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Famous People Born in 1887

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Jan 1 Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral and head of German military intelligence (executed for opposing Hitler), born in Aplerbeck, Germany (d. 1945)
Jan 3 August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
Jan 3 Helen Parkhurst, American educator (The Dalton Plan), born in Durand, Wisconsin (d. 1973)

Jan 9 Dan Taylor, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 36; Natal), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1957)
Jan 10 Robinson Jeffers, American poet and playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea), born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
Jan 11 Aldo Leopold, American conservationist, professor and co-founder of the Wilderness Society, born in Burlington, Iowa (d. 1949)
Jan 11 Monte Blue, American silent and sound screen actor (White Shadows in the South Seas; Key Largo; Apache), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1963)
Jan 13 George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic who established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, born in Alexandropol, Armenia, Russian Empire (d. 1949) disputed date
Jan 16 John Hamilton, American actor (The Adventures of Superman - "Perry White"), born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1958)
Jan 17 Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist, born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1975)
Jan 19 Alexander Woollcott, American critic and short story writer (The Man Who Came to Dinner), born in Phalanx, New Jersey (d. 1943)
Jan 21 Alfred Henry Ackley, American composer, born in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania (d. 1960)

Georges Vezina(1887-1926)

Jan 21 Canadian Hockey HOF goalie after whom the Vezina Trophy is named; Stanley Cup 1916, 24 Montreal Canadiens, born in Chicoutimi, Quebec

Jan 22 Helen Hoyt, American poet known for "Ellis Park", born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1972)
Jan 25 Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet (Le Gaie Tristezze), born in Piove di Sacco, Italy (d. 1976)
Jan 26 Arnout Colnot, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1983)
Jan 26 Enrique Ecker, Curacao-American bacteriologist (Rees-Ecker method for platelet counting), born in Willemstad, Curaçao (d. 1966)

François Faber(1887-1915)

Jan 26 Luxembourgiancyclist (Tour de France 1909), born in Aulnay-sur-lton, France

Jan 26 Marc Mitscher, American naval commander (WWII - Task Force 58 in the Pacific), born in Hillsboro, Wisconsin (d. 1947)
Jan 27 Carl Blegen, American archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1971)
Jan 28 Artur Rubinstein, Polish-American concert pianist, born in Łódź, Congress Poland (d. 1982)
Jan 28 Lily Strickland, American composer of art songs, piano, and silent film music, and ethnomusicologist (The Music Courier), born in Anderson, South Carolina (d. 1958)
Jan 29 Albert Conti, Austrian actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion), born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 1967)
Feb 1 Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
Feb 1 Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect (KLM building and design), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1962)
Feb 2 Ernst Hanfstängl, German-American businessman, art dealer, and early supporter of Adolf Hitler who later provided Allies with valuable information about the dictator, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1975)
Feb 3 Carlo Jachino, Italian composer, born in San Remo, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1971)
Feb 3 Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely), born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1914)
Feb 3 Juan Negrín, Spanish Republican Prime Minister during the Civil War (1937-39), born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands (d. 1956)
Feb 3 Silvio D'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1955)
Feb 6 Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne, born in Neuss, Germany (d. 1978)
Feb 7 (James Hubert) "Eubie" Blake, American ragtime composer and pianist ("Memories of You"; "I'm Just Wild About Harry"), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1983)[1]
Feb 9 Heinie Zimmerman, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, NY Giants,1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs), born in New York City (d. 1969)
Feb 9 Vital Celen, Flemish writer and scholar (Puppy Love), born in Hulshout, Belgium (d. 1956)
Feb 11 John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), born in Goes, Netherlands (d. 1953)
Feb 15 H. M. Bateman, British cartoonist (The Man Who... series), born in Sutton Forest, Australia (d. 1970)
Feb 16 Kathleen Clifford, American actress (When the Clouds Roll by), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1962)
Feb 17 Leevi Antti Madetoja, Finnish composer (Pohjalaisia), conductor and teacher, born in Oulu, Finland, (d. 1947)
Feb 20 David McKinley Williams, Welsh-American church musician and composer, born in Carnarvonshire, Wales (d. 1978)
Feb 20 Hesketh Pearson, English biographer and playwright (Writ for Libel), born in Hawford, England (d. 1964)

Vincent Massey(1887-1967)

Feb 20 Canadian diplomat and 1st Canadian-born GovernorGeneral of Canada (1952-59), born in Toronto, Ontario

