 30: The Korsør Biograf Teater opens in the Danish town of Korsør . It is now the oldest cinema in the world that is still in use .
- May 8th: Construction work to transform the shore of Wannsee into a lido begins.
- October 6: The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Munich .
- The Ben Hur film adaptation by Sidney Olcott triggers the first plagiarism lawsuit in film history because of unresolved copyrights to Lewis Wallace 's bestseller.
- George K. Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson found the film production company Essanay in Chicago
society
- January 6: Maria Montessori , creator of Montessori pedagogy , opens her first children's home, the Casa dei Bambini , in the Roman working-class district of San Lorenzo .
- July 6: The theft of the Irish Crown Jewels kept in Dublin Castle is discovered. The case will never be solved.
- 31 July - 9 August: The world 's first Scout camp is held on Brownsea Island in southern Britain, led by Robert Baden-Powell . 22 boys from different social classes take part. To cover up the differences in status, everyone wears the same uniform.
- Nurse Florence Nightingale is the first woman in Britain to receive a Royal Order .
- 1907/1908: Josef Friedrich Schmidt develops the parlor game that is based on the Indian game Pachisi .
religion
- January 6: In the encyclical Une fois encore , written in French , Pope Pius X condemns state measures to separate church and state in France and compares the situation with that in Germany.
- July 3: The Sanctum Officium rejects 65 points in the decree Lamentabili sane exitu , which the Roman Catholic Church regards as errors.
- 18 November: In the Motu Proprio Praestantia Scripturae , Pope Pius X imposes the penalty of excommunication on Modernists .
- Ludwig Fahrenkrog calls for the founding of the Germanic Faith Community .
disasters
mining disasters
- December 6: A coal dust explosion in Monongah, West Virginia , causes the worst mining disaster in the United States, killing 362.
earthquake
- January 14: A 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Kingston , Jamaica , kills about 1,600 people and destroys about 75% of the city.
- October 21: an 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Central Asia , killing about 12,000
ship disasters
- February 11: Paddle steamer Larchmont sank in Rhode Island Sound after colliding with a schooner . 140 people die.
- February 21: British passenger liner Berlin sinks in storm in Hook of Holland Harbour . 128 people are killed.
- February 22nd: The Austrian passenger liner Imperatrix hit the cliffs off Elafonisi on the southwest coast of Crete in a heavy storm. 40 people die.
- 14 December: The world's largest schooner , the Thomas W. Lawson , the world's only seven -masted gaff schooner , runs aground, capsizes and sinks with 15 sailors and the pilot within the Isles of Scilly in a violent storm after the anchor chain broke. This leads to one of the first oil spills at sea.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 3 May: Since club formation is forbidden in the Ottoman Empire, the multi-sport club Fenerbahçe SK in Istanbul, which also includes a football department , is founded in secret.
- June 10: In Beijing, five cars start the longest automobile race of all time, the Beijing to Paris drive . The 12,000 km long route leads through the Gobi desert, past Lake Baikal, through Siberia, over the Urals and via Moscow to France.
- 8 July to 4 August: Lucien Petit-Breton wins the 1907 Tour de France .
- August 10: The first of five cars started in the Beijing to Paris automobile race reaches the French capital after two months. The Italian team around Prince Scipione Borghese is celebrated as the winner. The second car, driven by Dutchman Charles Goddard , arrived on August 30th, the others did not reach their destination.
- 30 September: The German Oskar Erbslöh and his US co-driver Henry Helm Clayton win the second edition of the Gordon Bennett Cup for gas balloons held in Saint Louis .
Nobel prizes
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| Nobel Price for physics |
Albert A Michelson (1851–1931) |
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"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations he carried out with them" ( Michelson interferometer ) |
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| Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Edward Buchner (1860–1917) |
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"for his biochemical investigations and the discovery of cell-free fermentation " |
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| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922) |
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"in recognition of his work on the importance of protozoa as pathogens" |
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| Nobel Prize in literature |
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
 United Kingdom (born in Bombay , British India )
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"in recognition of the powers of observation, the primal imagination, and the manly strength of conception and descriptive skill which mark the creations of this world-renowned writer" |
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| Nobel Peace Prize |
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833-1918) |
 Kingdom of Italy (born in Milan , Austria )
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President of the Lombard Peace League |
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Louis-Renault (1843-1918) |
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played a prominent role in various international congresses, notably the Hague Peace Conferences and the meetings of the Hague Conference on Private International Law |
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Born
January
- January 2 Gordon L. Allott , American politician (died 1989)
- January 3: Ray Milland , American film and television actor (d. 1986)
- January 4 – Willy Busch , German soccer player (died 1982)
- January 4: Arnold Dannenmann , Protestant theologian (died 1993)
- January 4: Ninón de Brouwer Lapeiretta , Dominican composer (d. 1989)
- January 5: Josef Holaubek , chief of police in Vienna († 1999)
- January 5 Volmari Iso-Hollo , Finnish athlete, Olympic champion (d. 1969)
- January 6 Roy Hall , American old-time musician (d. 1943)
- January 6: Helen Kleeb , American actress (died 2003)
- January 6: Stanley Osborne , Canadian clergyman, music educator, author, hymnologist and composer (died 2000)
- January 6: Josef Walla , Austrian motorcycle racer (d. 1994)
- January 9 Maurine Brown Neuberger , US politician (died 2000)
- January 11: Pierre Mendès France , French politician, Prime Minister (died 1982)
- January 11: Abraham Joshua Heschel , Jewish theologian and philosopher (died 1972)
- January 12: Sergei Korolev , Soviet rocket designer ( Vostok , Soyuz ) (died 1966)
- January 13: Bruno Mathsson , architect and designer (d. 1988)
- January 13 George Raynor , English footballer and coach (d. 1985)
- January 13: Stanisław Wygodzki , Polish-Jewish writer and translator (died 1992)
- January 15: Janusz Kusociński , Polish athlete (died 1940)
- January 16: Paul Nitze , US disarmament expert († 2004)
- January 16: Martin Scherber , German composer (died 1974)
- January 17: Henk Badings , Dutch composer (d. 1987)
- January 18: Werner Jacobi , German politician (died 1970)
- January 19: Briggs Cunningham , American racing driver, designer and sailor (d. 2003)
- January 20: Manfred von Ardenne , German scientist (died 1997)
- January 20: Paula Wessely , Austrian film and theater actress († 2000)
