Famous People Born in 1895

Birthdays 1 - 200 of 339

• Jan 1 Nathaniel Shilkret, American conductor and musician (Victor Salon Orchestra), born in New York City (d. 1982)
• Jan 2 Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (Red Cross; UN mediator for Palestine), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1948)
• Jan 3 Borys Lyatoshynsky, Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher, known as the father of modern Ukrainian music, born in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1968)
• Jan 4 Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
• Jan 4 Lourens Baas Becking, Dutch botanist (Baas Becking hypothesis), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1963)
• Jan 5 Elizabeth Cotten, American folk and blues guitarist and songwriter ("Freight Train"), born in Carrboro, North Carolina (d. 1987)
• Jan 5 Jeannette Piccard, American high-altitude balloonist & Episcopal priest, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1981)
• Jan 6 Tom Fadden, American stage and screen character actor (It's a Wonderful Life; Broken Arrow; Cimarron City), born in Bayard, Iowa (d. 1980)
• Jan 7 Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist, born in Bucharest, Hungary (d. 1960)

• Jan 7 Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist, born in Soisy-sur-Seine, Essonne (d. 1990)
• Jan 11 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and inventor with 91 patents, including musical instruments (Hammond organ; Novachord synthesizer)), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 1973)
• Jan 13 Anton Betzner, German writer, born in Cologne (d. 1976)
• Jan 13 Fortunio Bonanova, Spanish opera singer and actor, born in Palma de Mallorca Spain (d. 1969)
• Jan 14 George Richard Samways, English children's writer, born in Hampshire, England (d. 1996)
• Jan 15 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
• Jan 16 Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
• Jan 18 Virginia Valli [McSweeney], American (mostly silent) film actress (Wild Oranges; Pleasure Garden), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1968)
• Jan 20 Eva Jessye, American singer, actress, songwriter (Hallelujah) and 1st black woman to receive international distinction as a choral conductor, born in Coffeyville, Kansas (d. 1992)
• Jan 20 Roscoe Ates, American actor (Freaks, Cimarron, Marshal of Gunsight Pass), born in Grange, Mississippi (d. 1962)
• Jan 21 Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier 'The Master', born in Getaria, Spain (d. 1972)
• Jan 24 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet and writer (Der Halbe Mensch), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1941)
• Jan 24 Eugen Roth, German poet, born in Munich (d. 1976)
• Jan 27 Cláudio Carneyro, Portuguese violinist, composer, and educator, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1963)
• Jan 27 Harry Ruby [Harry Rubenstein], American composer and screenwriter, born in New York City (d. 1974)
• Jan 27 Joseph Rosenstock, American conductor (NY City Opera), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1985)
• Jan 29 Muna Lee, American poet and activist, born in Raymond, Mississippi (d. 1965)
• Feb 1 Conn Smythe, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame team owner (Toronto Maple Leafs 1927-61; Stanley Cup x 8), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1980)

• Feb 3 Nick Kenny, American columnist and songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), born in New York City (d. 1975)
• Feb 3 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (founded APRA-Peru, drafted constitution), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 1979) [or Feb 22]
• Feb 4 Annie Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian and author (Low Countries by the Sea; Erflaters - both written with her husband Jan), born in Hatert, Netherlands (d. 1978)
• Feb 4 Lidj Jasu [Iyasu], Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-16), born in Dessie, Ethiopia (d. 1935)
• Feb 4 Nigel Bruce, British actor (Rebecca, Suspicion, Sherlock Holmes), born in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico (d. 1953)
• Feb 4 [Johann Baptist] Hanns Albin Rauter, German SS and Police leader in the occupied Netherlands, born in Klagenfurt, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1949)

• Feb 7 Irving Aaronson, American jazz pianist and big band bandleader, born in New York City (d. 1963)
• Feb 9 Hermann Brill, German politician, resistance fighter, political prisoner, co-writer of post-war constitution, and teacher, born in Gräfenroda, Germany (d. 1959)
• Feb 11 Viktor Trambitsky, Russian composer, born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (d. 1970)
• Feb 13 Fred Essler, Austrian actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973)

