Editing 1896

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== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
[[File:Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845--1923).jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 5]]: [[Wilhelm Röntgen|Röntgen]] [[X-ray|rays]].]]
[[File:X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of Albert von Kölliker's hand - 18960123-02.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 5]]: [[Wilhelm Röntgen|Röntgen]] [[X-ray]].]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; The [[Jameson Raid]] comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the [[Boer]]s.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=324–325|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Utah]] is admitted as the 45th [[U.S. state]].
* [[January 5]] &ndash; An Austrian newspaper reports [[Wilhelm Röntgen]]'s discovery, last November, of a type of [[electromagnetic radiation]], later known as [[X-ray]]s.
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Cecil Rhodes]] is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the [[Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]] for his involvement in the [[Jameson Raid]].
* [[January 7]] &ndash; American culinary expert [[Fannie Farmer]] publishes her first cookbook.
* [[January 12]] &ndash; H. L. Smith takes the first [[X-ray]] photograph.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Devonport High School for Boys]] is founded in [[Plymouth]] (England).
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896)|Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War]]: British [[British Army|redcoats]] enter the [[Ashanti people|Ashanti]] capital, [[Kumasi]], and Asantehene Agyeman [[Prempeh I]] is deposed.<ref>"Ashanti Expedition (1895-1896)", in ''The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History'', by Harold E. Raugh (ABC-CLIO, 2004) p30.</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; Walter Arnold, of [[East Peckham]], [[Kent]], England, is fined 1 shilling for [[speeding]] at {{convert|8|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, exceeding the contemporary urban [[speed limit]] of {{convert|2|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, the first speeding fine.
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]'s opera ''[[La bohème]]'' premieres in [[Turin]], Italy.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Oscar Wilde]]'s play ''[[Salome (play)|Salomé]]'' (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Braamfontein Explosion]]: A train carrying 56 tons of [[dynamite]] explodes at [[Braamfontein]], [[Johannesburg]], killing more than 78 people.<ref name="Blumberg">''The Great Dynamite Explosion'', report by J.G. Blumberg, Fairmount School, Johannesburg, excerpt from the autobiography of Dutch immigrant Jan de Veer who came to South Africa in 1893.</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Battle of Adwa]]: [[Ethiopia]] defends its independence from Italy, ending the [[First Italo-Ethiopian War]].
* [[March 3]] &ndash; Publication begins for ''[[Der Eigene]]'', the world's first magazine with an orientation to male [[homosexuality]], by [[Adolf Brand]] in Berlin.
* [[March 9]] &ndash; Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister [[Francesco Crispi]] resigns.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The [[St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth|Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth]] in Ireland is granted the status of [[pontifical university]] by charter of the [[Holy See]].<ref>Rescripts of the Sacred Congregation ''de Propaganda Fide''.</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April]] &ndash; [[Svante Arrhenius]] first publishes the "greenhouse law", becoming the first person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion processes are large enough to cause [[global warming]] through the [[greenhouse effect]].<ref>"On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground". ''London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science''. Extract of paper presented to [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] December 11, 1895.</ref>
* [[April 4]] &ndash; The first known [[women's basketball]] game between two colleges is played between [[Stanford University|Stanford]] and [[University of California, Berkeley|California]].
[[File:Panathinaiko.jpg|thumb|190px|right| A picture of the restored [[Panathenaic Stadium]], the site of the [[1896 Summer Olympics]]]]
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The opening ceremonies of the [[1896 Summer Olympics]], the first modern [[Olympic Games]], are held in [[Athens]], Greece.
* [[April 9]] &ndash; The National Farm School (later [[Delaware Valley College]]) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Blackpool Pleasure Beach]], a popular English theme park ("Britain's Biggest Tourist Attraction"), is founded by Alderman William George Bean.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Story of Blackpool Pleasure Beach|website=Blackpool.com|date=February 7, 2023 |url=https://blackpool.com/2023/02/07/the-story-of-blackpool-pleasure-beach/|accessdate=2024-07-10}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Cricket]]: Against [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]], [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] sets a still-standing [[County Championship]] record in England, when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; The Franchise Bill is passed by the [[Colony of Natal]]'s Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries.
