Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Jan 1 American photographer and art dealer (Camera Work), born in Hoboken, New Jersey
Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
Jan 1 Chinese painter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, born in Xiangtan, China
- Jan 5 Bob Caruthers, American baseball pitcher/outfielder (American Association wins & ERA leader 1885, wins leader 1880; St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Bridegrooms), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1911)
Ban Johnson (1864-1931)
Jan 6 American Baseball HOF executive (founder, President American League), born in Norwalk, Connecticut
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
Jan 10 African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jul 12]
- Jan 10 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1931)
- Jan 11 Thomas Dixon, American white supremacist, novelist, playwright (The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan), born in Shelby, North Carolina (d. 1946)
- Jan 13 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (1911 Nobel Prize for Physics - displacement law), born in Gaffken, Prussia (d. 1928)
- Jan 15 Frances Benjamin Johnston, American photographer, born in Grafton West Virginia (d. 1952)
- Jan 16 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), born near Yuba City, California (d. 1922)
- Jan 17 Lucien Herr, French intellectual and librarian (École Normale Supérieure), born in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, France (d. 1926)
- Jan 24 Marguerite Durand, French journalist, feminist, and publisher (La Fronde), born in Paris, France (d. 1936)
- Jan 25 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer, born in Požega, Croatia (d. 1934)
- Jan 28 Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
- Jan 29 Adolf Philipp, German-American Broadway composer (Adele), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1936)
- Feb 5 Carl Teike, German military composer, born in Stettin-Altdamm, Pomerania (now Szczecin, Poland) (d. 1922)
- Feb 6 John Henry Mackay, Scottish-born German writer (Anarchists), born in Greenock, United Kingdom (d. 1933)
- Feb 7 Arthur Collins, American baritone vocalist, known as 'King of the Ragtime Singers' (Peerless Quartet), and comedian, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1933)
- Feb 7 Ricardo Castro Herrera, Mexican concert pianist and composer, born at Hacienda de santa Bárbara, Mexico (d. 1907)
- Feb 14 Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, born in London (d. 1926)
- Feb 14 Robert E. Park, American sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), born in Harveyville, Pennsylvania (d. 1944)
- Feb 17 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, Australian bush poet (Waltzing Matilda, The Man From Snowy River), born near Orange, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1941)
- Feb 17 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
- Feb 22 Jules Renard, French writer (Poil de Carotte), born in Châlons-du-Maine, France (d. 1910)
- Mar 4 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (1st towing tank), born in Louisa County, Virginia (d. 1940)
- Mar 7 George Bean, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC), born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England (d. 1923)
- Mar 12 W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- Mar 13 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter, born in Torzhok, Russia (d. 1941)
- Mar 14 Casey [John] Jones, American railroad engineer who dies trying to save a train (Ballad of Casey Jones), born in Missouri (d. 1900)
- Mar 15 Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, conductor (Nationaltheatret Orchestra, 1899-1929), and composer (Bergensiana), born in Drammen, Norway (d. 1934)
- Mar 15 Leslie Stuart, [Thomas Barrett], British musical theater composer (Florodora), born in Southport, Lancashire, England (d. 1928)
- Mar 18 Mikael Lybeck, Finnish-Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), born in Nykarleby, Finland (d. 1925)
- Mar 19 Charles Marion Russell, American artist, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1926)
- Mar 23 Hjalmar Borgstrom [Jensen], Norwegian composer (Hvæm er du med de tusene navne (Who are you with a thousand names)), and music critic, born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway (d. 1925)
- Mar 23 Louis Glass, Danish pianist and composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1936)
- Mar 30 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist (The State), born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1943)
- Apr 1 Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer and feminist (d. 1908)
- Apr 9 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, English electrical engineer and inventor, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1930)
- Apr 10 Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist and composer (Golem), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1932)
- Apr 10 Tully Marshall, American actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), born in Nevada City, California (d. 1943)
- Apr 18 Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (Soldiers of Fortune, The King's Jackal), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1916)
Max Weber (1864-1920)
Apr 21 German sociologist, economist and historian (Ancient Judaism), born in Erfurt, Province of Saxony, Prussia
- Apr 22 Phil May, English cartoonist, born in Wortley, Leeds (d. 1903)
- Apr 24 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of War (1918-20), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1937)
- Apr 24 George Foottit, English clown, born in Manchester, United Kingdom (d. 1921)
- Apr 28 William Frederick Archdall Ellison, Irish clergyman and astronomer (director of the Armagh Observatory), born in Thomastown, Ireland (d. 1962)