Feb 21 Savielly Tartakower, Austrian-Polish-French chess player, born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire (d. 1956)
Feb 23 Cyril Delevanti, British actor (Soylent Green, The Night of the Iguana), born in London, England (d. 1975)
Feb 23 Oskar Lindberg, Swedish composer (Requiem), born in Gagnef, Sweden (d. 1955)
Feb 24 Mary Ellen Chase, American educator and author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award), born in Blue Hill, Maine (d. 1973)
Feb 25 Leonard Carey, British actor (Rebecca, Laughter), born in London, England (d. 1977)
Feb 26 Benegal Narsing Rau, Indian lawyer and civil servant, President of UN Security Council (1950), helped draft India's constitution, born in Mangalore, India (d. 1953)
Feb 26 Grover Cleveland Alexander, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1926 Chicago Cubs; Triple Crown 1915, 16, 20; 6 × NL wins & strikeout leader; Philadelphia Phillies), born in Elba, Nebraska (d. 1950)
Feb 26 Stefan Grabinski, Polish horror writer known as the "Polish Poe", born in Kamionka Strumiłowa, Austrian Empire (d. 1936)
Feb 27 James Dickson Innes, British painter, born in Llanelli, Wales (d. 1914)
Feb 28 William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor (Spirit of the Dance), born in Jurbarkas, Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1966)
Mar 4 Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (The Magic Cloak), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1953)
Mar 5 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian cellist, guitarist, and conductor, and composer (Bachianas Brasileiras), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1959)
Mar 6 David Imboden, American silent film actor (King of Kings), muralist, and theater director, born in Kansas City, Kansas (d. 1974)
Mar 6 Henri Gagnon, Canadian organist (Notre-Dame Basilica (Quebec), 1915-1961), composer (Rondel de Thibaut de Champagne), and music educator, born in Quebec City, Quebec (d. 1961)
Mar 7 Heino Eller, Estonian composer (Koit (Dawn); Videvik (Twilight)), pedagogue (Tallinn Conservatory, 1940 -70), and teacher of Arvo Pärt, born in Tartu, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Estonia) (d. 1970)
Mar 9 Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and Nazi eugenics influencer, born in Pflugrade, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (now Redło, Poland) (d. 1976)
Mar 9 Phil Mead, English cricket batsman (17 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 182no; Hampshire CCC, MCC, Suffolk CCC), born in Battersea, England (d. 1958)
Mar 10 Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
Mar 11 Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
Mar 13 Carlos Isamitt, Chilean composer, born in Rengo, Chile (d. 1974)
Mar 14 George Creten, Belgian sculptor and painter, born in Saint-Gilles, Belgium (d. 1966)
Mar 14 Lawrance Collingwood, British composer, and opera conductor, born in London, England (d. 1982)
Mar 14 Sylvia Beach, American publisher and bookseller (Shakespeare and Company), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1962)
Mar 15 Marjorie Merriweather Post, American philanthropist and businesswoman (General Foods Corp), who built Mar-a-Largo, born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1973)[1]
Mar 18 Frank Moran, American heavyweight boxer and film actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1967)
Mar 21 Edwin Scharff, German sculptor, and educator, deemed "entartete" (degenerate) by Nazi regime, born in Neu-Ulm, Gemrany (d. 1955)

Chico Marx(1887-1961)

Mar 22 Americancomedian (Marx Brothers), born in New York City

Mar 23 Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn catalog), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1983)
Mar 23 Felix Yussupov, Russian aristocrat, best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin, born in Moika Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1967)
Mar 23 Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1927)
Mar 23 Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-American union leader (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union; Congress of Industrial Organizations), born in Žagarė, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) (d. 1946)
Mar 24 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (The Bell Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies), born in Smith Center, Kansas (d. 1933)
Mar 28 Rudolf Frederik Willem Boskaljon, musician and composer, born in Curacao, Portugal (d. 1969)
Mar 30 Albert Termote, Flemish-Dutch sculptor of equestrian bronzes (Charles the Great), born in Lichtervelde, Belgium (d. 1978)
Mar 31 Jose Maria Usandizaga, Spanish Basque composer (Mendi Mendiyan - High in the Mountains), born in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain (d. 1915)
Apr 1 Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist (Structural Linguistics), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1949)
Apr 4 William Cumming Rose, American biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), born in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 1985)
Apr 5 Hedwig Kohn, German-Jewish physicist and one of the first female physicists in Germany, born in what is now Wrocław, Poland (d. 1964)
Apr 8 Walter Connolly, American actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1940)
Apr 10 Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1971)
Apr 10 Heinz Tiessen, German composer, born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1971)
Apr 12 Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1918)
Apr 13 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association, born in Gladstone, Manitoba (d. 1995)
Apr 15 Mike Brady, American golfer (US Open 1911, 19 runner-up; 9 PGA Tour titles), born in Brighton, Massachusetts (d. 1972)