* [[May 18]] &ndash; ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'': The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] introduces the [[separate but equal]] doctrine, and upholds [[racial segregation]].
* [[May 26]]
** [[Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna]] in the [[Dormition Cathedral, Moscow]]; this will be the last [[coronation of the Russian monarch]].<ref name=Ferro>{{cite book|first=Marc|last=Ferro|author-link=Marc Ferro|publisher=Viking|location=Harmondsworth|year=1991|orig-year=1990|title=Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars}}</ref> The [[Qing dynasty]] is represented at the coronation by Chinese official [[Li Hongzhang]] who through September goes on to visit Germany, Britain, Canada and the United States.
** Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks are chosen to form the [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]]. The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131004232102/http://articles.philly.com/1995-02-24/news/25702996_1_blue-chip-stocks-industrial-shares-index Dow Record Book Adds Another First]. Philly.com. Retrieved 2013-07-08.</ref>
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado|St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado]]: The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown [[St. Louis, Missouri]], incurring US$2.9&nbsp;billion (1997 USD) in normalized damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The [[Ford Quadricycle]], the first vehicle developed by [[Henry Ford]], is completed, eventually leading Ford to build the empire that "put America on wheels".
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Mahdist War]]: [[Battle of Ferkeh]] &ndash; British and Egyptian troops are victorious.
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[J. T. Hearne]] sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets in cricket, in England (it is equalled by [[Charlie Parker (cricketer)|Charlie Parker]] in [[1931]]).
* [[June 15]] &ndash; The 8.5 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1896 Sanriku earthquake|Sanriku earthquake]] and [[tsunami]] kills 22,000 in northeastern Japan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Brett L. |title=A Concise History of Japan |year=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-00418-4 |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NGt2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA292 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 18]] &ndash; The [[New York Telephone]] Company is formed, succeeding the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, to control telephone service within New York City.<ref>''Documents of the Senate of the State of New York: One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Session, 1913'', Volume 25, p255</ref> 
* [[June 23]] &ndash; Liberal leader [[Wilfrid Laurier]] defeats [[Charles Tupper]] during [[1896 Canadian federal election|Canadian federal elections]] for the [[8th Canadian Parliament]], to become the first Francophone [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Twin Shaft disaster]]: An explosion in the Newton [[coal mining|Coal]] Company's Twin Shaft Mine in [[Pittston, Pennsylvania]] results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 [[miners]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=10470|title=Twin Shaft Disaster Marker}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[William Jennings Bryan]] delivers his [[Cross of Gold speech]] at the [[Democratic National Convention]], which nominates him for president of the United States.
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Wilfrid Laurier]] becomes Canada's seventh [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]], and the first French-speaker to hold that office.
* [[July 21]] &ndash; In Washington, D.C., in response to a "call to confer" issued by [[Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin]] to all women of color, the [[National Association of Colored Women's Clubs]] is organized.
* [[July 26]] &ndash; The [[International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress, London 1896|International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress]] opens in London.
* [[July 27]] &ndash; A [[causeway]] is opened between the islands of [[Saaremaa]] and [[Muhu]] in [[Estonia]].
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[1896 Atlantic City rail crash|Atlantic City rail crash]]: Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring approximately sixty.
* [[August]] &ndash; The [[1896 Eastern North America heat wave]] kills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; The Park Seung-jik shop, predecessor of [[South Korea]]n [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] [[Doosan Group]], is founded in [[Joseon]] (the kingdom of Korea).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doosan.com/file/down/c36cb633-3d12-406f-a346-998077874454|title=History|publisher=Doosan Group|access-date=2024-07-10|archive-date=2017-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509033901/http://www.doosan.com/en/intro/history.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; The [[Uganda Railway]] Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa from [[Mombasa]] to [[Lake Victoria]].<ref>''The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1896'' (Stevens and Sons, Ltd., 1896), Volume 65, p247.</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Skookum Jim Mason]], [[George Carmack]] and Dawson Charlie discover [[gold]] in the [[Klondike, Yukon]].
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Bridget Driscoll]] is run over by a [[Benz & Cie.|Benz]] car on the grounds of [[The Crystal Palace]], London, the world's first motoring fatality.
