– Edwin Albert Link, American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (died 1981) July 28 – Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990) July 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian businessman (died 1993) August August 3 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (died 1983) August 4 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist, dramatist (died 1969) Helen Kane, American singer, dancer, comedian and actress (died 1966) August 6 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (died 1988) August 7 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971) August 11 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (died 1991) August 12 – Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (died 1918) August 13 Jonathan Hole, American actor (died 1998) Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor, jazz musician (died 1999) August 16 Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician (died 1989) Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971) August 17 Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (died 1984) Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (died 1991) August 19 – George de la Warr, British alternative physician (died 1969) August 21 – Count Basie, African-American musician, bandleader (died 1984) August 22 Jay Novello, American actor (died 1982) Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader (died 1997) August 23 Viscountess Furness (born Thelma Morgan), American socialite twin (died 1970) Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Gloria Morgan), American socialite twin (died 1965) William Primrose, Scottish violist (died 1982) August 24 Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (died 1986) Aparicio Méndez, 50th President of Uruguay (died 1988) August 26 Christopher Isherwood, English writer (died 1986) Georgia Schmidt, American actress (died 1997) August 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (died 1980) August 29 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1979) September September 7 – Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player (died 1991) September 9 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (died 2005) Lou Moore, American race car driver, team owner (died 1956) September 13 Gladys George, American actress (died 1954) Alberta Williams King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King Jr. (assassinated 1974) September 14 Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist (died 1962) Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister (died 1957) September 15 – Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of