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{{Main|January 1913}}

• January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his Marxism and the National Question.Published as by K. Stalin in Prosveshcheniye, March–May. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city.
• January 3 – First Balkan War: Greece completes its capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, as the last Ottoman forces on the island surrender.{{cite book | title = Επίτομη Ιστορία των Βαλκανικών Πολέμων 1912-1913 | trans-title = Concise History of the Balkan Wars 1912–1913 | publisher = Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate | location = Athens | year = 1987 | pages = 125–130 }}{{cite book |title=Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913 |last=Erickson |first=Edward J. |year=2003 |publisher=Greenwood |location=Westport, CT |isbn=0-275-97888-5 | pages = 157–158}}
• January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland.{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Cottrell|title=The War for Ireland, 1913-1923|url=https://archive.org/details/warforirelandgen00cott|url-access=limited|location=Oxford|publisher=Osprey|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84603-9966|page=[https://archive.org/details/warforirelandgen00cott/page/n14 14]}}
• January 18 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. {{cite book |last=Fotakis |first=Zisis |title=Greek Naval Strategy and Policy, 1910–1919 |year=2005 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-35014-3 | page=50}}
• January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Enver Pasha comes to power.

{{Main|February 1913}}

• February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station.
• February 3 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes on all sources of income, not just some.
• February 9 – Mexican Revolution: "La Decena Trágica", the rebellion of some military chiefs against the President Francisco I. Madero, begins.
• February 13 – Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declares the independence of Tibet from Qing dynasty China.
• February 18 – Mexican Revolution: President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez are forced to resign. Pedro Lascuráin serves as president for less than an hour, before General Victoriano Huerta, leader of the coup, takes office.
• February 22 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez are assassinated.
• February 23 – Joseph Stalin is arrested by the Russian secret police, the Okhrana, in Petrograd, and exiled to Siberia.{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Service|title=Stalin: A Biography|location=Cambridge, MA|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2005|pages=90–91}}

{{Main|March 1913}}

• March
• The House of Romanov celebrates the 300th anniversary of its succession to the throne, amidst an outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia.
• Following the assassination of his rival Song Jiaoren, Yuan Shikai uses military force to dissolve China's parliament, and rules as a dictator.
• c. March 1 – British steamship Calvados disappears in the Sea of Marmara, with 200 on board.{{cite news|title=Over 200 Lost in Storm|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1913-03-08}}{{cite news|title=British Steamer Lost|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15403623|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=1913-03-10|page=9|access-date=2013-01-19|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123100/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15403623|url-status=live}}
• March 3 – The Woman Suffrage Procession takes place in Washington, D.C. led by Inez Milholland on horseback.
• March 4 – The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Labor are established, by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Department of Commerce and Labor. The Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey form part of the Department of Commerce.
• March 4–6 – First Balkan War: Battle of Bizani – Forces of the Kingdom of Greece capture the forts of Bizani (covering the approaches to Ioannina) from the Ottoman Empire.
• March 7 – Alum Chine explosion: British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in the harbour of Baltimore, Maryland.{{cite news|title=Ship Blows Up|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/03/08/100256597.pdf|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1913-03-08|access-date=2012-10-19|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308022609/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/03/08/100256597.pdf|url-status=live}}
• March 13 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
• March 17 – The Military Aviation Academy (Escuela de Aviación Militar) is founded in Uruguay, to become the Military Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Militar) on 4 December 1952 (the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) will grow from this foundation).
• March 18 – King George I of Greece is assassinated after 50 years on the throne; he is succeeded by his son Constantine I.
• March 20
• Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (Kuomintang), is wounded in an assassination attempt, and dies two days later.
• The city of Canberra, the center of the Australian Capital Territory, becomes the official capital of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• March 23 – Supporters of Phan Xích Long begin a revolt against colonial rule in French Indochina.
• March 25 – The Great Dayton Flood, after four days of rain in the Miami Valley, kills over 360 and destroys 20,000 homes (chiefly in Dayton, Ohio).
• March 26
• Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza announces his Plan of Guadalupe, and begins his rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's government, as head of the Constitutionals.
• Balkan Wars: The Siege of Adrianople ends, when Bulgarian forces take Adrianople from the Ottomans.

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{{Main|April 1913}}

• April – Bernhard Kellermann's novel Der Tunnel is published.
• April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed.
• April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.
• April 21 – Cunard ocean liner {{RMS|Aquitania}}, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.
• April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world on this date, and for more than a decade after.{{cite web|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11376/|title=Study for Woolworth Building, New York|website=World Digital Library|date=1910-12-10|access-date=2013-07-25|archive-date=September 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927124658/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11376/|url-status=dead}}

{{Main|May 1913}}

• May 3 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
• May 9–July 11 – A major industrial strike occurs in the Black Country of England, involving 25,000 workers, and threatening preparations for World War I in naval and steel industries. The workers demand 23 shillings minimum wage.
• May 14 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• May 24–25 – Adolf Hitler moves from Vienna to Munich.{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Kershaw|author-link=Ian Kershaw|title=Hitler: A Biography|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=2010|page=45}}
• May 24 – Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia marries Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover in Berlin, ending the decades-long rift between the Houses of Hohenzollern and Hanover and marking the last great gathering of European sovereigns.
• May 26 (May 13 O.S.) – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a 4-engine fixed-wing aircraft.
• May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring (music by Igor Stravinsky, conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich) is premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; its modernist style provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.{{cite web |url=http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21 |title=Radio Lab, Show 202: "Musical Language" |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901005957/http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21 |archive-date=September 1, 2010 |location=New York: WNYC |date=21 April 2006 |url-status=dead}} Host/Producer: Jad Abumrad, Co-Host: Robert Krulwich, Producer: Ellen Horne, Production Executives: Dean Capello and Mikel Ellcessor. The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel.{{cite book|first=Florian|last=Illies|title=1913: The Year Before the Storm|year= 2013|publisher=Melville House|isbn=978-1-61219-352-6}}
• May 30 – First Balkan War: The Treaty of London is signed, ending the war. Greece is granted those parts of southern Epirus which it does not already control, and the independence of Albania is recognised.

