Editing 1898

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== Events ==
[[File:World 1898 empires colonies territory.png|thumb|1898 world map]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[New York City]] annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], [[The Bronx]] and [[Staten Island]].
* [[January 13]] &ndash; Novelist [[Émile Zola]]'s [[open letter]] to the President of the French Republic on the [[Dreyfus affair]], {{lang|la|[[J'Accuse…!]]}}, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper {{lang|la|[[L'Aurore]]}}, accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning [[Alfred Dreyfus]] and of [[antisemitism]].
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of [[Brighton]] rolls out of control down a hill in [[Purley, London]], England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a [[public highway]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|series=Penguin Reference Library|publisher=Penguin|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The {{USS|Maine|ACR-1|6}} explodes and sinks in [[Havana]] Harbor, [[Cuba]], for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitates the United States' declaration of war on Spain, two months later.[[File:USS Maine h60255a.jpg|thumb|right|[[February 15]]: {{USS|Maine|ACR-1|6}} is sunk.]]
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Émile Zola]] is imprisoned in France, after writing {{lang|la|[[J'Accuse…!]]}}.
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Lenin]] creates the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] in [[Minsk]]
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Association football]] and sports club [[BSC Young Boys]] is established in [[Bern]], Switzerland, as the ''{{lang|la|Fussballclub}} Young Boys''.
* [[March 16]] &ndash; In [[Melbourne]] the representatives of five colonies adopt a [[Constitution of Australia|constitution]], which will become the basis of the [[Commonwealth of Australia]].<ref>{{cite book|first=J. A.|last=LaNauze|title=The Making of the Australian Constitution|publisher=Melbourne University Press|year=1972}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; Robert Allison of [[Port Carbon, Pennsylvania]], becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile, when he buys a [[Winton automobile]] that has been advertised in ''[[Scientific American]]''.
* [[March 26]] &ndash; The [[Kruger National Park|Sabie Game Reserve]] in South Africa is created, as the first officially designated [[game reserve]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Annie Oakley]] promotes the service of women in combat situations, with the United States military. On this day, she writes a letter to President McKinley "offering the government the services of a company of 50 'lady sharpshooters' who would provide their own arms and ammunition should war break out with Spain."<ref>[https://www.archives.gov/research/recover/example-02.html The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107163518/https://www.archives.gov/research/recover/example-02.html |date=November 7, 2020 }}. "Letter to President [[William McKinley]] from Annie Oakley". Retrieved January 24, 2008.</ref> 
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The United States Navy begins a [[blockade]] of [[Cuba]]n ports and the {{USS|Nashville|PG-7|6}} captures a Spanish merchant ship.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: A conference of senior [[Spanish Navy]] officers led by naval minister [[Segismundo Bermejo]] decide to send Admiral [[Pascual Cervera]]'s squadron to Cuba and Puerto Rico.
* [[April 25]]
** [[Spanish–American War]]: The United States declares war on Spain; the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] announces that a state of war has existed since [[April 21]] (later backdating this one more day to [[April 20]]).
** In [[Essen]], German company {{lang|la|italic=no|Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk}} [[RWE]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book|first=Camillo J.|last=Asriel|title=Das R.W.E., Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk A.-G., Essen a.d. Ruhr|language=de|publisher=Girsberger & Company|year=1930|page=1}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] &ndash; An explosion in [[Santa Cruz, California]], kills 13 workers, at the [[California Powder Works]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The California Powder Works|work=Santa Cruz Public Library Local History Articles|url=http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/11/|access-date=2011-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626002035/http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/11/|archive-date=June 26, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[April 29]] &ndash; The [[Paris Auto Show]], the first large-scale [[Vehicle|commercial vehicle exhibition show]], is held in [[Tuileries Garden]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Authority |first=International Driving |title=Paris Motor Show |url=https://idaoffice.org/posts/paris-motor-show-en/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=International Driving Authority |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Manila Bay]]: [[George Dewey|Commodore Dewey]] destroys the Spanish squadron, in the first battle of the war, as well as the first battle in the Philippines Campaign.
