Birth of a Nation) (d. 1948) February 1 – Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor (d. 1961) February 2 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962) February 4 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953) February 7 – Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (d. 1937) February 8 – Valentine O'Hara, Irish author, authority on Russia and the Baltic states (d. 1941) February 21 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, world's longest lived person (d. 1997) February 26 – Emma Dunn, British-born stage, screen actress (d. 1966) March–April March 4 – Mihály Károlyi, Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955) March 7 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937) March 8 – Kenkichi Ueda, Japanese general (d. 1962) March 9 – Juan de Dios Martínez, 23rd President of Ecuador (d. 1955) March 19 – Zhang Zuolin, Chinese bandit, soldier, and warlord (d. 1928) March 26 – Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965) March 28 – Helen Westley, American stage, film actress (d. 1942) April 1 – Edgar Wallace, English author (d. 1932) April 2 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940) April 4 Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (d. 1948) Pierre Monteux, French-born conductor (d. 1964) April 5 – Mistinguett, French singer (d. 1956) April 8 – King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934) April 15 – James J. Jeffries, American boxer (d. 1953) April 18 – Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941) May–June May 2 – Owen Roberts, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1955) May 6 – William D. Leahy, American admiral (d. 1959) May 11 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912) May 12 Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (d. 1949) Charles Holden, English architect (d. 1960) May 23 – Alfred P. Sloan, American automobile industrialist (d. 1966) June 4 – Albert E. Smith, English stage magician, film director and producer (d. 1958) June 6 J. Farrell MacDonald, American character actor, film director (d. 1952) Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) June 9 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) June 12 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953) June 15 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian supercentenarian (d. 1987) June 24 – Diedrich Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956) June 28 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941) July–August July 3 Tanxu, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 1963) Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951) July 10 Dezső