• Feb 15 Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
• Feb 17 Anita Stewart, American silent film actress (South of Hell Mountain), producer, and mystery novelist, born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1961)
• Feb 17 Edna Park Edwards, American stage and vaudeville actress, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1967)
• Feb 18 George "The Gipper" Gipp, American football player (Notre Dame), born in Laurium, Michigan (d. 1920)
• Feb 18 Semyon Timoshenko, Russian military officer (Marshal of the Soviet Union - Soviet-Finnish War, WWII Eastern Front), born in Orman, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1970)
• Feb 19 Louis Calhern, American actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle), born in New York City (d. 1956)
• Feb 20 Jimmy Yancey, American boogie-woogie jazz and blues pianist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1951) [birth year disputed - documentation ranges from 1894-1903]
• Feb 21 Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist who discovered vitamin K and won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Medicine, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1976)
• Feb 22 Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician and author (founder of Peruvian Aprista Party), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 1979)
• Feb 23 Richard Goolden, British actor (Two Days to Live, School for Husbands), born in London, England (d. 1981)
• Feb 25 Bert Bell, American Pro Football HOF executive (NFL Commissioner 1946-59; owner Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
• Feb 25 Henri Martelli, French composer, born in Bastia, Corsica, France (d. 1980)
• Feb 27 Edward Brophy, American character actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, The Cameraman, Doughboys), born in New York City (d. 1960)
• Feb 28 Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian concert pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), born in São João da Boa Vista, Brazil (d. 1979)
• Feb 28 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright, filmmaker (Topaze; The Baker's Wife), and novelist, born in Paris (d. 1974)
• Mar 1 Duke Keats, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame centre (WCHL First-Team All-Star 1921-26; Edmonton Eskimos; NHL: Chicago Black Hawks), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1972)
• Mar 3 Alexander Voormolen, Dutch composer and music librarian, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1980)
• Mar 3 Juanita Hansen, American actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1961)
• Mar 3 Matthew Ridgway, American general (World War II, Korean War, NATO Supreme Commander) and Chief of Staff of the US Army (1953-55), born in Fort Monroe, Virginia (d. 1993)
• Mar 3 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and 1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 1969, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1973)
• Mar 3 Robert Gordon, American silent film actor (Hearts and Spangles; King of the Pack), born in Belleville, Kansas (d. 1971)
• Mar 4 Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1978)
• Mar 4 Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (Count Screwloose), born in The Bronx. New York (d. 1953)
• Mar 5 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle) (d. 1982)
• Mar 7 Juan Jose Castro, Argentine composer, born in Avellaneda, Argentina (d. 1968)