- January 22: Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag , Polish Kabbalist (died 1991)
- January 22: Dixie Dean , English footballer (died 1980)
- January 23: Hideki Yukawa , Japanese physicist (d. 1981)
- January 24 Karl Anders , German politician, journalist and publisher (died 1997)
- January 24: Jean Daetwyler , Swiss conductor and composer (d. 1994)
- January 24: Maurice Couve de Murville , French politician (died 1999)
- January 24: Tuts Washington , American blues pianist (d. 1984)
- January 25: Hino Ashihei , Japanese writer (died 1960)
- January 25: Franco Cornacchia , Italian entrepreneur and racing driver
- January 25: Helmut Weiss , German film actor and director ( Die Feuerzangenbowle ) († 1969)
- January 26 Isabel María Luisa Anido González , Argentine guitarist, composer and music teacher (d. 1996)
- January 26: Karl Gößwald , German zoologist (died 1996)
- January 26: Marie Jahoda , Austrian social psychologist (study The Unemployed of Marienthal ) († 2001)
- January 26: Hans Selye , Canadian physician (d. 1982)
- January 28 – Lev Solomonovich Ginsburg , Russian cellist and musicologist (died 1981)
- January 30: Lotte Knabe , German archivist and historian (died 1991)
- January 30: Takami Jun , Japanese writer (died 1965)
- January 31: Freddie de Clifford , British racing driver and peer (d. 1982)
- January 31: Georg Wurzer , German football coach (died 1982)
February
- February 1 Charles Brackenbury , British racing driver (d. 1959)
- February 1: Günter Eich , German poet and radio play author († 1972)
- February 1: Mozart Camargo Guarnieri , Brazilian composer (d. 1993)
- February 3 James A. Michener , American writer (died 1997)
- February 3 Roman Erich Petsche , Austrian teacher, school supervisor and painter (died 1993)
- February 4: Otto Ohlendorf , SS General, Head of Office in the Reich Security Main Office († 1951)
- February 4: Gerda Paumgarten , Austrian ski racer († 2000)
- February 4 – Walter Seuffert , German lawyer and politician (died 1989)
- February 5 – Hans Bender , German parapsychologist and doctor (died 1991)
- February 5: Walter Nausch , Austrian soccer player and national coach († 1957)
- February 5: Pierre Pflimlin , French politician and Member of the European Parliament († 2000)
- February 6: Hansjochem Autrum , German zoologist (died 2003)
- February 6: Paul Lemmerz , wheel manufacturer, entrepreneur and patron († 1977)
- February 7 Marta Schanzenbach , German politician (died 1997)
- February 9: Dit Clapper , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1978)
- February 9: Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter , British-Canadian mathematician (died 2003)
- February 11: Käthe Gold , Austrian actress († 1997)
- February 12 Louis Klemantaski , British racing driver and photographer (died 2001)
- February 14: Sven Andersson , Swedish football player and coach (d. 1981)
- February 14 Hilda Graef , Catholic theologian and writer (died 1970)
- February 15: Jean Langlais , French composer and organist (died 1991)
- February 15: Cesar Romero , American actor ( Joker in the TV series Batman ) († 1994)
- February 16: Harold Macfarlane Anstey , British film producer (d. 1987)
- February 16 – Jean Burger , French communist and resistance fighter (died 1945)
- February 16 – Rudolf Braune , German writer and journalist (died 1932)
- February 16 Adriano Chicco , Italian chess problem composer and chess historian (d. 1990)
- February 16: Herbert Drews , German motorcycle racer (d. 1949)
- February 16: Fritz Vonhof , German bobsledder
- February 16: Alec Wilder , American composer (d. 1980)
- February 17: Yevgeny Mikhailovich Abalakov , Soviet mountaineer (died 1948)
- February 17 Gerhard Hirschfelder , German Roman Catholic priest, anti-Nazi resistance fighter and martyr (died 1942)
- February 17: Eduard Mückenhausen , German soil scientist († 2005)
- February 17 Julián Soler , Mexican actor and director (d. 1977)
- February 20: Nadine Conner , American singer († 2003)
- February 20: Malcolm Atterbury , American actor (d. 1992)
- February 20 Erich Klabunde , German politician and MP (died 1950)
- February 20 – Ernst Schellenberg , German politician (died 1984)
- February 21: W.H. Auden , English novelist (died 1973)
- February 22 Theodore Annemann , American magician (d. 1942)
- February 22 Georg Braun , Austrian football player and coach (d. 1963)
- February 22 Georg Christian von Lobkowitz , Czechoslovak nobleman and racing driver (d. 1932)
- February 22: Heinrich Schneider , German politician (died 1974)
- February 22: Rex Stewart , American jazz cornetist (d. 1967)
- February 23: Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal , German resistance fighter (died 1944)
- February 25 Mary Chase , American writer (died 1981)
- February 25 Giuseppe Paupini , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1992)
- February 26: Luise Ida Aufsberg , German fine art photographer († 1976)
- February 27 Mildred Bailey , American singer (d. 1951)
- February 27: Hermann Buse , German cyclist (died 1945)
- February 27 – Egon von Tresckow , German illustrator, comic artist and caricaturist (died 1952)
- February 27: Walter Wolf , German politician (died 1977)
- February 28 Milton Caniff , American comic book artist and writer (d. 1988)
- February 28: Sepp Tanzer , Austrian composer for wind music († 1983)
March
- March 1: Albert Ammons , American boogie woogie pianist (d. 1949)
- March 1: Béla Barényi , designer of the VW Beetle († 1997)
- March 3 Canada Lee , American boxer, actor and civil rights activist (d. 1952)
- March 4: Harald Koch , German politician (died 1992)
- March 4: Heinrich Draeger , German politician and MP (died 1991)
- March 5: Rosemarie Clausen , German theater photographer (died 1990)
- March 5 Manuel Tato , Argentine theologian (died 1980)
- March 5: Chitetsu Watanabe , Japanese age record holder († 2020)
- March 7: Manuel del Cabral , Dominican writer (died 1999)
- March 7: Ludwig Gebhard , German church musician, composer and music teacher († 1993)
- March 8: Konstantinos Karamanlis , Greek politician (died 1998)
- March 9: Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian of religions, essayist and novelist (died 1986)
- March 10 Toni Frissell , American photographer (d. 1988)
- March 10: Rudolf Sühnel , German philologist († 2007)
- March 10 Christopher Del Sesto , American politician (died 1973)
- March 11: Georg Maurer , German poet, essayist and translator († 1971)
- March 11: Helmuth James Graf von Moltke , German lawyer, resistance fighter (died 1945)
- March 11 Mortimer Morris-Goodall , British racing driver (d. 2001)
- March 12: Wiggerl Kraus , German motorcycle racer (died 1987)
- March 13: Mohammed Abdel Wahab , Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1991)
- March 13: Ludwig Biermann , German physicist (died 1986)
- March 13: Ernst Wilhelm Borchert , German actor (died 1990)
- March 15: Zarah Leander , Swedish actress (died 1981)
- March 15: James Douglas McPartland , American jazz cornetist (d. 1991)
- March 16: Robert Murton-Neale , British racing driver (d. 1977)
- March 16 Alexander Solomon Wiener , American serologist (d. 1976)
- March 17: Franz Kartz , German boxer
- March 17: Takeo Miki , 66th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
- March 17: John Orlando Pastore , American politician (died 2000)
- March 18: Gabriel Asaad , Assyrian composer and musician (d. 1997)
- March 19: Hans Mayer , German literary scholar, lawyer, social researcher († 2001)
- March 19: Marc Vaubourgoin , French composer (d. 1983)
- March 20: Ellis Arnall , American politician (died 1992)
