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January 1 - Gustav Albin Weißkopf, later known as Gustave Albin Whitehead, German- American aviation pioneer
January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet (d. 1958)
January 21 - Frederick Madison Smith, American religious leader and author
January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, (d. 1965)
January 29 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., entrepreneur
February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, lyricist, dramatist, narrator, and essayist (d. 1929)
February 3 - Gertrude Stein, writer and patron of the arts (d. 1946)
February 9 - Amy Lowell, poet (d. 1925)
February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author
February 11 - Fritz Bennicke Hart , composer
February 17 - Thomas J. Watson, computer pioneer, first president of IBM
February 24 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1955)
March 20 - Börries von Münchhausen , poet (d. 1945)
March 24 - Harry Houdini, magician
March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (d. 1963)
March 29 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
April 25 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, "the father of radio", recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 (d. 1937)
May 9 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
May 14 - Polaire - French actress and singer (d. 1939)
May 29 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author
June 11 - Lyman Gilmore, Choctaw Native American airplane pioneer.
June 16 - Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister of Canada
July 14 - Abbas II, a khedive of Egypt
September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer
September 21 - Gustav Holst, English composer
October 20 - Charles Ives, musician, composer
October 26 - Martin Lowry, English physical chemist.
October 30 - Bin Ueda , Japanese writer.
November 30 - Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and author
November 30 - Lucy Maude Montgomery, Canadian author
December 13 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist (d. 1944)
December 15 - Shoken Kamitsukasa , Japanese writer
December 17- William Lyon Mackenzie King, former Canadian Prime Minister
December 22 - Franz Schmidt, composer

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