• Mar 12 William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
• Mar 14 François Louis Ganshof, Belgian medieval historian, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1980)
• Mar 20 Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
• Mar 23 Dane Rudhyar [Daniel Chennevière] French-American composer (Tetragram; Granite), philosopher (The Astrology of Personality), and transcendental painter, born in Paris, France (d. 1985)
• Mar 23 Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
• Mar 24 Syd Saylor [Leo Sailor], American silent and sound screen character actor (Arizona Days; The Three Mesquiteers), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1962)
• Mar 25 Siegfried Handloser, German military physician (WWI; WWII - Chief of Armed Services Medical Services, 1942-44), and convicted Nazi war criminal, born in Konstanz, Germany (d. 1954)
• Mar 28 Christian Herter, American Republican politician, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (1953-57) and US Secretary of State (1959-61), born in Paris, France (d. 1966)
• Mar 28 Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1985)
• Mar 29 Ernst Jünger, German soldier (WWI and WWII), author (Storm of Steel), and entomologist, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1998)
• Mar 30 Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant), born in Manosque, France (d. 1970)
• Mar 31 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
• Mar 31 Lizzie Miles [Elizabeth Landreaux], Creole American jazz, blues and gospel singer ("Man O'War"), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1963)
• Mar 31 Vardis Fisher, American author (Darkness & Deep), born in Annis, Idaho (d. 1968)
• Mar 31 Zlatko Baloković, Croatian-American concert violinist, born in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1955)
• Apr 1 Alberta Hunter, American blues singer, and composer ("Downhearted Blues"), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1984)
• Apr 3 (Edward Elzear) "Zez" Confrey, American jazz pianist and composer ("Kitten on the Keys"; "Dizzy Fingers."), born in Peru, Illinois (d. 1971)
• Apr 3 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1968)
• Apr 4 Arthur Murray [Moses Teichman], American ballroom dancer and businessman (Arthur Murray Dance Party), born in New York City (d. 1991)
• Apr 4 Benjamin Thackston "Tack" Knight, American cartoonist ("Little Folks"), born in Dillsboro, North Carolina (d. 1976)
• Apr 4 Charlie Hallows, English cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28), born in Little Lever, Lancashire (d. 1972)
• Apr 7 Bert Wheeler, American vaudevillian (Wheeler & Woolsey), and comic actor (Brave Eagle; The Nitwits; Hold 'em Jail; High Flyers; Rainmakers), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1968)
• Apr 7 Eduardo Toldrà, Spanish Catalan composer and conductor, born in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain (d. 1962)
• Apr 7 Lewis B Combs, American civil engineer and US Navy officer (1917-45), founding member and commander of the "Seabees", born in Manchester Center, Vermont (d. 1996)
• Apr 8 Bert Gordon [Barney Gorodetsky], Comedian, born in New York City (d. 1974)
• Apr 8 Sigurdur Thordarson, Icelandic composer, born in Dyrafjordur, Iceland (d. 1968)
• Apr 9 Beau De Glen "Mance" Lipscomb, American blues singer and guitarist ("Shine On, Harvest Moon"), born in Navasota, Texas (d. 1976)
• Apr 9 Michel Simon, Swiss actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1975)
• Apr 9 Rudolf Kattnigg, Austrian composer, born in Carinthia, Austria (d. 1955)
• Apr 13 Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Ingham, Queensland, Australia (d. 1973)
• Apr 13 Olga Rudge, American concert violinist, born in Youngstown, Ohio (d. 1996)
• Apr 14 Mary Marquet, Russian actress (Matter of Resistance), born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1979)
• Apr 14 Wiktor Labunski, Polish-American composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1974)
• Apr 15 Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (World Professional C'ships 1951), born in Glenorchy, New Zealand (d. 1980)
• Apr 15 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte), born in San Luca, Italy (d. 1956)
• Apr 16 Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer of travel literature (Life on Puka Puka), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1948)
• Apr 19 Anton Pieck, Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel), born in Den Helder, Netherlands (d. 1987)
• Apr 20 Emile Christian, American jazz trombonist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1973)
• Apr 23 Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand detective writer and producer, born in Christchurch, New Zealand (d. 1982)
• Apr 25 Stanley Rous, British soccer official (6th President FIFA 1961-74), born in Mutford, England (d. 1986)
• Apr 29 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts), born in Bath Villas, Ashford, Kent, England (d. 1967)
• Apr 30 Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (Trente arpents), born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec (d. 1960)
• May 1 Leo Sowerby, American organist and composer (Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1946), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1968)
• May 2 Alfred Kurella, German author and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Germany, born in Brieg, Silesia (d. 1975)

• May 2 Peggy Bacon, American author and illustrator (Off With Their Heads), born in Ridgefield, Connecticut (d. 1987)
• May 3 Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher and Christian apologist, Grootegast, Netherlands (d. 1987)
• May 3 Ernst Kantorowicz, German-American historian (Laudes regiae), born in Posen, Prussia (d. 1963)
• May 6 Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary), born in Szentgyörgy, Austria-Hungary (d. 1946)
• May 6 Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (The Man Who Counted), born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1974)

