Births
- January 17 - Ralph H. Fowler (died 1944), English physicist and astronomer.
- April 21 - Paul Karrer (died 1971), Swiss winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- May 18 - Thomas Midgley, Jr. (died 1944), American chemist and inventor.
- June 4 - Beno Gutenberg (died 1960), German-born seismologist.
- July 18 - Axel Boëthius (died 1969), Swedish archeologist of Etruscan culture.
- July 30 (O.S. July 17) - Vladimir K. Zworykin (died 1982), Russian-born pioneer of television technology.
- August 1 - Walter Gerlach (died 1979), German physicist.
- August 7 - Léon Brillouin (died 1969), French physicist.
- November 20 - Edwin Hubble (died 1953), American astronomer.
- December 21 - Sewall Wright (died 1988), American geneticist.
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