and activist (d. 1927) April 30 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (d. 1923) May–June May 1 – Tom Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1955) May 5 Eleazar López Contreras, 32nd President of Venezuela (d. 1973) Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, British field marshal (d. 1950) May 9 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955) May 10 – Eugen Leviné, Communist leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (d. 1919) May 16 Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, statesman, 3rd President of Turkey (d. 1986) Solomone Ula Ata, Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 1950) May 18 Walter Gropius, German architect (d. 1969) Hasui Kawase, Japanese painter, printmaker (d. 1957) Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974) May 23 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939) May 24 – Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist, international party giver (d. 1963) May 25 – Lesley J. McNair, American general (d. 1944) May 27 – Jessie Arms Botke, American artist (d. 1971) May 28 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian pro-independence activist, Hindu nationalist (d. 1966) May 31 – Lauri Kristian Relander, President of Finland (d. 1942) June 5 John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946) Mary Helen Young, Scottish nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (died 1945) June 7 – Sylvanus Morley, American scholar, World War I spy (d. 1948) June 11 – Aubrey Fitch, American admiral (d. 1978) June 18 – Mary Alden, American stage, screen actress (d. 1946) June 20 – Royal E. Ingersoll, American admiral (d. 1976) June 24 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) June 28 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945) June 29 – Lothrop Stoddard, American eugenicist, radical scientific racist (d. 1950) July–August July 1 – István Friedrich, 24th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1951) July 3 – Franz Kafka, Austrian writer (d. 1924) July 4 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970) July 6 – Godfrey Huggins, English-born Rhodesian politician and physician, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 1971) July 10 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948) July 16 – Charles Sheeler, American photographer, artist (d. 1965) July 19 Max Fleischer, Austrian animator, film producer (Betty Boop) (d. 1972) Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard, American-born heiress (d. 1972) July 20 – Catherine Bramwell-Booth, English Salvation Army officer (d. 1987) July 23 Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British field marshal (d. 1963) Oscar Westover, United States