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{{Main|June 1913}}

• June 1 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
• June 4 – Emily Davison, a British suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later in hospital, never having regained consciousness.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1910.shtml|title=BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - Women's History Timeline: 1910 - 1919|access-date=2007-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106132003/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1910.shtml |archive-date=January 6, 2008|url-status=live}}
• June 8 – The Deutsches Stadion in Berlin is dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons, in front of an audience of 60,000 people. It had been constructed in anticipation of the 1916 Summer Olympics (later to be cancelled as the result of World War I).
• June 11
• Women's suffrage is enacted in Norway.
• Battle of Bud Bagsak: Armed with guns and heavy artillery, U.S. and Philippine troops under General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing fight a four-day battle against 500 Moro rebels, who are armed mostly with kampilan swords. The rebels are killed in a final desperate charge on June 15.
• June 18 – The Arab Congress of 1913 opens, during which Arab nationalists meet to discuss desired reforms under the Ottoman Empire.
• June 19 – The Parliament of South Africa passes the Natives Land Act, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.
• June 13 – The predecessor of the Aldi store chain opens in Essen, Germany.
• June 24 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
• June 29 – The Second Balkan War begins with Bulgaria attacking Serbia and Greece.

{{Main|July 1913}}

• July 10
• Romania declares war on Bulgaria.
• Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the all-time highest temperature recorded on Earth (although its validity has been challenged, and in 2020 a temperature of {{convert|54.4|°C|°F}} was recorded at the same location, which would make it the world's highest verified air temperature, subject to confirmation).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/17/death-valley-temperature-rises-to-544c-possibly-the-hottest-ever-reliably-recorded|title=Death Valley temperature rises to 54.4C – possibly the hottest ever reliably recorded|first=Graham|last=Readfearn|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=2020-08-17|access-date=August 17, 2020|archive-date=August 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817204338/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/17/death-valley-temperature-rises-to-544c-possibly-the-hottest-ever-reliably-recorded|url-status=live}}
• July 13 – The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281820179|title=A novel method to combat the cholera epidemic among the Romanian Army during the Balkan War - 1913|first1=Florin|last1=Leașu|first2=Codruța|last2=Nemeț|first3=Cristina|last3=Borzan|first4=Liliana|last4=Rogozea|journal=Acta medico-historica Adriatica|volume=13|issue=1|pages=159–170|year=2015|pmid=26203545}}
• July 27 – The town of San Javier, Uruguay, is founded{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/biblioteca/toponimico/Categorizaci%F3n%20localidades%20urbanas%20orden%20alfab%E9tico.pdf |title=Statistics of urban localities (1908–2004) |publisher=INE |year=2012 |access-date=2012-09-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323054815/http://www.blayney.nsw.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/329/3h%20-%20Hobbys%20Yards%20Heritage%20Items.pdf.aspx |archive-date=March 23, 2015 }} by Russian settlers.

{{Main|August 1913}}

• August 2 – The first known ascent of Mount Olympus in Greece is made by Swiss mountaineers Daniel Baud-Bovy and Frédéric Boissonnas guided by Christos Kakkalos.
• August 4 – Republic of China: The city of Chongqing (Chungking) declares independence; Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.
• August 10 – Second Balkan War: The Treaty of Bucharest is signed, ending the war. Macedonia is divided, and Northern Epirus is assigned to Albania.
• August 13 – Harry Brearley invents stainless steel in Sheffield.{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006|pages=94}}
• August 20 – After his airplane fails at an altitude of {{convert|900|ft|m}}, aviator Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first person to bail out from an airplane and land safely."Airman Uses Parachute". New York Times. August 20, 1913.
• August 23 – The Little Mermaid statue is finished in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• August 26 – Dublin Lock-out in Ireland: Members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union employed by the Dublin United Tramways Company begin strike action in defiance of the dismissal of trade union members by its chairman.{{cite journal|first=Padraig|last=Yeates|title=The Dublin 1913 Lockout|url=http://www.historyireland.com//volumes/volume9/issue2/features/?id=259|year=2009|journal=History Ireland|volume=9|issue=2|access-date=2012-10-19|archive-date=September 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926003531/http://www.historyireland.com/volumes/volume9/issue2/features/?id=259|url-status=dead}}
• August 31 – Dublin Lock-out: "Bloody Sunday": The dispute escalates when the Dublin Metropolitan Police kill one demonstrator and injure 400, in dispersing a demonstration.

{{Main|September 1913 (month)}}

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• September 7–8 – The Fourth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association (the last occasion on which Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud will meet) takes place in Munich.
• September 9
• In Germany, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding in modern times about a third of the world's population.
• Imperial Russian Army pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first person to loop an airplane, flying a Nieuport IV monoplane over Syretzk Aerodrome near Kiev, in the Russian Empire.
• Helgoland Island air disaster: The first fatalities aboard a German airship occur, when the Imperial German Navy Zeppelin dirigible LZ 14 (naval designation L 1) is forced down into the North Sea off Heligoland during a thunderstorm, killing 16 of the 22 men on board.
• September 10 – Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar is premiered in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté.
• September 17 – In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund Livingston as its first president.
• September 23 – French aviator Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane flying from Fréjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.
• September 29 – Second Balkan War: The Treaty of Constantinople is signed in Istanbul, between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

