Editing 1897

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== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
[[File:Mckinley.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[March 4]], President [[William McKinley]]]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; The International [[Alpha Omicron Pi]] sorority is founded, in [[New York City]].
* [[January 4]] &ndash; A British force is ambushed by Chief [[Ologbosere]], son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a [[punitive expedition]] against [[Benin City|Benin]].
* [[January 7]] &ndash; A [[1897 Darwin cyclone|cyclone]] destroys [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]], [[Australia]].
* [[January 8]] &ndash; Lady [[Flora Shaw]], future wife of Governor General [[Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard|Lord Lugard]], officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British [[Niger Coast Protectorate]]. 
* [[January 22]] &ndash; In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''[[computer]]'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device.<ref>''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''. {{cite book|first=Lisa|last=McCoy|title=Computers and Programming|url=https://archive.org/details/computersprogram0000mcco|url-access=registration|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2010|page=[https://archive.org/details/computersprogram0000mcco/page/1 1]}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] &ndash; The [[Czechoslovak Trade Union Association]] is founded in [[Prague]].
* [[February 10]] &ndash; Freedom of religion is proclaimed in [[Madagascar]].
* [[February 16]] &ndash; The French conquer the island of [[Raiatea]] and capture the rebel chief [[Teraupo'o]], ending the [[Leeward Islands War]] and bringing all of the [[Society Islands]] under their control.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Benin City|Benin]] is put to the torch by the British Army's [[Benin Expedition of 1897|Benin Expedition]]. [[Ovonramwen]], [[Oba of Benin]], is exiled from his kingdom and the [[Benin Bronzes]] are carried off to London.
* [[February 26]] &ndash; The [[Sigma Pi]] fraternity is founded in Vincennes, Indiana.
* [[February 27]] &ndash; The [[French Third Republic|French]] military governor of [[Madagascar]], [[Joseph Gallieni]], exiles Queen [[Ranavalona III]] to [[Réunion]], abolishing the [[Merina Kingdom|monarchy]] the next day.
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[San Diego State University]] is founded.
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] unseats [[Andrés Bonifacio]] at the [[Tejeros Convention]], becoming the new head of the Filipino revolutionary group [[Katipunan]].

===April&ndash;June===
* [[April 15]]
** Drillers near [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]] strike oil for the first time, in the designated "Indian Territory", on land leased from the [[Osage Nation|Osage Indians]]. The gusher, at the [[Osage Hills#The Osage|Nellie Johnstone Number One]] well, leads to rapid population growth.<ref>{{cite book|first1=W. David|last1=Baird|first2=Danney|last2=Goble|title=The Story of Oklahoma|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=1994|page=8}}</ref>
** [[Yamaichi Securities]] founded in Japan; it will cease trading a hundred years later.<ref name="jt19971209">{{cite web |title=Yamaichi chief gives Diet testimony on 'tobashi' trades |website=The Japan Times |date=9 December 1997 |access-date=2011-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119230750/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/1997/12/09/news/yamaichi-chief-gives-diet-testimony-on-tobashi-trades/ |archive-date=2015-11-19|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/1997/12/09/news/yamaichi-chief-gives-diet-testimony-on-tobashi-trades/}}</ref>
* [[April 18]] &ndash; the [[Greco-Turkish War of 1897]] Breaks out. 
* [[April 19]] &ndash; The first [[Boston Marathon]] is held in the United States, with fifteen men competing, and won by [[John McDermott (runner)|John McDermott]].<ref>{{cite dictionary|article=Boston Marathon|dictionary=Historical Dictionary of Track and Field|first=Peter|last=Matthews|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2012|page=40}}</ref>
*  [[April 23]] &ndash; Representatives of the [[Chickasaw Nation]], [[Choctaw Nation]] and U.S. [[Dawes Commission]] sign the [[Atoka Agreement]], which becomes an important precursor for creating the State of Oklahoma.
* [[April 27]]–[[6 May]] &ndash; [[Greco-Turkish War of 1897]]: [[Battle of Velestino]].<ref>{{Great Military and Naval Encyclopaedia | volume = 2 | last = Spyropoulos | first = N. | article = Βελεστῖνον | pages = 335–337}}</ref>
*  [[April 30]] &ndash; [[J. J. Thomson]] of the [[Cavendish Laboratory]] announces his discovery of the [[electron]] as a [[subatomic particle]], over 1,800 times smaller than a [[proton]] (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the [[Royal Institution]] in London.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Ninety years around the atom|first=Christine|last=Sutton|journal=New Scientist|date=8 January 1997|page=49}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[John Jacob Abel]] announces the successful isolation of [[epinephrine]] ([[adrenaline]]), in a paper read before the Association of American Physicians.<ref>"On the Blood-Pressure-Raising Constituent of the Suprarenal Capsule", by John J. Abel, M.D., and Albert C. Crawford, M.D., in ''Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital'' (July, 1897) p151</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; 19 zinc miners die of [[carbon monoxide poisoning]] at [[Snaefell Mine]] on the [[Isle of Man]].
* [[May 11]] &ndash; A patent is awarded for the invention of the first automotive [[muffler]], with the granting by the U.S. Patent Office of application number 582,485 to [[Milton Reeves]] and his brother Marshall T. Reeves, of the Reeves Pulley Company of [[Columbus, Indiana]].<ref>[https://patents.google.com/patent/US582485 "Exhaust Muffler for Engines"]; [http://www.k3ir.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/QRZnewsSep2014.pdf QRZ News, September 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717014931/http://www.k3ir.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/QRZnewsSep2014.pdf |date=July 17, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[May 14]]
** ''[[The Stars and Stripes Forever]]'', an [[American patriotic march]] by [[John Philip Sousa]], is performed for the first time.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=John Philip Sousa|title=All Music Guide to Classical Music|author=Woodstra, Chris|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=2005|page=1296|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
** (or [[May 15]]) &ndash; The [[Scientific-Humanitarian Committee]] (''[[:de:Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee|Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee]]'', WhK) is founded in Berlin as an [[LGBT social movements|LGBT campaigning organization]], [[List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year|the first]] such in history.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864–1935)|first1=John|last1=Lauritsen|first2=David|last2=Thorstad|publisher=Times Change Press|location=New York|edition=Revised|year=1995|isbn=0-87810-041-5}}</ref>
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Oscar Wilde]] is released from prison in England, and goes into voluntary exile on the continent. <ref>{{cite book|first=Norman|last=Page|title=An Oscar Wilde Chronology|publisher=Macmillan|year=1991|pages=74–75}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] &ndash; The [[Blackwall Tunnel]], at this time the longest underwater road tunnel in the world, is opened for traffic beneath the [[River Thames]] in the [[East End of London]] by the [[Edward VII|Prince of Wales]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=978-0-14-102715-9|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash; Irish-born theatrical manager [[Bram Stoker]]'s contemporary Gothic horror novel ''[[Dracula]]'' is first published (in London); it will influence the direction of [[vampire literature]] for the following century.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Dracula (Stoker)|title=Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture|editor=Joshi, S. T.|publisher=ABC-Clio|year=2010|page=82}}</ref>
* [[May 31]] &ndash; On Decoration Day (later [[Memorial Day]]) the [[Robert Gould Shaw Memorial]] is dedicated in Boston. The bronze bas relief by [[Augustus St. Gaudens]] depicts the [[54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment]] of black Civil War soldiers.
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[1897 Assam earthquake]]: An earthquake of magnitude of 8.0 rocks [[Assam]], [[India]], killing over 1,500 people.
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Kyoto University]] is officially established in [[Japan]].<ref>[[:ja:京都大学#年表#明治]] (Japanese language) Retrieved 2017-05-17.</ref>
* [[June 22]] &ndash; The [[Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria]] is celebrated in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|first=Anne E.|last=Keeling|title=Great Britain and Her Queen|publisher=Echo Library|year=2008|page=77}}</ref> No other British monarch will celebrate such a jubilee until [[Elizabeth II]] in [[2012]].

