Electric, an American electronics industry giant, founded in Missouri. Births January January 1 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966) January 2 – Madoline Thomas, Welsh actress (d. 1989) January 4 Augustus Agar, British commodore (d. 1968) Victor Lustig, Bohemian-born con artist (d. 1947) January 5 – Sarah Aaronsohn, member of the Jewish spy ring Nili (d. 1917) January 8 – Taixu, Chinese Buddhist activist (d. 1947) January 9 Kurt Tucholsky, German-born journalist and satirist (d. 1935) Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938) January 11 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian Modernist writer (d.1954) January 13 – Jüri Uluots, 8th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945) January 19 – Élise Rivet, French Roman Catholic nun and war heroine (d. 1945) January 20 Barbu Alinescu, Romanian general (d. 1952) Boris Kozo-Polyansky, Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1957) January 21 – Wesley Englehorn, American football player (d. 1993) January 22 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953) January 28 Néstor Guillén , Bolivian politician, 40th President of Bolivia (d. 1966) Robert Franklin Stroud, Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963) January 30 – Bronisław Hager, Polish activist and public health pioneer (d. 1969) February February 9 – Carolina Nabuco, Brazilian writer and translator (d. 1981) February 10 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960) February 14 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter (d. 1956) February 15 – Matome Ugaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) February 16 – Francesco de Pinedo, Italian aviator (d. 1933) February 17 Ioan Arhip, Romanian general (d. 1980) Ronald Fisher, English statistician and geneticist (d. 1962) February 18 Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956) Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963) February 24 – Marjorie Main, American actress (d. 1975) February 25 Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965) Kiyohide Shima, Japanese admiral (d. 1973) February 27 Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933) Art Smith, American pilot (d. 1926) March March 1 – Theresa Bernstein, Polish-born American artist and writer (d. 2002) March 4 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939) March 8 – Eugeniusz Baziak, Polish Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1962) March 9 (new style) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986) Rupert Balfe, Australian rules footballer (d. 1915) March 11 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor and politician (d. 1960) March 19 – Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, African-American artist known for her sculpture (d. 1960) March 20 Beniamino Gigli,