Czechoslovakia (died 1975) December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor, socialite (died 1981) December 17 – Paul Cadmus, American artist (died 1999) December 18 – George Stevens, American film director (died 1975) December 20 – Rambai Barni Svastivatana, queen consort of King Prajadhipok of Siam, (died 1984) December 21 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter (died 2001) December 24 Joseph M. Juran, American engineer, philanthropist (died 2008) Herbert D. Riley, United States Navy admiral (died 1973) December 25 Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999) Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, American nutritionist (died 1980) December 26 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (died 1980) December 27 – Linwood G. Dunn, American special effects artist (died 1998) December 30 Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (died 1987) David M. Shoup, American general (died 1983) Date unknown Tevfik Esenç, Turkish-born last speaker of the Ubykh language (died 1992) Deaths January January 1 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer (born 1836) January 2 Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (born 1820) James Longstreet, American Confederate Civil War general (born 1821) January 7 Parke Godwin, American journalist (born 1816) Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck, German engineer (born 1845) Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer (born 1836) January 9 John Brown Gordon, American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (born 1832) Hannah Lynch, Irish translator (born 1859) January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter (born 1824) January 13 – Samuel G. Havermale, American Methodist minister (born 1824) January 17 Sir Henry Keppel, British admiral (born 1809) Joseph Nirschl, German Roman Catholic theologian (born 1823) January 22 – Laura Vicuña, Chilean Roman Catholic holy figure and blessed (born 1891) January 23 – Gédéon Bordiau, Belgian architect (born 1832) January 24 – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (born 1831) January 28 Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian novelist (born 1848) Elphège Gravel, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and bishop (born 1838) January 30 Józef Gosławski, Polish architect (born 1865) Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait, American physician (born 1838) February February 3 – John James McDannold, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1851) February 8 Alfred Ainger, British biographer (born 1837) Malvina Garrigues, Portuguese soprano (born 1825) February 10 – Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Russian writer (born 1842) February 11 – Vladimir Markovnikov, Russian chemist (born 1838) February 12 – Rudolf Maison, German sculptor (born 1854) February 13 John Ellison-Macartney, Irish politician (born 1818) Émile Metz, Luxembourgish politician, industrialist and engineer (born 1835) February 14 – Alvinza Hayward, American financier and