[[File:Diamonds are a girl's best friend (8527831550).jpg|thumb|Display in celebration of [[Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee]] on Alma Place in [[Coleraine]], [[County Londonderry]], [[Ulster]]]]

===July&ndash;September===
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897]] begins. The ill-fated expedition to fly over the Arctic results in the death of the entire team within months.
* [[July 17]] &ndash; The [[Klondike Gold Rush]] begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in [[Seattle]]
* [[July 25]] &ndash; Writer [[Jack London]] sails to join the [[Klondike Gold Rush]], where he will write his first successful stories.
* [[July 26]]&ndash;[[August 2]] &ndash; [[Siege of Malakand]]: British troops are besieged by [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] tribesmen in [[Malakand Agency|Malakand]], on the Northwest frontier of [[British Raj|British India]] (modern-day [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] in [[Pakistan]]).
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Mount Saint Elias]], the second highest peak in the United States and Canada, is first ascended.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; At the [[Bayer]] pharmaceutical company, pharmacist [[Felix Hoffmann]] successfully synthesizes [[acetylsalicylic acid]], after isolating a compound from a plant of the [[Spiraea]] family; the company markets it under the brand name "[[Aspirin]]".<ref>Diarmuid Jeffreys, ''Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug'' (Bloomsbury, 2005) p70</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; The [[Oldsmobile|Olds Motor Vehicle Co.]] is founded in [[Lansing, Michigan]], by [[Ransom E. Olds]].
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The [[First Zionist Congress]] convenes in [[Basel]], Switzerland.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] is granted a patent for the [[Kinetoscope]], a precursor of the [[movie projector]].
[[File:Flag of Ethiopia (1897-1936; 1941-1974).svg|thumb|150px|right| [[October 6]], [[Ethiopia]]n flag.]]
* [[September 1]] &ndash; The [[Tremont Street subway]] is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Lattimer massacre]]: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed immigrant miners in [[Pennsylvania]].
* [[September 11]] &ndash; After months of searching, generals of [[Menelik II of Ethiopia]] capture [[Gaki Sherocho]], the last king of [[Kingdom of Kaffa|Kaffa]], bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Battle of Saragarhi]]: Twenty-one [[Sikh]]s of the [[36th Sikhs]] regiment of the [[British Indian Army]] defend an army post to the death, against 10,000 [[Afghan (ethnonym)|Afghan]] and [[Orakzai]] tribesmen, in the [[Tirah Campaign]] on the Northwest frontier of the [[British Raj]] (modern-day [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] in [[Pakistan]]).
* [[September 20]] &ndash; Greece and Turkey sign a peace treaty to end the [[Greco-Turkish War (1897)|Greco-Turkish War]].
[[Image:Uss baltimore c-3.jpg|thumb|150px|right| October: {{USS|Baltimore|C-3|6}} in Hawaii]]
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Francis P. Church]] responds (anonymously) to a letter to the editor of [[The Sun (New York City)|''The Sun'' (New York City)]] that is known as the famous "[[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus]]" letter.

===October–December===
* [[October 5]] &ndash; After a long siege, Brazilian government troops take [[Canudos]] in north Brazil, crushing [[Antônio Conselheiro]] and his followers.
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Ethiopia]] adopts the tricolor flag: green is for the land, yellow for gold, and red is symbolic of strength and the blood shed.
* [[October 12]]
** The [[Korean Empire]] is proclaimed, marking the end of the [[Joseon]] dynasty after just over 500 years.
** The city of [[Belo Horizonte]], Brazil is created. The construction of the second Brazilian [[planned city]] is completed successfully; an immigration of 1,000,000 people is estimated.
** {{USS|Baltimore|C-3|6}} (Cruiser # 3, later CM-1) is recommissioned, since [[1890]], for several months of duty in the [[Hawaiian Islands]].
* [[October 13]] &ndash; {{HMS|Canopus|1897|6}}, a [[pre-dreadnought battleship]] of the [[Royal Navy]], is launched at [[Portsmouth]], England; she will be deployed widely in World War I.
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The [[Kappa Delta]] sorority is founded in Farmville, [[Virginia]].
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Juventus FC]] is founded as an [[association football]] club in [[Turin]].
* [[November 25]] &ndash; Spain grants [[Puerto Rico]] autonomy.
* [[December 9]] &ndash; The first issue of the feminist newspaper ''[[La Fronde (newspaper)|La Fronde]]'' is published by [[Marguerite Durand]] in Paris.
* [[December 12]]
** The comic strip ''[[The Katzenjammer Kids]]'' debuts in the ''[[New York Journal]]''.
** [[Belo Horizonte]], the first planned city in Brazil, is incorporated.
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Pact of Biak-na-Bato]]: The [[Philippine Revolution]] is settled, with Spanish promises to reform.
* [[December 28]] &ndash; The play ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'', by [[Edmond Rostand]], premieres in Paris.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Colony of Natal|Natal]] annexes [[Zulu Kingdom|Zululand]].

