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Calendar overview 1902
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 , discovers Kaiser Wilhelm II Land in Antarctica . |
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 in Martinique , the capital Saint-Pierre was destroyed . |
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| 1902 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1350/51 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1894/95 (change of the year September 10th/11th) |
| Baha'i calendar | 58/59 (New Year March 20th/21st) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1307/08 (beginning of the year April 14 or 15) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2445/46 (Southern Buddhism); 2444/45 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Water Tiger壬寅 ( since February 8 , before that Metal Ox 辛丑) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1264/65 (April turn of the year) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4235/36 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| Iranian calendar | 1280/81 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1319/20 (9/10 April) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 35 (
明治35年); Koki 2562 |
| Jewish calendar | 5662/63 (October 1/2) |
| Coptic calendar | 1618/19 (10/11 September) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1077/78 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1317/18 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2212/13 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 2213/14 (October turn of the year) |
| Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar) | 2444/45 (April 1) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1958/59 (April turn of the year) |
events
politics and world affairs
The German Imperium
- January 29: The Social Democratic daily newspaper “ Vorwarts ” publishes a secret paper from the Imperial Navy , in which the then Vice Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz lists detailed armament plans for expanding the fleet. The publication turned into a scandal, as even the pro-government organs of Tirpitz felt betrayed.
- February 1: The contract between the Reichspostverwaltung and the Kingdom of Württemberg on the use of uniform postage stamps comes into force.
- February 7: Tirpitz confirms the authenticity of the published secret paper, but sees no insidious statements in it, since he had already spoken openly about these plans in 1900.
- June 5: The Prussian House of Representatives decides to increase the so-called Poland fund by 150 million marks to a total of 350 million marks. Furthermore, the House of Representatives authorizes the government to buy real estate from Polish owners for 100 million marks. The Poland Fund contains the financial means to implement the Settlement Act of 1886, which regulates the residency of German farmers in the eastern provinces.
- June 19: Change of throne in Saxony . Albert is succeeded by his brother Georg .
- June 28: The Triple Alliance treaty of 1882 between the German Empire , Austria-Hungary and Italy is extended for the third time.
- November 1st: France and Italy sign a secret society treaty, which de facto annuls the Triple Alliance Treaty, which was only extended on June 28th, 1902.
- December 5: The German Reich and the Holy See agree on the establishment of a Catholic theological faculty at the University of Strasbourg .
- 13 December: Otto Antrick , a member of the Reichstag, delivers the longest speech to date in a German parliament, lasting eight hours. He is thus delaying the vote on amending a customs tariff law.
- December 14: The German Reichstag passes the compromise version of a new customs tariff law. Discussions on the law lasted for over a year.
- 31 December: The Polish Miners' Union (ZZP) is formed to represent the interests of more than 300,000 Polish miners in the Ruhr area. The Polish Miners' Union will become the third largest miners' union in the German Reich after the Free and Christian Unions.
Other events in Europe
- January 1: Josef Zemp becomes the new Swiss President .
- January 1: An exchange of cables between St. Petersburg and Paris emphasizes mutual friendship.
- January 15 Employment offices open in Italy. Hitherto, job placement in Italy has been regulated by private individuals, syndicates and the Mafia .
- March 7: The Turkish government bans mother-tongue teaching in Armenian schools.
- April 18: The 22-year-old Russian revolutionary Yossif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, who later calls himself Stalin , is arrested. He is said to have led workers' unrest in Batumi .
- May 17: 16-year-old Alfonso XIII. ascends the throne of Spain on his birthday.
- July 12: British Prime Minister Salisbury resigns at the age of 72 and is succeeded by Arthur James Balfour .
- July 17 Pan-Armenian congress in Brussels calls on European powers to protect Armenian Christians from Turkish Muslims .
- July 19: The Federal Council decides to adopt the new German spelling rules in Switzerland .
- August 9: King Edward VII is solemnly crowned in London .
- December 2: In Rostov-on-Don , 3,000 workers in the Vladikavkaz railway workshops strike for higher wages and shorter working hours. Military action against the strikers killed four workers, wounded around 40 and arrested over 100. On December 12, 1902, the workers ended the strike, although they were not granted wage increases or reduced working hours.
- December 15: A national fundraiser to build tuberculosis sanatoriums begins in France.
China after the Boxer Rebellion
- January 7: Empress Dowager Cixi , after escaping to the Forbidden City of Beijing , returns and resumes governmental power over China .
- January 14: General Tung Fuhsian, one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion , is executed. The assassination is one of the concessions made by Empress Dowager Cixi to the foreign powers, which restored her power to govern.
America and Caribbean
- January 9: President of Paraguay , Emilio Aceval , is overthrown ; His successor is Hector Carvallo.
- April 23: In Washington, DC , US Secretary of State John Milton Hay and Colombian Ambassador Thomas Herran sign a treaty granting the US rights to continue building the Panama Canal . France started construction in 1881. After thousands of workers died from malaria and yellow fever , they offered to sell the building rights for $40 million .
- May 20: Cuba gains formal independence from the United States with the inauguration of Tomás Estrada Palma , elected unopposed on December 31 under pressure from the United States . The country's sovereignty is limited until 1934 by the Platt Amendment .
- November 20: Based on the so-called May treaties between Chile and Argentina, King Edward VII of Great Britain laid down the border between the two states in Patagonia in an arbitral award .
Africa
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- 1 January: The King's African Rifles infantry regiment is formed in British East Africa from the existing Central African Rifles , Uganda Rifles and East Africa Rifles regiments .
- May 31: The Boer War in South Africa ends with the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging .
- November 1: Italy and France agree in a secret treaty on the demarcation of their spheres of interest in North Africa (Libya, Tunisia).
- December 10: In Egypt, a 300 km long, 2 km wide, 5.3 billion cubic meter dam is inaugurated 6 km south of Aswan. The power plant connected to it supplies 10 billion kWh of electricity annually.
Australia
- 12 June: Australian women have the right to be elected to the House and Senate for the first time.
Other international events
- January 30: The United Kingdom and the Empire of Japan form the Anglo-Japanese Alliance .
- November 29: The Hague Arbitration Court decides in favor of the United States and against Britain in the dispute over claims to the Bering Sea .
business
labor dispute
- January 26: The Catholic Union Federation of Italy is founded in Milan .
- February 5 French miners' strikes demanding an eight-hour workday result in a 9-hour workday rule. As the unions are not satisfied with this result, industrial action resumes after a break of several weeks.
- February 16: The general strike for Catalonia is called in Barcelona , in which more than 100,000 workers take part. A state of war is declared in Zaragoza after bloody clashes with the military.
- March 22: In Batumi, a protest demonstration by striking workers is bloodily crushed by military and police units. 15 workers are killed, 54 injured and around 500 arrested.
- March 23: Child labor is banned in Italy. The age limit for boys is now 12 years and for girls the age limit has been set at 15 years.
- May 12: Anthracite strike begins in US; it is ended after several months through the mediation of President Theodore Roosevelt on October 23.
champagne war
Prince Heinrich of Prussia and Theodore Roosevelt during the christening of the yacht on Shooters Island
- February 25: The christening of the Meteor III solves the two-year-long so-called Champagne War between the French sparkling wine manufacturer Moët & Chandon and its German competitor Söhnlein & Co., Rheingauer Schaumweinkellerei Act. total off
patents and copyright
- January 1: The German copyright law comes into effect.
- April 25: The Jena-based company Carl Zeiss registers a patent for the Tessar camera lens.
traffic
- 1 January: The Swiss Federal Railways AG begins operations.
- January 16: Germany receives the concession from Turkey to build the Baghdad railway from Konya to Baghdad.
- January 24: Railways are nationalized in France .
- February 18: The first stretch of the Berlin U-Bahn between Warsaw Bridge and Nollendorfplatz is opened.
- March 4: The American Automobile Association traffic club is formed in Cleveland , Ohio .
- March 5: In Hamburg , the Libelle is officially approved as an inspection boat by the government of Cameroon after a successful test drive.
- May 27: The new Rhine port is inaugurated in Karlsruhe .
- 5 November: The floating dock for Dar es Salaam is accepted as operational in the German East Africa flotilla .
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- The Kundala Valley Railway , India's first monorail , is built at Munnar in Kerala using the Ewing system developed by William Thorold . The trains are pulled by oxen.
start-ups
- June 17: The first Chinese - language newspaper Ta Kung Pao ( Big General Newspaper ) is established in Tianjin .
- August 22: Henry M. Leland founds the Cadillac Automobile Company in Detroit .
- August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes acquire a majority stake in RWE through a consortium they lead, including Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft .
- Established Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (known as 3M ) in St. Paul, Minnesota
science and technology
Antarctic research
- January 30: The British Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott discovers the Edward VII Peninsula in Antarctica .
- February 22: The German Gauss expedition , led by polar explorer Erich von Drygalski , discovers an unknown part of the mainland in Antarctica , which is named Kaiser Wilhelm II Land in honor of the donor .
