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Art and culture

Theory

• The Serious Artist by Ezra Pound
• Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine de Saint-Point
• The Art of Noises manifesto by Luigi Russolo
• Isidor Isaak Sadger coins sadomasochismus in "Über den sado-masochistischen Komplex"
• Les livres de l'Enfer by Pascal Pia, Guillaume Apollinaire, Fernand Fleuret and Louis Perceau

Music

• Igor Stravinsky's premiere of 'Le Sacre du printemps' at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
• Intonarumori invented by Luigi Russolo
• Die glückliche Hand by Arnold Schoenberg

Literature

• Petersburg by Andrei Bely
• Villa des Roses by Willem Elsschot

Film

• The Student of Prague, German film by Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener
• The Last Days of Pompeii by Mario Caserini
• Traffic in Souls by George Loane Tucker

Art

• Krazy Kat comic
• Bicycle Wheel by Duchamp
• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni
• Armory Show brings modern art to the United States
• Piazza d'Italia (Autumn Melancholy) by Giorgio de Chirico
• Guitar, Newspaper, Glass and Bottle by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Births

• Albert Camus
• Aimé Césaire
• Piero Fornasetti
• Roger Caillois
• Hedy Lamarr
• Helen Levitt (d. 2009)
• Norman O. Brown (d. 2002)
• James Broughton (d. 1999)

Deaths

• Jose Guadalupe Posada
• Ferdinand de Saussure (the linguistic sign is arbitrary)

Births

• Frank Tashlin, American animation director (d. 1972)
• March 4 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
• René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
• May 16 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
• May 26 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
• Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
• June 28 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
• July 7 – Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician (d. 2011)
• Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
• September 19 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
• Stanley Kramer, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 2001)
• November 2 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (Elmer Gantry) (d. 1994)
• November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1967)
• Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)

• November 10 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (d. 2005)
• November 13 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
• November 15 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
• November 18 – Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French painter (d. 1999)
• November 21
  • John Boulting, English film director (d. 1985)
  • Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (d. 2001)
• November 22
  • Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
  • Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
• November 23 – Virginia Prince, American transgender activist (d. 2009)
• November 25 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
• December 6
  • Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast (d. 2002)
  • Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
• December 8 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
• December 10
  • Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
  • Harry Locke, British character actor (d. 1987)
• December 13 – Arnold Brown, Salvation Army general (d. 2002)
• December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980)
• December 16 – George Ignatieff, Canadian diplomat, recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace (d. 1989)
• December 18
  • Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
  • Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
• December 21 – Arnold Friberg, American artist (d. 2010)
• December 30 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)

Date unknown

• Halil-Salim Jabara, Israeli Arab politician (d. 1999)

Deaths

January–June

• January 2 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• January 4 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
• January 16 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist, and inventor (b. 1832)
• February 2 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (b. 1845)
• February 17 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (b. 1840)
• February 22 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (b. 1873)
• February 26 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
• March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
• March 11 – John Shaw Billings, American military and medical leader (b. 1838)
• March 18 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• March 22 – Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882)
• March 25 – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, British field marshal (b. 1833)
• March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837)
• May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
• May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
• June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b. 1835)
• June 5 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner
• June 8 – Emily Davison, British suffragette (b. 1872)
• June 28 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian president (b. 1841)

July–December

• July 3 – Horatio Nelson Young, American Civil War naval hero (b. 1845)
• July 13 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
• July 19 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
• July 29 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
• August 7 – Samuel Franklin Cody, American/British aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
• September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor (b. 1858)
• October 5 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
• October 16 – Ralph Rose, American athlete (b. 1885)
• November 7 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823)
• November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (b. 1837)
• December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer (b. 1864)
• December 7
  • Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
  • Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, inventor of mail order (b. 1844)
• December 12 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844)