* [[May 2]] &ndash; Thousands of Chinese scholars and Beijing citizens seeking reforms protest in front of the [[capital control]] [[Chinese yuan|yuan]].
* [[May 7]]&ndash;[[May 9|9]] &ndash; [[Bava Beccaris massacre]]: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed, when General [[Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris]] orders troops to fire on a rally in [[Milan]], Italy.
* [[May 8]] &ndash; The first games of the [[Italian Football Federation]] are played, in which [[Genoa C.F.C.|Genoa]] played against [[R.S. Ginnastica Torino|Torino]].
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The [[Puerto Rican Campaign]] begins, with the [[Bombardment of San Juan]].
* [[May 22]] &ndash; The German Federation football club [[SV Darmstadt 98]] is formed.
* [[May 27]] &ndash; The territory of [[Guangzhouwan|Kwang-Chou-Wan]] is leased by China to France, according to the Treaty of 12 April 1892, as the {{lang|la|Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan}}, forming part of [[French Indochina]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=A.|last=Choveaux|title=Situation économique du territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan en 1923|journal=[[Annales de Géographie]]|volume=34|issue=187|pages=74–77|year=1925|doi=10.3406/geo.1925.8102}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Secondo Pia]] takes the first photographs of the [[Shroud of Turin]] and discovers that the image on the Shroud itself appears to be a [[negative (photography)|photographic negative]].[[File:Philippines Flag Original.svg|thumb|The original flag of the Philippines as conceived by General [[Emilio Aguinaldo]]. The blue is of a lighter shade than the currently mandated royal blue, the sun has eight points as currently but many more rays and it has a mythical face.]]
* [[June 1]] &ndash; The [[Trans-Mississippi Exposition]] [[world's fair|World's Fair]] opens, in [[Omaha, Nebraska]].
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[William Ramsay]] and [[Morris Travers]] discover [[neon]] at their laboratory at [[University College London]], after extracting it from liquid nitrogen.<ref>{{cite book|first=Christoph|last=Ribbat|title=Flickering Light: A History of Neon|publisher=Reaktion Books|year=2011|page=23}}</ref>
* [[June 9]] &ndash; The British government arranges a [[Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory|99-year rent]] of Hong Kong from China.
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Tuone Udaina]], the last known speaker of the [[Dalmatian language]], is killed in an explosion.
* [[June 11]] &ndash; The [[Guangxu Emperor]] announces the creation of what would later become [[Peking University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=[Peking University Landmark] Peking University Hall |url=https://english.pku.edu.cn/news_events/news/campus/8372.html |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=english.pku.edu.cn}}</ref><ref>Harry Edward King. 1911. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF CHINA AS RECENTLY RECONSTRUCTED. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED542944.pdf</ref>
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Philippine Declaration of Independence]]: After 333 years of Spanish dominance, General [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] declares the [[Philippines]]' independence from Spain.
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Yukon|Yukon Territory]] is formed in Canada, with [[Dawson City|Dawson]] chosen as its capital.
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Food processing]] giant [[Nabisco]] is founded in [[New Jersey]].{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The United States [[Capture of Guam|captures Guam]], making it the first U.S. [[Overseas expansion of the United States|overseas territory]].
* [[June 28]] &ndash; Effective date of the [[Curtis Act of 1898]] which will lead to the dissolution of tribal and communal lands in Indian Territory and ultimately the creation of the State of [[Oklahoma]] in 1907.

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:Pepsi Cola logo 1940.svg|thumb|140px|August 28: [[Caleb Bradham]] names his soft drink  [[Pepsi-Cola]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: [[Battle of San Juan Hill]] &ndash; United States troops (including [[Buffalo Soldier]]s and [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s [[Rough Riders]]) take a strategic position close to [[Santiago de Cuba]] from the Spanish.
* [[July 3]]
** [[Spanish–American War]]: [[Battle of Santiago de Cuba]] &ndash; The [[United States Navy]] destroys the [[Spanish Navy]]'s Caribbean Squadron.
