Births
- May 13 - Georgios Papanikolaou (died 1962), inventor of the Pap smear.
- June 24 - Victor Francis Hess (died 1964), American physicist.
- October 2 - Karl von Terzaghi (died 1963), Austrian "father of soil mechanics".
- October 8 - Otto Heinrich Warburg (died 1970), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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