{{Main|October 1913}}

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• October 1 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.
• October 7–December 1 – The Ford Motor Company adopts a moving assembly line for chassis production of the Model T at its Highland Park Plant in Highland Park, Michigan (Detroit), reducing assembly time from 12½ hours to 2 hours 40 minutes, a landmark in mass production.{{cite journal|url=http://www.caranddriver.com/features/fords-assembly-line-turns-100-how-it-really-put-the-world-on-wheels-feature|title=Ford's Assembly Line Turns 100: How It Really Put the World on Wheels|first=Tony|last=Swan|journal=Car and Driver|date=April 2013|access-date=2017-03-26|archive-date=2017-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419222733/http://www.caranddriver.com/features/fords-assembly-line-turns-100-how-it-really-put-the-world-on-wheels-feature|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moving-assembly-line-at-ford|title=October 7 1913: Moving assembly line debuts at Ford factory|publisher=The History Channel|work=This Day in History|date=March 4, 2010 |access-date=2025-02-15|archive-date=2016-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915141050/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moving-assembly-line-at-ford|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=December 1 1913: Ford's assembly line starts rolling|work=This Day in History|date=November 13, 2009 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling|publisher=The History Channel|access-date=2025-02-15}} Between 1912 and 1914 the retail price of a Model T drops by US$150.
• October 9 – Canadian-owned ocean liner {{SS|Volturno|1906}}, carrying passengers (mostly immigrants) and a chemical cargo from Rotterdam to New York City, catches fire in a North Atlantic gale; 136 die, but 521 are saved by ships summoned by SOS messages to the scene.
• October 10
• U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
• Yuan Shikai is elected President of the Republic of China.  Hill, Joshua. “Warlord Democracy: Coercion and Coordination, 1913–1921.” Voting As a Rite, 1st ed., vol. 417, Harvard University Asia Center, 2019, pp. 137-, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrs90d2.10.
• October 11 – The Philadelphia Athletics win the deciding game of the 1913 World Series, over baseball's New York Giants, winning 3–1 to take the series in five games.
• October 14 – Senghenydd colliery disaster: An explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in South Wales kills 439 miners, the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom.
• October 16 – The British Royal Navy's {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|6}} is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the first oil-fired battleship.{{cite web|first=Richard|last=Crowhurst|title=A History of Firsts: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard|url=http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/museums/portsmouth.shtml|work=TimeTravel-Britain.com|year=2005|access-date=2010-09-09|archive-date=July 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706130633/http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/museums/portsmouth.shtml|url-status=live}}

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• October 18 – The Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Germany is finished.
• October 19 – The DLRG (German Life-Saving Society) is founded.
• October 26 – Victoriano Huerta elected president of Mexico.
• October 28–December 2 – Zabern Affair: Acts of aggression by the Prussian garrison at Zabern, Alsace-Lorraine provoke political debate across the German Empire.
• October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.

{{Main|November 1913}}

• November 5 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
• November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested, while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 in North America claims 19 ships, and more than 250 lives.

{{Main|December 1913}}

• December 1
• Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
• Buenos Aires Underground, the first in South America, opens.
• December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence, and is arrested.
• December 19 – The Raker Act is signed by President Woodrow Wilson, allowing the City of San Francisco to dam Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
• December 23 – The Federal Reserve System is created as the central banking system of the United States, by Woodrow Wilson's signature of the Federal Reserve Act.
• December 24 – Italian Hall disaster: seventy-three people – mostly striking mine workers and their families – are crushed to death in a stampede in Calumet, Michigan.
• December 30 – Italy returns the Mona Lisa to France.

• Between the two Balkan Wars, a group of Bulgarian teachers and priests including teacher Gligor Zisov are deported by the newly-established Greek authorities to Bulgaria but killed by Greek soldiers.{{cite book|last=Shklifov|first=Blagoy|authorlink=Blagoy Shklifov|title=На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век|trans-title=At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century|location=Sofia|language=Bulgarian|year=2011|pages=51–53}}
• The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established in Bengal Province (modern-day Bangladesh).
• America Cultural Center is inaugurated in Salta, Argentina.{{Cite web |title=Centro Cultural América, City of Salta. Art Destination Argentina |url=https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/argentina/northwest/salta/city/centro-cultural |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=universes.art |language=en}}
• French physicist Georges Sagnac shows that light propagates at a speed independent of the speed of its source.
• Camel cigarettes are introduced by R. J. Reynolds in the United States (the first packaged cigarettes).
• The State Security Investigations Service, the Middle East’s first internal security service is established in Egypt.
• Prada is established as a leather goods dealer in Milan, by Mario Prada and his brother.
• Astra, a predecessor of the AstraZeneca global healthcare and pharmaceutical brand, is founded in Södertälje, Sweden.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KuglCgAAQBAJ&q=Knut+Sj%C3%B6berg%2C+Astra%2C+CEO&pg=PT69|title=L'industria delle Medicine|last=Zirulia|first=Giuliano|year=2015|publisher=Edra Masson|isbn=9788821439049|language=it}}
• The value of world trade reaches roughly $38 billion.