===Date unknown===
* The first [[electric bicycle]] is invented.
* [[Karl Lueger]] becomes [[mayor]] of [[Vienna]].
* [[Zhejiang University]] is founded in China.
* [[Émile Durkheim]] publishes his classic study ''[[Suicide (Durkheim book)|Suicide]]''.
* The pan-African anthem "[[Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika]]" ("God Bless Africa") is composed as a [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] hymn by South African teacher [[Enoch Sontonga]].
* ''[[Dos Equis]]'' beer is first brewed in Mexico, in anticipation of the new century. "Dos equis" is Spanish for "two x", a reference to the 20th Century (XX in Roman numerals)
* [[Alexander Scriabin]] publishes his [[Piano Sonata No. 2 (Scriabin)|Piano Sonata no. 2 "Sonata-Fantasia"]] in G sharp minor

== Births ==

=== January&ndash;February ===
[[File:Mariondavies.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Marion Davies]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F041449-0007, Hamburg, CDU-Bundesparteitag, Ludwig Erhard.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ludwig Erhard]]]]
[[File:Judith Anderson 1934-09-11.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Judith Anderson]]]]
[[File:Marian Anderson.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Marian Anderson]]]]
* [[January 3]]
** [[Marion Davies]], American actress (d. [[1961]])
** [[Pola Negri]], Polish-born American actress (d. [[1987]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Kiyoshi Miki]], Japanese philosopher, critic, scholar and professor (d. [[1945]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Ferenc Szálasi]], 37th prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1946]])
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Dennis Wheatley]], English writer (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=NA |first1=NA |title=Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers |date=25 December 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-81366-7 |page=1468 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_U6vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1468 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Walter Küchenmeister]], German writer and [[German resistance to Nazism|resistance fighter]] against the Nazis (d. [[1943]])
* [[January 11]] 
** [[Georges Stuttler]], French footballer (d. [[1976]])
** [[Hayne D. Boyden]], American naval aviator and aviation pioneer (d. [[1978]])
** [[Bernard DeVoto]], American historian and author (d. [[1955]])
** [[August Heissmeyer]], German Nazi SS-''[[Obergruppenführer]]'' (d. [[1979]])
* [[January 14]] 
** [[Hasso von Manteuffel]], German general, politician (d. [[1978]])
** [[Wasif Jawhariyyeh]], Palestinian composer, oud player, poet and chronicler (d. [[1972]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Natacha Rambova]], American film personality and fashion designer (d. [[1966]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Arthur Greiser]], German Nazi Party politician (d. [[1946]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], Indian political leader, led the [[Indian National Army]] (d. [[1945]]?)
** [[Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky]], Austrian architect, anti-Nazi activist (d. [[2000]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Shafi]], Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar (d. [[1976]])
* [[January 25]]  
** [[George Godfrey (boxer, born 1897)|George Godfrey]], American boxer (d. [[1947]])
** [[Blind Willie Johnson]], American gospel blues singer and guitarist (d. [[1945]])
* [[January 26]] 
** [[Yakov Alksnis]], Soviet aviator, commander of the Red Army Air Forces (d. [[1938]])
** [[Beulah Ream Allen]], American nurse and physician during [[World War II]] (d. [[1989]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Karel Lamač]], Czech director (d. [[1952]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Ivan Stedeford]], British industrialist (d. [[1975]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Denise Robins]], British romance novelist (d. [[1985]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Erhard]], Chancellor of Germany (d. [[1977]])
* [[February 5]] 
** [[Miyuki Ishikawa]], Japanese serial killer (d. [[1987]]) 
** [[Philip Jessup]], American diplomat, scholar, and jurist (d. [[1986]])
** [[Dirk Stikker]], Dutch politician and diplomat (d.[[1979]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Lepke Buchalter]], American mob boss and head of [[Murder, Inc.]], (d. [[1944]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Max Newman]], British mathematician and codebreaker (d. [[1984]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Zakir Husain]], Indian politician, 3rd [[President of India]] (d. [[1969]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Charles Kingsford Smith]], Australian aviator famous for his trans-Pacific flight (d. [[1935]]) 
* [[February 10]]
** [[Judith Anderson]], Australian-born British actress (d. [[1992]])
** [[John Franklin Enders]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1985]])
** [[Leonid Govorov]], Soviet military commander (d. [[1955]])
*[[February 16]] &ndash; [[Bill Lange (coach)|Bill Lange]], American basketball and football player and coach (d. [[1953]])
*[[February 19]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Rummel]], German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist (d. [[1980]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Ivan Albright]], American painter, sculptor and print-maker (d. [[1983]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Celia Lovsky]], Austrian-born American actress (d. [[1979]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Karol Świerczewski]], Polish and Soviet Red Army general and statesman (d. [[1947]])
* [[February 25]] 
** [[Peter Llewelyn Davies]], British publisher, inspiration for [[Peter Pan]] (d. [[1960]])
** [[Helen Jerome Eddy]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 27]]
** [[Marian Anderson]], African-American contralto (d. [[1993]])
** [[Ferdinand Heim]], World War II German general (''Scapegoat of Stalingrad'') d. [[1977]])

