Births
- January 7 - Émile Borel (died 1956), French mathematician.
- May 19 - Walter Russell (died 1963), American polymath.
- August 15 - Arthur Tansley (died 1955), English botanist and ecologist.
- August 19 - Orville Wright (died 1948), American pioneer aviator.
- October 19 - Walter Bradford Cannon (died 1945), American physiologist.
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