• May 8 Edmund Wilson, American literary critic and writer (Patriotic Gore), born in Red Bank, New Jersey (d. 1972)
• May 8 Fulton J. Sheen, America bishop (Life is Worth Living), born in El Paso, Illinois (d. 1979)
• May 8 James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
• May 8 Joselito [José Gómez Ortega], Spanish matador (bullfighter) prodigy, born in Gelves, Spain (d. 1920)
• May 9 Lucian Blaga, Romanian philosopher and poet (Dogmatic Aeon), born in Lámkerék, Szeben County, Austria-Hungary (d. 1961)
• May 9 Richard Barthelmess, American actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose, Heroes for Sales), born in New York City (d. 1963)
• May 11 Jan Parandowski, Polish writer and translator, born in Lwów, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1978)
• May 11 William Grant Still, American composer ("Afro-American" Symphony), born in Woodville, Mississippi (d. 1978)
• May 12 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Songs of Life), born in Madanapalle, India (d. 1986)
• May 14 Lew Lehr, American comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1950)
• May 14 Renato Lunelli, composer Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, born in Trent, Austria-Hungary (d. 1967)
• May 15 Charles Lamont, American actor and director (Abbott & Costello films), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1993)
• May 15 William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
• May 18 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot and revolutionary, born in Niquinohomo, Nicaragua (d. 1934)
• May 19 Albert Hay Malotte, American pianist, organist, composer (Disney staff, 1930's; The Lord's Prayer), and educator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
• May 19 Cecil Gray, Scottish composer and music critic, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1959)
• May 20 R. J. [Reginald Joseph] Mitchell, English airplane designer (Supermarine Spitfire), born in Butt Lane, England (d. 1937)
• May 24 Hunter "Stork" Hendry, Australian cricket all-rounder (11 Tests, 1 x 100, 16 wickets; NSW CA, Victoria CA), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1988)
• May 24 Samuel I Newhouse Sr., American businessman and publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour), born in New York City (d. 1979)
• May 26 Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1965)

• May 27 Marij Kogoj, Slovenian composer, born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 1956)
• May 30 Maurice Tate, English cricket all-rounder (39 Tests, 155 wickets, 1 x 100, 5 x 50), born in Brighton, England (d. 1956)
• Jun 3 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, Indian statesman and diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), born in Travancore, British India (d. 1963)
• Jun 3 Zoltan Korda, Hungarian-British film director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers), born in Pusztatúrpásztó, Austria-Hungary (d. 1961)
• Jun 4 Dino Conte Grandi, Italian Fascist politician and delegate to league of nations (1925-32), born in Mordano, Italy (d. 1988)
• Jun 5 August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1966)
• Jun 5 William Boyd, American film actor, cowboy hero (Hopalong Cassidy), born in Hendrysburg, Ohio (d. 1972)

• Jun 10 Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian writer (Worlds in Collision), born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (d. 1979)
• Jun 11 Nikolai A Bulganin, Soviet-Russian marshal and 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (1955-58), born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (d. 1975)
• Jun 12 Eugénie Brazier, French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars (1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants, born in La Tranclière, Ain, France (d. 1977)
• Jun 14 Cliff Edwards, American singer, aka "Ukulele Ike" (Walt Disney's Pinocchio - "Jiminy Cricket"; "When You Wish Upon a Star"), born in Hannibal, Missouri (d. 1971)
• Jun 14 Jack Adams, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center (Vancouver Millionaires, Toronto St. Patricks; Ottawa Senators) and coach / general manager (Detroit Red Wings), born in Fort William, Ontario (d. 1968) [1]
• Jun 14 Louis Finkelstein, American historian and theologist (Pharizees), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1991)
• Jun 17 Louise Fazenda, American vaudeville, and silent and sound screen actress (Mack Sennett comedies), born in Lafayette, Indiana (d. 1962)
• Jun 17 Sam Wooding, American jazz pianist, bandleader, one of the 1st to tour Europe (Chocolate Kiddies), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1985)
• Jun 17 Slavko Osterc, Slovenian composer (Iz Satanovega Dnevnika (From Satan's Diary); Illusions), and pedagogue, born in Veržej, Austria-Hungary (d. 1941)
• Jun 18 Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2009)

