Births
- January 17 - Nevil Shute, novelist (died 1960)
- February 23 - Erich Kästner, children's author (died 1974)
- March 25 - Jacques Audiberti (died 1965)
- April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (died 1977)
- May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, social scientist (died 1992)
- July 21
- Ernest Hemingway, novelist (died 1961)
- Hart Crane, poet (died 1932)
- August 9 - P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins author (died 1996)
- August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges (died 1986)
- August 27 - C. S. Forester, adventure novelist (died 1966)
- December 16 - Noël Coward, playwright (died 1973)
- December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe, philosopher (died 1990)
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