January 30 – John Henry Towers, U. S.admiral and naval aviation pioneer (d. 1955) February February 1 – Friedrich Kellner, German diarist (d. 1970) February 7 Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951) Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (d. 1953) February 9 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935) February 10 – Rupert Downes, Australian general (d. 1945) February 13 George Fitzmaurice, French-American motion picture director (d. 1940) Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (d. 1982) February 14 – Zengo Yoshida, Japanese admiral (d. 1966) February 21 – Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French dramatist, writer, director, and actor (d. 1957) February 22 – Pat Sullivan, Australian-born American director, animated film producer (d. 1933) February 24 Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (d. 1966) Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter (d. 1939) February 25 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (d. 1969) February 26 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969) March March 6 – Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933) March 7 – John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet (d. 1971) March 11 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land, water racer (d. 1948) March 14 – Raoul Lufbery, French-born American World War I pilot (d. 1918) March 23 – Mollie McNutt, Australian poet (d. 1919) March 27 – Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras (d. 1957) March 31 – Jules Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930) April April 1 Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949) Clementine Churchill, wife of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (d. 1977) April 3 Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film director (d. 1981) Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff) (d. 1954) St John Philby, Ceylonese-born British orientalist (d. 1960) April 12 – Hermann Hoth, German general (d. 1971) April 13 John Cunningham, British admiral (d. 1962) Otto Plath, American father of poet Sylvia Plath, entomologist (d. 1940) April 15 – Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947) April 16 – Charles Debbas, 1st president, 5th prime minister of Lebanon (d. 1935) April 17 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (d. 1962) April 29 – Frank Jack Fletcher, American admiral (d. 1973) May May 2 – Hedda Hopper, American columnist (d. 1966) May 5 – Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist, composer (d. 1944) May 7 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (d. 1969) May 8 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian author and journalist (d. 1965) May 9 – Eduard C. Lindeman, American social worker, author (d. 1953) May