* [[August 23]] &ndash; The [[Cry of Pugad Lawin]] initiates the [[Philippine Revolution]].
* [[August 27]]
** The shortest war in recorded history, the [[Anglo-Zanzibar War]], starts at 9:00 in the morning, and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.
** Britain establishes a Protectorate over the [[Ashanti people]] concluding the [[Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, 1895 - 1896|Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War]].
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Clarkson University]] holds its first classes, with 17 students attending in [[Potsdam (village), New York|Potsdam, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nyheritage.nnyln.net/cdm/singleitem/collection/clarkson/id/124|title=Clarkson Estate|access-date=July 16, 2015|archive-date=July 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717011717/http://nyheritage.nnyln.net/cdm/singleitem/collection/clarkson/id/124|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; The [[Crush, Texas|Crash at Crush]] train wreck stunt is held in Texas.
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] surpasses her grandfather [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] as the longest-reigning monarch in British history up to this time.
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Pathé]] Frères, a French film company and one of the oldest film companies, is founded by the brothers [[Charles Pathé]], Théophile Pathé, Émile Pathé and Jacques Pathé.
* [[September 30]]
** Italy and France sign a treaty whereby Italy virtually recognizes [[Tunisia]] as a French dependency.<ref>Iiams, Thomas M. (1962). ''Dreyfus, Diplomatists and the Dual Alliance: Gabriel Hanotaux at the Quai D'Orsay (1894–1898)'', Geneva/Paris: Librairie Droz/Librairie Minard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dgObEERSxvQC&pg=PA115 p. 115]</ref>
** [[Khodynka Tragedy]]: a [[crowd crush]] at [[Khodynka Field]] in Moscow kills at least 1,200 of those marking the coronation year of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.<ref name=Ferro/>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Gottlieb Daimler]] builds the first gasoline truck.
* [[October 2]] &ndash; The [[Victorian Football League]] is established as [[Australian rules football]] in Australia (a predecessor of the [[Australian Football League]]).
* [[October 30]] &ndash; The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid in [[Augusta, Kentucky]], marking the end of the [[Augusta Methodist College]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[1896 United States presidential election]]: Republican [[William McKinley]] defeats [[William Jennings Bryan]]. The event is viewed by some as a [[political realignment]] for the [[History of the United States Republican Party#The Progressive Era: 1896–1932|United States Republican Party]]. 
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Richard Strauss]]'s orchestral tone poem ''[[Also sprach Zarathustra]]'' is first performed, in [[Frankfurt]], conducted by the composer. 
* [[November 30]]
** [[Udinese Calcio]] Association football club is founded in Udine, Italy.
** "[[St. Augustine Monster]]": A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a [[gigantic octopus]], is found washed ashore near [[St. Augustine, Florida]].
* [[December 1]] &ndash; Archaeologist [[Alois Anton Führer]], Nepalese General Khadga Samsher Rana and an expedition rediscover the great stone pillar of [[Ashoka]] at [[Lumbini]], traditionally the spot of the birthplace of [[Gautama Buddha]], after using [[Faxian]]'s records.<ref>Alois Anton Führer, ''Monograph on Buddha Sakyamuni's Birth-Place in the Nepalese Taral'' (Allahabad: The Government Press, 1897) p28.</ref>
* [[December 10]] 
**[[New York Aquarium]] opens.
**The premiere of [[Alfred Jarry]]'s absurdist play ''[[Ubu Roi]]'' in Paris causes a near-riot.
* [[December 14]] &ndash; The [[Glasgow Subway]], the third-oldest [[rapid transit|underground metro]] system in the world, opens.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[John Philip Sousa]] composes ''[[The Stars and Stripes Forever]]'' which will become the national march of the United States.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[José Rizal]], Filipino scholar and poet, is [[executed]] by Spanish authorities in the Philippines.

=== Date unknown ===
* France establishes an administrative post in [[Abengourou]], [[Ivory Coast]].
* A school of mines opens in [[Kimberley, Northern Cape|Kimberley]] and will form the core of the [[University of the Witwatersrand]].