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• January 1 – Shek Kin, Hong Kong actor (d. 2009)
• January 2 – Anna Lee, English-American actress (d. 2004)
• January 4
• Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (d. 2007)
• Fred Degazon, President of Dominica (d. 2008)
• January 6
• Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001){{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edward-gierek-9253129.html |title=Edward Gierek |date=11 April 2014 |work=The Independent |accessdate=28 July 2021 |archive-date=July 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728112832/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edward-gierek-9253129.html |url-status=live }}
• Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
• January 9
• Eric Berry, British actor (d. 1993)
• Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
• January 10
• Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician (d. 1991)
• Mehmet Shehu, 23rd Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1981)
• January 11 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (d. 1980)
• January 15
• Eugène Brands, Dutch painter (d. 2002)
• Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
• Alexander Marinesko, Soviet naval officer (d. 1963)
• January 22
• Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet and psychoanalyst (d. 2012)
• William Conway, Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
• Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
• January 23 – Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (d. 1960)
• January 25
• Huang Hua, Foreign Minister of China (d. 2010)
• Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
• January 29 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
• February 2 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005){{cite web |title=Rosa Parks {{!}} Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rosa-Parks |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en |archive-date=July 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722205629/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rosa-Parks |url-status=live }}
• February 6 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
• February 8 – Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973)
• February 10
• Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer (d. 2016)Duncan Petrie, "Slocombe, (Ralph) Douglas Vladimir (1913–2016)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2020 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/111119 available online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420192201/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-111119;jsessionid=A6C107D7003ABB960B0D402AD22881C1 |date=April 20, 2021 }}. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
• Bill White, Australian rugby union player (d. 1969)
• February 14 – Jimmy Hoffa, American labor leader (disappeared 1975)
• February 18 – Artur Axmann, German Nazi national leader of the Hitler Youth (d. 1996){{cite book | last = Joachimsthaler | first = Anton |author-link=Anton Joachimsthaler | title = The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, The Evidence, The Truth | year = 1999 | orig-year = 1995 | publisher = Brockhampton Press | isbn = 1-86019-902-X |page=283 }}
• February 19 – Frank Tashlin, American animation director (d. 1972)
• February 23 – P. C. Sorcar, Indian stage magician (d. 1971)
• February 25
• Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
• Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
• February 27
• Paul Ricœur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
• Kazimierz Sabbat, leader of Polish government-in-exile (d. 1989)
• Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)

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• March 2 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
• March 4 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
• March 13
• William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1987)
• Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer, lyricist (d. 2009)
• March 15 – Rosita Contreras, Argentine actress (d. 1962)
• March 18
• René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
• Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander (d. 2018)
• Werner Mölders, German fighter pilot (d. 1941)
• March 19 – Smoky Dawson, Australian singer (d. 2008)
• March 26
• Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
• Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist (d. 2010)
• March 29 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
• March 30
• Richard Helms, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 2002)
• Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
• Ċensu Tabone, Maltese politician (d. 2012)
• March 31 – Etta Baker, American musician (d. 2006)
• April 3 – Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
• April 4
• Frances Langford, American singer, actress (d. 2005)
• Muddy Waters, African-American musician (d. 1983)
• April 7 – Louise Currie, American actress (d. 2013)
• April 8
• Sourou-Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure, 2nd President of Dahomey (d. 1989)
• Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam (d. 2004)
• April 9 – Aleksanteri Saarvala, Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1989)
• April 10 – Stefan Heym, German writer (d. 2001)
• April 11 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
• April 11 – Winifred Drinkwater, Scottish aviator, first woman to hold a commercial pilot's license (d. 1996)
• April 14 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
• April 16 – Les Tremayne, British-born American actor (d. 2003)
• April 18 – Jack Pope, American judge, attorney, and author (d. 2017)
• April 19
• Lloyd Cardwell, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
• Karl Rawer, German physicist (d. 2018)
• April 21 – Richard Beeching, chairman of British Rail (d. 1985)
• April 27 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004)
• April 29 – Eugene Vielle, British Royal Air Force officer (d. 2015)

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• May 1
• Roy Matsumoto, American army officer (d. 2014)
• Louis Nye, American comedian, actor (d. 2005)
• Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
• May 4 – Hisaya Morishige, Japanese actor (d. 2009)
• May 5 – Fred J. Doocy, American politician, banker (d. 2017)
• May 6 – Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (d. 1993)
• May 8
• Bob Clampett, American director (Looney Tunes) (d. 1984)
• Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937)
• Sid James, South African-born British actor, comedian (d. 1976)
• Charles Scorsese, American actor, father of Martin Scorsese (d. 1993)
• May 11 – Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994)
• May 13 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (d. 1980)
• May 16 – Woody Herman, American musician, band leader (d. 1987)
• May 19 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (d. 1996)
• May 20
• Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian soccer player (d. 1996)
• William Hewlett, American businessman (d. 2001)
• May 22 – Benedict Garmisa, American politician (d. 1985)
• May 24 – Haldor Topsøe, Danish engineer (d. 2013)
• May 26
• Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
• Pierre Daninos, French writer, humorist (d. 2005)
• Josef Manger, German weightlifter (d. 1991)
• May 29 – Jopie Roosenburg-Goudriaan, Dutch painter (d. 1996){{Cite web

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• May 29 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
• May 31 – Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian, radio and television personality (d. 1979)
• June 2 – Elsie Tu, English-born Hong Kong social activist (d. 2015)
• June 3 – Yitzhak Berman, Israeli politician (d. 2013)
• June 10 – Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
• June 11
• Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
• Risë Stevens, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)
• June 13
• Ralph Edwards, American game show host (d. 2005)
• Yitzhak Pundak, Polish-born Israeli military officer, diplomat (d. 2017)
• Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician (d. 1943)
• June 18
• Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
• Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (d. 1993)
• Sylvia Field Porter, American economist, journalist (d. 1991)
• June 21
• Luis Taruc, Filipino political figure, insurgent (d. 2005)
• Madihe Pannaseeha Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk (d. 2003)
• Kid Azteca, Mexican boxer (d. 2002)
• June 22 – Álvaro Alsogaray, Argentine politician and businessman (d. 2005)
• June 23
• Jacques Rabemananjara, Malagasy politician, playwright and poet (d. 2005)
• William P. Rogers, American diplomat (d. 2001)
• June 24 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian road racing cyclist (d. 2002)
• June 26
• Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet, politician (d. 2008)
• Konrāds Kalējs, Latvian soldier (d. 2001)
• Anissa Rawda Najjar, Lebanese feminist, women's rights activist (d. 2016)
• Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
• June 28
• Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
• Maldwyn James, Welsh international rugby union player (d. 2003)
• June 30
• Henry Leask, British Army officer (d. 2004)
• Alfonso López Michelsen, 24th President of Colombia (d. 2007)

