Births
- February 1 - Emilio G. Segrè (died 1989), physicist, Nobel laureate
- February 23 - Derrick Henry Lehmer (died 1991), mathematician
- March 18 - Thomas Townsend Brown (died 1985), physicist.
- March 27 - Elsie MacGill (died 1980), aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
- April 13 - Bruno Rossi (died 1993), physicist and astronomer
- April 18 - George H. Hitchings (d 1998), scientist, Nobel laureate in Medicine
- April 20 - Albrecht Unsöld (died 1995), astronomer
- August 1 - Helen Sawyer Hogg (died 1993), astronomer
- August 11 - Erwin Chargaff (died 2002), biochemist
- August 16 - Marian Rejewski (died 1980), mathematician and cryptologist
- August 31 - Robert Bacher (died 2004), nuclear physicist
- September 3 - Carl David Anderson (died 1991), physicist, Nobel laureate
- September 17 - Hans Freudenthal (died 1990), mathematician
- September 22 - Eugen Sänger (died 1964), aerospace engineer
- September 24 - Severo Ochoa (died 1993), biochemist, Nobel laureate
- September 30 - Nevill Francis Mott (died 1996), physicist, Nobel laureate
- October 15 - C. P. Snow (died 1980), physicist and novelist
- October 22 - Karl Guthe Jansky (died 1950), physicist
- October 22 - Albert Whitford (died 2002), astronomer
- October 23 - Felix Bloch (died 1983), physicist, Nobel laureate
- October 31 - Harry Harlow (died 1981), psychologist
- December 7 - Gerard Kuiper (died 1973), astronomer
- December 16 - Piet Hein (died 1996), mathematician
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)