United States (died 1973) August 28 – Robert Merle, French writer (died 2004) August 30 Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (died 1996) Fred MacMurray, American actor (died 1991) August 31 – William Saroyan, American writer (died 1981) September September 2 Ruth Bancroft, American landscape and garden designer (d. 2017) Dorothea Leighton, American social psychiatrist, founder of the field of medical anthropology (died 1989) September 3 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (died 1988) September 4 – Richard Wright, African-American author (died 1960) September 5 Ahmed Balafrej, Moroccan politician, Foreign Minister and 2nd Prime Minister of Morocco (died 1990) Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer, painter (died 2019) September 7 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon, medical researcher (died 2008) September 13 – Mae Questel, American actress (died 1998) September 18 – Viktor Ambartsumian, Soviet Armenian scientist (died 1996) September 19 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author (died 1979) September 21 – Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier, twice winner of the Victoria Cross (died 1994) September 25 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (died 1993) September 29 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (died 1967) September 30 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist (died 1974) October October 6 – Carole Lombard, American actress (died 1942) October 7 – Baek Du-jin, Korean politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (died 1993) October 15 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (died 2006) October 16 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian communist dictator (died 1985) October 21 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (died 2003) October 23 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990) October 27 – Lee Krasner, American painter (died 1984) October 28 – Arturo Frondizi, 35th President of Argentina (died 1995) October 30 – Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer, Minister of Defense (died 1984) November November 3 – Giovanni Leone, 68th Prime Minister of Italy, 6th President of Italy (died 2001) November 4 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (died 2005) November 14 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician (died 1957) November 16 – Sœur Emmanuelle, French nun (died 2008) November 18 – Imogene Coca, American actress (died 2001) November 20 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist (died 2004) November 28 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born French anthropologist (died 2009) December December 4 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997) December 6 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (died 1934) December 9 – Aden Adde, 1st president of Somalia (died 2007)