6 Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1935) Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914) May 7 – Gyula Károlyi, 29th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947) May 27 – Georges Rouault, French painter, graphic artist (d. 1958) June 5 – Nicolae Iorga, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940) June 11 – Walter Cowan, British admiral (d. 1956) June 12 – Ernst Stromer, German paleontologist (d. 1952) June 14 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946) June 17 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter and early civil rights activist (d. 1938) June 18 – Edmund Breese, American actor (d. 1936) June 23 – Jantina Tammes, Dutch plant biologist (d. 1947) June 26 – Reginald R. Belknap, United States Navy rear admiral (d. 1959) July–August July 5 – Claus Schilling, German medical researcher and war criminal (d. 1946) July 10 – Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922) July 17 – Lyonel Feininger, German painter (d. 1956) July 18 – Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946) July 25 – Richard Ernest William Turner, Canadian soldier (d. 1961) August 1 – John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969) August 3 – Augusta Holtz, Polish-American supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1871 (d. 1986) August 12 – Gustavs Zemgals, 2nd President of Latvia (d. 1939) August 13 – Karl Liebknecht, German politician (d. 1919) August 14 – Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908) August 19 Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Wilbur (d. 1948) Joseph E. Widener, American art collector (d. 1943) August 23 – Sofia Panina, Russian politician (d. 1956) August 25 – Nils Edén, 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1945) August 27 – Theodore Dreiser, American writer (d. 1945) August 29 – Albert François Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) August 30 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1937) September–October September 1 – J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State for U.S. President Calvin Coolidge (d. 1961) September 10 Thomas Adams, British urban planner (d. 1940) Charles Collett, English Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer (d. 1952) September 17 – Eivind Astrup, Norwegian Arctic explorer (d. 1895) September 19 – Frederick Ruple, Swiss-born American portrait painter (d. 1938) September 24 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960) September 26 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist, animator (d.