Events

• The newsreel footage of the funeral of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom is shot in Kinemacolor, making it the first color newsreel.
• A Danish documentary film, Den Hvide Slavehandel , marks the first time film is used to study prostitution.
• Kalem Studios director Sidney Olcott becomes the first American to make a motion picture outside of the United States.
• Florence Lawrence becomes America's first motion picture Star

Movies released

• 1812
  
• A Christmas Carol
  
• A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner
  
• Afgrunden
  
• Frankenstein
  
• In the Border States
  
• The House with Closed Shutters
  
• The Unchanging Sea
  
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  
• What the Daisy Said
  

Births

• January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
• February 8 - Steffi Duna, actress (d. 1992)
• February 10 - Joyce Grenfell, actress (d. 1979)
• February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990)
• March 1 - David Niven, actor (d. 1983)
• March 8 - Claire Trevor, actress (d. 2000)
• March 17 - Sari Maritza , actress (d. 1987)
• March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, director (d. 1998)
• April 23 - Simone Simon, actress
• May 15 - Constance Cummings , actress
• May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor (d. 1986)
• June 3 - Paulette Goddard, actress (d. 1990)
• June 13 - Mary Wickes, actress (d. 1995)
• July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
• August 4 - Anita Page, actress
• August 8 - Sylvia Sidney, actress (d. 1999)
• August 15 - Signe Hasso, actress (d. 2002)
• December 7 - Louis Prima, bandleader, voice actor (d. 1978)
• August 16 - Mae Clarke , actress (d. 1992)
• September 19 - Margaret Lindsay , actress (d. 1981)
• September 29 - Virginia Bruce, actress (d. 1982)
• December 10 - Sidney Fox, actress (d. 1942)
• December 13 - Lillian Roth , actress (d. 1980)
• December 13 - Van Heflin, actor (d. 1971)

Deaths