Births
- February 14 - Robert Remak (died 1942), mathematician.
- February 17 - Otto Stern (died 1969), physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1943.
- May 13 - Inge Lehmann (died 1993) seismologist.
- June 12 - Zygmunt Janiszewski (died 1920), mathematician.
- July 23 - Ivan Magill (died 1986), anaesthesiologist.
- August 13 - John Logie Baird (died 1946), inventor.
- November 15 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (died 1957), meteorologist and oceanographer.
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