conductor (d. 1970) Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989) December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965) December 4 – Sam Newfield, American film director (d. 1964) December 8 – John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (d. 1987) December 9 – Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (d. 1937) December 11 – Joan Stevenson Abbott , Australian World War II army hospital matron (d. 1975) December 14 – DeFord Bailey, American country musician (d. 1982) December 15 – Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978) December 16 Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973) Aleksander Zawadzki, former President of Poland (d. 1964) December 18 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990) December 19 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist pastor, missionary, and early figure in the civil rights movement (d. 1984) December 20 Finn Ronne, Norwegian-American explorer (d. 1980) John Sparkman, American politician (d. 1985) December 25 Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957) Frank Ferguson, American actor (d. 1978) December 28 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943) December 29 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1992) December 31 – Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (d. 1973) Date unknown Otto Klemperer, German physicist (d. 1987) Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1980) Deaths January–February January 1 – William Hugh Smith, 72, Governor of Alabama during Reconstruction, 1868 to 1870, former Alabama legislator who joined the Union Army January 10 – Jonathan B. Turner, 93, U.S. educational reformer and champion of land grant universities, co-founder of the University of Illinois William A. Russell, 67, U.S. Congressman and industrialist who was the first president of the International Paper Company January 13 – Nelson Dingley Jr., 66, U.S. politician and Congressman for Maine since 1881, author of the Dingley Act for increased tariffs January 14 – Nubar Pasha, 74, the first Prime Minister of Egypt (1878–79, 1884–88 and 1894–95) January 17 – Jedediah Hotchkiss, 70, American military cartographer for the Confederacy during the American Civil War January 23 – Romualdo Pacheco, 77, the only Hispanic Governor of the U.S. state of California (in 1875); (b. 1831) January 29 – Alfred Sisley, 59, French impressionist landscape painter, died of throat cancer (b. 1839) January 30 –Harry Bates, 48, British sculptor (b. 1850) January 31 – Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, 29, princess consort of Bulgaria, from complications of childbirth (b. 1870) February 6 Leo von