Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 - 1899 - 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Events
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 7 - Francis Poulenc, composer
- January 10 - Axel Eggelbrecht[?], journalist (+ 1991)
- January 11 - Eva LeGallienne[?], actress (+ 1991)
- January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller[?], chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 (+ 1965)
- January 15 - Goodman Ace[?], actor, comedian, writer (+ 1982)
- January 17 - Al Capone, gangster, nicknamed "Scarface" (+ 1947)
- January 17 - Nevil Shute, author (+ 1960)
- February 6 - Ramon Novarro[?], actor (+ 1968)
- February 15 - Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six
- February 23 - Erich Kästner[?], lyricist and narrator (+ 1974)
- February 23 - Elisabeth Langgässer[?], lyricist, narrator and novelist (+ 1950)
- February 27 - Charles Best, medical scientist (+ 1978)
- March 11 - King Frederick IX of Denmark )+ 1972)
- April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, (writer)
- April 29 - Duke Ellington
- May 10 - Fred Astaire, singer, dancer, actor (+ 1987)
- May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (+ 1979)
- May 12 - Indra Devi[?], yogi (+ 2002)
- July 11 - E. B. White, (writer)
- August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, (film director)
- August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer
- November 17 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (+ 1971)
- December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe
- December 25 - Humphrey Bogart (actor)
Deaths