Joe McCarthy(1887-1978)

Apr 21 AmericanBaseball Hall of Fame manager (Chicago Cubs; New York Yankees - World Series 1932, 36–39, 41, 43; Boston Red Sox), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Apr 21 Lillian Walker [Wolke] American silent era actress and film producer (An Embarrassment of Riches), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975)
Apr 24 Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter, born in Kensington, London (d. 1931)
May 1 Alan Cunningham, British general and last High Commissioner of Palestine (1945-48), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1983)

Eddie Collins(1887-1951)

May 2 AmericanBaseball Hall of Fame infielder (World Series 1910, 11, 13, 17, 29, 30; AL MVP 1914; 4 x AL stolen base leader; Philadelphia A's, Chicago White Sox), born in Millerton, New York

May 2 Vernon Castle, English-American dancer, born in Norwich, Norfolk, England (d. 1918)
May 5 Estelle Hemsley, American actress (Take a Giant Step), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
May 5 Geoffrey Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury (1945-61), born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England (d. 1972)
May 5 Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy officer (Captain of USS West Virginia), WWI veteran, and Medal of Honor recipient, born in Vernon, Utah Territory (d. 1941)
May 7 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes), born in Ambert, France (d. 1959)
May 9 Jules Van de Leene, Belgian painter, born in Ixelles, Belgium (d. 1962)
May 10 (Jacobus) "J.C." Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels - Embers), born in 1887, Oudshoorn, South Holland, Netherlands (d. 1966)
May 11 Paul Wittgenstein, left handed pianist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1961)
May 12 Nandor Zsolt, Hungarian composer, born in Esztergom, Hungary (d. 1936)
May 16 Bull Montana [Luigi Montagna], Italian actor (Brass Buttons, Victory, The Son of the Sheik), born in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1950)
May 16 Jakob van Hoddis [Hans Davidsohn], German Jewish poet (d. 1942?)
May 18 Ernst Wiechert, German writer (The Simple Life), born in Kleinort, East Prussia (d. 1950)
May 21 Mabel "Nell" Taliaferro, American actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back), born in New York City (d. 1979)
May 23 Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
May 24 Edward "Mick" Mannock, British WWI flying ace (Victoria Cross), born in British Isles (d. 1918)
May 25 Padre Pio [Francesco Forgione], Italian priest, Capuchin friar, and Roman Catholic saint, born in Pietrelcina, Benevento, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1968)
May 27 Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends) (d. 1918)
May 27 Erich Kuttner, German journalist and historian (Vorwarts), born in Berlin (d. 1942)
May 27 Frank Woolley, English cricket all-rounder (64 Tests, 5 x 100, 23 x 50, HS 154, 83 wickets, BB 7/76; Kent CCC), born in Tonbridge, England (d. 1978)

Kazimierz Fajans(1887-1975)

May 27 Polish-American physicalchemist (Fajans' rules), born in Warsaw, Poland

May 28 Hank Mann, American actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road), born in New York City (d. 1971)

Jim Thorpe(1887-1953)

May 28 American all-round athlete (Olympic gold decathlon, pentathlon 1912; College & Pro Football Hall of Fame), born in Indian Territory, Oklahoma