** American adventurer [[Joshua Slocum]] completes a 3-year solo [[circumnavigation]] of the world.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; En route from New York to [[Le Havre]], the ocean liner {{SS|La Bourgogne}} collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of [[Sable Island]] with the loss of 549 lives.
* [[July 7]] &ndash; The United States annexes the [[Hawaii|Hawaiian Islands]].
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: Battle of Santiago Bay. Troops under United States General [[William R. Shafter]] take the city of [[Santiago de Cuba]] from the Spanish.
* [[July 18]] &ndash; "The Adventures of [[Louis de Rougemont]]" first appear in ''[[The Wide World Magazine]]'', as its August 1898 issue goes on sale.<ref>{{cite book|first=Linda|last=Stratmann|title=Fraudsters and Charlatans: A Peek at Some of History's Greatest Rogues|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud|year=2010}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The United States invasion of [[Puerto Rico]] begins, with a landing at [[Guánica, Puerto Rico|Guánica Bay]].
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: [[Battle of Manila (1898)|Battle of Manila]] &ndash; By prior agreement, the Spanish commander surrenders the city of [[Manila]] to the United States, in order to keep it out of the hands of Filipino rebels, ending hostilities in the Philippines.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; The [[Gornergrat railway]] opens, connecting [[Zermatt]] to the [[Gornergrat]] in Switzerland.
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama]] is founded in [[Rio de Janeiro]].
* [[August 23]] &ndash; The [[Southern Cross Expedition]], the first British venture of the [[Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration]], sets sail from London.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes sign the [[Atoka Agreement]], a requirement of the [[Curtis Act of 1898]].
* [[August 25]] &ndash; 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in [[Heraklion|Heraklion, Greece]], leading to the establishment of the autonomous [[Cretan State]].
* [[August 28]] &ndash; American pharmacist [[Caleb Bradham]] names his soft drink ''[[Pepsi-Cola]]''.
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Battle of Omdurman]] ([[Mahdist War]]): British and Egyptian troops led by [[Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum|Horatio Kitchener]] defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the [[Sudan]]. 11,000 Sudanese are killed and 1,600 wounded in the battle.<ref>{{cite book|first=A. Adu|last=Boahen|title=African Perspectives on Colonialism|location=Baltimore, Md|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1987|isbn=9780801839313|page=48}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] &ndash; Italian anarchist [[Luigi Lucheni]] assassinates [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]] in Geneva, as an act of [[propaganda of the deed]].
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Fashoda Incident]]: A powerful [[flotilla]] of British [[gunboat]]s arrives at the French-occupied fort of [[Fashoda]] on the [[White Nile]], leading to a diplomatic stalemate, until French troops are ordered to withdraw on [[November 3]].
* [[September 21]]
** [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] of China engineers a [[coup d'état]], marking the end of the [[Hundred Days' Reform]]; the [[Guangxu Emperor]] is arrested.
** [[Geert Adriaans Boomgaard]] of [[Groningen]] in the Netherlands becomes the world's first validated [[supercentenarian]].

===October&ndash;December===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; The [[Vienna University of Economics and Business]] is founded, under the name {{lang|la|[[Imperial and royal|K.u.K.]] Exportakademie}}.
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Battle of Sugar Point]]: Ojibwe tribesmen defeat U.S. government troops, in northern [[Minnesota]].
* [[October 6]] &ndash; The Sinfonia Club, later to become the [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]] fraternity, is founded at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]] in [[Boston]] by [[Ossian Everett Mills]].
* [[October 15]] &ndash; The [[Fork Union Military Academy]] is founded, in [[Fork Union, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite book|first=John S.|last=Salmon|title=A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers|publisher=University of Virginia Press|year=1994|page=48}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; The [[Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem]], is dedicated.
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Negros Revolution]]: Filipinos on the island of [[Negros (Philippines)|Negros]] revolt against [[Spanish East Indies|Spanish rule]] and establish the short-lived [[Republic of Negros]].