* The pharmaceutical and [[healthcare]] company [[Hoffmann-La Roche]] in [[Switzerland]] comes wholly under the control of [[Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche]].<ref>{{cite book|first=H. C.|last=Peyer|year=1996|title=Roche: a company history 1896–1996|location=Basel|publisher=Editiones Roche|isbn=3-907770-59-5}}</ref>
* Racing Club de Lyon, a football club in France, is officially founded and becomes a predecessor of [[Olympique Lyonnais]].{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
* [[Pope Leo XIII]] is filmed, making him the first ever [[Pope]] to be filmed and the earliest-born person to be captured on film.

== Births ==

=== January&ndash;February ===
[[File:George Burns 1961.JPG|thumb|100px|[[George Burns]]]]
[[File:Morarji Desai During his visit to the United States of America .jpg|thumb|100px|[[Morarji Desai]]]]

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* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Dziga Vertov]], Russian filmmaker (d. [[1954]])
* [[January 4]]
** [[Everett Dirksen]], American politician (d. [[1969]])
** [[André Masson]], French artist (d. [[1987]])
* [[January 8]]
**[[Arthur Ford (psychic)|Arthur Ford]], American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d. [[1971]])
**[[Clifton Sprague]], American admiral (d. [[1955]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Uberto De Morpurgo]], Italian tennis player (d. [[1961]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/umberto-de-morpurgo|title=Umberto DE MORPURGO - Olympic Tennis {{pipe}} Italy|date=June 13, 2016|website=International Olympic Committee}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[John Dos Passos]], American author (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA394|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|pages=394}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[George Burns]], American actor, comedian (d. [[1996]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[J. Carrol Naish]], American [[character actor]] (d. [[1973]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg]] (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charlotte {{!}} grand duchess of Luxembourg {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-grand-duchess-of-Luxembourg |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=10 December 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[József Kiss]], Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (d. [[1918]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Anastasio Somoza García]], [[President of Nicaragua|21st President of Nicaragua]] (d. [[1956]])<ref name="y692">{{cite web | title=Anastasio Somoza: president of Nicaragua | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | date=2007-08-23 | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anastasio-Somoza | access-date=2024-06-04}}</ref><ref name="y023">{{cite news | last=Amerise | first=Atahualpa | title=Sandino: la traición que acabó con la vida del guerrillero nicaragüense que puso en jaque al ejército de EE.UU. | website=BBC News Mundo | date=2024-02-18 | url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c3gk084gy2eo | language=es | access-date=2024-06-04}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Ramón Franco]], Spanish aviation pioneer (d. [[1938]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Hund]], German physicist (d. [[1997]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Li Linsi]], Chinese educator and diplomat (d. [[1970]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[André Breton]], French writer (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite book|author=André Breton|title=André Breton: Selections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nLQRXzQ4NgoC&pg=PA165|date=October 2003|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-23954-8|pages=165}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Gontermann]], German World War I fighter ace (d. [[1917]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Philip Showalter Hench]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1965]])
* [[February 29]]
**[[Morarji Desai]], 4th [[Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[1995]])
**[[William A. Wellman]], American motion picture director (d. [[1975]])

=== March&ndash;April ===
[[File:LTG Ira Eaker.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ira C. Eaker]]]]
[[File:Nikolay Semyonov Nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nikolay Semyonov]]]]
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Dimitri Mitropoulos]], Greek conductor, pianist and composer (d. [[1960]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Field Eugene Kindley]], American World War I fighter pilot (d. [[1920]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Wop May]], Canadian World War I pilot (d. [[1952]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Joseph Schildkraut]], Austrian-American actor (d. [[1964]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Ackermann]], German mathematician (d. [[1962]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Ira C. Eaker]], World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. [[1987]])
* [[April 15]]
** [[Gerhard Fieseler]], German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, aircraft designer and manufacturer (d. [[1987]])
** [[Nikolay Semyonov]], Russian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1986]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Señor Wences]], Spanish ventriloquist (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer]], Dutch war hero, resistance fighter and humanitarian (d. [[1978]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Ernst Udet]], German World War I fighter ace, Nazi ''Luftwaffe'' official (d. [[1941]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Rogers Hornsby]], American baseball player (d. [[1963]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Reverend Gary Davis]], American musician (d. [[1972]])

=== May&ndash;June ===
[[File:Mark Wayne Clark 1943.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mark W. Clark]]]]