- March 29: During the German South Pole expedition , Erich von Drygalski becomes the first person to sight the extinct volcano Gaussberg in Antarctica in a captive balloon .
- November 2: The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition begins.
natural sciences
- Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy develop the theory of atomic decay emitting alpha and beta rays .
- Léon-Philippe Teisserenc de Bort discovers the stratosphere and the tropopause .
- Discovery of the Boy's surface
Teaching and Research
- January 13: The first adult education center in the German Reich is built in the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin .
- January 28: Andrew Carnegie donates $ 10 million to science. This creates the Carnegie Institution of Washington .
- Ferdinando Bocconi founds the private business university Luigi Bocconi in Milan in memory of his deceased son.
Technical developments
- April 9: Charles Stewart Rolls sets the first speed record for petrol vehicles with a Mors at 101.547 km/h in Achères near Paris .
- May 31: While attempting to set a new land speed record on Staten Island , the Baker Torpedo , built by Baker Motor Vehicle Company , with Walter C. Baker at the controls, crashes into a crowd of spectators. Two people are killed in the accident.
- 19 September: Airship designer and aeronaut Stanley Spencer is the first to fly over London.
- 10 December: The Aswan High Dam, the oldest dam on the Nile after the Barrages on the Nile Delta , is put into operation.
Others
- Otto Schulze receives a patent for the speedometer from the German Patent Office .
- According to current model calculations , 1902 is the earliest possible year in which the HI virus could have infected a person for the first time.
Culture
Movie
- September 1: The science fiction film Journey to the Moon by Georges Méliès has its world premiere at the Paris Olympia .
Visual arts
photography
- Edward Steichen , Frank Eugene and Alfred Stieglitz found the Photo-Secession in New York City , a club promoting photography as a means of artistic expression.
painting
Gustav Klimt : Buchenhain , 1902, oil on canvas
- 1 January: Inauguration of a temporary exhibition of works by the Greek-Spanish painter El Greco at Madrid's Prado. The paintings had fallen into oblivion and caused quite a stir.
- October 25th: The municipal museum in Elberfeld is opened.
Max Liebermann : Parrot Man at Amsterdam Zoo , 1902, oil on canvas
- Gustav Klimt paints the Beethoven Frieze .
- Foundation of the art magazine ARTnews
- Opening of the Solothurn Art Museum
music and theatre
spoken theater
- 5 January: Georg Büchner's 1835 drama Dantons Tod , which was long considered unplayable, has its world premiere at Berlin 's Belle Alliance Theater as a production of the Neue Freie Volksbühne association .
- 2 April: Irish patriotic drama Cathleen, the Daughter of Houlihan by William Butler Yeats premieres in Dublin
- 7 May: Maurice Maeterlinck 's symbolist drama Monna Vanna premieres at the Nouveau-Théâtre in Paris.
- 2 August: Emil Rosenow's dialect comedy Kater Lampe premieres in a theater in Wrocław .
- October 19: Premiere of the comedy Die Lokalbahn by Ludwig Thoma in Munich
- November 1: Opening of the new theater in Frankfurt am Main
- November 6: First performance of the drama Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea at the Teatro Lirico in Milan
- November 29: Premiere of the saga Der arme Heinrich by Gerhart Hauptmann at the Burgtheater in Vienna
- December 31: Maxim Gorky's most famous drama Night Asylum - Scenes from the Deep (Russian На дне ) premieres at the Moscow Art Theater under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky .
musical theater
- January 17: The world premiere of Benjamin Godard 's opera Les Guelfes takes place at the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen.
- March 31: Premiere of the operetta Lysistrata by Paul Lincke in Berlin
- 30 April: The world premiere of Claude Debussy 's lyrical drama Pelléas et Mélisande , based on an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck 's play of the same name , takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- 6 October: The premiere of the opera Das war ich! by Leo Blech takes place at the Dresden Court Opera . The libretto is by Richard Batka using the play of the same name by Johann Hutt .
- November 21: Premiere of the operetta Wiener Frauen by Franz Lehár at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
- November 28: First performance of the opera Saul and David by Carl August Nielsen in Copenhagen
- 16 December: Premiere of Karl Goldmark 's opera Götz von Berlichingen at the National Opera in Budapest
- 20 December: The premiere of the operetta Der Rastelbinder by Franz Lehár takes place at the Carltheater in Vienna . The libretto is by Victor Léon .
- December 25: First performance of the opera Kashchei the Immortal (orig.: Kashchei bessmertny ) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Solodownikov Private Opera in Moscow
instrumental music
- January 25: Alexander Scriabin 's Symphony No. 2 is premiered in St. Petersburg.
- March 18: First performance of the string sextet Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schönberg in Vienna.
- April 5: Premiere of the piano piece Jeux d'Eau by Maurice Ravel
literature
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Sidney Paget 's illustration from April's Strand Magazine
- March: Arthur Conan Doyle 's detective novel The Hound of the Baskervilles is published in book form in London, a month before the final installment of the serialized novel is published in The Strand Magazine .
- May 4: Comic book character Buster Brown , created by Richard Felton Outcault , appears in the New York Herald for the first time .
- 18/19 October: Hugo von Hofmannsthal 's prose work Brief des Lord Chandos appears in two parts in the Berlin newspaper Der Tag .
- The utopian novel Altneuland by Theodor Herzl , which deals with a Jewish settlement in Palestine, is published in Leipzig for the first time. Altneuland was translated into Hebrew by Nachum Sokolow in the year of publication and given the poetic title Tel Aviv .
- The novel The Immoralist by André Gide appears in the literary magazine Mercure de France in Paris. The wealthy Michel confesses to three old friends three months after the death of his wife Marceline from the last three years of his marriage and talks about prostitution and his homosexuality, among other things.
- Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø publishes his socially critical novel Abundance .
- Novel Typhoon by Joseph Conrad in London
- Alfred Jarry 's satirical science fiction novel The Superman in Paris
- Generation conflict novel Freund Hein by Emil Strauss in Berlin
- Autobiographical Stories When I Was Still the Forest Farmer's Boy by Peter Rosegger in Hamburg
society
- June 16: Albert Einstein gets a job as Expert III. Class at the Patent Office in Bern .
- November 22: Arms magnate Friedrich Alfred Krupp dies seven days after he was publicly outed as homosexual in Vorwarts .
- Foundation of the youth organization 4-H
religion
- January 13: The Assyriologist Friedrich Delitzsch triggers the Babel-Bible controversy with his thesis, expressed in a lecture to the German Orient Society , that the Jewish religion and the Old Testament are based on Babylonian roots .
- April 27: In Germany, the first tent mission begins on the Tersteegensruh hill near Mülheim an der Ruhr .
- July 5: Eleven-year-old Maria Goretti falls victim to a sex offender who fatally stabs her multiple times. Dying, the child forgives the offender and is later canonized.
- November 22: After his impression of apostasy and religious ceremonies in the Church of Bohemia and Moravia, Pope Leo XIII. with the encyclical Quae ad nos there a bishops' conference . Under the leadership of Prague Cardinal Leo Skrbenský von Hříště , ways to remedy the deficiencies are to be found.
disasters
- April 14: Storm in Berlin : after a downpour, the streets are flooded for hours; there are dam slides and house collapses.
- April 19: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Guatemala , Central America , kills about 2,000.
- May 6: The British passenger ship Camorta is sunk by a cyclone in the Irrawaddy estuary (Indian Ocean) . All 739 people on board die.
Mont Pelé on May 26, 1902, 18 days after the great eruption (photo by Angelo Heilprin )
- May 8: A volcanic eruption from Mont Pelé on the Antilles island of Martinique kills around 30,000.
- July 21: The pleasure boat Primus sinks after a collision with the tugboat Hansa on the Lower Elbe near Hamburg. 101 of 206 passengers are killed.
- October 24: Quetzaltenango , Guatemala 's second-largest city , is largely destroyed by an eruption of the Santa María volcano , a disaster from which it never fully recovers, despite reconstruction.
- December 16: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Turkestan kills around 4,500 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- May 22: Crater Lake National Park in Oregon is established. It includes the area of Mount Mazama volcano and the 594 meter deep Crater Lake in its caldera . Crater Lake is home to the famous Old Man of the Lake floating stump .
Sports
- 1 January: Georg Hackenschmidt succeeds in wrestling in Paris with world champion revenge against Constant le Boucher .
- February 16: The first ski race in Switzerland takes place near Bern . The German Heinrich von Dieskau wins.
- March 6: Real Madrid is founded.
- March 9: The Italian football club Vicenza Calcio is formed.
- 5 April: The first Ibrox disaster occurs in Glasgow 's Ibrox Park football stadium during an international match between Scotland and England when a wooden stand collapses . There are 25 dead and 517 injured spectators. The capacity of the stadium will then be temporarily reduced from 75,000 to 25,000 spectators.
- April 28: The football club Manchester United is renamed after a number of businessmen around the new club president John Henry Davies avert the bankruptcy of the existing Newton Heath FC with a cash injection.