• Jun 26 Jankel Adler, Polish painter and printmaker, born in Tuszyn, Łódź, Poland (d. 1949)
• Jun 28 Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer, born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1986)
• Jul 3 Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, Russian-Ukrainian composer, born in Dvorichnyi Kut, Ukraine (d. 1976)
• Jul 4 Eric Marx, South African cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 3 wickets; 240 on FC debut for Transvaal), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1974)
• Jul 4 Irving Caesar, American lyricist and theater composer ("Tea for Two"; "Just A Gigilo"; "Sometimes I'm Happy"; "Animal Crackers In My Soup"), born in New York City (d. 1996) [1]
• Jul 4 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter and illustrator, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1971)
• Jul 5 Gordon Jacob, English composer, born in London (d. 1984)
• Jul 8 Anton van de Velde, Belgian writer and director (God & the Worms), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1983)
• Jul 10 Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana; Der Mond; Mozart Prize - 1969), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1982)
• Jul 10 Maarten Pleun Vrij, Dutch lawyer, criminology professor (University of Groningen, 1928-47), and jurist (Supreme Court Justice, 1947-55), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1955)
• Jul 10 Nahum Goldmann, Israeli-Zionist leader (Zionist World Organization), born in Wisznewo, Lithuania (d. 1982)
• Jul 11 Dorothy Wilde [Dolly Wilde], English socialite, niece of Oscar Wilde, born in London (d. 1941)
• Jul 12 Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), born in Hamar, Norway (d. 1962)
• Jul 12 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (Rodgers & Hammerstein - "Oklahoma!"; "South Pacific"; "The King And I"; " The Sound Of Music"), born in New York City (d. 1960)
• Jul 12 R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and inventor (geodesic dome), born in Milton, Massachusetts (d. 1983)
• Jul 13 Sidney Blackmer, American actor (played Ted Roosevelt in 7 movies, Rosemary's Baby), born in Salisbury, North Carolina (d. 1973)
• Jul 14 Frank Raymond [F.R.] Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1978)

• Jul 18 Marie Ney, British actress (Brief Ecstasy, Simba, Witchcraft), born in London, England (d. 1981)
• Jul 19 Xu Beihong, Chinese painter, born in Yixing, China (d. 1953)
• Jul 20 László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
• Jul 21 H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket batsman (17 Tests [12 as captain], 3 x 50; Natal, Transvaal), born in Eshowe, South Africa (d. 1939)
• Jul 21 Ken Maynard, American stuntman and actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), born in Vevay, Indiana (d. 1973)
• Jul 22 Hans Rosbaud, Austrian conductor (South West German Radio Orchestra, 1948-62), born in Graz, Austria (d. 1962)
• Jul 22 James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, born in Debe Nek, King Williamstown, South Africa (d. 1983)
• Jul 23 Aileen Pringle, American actress (Murder at Midnight), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1989)
• Jul 23 Florence Vidor, American actress (Jack Knife Man), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1977)
• Jul 24 Robert Graves, English writer and poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26], born in London, England (d. 1985)
• Jul 25 Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (Paris Waltz; Voyage to America), born in Ermont, France (d. 1977)
• Jul 26 Gracie Allen, American comedian and actress (Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1964)
• Jul 26 Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person measuring 2.41 metres (7 ft 11 in) at the time of her death, born in Bartley Green, Northfield, Birmingham (d. 1922)
• Jul 26 Jerry Verno, British actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone, Sweeney Todd), born in London, England (d. 1975)
• Jul 30 Wanda Hawley, American silent screen actress (The Affairs of Anatol), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 1963)
• Aug 1 Benjamin Mays, African-American educator (Morehouse, Howard University) and civil rights leader, born in Ninety Six, South Carolina (d. 1984)
• Aug 2 Matthew Henderson, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (1 Test; New Zealand's first-ever Test match 1930), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 1970)
• Aug 3 Marguerite Nichols, American actress (An Old Man's Folly), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1941)
• Aug 9 Nathaniel "Nat" Pendleton, American wrestler (Olympics 1920, Silver) and actor (The Thin Man, Reckless), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1967)
• Aug 9 Ted Badcock, New Zealand cricketer (swing bowler in NZ's 1st Test matches), born in Abbottabad, India (d. 1982)
• Aug 10 Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)

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