4 January – William Williams, Welsh poet and Archdruid (died 1968) 6 February – Cyril Garbett, Anglican prelate and Archbishop of York (died 1955) 1 April – Edgar Wallace, born Richard Horatio Edgar, writer (died 1932) 12 May – Charles Holden, architect (died 1960) 26 August – John Buchan, novelist and politician (died 1940) 10 September – John Evans, Welsh politician (died 1961) 18 September – Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond, watercolourist (died 1970) 26 September – Eric Geddes, transport manager and politician (died 1937) 12 October – Aleister Crowley, occultist (died 1947) 26 October – Sir Lewis Casson, actor and theatre director (died 1969) 11 November – Johnny Jenkins, Welsh-born racing driver (died 1945) 3 December – Clara Rackham, women's suffrage activist (died 1966) 20 December – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1953)