- Feb 1 Johannes "Frits" Bakker Sr., Dutch actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap), (d. 1943)
- Apr 6 Louis Raemakers, Dutch cartoonist (WWI anti-German newspaper cartoons) and painter, born in Roermond, Netherlands (d. 1956)
- Apr 28 Lester Lonergan, Irish-American stage and screen actor and director (Seven Faces), born in Limerick, Ireland, UK (d. 1931)
- May 2 (Frederick) Tyrone Power Sr., British-American stage and screen actor (The Big Trial; The Test of Donald Norton), born in London, England (d. 1931)
- Aug 9 Randle Ayrton, British actor (The Manxman, Nell Gwyn), born in Chester, Cheshire, England (d. 1940)
- Sep 20 George Robey, English musical theatre actor and comedian, born in South London, England (d. 1954)
- Dec 20 Charley Grapewin, American actor (The Wizard of Oz; Libeled Lady), born in Xenia, Ohio (d. 1956)
- Dec 30 Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist, humorist and professor (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town), born in Swanmore, England (d. 1944)