filmmaker, novelist, and non-fiction writer (d. 1981) November 12 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999) November 14 – Benjamin Fondane (née Wechsler), Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (d. 1944) November 17 Colleen Clifford, Australian actress (d. 1996) Maurice Journeau, French composer (d. 1999) November 18 Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989) Andrés Soler, Mexican actor (d. 1969) November 19 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003) November 21 – René Magritte, Belgian artist (d. 1967) November 22 – Gabriel González Videla, Chilean politician (d. 1980) November 23 – Bess Flowers, American actress (d. 1984) November 24 – Liu Shaoqi, President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1969) November 25 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (d. 1971) November 26 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) November 29 Rod La Rocque, American actor (d. 1969) C. S. Lewis, British author (d. 1963) November 30 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball pitcher (d. 1976) December 2 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I pilot (d. 1918) December 3 – Monte Collins, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1951) December 5 – Grace Moore, American opera singer, actress (d. 1947) December 6 Alfred Eisenstaedt, American photojournalist (d. 1995) Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) December 9 Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979) Clarine Seymour, American actress (d. 1920) December 11 Benno Mengele, Austrian electrical engineer (d. 1971) Taro Shoji, Japanese singer (d. 1972) December 14 – Lillian Randolph, American actress, singer (d. 1980) December 19 – Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author, translator (d. 1958) December 20 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990) December 24 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959) December 27 Hilda Vaughn, American actress (d. 1957) Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (d. 1960) December 28 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral and war criminal (d. 1947) December 29 – Randi Anda, Norwegian politician (d. 1999) December 30 Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975) Claire Huchet Bishop, author of The Five Chinese Brothers (with illustrator Kurt Wiese) and The Man Who Lost His Head (with illustrator Robert McCloskey) (d. 1993) December 31 – István Dobi, Hungarian leader (d. 1968) Date unknown I. K. Taimni, Indian chemist (d. 1978) William Wardsworth, Liberian politician (d. 1977) Deaths January–June January 3 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A&M University