Births 1878

gustav stresemann



may 3 – jean chiappe, french civil servant (d. 1940)
may 10 – gustav stresemann, chancellor of germany, recipient of nobel peace prize (d. 1929)
may 18 – dr. prescott, american doctor, explorer, , philanthropist (d. 1938)
may 21 – glenn h. curtiss, american aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
may 25 – bill robinson, african american tap dancer (d. 1949)
may 27 – anna cervin, swedish artist (d. 1972)
may 28 – paul pelliot, french sinologist (d. 1945)
june 1 – john masefield, english poet , novelist (d. 1967)
june 3 – barney oldfield, american automobile racer , pioneer (d. 1946)
june 5 – pancho villa, mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
june 12 – james oliver curwood, american writer , conservationist (d. 1927)
june 20 – mastin, american vaudevillian (d. 1975)
june 22 – john burton cleland, australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist , ornithologist (d. 1971)
june 27 – xiangning, chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter , poet (d. 1972)

july–december

princess ingeborg of denmark



alfred döblin



joseph stalin



july 1 – gino meneghetti, italian thief (d. 1976)
july 3 – george m. cohan, american singer, dancer, composer, actor, , writer (d. 1942)
july 8 - jimmy quinn, scottish footballer (d. 1945)
july 10 – otto freundlich, german painter , sculptor (d. 1943)
july 12

claude c. bloch, american admiral (d. 1967)
peeter põld, estonian pedagogical scientist , politician (d. 1930)


july 16 – andreas hermes, german agricultural scientist , politician (d. 1964)
july 24 – edward plunkett, baron dunsany, irish author (d. 1957)
august 1 – konstantinos logothetopoulos, prime minister of greece (d. 1961)
august 2 – princess ingeborg of denmark, princess of sweden (d. 1958)
august 4 – ernest lundeen, american lawyer , politician (d. 1940)
august 9 – eileen gray, irish architect , furniture designer (d. 1976)
august 10 – alfred döblin, german writer (d. 1957)
august 13 – harold clarke goddard, american professor , shakespearean scholar (d. 1950)
august 19 – manuel l. quezon, 2nd president of philippines (d. 1944)
august 27 – pyotr nikolayevich wrangel, russian general , anti-bolshevik leader (d. 1928)
august 28 – george whipple, american scientist, recipient of nobel prize in physiology or medicine (d. 1976)
august 31 – frank jarvis, american athlete (d. 1933)
september 2 – werner von blomberg, german field marshal (d. 1946)
september 5 – robert von lieben, austrian physicist (d. 1913)
september 9 – sergio osmena, 4th president of philippines (d. 1961)
september 13 – matilde moisant, american pilot (d. 1964)
september 14 – ion farris, american politician, former speaker of florida house of representatives (d. 1934)
september 18

robert brooke-popham, british air chief marshal (d. 1953)
james o. richardson, american admiral (d. 1974)


september 20 – upton sinclair, american writer (d. 1968)
september 22 – shigeru yoshida, prime minister of japan (d. 1967)
september 24 – c. f. ramuz, swiss writer (d. 1947)
october 1 – othmar spann, austrian philosopher , economist (d. 1950)
october 2 – richard spikes, african american inventor (d. 1963)
october 9 – robert warwick, american stage & screen actor (d. 1964)
october 12 – karl buresch, 9th chancellor of austria (d. 1936)
october 15 – paul reynaud, prime minister of france (d. 1966)
october 16 – maxie long, american athlete (d. 1959)
october 17 – louise dresser, american actress (d. 1965)
october 29 – alexander von falkenhausen, german general (d. 1966)
november 1 – carlos saavedra lamas, argentine politician, recipient of nobel peace prize (d. 1959)
november 14

inigo campioni, italian admiral (d. 1944)
julie manet, french painter (d. 1966)
leopold staff, polish poet (d. 1957)


november 17 – grace abbott, american social worker , activist (d. 1939)
november 23

ernest joseph king, commander in chief, united states fleet , chief of naval operations (cominch-cno) during world war ii (d. 1956)
frank pick, british transport administrator , designer (d. 1941)


december 1 – nathaniel baldwin, american inventor , supporter of mormon fundamentalist movement (d. 1961)
december 10 – c. rajagopalachari, indian politician , freedom-fighter. (d. 1972)
december 18 – joseph stalin, leader of soviet union (d. 1953)
december 25

louis chevrolet, swiss-born race driver , automobile builder (d. 1941)
joseph schenck, russian-born american film executive (d. 1961)


december 28 – nikolai bryukhanov, soviet statesman , political figure served people s commissar of finances (d. 1938)
december 31

elizabeth arden, canadian-born beautician , cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1966)
horacio quiroga, argentine writer (d. 1937)