American Catholic priest, anti-Semitic radio host (d. 1979) October 28 Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot, film actor (d. 1920) Maria José de Castro Rebello Mendes, Brazilian diplomat November 2 – David Townsend, American art director (d. 1935) November 4 – Orlando Ward, American general (d. 1972) November 7 Miriam Cooper, American silent film actress (d. 1976) Genrikh Yagoda, Soviet police and intelligence official (d. 1938) November 10 – Carl Stalling, American musician (d. 1972) November 12 – Władysław Bortnowski, Polish historian and general (d. 1966) November 14 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941) November 15 Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959) Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944) November 24 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (d. 1976) November 28 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist, politician (d. 1949) November 29 – Julius Raab, former Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964) December 4 – T. V. Soong, Taiwanese businessman, politician (d. 1971) December 6 Masatomi Kimura, Japanese admiral (d. 1960) Gotthard Sachsenberg, German World War I naval aviator, fighter ace (d. 1961) December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917) December 10 Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal (d. 1969) Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) December 14 Katherine MacDonald, American silent screen actress (d. 1956) Lester Melrose, American record producer, known primarily for promoting the Chicago blues genre (d. 1968) December 17 Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1917) Hu Shih, Chinese liberal (d. 1962) December 19 – Edward Bernard Raczynski, former President of Poland (d. 1993) December 24 – Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian illustrator (d. 1970) December 25 Kenneth Anderson, British general (d. 1959) Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980) December 26 – Henry Miller, American novelist (d. 1980) December 29 – Béla Imrédy, 32nd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946) Deaths January–June January 4 – Charles Keene, English artist and illustrator (b. 1823) January 5 – Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849) January 11 – Carl Johan Thyselius, Swedish politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1811) January 15 – John Wellborn Root, American architect (b. 1850) January 16 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836) January 20 – Kalākaua, last reigning King of Hawaii (b. 1836) January 21 Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842) James Timberlake, American lawman (b. 1846)