[[File:Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Jorge Alessandri]]]]
[[File:General Walter Cawthorn.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Walter Cawthorn]]]]
[[File:Vincenzo Laviosa - Duke and Duchess of Windsor - Google Art Project (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wallis Simpson]]]]
* [[May 1]]
**[[Mark W. Clark]], American general (d. [[1984]])
**[[J. Lawton Collins]], American general (d. [[1987]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Helen of Greece and Denmark]], Queen Mother of Romania (d. [[1982]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Karl Allmenröder]], German World War I fighter pilot (d. [[1917]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Kaju Sugiura]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1945]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Jorge Alessandri]], 27th [[President of Chile]] (d. [[1986]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Andor Jaross]], ethnic Hungarian politician (d. [[1946]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Luther Youngdahl|Luther W. Youngdahl]], American politician, [[Governor of Minnesota]] from 1947 to 1951, and a United States district judge from 1951 to 1978 (d. [[1978]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Howard Hawks]], American director (d. [[1977]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Ernest Haller]], American cinematographer (d. [[1974]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Sydney Kyte]], British bandleader (d. 1981)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sydney Kyte Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More... |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sydney-kyte-mn0001443279 |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=[[AllMusic]] |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Nubar Gulbenkian]], Ottoman-born Armenian-British oil trader, socialite and intelligence operative (d. [[1972]])
* [[June 6]]
**[[Henry Allingham]], British World War I veteran, world's oldest man (d. [[2009]])
**[[Italo Balbo]], Italian Fascist leader, aviator (d. [[1940]])
* [[June 7]]
** [[Robert S. Mulliken]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1986]])
** [[Imre Nagy]], 3-time prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1958]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Walter Cawthorn]], Australian spymaster (d. [[1970]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Wallis Simpson]], American-born Duchess of Windsor (d. [[1986]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Francisco Malabo Beosá]], Equatoguinean royalty (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Boris Podolsky]], Russian-American physicist (d. [[1966]])

=== July&ndash;August ===
[[File:Playford_portrait_38.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Thomas Playford IV]]]]
[[File:Trygve Lie 1938.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Trygve Lie]]]]
[[File:Jean Piaget in Ann Arbor.png|thumb|100px|[[Jean Piaget]]]]
[[File:Gerty Theresa Cori.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gerty Cori]]]]
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Quirino Cristiani]], Argentine animated film director (d. [[1984]])
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Mao Dun]], Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McDougall|first=Bonnie S.|date=December 1998|title=Disappearing women and disappearing men in may fourth narrative: a post-feminist survey of short stories by Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Ling Shuhua and Shen Congwen|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357829808713209|journal=Asian Studies Review|volume=22|issue=4|pages=427–458|doi=10.1080/10357829808713209|s2cid=197655380 |issn=1035-7823|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Thomas Playford IV]], South Australian politician (d. [[1981]])
* [[July 16]] 
** [[Gertrude Welcker]], German actress (d. [[1988]])
** [[Trygve Lie]], Norwegian politician, 1st United Nations Secretary General (d. [[1968]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Dumitru Dămăceanu]], Romanian general and politician (d. [[1978]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Patrick O'Boyle (American bishop)|Patrick O'Boyle]], American Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[1987]])
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Stafford L. Warren]], American physician and radiologist; inventor of the mammogram (d. [[1981]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Ernesto Lecuona]], Cuban pianist, composer (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Marks|first=Edward|date=1928|title=Malaguena - Piano Solo (Foreword)|journal=Edward B. Marks Music Co.|volume=9677-7}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Sivananda (yoga teacher)|Sivananda]], Indian yoga teacher (unverified self-claimed date) (d. [[2025]])
* [[August 9]]
** [[Erich Hückel]], German physicist, physical chemist (d. [[1980]]) 
** [[Léonide Massine]], Russian ballet dancer, choreographer (d. [[1979]])
** [[Jean Piaget]], Swiss psychologist (d. [[1980]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Walter Lang]], American film director (d. [[1972]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Schmundt]], German general (d. [[1944]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Albert Ball]], British World War I fighter ace, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1917]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Gerty Cori]], Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1957]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Jack Pickford]], Canadian-born American actor, film director, and producer (d. [[1933]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Léon Theremin]], Russian inventor (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Arthur Calwell]], Australian politician (d. [[1973]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Raymond Massey]], Canadian-born American actor (d. [[1983]])

=== September&ndash;October ===
[[File:Adele Astaire in 1919.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adele Astaire]]]]
