physicist, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1962) January 29 – Rickard Sandler, 20th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1964) January 30 Sōjin Kamiyama, Japanese actor in American silent films,(d. 1954) Pedro Pablo Ramírez, 26th President of Argentina, leader of World War II (d. 1962) January 31 – Theodor Heuss, German politician, 1st president of West Germany (d. 1963) February February 1 – Bradbury Robinson, American football player, who threw the first forward pass in American football history (d. 1949) February 8 – Burt Mustin, American actor (d. 1977) February 12 Max Beckmann, German painter, graphic artist (d. 1950) Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957) Johan Laidoner, Estonian general and statesman (d.1953) February 13 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor (d. 1961) February 15 – Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer, Polish general and politician (d. 1954) February 16 – Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951) February 17 – María Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo, Filipino Roman Catholic nun and servant of God (d. 1957) February 20 – Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Romanian general (d. 1961) February 22 – Lew Cody, American actor (d. 1934) February 26 – John Cyril Porte, Irish-born British flying boat pioneer (d. 1919) February 28 – Ants Piip, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942) March March 13 – Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941) March 21 – George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (d. 1944) March 24 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) March 25 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950) March 26 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969) Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (d. 1941) March 27 – James Cruze, American motion picture director (d. 1942) April April 4 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (d. 1943) April 5 – Ion Inculeț, President of Moldova (d. 1940) April 7 – Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (d. 1942) April 12 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician, biochemist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951) April 20 – Oliver Kirk, American Olympic boxer (b. 1960) April 22 – Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (d. 1932) April 24 – Otto Froitzheim, German tennis player (d. 1962) May May 5 – Jean Decoux, French admiral, Governor-General of French Indochina (1940-1945) (d. 1963) May 8 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972) May 10 – Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (d. 1977) May 14 – Claude Dornier, German aircraft designer (d.