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• July 1
• Noel Miller, Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
• André Tollet, French upholsterer, trade unionist and communist (d. 2001)
• Mario Acerbi, Italian football player (d. 2010)
• Joana Raspall i Juanola, Spanish writer and librarian (d. 2013)
• Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, Indian Army Chief (d. 2000)
• July 3 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1965)
• July 4 – Barbara Weeks, American actress (d. 2003)
• July 5 – Elwood Cooke, American tennis player (d. 2004)
• July 6 – Vance Trimble, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author (d. 2021)
• July 7 – Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician (d. 2011)
• July 8 – Alejandra Soler, Spanish politician and schoolteacher (d. 2017)
• July 9
• Ted Grant, South African Trotskyist (d. 2006)
• William M. Zachacki, (d. 1969)
• July 10 – Joan Marsh, American actress (d. 2000)
• July 11 – Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ghanaian nationalist leader, 2nd Prime Minister of Ghana (d. 1978)
• July 12
• Sultan Hamid II (d. 1978)
• Rufus Rogers, New Zealand doctor, politician (d. 2009)
• Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008){{cite book | last = Gribbin | first = John | title = Q is for quantum : an encyclopedia of particle physics | publisher = Touchstone | location = New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780684863153 | page=203}}
• July 13 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate (d. 2012)
• July 14
• Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
• René Llense, French football goalkeeper (d. 2014)
• July 15
• Hammond Innes, English author (d. 1998)
• Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet, memoirist (d. 2010)
• July 16
• Mirza Babayev, Azerbaijani movie actor, singer (d. 2003)
• Antoine Raab, German footballer (d. 2006)
• Carmen Acevedo Vega, Ecuadorian poet, writer, and journalist (d. 2006)
• July 18
• N. Krishnaswami Reddy, Indian lawyer (d. 2002)
• Du Runsheng, Chinese military officer, politician, and economist (d. 2015)
• Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997)
• July 19 – Manouchehr Sotodeh, Iranian geographer (d. 2016)
• July 20
• Irma Córdoba, Argentine actress (d. 2008)
• Guillermo Leaden, Argentine bishop (d. 2014)
• July 22
• Esteban Reyes, Mexican tennis player (d. 2014)
• Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader, songwriter (d. 1995)
• Licia Albanese, Italian-born soprano (d. 2014)
• July 23
• Coral Browne, Australian actress (d. 1991)
• Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
• July 26 – Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer (d. 2012)
• July 29 – Erich Priebke, German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre (d. 2013)

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• August 9 – Tadeusz Kotz, Polish World War II fighter ace (d. 2008)
• August 10
• Noah Beery Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
• Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (d. 1993){{cite book|author1=Bernard S. Schlessinger|author2=June H. Schlessinger|title=The Who's who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0c4PgFznyMC|year=1996|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-0-89774-899-5|page=223|access-date=February 8, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123022/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0c4PgFznyMC|url-status=live}}
• August 13
• Fred Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1998)
• Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d. 1977){{cite book|author=John E. Jessup|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&pg=PA446|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28112-9|pages=446|access-date=February 8, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123019/https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&pg=PA446|url-status=live}}
• August 16 – Menachem Begin, Polish-born 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
• August 18 – Nils Löfgren, Swedish chemist (d. 1967)
• August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994){{cite book|author1=Roger Sperry|author2=Colwyn B. Trevarthern|title=Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLM9_58fg0QC&pg=PR27|date=26 January 1990|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-37874-1|pages=27|access-date=February 8, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124730/https://books.google.com/books?id=NLM9_58fg0QC&pg=PR27#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
• August 22 – James W. Downing, American naval officer and author (d. 2018)
• August 26
• Mary Ann DeWeese, American sportswear designer (d. 1993){{Cite news |date=1993-07-15 |title=Obituaries: Mary Ann DeWeese |pages=2 |work=The Manhattan Mercury |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98110065/obituaries-mary-ann-deweese/ |access-date=2022-03-21}}
• Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer (d. 2022)
• August 27 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
• August 28
• Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
• Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
• August 29 – Jan Ekier, Polish pianist, composer (d. 2014)
• August 30 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• August 31
• Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
• Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer (d. 2012)