[[File:F. Scott Fitzgerald Publicity Photograph circa 1920.jpg|thumb|100px|[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]]]
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]], Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]] (d. [[1977]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Antonin Artaud]], French stage actor, director (d. [[1948]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Antonin Artaud|title=Artaud Anthology.|publisher=City Lights Publishers|year=1965|page=83}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Adele Astaire]], American dancer (d. [[1981]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[José Mojica]], Mexican Franciscan friar, tenor and film actor (d. [[1974]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Walter Breuning]],  American [[supercentenarian]], sixth oldest verified man in history (d. [[2011]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Uri Zvi Greenberg]], Israeli poet and journalist (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE7DB1738F933A25756C0A967948260 | work=The New York Times | title=Uri Zvi Greenberg, 83; Hebrew and Yiddish Poet | date=10 May 1981}}</ref>
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], American writer (d. [[1940]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Fitzgerald | first = F | title = The beautiful and damned | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780191611056 | page=xxxii}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Sandro Pertini]], [[President of Italy]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Jolie Gabor]], Hungarian-American entrepreneur, jeweler and memoirist (d. [[1997]])
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Abraham Sofaer]], Burmese-born British actor (d. [[1988]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Paulino Alcántara]], Filipino-Spanish soccer player (d. [[1964]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Eugenio Montale]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1975 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1975/montale/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref>
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Bud Flanagan]], British entertainer, comedian (d. [[1968]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Earle Clements]], American politician, [[governor of Kentucky]]  (d. [[1985]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Howard Hanson]], American composer (d. [[1981]])<ref name=nytobit>''The New York Times'' – Obituaries. Harold C. Schonberg. February 28, 1981 p. 10119 [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/28/obituaries/howard-hanson-is-dead-composer-and-teacher.html ''Howard Hanson is Dead; Composer and Teacher'']</ref>
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Ruth Gordon]], American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (d. [[1985]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Ethel Waters]], American singer, actress (d. [[1977]])

=== November&ndash;December ===
[[File:Carlos P Garcia photo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carlos P. Garcia]]]]
[[File:Lt. General James Doolittle, head and shoulders.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jimmy Doolittle]]]]
* [[November 4]]
** [[Carlos P. Garcia]], 8th [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[1971]])
** [[Ian Wolfe]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Marie Prevost]], Canadian-born American actress (d. [[1937]])
* [[November 10]]
** [[Jimmy Dykes]], American baseball player, manager (d. [[1976]])
** [[Mary, Lady Heath]], Irish aviator (d. [[1939]]) 
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Nobusuke Kishi]], Prime Minister of Japan (d. [[1987]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Mamie Eisenhower]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1979]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Ancillotto]], Italian World War I flying ace (d. [[1924]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Oswald Mosley]], leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. [[1980]])
** [[Lawrence Tibbett]], American opera singer, actor (d. [[1960]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Lev Vygotsky]], Russian psychologist (d. [[1934]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Klement Gottwald]], Czechoslovak communist politician (d. [[1953]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Virgil Thomson]], American composer, critic (d. [[1989]])
** [[Jessie Royce Landis]], American actress (d. [[1972]])
** [[Priscilla Dean]], American actress (d. [[1987]])
** [[Albertus Soegijapranata]], Indonesian Jesuit priest (d. [[1963]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Manuel A. Odría]], 79th President of Peru (d. [[1974]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Lilia Skala]], Austrian-American actress (d. [[1994]])
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Georgi Zhukov]], Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. [[1974]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Alfons Tracki]], German-Albanian priest (martyred [[1946]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Carl Ferdinand Cori]], Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1984]])
* [[December 6]] 
** [[Ira Gershwin]], American lyricist (d. [[1983]])
** [[Hermannus Reydon]], Dutch journalist and Nazi collaborator (d. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite web
 |publisher=[[Parlementair Documentatie Centrum]]
 |url=https://www.parlement.com/id/vh9h1bik5orp/h_reydon
 |date=
 |access-date = 13 June 2024
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190302032643/https://www.parlement.com/id/vh9h1bik5orp/h_reydon
 |archive-date=2 March 2019
|title=Mr. H. Reydon
 |language=Dutch
}}</ref>
