- Jan 11 Monte Blue, American silent and sound screen actor (White Shadows in the South Seas; Key Largo; Apache), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1963)
- Jan 16 John Hamilton, American actor (The Adventures of Superman - "Perry White"), born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1958)
- Jan 28 Lily (Theresa) Strickland, American composer of art songs, piano, and silent film music, and ethnomusicologist (The Music Courier), born in Anderson, South Carolina (d. 1958)
- Jan 29 Albert Conti, Austrian actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion), born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 1967)
- Feb 16 Kathleen Clifford, American actress (When the Clouds Roll by), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1962)
- Feb 23 Cyril Delevanti, British actor (Soylent Green, The Night of the Iguana), born in London, England (d. 1975)
- Feb 25 Leonard Carey, British actor (Rebecca, Laughter), born in London, England (d. 1977)
- Mar 4 Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (The Magic Cloak), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1953)
- Mar 6 David Imboden, American silent film actor (King of Kings), muralist, and theater director, born in Kansas City, Kansas (d. 1974)
- Mar 11 Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
- Mar 18 Frank Moran, American heavyweight boxer and film actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1967)
- Mar 22 Chico Marx [Leonard], American comedian (Marx Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1961)
- Mar 24 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (The Bell Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies), born in Smith Center, Kansas (d. 1933)
- Apr 8 Walter Connolly, American actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1940)
- Apr 12 Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1918)
- Apr 21 Lillian Walker [Wolke] American silent era actress and film producer (An Embarrassment of Riches), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975)
- May 5 Estelle Hemsley, American actress (Take a Giant Step), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
- May 16 Bull Montana [Luigi Montagna], Italian actor (Brass Buttons, Victory, The Son of the Sheik), born in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1950)
- May 21 Mabel "Nell" Taliaferro, American actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back), born in New York City (d. 1979)
- May 28 Hank Mann, American actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road), born in New York City (d. 1971)
- Jun 1 Clive Brook, British actor and director (List of Adrian Messenger), born in London, England (d. 1974)
- Jun 18 Blanche Yurka, American actress (Taxi, A Tale of Two Cities), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1974)
- Jun 25 George Abbott, American theater producer and film director (Damn Yankees; The Pajama Game), born in Forestville, New York (d. 1995)
- Jul 1 Charles D. Brown, American actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor), born in Council Bluffs, Iowa (d. 1948)
- Jul 6 Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer, silent-film actress (A Daughter of the Gods; Venus Of The South Seas), and author, born in Marrickville, New South Wales, New South Wales (d. 1975)
- Jul 7 Raymond Hatton, American actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 1971)
- Jul 29 Komako Kimura, Japanese suffragette, actress and editor, born in Tokyo (d. 1980)
- Aug 5 Reginald Owen, British actor (Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes), born in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1972)
- Aug 8 Esme Percy, British actor (Murder!, Pygmalion, Old Spanish Custom), born in London, England (d. 1957)
- Aug 8 Malcolm Keen, British actor (The Lodger, The Manxman, The Murder Party), born in Bristol, England (d. 1970)
- Aug 8 Ullrich Haupt, Prussian actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), born in Falkenburg, Pomerania, Germany (d. 1931)
- Aug 14 Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (Falscher Start), born in Riga, Russian Empire (d. 1937)
- Aug 23 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor and playwright (Fatherland), born in Amsterdam (d. 1956)
- Aug 27 James Finlayson, Scottish-American stage and silent and "talkie" film actor (Laurel and Hardy films), born in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland (d. 1953)
- Sep 9 Raymond Walburn, American actor (Christmas in July), born in Plymouth, Indiana (d. 1969)
- Sep 19 Lynne Overman, American actor (Reap the Wild Wind), born in Maryville, Missouri (d. 1943)
- Sep 26 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1967)
- Sep 27 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1951)
- Sep 29 Billy Bevan, Australian actor (Terror by Night, White Sin), born in Orange, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1957)
- Sep 30 Lil Dagover [Marie Seubert;], German silent and sound screen actress (Destiny; Spiders), born in Madiun, Dutch East Indies (d. 1980)
- Oct 7 Jack Mulhall, American actor and producer (The Three Musketeers, The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand), born in Wappingers Falls, New York (d. 1979)
- Oct 8 Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1956)
- Nov 9 Gertrude Astor [Eyster], American silent and sound screen character actress (The Strong Man: Hell Bound), born in Lakewood, Ohio (d. 1977)
- Nov 9 Muriel Aked, British actress (Rome Express, Happiest Days of Your Life), born in Bingley, Yorkshire, England (d. 1955)
- Nov 11 Roland Young, British-born American actor, born in London, England (d. 1953)
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Nov 23 English actor (The Mummy, Frankenstein), born in Camberwell, London
- Nov 28 Bobby Watson, American comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1965)
- Dec 6 Lynn Fontanne, British actress (Peter Pan; The Guardsman), born in Woodford, Essex, England (d. 1983)
- Dec 9 Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian, born in Rock Island, Illinois (d. 1958)
- Dec 23 Eric Blore, British stage and screen actor (The Lone Wolf; Bowery to Baghdad; Abie's Irish Rose; Love Happy), born in Finchley, Middlesex, England (d. 1959)
- Dec 23 John Cromwell, American actor and director (Spitfire, Of Human Bondage), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1979)
- Dec 24 Louis Jouvet, French actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), born in Crozon, Finistère, France (d. 1951)
- Dec 25 John Davidson, American actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat), born in New York City (d. 1968)
- Dec 28 Charles Dingle, American actor (The Little Foxes), born in Wabash, Indiana (d. 1956)
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