(d. 1973) December 19 – Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating the pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976) December 20 Lissy Arna, German film actress (d. 1964) Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dutch politician (d. 2005) December 22 Alan Bush, British composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1995) Ofelia Uribe de Acosta, Colombian author, editor, and suffragist (d. 1988) December 23 Merle Barwis, American-Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2014) Marie Bell, French actress, stage director (d. 1985) José de León Toral, assassin of Mexican President Álvaro Obregón (d. 1929) December 24 Joey Smallwood, first Premier of Newfoundland & Labrador (d. 1991) Hussein Al Oweini, 18th prime minister of Lebanon (d. 1971) Hawayo Takata, Japanese-American teacher, master practitioner of Reiki (d. 1980) December 25 – Antoni Zygmund, Polish mathematician (d. 1992) December 26 – Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG (d. 1993) Date unknown Robina Addis, early British professional psychiatric social worker (d. 1986) Margaret Altmann, German-American biologist, specialist in animal husbandry and psychobiology (d. 1984) Juanita Ángeles, Filipina silent film actress (d. unknown) Hattie Moseley Austin, African-American entrepreneur, restaurateur (d. 1998) Louella Ballerino, American fashion designer, known for her work in sportswear (d. 1978) Natalya Bilikhodze, Russian Romanov impostor falsely claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 2000) Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge (d. 1987) Anna Borkowska (Sister Bertranda), Polish nun, prioress who hid 17 Jews in her monastery during WWII (d. 1988) Grace Hartman, Canadian social activist, politician, and first female mayor of Sudbury, Ontario (d. 1998) Rubén Jaramillo, Mexican peasant leader (d. 1962) Daudo Okelo, Ugandan Roman Catholic martyr and saint (b. ca. 1900; d. 1918) Bella Reay, English footballer (d. unknown) Virginia Frances Sterrett, American artist, illustrator (d. 1931) Yung Fung-shee, Hong Kong philanthropist (d. 1972) Deaths January–June January 5 – William A. Hammond, American military physician, neurologist, and 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) (b. 1828) January 11 – James Martineau, English religious philosopher (b. 1805) January 16 – S. M. I. Henry, American evangelist (b. 1839) January 20 – John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic (b. 1819) January 31 – John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman, boxer (b. 1844) February 18 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824) February 23 – William Butterfield, British architect (b. 1814)