| 211 | January 1 | Birth | 1879 – William Fox, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the Fox Film Corporation and Fox Theatres (d. 1952) |
| 212 | January 1 | Birth | 1880 – Vajiravudh, Thai king (d. 1925) |
| 213 | January 1 | Birth | 1883 – William J. Donovan, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1959) |
| 214 | January 1 | Birth | 1885 – Béla Balogh, Hungarian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1945) |
| 215 | January 1 | Birth | 1887 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945) |
| 216 | January 1 | Birth | 1888 – Georgios Stanotas, Greek general (d. 1965) |
| 217 | January 1 | Birth | 1888 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle (d. 1974) |
| 218 | January 1 | Birth | 1889 – Charles Bickford, American actor and singer (d. 1967) |
| 219 | January 1 | Birth | 1890 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (d. 1966) |
| 220 | January 1 | Birth | 1891 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1969) |
| 221 | January 1 | Birth | 1892 – Artur Rodziński, Polish-born American conductor (d. 1958) |
| 222 | January 1 | Birth | 1892 – Mahadev Desai, Indian activist (d. 1942) |
| 223 | January 1 | Birth | 1892 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Philippines (d. 1948) |
| 224 | January 1 | Birth | 1893 – Mordehai Frizis, Greek colonel (d. 1940) |
| 225 | January 1 | Birth | 1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974) |
| 226 | January 1 | Birth | 1894 – Shitsu Nakano, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2007) |
| 227 | January 1 | Birth | 1894 – Iván Petrovich, Serbian actor (d. 1962) |
| 228 | January 1 | Birth | 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 1972) |
| 229 | January 1 | Birth | 1900 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986) |
| 230 | January 1 | Birth | 1900 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born American singer-songwriter (d. 1990) |
| 231 | January 1 | Birth | 1902 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer and lawyer (d. 1977) |
| 232 | January 1 | Birth | 1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (d. 1982) |
| 233 | January 1 | Birth | 1905 – Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist (d. 1981) |
| 234 | January 1 | Birth | 1906 – Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974) |
| 235 | January 1 | Birth | 1907 – Kinue Hitomi, Japanese sprinter and long jumper (d. 1931) |
| 236 | January 1 | Birth | 1908 – Bill Tapia, American singer and guitarist (d. 2011) |
| 237 | January 1 | Birth | 1909 – Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 238 | January 1 | Birth | 1909 – Dattaram Hindlekar, Indian cricketer (d. 1949) |
| 239 | January 1 | Birth | 1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (d. 1959) |
| 240 | January 1 | Birth | 1911 – Audrey Wurdemann, American poet and author (d. 1960) |