10 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, King of Malaysia (d. 1979) December 15 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Pakistani poet, author and lexicographer (d. 2005) December 16 Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science-fiction author, best known for co-writing the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey (d. 2008) Beatrice Wright, American psychologist (d. 2018) December 18 – Ossie Davis, African-American actor, film director and activist (d. 2005) December 19 – Paul Brinegar, American actor (d. 1995) December 20 David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist (d. 1992) Petrus Hugo, South African WWII fighter pilot (d. 1986) Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013) December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) December 22 – Marthe Gosteli, Swiss women's suffrage campaigner (d. 2017) December 25 Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist, politician (d. 2009) Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer and pilot (d. 2019) December 28 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010) December 29 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005) December 30 – Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004) December 31 – Suzy Delair, French actress, singer (d. 2020) Date unknown Hazza' al-Majali, 22nd & 32nd Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1960) Deaths January–March January 2 – Sir Edward Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832) January 4 – Frederick Selous, British explorer (b. 1851) January 6 Sir Frederick Borden, Canadian politician (b. 1847) Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist, historian (b. 1834) January 8 – Mary Arthur McElroy, de facto First Lady of the United States (b. 1841) January 10 – Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman (b. 1846) January 16 – George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) January 18 – Andrew Murray, South African author, educationist and pastor (b. 1828) January 28 – Yikuang, Prince Qing of the First Rank (b. 1838) January 29 – Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British diplomat and colonial administrator (b. 1841) February 3 – Alexey Abaza, Russian admiral and politician (b. 1853) February 5 – Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860) February 8 – Anton Haus, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1851) February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born English artist (b. 1849) February 16 – Octave Mirbeau, French art critic and novelist (b. 1848) February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837) February 21 Joaquín Dicenta, Spanish writer (b. 1862) Fred Mace, American actor (b. 1878) March 5 – Manuel de Arriaga, 1st President of Portugal (b. 1840)