=== March&ndash;April ===
[[File:Lefty-odoul.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Lefty O'Doul]]]]
[[File:Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood|Princess Mary]]]]
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Shoghi Effendi]], Ottoman Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (d. [[1957]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[José E. Romero]], Filipino politician (d. [[1978]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Lefty O'Doul]], American baseball player, restaurateur (d. [[1969]])
* [[March 5]] 
** [[Set Persson]], Swedish communist politician (d. [[1960]])
** [[Gunta Stölzl]], German textile artist (d. [[1983]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Henry Channon]], American-born British politician (d. [[1958]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Josep Pla]], Spanish journalist and author (d. [[1981]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Karoly Grosz (illustrator)|Karoly Grosz]], Hungarian–American illustrator of film posters (d. [[1952]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Henry Cowell]], American avant-garde composer (d. [[1965]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Richard Hildebrandt]], German Nazi politician and SS-''[[Obergruppenführer]]'' (d. [[1951]])
* [[March 16]] 
** [[Flora Eldershaw]], Australian novelist, critic, and historian (d. [[1956]])
** [[Conrad Nagel]], American actor (d. [[1970]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Barbu Solacolu]], Romanian poet and social scientist (d. [[1976]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[John Langdon-Davies]], British writer (d. [[1971]])
* [[March 19]] 
** [[Betty Compson]], American actress (d. [[1974]])
** [[Moms Mabley]], American stand-up comedian and actress (d. [[1975]])
* [[March 21]] 
** [[Eugene Borden]], French-American actor (d. [[1971]])
** [[Johnny Ertle]], Hungarian-American boxer (d. [[1976]])
* [[March 23]] 
** [[Leslie Andrew]], New Zealand soldier (d. [[1969]])
** [[John Lighton Synge]], Irish mathematician and physicist (d. [[1995]])
* [[March 24]] 
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], Austrian psychotherapist (d. [[1957]])
** [[Theodora Kroeber]],  American writer and anthropologist (d. [[1979]])
* [[March 25]] 
** [[Yeghishe Charents]], Armenian poet, writer and public activist (d. [[1937]])
** [[John Laurie]], Scottish actor (d. [[1980]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Douglas Hartree]], English mathematician and physicist (d. [[1958]])
* [[March 28]]
**[[Frank Hawks]], American aviator (d. [[1938]])
**[[Sepp Herberger]], German football coach (d. [[1977]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Oto Iskandar di Nata]], Indonesian politician (d. [[1945]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[John Kotelawala]], Sri Lankan statesman and 3rd [[List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[April 7]]
** [[Erich Löwenhardt]], German World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]])
** [[Walter Winchell]], American broadcast journalist (d. [[1972]])
** [[Michael Musmanno]], American jurist, politician, and naval officer (d. [[1968]])
* [[April 8]] 
** [[Herbert Lumsden]], British general (d. [[1945]])
** [[Helen Gandy]], American secretary to [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (d. [[1988]])
* [[April 10]] 
** [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]], Indian politician and [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (d. [[1990]])
** [[Miles Browning]], American Navy officer (d. [[1954]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Werner Voss]], German World War I fighter ace (d. [[1917]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Iida Chōko]], Japanese actress (d. [[1972]])
* [[April 17]] 
** [[Thornton Wilder]], American dramatist (d. [[1975]])
** [[Thomas Ryum Amlie]], American politician (d. [[1973]])
** [[Nisargadatta Maharaj]], Indian [[guru]] of [[Nonduality (spirituality)|nondualism]] (d. [[1981]])
* [[April 19]]
** [[Jiroemon Kimura]], Japanese supercentenarian, world's longest lived man, last surviving man born in the 19th century and last surviving person born in 1897 (d. [[2013]])
** [[Vivienne Segal]], American actress (d. [[1992]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Sudhakar Chaturvedi]], Indian Vedic scholar and longevity claimant (d. [[2020]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[A. W. Tozer]], American Protestant pastor (d. [[1963]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Lester B. Pearson]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Canada]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1972]])
* [[April 24]]  
** [[Manuel Ávila Camacho]], Mexican general, politician, and 45th [[President of Mexico]], 1940-1946 (d. [[1955]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.economia.com.mx/manuel_avila_camacho.htm|title=Manuel Avila Camacho|publisher=economia.com.mx|language=es|access-date=May 31, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Benjamin Lee Whorf]], American linguist and fire prevention engineer (d. [[1941]])
* [[April 25]] 
** [[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood]], British princess (d. [[1965]])
** [[Merritt A. Edson]], American marine corps general (d. [[1955]])
** [[Fletcher Pratt]], American writer and historian (d. [[1956]])
* [[April 26]]
** [[Eddie Eagan]], American boxer, bobsledder (d. [[1967]])
** [[Douglas Sirk]], German film director (d. [[1987]])

* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Mainie Jellett]], Irish painter (d. [[1944]])

