Births
- January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German writer (died 1974)
- February 13 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist (died 1974)
- February 23 - Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish writer (died 1990)
- April 10 - Anna Kavan, author (died 1968)
- June 1 - John Van Druten, dramatist (died 1957)
- July 20 - Dilys Powell, film critic (died 1995)
- July 25 - Ruth Krauss, children's book author and poet (died 1993)
- August 10 - Sergio Frusoni, poet (died 1975)
- August 20 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian author (died 1968)
- November 3 - André Malraux, French author (died 1976)
- December 9 - Ödön von Horváth, dramatist and novelist (died 1938)
- December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (died 1978)
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