- March 20: Helmut Echternach , pastor, Protestant theologian and bishop (d. 1988)
- March 22: James M. Gavin , US Lieutenant General (d. 1990)
- March 22: Hugh Mitchell , American politician (died 1996)
- March 22: Lúcia dos Santos , witness of a Marian apparition († 2005)
- March 22 Oskar Rudolf Schlag , German psychotherapist, writer (died 1990)
- March 23 Daniel Bovet , Italian pharmacologist (d. 1992)
- March 23: Bernhard Hanssler , priest, papal honorary prelate and educational politician († 2005)
- March 23: Gerhart Münch , German pianist and composer (died 1988)
- March 23 Hassler Whitney , American mathematician (died 1989)
- March 23 – Otto Wittmann , German geologist and high school teacher (died 1986)
- March 25: Horst von Waldthausen , German-Swiss racing driver (d. 1933)
- March 27: Juan Francisco Giacobbe , Argentine composer, musicologist and educator (d. 1990)
- March 29: Josef Effertz , German politician (died 1984)
- March 30: Lee Bartlett , American javelin thrower (d. 1972)
- March 30 Friedrich August von der Heydte , German legal scholar, officer and politician (died 1994)
- March 31 Hilde Lotz-Bauer , German photographer and art historian (died 1999)
April
- April 1 Günther Arndt , German choirmaster and producer († 1976)
- April 1: Kyozan Joshu Sasaki , Japanese Buddhist monk (died 2014)
- April 2: Alfred Ackermann , Swiss politician and entrepreneur (died 1997)
- April 2: Ernst Harold Anderson , Swedish athlete (d. 1985)
- April 2 Lucius Benjamin Appling , American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
- April 3 Lola Álvarez Bravo , Mexican photographer († 1993)
- April 5: Sanya Dharmasakti , Thai politician (died 2002)
- April 7: John Burroughs , American politician (died 1978)
- April 7: Lê Duẩn , Vietnamese politician (died 1986)
- April 7: Karl Umgelter , German hammer thrower and sports official († 1941)
- April 8: Walter Czollek , head of the publishing house Volk und Welt in the GDR († 1972)
- April 9 Richard Archbold , American zoologist, pilot and philanthropist (died 1976)
- April 10 Abdul Ghafur Breshna , Afghan artist, composer and poet (died 1974)
- April 10 Ted Mellors , British motorcycle racer (d. 1946)
- April 11: Erwin Levy , German Gestalt psychologist (died 1991)
- April 11: Mochizuki Minoru , founder of Yoseikan Budo († 2003)
- April 12: Eugène Chaboud , French Formula 1 and sports car racer (d. 1983)
- April 12 Imogen Holst , English music writer, composer and conductor (died 1984)
- April 12: François Lacour , French racing driver (d. 1986)
- April 13 - Jack Bilbo , Jewish writer, painter, sea captain and (life) artist (died 1967)
- April 13 – Roderich Menzel , Czech and German tennis player (died 1987)
- April 14: François Duvalier , Haitian doctor, politician, president and dictator (died 1971)
- April 15 Gerald Abrahams , British chess player, composer and author of mostly legal and chess-specific books (died 1980)
- April 15: Jean Fourastié , French economist (died 1990)
- April 15: Nikolaas Tinbergen , Dutch behavioral biologist (d. 1988)
- April 16: August Eigruber , NSDAP Gauleiter of Oberdonau (died 1947)
- April 16: Joseph-Armand Bombardier , Canadian entrepreneur and inventor (d. 1964)
- April 17 Paul Eliasberg , Franco-German graphic artist (died 1983)
- April 18 Lars Valerian Ahlfors , Finnish-American mathematician (d. 1996)
- April 18: Miklós Rózsa , Hungarian-American film composer (d. 1995)
- April 18: Philippe Nabaa , Jordanian Archbishop of Beirut (died 1967)
- April 20: William Dollar , American ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer (d. 1986)
- April 21: Wade Mainer , American old-time and bluegrass musician (d. 2011)
- April 21: Antoni Szałowski , Polish-French composer (died 1973)
- April 23 Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor (died 1975)
- April 24: Mathias Logelin (1907–1999), Luxembourg artistic gymnast († 1999)
- April 24 Geo Widengren , Swedish orientalist and religious scholar (d. 1996)
- April 25: Isaac Mamott , Canadian cellist and music educator (d. 1964)
- April 26: Leo Kofler , German philosopher (died 1995)
- April 26: Theun de Vries , Dutch writer (died 2005)
- April 26: Yamamoto Kenkichi , Japanese literary scholar (d. 1988)
- April 27 Thure Andersson , Swedish wrestler (died 1976)
- April 29: Nakahara Chūya , Japanese poet (died 1937)
- April 29: Fred Zinnemann , American film director (d. 1997)
- April 30: Ludwig Rödl , German chess champion (died 1970)
May
- May 1: Oliver Hill , American civil rights activist (died 2007)
- May 1 – Erny Pinckert , American football player (d. 1977)
- May 4: Karl Diehl , German entrepreneur (died 2008)
- May 4 Petar Graf Orssich , Austrian racing driver and noble (died 1961)
- May 5: Matsudaira Yoritsune , Japanese composer (died 2001)
- May 6 – Weeb Ewbank , American football coach (d. 1998)
- May 6: Inoue Yasushi , Japanese writer (died 1991)
- May 7: Erich Müller , German designer († 1992)
- May 8: Wolf Graf von Baudissin , German lieutenant general and peace researcher († 1993)
- May 9: Henri Lachuer , French racing driver (died 1958)
- May 9: Baldur von Schirach , German politician, Nazi Reich youth leader (died 1974)
- March 10: Betty Amann , German-American actress (d. 1990)
- May 10: Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer , German architect and university lecturer (died 1990)
- May 11 Albert Großhans , German shoe merchant and politician (died 2005)
- May 11: Eva Schulze-Knabe , painter, resistance fighter († 1976)
- May 11: Hermann Behrends , Lieutenant General of the Police and SS Group Leader of the Waffen-SS († 1948)
- May 11 Francisco "Pacho" Rada Batista , Colombian accordionist, composer and singer († 2003)
- May 12: Katharine Hepburn , American actress († 2003)
- May 12 Leslie Charteris , American crime writer (d. 1993)
- May 13: Daphne du Maurier , English novelist (died 1989)
- May 14 – Robert Blot , French violinist, conductor and music teacher (d. 1989)
- May 14: Hans von der Groeben , German politician, scientist and publicist (died 2005)
- May 14: Karl Schirdewan , politician of the GDR († 1998)
- May 14: Vicente Enrique y Tarancón , Archbishop of Madrid and Cardinal (died 1994)
- May 15: Sigurd Rascher , German saxophonist († 2001)
- May 15: Ruth Werner , Soviet spy (died 2000)
- May 16: Hans Dichgans , German politician and MP (died 1980)
- May 18: Carl Mydans , American photographer (died 2004)
- May 18: Clifford Curzon , British pianist (died 1982)
- May 19 Heinrich Eckstein , German politician (died 1992)
- May 19 Rudi Knees , German motorcycle racer (died 1982)
- May 20: El Hajj Muhammad El Anka , Algerian singer and composer (died 1978)
- May 20: Franz Jägerstätter , conscientious objector in World War II († 1943)
- May 20: Franz Korinek , Austrian politician and minister (died 1985)
- May 20: Hedda Zinner , German writer, actress (died 1994)
- May 21 Karl Graf von Spreti , German politician and diplomat (died 1970)
- May 22 Hergé , Belgian comics writer and illustrator (died 1983)
- May 22: Jean-Marie Maury , Archbishop of Reims (died 1994)
- May 22: Laurence Olivier , British director, theater and film actor (d. 1989)
- May 24: Alejandro Tobar , Colombian composer and violinist (died 1975)
- May 24 Georg von Kaufmann , German cross-country skier and mountaineer (died 1972)
- May 25: Plácido Domingo Ferrer , Spanish zarzuela singer (baritone) (d. 1987)
- May 25: U Nu , Myanmar politician (died 1995)
- May 26 Roberto Ago , Italian jurist, member of the UN International Law Commission, judge at the International Court of Justice (d. 1995)
- May 26: Alfons Fleischmann , German theologian (died 1998)
- May 26 Georgi Filippovich Baidukov , Soviet pilot and author (died 1994)
- May 26: John Wayne , American actor (d. 1979)
- May 26: Kurt Pahlen , Austrian conductor, composer and musicologist († 2003)
- May 27: Carl Falck , Norwegian manager († 2016)
- May 27: Giuseppe Maria Sensi , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 2001)
- May 27 Rachel Carson , American zoologist and biologist (d. 1964)
- May 28: Francesco Severi , Italian racing driver (d. 1980)
- May 29: Alfred Rasser , Swiss cabaret artist, actor and politician († 1977)
- May 30: Fernando Arbello , Puerto Rican jazz trombonist and composer (d. 1970)
- May 30: Elly Beinhorn , German aviator (died 2007)
- May 30: Ingeborg Geisendörfer , German politician (died 2006)
- May 30 Germaine Tillion , French ethnologist and resistance fighter (died 2008)
June
- June 1: Jan Patočka , Czech philosopher (died 1977)
- June 1: Harold Hecht , American film producer (d. 1985)
- June 1: Frank Whittle , British pilot, inventor and businessman (d. 1996)
- June 2: Richard Lauffen , German actor (died 1990)
- June 3: Willy Aron , German court clerk and Nazi victim († 1933)
- June 3: Antonio Emmanuilowitsch Spadawekkia , Russian composer (d. 1988)
- June 4 Rosalind Russell , American actress (d. 1976)
- June 5 Richard Adler , German painter, illustrator and graphic artist (died 1977)
- June 5 – Rolf Bongs , German writer and poet (died 1981)
- June 5: Rudolf Peierls , German-British physicist (died 1995)
- June 6: Jascha Brodsky , violin teacher († 1997)
- June 7 Diego Viga , Ecuadorian medical doctor and writer (d. 1997)
- June 7: Karl Bergmann , German politician, MP (died 1979)
- June 7: Konrad Grebe , German climber and inventor (died 1972)
- June 7: Mascha Kaléko , German-speaking poet (died 1975)
- June 8: Georges Speicher , French cyclist (died 1978)
- June 9 Fritz Logemann , German politician (died 1993)
- June 10 Artur Stegner , German politician (died 1986)
- June 10: Fabio Metelli , psychologist (d. 1987)
- June 11 Hubert Biernat , German politician and state minister (died 1967)
- June 13: Charlotte Sembdner , German teacher and member of the People's Chamber of the GDR († 1993)
- June 14: Volker Georg Ludwig Aschoff , Professor for electrical communications engineering († 1996)
- June 14: Paul Klinger , German actor (died 1971)
- June 14: René Char , French poet (died 1988)
- June 14: Otto Hongler , Swiss economist and university lecturer († 1988)
- June 15: James Robertson Justice , British actor (d. 1975)
- June 17: Maurice Cloche , French director, screenwriter and film producer (d. 1990)
- June 17: Charles Eames , American designer and architect (d. 1978)
- June 17: Gene Sedric , American tenor saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 1963)
- June 17: Doddy Delissen , Austrian schlager singer
- June 18: Alice Ruth Elly Abramowitsch , German dancer, choreographer and representative of modern dance († 1974)
- June 18: Frithjof Schuon , orientalist and philosopher of religion (d. 1998)
- June 18 Reinhard Kamitz , Austrian politician (died 1993)
- June 19: Georges de Mestral , Swiss engineer, inventor of Velcro († 1990)
- June 19: Hans-Hellmuth Qualen , Finance Minister of Schleswig-Holstein († 1993)
- June 20: Eugen Andergassen , Austrian writer (died 1987)
- June 20: Fritz Winckel , Austro-German electronic music pioneer († 2000)
- June 20: James Corbitt Morris , American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
- June 22: Eriks Ādamsons , Latvian writer (died 1946)
- June 22: Eberhard Koebel , German author, founder of the Jungeschaft († 1955)
- June 22 – Anton Schall , Austrian soccer player (died 1947)
- June 23 – Ángel Arocha Guillén , Spanish footballer (d. 1938)
- June 23: James Edward Meade , British economist and Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
- June 23: Victor Serventi , French composer († 2000)
- June 24 – José de Lima Siqueira , Brazilian composer and conductor (d. 1985)
- June 25: Wacław Geiger , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher (died 1988)
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- June 25: J. Hans D. Jensen , German physicist and Nobel laureate (died 1973)
- June 25 Mario Revelli di Beaumont , Italian motorcycle racer and vehicle designer (d. 1985)
- June 26 Ludwig Arps , German scientist and author (died 1974)
- June 26: Friedrich Asinger , Austrian chemist (d. 1999)
- June 26: Martin Schneeweiss , Austrian motorcycle racer (d. 1947)
- June 27 Buford Ellington , American politician, Governor of Tennessee (died 1972)
- June 27: Otto Kohfink , German motorcycle racer (d. 1994)
- June 29: Owen McCann , Archbishop of Cape Town and Cardinal (d. 1994)
- June 30: Erwin Bootz , German pianist (died 1982)
- June 30: Nicolas Hajj , Lebanese Archbishop (d. 1995)
July
- July 1: Friedrich Aduatz , Austrian painter and graphic artist (died 1994)
- July 1: Ruth von Mayenburg , Austrian publicist, writer and translator († 1993)
- July 1: Fabian von Schlabrendorff , German officer and anti-Hitler resistance fighter (died 1980)
- July 1: Walter Trott , German bobsledder
- July 2: Kurt Birrenbach , German politician and MP († 1987)
- July 3 Georg Körner , German politician (died 2002)
- July 3: Wilhelm Becker , German astronomer (died 1996)
- July 4: John Franklin Anderson , American discus thrower (d. 1948)
- July 4 Willem Roelof Oege Goslings , Dutch physician (died 1985)
- July 4: Hans Linser , Austrian agricultural chemist (d. 1991)
- July 4 – Ernst Loof , German engineer, racing driver, race manager and entrepreneur (d. 1956)
- July 5 – Ethel Smith , Canadian track and field athlete (d. 1979)
- July 6 Frida Kahlo , Mexican painter (died 1954)
- July 7: Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction writer (d. 1988)
- July 7: Kurt Krjeńc , Sorbian communist, East German People's Chamber deputy, Domowina chairman († 1978)
- July 7 Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper , Dutch Indologist and linguist (died 2003)
- July 8: Kishio Hirao , Japanese composer (died 1953)
- July 8: Otto Kranzbühler , German lawyer, defender of Karl Dönitz at the Nuremberg trials († 2004)
- July 8 – Elmer Sleight , American football player (d. 1978)
- July 9: Eddie Dean , American actor and country music artist (d. 1999)
- July 9 Abraham Ellstein , American composer of Yiddish light music (d. 1963)
- July 10 – Blind Boy Fuller , American blues musician (d. 1941)
- July 11: Erwin Gillmeister , German athlete (died 1993)
- July 12: Hans Lenz , German politician (died 1968)
- July 13 – Herman Geiger-Torel , Canadian opera director and music educator (d. 1976)
- July 14: Pierre Angénieux , French mathematician, engineer and entrepreneur (d. 1998)
- July 14: Annabella , French film actress (died 1996)
- July 14 Chico Landi , Brazilian Formula One racing driver (d. 1989)
- July 16 – Saul Goodman , American timpani player, composer and music educator (d. 1996)
- July 16 – Otto Kohn , German long-distance runner (died 1992)
- July 16: Manda Parent , Canadian actress (died 1992)
- July 16: Barbara Stanwyck , American actress (d. 1990)
- July 17 Paolo Enrico Arias , Italian classical archaeologist (died 1998)
- July 18: Yvonne Desportes , French composer († 1993)
- July 19: Günter Bialas , German composer († 1995)
- July 19 – Heinz Oskar Wuttig , German writer and screenwriter († 1984)
- July 23: Käte Strobel , German politician (died 1996)
- July 23: Walter Pause , German writer (died 1988)
- July 24 Vitaliano Brancati , Italian writer (died 1954)
- July 24 William Chalmers , Scottish footballer and coach (d. 1980)
- July 25: Jack Gilford , American actor (died 1990)
- July 25: Karl Höller , German composer (died 1987)
- July 25 Roland Leduc , Canadian cellist, conductor and music educator (d. 2001)