- May 19: The German Tennis Federation is founded in Berlin .
- August 10th: At the international swimming meeting in Vienna , the Englishman John Arthur Jarvis uses the “crawl” style for the first time – and wins.
- August 18: Founding of the football club Grazer AK
- 17 September: Meidericher SV ( MSV Duisburg ) is founded.
- 12 October: Austria and Hungary play the first international match between two non-British teams in Vienna. Result 5:0
- In the Italian Cup (Florence, Italy) (Motorsport) Guido Adami wins .
- The Hermannsweg for hiking is opened in the Teutoburg Forest .
Entries of athletics world records see under the respective discipline under athletics
Nobel prizes
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| Nobel Price for physics |
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928) |
 Netherlands
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"in recognition of the extraordinary merit they have acquired through their investigations into the influence of magnetism on radiation phenomena" (splitting of spectral lines in the magnetic field, Zeeman effect ) |
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Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) |
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| Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Emil Fischer (1852–1919) |
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"in recognition of the extraordinary merit he has acquired through his synthetic work in the field of sugar and purine groups " |
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| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Ronald Ross (1857–1932) |
 United Kingdom (born in Almora , India )
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"for his work on malaria , through which he demonstrated how the disease enters the organism and thus laid the foundation for successful research into this disease and its treatment methods" |
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| Nobel Prize in literature |
Theodore Mommsen (1817–1903) |
German Empire (born in Garding , Duchy of Schleswig , Denmark )
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"the currently greatest living master of historical representation art, with special reference to his monumental work 'Roman History'" |
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| Nobel Peace Prize |
Elie Ducommun (1833–1906) |
 Switzerland
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Head of the Berne " International Permanent Peace Office " of the " Interparliamentary Union for International Arbitration ". |
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Charles Albert Gobat (1843-1914) |
Switzerland
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Head of the Central Office of the “ Interparliamentary Union for International Arbitration ”. |
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Born
January
- January 1: Ernst Heinitz , German lawyer and rector of the Free University of Berlin († 1998)
- January 1: Hans von Dohnanyi , German lawyer and resistance fighter (died 1945)
- January 1: Valerian Sorin , Soviet diplomat (died 1986)
- January 3 Mario Agustoni , Swiss politician and lawyer (died 1982)
- January 3: Annelise Reichmann , German painter and printmaker (died 2000)
- January 6: Max Güde , German lawyer and politician (died 1984)
- January 6: Petrus Pavlicek , Austrian Franciscan (died 1982)
- January 7: Willy Ascherl , German soccer player (died 1929)
- January 7: Sumii Sue , Japanese writer (died 1997)
- January 8: Franz Felke , German entrepreneur (died 1990)
- January 8: Georgy Malenkov , Soviet politician (died 1988)
- January 8: Gret Palucca , German dancer and dance teacher († 1993)
- January 8: Giulio Ramponi , Italian technician and racing driver (d. 1986)
- January 8: Carl Rogers , American psychologist and youth psychotherapist (d. 1987)
- January 8: Kawakami Tetsutarō , Japanese writer († 1980)
- January 9: Emmi Pikler , Hungarian pediatrician and early childhood educator (died 1984)
- January 9: Josemaría Escrivá , founder of Opus Dei (died 1975)
- January 9: Josef Zotz , Catholic priest and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime († 1941)
- January 9: Rudolf Bing , singer and conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York (d. 1997)
- January 11: Maurice Duruflé , French composer (d. 1986)
- January 12: Georges Delaroche , French racing driver (d. 1968)
- January 13: Edmund Geilenberg , representative of the German armaments industry in the Third Reich († 1964)
- January 13: Karl Menger , Austrian mathematician (died 1985)
- January 15: Nâzım Hikmet , Turkish poet (died 1963)
- January 15: Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz , King of Saudi Arabia (died 1969)
- January 16: Josef Aschauer , German mountaineer, mountain rescuer, skier and ski jumper (died 1995)
- January 16 – Eric Liddell , Scottish athlete, Olympic champion and rugby player (d. 1945)
- January 16: Karl Neuner , German Nordic Combined (died 1949)
- January 17 Clyde D. Eddleman , United States Army general (died 1992)
- January 17: Edoardo Teagno , Italian racing driver (d. 1945)
- January 16: Wilhelm Hauschild , German photographer (died 1983)
- January 18: Umbo , German photographer (died 1980)
- January 18: Émile Aillaud , French architect (d. 1988)
- January 18 – Michael Freund , German political scientist and historian (died 1972)
- January 19 Nikolaus Adler , German theologian (died 1970)
- January 19: Max Matern , anti-fascist and member of the German Communist Party (died 1935)
- January 19: Georg Ostrogorsky , Yugoslav Byzantinist (died 1976)
- January 19: Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien , German writer (died 1996)
- January 19 J. Hermann Siemer , German politician (died 1996)
- January 20: Leon Ames , American actor (died 1993)
- January 20: Fridolin Stier , German Bible translator (died 1981)
- January 20 Gisela Praetorius , German politician (died 1981)
- January 21: Hans Andre , Austrian sculptor and painter (died 1991)
- January 22: Edvard Fendler , German conductor (died 1987)
- January 22: Walter Kolb , German politician (died 1956)
- January 23: Clare Schimmel , German radio play director, actress and opera singer († 1986)
- January 24: Antanas Adomaitis , Lithuanian clergyman, organist and professor (died 1936)
- January 24: Oskar Morgenstern , Austrian economist (died 1977)
- January 25: Gustav Abel , Austrian film architect and set designer (d. 1963)
- January 25: Johann von Leers , Nazi publicist in the Third Reich († 1965)
- January 25: Nakano Shigeharu , Japanese writer (died 1979)
- January 26: Curt Herzstark , Austrian inventor and office machine mechanic (d. 1988)
- January 26: Kurahara Korehito , Japanese literary critic (d. 1991)
- January 27: Heinrich Lützeler , professor of philosophy, art history and literature († 1988)
- January 27 Ginette Martenot , French pianist, Ondes Martenot player and music teacher (d. 1996)
- January 28: Willy Popp , German problem composer and functionary (died 1978)
- January 30 Giovanni Battista Guidotti , Italian racing driver and motorsport official (d. 1994)
- January 30: Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor , author and resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1972)
- January 30: Nikolaus Pevsner , German art historian (died 1983)
- January 31: Alva Myrdal , Swedish sociologist, politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 1986)
- January 31 Tallulah Bankhead , American actress (d. 1968)
- January 31: Ernst Moritz Roth , German priest and Nazi opponent (died 1945)
- January 31: Willy Spühler , Swiss politician (died 1990)
February
- February 1 Langston Hughes , American writer (died 1967)
- February 1 Erich Lüth , German publicist (died 1989)
- February 1: Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen , German racing driver (d. 1932)
- February 2 Elie Spivak , Canadian violinist and music teacher (d. 1960)
- February 2: Jane Ising , German-American economist (died 2012)
- February 3 Alejandro Muñoz Ciudad Real , Salvadorian conductor and music teacher (d. 1991)
- February 4: Manuel Álvarez Bravo , Mexican photographer († 2002)
- February 4 Charles Lindbergh , American pilot (died 1974)
- February 4: Willi Rose , German stage and film actor (d. 1978)
- February 4: Hartley Shawcross , British Minister of Justice and British Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials († 2003)
- February 4 – Jean-Baptiste van Silfhout , Dutch rower, swimmer and water polo player (died 1956)
- February 5: Hilde Benjamin , presiding judge and Minister of Justice of the GDR († 1989)
- February 5: Paul Nevermann , German politician (died 1979)
- February 6: Robert Dannemann , German politician (died 1965)
- February 6 Rudolf Eickhoff , German politician (died 1983)
- February 7 Wilhelm Kling , German politician (died 1973)