=== May&ndash;June ===
[[File:Einar Gerhardsen 1945.jpeg|100px|thumb|[[Einar Gerhardsen]]]]
[[File:Odd Hassel.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Odd Hassel]]]]
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[[File:Anthony Eden (retouched).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Anthony Eden]]]]
[[File:Paavo Nurmi in a calisthenic pose.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Paavo Nurmi]]]]
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[John Frederick Coots]], American songwriter (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Musa Alami]], Palestinian nationalist and politician (d. [[1984]])
* [[May 4]] 
** [[Phelps Phelps]], 38th [[Governor of American Samoa]], [[United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic]] (d. [[1981]])
** [[Pixinguinha]], Brazilian composer, arranger, flutist, and saxophonist (d. [[1973]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Burke]], American literary theorist, poet, essayist, and novelist (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Philip La Follette]], American politician (d. [[1965]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Einar Gerhardsen]], 15th prime minister of Norway (d. [[1987]])
* [[May 11]] 
** [[Kurt Gerron]], German-Jewish actor and film director (d. [[1944]])
** [[George Murdock]], American anthropologist (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Earle Nelson]], American serial killer and rapist (d. [[1928]])
** [[Ross Gunn]], American physicist who worked on the [[Manhattan Project]] (d. [[1966]])
* [[May 14]] 
** [[Sidney Bechet]], American-born jazz saxophonist (d. [[1959]])
** [[Robert Bartini]], Hungarian-Soviet aircraft designer and scientist (d. [[1974]])
** [[Ed Ricketts]], American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher (d. [[1948]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Vernon Treatt]], Australian lawyer, soldier, Rhodes Scholar and politician (d. [[1984 (year)|1984]])
* [[May 17]]
**[[Laura Bromwell]], American stunt pilot (d. [[1921]])
**[[Odd Hassel]], Norwegian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1981]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Frank Capra]], American film producer, director and writer (d. [[1991]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Frank Luke]], American World War I pilot (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Alan Kippax]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Ernie O'Malley]], Irish [[Irish republicanism|republican]] and writer (d. [[1957]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[John Cockcroft]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1967]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]], Austrian composer (d. [[1957]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Tan Malaka]], Indonesian teacher, philosopher, founder of Struggle Union and Murba Party, guerilla and fighter (d. [[1949]])
*[[June 3]] &ndash; [[Memphis Minnie]], American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter (d. [[1973]])
*[[June 5]] &ndash; [[Charles Hartshorne]], American philosopher, theologian and ornithologist (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118[1034:IMCH]2.0.CO;2 | issn=0004-8038 | year=2001 | volume=118 | page=1034 | title=In Memoriam: Charles Hartshorne, 1897–2000 | last1=Skutch | first1=Alexander F. | journal=The Auk | issue=4 | s2cid=85591093 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[June 6]] 
**[[Georgios Grivas]], Greek Cypriot officer of the [[Hellenic Army]] and founder and leader of [[Organization X]], [[EOKA]] and [[EOKA B]] (d. [[1974]])
**[[Jane Haining]], Scottish missionary and recipient of [[Righteous Among the Nations]] (d. [[1944]])
* [[June 7]]
**[[Kirill Meretskov]], Soviet military officer, [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (d. [[1968]])
**[[George Szell]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1970]])
**[[Lampião]], Brazilian bandit leader (d. [[1938]])
* [[June 8]]
** [[John G. Bennett]], British mathematician (d. [[1974]])
** [[Mariano Suárez]], 27th president of Ecuador (d. [[1980]])
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Sylvia Breamer]], Australian actress (d. [[1943]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia]] (d. [[1918]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Two - Russia's Lost Princesses - Beyond the portraits |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/HxprRdWRhF6G7zg54kFLnp/beyond-the-portraits |website=BBC |access-date=14 January 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Ram Prasad Bismil]], Indian revolutionary ([[Hindustan Socialist Republican Association|H.R.A.]] founder) (d. [[1927]])
* [[June 12]] 
** [[Anthony Eden]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. [[1977]])
** [[Alexandre Tansman]], Polish composer, pianist and conductor (d. [[1986]])
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Paavo Nurmi]], Finnish runner (d. [[1973]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Georg Wittig]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1987]])
* [[June 19]]
** [[Cyril N. Hinshelwood]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1967]])
** [[Moe Howard]], American comedian, actor (''The Three Stooges'') (d. [[1975]])
** [[Hans Baur]], [[Adolf Hitler]]'s German pilot during the political campaigns of the early 1930 (d. [[1993]])
** [[Sándor Szathmári]], Hungarian writer, mechanical engineer, and [[Esperanto|Esperantist]] (d. 1974)
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Alexander Andries Maramis]], Indonesian politician and [[National Hero of Indonesia]] (d. [[1977]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Norbert Elias]], German sociologist (d. [[1990]])
** [[Edmund A. Chester]], American broadcaster, journalist (d. [[1973]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Daniel K. Ludwig]], American businessman; billionaire philanthropist (d. [[1992]]) 
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Viola Dana]], American actress (d. [[1987]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Otto Braun (poet)|Otto Braun]], German poet (d. [[1918]])

===July&ndash;August===
[[File:Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]]]]
[[File:Thadeus Reichstein ETH-Bib Portr 10137.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Tadeusz Reichstein]]]]
* [[July 1]]  
** [[Bert Schneider (boxer)|Bert Schneider]], Canadian boxer (d. [[1986]])
** [[Tom Barry (Irish republican)|Tom Barry]], Irish guerrilla leader in the [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Hansa Jivraj Mehta]], Indian activist, educator, and writer (d. [[1995]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Mogens Wöldike]], Danish conductor (d. [[1988]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Isabelino Gradín]], Uruguayan footballer and athlete (d. [[1944]])
* [[July 9]] 
** [[Albert Coady Wedemeyer]], American general (d. [[1989]])
** [[Enid Lyons]], Australian politician (d. [[1981]])
* [[July 10]] 
** [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]], American actor (d. [[1936]])
** [[Legs Diamond]], Irish-American gangster (d. [[1931]])
** [[Karl Plagge]], German military officer who rescued Jews during the [[The Holocaust in Lithuania|Holocaust in Lithuania]] (d. [[1957]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Bull Connor]], American civil rights opponent (d. [[1973]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Stig H:son Ericson|Stig Hansson Ericson]], Swedish Navy naval officer (d. [[1985]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Jewel Carmen]], American silent film actress (d. [[1984]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]], Thai field marshal, prime minister, and dictator (d. [[1964]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Tadeusz Reichstein]], Polish-born chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1996]])
* [[July 21]] 
** [[Edmund Heines]], German Nazi politician and Deputy to [[Ernst Röhm]] (d. [[1934]])
** [[Max Kase]], American newspaper writer and editor (d. [[1974]])
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Amelia Earhart]], American aviator (d. [[1937]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Amelia Earhart {{!}} Biography, Disappearance, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amelia-Earhart |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=12 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Paul Gallico]], American novelist and short story writer (d. [[1976]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[James Fairbairn]], Australian pastoralist, aviator, and politician (d. [[1940]])
* [[July 29]] &ndash; Sir [[Neil Ritchie]], British WWII general (d. [[1983]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Red Hynes]], American anti-communist and anti-labor police officer (d. [[1952]])
*[[August 4]] &ndash; [[José Nucete Sardi]], Venezuelan historian and diplomat (d. 1972)<ref name="POLAR">Mireya SOSA DE LEÓN: «Nucete Sardi, José». En: [https://bibliofep.fundacionempresaspolar.org/dhv/entradas/n/nucete-sardi-jose-vicente/ ''Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela'']. Venezuela: Fundación Empresas Polar, 1997. 980-6397-37-I.</ref>
* [[August 5]] 
** [[Aksel Larsen]], Danish politician (d. [[1972]])
** [[Joan Beauchamp Procter]], British zoologist (d. [[1931]])
* [[August 6]] 
** [[Josef Charvát]], Czech doctor and endocrinologist (d. [[1984]])
** [[Lorenza Jordan Cole]], American concert pianist and music educator (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[William M. Callaghan]], American Navy officer (d. [[1991]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Jack Haley]], American actor (d. [[1979]])
* [[August 11]] 
** [[Enid Blyton]], British children's writer (d. [[1968]])
** [[Käthe Haack]], German actress (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Jane Ingham]], English botanist and scientific translator (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 16]]
** [[Carlo Del Prete]], Italian aviator (d. [[1928]])
** [[Hersch Lauterpacht]], Ukrainian-born international lawyer (d. [[1960]])
** [[Marjorie Barnard]], Australian writer, critic, historian and librarian (d. [[1987]])
** [[Bob Fothergill]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1938]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Roman Vishniac]], Russian-American photographer (d. [[1990]])
* [[August 22]] 
** [[Elisabeth Bergner]], Austrian actress (d. [[1986]])
** [[Nick Lucas]], American jazz singer and guitarist (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Nowack]], German economist and politician (d. [[1990]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Yun Posun]], 2nd president of South Korea (d. [[1990]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Fredric March]], American actor (d. [[1975]])