- July 26 Nachman Aronszajn , Polish-American mathematician (died 1980)
- July 26 André Frénaud , French poet and essayist (died 1993)
- July 26 Donal McLaughlin , American graphic artist and architect (died 2009)
- July 28 Dolf Sternberger , German political scientist and journalist (died 1989)
- July 28 Earl Silas Tupper , American chemist, inventor of Tupperware (d. 1983)
- July 29: Herbert Turnauer , Austrian industrialist (died 2000)
- July 30: Roman Andreyevich Rudenko , Soviet chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial (died 1981)
- July 31 Roy Milton , American blues drummer, singer, songwriter and band leader († 1983)
August
- August 1 Marga von Etzdorf , German aviator (died 1933)
- August 2: Klaus Riedel , German rocket engineer (died 1944)
- August 2: Stepan Pavlovich Suprun , Soviet pilot (died 1941)
- August 3 Adrienne Ames , American actress (d. 1947)
- August 3: Greta Kraus , Canadian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher (d. 1998)
- August 3: Yang Shangkun , President of the PRC (d. 1998)
- August 4 Erik Amburger , German historian of Eastern Europe (died 2001)
- August 5: Zarli Carigiet , Swiss cabaret artist and actor (d. 1981)
- August 5: Adam Kopyciński , Polish conductor, pianist, singer and composer (died 1982)
- August 5: Roger Loyer , French motorcycle and automobile racer (d. 1988)
- August 7: Abby Berlin , American film director (d. 1965)
- August 8: Franz Abromeit , German SS leader and Jewish advisor († 1964)
- August 8: Benny Carter , American jazz saxophonist († 2003)
- August 9: Theodor Teriete , German politician and MP (died 1971)
- August 10: Luis Aguirre Pinto , Chilean composer (d. 1997)
- August 12: Joe Besser , American comedian (d. 1988)
- August 12 Andrew Charlton , Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
- August 12 Benjamin Henry Sheares , Singaporean politician (died 1981)
- August 12: Josef Stangl , Bishop of Würzburg (died 1979)
- August 12: Miguel Torga , Portuguese writer (died 1995)
- August 13 William Waldorf Astor , British peer, businessman and politician (died 1966)
- August 13: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , German entrepreneur, head of the Krupp group (died 1967)
- August 14 Ernst Waldbrunn , Austrian actor and cabaret artist (d. 1977)
- August 15: Paul Vincze ( Pál Vincze ), Hungarian-British medalist (d. 1994)
- August 16 Alexander Uriah Boskovitch , Israeli music educator and composer (d. 1964)
- August 17: Zygmunt Mycielski , Polish composer (died 1987)
- August 17: Roger Peyrefitte , French writer and diplomat (died 2000)
- August 17 Heinrich Stühlmeyer , German custodian and cantor (died 1978)
- August 18: Eduard Macheiner , Archbishop of Salzburg (died 1972)
- August 19: Friedrich Jungblut , German-Austrian speed skater
- August 19 Thruston Ballard Morton , American politician (died 1982)
- August 21: Kurt Gregor , Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR († 1990)
- August 21 Hans Welker , German footballer (died 1968)
- August 23: Ludwig Hoelscher , German cellist (died 1996)
- August 24 Donald Joyce Borror , American entomologist, bioacoustician and ornithologist (died 1988)
- August 25: Arthur Apelt , German conductor and general music director († 1993)
- August 26 – Eduardo Chibás , Cuban politician, founder of the Orthodox Party (died 1951)
- August 28 Nino Taranto , Italian actor, comedian and singer (d. 1986)
- August 29 Theodor Andresen , German contractor and resistance fighter (died 1945)
- August 29: Nando Barbieri , Italian racing driver (d. 1997)
- August 30: Arnaldo D'Espósito , Argentine composer, conductor, pianist and music educator (d. 1945)
- August 30: Leonor Fini , Argentine-French Surrealist painter (d. 1996)
- August 30 – John William Mauchly , American physicist and computer engineer (d. 1980)
- August 31: Ray Berres , American baseball player and coach (d. 2007)
- August 31 – Ramon Magsaysay , Philippine politician and President (d. 1957)
September
- September 2 Fritz Szepan , German soccer player (died 1974)
- September 2: Helmut Hirsch , German historian (died 2009)
- September 4: Maurice Percy Ashley , British historian (died 1994)
- September 4 Marvin Griffin , American politician (died 1982)
- September 4: Werner Kleine , German rower (died 2005)
- September 5: Heinrich Benckert , German Protestant theologian (died 1968)
- September 5: Franziska Hamann , German painter and caricaturist (d. 1981)
- September 5: Else Quecke , German actress (died 2004)
- September 5: Jürgen Spanuth , classical philologist and pastor († 1998)
- September 5: Sunnyland Slim , American blues pianist (d. 1995)
- September 5: Wolfram Dörinkel , German politician and MP († 1975)
- September 7: Ahmed Adnan Saygun , Turkish composer (died 1991)
- September 8: Jean Aerts , Belgian racing cyclist (d. 1992)
- September 11: Cécile Chabot , Canadian writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
- September 12: Louis MacNeice , Northern Irish poet (died 1963)
- September 12: Roger Bonvin , Swiss politician (died 1982)
- September 12: Paul Scherman , Canadian violinist and conductor (died 1996)
- September 12 Joseph Wewel , German Roman Catholic minister (died 1978)
- September 13 Benjamin Appel , American writer (died 1977)
- September 14 Raffaele Alberti , Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1951)
- September 14: Solomon Asch , Polish-American social psychology pioneer (d. 1996)
- September 15: Alfred Delp , German Jesuit and resistance fighter (died 1945)
- September 15: Fay Wray , American actress (d. 2004)
- September 17 Warren E. Burger , United States Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1995)
- September 18 Edwin Mattison McMillan , American physicist (d. 1991)
- September 18: Leon Askin , Austrian actor, director, screenwriter and producer († 2005)
- September 18: Elza Brandeisz , Hungarian dancer and gymnastics teacher (died 2018)
- September 19: Heinz Trettner , German general (died 2006)
- September 20 Arthur Emmerlich , German resistance fighter (died 1942)
- September 20: Anton Peter Khoraiche , Lebanese Cardinal and Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the Orient (1994)
- September 22: Maurice Blanchot , French journalist, literary theorist and writer (died 2003)
- September 22: Philip Fotheringham-Parker , British racing driver (d. 1981)
- September 23 Dominique Aury (pseudonym: Pauline Réage), French author (died 1998)
- September 23: Werner Bockelmann , German lawyer and politician († 1968)
- September 23 Walter Hinrichsen , German-American music publisher (d. 1969)
- September 23: Curt Mahr , German composer and accordionist (died 1978)
- September 24 John Ray Dunning , American nuclear physicist (d. 1975)
- September 24 Karl Bierwirth , German weightlifter (died 1955)
- September 26 – Anthony Blunt , British art historian and spy (d. 1983)
- September 27: Francis Ambrière , French novelist (died 1998)
- September 27: Bernard Miles , British actor (d. 1991)
- September 27: Maria Treben , Austrian herbalist and author (died 1991)
- September 27: Raúl Silva Henríquez , Archbishop of Santiago de Chile and Cardinal (d. 1999)
- September 28: Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky , Russian physicist (died 1976)
- September 29: Gene Autry , American country singer and actor (d. 1998)
- September 29 Helmut Lemke , German politician and Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1990)
- September 29 Leslie Holdridge , American botanist and climatologist (d. 1999)
- September 30: Rudolf Jugert , German film director (died 1979)
October
- October 1: Erhard Asmus , German author (died 1978)
- October 1: Ödön Pártos , Israeli composer (died 1977)