- Apr 30 Frans Netscher, Dutch writer and journalist (Studies of nude model), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1923)
- Apr 30 Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (I Saw Estonia Yesterday), born in Allatzkiwwi, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (d. 1913)
- May 14 Eleanor Everest Freer, American composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1942)
- May 16 Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer (Gottes Volk; Der Ruf), and philosopher (early Zionist, later anti-Zionist), born in Vienna, Austrian Empire (d. 1937)
- May 18 Jan P. Veth, Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer and art historian, born in Dordrecht. Netherlands (d. 1925)
- May 19 Carl Akeley, American taxidermist and naturalist who developed the animal mount process and other techniques for museums, born in Clarendon, New York (d. 1926)
- May 21 Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
- May 27 Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (23rd Mayor of Split), born in Split, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1938)
- May 28 Basil Grieve, English cricket batsman (2 Tests), born in Kilburn, England (d. 1917)
- Jun 2 Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), born in London, England (d. 1947)
- Jun 3 Ransom Eli Olds, American auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer, born in Geneva, Ohio (d. 1950)
- Jun 11 Jean de Merode, Belgian lieutenant colonel, Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium, and Prince de Merode, born in Paris, France (d. 1933)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Jun 11 German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), born in Munich, Germany
- Jun 13 Dwight B. Waldo, American educator (first President of Western Michigan University), born in Arcade, New York (d. 1939)
- Jun 13 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", born in Torsö, Sweden (d. 1922)
Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915)
Jun 14 German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), born in Marktbreit, Bavaria
- Jun 15 Guy Ropartz [Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz], French composer, born in Guingamp, France (d. 1955)
- Jun 20 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, born in Drachten, Friesland (d. 1919)
- Jun 21 Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1945)
- Jun 22 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (work on relativity - Minkowski spacetime), born in Aleksota, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1909)
- Jun 25 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel 1920), born in Briesen, West Prussia (d. 1941)
- Jun 29 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, born in Kohlberg, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1929)
- Jun 29 Ashutosh Mukherjee, Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician described as the "Banglar Bagh" (Tiger of Bengal), born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1924)
- Jun 29 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law) and historian, born in Poggio Mirteto, Italy (d. 1932)
- Jun 29 Wilbert Robinson, American Baseball HOF catcher (Philadelphia A's, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Robins), born in Bolton, Massachusetts (d. 1934)
- Jul 6 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), born in Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil (d. 1920)
- Jul 11 Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher, born in Nikolaevka, Bulgaria (d. 1944)
John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912)
Jul 13 American business magnate, real estate developer (Astoria Hotel) and soldier (richest passenger aboard the Titanic), born in Rhinebeck, New York
- Jul 15 Marie Tempest [Marie Susan Etherington], British actress known as the "queen of her profession" (Yellow Sands), born in London, England (d. 1942)
- Jul 18 Phillip Snowden, British politician, 1st Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, born in Cowling, Yorkshire (d. 1937)
- Jul 18 Ricarda Huch, German writer and historian "First Lady of German humanism", born in Braunschweig (d. 1947)
- Jul 20 Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1919-refused; 1931-posthumous), born in Karlbo, Sweden (d. 1931) [1]
- Jul 21 Frances Cleveland, American 1st lady (1885-89, 93-97), wife of President Grover Cleveland, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1947)
- Jul 23 Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines, born in Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines (d. 1903)
Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)
Jul 24 German actor and playwright (The "Lulu" plays), born in Hanover, German Confederation
- Jul 24 Michel-Gaston Carraud, French composer, born in Le Mée-sur-Seine, France (d. 1920)
- Aug 5 Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, Basque priest, composer and first head of the Euskaltzaindia, born in Lekeitio, Spain (d. 1951)
- Aug 8 Henri de Vries [Hendricus Van Walterop], Dutch actor (Cleopatra, White Cargo), born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1949)
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936)
Aug 11 Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), born in Mournies, Chania, Crete, Ottoman Empire
- Aug 16 Ferdinand C. S. Schiller, German-British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx), born in Altona, Holstein, German Confederation (d. 1937)
- Aug 23 Eleftherios K. Venizalos, Premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32), born in Mournies, Greece (d. 1936)
- Aug 31 Max Wilhelm Zach, Polish-American violinist and conductor (Boston Symphony 1896-1907; St. Louis Symphony, 1907-21), born in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1921)
- Sep 1 Roger David Casement, Irish diplomat, nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), and poet, born in Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Sep 3 Hale A. VanderCook, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 1949)