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• September 1 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter, graphic artist (d. 1979)
• September 2
• Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
• Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (d. 1981)
• September 3 – Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
• September 4
• Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
• Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (d. 2005)
• September 6 – Julie Gibson, American singer and actress (d. 2019)
• September 10 – Zephania Mothopeng, South African politician, activist (d. 1990)
• September 11 – Bear Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
• September 12
• Jesse Owens, African-American athlete (d. 1980)
• Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (d. 2013)
• September 13
• Trần Đại Nghĩa, North Vietnamese army general (d. 1997)
• Kai Setälä, Finnish physician and professor (d. 2005){{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002627923.html|title=Kai Setälä - Muistot|work=Helsingin Sanomat|url-access=subscription|date=18 May 2011|access-date=12 February 2024|language=fi}}
• September 14
• Jacobo Árbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
• Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
• September 15 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General, convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
• September 17
• Robert Lembke, German television presenter, game show host (d. 1989)
• Ata Kandó, Hungarian-born Dutch photographer (d. 2017)
• September 19 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
• September 22 – Lillian Chestney, American painter (d. 2000)
• September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
• September 24
• Wilson Rawls, American author (d. 1984)
• Herb Jeffries, American actor, popular music and jazz singer (d. 2014)
• September 25
• Charles Helou, 9th President of Lebanon (d. 2001)
• Terence Patrick O'Sullivan, British civil engineer (d. 1970)
• September 27 – Alexandru Drăghici, Romanian communist activist and politician (d. 1993)
• September 28 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist, illustrator (d. 2007)
• September 29
• Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
• Stanley Kramer, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 2001)
• Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (d. 1996)
• September 30
• Bill Walsh, American movie producer, writer (d. 1975)
• Cecilia Caballero Blanco, First Lady of Colombia (d. 2019)
• October 2 – Roma Mitchell, Australian lawyer, Governor of South Australia (d. 2000)
• October 4 – Martial Célestin, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011)
• October 6 – Mario Dal Fabbro, Italian American sculptor, furniture designer, and author (d. 1990)
• October 10
• Alice Chetwynd Ley, British romance writer (d. 2004)
• Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• October 11 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist, writer (d. 2011)
• October 18 – Evelyn Venable, American actress (d. 1993)
• October 19 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, lyricist, and diplomat (d. 1980)
• October 20
• Barney Phillips, American actor (d. 1982)
• Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho, Brazilian singer (d. 2011)
• October 22
• Boots Mallory, American actress, dancer, and model (d. 1958)
• Robert Capa, Hungarian-born American photojournalist (d. 1954)
• Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
• Hans-Peter Tschudi, 2-time President of Switzerland (d. 2002)
• October 24
• Ron Barassi Sr., Australian rules footballer (d. 1941)
• Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (d. 1984)
• October 27
• Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist (d. 2016)
• Otto Wichterle, Czech inventor of the modern contact lens (d. 1998)
• October 28 – Don Lusk, American animator (d. 2018)

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• November 2 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
• November 3
• Marika Rökk, Egyptian-born Austrian singer, dancer and actress (d. 2004)
• Antony Mitradas, Indian film director (d. 2017)
• November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
• November 6 – Cho Ki-chon, North Korean poet (d. 1951){{cite book|last=Gabroussenko|first=Tatiana|title=Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy|year=2010|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3396-1 |pages=56, 58, 85}}
• November 7
• Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Canadian sculptor (d. 2009)
• Tahira Tahirova, Azerbaijani politician (d. 1991)
• November 8 – Max Desfor, American photographer (d. 2018)
• November 10
• Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (d. 2005)
• Sun Yun-suan, Chinese engineer, politician (d. 2006)
• November 11 – Rosemary Inyama, Nigerian Igbo educator, politician, businesswoman and community developer{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3jouPZxPC4C&pg=PA195|last=Chuku|first=Gloria|title=Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960|year=2005|publisher=Routledge|location=New York; London|page=195|isbn=0-415-97210-8|access-date=2021-11-17|via=Google Books|archive-date=2023-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124743/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3jouPZxPC4C&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}} (d. unknown);
• November 13 – Lon Nol, 2-Time Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 1985)
• November 15 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
• November 16 – Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (d. 2015)
• November 18 – Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French painter (d. 1999)
• November 21 – Boulting brothers, English filmmakers (d. 1985, 2001)
• November 22
• Charles Berlitz, American author (d. 2003)
• Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
• Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach (d. 2016){{cite news|title = Ex-champ Gardnar Mulloy becomes first Hall of Famer to turn 100|work = Fox Sports|date = 2013-11-22|url = http://msn.foxsports.com/tennis/story/ex-tennis-champ-hall-of-fame-gardnar-mulloy-celebrates-100-birthday-davis-cup-billie-jean-king-112213|access-date = 2013-12-04|archive-date = December 16, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131216103818/http://msn.foxsports.com/tennis/story/ex-tennis-champ-hall-of-fame-gardnar-mulloy-celebrates-100-birthday-davis-cup-billie-jean-king-112213|url-status =dead}}
• Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
• Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater (d. 2018)
• November 24 – Carlos Bulosan, Filipino-American novelist and poet (d. 1956)
• November 25 – Lewis Thomas, American physician, essayist (d. 1993)

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• December 1 – Mary Martin, American actress (d. 1990)
• December 6
• Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast (d. 2002)
• Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
• December 9 – Cynthia Chalk, American photographer (d. 2018)
• December 10 – Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996){{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=2002|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-937-0|pages=175/6}}
• December 11 – Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
• December 13 – Susanne Suba, Hungarian-born watercolorist and illustrator, active in the United States (d. 2012){{cite web |title=Suba Zsuzsa |url=https://resolver.pim.hu/auth/PIM70521 |website=PLM Namespace |access-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124650/https://opac-nevter.pim.hu/record/-/record/PIM70521 |url-status=live }}
• December 16 – George Ignatieff, Canadian diplomat, recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace (d. 1989)
• December 18
• Lynn Bari, American actress (d. 1989)
• Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
• Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992){{cite book|last=Jessup|first=John E.|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|page=89|url=https://www.questia.com/read/106899354/an-encyclopedic-dictionary-of-conflict-and-conflict|access-date=18 September 2017|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010024655/https://www.questia.com/read/106899354/an-encyclopedic-dictionary-of-conflict-and-conflict|url-status=dead}}
• December 21 – Arnold Friberg, American artist (d. 2010){{cite book | last = Schwarz | first = Ted | title = Arnold Friberg : the passion of a modern master | publisher = Northland Press | location = Flagstaff, Ariz | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780873583466 | page=1911}}
• December 23 – Frank Pierpoint Appleby, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
• December 25
• Tony Martin, American singer and actor (d. 2012)
• Henri Nannen, German journalist, mass media owner (d. 1996)
• December 26 – Frank Swift, English footballer (d. 1958)
• December 28 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor (d. 2009)
• December 29 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 2002)
• December 30 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)

• Halil-Salim Jabara, Israeli Arab politician (d. 1999)
• Bahjat Talhouni, 4-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1994)

• January 2
• Hermann Kinkelin, Swiss mathematician and politician (b. 1832)
• Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• January 3 – Jeff Davis, American politician, 20th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1862)
• January 4 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
• January 6 – Gyula Juhász, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1876)
• January 8 – Xavier Mertz, Swiss explorer, mountaineer and skier (b. 1882)
• January 16
• Tom Dolan, American baseball pitcher (b. 1855)
• Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist and inventor (b. 1832)
• January 18 – George Alexander Gibson, Scottish physician (b. 1854)
• January 20
• José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican political printmaker and engraver (b. 1852)
• Karl Wittgenstein, Austrian steel tycoon (b. 1847)
• January 21 – Aluísio Azevedo, Brazilian novelist (b. 1857)
• January 27 – Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1832)
• January 28
• Julius Heinrich Franz, German astronomer (b. 1847)
• Segismundo Moret, Spanish politician and writer, 3-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1833)

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• February 2 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (b. 1845)
• February 5
• Johan Ehrnrooth, 5th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1833)
• Lio Gangeri, Italian sculptor (b. 1845)
• February 8 – Morten Eskesen, Danish author (b. 1826)
• February 9 – Manuel Enrique Araujo, 23rd President of El Salvador (b. 1865)
• February 15 – Florence Barker, American actress (b. 1891)
• February 17 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist, founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (b. 1840)
• February 20 – Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (b. 1878){{Cite web|url=https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.l/l628333.htm%3Binternal%26action%3D_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en|title=Lieben, Robert von|website=www.aeiou.at|access-date=April 27, 2022|archive-date=April 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427131336/https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.l/l628333.htm%3Binternal%26action%3D_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en|url-status=live}}
• February 22
• Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and semiotician (b. 1857)
• Empress Dowager Longyu, Chinese empress (b. 1868)
• Francisco I. Madero, 33rd President of Mexico (b. 1873){{cite web|url=https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/francisco-i-madero.html|publisher=Mexico Desconocido|date=November 11, 2018|last=Cisneros|first=Stefany|title=Francisco I. Madero, ¿quién fue y cuál es su biografía?|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019|trans-title=Francisco I. Madero, Who was he, and what is his biography?|archive-date=May 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530040012/https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/francisco-i-madero.html|url-status=live}}
• February 23 – Dénes Andrássy, Hungarian nobleman (b. 1835)
• February 26 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
• February 28 – George Finnegan, American Olympic boxer (b. 1881)

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• March 7 – E. Pauline Johnson, Canadian writer (b. 1861)
• March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist, humanitarian and spy (b. c. 1822)
• March 11 – John Shaw Billings, American military, medical leader (b. 1838)
• March 12 – Francisco Pereira Passos, Brazilian engineer politician, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1836)
• March 13 – Felix Hidalgo, Filipino artist (b. 1855)
• March 14 – Auguste Desgodins, French missionary (b. 1826)
• March 17 – Soledad Acosta, Colombian journalist and writer (b. 1833)
• March 18 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• March 19 – Géza Allaga, Hungarian composer (b. 1841)
• March 21 – Manuel Bonilla, 2-time President of Honduras (b. 1849)
• March 22
• Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Romanian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1833)
• Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882)
• March 25 – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, British field marshal (b. 1833)
• March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)

• April 7 – Carl von Lemcke, German mathematician (b. 1867)
• April 8 – Gyula Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1849)
• April 15 – Kareemullah Shah, Indian Sufi scholar and saint
• April 18 – Lester Frank Ward, American botanist, paleontologist and sociologist (b. 1841)
• April 19
• Paul Janson, Belgian politician (b. 1840)
• Hugo Winckler, German archaeologist and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire (Hattusa) (b. 1863)
• April 20 – Vilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (b. 1836)
• April 24 – Vsevolod Abramovich, Russian aviator (b. 1890)
• April 25
• Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ukrainian author (b. 1864)
• Stjepan Kovačević, Croatian politician (b. 1841)
• April 27 – Gabriel von Seidl, German architect (b. 1848)
• April 28 – Andreas Flocken, German entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1845)
• April 29 – Václav Hladík, Austro-Hungarian novelist (b. 1868)

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• May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger, U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
• May 2
• Tancrède Auguste, Haitian general, 20th President of Haiti (b. 1856)
• Metropolitan Baselios Paulose I, Indian bishop (b. 1836)
• May 6 – Elena Guro, Russian painter and writer (b. 1877)
• May 8 – Louis Adolphus Duhring, American physician (b. 1845)
• May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
• May 19 – Gabriel Loppé, French painter and photographer (b. 1825)
• May 25 – Alfred Redl, Austrian military intelligence officer, double agent (honorable suicide) (b. 1864)

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• June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b. 1835)
• June 5 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born American brewer, baseball owner (b. 1851)
• June 8 – Emily Davison, English suffragette (b. 1872)
• June 20 – Sydenham E. Ancona, American educator, politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1867 (b. 1824)
• June 22
• Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
• Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, French pioneer (b. 1862)
• June 23
• Nicolás de Piérola, Peruvian politician, 2-time President of Peru (b. 1839)
• Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, English surgeon (b. 1828)
• June 28 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer, politician and 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)