- February 7: Bruno Linienbach , German SS General (died 1977)
- February 8: Illa Andreae , German writer (died 1992)
- February 8: Lucie Englisch , Austrian actress (d. 1965)
- February 8: Helene Glatzer , anti-fascist resistance fighter († 1935)
- February 9: Léon M'ba , first President of Gabon (d. 1967)
- February 9: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink , Reich Women's Leader in the Third Reich († 1999)
- February 10: Walter H. Brattain , American physicist and Nobel laureate. († 1987)
- February 11 Arne Jacobsen , Danish designer and architect. († 1971)
- February 12: Jean Georges Baer , Swiss naturalist (d. 1975)
- February 12 - Will Glahé , German accordionist, composer and bandleader (died 1989)
- February 12: Heinz Kükelhaus , German travel journalist, novelist and adventurer (d. 1946)
- February 13 Waldemar Gurian , Russian-German-American political scientist (d. 1954)
- February 13 – Walter Lennig , German culture journalist and biographer (died 1968)
- February 13 Blair Moody , American politician (died 1954)
- February 14: Alexander Abusch , journalist, writer and politician in the GDR († 1982)
- February 14: Hans Griem , German politician (died 1955)
- February 15 Adolf Feuring , German civil servant and politician (died 1998)
- February 16: Hans Andersag , German chemist (died 1955)
- February 16: Karl Saur , State Secretary in the NS Ministry of Armaments and Minister of Armaments († 1966)
- February 17: Alexei Rodin , Soviet-Russian Colonel-General (died 1955)
- February 18: Günter Adolphi , German process engineer and university lecturer († 1982)
- February 19: Fritz Artl , German lawyer (died 1989)
- February 19 Kay Boyle , American writer and journalist (died 1992)
- February 19 Kenneth Peacock , British racing driver (d. 1968)
- February 19: Tsuruta Tomoya , Japanese writer (died 1988)
- February 20 Ansel Adams , American photographer (died 1984)
- February 20: Ludwig Adenauer , German civil servant (died 1971)
- February 20: Bertus Freese , Dutch footballer (died 1959)
- February 20: Wilhelm Guddorf , journalist and resistance fighter in the Third Reich († 1943)
- February 22 Bruno Arno , German actor, cabaret artist, choreographer and dancer († 1990)
- February 22: Józef Chwedczuk , Polish organist and music teacher (died 1979)
- February 22 – Hal Holmes , American politician (died 1977)
- February 22: Fritz Straßmann , German scientist (died 1980)
- February 22: Herma Szabó , Austrian figure skater (d. 1986)
- February 23 – Tiny Feather , American football player (d. 1965)
- February 24 Richard Alewyn , German scholar and literary critic (died 1979)
- February 24 Gladys Aylward , British missionary (died 1970)
- February 24: Herbert Warnke , chairman of the FDGB and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR († 1975)
- February 25: Hanns Geier , German racing driver (d. 1986)
- February 25 Virginio Rosetta , Italian footballer (died 1975)
- February 26: Vercors , French writer, cartoonist (died 1991)
- February 27 Lúcio Costa , Brazilian architect and urban planner (died 1998)
- February 27: John Steinbeck , American author (died 1968)
- February 27 – Michał Wiłkomirski , Polish violinist, violist and music teacher (died 1989)
- February 28: Elsa Scholten , German actress (died 1981)
March
- March 1: Charlotte Pluquet-Dziekan , German painter (died 1971)
- March 2 Edward Condon , American physicist (d. 1974)
- March 6: Rudolf Mandrella , German lawyer and Nazi opponent († 1943)
- March 7: Heinz Rühmann , German actor (died 1994)
- March 10: Kurt Hirschfeld , dramaturge and director († 1964)
- March 12: Jean Mineur , French film producer and director († 1985)
- March 12: Tüdel Weller , German journalist and writer (died 1970)
- March 13 Hans Bellmer , German photographer, sculptor, painter and author (died 1975)
- March 13: Marthe Robin , French mystic (died 1981)
- March 14 Shteryo Atanasov , Bulgarian politician, officer and military historian (died 1967)
- March 14: Franz Wilhelm Kieling , German administrative lawyer and mayor (died 1953)
- March 14 Herbert Nette , German editor and writer (died 1994)
- March 15: James T. Blair , American politician (died 1962)
- March 16: André Bovon , Swiss evangelical minister (died 1971)
- March 17 Bobby Jones , American golfer (d. 1971)
- March 18 Ludwig Metzger , German politician (died 1993)
- March 20 Mario Magnozzi , Italian soccer player and coach (d. 1971)
- March 21: Edward Anseele Jr. , Belgian politician and resistance fighter († 1981)
- March 21 Gustav Fröhlich , German actor, director and screenwriter († 1987)
- March 21: Son House , American blues musician (d. 1988)
- March 23: Josef von Báky , Hungarian director (died 1966)
- March 23: Jacques Chantrel , French racing driver (†unknown)
- March 24 Thomas E. Dewey , American politician (d. 1971)
- March 28: Paul Godwin , German-Dutch violinist and orchestra leader (d. 1982)
- March 29 Ludwig Anschütz , German actor and radio play announcer (died 1985)
- March 29: Marcel Aymé , French novelist and playwright (died 1967)
- March 29 Don Miller , American lawyer, American football player and coach (d. 1979)
- March 29: William Walton , English composer and conductor (d. 1983)
- March 30: Victor Emanuel Anderson , American politician (d. 1962)
- March 30: Brooke Astor , American philanthropist (d. 2007)
- March 30 – Ted Heath , British trombonist and bandleader (died 1969)
- March 30 Peeter Sink , Estonian minister, poet, painter and photographer (died 1957)
- March 31: Sadie Gale , Australian actress and entertainer (d. 1997)
- March 31 – Bill Hoffman , American football player (d. 1994)
April
- April 2: Bade Ghulam Ali Khan , Indian singer (d. 1968)
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- April 2: Jan Tschichold , calligrapher, typographer, author and teacher († 1974)
- April 3: Otto Winzer , Minister for Foreign Affairs of the GDR († 1975)
- April 3: Reinhard Gehlen , General of the Wehrmacht and President of the Federal Intelligence Service († 1979)
- April 4: Robert Eberan von Eberhorst , Austrian designer (d. 1982)
- April 4: Stanley G. Weinbaum , American science fiction writer (d. 1935)
- April 5: Wal Handley , British motorcycle and automobile racer (d. 1941)
- April 6: Werner Abel , German journalist (died 1935)
- April 6 Hisao Jūran , Japanese writer (died 1957)
- April 7: Paul Greifzu , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver (d. 1952)
- April 7: Walter Drechsel , German politician and MP (died 1977)
- April 8: Hermann Ahrens , German politician and MP (died 1975)
- April 9: Théodore Monod , explorer of Africa (died 2000)
- April 10: Ernst Balzli , Bernese dialect writer and teacher († 1959)
- April 10: Harry Mortimer , British composer and conductor (d. 1992)
- April 10: Ivo Perilli , Italian screenwriter and director († 1994)
- April 11 Max "Xam" Abegglen , Swiss soccer player (d. 1970)
- April 11: Kobayashi Hideo , Japanese literary critic and writer (died 1983)
- April 12: Louis Beel , Dutch politician and prime minister (died 1977)
- April 13: Philippe de Rothschild , French entrepreneur, racing driver and pioneer of French viticulture (died 1988)
- April 13: Hildegard Schaeder , German church historian and "Righteous Among the Nations" († 1984)
- April 14: Fritz Domina , German pianist, arranger and film composer (d. 1975)
- April 18: Hans Hieronymus , German motorcycle racer (†unknown)
- April 19: Paul Collart , Swiss archaeologist (died 1981)
- April 19 Veniamin Kawerin , Russian novelist, author of children's books (died 1989)
- April 21: Betty Astor , German film actress (d. 1972)
- April 21: Jean Sébilleau , French racing driver (d. 1961)
- April 23: Halldór Laxness , Icelandic writer (died 1998)
- April 23 Ladislao Mittner , Italian Germanist (died 1975)
- April 23 Klaas Aldert Hendrik Hidding , Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian (died 1986)
- April 24 Alfred Loritz , German politician (died 1979)
- April 25: Kurt Gottschaldt , German psychologist and gestalt theorist (died 1991)
- April 25: Leopold Gutterer , German Nazi politician (died 1996)
- April 25: Werner Heyde , Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology († 1964)
- April 25 William H. Wright , American film and television producer and screenwriter (d. 1980)
- April 26 Erich Auer , German trade unionist and resistance fighter (died 1978)
- April 27: Rudolf Schoeller , Swiss racing driver (d. 1978)
- April 28: Ferdinand Eckhardt , Canadian art historian (died 1995)
- April 28: Kurt Frey , German economist and politician (died 1945)
- April 28: Alfred Rieche , German chemist (died 2001)
- April 29: Roger Gauthier , French racing driver (d. 1981)
- April 30: Peregrino Anselmo , Uruguayan soccer player (d. 1975)
- April 30: Theodore W. Schultz , American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
May
- May 1: Mathias Erang , Luxembourg artistic gymnast (died 1978)
- May 1 – Ernst Nagelschmitz , German soccer player (died 1987)
