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January

5th

– George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (d. 1963)

8th

– Fearless Nadia, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman (d. 1996)

– William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975)

9th

– Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author (d. 1986)

– Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)

1908 – Abraham Goldfaden, Russian actor, playwright, and author (b. 1840)

10th

– Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992)

11th

– Grand Canyon National Monument is created.

– Lionel Stander, American actor and activist (d. 1994)

12th

– A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.

1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)

– Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)

13th

– The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

14th

– Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1846)

– Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (d. 1934)

15th

– The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.

– Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)

16th

1908 – Günther Prien, German captain (d. 1941)

1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)

– Sammy Crooks, English footballer (d. 1981)

17th

– Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)

– Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer (d. 1985)

18th

– Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, historian, and television host (d. 1974)

19th

1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)

– Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player (d. 1994)

– Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1821)

20th

– Fleur Cowles, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)

– John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)

21st

– New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.

22nd

1908 – Prince Oana, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)

– Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

24th

– The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.

25th

– Hsieh Tung-min, Taiwanese politicians and Vice President of the Republic of China (d. 2001)

1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)

– Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)

26th

1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (d. 1997)

1908 – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter and sculptor (d. 2009)

– Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)

27th

– William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (d. 1993)

28th

– Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998)

– Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.

30th

– Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.

February

1st

– Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.

– Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)

– George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (d. 1980)

1908 – Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist and banker (d. 1998)

2nd

– Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)

4th

– Julian Bell, English poet and academic (d. 1937)

5th

1908 – Eugen Weidmann, German criminal (d. 1939)

1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969)

1908 – Peg Entwistle, Welsh-American actress (d. 1932)

– Marie Baron, Dutch swimmer and diver (d. 1948)

6th

1908 – Michael Maltese, American actor, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1981)

1908 – Geo Bogza, Romanian poet and journalist (d. 1993)

1908 – Edward Lansdale, American general and CIA agent (d. 1987)

– Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1999)

7th

1908 – Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian journalist and author (d. 2000)

– Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)

11th

1908 – Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999)

– Philip Dunne, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)

12th

1908 – Jacques Herbrand, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1931)

– Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1982)

15th

– Sarto Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1980)

17th

1908 – Bo Yibo, Chinese general and politician, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2007)

– Red Barber, American sportscaster (d. 1992)

22nd

1908 – John Mills, English soldier and actor (d. 2005)

– Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela (d. 1981)

23rd

– William McMahon, Australian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)

– Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)

24th

– Telford Taylor, American general, lawyer, and historian (d. 1998)

25th

– Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author (d. 2001)

– Mary Locke Petermann, cellular biochemist^[3] (d. 1975)

26th

– Tex Avery, American animator, producer, and voice actor (d. 1980)

1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)

1908 – Nestor Mesta Chayres, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (d. 1971)

28th

– Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)

March

2nd

– Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)

4th

– The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.

1908 – Thomas Shaw, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)

– T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (d. 1976)

5th

1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

– Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (d. 1999)

1908 – Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990)

7th

– Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)

9th

– Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.

11th

– Edmondo De Amicis, Italian journalist and author (b. 1846)

1908 – Benjamin Waugh, American minister and activist (b. 1839)

– Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1997)

12th

– Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)

1908 – David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)

13th

– Walter Annenberg, American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 2002)

1908 – Myrtle Bachelder, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer (d. 1997)

14th

1908 – Philip Conrad Vincent, English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (d. 1979)

1908 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (d. 1961)

– Ed Heinemann, American engineer (d. 1991)

16th

1908 – Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1966)

1908 – Ernest Rogez, French water polo player (d. 1986)

– René Daumal, French author and poet (d. 1944)

18th

– Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995)

20th

– Michael Redgrave, English actor and director (d. 1985)

22nd

– Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)

1908 – Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1988)

25th

– Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)

– David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)

26th

– Franz Stangl, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 1971)

29th

– Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)

1908 – Dennis O'Keefe, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)

31st

– Red Norvo, American vibraphone player and composer (d. 1999)

April

1st

– Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (d. 1970)

1908 – Harlow Rothert, American shot putter, lawyer, and academic (d. 1997)

– The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

2nd

– Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)

5th

1908 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1989)

1908 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1986)

1908 – Kurt Neumann, German director (d. 1958)

– Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)

6th

– Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Canadian preacher, missionary, and author (d. 1994)

7th

– H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

1908 – Pete Zaremba, American hammer thrower (d. 1994)

– Percy Faith, Canadian composer, conductor, and bandleader (d. 1976)

8th

– Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.

– Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)

9th

– Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (d. 1980)

11th

– Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)

– Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (d. 2007)

1908 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (d. 1997)

1908 – Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (d. 1992)

1908 – Leo Rosten, Polish-American author and academic (d. 1997)

– SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.

12th

1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot and general (d. 2006)

– Ida Pollock, English author and painter (d. 2013)

14th

– Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) high downstream.

15th

– eden ahbez, Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist (d. 1995)

1908 – Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)

16th

– Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman and activist (d. 2004)

1908 – Ray Ventura, French jazz bandleader (d. 1979)

– Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.

19th

– Irena Eichlerówna, Polish actress (d. 1990)

20th

– Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.

– Lionel Hampton, African-American vibraphone player, pianist, bandleader, and actor (d. 2002)

22nd

– Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)

– Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)

23rd

– Myron Waldman, American animator and director (d. 2006)

24th

1908 – Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor (d. 1963)

1908 – Inga Gentzel, Swedish runner (d. 1991)

– Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)

25th

– Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)

28th

– Ethel Catherwood, American-Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower (d. 1987)

1908 – Jack Fingleton, Australian cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster (d. 1981)

1908 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (d. 1974)

29th

– Jack Williamson, American author and academic (d. 2006)

30th

– Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)

1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic journalist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1970)

1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian air marshal and politician (d. 1997)

May

1st

1908 – Morris Kline, American mathematician and academic (d. 1992)

– Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and author (d. 1968)

2nd

– Frank Rowlett, American cryptologist (d. 1998)

4th

Wolrad Eberle, German decathlete (d. 1949)

5th

– Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (d. 1989)

10th

– Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2000)

– Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.

11th

– Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)^[123]

12th

– Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist (d. 1986)

13th

– Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1996)

14th

– Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (d. 2000)

18th

– Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)

19th

1908 – Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982)

1908 – Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994)

– Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1956)

20th

– Henry Bolte, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (d. 1990)

1908 – Louis Daquin, French actor and director (d. 1980)

1908 – Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author (d. 1993)

1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)

22nd

– Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (d. 1963)

23rd

– François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)

1908 – Hélène Boucher, French pilot (d. 1934)

– John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

24th

– Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)

25th

– Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)

26th

– Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)

– The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

– Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)

1908 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Vietnamese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 1976)

28th

1908 – Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond (d. 1964)

– Léo Cadieux, Canadian journalist and politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2005)

29th

– Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)

30th

1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)

– Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

31st

– Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)

– Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)

June

1st

– Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)

– Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (d. 1999)

6th

– Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (d. 1968)

9th

1908 – Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970)

– Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (d. 1993)

11th

1908 – Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (d. 1919)

– Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (d. 1982)

12th

1908 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)

1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2010)

– Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster (d. 1988)

14th

– Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (b. 1841)

18th

– Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (d. 1969)

1908 – Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)

1908 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (d. 1997)

1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.

– Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.

20th

– Gus Schilling, American actor (d. 1957)

– Billy Werber, American baseball player (d. 2009)

21st

– Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)

– William Frankena, American philosopher and academic (d. 1994)

24th

– Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)

1908 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (d. 1976)

– Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942)

25th

– Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (d. 2000)

26th

– Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973)

27th

– João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian physician and author (d. 1967)

29th

1908 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (d. 1963)

– Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)

30th

– Thomas Hill, American painter (b. 1829)

– The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.

1908 – Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (d. 1999)

1908 – Luigi Rovere, Italian film producer (d. 1996)

– Winston Graham, English author (d. 2003)

July

1st

– SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

2nd

– Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States (d. 1993)

3rd

1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)

– M. F. K. Fisher, American author (d. 1992)

– Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)

5th

– Henri of Orléans, (d. 1999)

1908 – Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman (d. 1996)

– Jonas Lie, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)

6th

– Anton Muttukumaru, Sri Lankan general and diplomat (d. 2001)

7th

– Revilo P. Oliver, American author and academic (d. 1994)

8th

1908 – V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao, Indian economist, politician, professor and educator (d. 1991)

1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)

– Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor (d. 1975)