- October 2: Ria Deeg , German resistance fighter († 2000)
- October 2 – Alexander Todd , British chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
- October 3 Aldo Pigorini , Italian motorcycle racer (died 1937)
- October 5: Mrs. Miller , American singer (d. 1997)
- October 5 – Allan Shivers , American politician (died 1985)
- October 6 Francisco Gabilondo Soler , Mexican author, composer and performer of children's songs (died 1990)
- October 6: Louis Jeannin , French motorcycle racer (died 2002)
- October 8: Pierre Bertaux , French Germanist (died 1986)
- October 8: Polina Ossipenko , Soviet pilot (died 1939)
- October 9 Karl Regling , German politician (died 2003)
- October 9 Jacques Tati , French actor (comedian) and director (d. 1982)
- October 9: Horst Wessel , SA-Sturmfuhrer and law student († 1930)
- October 10: Kiichi Aichi , Japanese politician (died 1973)
- October 12 – Wolfgang Fortner , German composer, composition teacher and conductor († 1987)
- October 13 Herbert Kelletat , German musician, musicologist, organist, author and choir director († 2007)
- October 15: John Francis Cardinal Dearden , Archbishop of Detroit (d. 1988)
- October 15 – Varian Fry , American journalist and escape helper in Vichy France (died 1967)
- October 17 Herbert Böhme , German poet, writer and publicist († 1971)
- October 18: Jeanne Mandello , German photographer and Jewish emigrant (died 2001)
- October 18 Mihail Sebastian , Romanian writer and playwright (died 1945)
- October 19 Leopold Atlas , American playwright and screenwriter (died 1954)
- October 20 – Meade Alcorn , American politician (died 1992)
- October 21 – Victor Oehrn , German naval officer (died 1997)
- October 22: Hans Nickel , German rower
- October 22 Emilie Schindler , wife of Oskar Schindler († 2001)
- October 23 Ralph B. Atkinson , American film technician and film producer (d. 1975)
- October 23: Annemarie Schradiek , German actress (d. 1993)
- October 24 Albert Hoffmann (Gauleiter) , German merchant and Nazi Gauleiter (died 1972)
- October 24 Giuseppe Medici , Italian politician (died 2000)
- October 26: Johan Dankmeijer , Dutch anatomist (died 1973)
- October 27: Willi Bleicher , German IG Metall district leader († 1981)
- October 27: Franz Haupert , Luxembourg artistic gymnast (d. 1996)
- October 27: Helmut Walcha , organist and harpsichordist († 1991)
- October 28 – Tommy Hampson , British middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist (d. 1965)
- October 30: Vladimir Belousov , Soviet-Russian geologist (died 1990)
- October 30 – Hirano Ken , Japanese novelist and literary critic (died 1978)
- October 30 György Ránki , Hungarian composer (died 1992)
November
- November 1 Theo Akkermann , German sculptor (died 1982)
- November 2: Max Spangenberg , functionary of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR († 1987)
- November 3: Gustav Kilian , German cyclist († 2000)
- November 3: Hubert Schrübbers , President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution († 1979)
- November 3: Frank Séchehaye , Swiss soccer goalkeeper and racing driver (d. 1982)
- November 4: Tun Datuk Pengiran Haji Ahmad Raffae , 2nd Ceremonial Head of State of the Malaysian State of Sabah (d. 1995)
- November 4: Fritz Buri , pastor and professor of theology († 1995)
- November 4: Quirin Engasser , German writer (died 1990)
- November 4 Karin Hahn-Hissink , German ethnologist (died 1981)
- November 4: Draga Matković , German concert pianist and music teacher († 2013)
- November 5: Ferdinand Streb , Hamburg architect (died 1970)
- November 5: Isabel Rosado , Puerto Rican independence activist (died 2015)
- November 6 Catherine Crook de Camp , American writer († 2000)
- November 8 Otto Brenner , German trade unionist and former chairman of IG Metall (died 1972)
- November 9 Erich Wustmann , German ethnologist and travel writer (died 1994)
- November 9: Louis Ferdinand of Prussia , Prussian Prince (died 1994)
- November 9: Burrill Phillips , American composer and music educator (d. 1988)
- November 10: Hedwig Bollhagen , ceramist and co-founder of the HB workshops for ceramics († 2001)
- November 10: Tom Hanson , American football player (d. 1970)
- November 11: Günter Fronius , Austrian entrepreneur († 2015)
- November 12 – Ernst Albrecht , German soccer player (died 1976)
- November 13: Eugène Trillaud , French racing driver (d. 1960)
- November 13: Savang Vatthana , last king of Laos (died probably 1980)
- November 14: Astrid Lindgren , Swedish children's book author († 2002)
- November 14: Pedro Arrupe , General of the Spanish Order (died 1991)
- November 14: William Steig , American cartoonist (died 2003)
- November 15: Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg , resistance fighter against Adolf Hitler († 1944)
- November 17: Israel Regardie , occultist (died 1985)
- November 17: James Moody , Irish composer (died 1995)
- November 18: Compay Segundo , Cuban musician and singer († 2003)
- November 18: Gustav Nezval , Czech actor (d. 1998)
- November 19 – Werner Andert , German folklorist and publicist († 1983)
- November 19: Luigi Beccali , Italian athlete and Olympic champion (d. 1990)
- November 20: Henri-Georges Clouzot , French director (d. 1977)
- November 21 Ernesto Mascheroni , Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1984)
- November 22 Dora Maar , French photographer and painter (died 1997)
- November 22 Guido Masetti , Italian footballer (died 1993)
- November 22: Karl Mewis , SED functionary and chairman of the State Planning Commission in the GDR († 1987)
- November 22 – Bernard Naylor , English composer, organist and conductor (d. 1986)
- November 22: Gustav Adolf Scheel , organizer of the deportation of the Karlsruhe Jews († 1979)
- November 23: Run Run Shaw , Chinese film producer († 2014)
- November 24: František Čech , Czech composer and conductor (died 1975)
- November 25 Johnny Hindmarsh , British racing driver and aviator (died 1938)
- November 27: Lyon Sprague de Camp , American writer (died 2000)
- November 27 Ernst C. Stiefel , German-American lawyer (d. 1997)
- November 28: Alberto Moravia , Italian writer (died 1990)
- November 29 Laura Carola Mazirel , Dutch lawyer, author, resistance fighter (died 1974)
- November 30: Anton Biersack , German composer (died 1982)
- November 30: Fritz Eckhardt , Austrian actor, writer and director (d. 1995)
December
- December 3 – Connee Boswell , American blues and jazz singer and actress (d. 1976)
- December 4: Josef Rudin , Swiss Jesuit, depth psychologist and university lecturer († 1983)
- 5 December: William Barclay , Scottish Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar and author (died 1978)
- December 5: Giuseppe Occhialini , Italian physicist (d. 1993)
- December 6 Giovanni Ferrari , Italian soccer player and coach (died 1982)
- December 6: Helli Stehle , Swiss actress and radio presenter († 2017)
- December 8 Artine Artinian , American novelist and philanthropist (died 2005)
- December 8: Alois Nagler , Swiss chess problem composer († 1996)
- December 8: Tony Aubin , French composer (died 1981)
- December 9: Konradin Ferrari d'Occhieppo , Austrian astronomer (died 2007)
- December 10: Sidney Fox , American actress (d. 1942)
- December 10: Oldřich Halma , Czech choirmaster and composer (died 1985)
- December 10: Lucien Laurent , French footballer (died 2005)
- December 12: Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé , Canadian pianist, music teacher and singer († 2007)
- December 12: Ilse Fürstenberg , German actress (died 1976)
- December 12: Stanisław Golachowski , Polish musicologist and educator (died 1951)
- December 13: Ebba-Margareta von Freymann , German translator († 1995)