- May 2: Brian Aherne , British actor (died 1986)
- May 2: Georg Kurlbaum , German politician (died 1988)
- May 2: Werner Finck , German writer, actor and cabaret artist († 1978)
- May 3: Alfred Kastler , French physicist (died 1984)
- May 6: Peter Aschenbrenner , Austrian alpinist (died 1998)
- May 6: Max Ophüls , German-French film director († 1957)
- May 6: Hermann Pfeiffer , German actor and director (died 1969)
- May 7 Gladys Pearl Baker , American film editor (d. 1984)
- May 8: André Lwoff , French microbiologist (died 1994)
- May 8: Ethelbert Stauffer , Protestant theologian (d. 1979)
- May 9: Juan Santiago Garrido , Chilean composer and musicologist (d. 1994)
- May 10: Anatole Litvak , Ukrainian filmmaker (died 1974)
- May 10: David O. Selznick , American film producer (d. 1965)
- May 12: Gheorghe Ghyka Cantacuzene , Romanian racing driver (d. 1988)
- May 12: Heinrich Kirchner , German sculptor (died 1984)
- May 14 Allen Irvine McHose , American musicologist, educator and organist (d. 1986)
- May 14: Friedrich Schmiedl , Austrian rocket pioneer (d. 1994)
- May 15: Anny Ondra , German-Czech actress (died 1987)
- May 16: Guy Bouriat , French racing driver (d. 1933)
- May 16: Jan Kiepura , Polish tenor (died 1966)
- May 16: Vladimir Lindenberg , Russian-born doctor (d. 1997)
- May 17: Khuang Aphaiwong , Prime Minister of Thailand (died 1968)
- May 17: Fausto Cleva , American conductor (died 1971)
- May 17 Otto Lüthje , German actor (died 1977)
- May 20 Helmuth Domizlaff , German antiquarian (died 1983)
- May 20: Hans Sahl , German critic (died 1993)
- May 21 Marcel Breuer , Hungarian architect and designer (died 1981)
- May 23: Mark Lothar , German composer (died 1985)
- May 24: Susano Polanco , Dominican tenor (d. 1991)
- May 25 Hanns Dustmann , German architect (died 1979)
- May 30: Giuseppina Projetto , Italian age record holder († 2018)
June
- June 1 – Siegfried Balke , German chemist, manager, politician and federal minister (died 1984)
- June 1: Leopold Lindtberg , Austrian director († 1984)
- June 1 Artur Sträter , German politician (died 1977)
- June 2: Joachim von Elbe , lawyer and diplomat († 2000)
- June 2: Giuseppe Lepori , Swiss politician (died 1968)
- June 3: Harry Isaacs , English pianist and music teacher (d. 1973)
- June 3: Heinz Ritter-Schaumburg , German private scholar (died 1994)
- June 4: Franz Firbas , German botanist (died 1964)
- June 5: Robert Biberti , German singer (died 1985)
- June 5 Georg Kieninger , German chess player (died 1975)
- June 6: Herta Gotthelf , German politician (died 1963)
- June 6 – Axel Ivers , German actor, theater director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator († 1964)
- June 6 – Jimmie Lunceford , American jazz musician (d. 1947)
- June 6: Tim Rose-Richards , British racing driver and naval aviator (died 1940)
- June 7: Paul Sturzenegger , Swiss footballer (died 1970)
- June 8: Aram Merangulyan , Armenian composer and conductor (died 1967)
- June 8: Gotthard Neumann , German prehistorian (died 1972)
- June 10 – Gretel Adorno , German chemist and entrepreneur (d. 1993)
- June 11: Hermann Aicher , Austrian theater manager (d. 1977)
- June 11: Ernst Wilhelm Nay , German painter (died 1968)
- June 11: Pedro Biava Ramponi , Colombian composer (d. 1972)
- June 11: Vissarion Shebalin , Russian composer (died 1963)
- June 14 Willy Eichberger , Austrian actor (died 2004)
- June 15: Erik H. Erikson , German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (died 1994)
- June 15: Max Rudolf , German-American conductor (died 1995)
- June 16 Barbara McClintock , US geneticist and Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
- June 16 George Gaylord Simpson , American biologist, zoologist, paleontologist (died 1984)
- June 17 Sammy Fain , American musical and film composer (d. 1989)
- June 17: Woldemar Winkler , German painter, sculptor (died 2004)
- June 18: Boris Barnet , Soviet film director and actor (died 1965)
- June 19: Ernst Heimeran , German author and publisher (died 1955)
- June 19: Pierre Tabourin , French racing driver (d. 1986)
- June 20 Juan Evaristo , Argentine soccer player (d. 1978)
- June 21 – Skip James , American blues singer, guitarist and pianist (d. 1969)
- June 23: Mathias Wieman , German actor (died 1969)
- June 26 – Antonia Brico , American conductor (d. 1989)
- June 27: Josef Berger , Swiss theater founder, director and actor († 1969)
- June 27: Peter Hammerschlag , Austrian poet, writer, cabaret artist and graphic artist († 1942)
- June 27: Georg Malmstén , Finnish singer, musician, composer, orchestra leader and actor († 1981)
- June 27: Stanisław Wycech , Polish veteran of World War I (died 2008)
- June 28 Richard Rodgers , American musical composer (d. 1979)
- June 28 – Joe Smith , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1937)
- June 28: Bertram Eugene Warren , American crystalgrapher (d. 1991)
- June 28: John C. Raven , Scottish psychologist (died 1970)
- June 29: Carl-Heinz Schroth , Austrian actor, director and voice actor († 1989)
- June 30: Walter Götze , German criminal (died 1938)
- June 30: Adalbert Welte , Austrian writer (died 1969)
July
- July 1 Adolf Gondrell , German emcee, film and stage actor (died 1954)
- July 1: Franz Jehan Leenhardt , French evangelical minister and university teacher (died 1990)
- July 1 Maria Probst , German politician (died 1967)
- July 1 Carlos Eduardo de Sabóia Bandeira Melo , Brazilian clergyman and bishop (died 1969)
- July 1: William Wyler , American film director (d. 1981)
- July 2: Gian Andreossi , Swiss ice hockey player
- July 3 Hermann Nuding , German politician (died 1966)
- July 3 Yoshino Hideo , Japanese writer (died 1967)
- July 4 Abe Saperstein , American entrepreneur and basketball executive (died 1966)
- July 4 – Meyer Lansky , American mobster (d. 1983)
- July 5: Miguelito García , Cuban singer (died 1993)
- July 5 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , American politician and diplomat (d. 1985)
- July 6: Hans Krüger , German politician (died 1971)
- July 6: Heinz Neumann , German politician (died 1937)
- July 7: Ted Radcliffe , American baseball player (died 2005)
- July 8 Ömer Lütfi Akadlı , Turkish lawyer (died 1988)
- July 8 Hans Theodor David , German-American musicologist (died 1967)
- July 9 – Gerhart Pohl , German writer and editor (died 1966)
- July 9: Jutta Balk , painter, puppet designer and co-founder of the municipal puppet theater in Magdeburg († 1987)
- July 10: Kurt Alder , German chemist and Nobel laureate (died 1958)
- July 10 – Nathan Asch , Polish-American writer (died 1964)
- July 10: Nicolás Guillén , Cuban poet and writer (died 1989)
- July 10: Günther Weisenborn , German writer and dramaturge († 1969)
- July 11: Karl Fodermair , instrument maker and director of various choirs and orchestras († 1986)
- July 11: Rolf Wideröe , Norwegian engineer and scientist (died 1996)
- July 11 – Samuel Abraham Goudsmit , American physicist (d. 1978)
- July 12 Günther Anders , German-speaking philosopher and essayist († 1992)
- July 12: Fernand Vandernotte , French rower (died 1990)
- July 14: Anton Kaindl , last commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp († 1948)
- July 14: Fritz Jacobi , board member of Bayer AG and club chairman of SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen († 1974)
- July 16 – Stefan Herman , Polish violinist and music teacher (died 1981)
- July 16 Alexander Lurija , Soviet psychologist (died 1977)
- July 16: Mary Philbin , American silent film actress (d. 1993)
- July 18 Juan Manuel Tato , Argentine physician, university lecturer and author († 2004)
- July 20: José Aguilar Álvarez , Mexican physician († 1959)
- July 20: Paul Yoshigorō Taguchi , Archbishop of Osaka and Cardinal (died 1978)
- July 21 – Johnston Murray , American politician (died 1974)
- July 23 – Walter Burle Marx , Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1990)
- July 24: René Biolay , French racing driver (d. 1945)
- July 24: Hans Chemin-Petit , German composer and conductor (died 1981)
- July 24 Hellmuth Helsig , German film actor (died 1958)
- July 25: Hans Helfritz , German composer, musicologist and writer (died 1995)
- July 26 Gus Aiken , American jazz trumpeter and cornetist (died 1973)
- July 26: Roger Branigin , American politician (died 1975)
- July 26: Albert Forster , Gauleiter of the NSDAP and Reich governor in Danzig († 1952)
- July 27 Hans-Dietrich von Diepenbroick-Grueter , German antiquarian and collector of portraits (died 1980)
- July 28: Grzegorz Grzeban , Polish chess problem composer (died 1991)
- July 28 Karl Popper , Austro-British philosopher and philosopher of science (died 1994)
- July 29 David Arellano , Chilean soccer player (d. 1927)
- July 29 Jacques-André Boiffard , French physician and photographer (died 1961)
- July 29 Ernst Glaeser , German writer (died 1963)
- July 31: Franz Asboth , Austrian politician (died 1967)
