physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) November 19 – Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of American President Theodore Roosevelt, killed in action as fighter pilot (d. 1918) November 23 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali author (d. 1999) November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian-American Mafia boss (d. 1962) November 30 – Virginia Henderson, American nurse theorist (d. 1996) December 2 – Dean Alfange, American politician (d. 1989) December 5 Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher, historian (d. 1982) Tina Lattanzi, Italian film, voice actress (d. 1997) December 9 – Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. 1987) December 14 – Kurt Schuschnigg, 11th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977) December 18 – Fletcher Henderson, American musician (d. 1952) December 24 Koto Okubo, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest living woman (d. 2013) Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French supercentenarian; last surviving officially recognized French veteran of the First World War (d. 2008) December 25 – Dorothy Peterson, American film, television actress (d. 1979) December 30 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976) December 31 – Rhys Williams, Welsh actor (d. 1969) Date unknown Abd-al Karim, Afghan emir (d. 1927) Kamel Keilany, Egyptian writer (d. 1959) Deaths January–June January 1 – Joseph S. Skerrett, American admiral (b. 1833) January 9 – Thomas Gwyn Elger, English astronomer (b. 1836) January 25 - Albion P. Howe, Union Army general (b. 1818) January 30 – Robert Themptander, 4th prime minister of Sweden (b. 1844) February 1 – Jeanne Merkus, Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier and political activist (b. 1839) February 4 – Charles Bendire, U.S. Army captain, ornithologist (b. 1836) February 15 – Dimitrie Ghica, 10th prime minister of Romania (b. 1816) February 17 – Edmund Colhoun, American admiral (b. 1821) February 19 – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (b. 1815) March 6 – Sir Thomas Elder, Australian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1818) March 9 – Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Iranian teacher, writer (b. 1838) March 10 – Savitribai Phule, Indian social reformer and poet (b. 1831) March 11 – Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer, lecturer (b. 1851) March 19 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-born traveler (b. 1810) April 1 – Jandamarra, Australian Aboriginal insurrectionist (b. c. 1873) April 3 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833) April 8 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postal director (b. 1831) April 10 – Friedrich Franz III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1851) April 30 – A. Viola Neblett, American activist, suffragist, women's rights pioneer (b. 1842) May 3 –