Births
- January 3 - Jay Laurence Lush (died 1982), American livestock geneticist.
- February 2 - Kazimierz Kuratowski (died 1980), Polish mathematician.
- February 14 - Arthur Milne (died 1950), English space physicist.
- March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann (died 1962), German mathematician.
- June 1 - Shintaro Uda (died 1976), Japanese electrical engineer.
- July 16 - Otmar von Verschuer (died 1969), German eugenicist.
- August 15 - Gerty Cori (née Radnitz) (died 1957), Prague-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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