Events

• Carl Laemmle of Paramount experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiements lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." "Syncroscope" had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.
• First Ben Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott
• November 28 - In Haverville, Massachusetts , scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater (in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in 1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).

Births

• January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)
• January 16 - Alexander Knox, actor (d. 1995)
• January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
• January 20 - Paula Wessley , actress (d. 2000)
• January 22 - Mary Dresselhuys, actress (d. 2004)
• February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994)
• February 17 - Buster Crabbe, actor (d. 1983 )
• February 22 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)
• March 11 - Jessie Matthews, actress, singer (d. 1981)
• March 19 - Kent Smith, actor (d. 1985)
• April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999)
• April 19 - Lina Basquette , actress (d. 1994)
• April 29 - Fred Zinnemann, director (d. 1997)
• May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003)
• May 22 - Laurence Olivier, actor (d. 1989)
• May 26 - John Wayne, actor (d. 1979)
• June 4 - Rosalind Russell, actress (d. 1976)
• June 16 - Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981)
• June 24 - Martha Sleeper , actress (d. 1987)
• July 14 - Olive Borden , actress (d. 1947)
• July 16 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
• July 19 - Isabel Jewell, actress (d. 1972)
• July 27 - Ross Alexander, actor (d. 1937)
• August 3 - Adrienne Ames, actress (d. 1947)
• September 15 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
• September 29 - Gene Autry, actor (d. 1998)
• December 22 - Peggy Ashcroft, actress (d. 1991)

Deaths