2nd President of Syria (d. 1962) May 12 George Landenberger, United States Navy Captain and the 23rd Governor of American Samoa (d. 1936) Georgia Ann Robinson, community worker, first African-American woman to be appointed a Los Angeles police officer (d. 1961) May 16 – Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (d. 1977) May 19 Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician, wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (d. 1964) Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, British businessman, politician, husband of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (d. 1952) May 20 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (d. 1965) May 22 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-born American stage, film actress (d. 1945) May 25 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born British statesman and newspaper publisher (d. 1964) May 27 – Lucile Watson, Canadian-born American film, stage actress (d. 1962) May 28 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian scientist (d. 1958) June 3 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940) June 4 – Mabel Lucie Attwell, British illustrator (d. 1964) June 9 – Joseph Avenol, 2nd Secretary General of the League of Nations (d. 1952) June 7 – Knud Rasmussen, Danish polar explorer, anthropologist (d. 1933) June 10 – Rafael Erich, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1946) June 13 Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general (d. 1929) Lois Weber, American film director, screenwriter (d. 1939) June 23 – Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist (d. 1947) July–September July 1 – Léon Jouhaux, French labour leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954) July 5 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist, musicologist (d. 1959) July 9 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, musicologist and conductor (d. 1936) July 15 – Joseph Campbell, Irish poet, lyricist (d. 1944) July 22 – Janusz Korczak (pen-name of Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician and child pedagogist (b. 1878 or 1879) (d. 1942) July 26 – Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal (d. 1962) July 28 – Lucy Burns, American women's rights campaigner (d. 1966) August 8 Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese field marshal (d. 1946) Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919) August 13 – John Ireland, English composer and organist (d. 1962) August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, American film and stage actress (d. 1959) August 21 – Claude Grahame-White, British aviation pioneer (d. 1959) August 23 – Yevgenia Bosch, Ukrainian politician (d. 1925) August 30 – Fritzi Scheff, Viennese-born American actress and singer (d. 1954) August 31 Isidro Ayora, 22nd president of Ecuador (d. 1978)