9th

1908 – Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator (d. 1976)

– Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (d. 1973)

10th

– Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)

11th

– Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (b. 1876)

12th

1908 – Paul Runyan, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2002)

1908 – Alain Cuny, French actor (d. 1994)

– Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (d. 2002)

13th

1908 – Tim Spencer, American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1974)

– Dorothy Round, English tennis player (d. 1982)

18th

1908 – Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (d. 1997)

1908 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer (d. 1944)

– Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (d. 1981)

19th

– Daniel Fry, American contactee (d. 1992)

20th

– Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)

1908 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)

21st

– Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (d. 1996)

22nd

– Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)

– Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)

23rd

– The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.

24th

– Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (b. 1867)

25th

– Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.

1908 – Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)

1908 – Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author (d. 2004)

– Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)

26th

– Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourger sculptor (d. 2002)

– United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

27th

– Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1996)

29th

– Marie Adam-Doerrer (b. 1838)

August

4th

– Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)

5th

1908 – Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet (d. 1997)

– Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)

6th

1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (d. 1941)

1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (d. 1997)

– Maria Ludwika Bernhard, Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance (d. 1998)^[2]

8th

– Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.

– Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1990)

10th

– Rica Erickson, Australian botanist, historian, and author (d. 2009)

1908 – Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)

11th

– Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)

1908 – Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999)

– Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889)

13th

– Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot (d. 1998)

16th

– Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator (d. 2010)

1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2000)

17th

– Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)

– Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

18th

– Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France (d. 1988)

1908 – Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener (d. 1994)

1908 – Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1977)

20th

– Al López, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)

22nd

– Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)

1908 – Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)

23rd

– Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator (d. 2008)

24th

– Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (d. 1931)

25th

– Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)

26th

1908 – Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)

– Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)

27th

– Don Bradman, Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2001)

1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)

28th

– Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)

30th

– Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)

– Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)

31st

– Leslie Green, English architect (b. 1875)

– William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (d. 1981)

September

1st

– Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)

1908 – Lou Kenton, Jewish-English soldier and potter (d. 2012)

2nd

– Ruth Bancroft, American landscape and garden designer (d. 2017)

3rd

– Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1988)

4th

1908 – Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (d. 1960)

– Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (d. 1999)

5th

1908 – Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter

1908 – Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer (d. 2004)

– Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (d. 1973)

6th

1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (d. 1982)

– Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic (d. 1995)

7th

1908 – Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1994)

1908 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator (d. 2008)

– Paul Brown, American football player and coach (d. 1991)

9th

1908 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)

– Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and author (d. 1950)

10th

1908 – Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (d. 1996)

1908 – Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1994)

– Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)

11th

– Alvar Lidell, English journalist (d. 1981)

13th

1908 – Mae Questel, American actress and vocal artist (d. 1998)

1908 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch farmer and politician, 4th President of the European Commission (d. 1995)

1908 – Karolos Koun, Greek director and playwright (d. 1987)

– Chu Berry, American saxophonist (d. 1941)

15th

1908 – Penny Singleton, American actress and singer (d. 2003)

– Kid Sheik, American trumpet player (d. 1996)

16th

– The General Motors Corporation is founded.

17th

– The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

– Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1852)

1908 – Thomas Selfridge, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1882)

1908 – Rafael Israelyan, Armenian architect and educator, designed the Sardarapat Memorial and St. Vartan Cathedral (d. 1973)

– John Creasey, English author and politician (d. 1973)

18th

– Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1996)

19th

– Paul Bénichou, French historian, author, and critic (d. 2001)

1908 – Robert Lecourt, French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 2004)

1908 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (d. 1975)

20th

– Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)

22nd

– Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (d. 2002)

23rd

– Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian poet, academic, and politician (d. 1974)

25th

– Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)

27th

– Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

29th

– Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)

– Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (d. 1967)

30th

– David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1974)

October

1st

– Herman David Koppel, Danish pianist and composer (d. 1998)

– Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.

