United States Secretary of State (d. 1959) February 27 Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976) Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (d. 1965) March–April March 1 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d. 1948) March 4 – Knute Rockne, American football player, coach (d. 1931) March 7 William L. Laurence, American journalist (d. 1977) Claude Roger-Marx, French writer (d. 1977) March 10 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961) March 16 – Anton Köllisch, German chemist noted for synthesising MDMA (d. 1916) March 17 – Paul Ramadier, Prime Minister of France (d. 1961) March 26 – Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948) March 28 – Léon Noël, French diplomat, politician and historian (d. 1987) March 29 Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American aerospace engineer, aviation pioneer (d. 1963) James E. Casey, American founder of the United Parcel Service (d. 1983) March 30 – Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish-American silent film star (d. 1974) April 1 – Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr., American general (d. 1969) April 2 – Sir Neville Cardus, British cricket, music writer (d. 1975) April 3 – Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (d. 1972) April 4 Tris Speaker, American professional baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1958) Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975) April 6 Hans Richter, German filmmaker (d. 1976) Gerhard Ritter, German historian (d. 1967) April 12 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, 28th president of Ecuador (d. 1952) April 18 – Duffy Lewis, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1979) April 26 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981) April 27 – Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917) May–June May 8 – Maurice Boyau, French World War I fighter ace (d. 1918) May 9 – Francesco Baracca, Italian World War I fighter ace (d. 1918) May 10 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d. 1971) May 11 Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989) Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945) May 13 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist, geophysicist (d. 1993) May 17 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965) May 18 – William Hood Simpson, American general (d. 1980) May 23 – Zack Wheat, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1972) May 24 – Stanley Sylvester Alexander Watkins, English talking pictures pioneer May 25 Harukichi Hyakutake, Japanese general (d. 1947) Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969) May 27 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979) May 28 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime