- Jan 2 Florence Lawrence [Bridgwood], Canadian stage and silent screen actress (Confidence; Lady Helen's Escapade), born in Hamilton, Ontario (d. 1938)
- Jan 11 Chester Conklin, American actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed), born in Oskaloosa, Iowa (d. 1971)
- Jan 11 George Zucco, British actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Fury), born in Manchester, England (d. 1960)
- Jan 24 Henry King, Christiansburg Virginia, American film director (d. 1982)
Frank Lloyd (1886-1960)
Feb 2 Scottish actor and director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist, Blood on the Sun), born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Feb 8 Charlie Ruggles, American actor (Bringing Up Baby, The Patchwork Girl of Oz), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1970)
- Feb 10 Olin Howland, American actor (Gone With The Wind; Them!; Circus Boy), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1959)
- Mar 2 (Willis) "Obie" O'Brien, American Academy Award-winning stop-action animator (The Lost World; King Kong; Mighty Joe Young), born in Oakland, California (d. 1962)
- Mar 7 Raymond Largay, American actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl), born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (d. 1974)
- Mar 18 Edward Everett Horton, American vaudeville, stage, silent and sound screen character actor (Top Hat), and narrator (Fractured Fairy Tales - The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1970)
Wallace Beery (1886-1949)
Apr 1 American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus) and actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- Apr 3 (Arthur) "Dooley" Wilson, American piano player, singer, and actor (Casablanca; Stormy Weather; Beulah), born in Tyler, Texas (d. 1953)
- Apr 10 Val Paul, American actor and director (Suspense, The Phantom Thief), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1962)
- Apr 17 Otto Lederer, Austrian actor (The Jazz Singer), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
- Apr 21 Charles "Charlie" Naughton, Scottish actor (Frozen Limits), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1976)
- May 4 Frank H. Wilson, American actor (Beware, Paradise in Harlem), born in Harlem, New York (d. 1956)
- May 12 Peter Scharow, Russian-Italian actor and director (Chechov), born in Perm, Russia (d. 1969)
Al Jolson (1886-1950)
May 26 American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee), born in Seredžius, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
- Jun 11 Lillian Fontaine, British actress (Suddenly it's Spring), born in Reading, Berkshire, England (d. 1975)
- Jun 28 Frank Mayo, American silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters), born in New York City (d. 1963)
- Jul 12 Jean Hersholt, Danish actor (Heidi, Greed, Men in White, Aryan), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1956)
- Jul 26 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1965)
- Jul 31 Fred Quimby, American film producer (Tom and Jerry), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1965)
- Sep 22 Hobart Cavanaugh, American actor (Border Town, Black Angel), born in Virginia City, Nevada (d. 1950)
- Sep 24 James Burke, American actor (Mystery Theater, Great Guy), born in New York City (d. 1968)
- Oct 2 Pierre Balledux, Dutch actor, theatre director (The Hague Players), and resistance fighter, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1976)
- Oct 4 Luis Alberni, Spanish character actor (The Lady Eve, Topaze), born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1962)
- Oct 5 Carter DeHaven, American actor (Courage Great Dictator), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1977)
- Oct 9 Frank Newburg, American actor (Homemaker), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1969)
- Oct 12 Karl Dane, Danish-American comedian and actor (Son of the Sheik), born in Copenhagen (d. 1934)
- Oct 17 Spring Byington, American actress (December Bride), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1971)
- Oct 25 Leo G. Carroll, English actor (Topper; Strangers On A Train; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire (d. 1972)
- Nov 2 Philip Merivale, British actor (Mr. & Mrs. Smith; Nothing But Trouble), born in Rehutia, Manickpur, India (d. 1946)
- Nov 9 Ed Wynn [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], American comedian (Ed Wynn Show), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1966)
- Nov 13 Florence Moore, American vaudeville, stage and silent screen actress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1935)
Victor McLaglen (1886-1959)
Dec 10 English actor (The Informer - Academy Award 1935), born in Tunbridge Wells, England
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