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Vasily Gordov]], Soviet general (d. [[1950]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Jimmy Doolittle]], American aviation pioneer, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. [[1993]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Miles Dempsey]], British general (d. [[1969]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Anna Anderson]], pretender to the Russian throne (d. [[1984]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]], Italian writer (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|publisher=Garland|year=2001|isbn=9780815340584|page=766}}</ref>
* [[December 27]] &ndash; 
** [[Louis Bromfield]], American writer (d. [[1956]])
** [[Carl Zuckmayer]], German writer, playwright (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Wagener|title=Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endangered Fame|publisher=Camden House|year=1995|isbn=9781571130648|page=ix}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Roger Sessions]], American composer (d. [[1985]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]], Mexican muralist (d. [[1974]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/artist/david-alfaro-siqueiros|title=David Alfaro Siqueiros|website=Biography.com|access-date=June 1, 2019}}</ref>

== Deaths ==

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Franz von Lenbach - Clara Schumann (Pastell 1878).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Clara Schumann]]]]
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Joseph Hubert Reinkens]], German Old Catholic bishop (b. [[1821]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Charlie Bassett]], American sheriff (b. [[1847]])
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Paul Verlaine]], French lyric poet (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Flower|title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA519|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4|pages=519}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Mathew Brady]], American photographer (b. [[1822]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Charles Floquet]], Prime Minister of France (b. [[1828]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Prince Henry of Battenberg]], Lombardy-born British royal, married to [[Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1858]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[James Edwin Campbell (poet)|James Edwin Campbell]], American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867)<ref name="Poetry Foundation 1">{{cite web |url= https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-edwin-campbell |title= James Edwin Campbell |year= 2020 |publisher= [[Poetry Foundation]] |access-date= May 25, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200525145119/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-edwin-campbell |archive-date= May 25, 2020}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[William Hayden English]], American politician (b. [[1822]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Joseph P. Fyffe]], American admiral (b. [[1832]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Carlo Alberto Racchia]], Italian admiral and politician (b. [[1833]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Almagià |first1=Guido |title=RACHIA, Carlo Alberto |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-alberto-racchia_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ |website=treccani.it |publisher=Treccani |access-date=6 February 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Charilaos Trikoupis]], 7-time prime minister of Greece (b. [[1832]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Gustav Koerner]], German-American statesman (b. [[1809]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Henry Parkes|Sir Henry Parkes]], Australian politician, [[Premier of New South Wales]] (b. [[1815]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Hamilton Disston]], American industrialist and land developer (b. [[1844]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Naser al-Din Shah Qajar]], Shah of Persia, King of Herat (b. [[1831]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[H. H. Holmes]], American serial killer (executed) (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Antti Ahlström]], Finnish industrialist, founder of [[Ahlstrom]] (b. [[1827]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Nora Perry (writer)|Nora Perry]], American newspaper correspondent (b. [[1831]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Al-Sabah]], emir of Kuwait (b. [[1831]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Daniel Pollen]], 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. [[1813]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria]], father of Archduke Ferdinand (b. [[1833]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Clara Schumann]], German composer, pianist (b. [[1819]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Luigi Federico Menabrea]], Italian soldier, statesman (b. [[1809]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld]], Austrian general and politician (b. [[1817]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&aid=nfp&datum=18960526&seite=3&zoom=2|title=ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1896-05-26, Seite 3|website=anno.onb.ac.at}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Alpheus Felch]], American politician, governor and senator from [[Michigan]] (b. [[1804]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Louis Brière de l'Isle]], French general (b. [[1827]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Harriet Beecher Stowe c1852.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]]]
[[File:otto-lilienthal.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Otto Lilienthal]]]]
[[File:Margaret Eleanor Parker.png|thumb|110px|right|[[Margaret Eleanor Parker]]]]
[[File:Alfred Nobel3.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Alfred Nobel]]]]
[[File:Jose Rizal full.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Jose Rizal]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]], American author (b. [[1811]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOspAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512799-7|page=906}}</ref>
