Births
- August 11 – Louise Bogan (died 1970), American poet and critic; wife of Raymond Holden
- May 5 – Kenneth Burke (died 1993), major American literary theorist and philosopher
- October 10 – Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (died 1975), Japanese (surname: Tsuboi)
- November 15 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (died 1988), English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque; younger brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)