- December 13: Bill Holland , American racing driver (d. 1984)
- December 14 – Edwin Ross Adair , American politician (died 1983)
- December 14: Alfred Gütgemann , Professor of Surgery († 1985)
- December 14 Georg Frank , German soccer player (died 1944)
- December 14 – Víctor Saume , Venezuelan radio and television presenter (died 1964)
- December 15: Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect (died 2012)
- December 15: Nikolai Nikitin , Russian architect (died 1973)
- December 16: Barbara Kent , Canadian actress (died 2011)
- December 17: Helene Blum-Gliewe , German stage designer and architectural painter († 1992)
- December 17: Christianna Brand , British novelist (died 1988)
- December 17 Heinz-Günter Stamm , German actor, radio play and theater director († 1978)
- December 18: Conrad Dürr , German motorcycle racer (d. 1999)
- December 18 Christopher Fry , British playwright and actor (died 2005)
- December 19 – Vasja Pirc , Slovenian chess player (died 1980)
- December 20: Cousin Joe , American blues musician (d. 1989)
- December 20: Leny Marenbach , German actress (died 1984)
- December 20: Fujieda Shizuo , Japanese writer and medical scientist (d. 1993)
- December 22: Robert Anasch , German communist resistance fighter (died 1945)
- December 22: Peggy Ashcroft , British actress (d. 1991)
- December 22: Fermin Rocker , British painter (died 2004)
- December 22: Irene Britton Smith , American composer (d. 1999)
- December 22: Fred M. Wilcox , American film director (d. 1964)
- December 23: Martin S. Svoboda , German news anchor (died 1992)
- December 23 – James Roosevelt , American general and politician (died 1991)
- December 24: John Patrick Cardinal Cody , Archbishop of Chicago (d. 1982)
- December 25 – Cab Calloway , American jazz singer, saxophonist and band leader († 1994)
- December 25 Christiana Abiodun-Emmanuel , Nigerian church planter and missionary (1994)
- December 27: Johann Wilhelm Trollmann , German boxer (died 1944)
- December 27: Sebastian Haffner , German book author and journalist († 1999)
- December 27: Willem van Otterloo , Dutch conductor, cellist and composer (died 1978)
- December 28: Erich Mielke , Minister for State Security of the GDR († 2000)
- December 28: Heinrich Maria Janssen , German bishop (died 1988)
- December 28: Roman Palester , Polish composer (died 1989)
- December 28 Carlhans Scharpenseel , German federal judge (died 2002)
- December 30: Walter Antoniolli , Austrian constitutional lawyer († 2006)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Muhammad Aref , Afghan ambassador and minister (died 1983)
- Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini , Palestinian nationalist (died 1948)
- Tom Bullus , British motorcycle racer (died 1998)
- Friedrich Oetinger , German publisher (died 1986)
- Cora Santa Cruz , Chilean singer, pianist and actress († 2005)
- Kornel Schimpl , Czech conductor, music teacher and composer (died 1985)
- Henry Tyrell-Smith , Irish motorcycle racer (died 1982)
Died
January February
- January 2: Otto Benndorf , German archaeologist, founder of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (b. 1838)
- January 2: Henry Roberts Pease , American politician (b. 1835)
- January 3: Josef Foerster , Bohemian composer (b. 1833)
- January 9: Josef Aigner , German merchant and politician (b. 1846)
- January 9: Marie of Saxe-Altenburg , wife of George V (b. 1818)
- January 11: Anton Ursprechen , German composer of the late Romantic period (b. 1850)
- January 14: Wilhelm von Hartel , Austrian classics scholar and Minister for Education and Culture (b. 1839)
- January 14: Henry Squires , American singer (b. 1825)
- January 19: Franziska von Wertheimstein , Viennese patron (b. 1844)
- January 21: Graziadio Isaia Ascoli , Italian linguist and orientalist (b. 1829)
- January 25: René Pottier , French cyclist (b. 1879)
- January 25: John Davis (governor) , American politician (b. 1826)
- January 29: Helen Taylor , English suffragette (b. 1831)
- January 30: Ludwig Woltmann , German anthropologist (b. 1871)
- February 2: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev , Russian chemist, co-creator of the periodic table of the elements (b. 1834)
- 4 February: Tonio Bödiker , first President of the Reich Insurance Office (b. 1843)
- February 4: Gabriel Hubert Iser , German Reichsgerichtsrat (b. 1826)
- February 5: Josef Mauracher , Austrian organ builder (b. 1845)
- February 7: Preston Leslie , American politician (b. 1819)
- February 8: Alfred Kirchhoff , German geographer (b. 1838)
- February 10: Ernst Leybold , German entrepreneur (b. 1824)
- February 11: William Howard Russell , Irish journalist and war correspondent (b. 1821)
- February 16: Giosuè Carducci , Italian poet and orator, winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1835)
- 16 February: Cornelius Fredericks , captain of the Bethany-Nama (b. 1864)
- February 17: Wilhelm von Bezold , German physicist and meteorologist (b. 1837)
- February 17: Julius Bleichröder , German banker (b. 1828)
- February 17: Henry Steel Olcott , co-founder of Theosophical Society (b. 1832)
- February 19 Albert Meyer-Brunner , Swiss customs officer (b. 1830)
- February 20: Henri Moissan , French chemist (b. 1852)
- February 23: Leopold Auspitz , Austrian major general and writer (b. 1838)
March April
- March 1: Karl Gayer , German forest scientist (b. 1822)
- March 2: Anton Baumann , German master brewer and founder of the spa and bathing industry in Bad Schwartau (* 1851)
- March 3: Rudolf Lange , German actor (b. 1830)
- March 4 Karl Dilthey , German classical scholar (b. 1839)
- March 5: Friedrich Blass , German philologist (b. 1843)
- March 6: Karl Heinrich von Boetticher , German statesman (b. 1833)
- March 8: Marinos Antypas , Greek journalist (b. 1872)
- 8 March: Otto von Scholley , Austrian Field Marshal Lieutenant (b. 1823)
- March 9: John Alexander Dowie , Scottish-American preacher, church and city founder (b. 1847)
- March 9: James L. Pugh , American politician (b. 1820)
- March 11: Dimitar Petkov , Bulgarian politician (born 1856 or 1858)
- March 11: Franz Sacher , Austrian confectioner (b. 1816)
- March 12: Gabriel Anrep , Swedish genealogist (b. 1821)
- March 17: Rudolf Ferdinand Theodor Aderhold , German mycologist (born 1865)
- March 17: Ernesto Köhler , Italian flutist and composer (b. 1849)
- March 17: Paolo Serrao , Italian composer and music teacher (b. 1830)
- March 18: Marcelin Berthelot , French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
- March 25: Franz von Assisi Ludwig Prince of Arenberg , German diplomat and politician (b. 1849)
- March 25: Ernst von Bergmann , German surgeon and professor of medicine (b. 1836)
- March 29: Luigi Macchi , Italian Curia cardinal (b. 1832)
- April 3: Désirée Artôt de Padilla , Belgian opera singer (b. 1835)
- April 3: Theodor Aufrecht , German Indologist and Sanskritist (b. 1822)
- April 5: David Lorenz , German painter (b. 1856)
- April 6: Retheos Berberian , Armenian educator, publicist, writer and translator (b. 1848)
- April 6: William Henry Drummond , Canadian lyric poet (b. 1854)
- April 6: Bernhard Hammer , Swiss politician (b. 1822)
- April 10: Ignaz Auer , German politician (b. 1846)
- April 10: Laurence Simmons Baker , brigadier general in the Confederate Army in the Civil War (b. 1830)
- April 12: Otto Leixner von Grünberg , Austrian writer and literary historian (b. 1847)
- April 15: Adolf Stern , German writer and literary historian (b. 1835)
- April 16: Eduard Paulus , German archaeologist and art historian (b. 1837)
- April 22: Leopold von Pezold , German-Baltic journalist (b. 1832)
- April 24: Patápio Silva , Brazilian flutist and composer (b. 1880)
