Christchurch Rangers, the earliest predecessor of Queens Park Rangers F.C., in London; Glentoran F.C. in Belfast in the north of Ireland; Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club, the oldest lawn tennis club still on its original site, in the outer London suburbs; Waterloo F.C., a rugby union club, as Serpentine on Merseyside in the north of England. Births January January 5 – Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (d. 1955) January 6 Fan Noli, Albanian poet, political figure (d. 1965) Ferdinand Pecora, Sicilian-born American lawyer (d. 1971) Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961) January 17 Arnold Rothstein, American gangster (d. 1928) Noah Beery, American actor (d. 1946) January 18 – A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956) January 20 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1957) January 22 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor (d. 1956) January 23 – Anna Abrikosova, Soviet Roman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (d. 1936) January 25 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941) January 28 Mary Boland, American actress (d. 1965) Gengo Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (d. 1976) Pascual Orozco, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1915) January 30 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945) January 31 – Fritz Leiber, American stage, screen actor (d. 1949) February February 1 – Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973) February 2 Anne Bauchens, American film editor (d. 1967) James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941) February 4 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964) February 5 – Louis Wagner, French Grand Prix racer, aviator (d. 1960) February 11 Valli Valli, German-born British actress (d. 1927) Joe Jordan, American ragtime composer (d. 1971) February 12 – Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1968) February 15 – John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942) February 18 – Petre Dumitrescu, Romanian general (d. 1950) February 22 – Eric Gill, English sculptor, writer (d. 1940) February 26 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968) February 28 Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967) Herbert Silberer, Austrian psychoanalyst (d. 1923) March March 3 – Charles Ponzi, Italian-born American con man (d. 1949) March 6 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980) March 8 – Alfred A. Cunningham, first United States Marine Corps aviator (d. 1939) March 12 – Carlos Blanco Galindo, 32nd President of Bolivia (d. 1943) March 14 Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (d. 1969) Giuseppe