Births
- 19 January – Don Cameron, politician (died 1962)
- 30 March – Harold Cazneaux, photographer (died 1953)
- 4 July – John McPhee, Premier of Tasmania (1928–1934) (died 1952)
- 1 October – Helen Mayo, medical doctor (died 1967)
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