- April 27: Rufus Bullock , Americ. Politician (b. 1834)
- April 30: Julius Langbehn , German writer and cultural critic (b. 1851)
May June
- May 1: Karl Alfred Lanz Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1847)
- 2 May: Rudolf Baier , Stralsund Museum Director (b. 1818)
- May 3: Hermann Tietz , German merchant, founder of a chain of department stores (b. 1837)
- May 8: Edmund Gibson Ross , American politician (b. 1826)
- May 12: Joris-Karl Huysmans , French writer (b. 1848)
- May 13: Alexander Buchan , climatologist and meteorologist (b. 1829)
- May 17: Albert Clément , French automobile racer (b. 1883)
- May 19 Benjamin Baker , English civil engineer (b. 1840)
- May 19 Ludwig Traube , German classical scholar and medievalist (b. 1861)
- May 24: Zacharie Astruc , French art critic, journalist, poet, composer, painter and sculptor (born 1833)
- May 24: John Patton Jr. , American politician (b. 1850)
- May 25: Jan Gebauer , Czech linguist and literary historian (born 1838)
- May 25: Franz von Roggenbach , Baden politician (b. 1825)
- May 28: Valdemar Tofte , Danish violinist and music teacher (b. 1832)
- May 30: Ottomar Anschütz , German photographer, pioneer of photographic technology (b. 1846)
- June 2: William Paine Sheffield , American politician (born 1820)
- June 6: Fulgenzio Chicherio , Swiss jurist and Swiss Army officer (b. 1827)
- June 8: Robert Browne Hall , American composer, conductor and cornetist (b. 1858)
- June 19: Georges Edouard Godet , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teacher (b. 1845)
- June 21: Lucien Baker , American politician (b. 1846)
- June 25: Hubert Stier , German architect (b. 1838)
- June 27: Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz , American educator and naturalist (b. 1822)
- June 28: Paul Koechlin , French industrialist and racing driver (born 1852)
- June 29 Siegfried Czapski , German physicist, optician, entrepreneur (b. 1861)
July August
- July 3: Heinrich Carl Friedrich Kreutz , German astronomer (born 1854)
- July 5: Kuno Fischer , German philosopher (b. 1824)
- July 7: Tellos Agras , Greek officer (b. 1880)
- July 10: Walther von Knebel , German geologist (b. 1880)
- July 14: William Henry Perkin , British chemist (b. 1838)
- July 17: Carl Ludwig Friedrich Arnsperger , Baden ministerial official (b. 1837)
- July 18: Hector Malot , French writer (b. 1830)
- July 21: Nicolae Grigorescu , Romanian painter (b. 1838)
- July 21: Wilhelm von Kardorff , Prussian-German politician and entrepreneur (b. 1828)
- July 23: Antonin Marmontel , French composer, pianist and music teacher (b. 1850)
- July 27: Edmund Pettus , American politician (b. 1821)
- August 1: Ernesto Rodolfo Hintze Ribeiro , Portuguese politician (b. 1849)
- 10 August: Alfred von Kessler , general of the infantry (b. 1833)
- August 11: Theobald Kerner , German physician and poet (b. 1817)
- August 11: Julius Busch , Baltic German pastor and Protestant martyr (b. 1879)
- August 13: John Routt , American politician (b. 1826)
- August 13: Hermann Carl Vogel , German astronomer and physicist (b. 1841)
- August 14: Anacleto de Medeiros , Brazilian musician and composer (b. 1866)
- August 15: Joseph Joachim , Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1831)
- August 16 Hugo Constantin Cuno Oskar August Appelius , German jurist (born 1855)
- August 17: Hiram Parks Bell , American politician (b. 1827)
- August 18: John Kerr , British physicist and theologian (born 1824)
- August 20: John I Mitchell , American politician (b. 1838)
- August 22: Barnim Grüneberg , German organ builder (b. 1828)
- August 22: Josef Mitscha von Märheim , jurist, banker and politician in the Austrian Empire (b. 1828)
- August 30: James Adam , British classical scholar (b. 1860)
- August 30: Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian writer and politician (b. 1837)
- August 31: Ali Asghar Khan Atabak , longtime Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1858)
September October
- September 4: Edvard Grieg , Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
- September 6: Bartholomeus van Ommeren , Dutch editor and anarchist (b. 1859)
- September 7: Sully Prudhomme , French poet (b. 1839)
- September 17: Ignaz Brüll , Austrian composer and pianist (b. 1846)
- September 17: Jakobus Morenga , Namibian mineworker, Nama leader and guerrilla fighter (b. c. 1875)
- September 18: Ernest Blum , French playwright and librettist (b. 1836)
- September 21: Robert E. Withers , American politician (b. 1821)
- September 25: Terencio Sierra , President of Honduras (b. 1839)
- 28 September: Frederick I , Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1826)
- 30 September: John Charles Ardagh , British officer, fort builder, jurist and colonial official (b. 1840)
- 1 October: Claes Adolf Adelsköld , Swedish railway builder, architect, major, member of parliament and writer (born 1824)
- October 9: Romualdo Marenco , Italian musician and composer (b. 1841)
- October 10: Adolf Furtwängler , German classical archaeologist (b. 1853)
- October 17: Gustav Zeuner , German engineer (b. 1828)
- October 18: Louis Katzenstein , German painter (b. 1824)
- October 21: Jules Chevalier , French priest and author (b. 1824)
- 27 October: Mkrtich Khrimyan , Armenian church leader, publicist and writer (b. 1820)
November December
- November 1: Alfred Jarry , French writer (b. 1873)
- November 8: William Pettavel , Swiss evangelical minister (b. 1830)
- November 10: Louis E. McComas , American politician (b. 1846)
- 12 November: Arnulf Prince of Bavaria , Bavarian Generaloberst (b. 1852)
- November 15: Anthony Evelyn Melbourne Ashley , British writer and politician (born 1836)
- November 15: Josef Weikert , Bohemian church musician and composer (b. 1837)
- November 16: Gustav Hertzberg , professor at the University of Halle (b. 1826)
- November 17: Francis Leopold McClintock , British naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1819)
- November 20: Paula Modersohn-Becker , German painter (b. 1876)
- November 22: Asaph Hall , American astronomer (b. 1829)
- November 28: Ricardo Castro Herrera , Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1864)
- November 28: Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish artist (b. 1869)
- December 4: Luis Sáenz Peña , Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
- 5 December: Yekaterina Semyonovna Svanidze , first wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1880)
- December 6: Federico Caprilli , Italian cavalry master (b. 1868)
- December 6: Richard Löber , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1828)
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- 8 December: Oscar II , King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1829)
- 15 December: Carola of Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp , Queen of Saxony (b. 1833)
- December 16: Chū Asai , Japanese painter (b. 1856)
- 17 December: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , British physicist (b. 1824)
- December 20: Thomas Annandale , British surgeon (b. 1838)
- December 21: Klara Hitler , mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860)
- December 21: Oskar Lassar , German physician (b. 1849)
- December 23: Pierre Jules César Janssen , French astronomer (born 1824)
- December 27: Elihu Jackson , American politician (b. 1837)
Exact date of death unknown
- Adam Hamilton , English organist, conductor, violist and composer (born 1820)
- Nasrollah Khan Moshir al Dowleh , first Prime Minister of Iran after the Constitutional Revolution
web links
Commons : 1907 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Chronicle 1907 (Living Virtual Museum Online)