May 30 Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor and lithographer, born in Kyiv, Russian Empire (d. 1964)
May 30 Gino Tagliapietra, Italian pianist and composer (Antologia di musica antica e moderna per pianoforte), born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1954)
May 31 Saint-John Perse [Alexis Leger], French diplomat and poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1960), born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (d. 1975)
Jun 1 Clive Brook, British actor and director (List of Adrian Messenger), born in London, England (d. 1974)
Jun 2 Howard Johnson, American lyricist ("When the Moon Comes over the Mountain", "M-O-T-H-E-R"), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 1941)
Jun 3 Emil Axman, Czech composer and musicologist (Moravian folk songs), born in Rataje (d. 1949)
Jun 3 Roland Hayes, American lyric tenor, arranger, and composer, born in Curryville, Georgia (d. 1977)
Jun 4 Tom Longboat, Canadian athlete (Boston Marathon 1907 record time 2:24:24), born in Six Nations Reserve Brantford, Ontario (d. 1949)
Jun 5 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture), born in New York City (d. 1948)
Jun 7 William Walraven, Dutch journalist and writer (Indian Daily) (d. 1943)
Jun 13 Bruno Frank, German-born writer, born in Stuttgart (d. 1945)
Jun 18 Blanche Yurka, American actress (Taxi, A Tale of Two Cities), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1974)
Jun 20 Floyd Collins, American cave owner and caver (died in Sand Cave rescue), born in Logan County, Kentucky (d. 1925)[1]
Jun 20 Kurt Schwitters, German-British dada-artist and poet (collages), born in Hanover (d. 1948)
Jun 21 Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist, born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada (d. 1956)
Jun 22 Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant, Antarctic explorer, and dog handler (Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic expedition), born in Streatham, Surrey, England (d. 1912)
Jun 22 Julian S. Huxley, English biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog, born in London, England (d. 1975)
Jun 23 Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1960)
Jun 23 John Finley Williamson, American choral conductor (Westminster Choir College, 1920-58), born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1964)
Jun 25 George Abbott, American theater producer and film director (Damn Yankees; The Pajama Game), born in Forestville, New York (d. 1995)
Jun 26 Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, British philanthropist, born in London (d. 1961)
Jun 28 Boleslav Vomácka, Czech composer (Vodntk - The Water Sprite), critic, and musicologist (Josef Suk), born in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
Jul 1 Charles D. Brown, American actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor), born in Council Bluffs, Iowa (d. 1948)
Jul 2 Marcel Tabuteau, French-American oboist (Philadelphia Orch 1915-54), born in Compiègne, Oise, France (d. 1966)
Jul 6 Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer, silent-film actress (A Daughter of the Gods; Venus Of The South Seas), and author, born in Marrickville, New South Wales, New South Wales (d. 1975)
Jul 7 Marc Chagall [Moise Shagal], Jewish Belarusan-French modernist painter and stained glass artist (La Mariée; I and the Village), born in Liozna, Russian Empire (now Belarus) (d. 1985) [some sources cite date as July 6]
Jul 7 Raymond Hatton, American actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 1971)
Jul 9 Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1976)
Jul 10 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, English-Canadian composer, born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (d. 1974)
Jul 15 Wharton Esherick, American artist and sculptor who worked primarily in wood, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1970)
Jul 16 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1917 Chicago WS; Black Sox Scandal), born in Pickens County, South Carolina (d. 1951)

Vidkun Quisling(1887-1945)

Jul 18 Norwegian Minister of Defense and Prime Minister (1942-45), born in Fyresdal, Norway

Jul 20 Willem H. Drucker, Dutch lawyer (d. 1933)
Jul 22 Gustav Hertz, German physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925 for "discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)

Marcel Duchamp(1887-1968)

Jul 28 Frenchsculptor andpainter (Nude Descending a Staircase), born in Blainville-Crevon, France

Jul 29 Komako Kimura, Japanese suffragette, actress and editor, born in Tokyo (d. 1980)
Jul 29 Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), born in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1915)
Jul 29 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American operetta composer (Blossom Time), born in Nagykanizsa, Austria-Hungary (d. 1951)
Jul 29 Tim Mara, American founder and administrator (NFL NY Giants), born in New York (d. 1959)
Jul 30 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1966)
Jul 31 Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1969)
Aug 2 Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket-keeper (23 Tests, 32 dismissals, 2 x 50; Transvaal), born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan (d. 1936)

Rupert Brooke(1887-1915)

Aug 3 British WW Ipoet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England

Aug 5 Reginald Owen, British actor (Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes), born in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1972)
Aug 6 Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver, born in Edmonton, London (d. 1957)
Aug 7 (Charles Luckyth) "Luckey" Roberts, stride pianist and composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1968) [various sources dispute year - 1887 to 1895][1]
Aug 7 Henny Eman, Aruban politician who founded the Aruban People's Party, born in Aruba (d. 1957)
Aug 8 Esme Percy, British actor (Murder!, Pygmalion, Old Spanish Custom), born in London, England (d. 1957)
Aug 8 Malcolm Keen, British actor (The Lodger, The Manxman, The Murder Party), born in Bristol, England (d. 1970)
Aug 8 Ullrich Haupt, Prussian actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), born in Falkenburg, Pomerania, Germany (d. 1931)
Aug 9 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Swammerdam), born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1974)

