- Jan 7 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American movie producer, director and executive (Paramount), born in Ricse, Hungary (d. 1976)
Colette (1873-1954)
Jan 28 French author, novelist (Gigi, La Vagabonde) and actress, born in Paris, France
- Jan 30 Rose Melville, American stage actress (A Baby Grand, Her Great Invention), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1946)
- Feb 23 Joseph Allen Sr. American actor, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1952)
- Mar 4 Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
- Mar 7 Madame Sul-Te-Wan [Nellie Crawford], American actress (The Birth of a Nation, Uncle Tom's Cabin), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1959)
- Mar 11 David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
- Mar 19 Arthur Hoyt, American actor and director (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along), born in Georgetown, Colorado (d. 1953)
- Mar 26 Gerald du Maurier, British actor (Power, Escape!, Masks and Faces), born in London, England (d. 1934)
- Apr 27 Harry O'Connor, American actor (Stranger than Fiction, The Long Lane's Turning), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1971)
- Apr 29 Alida Tartaud-Klein, Dutch actress and performance artist (Rotterdam Stage), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1938)
- May 4 Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director, born in Bathurst, New Brunswick Canada (d. 1940)
- Jul 1 Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director who was the first woman to direct a film (The Fairy of the Cabbages), born in Paris (d. 1968)
- Aug 18 Leo Slezak, Moravian dramatic tenor and actor (Othello; Zirkus Saran; Husaren heraus), born in Mährisch-Schönberg, Austria-Hungary (now Šumperk, Czech Republic) (d. 1946)
- Aug 19 Fred Stone, renowned American circus performer and broadway actor (Alice Adams), born in Longmont, Colorado (d. 1959)
- Sep 1 Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song), born in London, England (d. 1937)
- Sep 20 Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (Ben Hur), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1949)
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