Births
- January 14 - Alfred Tarski (died 1983), Polish Jewish logician and mathematician.
- February 28 - Linus Pauling (died 1994), American chemist, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry and peace.
- March 6 - Rex Wailes (died 1986), English engineer and historian of technology.
- August 10 - Franco Rasetti (died 2001), Italian physicist.
- September 29 - Enrico Fermi (died 1954), Italian physicist.
- December 5 - Werner Heisenberg (died 1976), German theoretical physicist.
- December 16 - Margaret Mead (died 1978), American cultural anthropologist.
- December 20 - Robert J. Van de Graaff (died 1967), American physicist.
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