3rd

– Johnny Burke, American songwriter (d. 1964)

5th

1908 – Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)

– Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (d. 1995)

6th

– Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)

1908 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1989)

– The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

8th

– Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek-Cypriot politician (d. 1988)

9th

1908 – Lee Wiley, American singer (d. 1975)

1908 – Werner von Haeften, German lieutenant (d. 1944)

– Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (d. 1961)

10th

1908 – Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan author and poet (d. 1983)

– Johnny Green, American conductor and composer (d. 1989)

11th

Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (b. 1846)

12th

1908 – Ann Petry, American novelist (d. 1997)^[11]

– Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)

13th

– Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.^[1]

14th

– Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003)

– The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

15th

1908 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (d. 2006)

– Herman Chittison, American pianist (d. 1967)

16th

– Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)

– Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (d. 2006)

1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)

17th

1908 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007)

1908 – Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)

1908 – Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)

– Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988)

18th

– Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)

19th

– Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1981)

20th

– Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)

– Stuart Hamblen, American singer-songwriter, actor, and radio show host (d. 1989)^[14]

21st

– Niyazi Berkes, Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (d. 1988)

22nd

1908 – José Escobar Saliente, Spanish cartoonist (d. 1994).

– John Gould, American journalist and author (d. 2003).

23rd

– František Douda, Czech shot putter (d. 1990)

1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)

24th

– John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)

25th

1908 – Polly Ann Young, American actress (d. 1997)

1908 – Gotthard Handrick, German fighter pilot and Olympic athlete (d. 1978)

– Carmen Dillon, English film and production designer (d. 2000)

27th

– Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)

28th

– Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (d. 1995)

30th

1908 – Dmitry Ustinov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1984)

1908 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (d. 1967)

1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (d. 1963)

– Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)

31st

– Muriel Duckworth, Canadian activist (d. 2009)

November

2nd

1908 – Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (d. 1942)

– Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)

3rd

– Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)

1908 – Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player, wrestler, and coach (d. 1990)

– William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.

4th

1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)

– Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer and photographer (d. 1997)

6th

– Tony Canzoneri, American boxer (d. 1959)

7th

– Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994)

– Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

8th

– Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (d. 1998)

10th

1908 – Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)

– Noemí Gerstein, Argentinian sculptor and illustrator (d. 1996)

12th

– Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and judge (d. 1999)

13th

– C. Vann Woodward, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1999)

14th

– Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)

– Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)

15th

– Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)

– Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979)

16th

– Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec (b. 1829)

18th

– Imogene Coca, American actress, comedian, and singer (d. 2001)

20th

– Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (b. 1829)

1908 – Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1868)

1908 – Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (d. 1988)

1908 – Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004)

– Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1968)

21st

– Carl Friedrich Schmidt, German-Russian geologist and botanist (b. 1832)

1908 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author and educator (d. 1994)

– Leo Politi, Italian-American author and illustrator (d. 1996)

22nd

– The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

23rd

– Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)

24th

– Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2000)

25th

– Natyaguru Nurul Momen, Bangladeshi Trailblazer pioneer playwright, author, educator, director & media personality (d.1990)

26th

– Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group (d. 2007)

1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)

27th

– Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1827)

28th

– Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State (d. 1997)

– Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist (d. 2009)

– A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

29th

1908 – Afet İnan, Turkish historian and sociologist (d. 1985)

– Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American pastor and politician (d. 1972)

30th

– Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (b. 1855)

December

2nd

– Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

4th

– Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

6th

1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)

1908 – Miklós Szabó, Hungarian runner (d. 2000)

1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)

– Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2003)

8th

1908 – John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1994)

– Concha Piquer, Spanish singer and actress (d. 1990)

10th

– Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)

11th

1908 – Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)

1908 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)

1908 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)

– Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (d. 2012)

12th

– Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1993)

13th

– Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)

1908 – Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (d. 1958)

1908 – Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)

– Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist (d. 1995)

14th

– Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1908 – Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (d. 2001)

1908 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2007)

15th

Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk, scholar, and author (d. 2005)

16th

– American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)

– Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist (d. 1963)

17th

– Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)

18th

1908 – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (d. 1969)

– Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982)

20th

– Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (d. 1994)

22nd

– Giacomo Manzù, Italian sculptor and academic (d. 1991)

23rd

– Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (d. 2002)

25th

– Quentin Crisp, English author and illustrator (d. 1999)

1908 – Ernest L. Massad, American general (d. 1993)

1908 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (d. 2001)

26th

– Ralph Hill, American runner (d. 1994)

28th

– Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)

– The 7.1 M_w  Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

29th

– Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author (d. 1993)

1908 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author (d. 1992)

30th

– Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)

31st

– Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian nazi hunter and author (d. 2005)

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