* [[November 10]] &ndash; The [[Wilmington insurrection of 1898]], a coup d'état by the white Democratic Party of North Carolina, begins.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; A two-day blizzard known as the [[Portland Gale]] piles snow in [[Boston]], severely impacting the [[Massachusetts]] fishing industry and several coastal [[New England]] towns.
* [[December 9]] &ndash; The first of the two [[Tsavo Man-Eaters]] is shot by [[John Henry Patterson (author)|John Henry Patterson]]; the second is killed 3 weeks later, after 135 railway construction workers have been killed by the lions.
* [[December 10]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|Treaty of Paris]] is signed, ending the [[Spanish–American War]].
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat]] sets the first official [[land speed record]] in an automobile, averaging {{cvt|63.15|km/h}} over {{cvt|1|km}} in France.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Marie Curie|Marie]] and [[Pierre Curie]] announce the discovery of an element that they name ''[[radium]]''.
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull|The Moscow Art Theatre production of ''The Seagull'']] by [[Anton Chekhov]] opens.<ref>{{cite book|last=Benedetti|first=Jean|year=1999|title=Stanislavski: His Life and Art|edition=Revised|location=London|publisher=Methuen|isbn=0-413-52520-1}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; French serial killer [[Joseph Vacher]] is executed at [[Bourg-en-Bresse]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8353205/The-forensic-mind-of-the-original-Dr-Death.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8353205/The-forensic-mind-of-the-original-Dr-Death.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The forensic mind of the original Dr Death|first=Liz|last=Hunt|date=March 1, 2011|work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== Unknown dates ===
* The first volume of the [[Linguistic Survey of India]] is published in [[Calcutta]].

== Births ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
[[File:Dame Gracie Fields Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gracie Fields]]]]
[[File:Kaj Munk.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Kaj Munk]]]]
[[File:Sergei Eisenstein 03.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Sergei Eisenstein]]]]
[[File:Randolph Scott-publicity.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Randolph Scott]]]]
[[File:Denjirō Ōkōchi.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Denjirō Ōkōchi]]]]
[[File:Bertolt-Brecht.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bertolt Brecht]]]]
[[File:Leo Szilard-cropped.png|thumb|110px|[[Leó Szilárd]]]]
[[File:Enzo Ferrari - Wheel of a racing car.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Enzo Ferrari]]]]
[[File:Soong May-ling giving a special radio broadcast.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Soong Mei-ling]]]]
[[File:Dönges cropped.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Eben Dönges]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Viktor Ullmann]], Austrian composer, conductor and pianist (d. [[1944]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[John Loder (actor)|John Loder]], British actor (d. [[1988]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[James Fitzmaurice]], Irish aviation pioneer (d. [[1965]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Art Baker (actor)|Art Baker]], American actor (d. [[1966]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Gracie Fields]], British singer, actress and comedian (d. [[1979]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Katharine Burr Blodgett]], American physicist and chemist (d. [[1979]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Kaj Munk]], Danish playwright, [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] [[pastor]] and martyr (d. [[1944]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Margaret Booth]], American film editor (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Norma Varden]], British-born American actress (d. [[1989]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[Rudolph Maté]], Polish-born American cinematographer (d. [[1964]])
** Shah [[Ahmad Shah Qajar]] of Persia (d. [[1930]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Russian and Soviet film director (d. [[1948]])
** [[Elazar Shach]], Lithuanian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. [[2001]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Randolph Scott]], American film actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Karl Hermann Frank]], German Nazi official, war criminal (d. [[1946]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Hymie Weiss]], Polish-American mob boss (d. [[1926]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Milan Konjović]], Serbian painter (d. [[1993]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker]], American journalist and author (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Leila Denmark]], American pediatrician, supercentenarian (d. [[2012]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish architect (d. [[1976]])
* [[February 5]] 
