American humorist, author (died 1979) February 2 – Valery Chkalov, Soviet test pilot (died 1938) February 3 Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (died 1975) Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (died 1934) February 4 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer, historian (died 1977) February 10 Emil Bodnăraș, Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (died 1976) John Farrow, Australian film director (died 1963) February 11 Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1983) Roy MacNairy, English cricketer (died 1962) José do Patrocínio Oliveira, Brazilian musician and voice actor (died 1987) Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1904 (died 2023) February 13 – Erwin Canham, journalist (died 1982) February 16 James Baskett, African-American actor (Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South) (died 1948) George F. Kennan, American diplomat (died 2005) Philip Rabinowitz, South African record-breaking sprinter (died 2008) February 21 – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1980) February 22 – Ernst Jakob Henne, German motorcycle racer and racing driver (died 2005) February 23 Gaston Marie Jacquier, French Roman Catholic bishop in Algeria (died 1976) William L. Shirer, American journalist, author (died 1993) February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (died 1957) March March 1 Paul Hartman, American actor, dancer (died 1973) Glenn Miller, American bandleader (died 1944) March 2 – Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (died 1991) March 4 Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1973) George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (died 1968) Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor, actor (died 1942) Chief Tahachee, American-born stage, film actor (died 1978) March 5 – Mao Bangchu, Republic of China air force general (died 1987) March 6 – Hugh Williams, English actor, dramatist (died 1969) March 7 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi official (died 1942) March 14 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress (died 2010) March 15 – J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (died 1985) March 20 Frank Mills (politician), American politician in Ohio legislature (died 1969) B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (died 1990) March 22 – Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (died 2006) March 23 – Joan Crawford, American actress (died 1977) (other sources report her year of birth as 1905, 1906, or 1908) March 26 Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (died 1944) Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (died 1987) Emilio Fernández, Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter (died 1986) March 30 Alexandrina Maria