- January 6 - Florence Turner , American actress (d. 1946 )
- January 8 - John Curtin , Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1945 )
- January 11 - Alice Paul , American women's rights activist (d. 1977 )
- January 21 - Umberto Nobile , Italian politician and airship designer (d. 1978 )
- January 27 - Jerome Kern , American composer (d. 1945 )
- January 27 - Eduard Künneke , German composer (d. 1953 )
- January 27 - Harry Ruby , American musician, composer, and writer (d. 1974 )
- January 29 - Leadbelly , American musician (d. 1949 )
- February 7 - Sinclair Lewis , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951 )
- February 9 - Alban Berg , Austrian composer (d. 1935 )
- February 13 - Bess Truman , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1982 )
- February 15 - Princess Alice Of Battenberg (d. 1969 )
- February 21 - Sacha Guitry , Russian-born dramatist, writer, director, and actor (d. 1957 )
- February 24 - Chester Nimitz , U.S. admiral (d. 1966 )
- February 24 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz , Polish writer and painter (d. 1939 )
- March 6 - Ring Lardner , American writer (d. 1933 )
- March 7 - John Tovey , British admiral of the fleet (d. 1971 )
- March 11 - Sir Malcolm Campbell , English land and water racer (d. 1948 )
- March 14 - Raoul Lufbery , World War I American pilot (d. 1918 )
- March 31 - Pascin , Bulgarian painter (d. 1930 )
- April 1 - Wallace Beery , American actor (d. 1949 )
- April 3 - Allan Dwan , Canadian-born film director (d. 1981 )
- April 4 - Arthur Murray , American dancer (d. 1991 )
- May 2 - Hedda Hopper , American columnist (d. 1966 )
- May 7 - George 'Gabby' Hayes , American actor (d. 1969 )
- May 9 - Eduard C. Lindeman , American social worker and author
- May 14 - Otto Klemperer , German conductor (d. 1973 )
- May 21 - Oscar A.C. Lund , Swedish film actor, director, and writer (d. 1963 )
- May 22 - Toyoda Soemu , Japanese admiral (d. 1957 )
- June 9 - John Edensor Littlewood , British mathematician (d. 1977 )
- June 14 - E. L. Grant Watson , writer, anthropologist, and biologist (d. 1970 )
- June 22 - Milan Vidmar , Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962 )
- July 4 - Louis B. Mayer , American film producer (d. 1957 )
- July 14 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959 )
- July 28 - Monte Attell , American boxer (d. 1960 )
- August 1 - George De Hevesy , Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966 )
- September 11 - D.H. Lawrence , English author (d. 1930 )
- September 22 - Ben Chifley , Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1951 )
- October 3 - Sophie Treadwell , American playwright and journalist (d. 1970 )
- October 7 - Niels Bohr , Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962 )
- October 11 - François Mauriac , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970 )
- October 30 - Ezra Pound , American poet (d. 1972 )
- November 2 - Harlow Shapley , American astronomer (d. 1972 )
- November 5 - Will Durant , American philosopher and writer (d. 1981 )
- November 9 ( October 28 (O.S.)) - Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian poet (d. 1922 )
- November 11 - George Patton , American general (d. 1945 )
- November 20 - Heinrich Brüning , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1970 )
- December 2 - George Minot , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1950 )
- December 19 - Joe "King" Oliver , American jazz musician (d. 1938 )
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