Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 - 1897 - 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
Events:
Births
- January 3 - Pola Negri[?], actress (+ 1987)
- January 3 - Marion Davies, actress (+ 1961)
- February 4 - Ludwig Erhard, politician.
- February 10 - John F. Enders[?], scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (+ 1985)
- February 10 - Dame Judith Anderson[?], actress (+ 1992)
- February 11 - Yves de La Casiniere[?], composer.
- March 4 - Lefty O'Doul[?], baseball star, restauranteur (+ 1969)
- March 24 - Wilhelm Reich, psychotherapist (+ 1957)
- March 27 - Gloria Swanson, actress (+ 1983)
- March 28 - Sepp Herberger[?], football coach (+ 1977)
- April 7 - Walter Winchell, broadcaster, journalist (+ 1972)
- April 26 - Olga Tschechowa[?], actress (+ 1980)
- April 26 - Douglas Sirk, director (+ 1987)
- May 18 - Frank Capra, producer, director, writer (+ 1991)
- May 19 - Frank Luke, World War I fighter ace (+ 1918)
- June 13 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner.
- July 11 - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- July 24 - Amelia Earhart, aviator
- August 28 - Charles Boyer, actor
- September 8 - Jimmie Rodgers
- September 12 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist
- September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (+ 1984)
- September 25 - William Faulkner, novelist
Deaths
Science