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Marcelo H. del Pilar]], Filipino writer, journalist (b. [[1850]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Ernst Curtius]], German historian (b. [[1814]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Massachusetts Historical Society|title=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pT1FAQAAMAAJ|year=1897|publisher=The Society|page=xxii}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[August Kekulé]], German chemist (b. [[1829]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Edmond de Goncourt]], French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b. [[1822]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTdUnu3AH2oC|year=1984|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-371-4|page=709}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Abraham H. Cannon]], American Mormon apostle (b. [[1859]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Otto Lilienthal]], German aviation pioneer (b. [[1848]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Harry Burnett Lumsden|Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden]], British army general (b. [[1821]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; Sir [[John Everett Millais]], British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. [[1829]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Bridget Driscoll]], early British automobile fatality (b. c. [[1851]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Richard Avenarius]], German-Swiss philosopher (b. [[1843]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; Sultan [[Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar]] (b. [[1857]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Hippolyte Fizeau]], French physicist (b. [[1819]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Pavlos Kalligas]], Greek jurist, politician (b. [[1814]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Ivar Aasen]], Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (b. [[1813]])<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Aasen, Ivar |volume= 01 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse | pages = 4&ndash;5; see page 5 |quote=He died in Christiania on the 23rd of September 1896}}</ref>
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Louis Gerhard De Geer]], 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. [[1818]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[William Morris]], English designer, poet and political activist (b. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Derek W. Baker|title=The Flowers of William Morris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wx7rAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-55652-307-6|page=9}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[James Abbott (Indian Army officer)|Sir James Abbott]], British army officer and colonial administrator in India (b. [[1807]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Louis-Jules Trochu]], French general and politician, 26th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1815]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[George du Maurier]], French-born British cartoonist and writer (b. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book|author=T. Martin Wood|title=George Du Maurier: The Satirist of the Victorians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNpyUDGGueIC&pg=PT132|year=1954|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=978-1-4655-6655-3|pages=132}}</ref>
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand von Mueller]], German-born Australian botanist (b. [[1825]])
* [[October 11]]
** [[Anton Bruckner]], Austrian composer (b. [[1824]])
** [[Edward White Benson]], Archbishop of Canterbury (b. [[1829]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs]], Prime Minister of Denmark (b. [[1817]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Emmy Rappe]], Swedish nursing pioneer (b. [[1835]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[James Henry Greathead]], British engineer and inventor (b. [[1844]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Columbus Delano]], American statesman (b. [[1809]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour]], French statesman (b. [[1827]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Carol Benesch]], [[Silesia]]n and [[Romania]]n [[architect]] (b. [[1822]])
* November &ndash; [[Margaret Eleanor Parker]], English social activist; first president of the British Women's Temperance Association (b. [[1827]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Joseph James Cheeseman]], Liberian politician, 12th [[President of Liberia]] (b. [[1843]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Josip Šokčević]], Croatian viceroy (b. [[1811]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.]], American inventor of the [[Ferris wheel]] (b. [[1859]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Ichiyō Higuchi]], Japanese poet and novelist (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Higuchi-Ichiyo|title=Higuchi Ichiyō &#124; Meiji Era, Poet, Novelist &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] 
** [[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]], American astronomer (b. [[1824]])
** [[Coventry Patmore]], English poet (b. [[1823]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred Henry Miles|title=Charles Kingsley to James Thomson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWVHAQAAMAAJ|year=1898|pages=132–134}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Alfred Nobel]], Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (b. [[1833]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Georgia Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPG2FkH1z7wC|year=1995|publisher=University of Georgia|page=12}}</ref>
* [[December 29]]
** [[Jacob ben Moses Bachrach]], noted Polish apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (b. [[1824]])
** [[Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet]], British admiral of the fleet (b. [[1806]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[José Rizal]], national hero of the Philippines (b. [[1861]])

== References ==
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