Events

• Pathé Frères colors black and white films by machine.

Births

• January 3 - Anna May Wong, actress (d. 1961)
• January 12 - Tex Ritter, actor, singer (d. 1974)
• February 2 - Ayn Rand, writer (d. 1982)
• February 14 - Thelma Ritter, actress (d. 1965)
• February 27 - Franchot Tone, actor (d. 1968)
• March 18 - Robert Donat, actor (d. 1958)
• May 1 - Leila Hyams, actress (d. 1977)
• May 15 - Joseph Cotten, actor (d. 1994)
• May 16 - Henry Fonda, actor (d. 1982)
• June 19 - Mildred Natwick , actress (d. 1994)
• June 20 - Lillian Hellman, writer (d. 1984)
• July 29 - Thelma Todd, actress (d. 1935)
• July 29 - Clara Bow, actress (d. 1965)
• August 2 - Myrna Loy, actress (d. 1993)
• August 3 - Dolores del Rio, actress (d. 1983)
• September 18 - Greta Garbo, actress (d. 1990)
• November 5 - Joel McCrea, actor (d. 1990)

Deaths