=== September&ndash;October ===
[[File:Castelobranco.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco]]]]
[[File:Perry-Mason-Pidgeon-1963.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Walter Pidgeon]]]]
[[File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.jpg|thumb|100px|[[William Faulkner]]]]
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Mary Cover Jones]], American developmental psychologist (d. [[1987]])
* [[September 3]] 
** [[James Hanley (novelist)|James Hanley]], British novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. [[1985]])
** [[Corry Tendeloo]], Dutch lawyer, feminist, and politician (d. [[1956]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Morris Carnovsky]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Emiliano Di Cavalcanti]], Brazilian painter (d. [[1967]])
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Al Sherman]], Russian-born American [[Tin Pan Alley]] songwriter (d. [[1973]])
* [[September 8]]  
** [[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]], American singer (d. [[1933]])
** [[Ivan Borkovský]], Czechoslovakian archaeologist (d. [[1976]])
* [[September 10]] 
** [[Otto Strasser]], German Nazi politician (d. [[1974]])
** [[Georges Bataille]], French philosopher and intellectual (d. [[1962]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Irène Joliot-Curie]], French physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. [[1956]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Michel Saint-Denis]], French-born actor, theatre director, drama theorist and radio broadcaster (d. [[1971]])
* [[September 15]] 
** [[Kurt Daluege]], German Nazi officer, war criminal (d. [[1946]])
** [[I. I. Chundrigar]], Pakistani politician and the sixth [[prime minister of Pakistan]] (d. [[1960]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Battling Siki]], Senegalese boxer (d. [[1925]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Francis Stewart Briggs]], Australian aviator (d. [[1966]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco]], 26th [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1967]])
* [[September 22]] –&nbsp;[[Frank O'Connor (actor, born 1897)|Frank O'Connor]], American actor, rancher, and painter (d. 1979)<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Grossman |first=Jennifer A. |date=November 9, 2016 |title=5 Things To Know About Frank O'Connor, Ayn Rand's Husband |url=https://www.atlassociety.org//post/5-things-to-know-about-frank-oconnor-ayn-rands-husband |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523174105/https://www.atlassociety.org//post/5-things-to-know-about-frank-oconnor-ayn-rands-husband |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |access-date= |website=The Atlas Society |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] 
** [[Walter Pidgeon]], Canadian actor (d. [[1984]])
** [[Paul Delvaux]], Belgian painter (d. [[1994]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[William Faulkner]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1962]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[Pope Paul VI]] (d. [[1978]])
** [[Arthur Rhys-Davids]], British World War I fighter ace (d. [[1917]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Harry Beadles]], Welsh professional footballer (d. [[1958]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Alfred Wintle]], British army officer, eccentric (d. [[1966]])
* [[October 2]] 
** [[Bud Abbott]], American comedian, actor and producer (d. [[1974]])
** [[V. R. Parton]], English chess player and [[chess variant]] inventor (d. [[1974]])
* [[October 3]] 
** [[Louis Aragon]], French author (d. [[1982]])
** [[Ruth Muskrat Bronson]], Cherokee poet, educator and Indian rights activist (d. [[1982]])
* [[October 5]] 
** [[Elise Bartlett]], American actress (d. [[1947]])
** [[Yank Levy]], Canadian soldier, socialist, and military instructor (d. [[1965]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Ngô Đình Thục]], Vietnamese Catholic [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Huế|Archbishop of Huế]] (d. [[1984]])
* [[October 7]]  
** [[Elijah Muhammad]], African-American co-founder of the Nation of Islam (d. [[1975]])
** [[Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)|Charles Chauvel]], Australian filmmaker, producer, actor and screenwriter (d. [[1959]])
* [[October 8]] 
** [[Rouben Mamoulian]], Armenian-American film, theatre director (d. [[1987]])
** [[Cleon Throckmorton]], American painter, theatrical designer, producer, and architect (d. [[1965]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Jane Ace]], American radio actress and comedian (d. [[1974]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Raymond Pace Alexander]], African-American judge (d. [[1974]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Johannes Sikkar]], Estonian statesman (d. [[1960]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu]], Romanian novelist, poet and translator (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]], Pakistani chemist (d. [[1994]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Yi Un]], Korean Crown Prince (d. [[1970]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Edith Head]], American costume designer (d. [[1981]])
* [[October 29]] 
