Births
- January 1 - Götz Briefs (died 1974)
- February 8 - Fritz Heinemann (died 1970)
- February 22 - R. G. Collingwood (died 1943)
- March 1 - Tetsuro Watsuji (died 1960)
- April 14 - Arnold J. Toynbee (died 1975)
- April 26 - Ludwig Wittgenstein (died 1951)
- June 1 - Charles Kay Ogden (died 1957)
- July 26 - Tadeusz Czeżowski (died 1981)
- September 4 - Moses Schönfinkel (died 1942)
- September 5 - Oskar Becker (died 1964)
- September 26 - Martin Heidegger (died 1976)
- October 12 - Erich Przywara (died 1972)
- October 12 - Dietrich von Hildebrand (died 1977)
- December 4 - Xavier Zubiri (died 1983)
- December 7 - Gabriel Marcel (died 1973)
Götz Briefs was a Catholic social theorist, social ethicist, social philosopher and political economist, who together with Gustav Gundlach, SJ influenced the social teachings of Pope Pius XI.
Fritz Heinemann was a German philosopher.
Robin George Collingwood was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works including The Principles of Art (1938) and the posthumously published The Idea of History (1946).
