Births
- January 22 - Leonard Eugene Dickson (died 1954), mathematician.
- February 2 - Ernest Shackleton (died 1922), explorer.
- April 25 - Guglielmo Marconi (died 1937), inventor.
- September 26 - Oakes Ames (died 1950), botanist.
- October 13 - Kiyotsugu Hirayama (died 1943), astronomer.
- November 27 - Chaim Weizmann (died 1952), chemist, first President of Israel.
- November 29 - António Egas Moniz, (died 1955), winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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