** [[Joseph Goebbels]], German Nazi propagandist (d. [[1945]])
** [[Hilmar Reksten]], Norwegian shipping magnate (d. [[1980]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Agustín Lara]], Mexican composer and interpreter of songs and boleros (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{citation|website=Mexico News Network|title=THE AGUSTIN LARA MUSEUM IN VERACRUZ|date=August 20, 2014|access-date=August 23, 2019|url=http://www.mexiconewsnetwork.com/en/art-and-culture/agustin-lara-museum-veracruz/|archive-date=August 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824050827/http://www.mexiconewsnetwork.com/en/art-and-culture/agustin-lara-museum-veracruz/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== November&ndash;December ===
[[File:Quentin Roosevelt in Uniform 1917.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Quentin Roosevelt]]]]
[[File:Hermione Gingold (1973) by Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hermione Gingold]]]]
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Richard Russell Jr.]], American politician (d. [[1971]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Allan Adair]], British army general (d. [[1988]])
* [[November 4]]
** [[Dmitry Pavlov (general)|Dmitry Pavlov]], Soviet general (d. [[1941]])
** [[Janaki Ammal]], Indian botanist (d. [[1984]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]], American screenwriter (d. [[1953]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Day]], American journalist, social activist and anarchist (d. [[1980]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Ronald George Wreyford Norrish]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1978]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Milward Simpson]], American politician, governor and senator from Wyoming (d. [[1993]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Tilly Edinger]], German-American paleontologist (d. [[1967]])
* [[November 15]]
** [[Sacheverell Sitwell|Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt]], English author (d. [[1988]])
** [[Aneurin Bevan]], Welsh politician (d. [[1960]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Choudhry Rahmat Ali]], Pakistani nationalist and politician (d. [[1951]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Wilbert Hamilton]], Canadian politician (d. [[1964]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])
* [[November 19]]
** [[Quentin Roosevelt]], youngest son of American President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], killed in action as fighter pilot (d. [[1918]])
** [[Lloyd K. Garrison]], American lawyer (d. [[1991]])
* [[November 21]] 
** [[Aubrey Devine]], American football and basketball player, coach, and lawyer (d. [[1981]])
** [[Vito Genovese]], Italian-American mobster and the leader of the [[Genovese crime family]] (d. [[1969]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Roessler]], German anti-Nazi spy (d. [[1958]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]], Bengali author (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Lucky Luciano]], Sicilian-American Mafia boss ''Salvatore Lucania'' (d. [[1962]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Chu Ki-chol]], Korean Presbyterian minister and martyr (d. [[1944]])
* [[November 26]] 
** [[Robert Accard]], French footballer (d. [[1971]])
** [[Theodore Lukits]], Romanian-American painter. (d. [[1992]])
* [[November 30]] 
** [[Virginia Henderson]], American nurse theorist (d. [[1996]])
** [[L. Taylor Hansen]], American writer (d. [[1976]])
** [[Lee Morse]], American singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress (d. [[1954]])
* [[December 2]] 
** [[Dean Alfange]], American politician (d. [[1989]])
** [[Rewi Alley]], New Zealand writer and political activist (d. [[1987]])
** [[Mary Elwyn Patchett]], Australian writer, beautician, dietician (d. [[1989]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[William Gropper]], American cartoonist (d. [[1977]])
* [[December 5]] 
** [[Gershom Scholem]], German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher, historian (d. [[1982]])
** [[Nunnally Johnson]], American screenwriter, film director, producer and playwright (d. [[1977]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Hermione Gingold]], English actress (d. [[1987]])
* [[December 11]] 
** [[George Francis (cricketer)|George Francis,]] Barbadian cricketer (d. [[1942]])
** [[Opal Whiteley]], American nature writer and diarist (d. 1992)
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Dorothy McKibbin]], American [[Manhattan Project]] manager (d. [[1985]])
** [[Lillian Smith (author)|Lillian Smith]], American writer and social critic (d. [[1966]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Drew Pearson (journalist)|Drew Pearson]], American columnist (d. [[1969]])
* [[December 14]] 
** [[Kurt Schuschnigg]], 11th Chancellor of Austria (d. [[1977]])
** [[Margaret Chase Smith]], American politician (d. [[1995]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.|Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr]]., American diplomat (d. [[1961]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Fletcher Henderson]], American musician (d. [[1952]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Vojtěch Jarník]], Czech mathematician (d. [[1970]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Lazare Ponticelli]], Italian-French supercentenarian; last surviving officially recognized French veteran of the First World War (d. [[2008]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Thyra J. Edwards]], African-American educator, social worker, journalist, and activist (d. [[1953]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Willy Corsari]], Dutch writer, actress and composer (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Ivan Konev]], Soviet general and [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 31]] 
** [[Rhys Williams (Welsh-American actor)|Rhys Williams]], Welsh actor (d. [[1969]])
** [[Orry-Kelly]], Australian-American costume designer (d. [[1964]])

