businessman, politician (d.?) November 11 – Blessed Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina, Spanish teacher, religious woman (d. 1936) November 12 – Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978) November 19 – Nancy Carroll, American actress (d. 1965) November 25 – DeHart Hubbard, American Olympic athlete (d. 1976) November 26 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-British supercentenarian and pianist and teacher (d. 2014) November 27 Jamil Hashweh, Palestinian translator (d. 1982) Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) November 29 – E. Harold Munn, American temperance movement leader, presidential candidate (d. 1992) December December 4 Lazar Lagin, Soviet and Russian writer (d. 1979) A. L. Rowse, English historian (d. 1997) December 5 Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer, actor (d. 2011) Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969) December 10 – Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986) December 12 Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (d. 1976) Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963) December 13 – Ella Baker, American civil rights activist (d. 1986) December 16 – Harold Whitlock, British Olympic athlete (d. 1985) December 17 – Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987) December 19 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1996) December 22 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) December 24 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor (d. 1972) December 26 – Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995) December 28 Earl Hines, American jazz pianist (d. 1983) John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957) December 29 – Clyde McCoy, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1990) December 31 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992) Deaths January–June January 3 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837) January 4 – Alexander Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1832) January 5 – Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Spanish politician, eight-time prime minister (b. 1825) January 17 – Quintin Hogg, British philanthropist (b. 1845) January 24 – Petko Karavelov, 4th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1843) January 28 Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847) Robert Planquette, French composer (b. 1850) February 1 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician, physicist (b. 1819) February 4 – Zhang Peilun, Chinese naval commander and government official (b. 1848) February 7 – James Glaisher, English meteorologist, aeronaut (b. 1809) February 9 – Sir Charles Duffy, Irish-born Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816) February 14 – Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (b.