the Soviet Union (d. 1945) October 3 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974) October 5 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945) October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937) October 8 – Harry McClintock, American singer (d. 1957) October 14 Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz, Polish military leader (d. 1915) Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975) Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959) October 17 – Giulio Gavotti, Italian aviator (d. 1939) October 20 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (d. 1956) October 24 – Sybil Thorndike, British stage, film actress (d. 1976) October 25 Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d. 1955) Tony Jackson, American jazz musician (d. 1921) October 30 William Halsey Jr., American admiral (d. 1959) Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944) November November 6 – Feng Yuxiang, Chinese warlord and general (d. 1948) November 8 – Ethel Clayton, American silent screen star (d. 1966) November 11 T. F. O'Rahilly, Irish academic (d. 1953) King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973) November 15 – Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1965) November 18 Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (d. 1973) Frances Gertrude McGill, Canadian forensic pathologist (d. 1959) November 21 – Harold Lowe, Welsh 5th Officer of RMS Titanic (d. 1944) November 27 – Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch, American dentist (d. 1944) November 29 – Henri Fabre, French inventor of the first seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion (d. 1984) December December 9 Percy C. Mather, English Protestant missionary (d. 1933) Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949) December 11 Subramania Bharati, Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921) Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) December 12 – Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral (d. 1960) December 16 Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963) Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967) Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (d. 1974) December 18 – Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer (d. 1950) December 23 – Mokichi Okada, Japanese religious leader (d. 1955) December 28 – Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, astrophysicist and mathematician (d. 1944) December 29 – Raymond Stanton Patton, American admiral, engineer and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (d. 1937) Date unknown Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (d. 1961) T. Sathasiva Iyer, Ceylon Tamil scholar, Tamil language writer (d. 1950) Deaths January–June January 6 – Richard Henry Dana Jr., founder