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January
* January 1 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India.
* January 19 – The first west-east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first
east-west broadcast having been made in 1901).
February
* February 11 – The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from
members of different races.
* February 15 – Morris and Rose Mitchom introduce the first teddy bear in America.
* February 17 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System
as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
* February 23 – Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
March
* March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.
* March 3 – The British admiralty announces plans to build a naval base at Rosyth.
* March 5 – Turkey and Germany sign an agreement to build the Constantinople-Baghdad Railway.
* March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is founded.
* March 14 – The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by
the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate later rejects the treaty.
* March 19 – The oldest Turkish football club, Besiktas JK, is founded in Istanbul.
April
* April 7 – Fredrikstad Football Club (FFK) is founded in Norway
* April 29 – A 30-million-m3 landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta.
May
* May 4 – Dies Goce Delcev, famous Macedonian revolutionary.
* May 18 – The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
* May 22 – The White Star Liner, SS Ionic, is launched.
June
* June 11 – Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga are assassinated.
* June 12 – The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of
Music.
* June 14 – The town of Heppner, Oregon, was nearly destoyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood.
* June 22 – Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger is born.
July
* July 1–19 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
* July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire.
* July 23 – Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
* July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) – Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.
August
* August 2 – The Ilinden Uprising of the Macedonians in the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
* August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.
* August 10 – Paris Metro train fire takes place.
* August 25 – Judiciary Act passed.
September
* September 11 – The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.
* September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for
"Imperial Preference".
* September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto-Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil
* September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
* September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 engine at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, which kills 9 people,
inspires a ballad and song.
* September 29: Prussia becomes the first locallity to require mandatory drivers licenses for operators of motor
vehicles.
October
* October – Frank Nelson Cole proves that 267-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287
after trying every Sunday for 3 years.
* October 1 – The first modern World Series pits the National League's Pittsburgh against Boston of the American
League.
* October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
* October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded.
November
* November 3 – Founding of Argentinian football team, Newell's Old Boys in the city of Rosario.
* November 4 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.
* November 13 – The United States recognizes the independence of Panama.
* November 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for
"majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
* November 18 – The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive
rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
* November 23 – Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek
to break up a miners' strike.
December
* December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first
documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
* December 30 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.
Undated
* The Lincoln-Lee Legion is established to promote the temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence
pledges by children.
* The first box of Crayola crayons was made and sold for 5 cents. It contained 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, violet and black.
* Osea Island in Maldon, Essex, England was bought by Mr. Frederick Charrington.
B i r t h s
January
* January 6 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
* January 7 – Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
* January 10 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
* January 11 – Hans Redlich, Austrian composer (d. 1968)
* January 12 – Igor Kurchatov, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
* January 16 – William Grover-Williams, French race car driver and war hero (d. 1945)
* January 22 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
* January 27 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (d. 1997)
February
* February 2 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician (d. 1996)
* February 6 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
* February 8 – Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
* February 8 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, first Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
* February 10 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
* February 11
- Rex Lease, American actor (d. 1966)
- Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
* February 13 – Georges Simenon, French writer (d. 1989)
* February 16 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978)
* February 21
- Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
- Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976)
* February 22 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer and media personality (d. 1990)
* February 22 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
* February 22 – Frank P. Ramsey, English mathematician (d. 1930)
* February 26 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
* February 27 – Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
* February 28 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
March
* March 4 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d. 1973)
* March 4 – William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
* March 4 – Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)
* March 4 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert (d. 1985)
* March 6 – Empress Kōjun, Empress consort of Japan (d. 2000)
* March 10 – Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician (d. 1931)
* March 11
- Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (d. 1989)
- Lawrence Welk, American television musician (d. 1992)
* March 14 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
* March 20 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
* March 24 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
* March 25 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
* March 28 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
* March 31 – H. J. Blackham, British humanist and author (d. 2009)
April
* April 6
- Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
- Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineering (d. 1990)
* April 10 – Clare Boothe Luce, American publisher and writer (d. 1987)
* April 12 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
* April 15 – John Williams, English-born actor (d. 1983)
* April 17
- Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
- Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975)
* April 19 – Eliot Ness, American treasury agent (d. 1957)
* April 24 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
* April 25 – Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
* April 28 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
May
* May 2 – Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician (d. 1998)
* May 3 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
* May 4 – Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
* May 6 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)
* May 8 – Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
* May 10 – Hans Jonas, German-born philosopher(d. 1993)
* May 11 – Charlie Gehringer, baseball player (d. 1993)
* May 21 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
* May 29 – Bob Hope, English-born American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
June
* June 1 – Vasyl Velychkovsky Ukrainian bishop (d. 1973)
* June 6 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
* June 8 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (d. 1987)
* June 10 – Theo Lingen, German actor (d. 1978)
* June 12 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
* June 16
- Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
- Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (d. 1945)
* June 18
- Jeanette MacDonald, American singer and actress (d. 1965)
- Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
* June 19
- Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
* June 21 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
* June 22 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
* June 25
- Pierre Brossolette, French journalist and resistance fighter (d. 1944)
- George Orwell, English author (d. 1950)
* June 29 – Alan Blumlein, British electronics engineer (d. 1942)
July
* July 1 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (d. 1941)
* July 2
- Harwell Hamilton Harris, American architect (d. 1990)
- Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
- King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
* July 3 – Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (d. 1992)
* July 4 – Corrado Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2005)
* July 6 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982)
* July 10 – John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
* July 13 – Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
* July 21 – Roy Neuberger, American financier and art collector
August
* August 3 – Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (d. 2000)
* August 6 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (d. 1999)
* August 7 – Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
* August 18 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
* August 19 – James Gould Cozzens, American writer (d. 1978)
* August 23 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
September
* September 7 – Shimaki Kensaku, Japanese author (d. 1945)
* September 9
- Phyllis Whitney, American mystery writer (d. 2008)
- Edward Upward, British author (d. 2009)
* September 11 – Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (d. 1969)
* September 13 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
* September 15 – Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
* September 17 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
* September 21 – Preston Tucker, American automobile designer (d. 1956)
* September 25
- Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Pakistani journalist, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1979)
- Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
October
* October 1 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (d. 1989)
* October 4 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer engineer (d. 1995)
* October 5 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
* October 6 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
* October 9 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
* October 10 – Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
* October 16 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
* October 18 – Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
* October 22
- George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
- Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d. 1976)
- Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz, American comedian and actor (The Three Stooges) (d. 1952)
* October 25
- Katharine Byron, American politician (d. 1976)
- Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
* October 26 – Bill Allington, American baseball player and manager (d. 1966)
* October 28 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
November
* November 1 – Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (d. 1973)
* November 2 – Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (d. 1944)
* November 3 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
* November 4 – Watchman Nee, Chinese preacher, local church planter (d. 1972)
* November 6 – Carl Rakosi, German-born poet (d. 2004)
* November 7 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
* November 19 – Nancy Carroll, American actress (d. 1965)
* November 27 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
* November 29 – E. Harold Munn, American temperance movement leader and presidential candidate (d. 1992)
December
* December 5
- Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor
- Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
* December 4 – Lazar Lagin, Soviet writer (d. 1979)
- A. L. Rowse, English historian (d. 1997)
* December 12
- Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer and pianist (d. 1976)
- Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
* December 17 – Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
* December 19 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1996)
* December 22 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
* December 24 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor (d. 1972)
* December 26 – Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
* December 28
- Earl Hines, American jazz pianist (d. 1983)
- John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)
* December 31
- Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)
- Will Mastin, American vaudevillian (d. 1975)
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