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• July 1 – Emanuel M. Abrahams, American politician (b. 1866)
• July 3 – Horatio Nelson Young, American Civil War naval hero (b. 1845)
• July 5 – Prince Arisugawa Takehito (b. 1862)
• July 7 – Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American Union Army officer, diplomat and politician (b. 1841)
• July 10
• Mikoláš Aleš, Austro-Hungarian painter (b. 1835)
• John Valentine Ellis, Canadian journalist (b. 1835)
• July 11 – Charles Lavigne, Ceylonese Roman Catholic and Syro-Malabar Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. 1840)
• July 13 – Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
• July 16 – Sigismund Bachrich, Hungarian composer (b. 1841)
• July 17 – Esther Saville Allen, American author (b. 1837)
• July 19 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer, politician and 15th President of Colombia (b. 1852)
• July 20 – Vsevolod Rudnev, Russian admiral (b. 1855)
• July 22
• Adhémar Esmein, French jurist (b. 1848)
• Eduardo López Rivas, Venezuelan editor and journalist (b. 1850)
• July 29 – Tobias Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
• July 30
• Lady Alicia Blackwood, English painter (b. 1818)
• Warren F. Daniell, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (b. 1826)
• Itō Sachio, Japanese poet and novelist (b. 1864)

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• August 3
• Josephine Cochrane, American inventor of the first commercially successful dishwasher (b. 1839)
• Joseph Graybill, American actress (b. 1887)
• August 4 – Étienne Laspeyres, German economist (b. 1834)
• August 7 – Samuel Franklin Cody, American-born British aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
• August 9 – Wilhelm Albermann, German sculptor (b. 1835)
• August 10 – Jules Desbrochers des Loges, French entomologist (b. 1836)
• August 11 – Vasily Avseenko, Russian journalist and writer (b. 1842)
• August 13 – August Bebel, German Social Democratic politician (b. 1840)
• August 20 – Émile Ollivier, 24th Prime Minister of France (b. 1825)
• August 22 – Oscar de Négrier, French general (b. 1839)
• August 28 – Fyodor Kamensky, Russian sculptor (b. 1836)
• August 29 – Lars Havstad, Norwegian activist (b. 1851)

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• September 1 – Patriarch and Metropolitan Lukijan Bogdanović (b. 1867)
• September 9 – Paul de Smet de Naeyer, 16th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1843)
• September 13 – Arandzar, Armenian poet and writer (b. 1877)
• September 16 – Julius Lewkowitsch, German engineer (b. 1857)
• September 18 – Prince George Alexandrovich Yuryevsky (b. 1872)
• September 20 – Ferdinand Blumentritt, Filipino author (b. 1853)
• September 29 – Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor (b. 1858)
• September 30
• Beatrice Bhadrayuvadi, Siamese princess (b. 1876)
• Antoni Klawiter, Polish Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1836)

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• October 4
• Josep Tapiró Baró, Spanish painter (b. 1836)
• Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Oman (b. 1864)
• Eleanor Cripps Kennedy, Canadian businessman (b. 1825)
• October 5 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
• October 7 – Ivan Banjavčić, Croatian politician and philanthropist (b. 1843)
• October 10
• Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch (b. 1839)[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/10/11/100651720.pdf Adolphus Busch dies in Prussia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121011353/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/10/11/100651720.pdf |date=January 21, 2022 }} The New York Times. October 11, 1913
• Gregorio Maria Aguirre y Garcia, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1835)
• Katsura Tarō, 6th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
• October 12 – Elisabeth Leisinger, German soprano (b 1864)
• October 13 – Leonid Sobolev, 6th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1844)
• October 16 – Ralph Rose, American Olympic athlete (b. 1885)
• October 19 – Charles Tellier, French engineer, inventor of the chemical refrigerator (b. 1828)
• October 20 – Viktor Kirpichov, Russian engineer and physicist (b. 1845)
• October 21 – Theodor Kolde, German Protestant theologian (b. 1850)
• October 29 – Darío de Regoyos, Spanish painter (b. 1857)

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• November 3 – Sava Grujić, Serbian diplomat, general and politician, 5-time Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1840)
• November 4 – Fredericus Anna Jentink, Dutch zoologist (b. 1844)
• November 7 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823)
• November 8 – Ferdinand Abell, American businessman (b. 1835)
• November 21 – Francesco Acri, Italian philosopher (b. 1834)
• November 25 – Haviland Le Mesurier, Australian soldier (b. 1856)

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• December 1
• Juho Lallukka, Finnish businessman (b. 1852)
• Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer (b. 1864)
• December 5 – Ferdinand Dugué, French playwright (b. 1816)
• December 7
• Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman, last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
• Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, inventor of mail order (b. 1844)
• December 8 – František Koláček, Austro-Hungarian physicist (b. 1851)
• December 10 – Léon Letort, French aviator (b. 1889)
• December 11
• Abraham Hirsch, French architect (b. 1828)
• Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852)
• Ioan Kalinderu, Romanian jurist (b. 1840)
• December 12 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
• December 13 – Birger Kildal, Norwegian businessman (b. 1849)
• December 15 – Miguel Lebrija, Mexican aviator (b. 1887)
• December 19 – Patriarch Anthimus VII of Constantinople (b. 1827)
• December 25 – Alberto Aguilera, Spanish politician (b. 1842)
• December 26 – Ambrose Bierce, American writer, journalist (disappeared on this date) (b. 1842)
• December 27 – Infanta Antónia of Portugal (b. 1845)
• December 30 – Giovanni Maria Boccardo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1848)

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• Physics – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
• Chemistry – Alfred Werner
• Medicine – Charles Richet
• Literature – Rabindranath Tagore
• Peace – Henri La Fontaine

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• Charles Emmerson. 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) [https://www.amazon.com/1913-Search-World-Before-Great/dp/1610392566/ excerpt and text search]; covers 20 major world cities
• Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 269–96.
• {{cite book|author= Florian Illies |title=1913: The Year Before the Storm|year= 2013|publisher=Melville House|isbn=978-1-61219-352-6}}

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