Births
- March 24 - Wilhelm Reich (died 1957), psychoanalyst.
- July 20 - Tadeus Reichstein (died 1996), Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
- August 12 - Otto Struve (died 1963), astronomer.
- September 12 - Irène Joliot-Curie (died 1956), scientist.
- November 4 - C. B. van Niel (died 1985), microbiologist.
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