=== Date unknown ===

* [[Abd-al Karim]], Afghan emir (d. [[1927]])
* [[Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai]], Afghan revolutionary and decorated War Hero of the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War|Afghan War of Independence]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[Ernest Buckmaster]], Australian artist (d. [[1968]])
* [[Lena Gurr]], American artist (d. [[1992]])
* [[He Zhuguo]], Chinese general (d. [[1985]])
* [[Halyna Kuzmenko]], Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary (d. [[1978]])
* [[Musso]], Indonesian revolutionary and leader of the [[Communist Party of Indonesia]] (d. [[1948]])
* [[Thích Quảng Đức]], Vietnamese [[Mahayana|Mahayana Buddhist]] monk and self-immolator (d. [[1963]])

== Deaths ==

===January&ndash;June===
[[File:JohannesBrahms.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Johannes Brahms]]]]
[[File:Andrés Bonifacio photo.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Andrés Bonifacio]]]]
[[File:Minna_Canth.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Minna Canth]]]]
[[File:Louis Briere de lIsle.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis Brière de l'Isle]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Joseph S. Skerrett]], American admiral (b. [[1833]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Gwyn Elger]], English astronomer (b. [[1836]])
*[[January 25]] &ndash; [[Albion P. Howe]], Union Army general (b. [[1818]])
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Robert Themptander]], 4th prime minister of Sweden (b. [[1844]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Merkus]], Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier and political activist (b. [[1839]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Charles Bendire]], U.S. Army captain, ornithologist (b. [[1836]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Dimitrie Ghica]], 10th prime minister of Romania (b. [[1816]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Edmund Colhoun]], American admiral (b. [[1821]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Karl Weierstrass]], German mathematician (b. [[1815]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Thomas Elder|Sir Thomas Elder]], Australian businessman and philanthropist (b. [[1818]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani]], Iranian teacher, writer (b. [[1838]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Savitribai Phule]], Indian social reformer and poet (b. [[1831]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Henry Drummond (evangelist)|Henry Drummond]], Scottish evangelical writer, lecturer (b. [[1851]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie]], Irish-born traveler (b. [[1810]])
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Jandamarra]], Australian Aboriginal insurrectionist (b. c. [[1873]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Johannes Brahms]], German composer (b. [[1833]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred Louis Bacharach|title=Lives of Great Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0nsAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Books for Libraries Press|isbn=978-0-8369-2783-2|page=105}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Heinrich von Stephan]], German postal director (b. [[1831]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Franz III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]] (b. [[1851]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[A. Viola Neblett]], American activist, suffragist, women's rights pioneer (b. [[1842]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Frederick Knight (politician)|Sir Frederick Knight]], British politician (b. [[1812]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria]] (b. [[1847]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[Ion Ghica]], 3-time prime minister of Romania (b. [[1816]])
** [[Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale]] (b. [[1822]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd|title=Burke's Royal Families of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozYOAQAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Burke's Peerage|isbn=978-0-85011-029-6|page=528}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Andrés Bonifacio]], Filipino revolutionary (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Minna Canth]], Finnish writer and social activist (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Maijala|first1=Minna|title=Minna Canth (1844–1897)|url=http://www.helsinki.fi/sukupuolentutkimus/klassikkogalleria/canth/|website=Klassikkogalleria|publisher=Kristiina Institute, [[University of Helsinki]]|access-date=8 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – [[Gregorio Luperón]], Dominican revolutionary leader (b. [[1839]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju]], Indian rajah (b. [[1850]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Sebastian Kneipp]], German priest and naturopath (b. [[1821]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Louis Brière de l'Isle]], French general (b. [[1827]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Cánovas_Madrazo.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Antonio Cánovas del Castillo]]]]
[[File:Teresa-de-Lisieux.jpg|thumb|110px|right|Saint [[Thérèse of Lisieux]]]]
[[File:Jan Heemskerk Azn (1818-1897), after Heinrich Wilhelm Wollrabe.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jan Heemskerk]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Ropata Wahawaha]], New Zealand Māori military leader (b. c.1820)
* [[July 6]]
** [[Tommy Burns (diver)|Tommy Burns]], English diver (b. [[1867]] or [[1868]])
** [[Celia Barrios de Reyna]], First Mother of the Nation of Guatemala (b. [[1834]])
* [[August 8]] 
** [[Antonio Cánovas del Castillo]], incumbent [[Prime Minister of Spain]] and historian (assassinated) (b. [[1828]])
** [[Viktor Meyer]], German chemist (b. [[1848]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[William Jervois|Sir William Jervois]], British military engineer and diplomat (b. [[1821]])
* [[August 24]]
**[[Sébastien Lespès]], French admiral (b. [[1828]])
**[[Mutsu Munemitsu]], Japanese statesman, diplomat (b. [[1844]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Louisa Lane Drew]], English-born American actress, theater manager (b. [[1820]])
* [[September 9]]
** [[Richard Holt Hutton]], English writer, theologian (b. [[1826]])
** [[Ferenc Pulszky]], Hungarian politician (b. [[1814]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Louis Pierre Mouillard]], French artist and aviation pioneer (b. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pierre Lecomte du Noüy|title=Between Knowing and Believing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCgmAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=McKay|page=173}}</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Wattenbach]], German historian (b. [[1819]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Charles-Denis Bourbaki]], French military leader (b. [[1816]])
** [[George M. Robeson]], American politician (b. [[1829]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; Saint [[Thérèse of Lisieux]], French [[Roman Catholic]] and [[Discalced Carmelite]] nun, saint (b. [[1873]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Edward Maitland (writer)|Edward Maitland]], British writer (b. [[1824]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Yamaji Motoharu]], Japanese general (b. [[1841]])
* [[October 9]]
** [[John M. B. Clitz]], American admiral (b. [[1821]])
** [[Jan Heemskerk]], Dutch politician, 16th [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1818]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[William Daniel (Maryland politician)|William Daniel]], American temperance movement leader (b. [[1826]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[George Pullman]], American inventor and industrialist (b. [[1831]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[John J. Robison]], American politician in Michigan (b. [[1824]])<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date= October 28, 1897|title= John J. Robison Dead|url=https://aadl.org/node/566229 |work= Ann Arbor Register|publisher=[[Ann Arbor District Library]] |location= |access-date=December 28, 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 27]]
** [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]] (b. [[1833]])
** {{ill|Carlos Antúnez González|es}}, Chilean politician (b. [[1847]])
** [[Alexander Milton Ross]], Canadian abolitionist, naturalist (b. [[1832]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead]], British colonial governor (b. [[1824]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Henry George]], American economist (b. [[1839]])
* November &ndash; [[Francisco Gonzalo Marín]], Cuban poet, freedom fighter (b. [[1863]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[John Chard]], British Army officer (b. [[1847]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Thomas Lanier Clingman]], American "Prince of Politicians" (b. [[1812]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Ernest Giles]], Australian explorer (b. [[1835]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Lucinda Barbour Helm]], American women's religious activist (b. [[1839]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[George Hendric Houghton]], American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. [[1820]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Woolliscroft Rhead|title=British Pottery Marks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaZpAAAAMAAJ|year=1910|publisher=Scott, Greenwood|page=115}}</ref>
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Henry Doulton|Sir Henry Doulton]], English pottery manufacturer (b. [[1820]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[William Seymour Tyler]], American educator, historian (b. [[1810]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Étienne Stéphane Tarnier]], French obstetrician (b. [[1828]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Robert Simpson (merchant)|Robert Simpson]], Scottish-Canadian businessman (b. [[1834]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Alphonse Daudet]], French writer (b. [[1840]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Stanislas de Guaita]], French poet (b. [[1861]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[William Corby]], American Catholic priest (b. [[1833]])

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[[File:Isidora Goyenechea.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Isidora Goyenechea]]]]
* [[Isidora Goyenechea]], Chilean industrialist, mine owner (b. [[1836]])

== References ==
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==Further reading==
* [https://archive.org/details/appletonsannual11unkngoog ''1897 Annual Cyclopedia'' (1898)] highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1897; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 824 pp

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