- Sep 7 Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), born in Ealing, England (d. 1919)
- Sep 7 Giovanni Tebaldini, Italian composer, born in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1952)
- Sep 14 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British lawyer and politician who helps form League of Nations (Nobel 1937), born in Cavendish Square, London (d. 1958)
- Sep 22 Lodewijk van Deyssel, Dutch writer (A Love Affair), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1952)
- Sep 23 Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
- Sep 27 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist and author, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1961)
- Sep 27 Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic priest, born in Liptó County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1938)
- Sep 28 Barry Pain, English writer (Punch), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1928)
- Sep 29 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro), born in Bilbao Spain (d. 1936)
- Oct 5 Louis Lumière, French inventor, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895, born in Besançon, France (d. 1948)
- Oct 8 Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter, born in Saint-Hilaire-de-Rouville, Quebec (d. 1955)
- Oct 9 Maud Watson, British tennis player (first Wimbledon female champion 1884-85), born in London, England (d. 1946)
- Oct 10 T. Frank Appleby, American Republican Party politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), born in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey (d. 1924)
- Oct 13 Ted Tyler, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 4 wickets; Somerset CCC), born in Kidderminster, England (d. 1917)
- Oct 14 Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental), born in Paris (d. 1924)
- Oct 17 Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks) and screenwriter, born in Jersey, Channel Islands (d. 1943)
- Oct 20 James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico, born in Franklin County, Missouri (d. 1951)
Alexander Gretchaninov (1864-1956)
Oct 25 Russian-American Romantic composer, born in Moscow, Russia
- Oct 25 John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (Co-Founder of Dodge Brothers Company), born in Niles, Michigan (d. 1920)
- Oct 26 Joseph Moorat, British composer (Prunella), born in England (d. 1938)
- Oct 28 Adolfo Camarillo, American prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher, born in Ventura, California (d. 1958)
- Oct 28 Dmitry Ivanovsky, Russian botanist who discovered the organisms that came to be known as viruses, born in Gdov, Russia (d. 1920)
- Oct 30 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American pianist and philanthropist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1953)
- Nov 5 Jessie Ralph, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (The Good Earth; San Francisco: The Bank Dick), born in Gloucester, Massachusetts (d. 1944)
- Nov 10 Alexandre Levy, Brazilian composer and pianist, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1892)
- Nov 11 Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911-co-founder of the German peace movement), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1921)
- Nov 11 George Washington Crile, American surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), born in Chili, Ohio (d. 1943)
- Nov 19 George Barbier, American actor (Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1945)
- Nov 20 Gerard Wilhelm Kernkamp, Dutch historian and editor (Groene Amsterdammer), born in Hoorn, Netherlands (d. 1943)
- Nov 23 Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (Packard Motor Car Co.), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1936)
- Nov 24 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and printmaker (At the Moulin Rouge), born in Albi, France (d. 1901)
- Nov 26 Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist and poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem), born in Wormerveer, Netherlands (d. 1927)
- Nov 28 Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, Dutch lithographer and wood carver, born in Amsterdam (d. 1945)
- Nov 28 James Allen, English writer (As a Man Thinketh), born in Leicester, England (d. 1912)
- Nov 28 Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer and 46th U.S. Secretary of War (1913-16), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1932)
- Dec 3 Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1924)
- Dec 6 William S. Hart, American silent film actor (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds), born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1946)
- Dec 9 Sidney Homer, American composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1953)
- Dec 9 Willoughby Hamilton, Irish tennis player (Wimbledon 1890), born in Monasterevin, Kildare (d. 1943)
- Dec 12 Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist, born in Saint Louis, Missouri (d. 1937)
- Dec 13 Emil Seidel, German-American politician (36th Mayor of Milwaukee), born in Ashland, Pennsylvania (d. 1947)
- Dec 17 (John) Felix Körling, Swedish composer and conductor, born in Kristdala, Sweden (d. 1937)
- Dec 19 Adolf Sandberger, German composer and musicologist, born in Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1943)
- Dec 23 Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
- Dec 25 Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men's national team), born in New York City (d. 1951)
- Dec 27 Joseph Lauber, Swiss concert pianist and composer, born in Ruswil, Switzerland (d. 1952)
- Dec 27 René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (d. 1940)
- Dec 30 Alessandro Longo, Italian composer and musicologist, born in Amantea, Italy (d. 1945)
- Dec 31 Robert G Aitken, American astronomer (Binary Stars), born in Jackson, California (d. 1951)
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