Births
- January 9 - Karel Čapek author (died 1938)
- February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (died 1960)
- March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (d. 1974)
- May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, journalist and novelist (died 1980)
- May 20 - Allan Nevins, historian and journalist (died 1971)
- August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (died 1937)
- August 28 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer (died 1937)
- September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (died 1945)
- September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (died 1976)
- September 24 - A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist (died 1971)
- October 1 - Blanche Oelrichs, poet & playwright (died 1950)
- October 13 - Conrad Richter, novelist (died 1968)
- November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg, war poet (died 1918)
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