August
- August 1 Lola Iturbe , Spanish anarchist and feminist (died 1990)
- August 1: Otto Schmidt , German politician and MP (died 1984)
- August 3: Achim Gercke , German biologist (died 1997)
- August 3 Martin Noth , German Protestant theologian (died 1968)
- August 3 Fritz Pellkofer , German cross-country skier (died 1943)
- August 4: Konrad Behrendt , German politician and resistance fighter (died 1943)
- August 4: August Schläfer , German professor and founding rector of the University of Mechanical Engineering Karl-Marx-Stadt († 1967)
- August 5 Joseph Cornelius Rossaint , Catholic anti-fascist resistance fighter (died 1991)
- August 6: Sylvain Julien Victor Arend , Belgian astronomer (d. 1992)
- August 6: Helmut Kraatz , German physician (died 1983)
- August 7: Ann Harding , American actress (d. 1981)
- August 7: August Herold , graduate farmer, senior agricultural councilor and vine breeder († 1973)
- August 7: Douglas Lowe , British athlete (d. 1981)
- August 7: Boris Shpitalny , Soviet weapons designer (died 1972)
- August 8: Paul Dirac , British physicist and co-founder of the field of quantum physics (d. 1984)
- August 9 William Christopher Atkinson , British Romance scholar, historian, Hispanist and Lusitanist (died 1992)
- August 9: Solomon , English pianist (died 1988)
- August 10: Arne Tiselius , Swedish chemist (died 1971)
- August 10: Curt Siodmak , screenwriter († 2000)
- August 10: Norma Shearer , American-Canadian actress (d. 1983)
- August 11 Alfredo Binda , Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
- August 11: Anna Moncrieff , Canadian pianist and music teacher (d. 1995)
- August 12: Franz Etzel , German politician (died 1970)
- 12 August: Kirellos VI. , Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark (died 1971)
- August 12: Mohammad Hatta , Indonesian Vice President and Prime Minister (died 1980)
- August 12: Robert F. Kennon , American politician (died 1988)
- August 13: Ernst Forsthoff , German constitutional lawyer (died 1974)
- August 13: Felix Wankel , German mechanical engineer and inventor of the Wankel engine (d. 1988)
- August 13: Georges Aeby , Swiss composer and professor (d. 1953)
- August 14: Charlotte Ander , German actress (died 1969)
- August 14: Ferdinand Marian , Austrian actor (died 1946)
- August 15 Werner Kallmorgen , Hamburg architect (died 1979)
- August 16 Georgette Heyer , English novelist (died 1974)
- August 16: Stefan Bolesław Poradowski , Polish composer (died 1967)
- August 17: Ángel José Battistessa , Argentine Romance scholar and translator († 1993)
- August 17: Otto Fischl , Czechoslovakian politician (died 1952)
- August 18: Julius Kalaš , Czech composer (died 1967)
- August 18: Franz Oppenhoff , Lord Mayor of Aachen († 1945)
- August 20: André Galoisy , French racing driver (d. 1983)
- August 21: Werner Fischer , German chemist (died 2001)
- August 22: Erwin Kramer , Minister of Transport of the GDR († 1979)
- August 22: Leni Riefenstahl , German dancer, actress (died 2003)
- August 22: Otto Kasten , founder of the association Visitor Ring Dr. Otto Kasten († 1989)
- August 22: Gerhard Schwarz , German church musician and organist (died 1995)
- August 24: Fernand Braudel , French historian (died 1985)
- August 25: Stefan Wolpe , German composer (died 1972)
- August 26: Sergei Balasanyan , Soviet composer (died 1982)
- August 27: Herbert Menges , English composer and conductor (d. 1972)
- August 28 Karl Braun , German motorcycle racer (died 1937)
- August 28 Otto Neumann , German athlete (died 1990)
- August 30: Alois Carigiet , Swiss artist, painter and children's book author (d. 1985)
- August 30: Joseph Maria Bocheński , Polish philosopher and logician (d. 1995)
- August 30 Arnold Walter , Czech-Canadian music educator and writer (d. 1973)
- August 30: Alfonso de Elías , Mexican composer (d. 1984)
September
- September 1: Ernst-Ludwig von Aster , German hunting and animal painter (died 1986)
- September 1 Eddie Kotal , American football player and coach, scout (sport) (d. 1973)
- September 1 Wilhelm Heiner , German sculptor, painter and graphic artist (died 1965)
- September 3 Karl Saller , German anthropologist and physician (died 1969)
- September 4: Kurt Annecke , German pharmacist (died 1961)
- September 4: Albert Venohr , German actor (died 1979)
- September 5: Harold John Aldington , British racing driver and entrepreneur (d. 1976)
- September 5: Hans G. Bentz , German writer (died 1968)
- September 5: Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg , administrative officer and resistance fighter († 1944)
- September 7: Ludwig Böck , German skier (died 1960)
- September 8 Ruth Elder , American aviation pioneer and actress (d. 1977)
- September 9 Herta Ilk , German politician (died 1972)
- September 10 Jim Crowley , American football player, coach and official (d. 1986)
- September 10: Toivo Pekkanen , Finnish writer (died 1957)
- September 11: W. Harold Anderson , American basketball player and coach (d. 1967)
- September 11: Barbecue Bob , American blues pioneer (d. 1931)
- September 11 Erni Finselberger , German politician (died 1993)
- September 12: Pierre Apestéguy , French writer (died 1972)
- September 12: Beltrán Arbeleche , Uruguayan architect (d. 1989)
- September 12: Juscelino Kubitschek , President of Brazil (d. 1976)
- September 12: Alexander Witt , Russian theoretical physicist (d. 1938)
- September 12 Marya Zaturenska , American writer (d. 1982)
- September 13: Robert Jecker , German motorcycle racer (d. 1932)
- September 13: Friedrich Stumpfl , Austrian psychiatrist and eugenicist (died 1997)
- September 14 Adolf Rieth , German prehistorian (died 1984)
- September 14: Nikolai Kamov , Soviet engineer (died 1973)
- September 15: Fritz Riemann , German psychoanalyst (died 1979)
- September 16: Jean Bourgknecht , Swiss politician (died 1964)
- September 16: Mildred Harnack , American-German literary scholar (died 1943)
- September 16: Germaine Richier , French sculptor and printmaker (d. 1959)
- September 17: Hugo Hartung , German writer (died 1972)
- September 18: Pavel Abankin , Soviet admiral (died 1965)
- September 20 Vladimír Clementis , Slovak politician, jurist, writer and translator (died 1952)
- September 20: Vasil Mshavanadze , head of the Georgian Communist Party (died 1988)
- September 21: Allen Lane , British publisher (died 1970)
- September 21 Ilmari Salminen , Finnish athlete (d. 1986)
- September 22: José Quintero Parra , Archbishop of Caracas and Cardinal (d. 1984)
- September 22 Lucien Sicotte , Canadian violinist and music teacher (d. 1943)
- September 22: Heinrich Zänker , German rower (died 1984)
- September 23: Su Buqing , Chinese mathematician (died 2003)
- September 24 Cheryl Crawford , American theater director and producer († 1986)
- September 25: Sergei Borodin , Russian writer (died 1974)
- September 25: Jenő Takács , Austrian composer and pianist († 2005)
- September 25: Karl König , founder of the international Camphill movement (d. 1966)
- September 26 Albert Anastasia , American mafioso (d. 1957)
- September 27: Magda Rose-Weingardt , German painter (died 1996)
- September 27: Hans-Joachim Rehse , judge at the People's Court (died 1969)
- September 28 Vladimir Myasishchev , Soviet aircraft designer (died 1978)
- September 29: Maximilian Hohenberg , Duke of Hohenberg (died 1962)
- September 29 Mikel Koliqi , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1997)
- September 30: David Bernard Ast , American dentist and civil servant (d. 2007)
October
- October 1: Taras Borodajkewycz , member of the NSDAP, professor at the University of World Trade in Vienna († 1984)
- October 2 Leopold Figl , Austrian politician (died 1965)
- October 2: Paul Scholz , Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR († 1995)
- October 5: Larry Fine , American comedian and actor (d. 1975)
- October 5 – Lothar Zirngiebl , German entomologist and headmaster (died 1973)
- October 5: Michał Kondracki , Polish composer (died 1984)
- October 5: Ray Kroc , founder of McDonald's (died 1984)
- October 5 Zaharia Stancu , Romanian writer (died 1974)
- October 6: Bruno Balz , German lyricist and hit songwriter († 1988)
- October 6: Gui Mombaerts , Belgian pianist and music teacher (d. 1993)
- October 6 – Hoyt Ming , American old-time musician (d. 1985)
- October 7: Hermann Busch , German general (†unknown)
- October 9 – Fritz Rémond junior , German actor, director and impresario (died 1976)
- October 10 – Erwin Leuchter , Argentine musicologist and conductor (d. 1973)
- October 12 Jimmy Archey , American trombonist and bandleader (died 1967)
- October 12 – Pavel Reiman , Czech writer and literary historian (died 1976)
- October 12: Max Suhrbier , German politician (died 1971)
- October 12: Peng Zhen , Chinese politician (died 1997)
- October 13 – Eduard Orth , German politician (died 1968)
- October 13: Luther H. Evans , American political scientist, UNESCO Director-General (d. 1981)