Erwin Schrödinger(1887-1961)

Aug 12 Austrianphysicist andNobel Laureate (wave mechanics), born in Vienna, Austria

Aug 13 Julius Freed [Fried], American namesake and co-founder of Orange Julius fast food chain, born in Montana (d. 1952)
Aug 14 Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (Falscher Start), born in Riga, Russian Empire (d. 1937)
Aug 17 Charles I, last ruler of Austria-Hungary (1916-18), born in Persenbeug Castle, Austria (d. 1922)

Marcus Garvey(1887-1940)

Aug 17 Jamaican-bornblack nationalist who began the back-to-Africa movement among US African Americans, born in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica

Aug 18 Nico J. Polak, Dutch economist, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1948)
Aug 23 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor and playwright (Fatherland), born in Amsterdam (d. 1956)
Aug 24 Harry Hooper, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1912, 15, 16, 18 Boston Red Sox), born in Bell Station, California (d. 1974)
Aug 25 (Olav) Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer, pianist, polyglot, and rosarian, born in Stavanger, Norway (d. 1952)
Aug 26 Luis Abraham Delgadillo, Nicaraguan pianist and composer (Inca Symphony), born in Managua, Nicaragua (d. 1961)
Aug 27 James Finlayson, Scottish-American stage and silent and "talkie" film actor (Laurel and Hardy films), born in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland (d. 1953)
Aug 28 Daniel Zamudio, Colombian organist, composer and folklorist, born in Bogotá, Colombia (d. 1952)
Aug 30 Adam Kuckhoff, German writer and resistance fighter, born in Aachen, Germany (d. 1943)
Aug 31 Friedrich A Paneth, Austrian-British chemist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1958)
Sep 1 Blaise Cendrars [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet and writer, born in La Chaux-de-Fond, Switzerland (d. 1961)
Sep 1 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, born in Northeim, Germany (d. 1973)
Sep 3 Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter, born in Bywater, New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1973)
Sep 7 Edith Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels), born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire (d. 1964)
Sep 8 George, Crown Prince of Serbia, eldest son of King Peter I, born in Cetinje, Montenegro (d. 1972)
Sep 9 Alf Landon, American politician, Governor of Kansas (1933-37) and Republican Presidential nominee in 1936, born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania (d. 1987)
Sep 9 Raymond Walburn, American actor (Christmas in July), born in Plymouth, Indiana (d. 1969)
Sep 10 Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician, President of Italy (1955-62), born in Pontedera, Italy (d. 1978)
Sep 12 George Georgescu, Romanian conductor and composer, born in Sulina, Romania (d. 1964)
Sep 13 Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist (Nobel 1939), born in Vukovar, Croatia (d. 1976)
Sep 14 Karl Taylor Compton, American physicist and 9th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, born in Wooster, Ohio (d. 1954)
Sep 14 Stanley Ketchel [The Michigan Assassin], Polish-American heavyweight boxing champion (1908-10), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1910)
Sep 15 Carlos Dávila, President of Government Junta of Chile (1932), born in Los Ángeles, Chile (d. 1955)
Sep 16 (Hans) "Jean" Arp, German-French sculptor, artist and poet, born in Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (now Strasbourg, France) (d. 1966)
Sep 16 Nadia Boulanger, French composer and conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony), born in Paris, France (d. 1979)
Sep 19 (Cora) "Lovie" Austin (née Taylor), American jazz and blues pianist, songwriter ("Down Hearted Blues"), and band leader (The Blues Serenaders), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 1972)[1]
Sep 19 Lynne Overman, American actor (Reap the Wild Wind), born in Maryville, Missouri (d. 1943)
Sep 21 Lodewijk de Vocht, Belgian composer (Prayer for My Fatherland), conductor, kapellmeister (Antwerp Cathedral, 1913-50), and educator (Antwerp Conservatory, 1921-52), born in Antwerp (d. 1977)
Sep 23 Alfieri Maserati, Italian auto racer and engineer (established Maserati Racing), born in Voghera, Italy (d. 1932)
Sep 26 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1967)
Sep 26 Barnes Wallis, English scientist, engineer and inventor (bouncing bomb), born in Ripley, Derbyshire, England (d. 1979)
Sep 26 Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (Built in Jerusalem’s Wall: A Book in praise of Jerusalem), born in Wareham, Dorset, England (d. 1958)
Sep 27 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1951)