Births
- January 28 - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (died 1976)
- March 7 - G. I. Taylor, English physicist (died 1975)
- April 5 - Frederick Lindemann, German-born British physicist (died 1957)
- September 26 - Archibald Hill, English physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1977)
- November 20 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian ethologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1982)
- December 9 - Clarence Birdseye, American founder of the modern frozen food industry (died 1956)
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