- October 14 Learco Guerra , Italian cyclist (died 1963)
- October 15 – Amparo Poch y Gascón , Spanish medic and anarchist (died 1968)
- October 15 – Anton Sabel , German CDU politician (died 1983)
- October 16 – Robert Scholz , Austrian-American pianist, composer, conductor and music teacher (d. 1986)
- October 17: Irene Ryan , American actress (died 1973)
- October 18: Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler , German painter (died 1945)
- October 18 Reinhold Henzler , German economist (died 1968)
- October 18: Miriam Hopkins , American actress (d. 1972)
- October 18: Pascual Jordan , German physicist (died 1980)
- October 18 – Sergei Konjus , Russian pianist and composer (died 1988)
- October 21: Kurt Scharf , evangelical bishop (died 1990)
- October 25 – Eddie Lang , American jazz musician (d. 1933)
- October 25 Alfred E. Driscoll , American politician (died 1975)
- October 26: Alfred Vogel , Swiss naturopath and pharmaceutical entrepreneur († 1996)
- October 26: Vera Guilaroff , Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1976)
- October 26 Beryl Markham , British aviation pioneer (died 1986)
- October 27 Emil van Tongel , Austrian politician (died 1981)
- October 28 Sebastià Juan Arbó , Catalan novelist and playwright (died 1984)
- October 28: Elsa Lanchester , British actress (d. 1986)
- October 28 Hermann Runge , German politician (died 1975)
- October 29: Kitazono Katsue , Japanese lyric poet (died 1978)
- October 31 Carlos Drummond de Andrade , Brazilian poet (died 1987)
- October 31 Sophie Ehrhardt , Russian-German anthropologist (died 1990)
November
- November 1 Friedel Apelt , German politician and trade union official (died 2001)
- November 1: Eugen Jochum , German conductor (died 1987)
- November 1: Nordahl Grieg , Norwegian novelist, poet, playwright and journalist (died 1943)
- November 3 – Bill Adams , English footballer (died 1963)
- November 4: Otto Bayer , German chemist (died 1982)
- November 4 Frank Jenks , American actor and musician (d. 1962)
- November 4: Pierre Verger , photographer († 1996)
- November 6: Valter Ever , Estonian athlete (died 1981)
- November 9: Anthony Asquith , British film director (d. 1968)
- November 9: Bernd Eistert , German chemist (died 1978)
- November 10 Záviš Kalandra , Czechoslovakian historian, journalist, publicist and writer (died 1950)
- November 10: Antonio María Valencia , Colombian composer (d. 1952)
- November 11: Ernő Goldfinger , Hungarian-British architect (died 1987)
- November 11 Teófilo Yldefonso , Filipino swimmer (died 1942)
- November 13 Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald , German-Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist (died 1982)
- November 15 Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland , German diplomat and politician (died 1969)
- November 16: Emil Dähne , German chess functionary (died 1968)
- November 17: Eugene Paul Wigner , American physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
- November 18 Lillian Fuchs , American violist, music teacher and composer († 1995)
- November 20: Gianpiero Combi , Italian footballer (died 1956)
- November 20 – Erik Eriksen , Danish politician of the right-wing liberal party Venstre (died 1972)
- November 20: Wolfgang Kunkel , German lawyer and legal historian († 1981)
- November 21: Walter Adolph , German priest (died 1975)
- November 21 Ferenc Hirzer , Hungarian football player and coach (died 1957)
- November 21: Harald Lie , Norwegian composer (died 1942)
- November 21: Isaac Bashevis Singer , writer and winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature († 1991)
- November 22: Joe Adonis , Italian mobster (died 1971)
- November 22: Emanuel Feuermann , Austrian cellist (died 1942)
- November 22: Jacques-Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque , French major general (died 1947)
- November 22 Ethel Smith , US organist (d. 1996)
- November 23: SO Wagner , German actor, author, radio play speaker, radio play and theater director (died 1975)
- November 24 Heinrich Hemsath , German politician (died 1978)
- November 27: Franz Hofer , Gauleiter of Tyrol and Vorarlberg (died 1975)
- November 27: Hartwig Sievers , German actor and radio play announcer († 1970)
- November 28 Franz Op den Orth , German SPD politician (died 1970)
- November 28 Karl Maria Hettlage , German economist (died 1995)
- November 29 Carlo Levi , Italian writer, painter and politician (died 1975)
- November 30: Leopold von Mildenstein , journalist (died 1968)
December
- December 1: Hermann Auer , German physicist (died 1997)
- December 2: Milagros Leal , Spanish actress (died 1975)
- December 5: Strom Thurmond , American politician (died 2003)
- December 6: Giovanni Colombo , Archbishop of Milan and Cardinal (d. 1992)
- December 6 Karl Reiche , German writer (died 1959)
- December 6: Karl Schmidt , resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1945)
- December 9 Henry Homburger , American bobsledder and civil engineer (died 1950)
- December 10: Heinrich Deist , German politician and MP (died 1964)
- December 10: Ludwig Szymczak , communist (died 1945)
- December 10: Mikhail Vladimirovich Alpatov , Russian art historian (died 1986)
- December 11: Josef Schüttler , German politician (died 1972)
- December 11: Reginald Le Borg , Austrian-American director (d. 1989)
- December 12: Koloman Sokol , Slovak artist († 2003)
- December 13: Paul Kurzbach , German composer (died 1997)
- December 13 Talcott Parsons , American sociologist (d. 1979)
- December 14 Herbert Feigl , Austrian-American philosopher (d. 1988)
- December 15 Bernard L. Austin , United States Vice Admiral (d. 1979)
- December 16: Rafael Alberti , Spanish poet (died 1999)
- December 16: Oskar Grether , German Protestant theologian and university teacher († 1949)
- December 17 Albert Drach , Austrian lawyer and writer (died 1995)
- December 19: Ralph Richardson , British actor (died 1983)
- December 20 George, 1st Duke of Kent , fourth son of King George V and Mary (d. 1942)
- December 21: Anny Ahlers , German singer and actress (d. 1933)
- December 21 – Ewald Sprave , German politician (died 1984)
- December 21 – Peetie Wheatstraw , American blues musician (d. 1941)
- December 21: Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld , German officer and resistance fighter (died 1944)
- December 22: August Neuburger , German politician (died 1999)
- December 22: Alfonso de Silva , Peruvian composer (died 1937)
- December 23 Chaudhary Charan Singh , Prime Minister of India († 1987)
- December 24 Jean de Menasce , French theologian and orientalist (died 1973)
- December 25: Theodor Bongartz , German SS-Oberscharführer and head of the crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp (died 1945)
- December 25: Georg Dertinger , Minister for Foreign Affairs of the GDR († 1968)
- December 25: Emanuel Punčochář , Czech conductor and composer (died 1976)
- December 25 – Tassilo Tröscher , German politician and Hessian minister († 2003)
- December 27: Francesco Agello , Italian pilot (died 1942)
- December 28 Mortimer Adler , American philosopher and writer (died 2001)
- December 28 Otto Andres , German politician (died 1975)
- December 28: Hans Pulver , Swiss soccer goalkeeper (d. 1977)
- December 29: Gustav Adolf Nosske , SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer († 1986)
- December 29: Henry Vars , American film composer of Polish origin (d. 1977)
- December 31 Jan Čep , Czech writer and translator (died 1973)
- December 31 – Matthias Gleitze , German local politician (died 1989)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Willi Ahrem , German soldier (died 1967)
- Cayetano Biondo , Argentine theater and film actor (died 1986)
- Douglas Cameron , English cellist and music teacher (died 1972)
- Ruhollah Khomeini , political and spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution in Iran (died 1989)
Died
First quarter
- January 1: Johann Eduard Jacobsthal , German architect (b. 1839)
- January 4: Auguste Jauch , German philanthropist (b. 1822)
- January 8: Ludwig Beckmann , German painter (b. 1822)
- January 8 Adam Worth aka Henry J. Raymond, German-American criminal (b. 1844)
- January 11: Adam Flasch , German archaeologist (b. 1844)
- January 14: Cato Maximilian Guldberg , Norwegian mathematician and chemist (b. 1836)
- January 19: August Köhler , German colonial official and governor of Togo (b. 1858)
- January 21: Ernst Wichert , German writer and jurist (b. 1831)
- January 22: Otto Scholderer , German painter (b. 1834)
- January 29: Carl Arendt , German sinologist (b. 1838)
- February 4: Jacob Lindboe , Norwegian jurist and politician (born 1843)
- February 8: Sergei Mossin , Russian weapons designer (b. 1849)
- February 11: Emil Hartmeyer , German jurist and publisher (b. 1820)
- February 14: Johannes Christ , German officer (b. 1855)
- February 18: Albert Bierstadt , German-American painter (b. 1830)
- February 18: Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle , missionary and linguist (b. 1820)
- February 18: Charles Lewis Tiffany , American jeweler (b. 1812)
- February 20: Wilhelm Asmus , German writer (b. 1837)
- February 21: Emil Holub , Bohemian explorer of Africa (b. 1847)
- February 21: Mathias Kneißl , Bavarian robber (b. 1875)
- February 23: Bernhard Maximilian Lersch , German physician and scientist (b. 1817)
- February 24: August Eisenlohr , German Egyptologist (b. 1832)
- February 26: Baptista de Andrade , Portuguese admiral (b. 1811)
- February 26: George Washington Anderson , American politician (b. 1832)
- March 3: Karl Krause , German entrepreneur (b. 1823)
- March 6: Moriz Kaposi , medic (b. 1837)
- March 9: Hermann Allmers , German local poet (b. 1821)
- March 11: Friedrich Engelhorn , founder of BASF (b. 1821)
- March 12: Georg Hummel , German electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur (b. 1856)
- March 19: Victor Langer , Hungarian composer (b. 1842)
- March 21: Wilhelm Ihne , German classical philologist and ancient historian (b. 1821)
- March 23: Kálmán Tisza , Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1830)
- March 24: Wilhelm Stade , German organist, conductor and composer (b. 1817)
- March 26: Cecil Rhodes , British politician and head of government (b. 1853)
- March 28: Conrad Wilhelm Hase , founder of the Hanover School of Architecture (b. 1818)
Second quarter
- April 3: Andreas Reischek , Austrian ethnographer, ornithologist and explorer (b. 1845)
- April 4: Josef Ferch , Romanian-German composer, church musician and music teacher (born 1840)
- April 6: Walther Arnsperger , German philosopher (b. 1871)
- April 11: Wade Hampton III. , American Civil War general and Governor of South Carolina (b. 1818)
- April 12: Alfred Cornu , French physicist (b. 1841)
- April 17: Francisco de Asís de Borbón , husband of Isabella II and titular King of Spain (b. 1822)
- April 19: Lucien Lester Ainsworth , American politician (b. 1831)
- April 19: Henry XXII. , Prince Reuss zu Greiz (* 1846)
- April 19: Hans von Pechmann , German chemist (b. 1850)
- April 26: Lazarus Fuchs , German mathematician (b. 1833)
- May 5: Amancio Alcorta , Argentine politician and legal scholar (b. 1842)
- May 5: Bret Harte , American writer (b. 1836)
- May 8: Paul Leicester Ford , American writer, historian, and biographer (b. 1865)
- May 9: Julius Grosse , German writer (b. 1828)
- May 15: Rudolf Friedrich Arendt , German chemist and educator (b. 1828)
- May 24: Hubert Theophil Simar , Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1835)
- May 26: Almon Strowger , American inventor (b. 1839)
- May 28: Adolf Kußmaul , German physician and medical researcher (b. 1822)
- May 29: Olga Arendt , German writer and actress (born 1859)
- May 30: Sylvester Pennoyer , American politician (b. 1831)
- May 31 Bernhard Loose , Bremen banker (b. 1836)
- June 1 Auguste Eichhorn , German suffragette (b. 1851)
- June 10 Auguste Schmidt , German suffragette, (b. 1833)
- June 11 Otto Eckmann , German painter and printmaker (b. 1865)
- June 16: Ernst Schröder , German mathematician and logician (b. 1841)
- June 17: Karl Piutti , German composer (b. 1846)
- June 18 Jacob Achilles Mähly , Swiss classics scholar (b. 1828)
- 19 June: Albert I , King of Saxony (b. 1828)
- June 19: Caspar Joseph Brambach , German composer (b. 1833)
- 19 June: John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton , English historian (b. 1834)
- June 28: Edouard Castres , Swiss painter (b. 1838)
Third quarter
- July 2: Emery Lavigne , Canadian pianist, organist and music teacher (b. 1859)
- July 4: Vivekananda , Hindu monk and scholar (b. 1863)
- July 5: John Stromberg , Canadian composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1858)
- July 6: Maria Goretti , Italian saint (b. 1890)
- July 6: Leopold Miguéz , Brazilian composer (b. 1850)
- July 7: Agnes von Auer , German writer (b. 1822)
- July 9: Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky , Russian sculptor (b. 1843)
- July 9: William Marvin , American politician (b. 1808)
- July 10: Julius von Ficker , German-Austrian historian (b. 1826)
- July 13: Benjamin Bilse , German conductor and composer (b. 1816)
- July 13: Emanuel Herrmann , Austrian political economist and inventor of the postcard (b. 1839)
- July 16: Heinrich Hofmann , German composer (b. 1842)
- July 16: Karl Ludwig Werner , German organist and composer (b. 1862)
- 22 July: Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski , cardinal and Archbishop of Gniezno (b. 1822)
- July 23: Elsa Neumann , German physicist (b. 1872)
- July 25: Charlotte Vahldiek , German painter (b. 1826)
- July 26: Charles Kendall Adams , American historian and university lecturer (b. 1835)
- July 29: Joseph Kürschner , German writer and lexicographer (b. 1853)
- August 1: Frederick Augustus Packer , Australian organist, composer and music teacher (b. 1839)
- August 3: August Klughardt , German composer and conductor (b. 1847)
- August 7: Rudolf von Bennigsen , German politician (b. 1824)
- August 8: James Tissot , French painter (b. 1836)
- August 8: John Henry Twachtman , American Impressionist painter (b. 1853)
- August 9: Moritz Szeps , Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher (b. 1835)
- August 10: James McMillan , American politician (b. 1838)
- August 21: Franz Sigel , general in the American Civil War (b. 1824)
- August 22: Teresa Stolz , Czech opera singer, interpreter of Verdi (b. 1834)
- August 25: Heinrich von Mendel-Steinfels , Prussian state economist and member of the Prussian House of Representatives (b. 1849)
- August 26: George Hoadly , American politician (b. 1826)
- August 31: Mathilde Wesendonck , German writer (b. 1828)
- 1 September: Tyree Harris Bell , Confederate Army brigadier general in Civil War (b. 1815)
- September 5: Rudolf Virchow , German physician, pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
- September 6: Frederick Augustus Abel , English chemist (b. 1827)
- September 7: William N. Roach , American politician (b. 1840)
- September 7: Franz Wüllner , German composer and conductor (b. 1832)
- September 8: William Coleman Anderson , American politician (b. 1853)
- September 8: James Hobrecht , German town planner (b. 1825)
- September 11: Émile Bernard , French organist and composer (b. 1843)
- September 12: Charles B. Andrews , American politician (b. 1836)
- September 13: John Horace Forney , Confederate general (b. 1829)
- September 22 Alexander Linnemann , German architect, glass painter and decorative artist (b. 1839)
- 25 September: Wilhelm Oechelhäuser , Privy Councilor of Commerce (b. 1820)
- September 26: Levi Strauss , German-American industrialist and inventor of jeans (b. 1829)
- September 28: Iosif Ivanovici , Romanian composer (b. 1845)
- September 29: Émile Zola , French writer and journalist (b. 1840)
- 29 September: Gustav von Goßler , Royal Prussian Minister of State (b. 1838)
Fourth Quarter
- October 2: John Whiteaker , American politician (b. 1820)
- October 4: Peter Soemer , German theologian and poet (b. 1832)
- October 7: Emmerich Andresen , German sculptor and porcelain designer (b. 1843)
- October 18: Carl Spindler , German entrepreneur (b. 1841)
- October 22: Walter Hauser , Swiss politician (b. 1837)
- October 25: Frank Norris , American writer (b. 1870)
- October 26: Elizabeth Cady Stanton , American civil and suffragette activist (b. 1815)
- November 11: Wilhelm Lauser , German publicist and historian (b. 1836)
- November 19: Philipp Arons , German genre and portrait painter (b. 1821)
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- November 22: Friedrich Alfred Krupp , German industrialist (b. 1854)
- December 2: Richard Belcredi , Austrian politician (b. 1823)
- 3 December: Arno von Arndt , Prussian general of infantry (b. 1835)
- December 6: Francis George Atkinson , British civil servant (b. 1874)
- December 6: Louis Jordan , German farmer and politician (b. 1837)
- December 7: Thomas Nast , German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
- December 18: Anton Thraen , German astronomer (b. 1843)
- December 22: Richard von Krafft-Ebing , German psychiatrist and coroner (b. 1840)
- December 22: James S. Boynton , American politician (b. 1833)
- 23 December Émile Nagant , Belgian arms manufacturer and designer (b. 1830)
- December 24: Takayama Chogyū , Japanese writer (b. 1871)
- December 27: Otto Agricola , German politician (b. 1829)
- December 28: Johann Georg Förster , German organ builder (b. 1818)
Exact date of death unknown
- Gabriel Desmoulins , French composer, organist and music teacher (born 1842)
- Agop Güllü , Armenian theater director (b. 1840)
web links
Commons : 1902 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : 1902 - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
- https://www.dhm.de/lemo/ Jahreschronik/1902/ (living virtual museum online)