** [[Denjirō Ōkōchi]], Japanese actor (d. [[1962]])
**[[Ralph McGill]], American journalist and editorialist (d.[[1969]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Melvin B. Tolson]], American poet, educator, columnist, and politician (d. [[1966]])
* [[February 10]] 
** [[Bertolt Brecht]], German writer (d. [[1956]])
** [[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and author (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bettina Liebowitz Knapp|title=French novelists speak out|publisher=Whitston Publishing Company|year=1976|isbn=9780878750849|page=65}}</ref>
** [[Margot Sponer]], German philologist and resistance fighter (d. [[1945]])
* [[February 11]]
** [[Henry de La Falaise]], French film director, [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de guerre]] recipient (d. [[1972]])
** [[Leó Szilárd]], Hungarian-American physicist (d. [[1964]])
* [[February 12]]
** [[Wallace Ford]], British actor (d. [[1966]])
** [[Roy Harris]], American composer (d. [[1979]])
* [[February 14]]
** [[Eva Novak]], American actress (d. [[1988]])
** [[Fritz Zwicky]], Swiss physicist, astronomer (d. [[1974]])
* [[February 15]]
** [[Totò]], Italian comedian, actor, poet, and songwriter (d. [[1967]])
** [[Allen Woodring]], American runner (d. [[1982]])
* [[February 18]]
** [[Enzo Ferrari]], Italian race car driver, automobile manufacturer (d. [[1988]])
** [[Luis Muñoz Marín]], Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (d. [[1980]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Kurt Tank]], German aeronautical engineer (d. [[1983]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[William Astbury]], English physicist, molecular biologist (d. [[1961]]) 
* [[February 28]]
** [[Hugh O'Flaherty]], Irish Catholic priest (d. [[1963]])
** [[Molly Picon]], American actress, lyricist (d. [[1992]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Amélia Rey Colaço]], Portuguese actress and impresario (d. [[1990]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Emil Artin]], Austrian mathematician (d. [[1962]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Georges Dumézil]], French philologist (d. [[1986]])
* [[March 5]] 
** [[Zhou Enlai]], [[Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (d. [[1976]])
** [[Soong Mei-ling]], First Lady of China (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Therese Giehse]], German actress (d. [[1975]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Eben Dönges]], acting [[Prime Minister of South Africa]] and elected [[President of South Africa]] (d. [[1968]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Dudley Stamp]], British geographer (d. [[1966]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Gish]], American actress (d. [[1968]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Henry Hathaway]], American film director, producer (d. [[1985]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Reginald Marsh (artist)|Reginald Marsh]], American painter (d. [[1954]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Paul Alfred Weiss]], Austrian biologist (d. [[1989]])
* [[March 23]] 
** [[Erich Bey]], German admiral (d. [[1943]])
** [[Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset]], Duchess of Parma (d. [[1984]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Joyce Carey]], English actress (d. [[1993]])

=== April&ndash;June ===
[[File:Paul Robeson 1942 crop.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paul Robeson]]]]
[[File:Jacobus Johannes Fouché 1968.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jim Fouché]]]]
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[William James Sidis]], American mathematician (d. [[1944]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Harindranath Chattopadhyay]], Indian poet, actor and politician (d. [[1990]])
* [[April 3]] 
** [[George Jessel (actor)|George Jessel]], American comedian (d. [[1981]])
** [[Henry Luce]], American magazine publisher (d. [[1967]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Agnes Ayres]], American actress (d. [[1940]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Solange d'Ayen]], French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (d. [[1976]])<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |date=1976 |title=Fichier des personnes décédées - DE LABRIFFE Solange Marie Christine Louise {{!}} Amiens 05/04/1898 - Paris 03/11/1976 |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/ZaMQ-EaLrz9A |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès}}</ref>
* [[April 9]] 
** [[Paul Robeson]], African-American actor, singer and political activist (d. [[1976]])
** [[Atsushi Watanabe (actor, born 1898)|Atsushi Watanabe]], Japanese film actor (d. [[1977]])
** [[Therese Neumann]], German Catholic mystic and stigmatic (d. 1962).
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Lily Pons]], French-American opera singer, actress (d. [[1976]])
* [[April 14]] 
** [[Lee Tracy]], American actor (d. [[1968]])
** [[Harold Stephen Black]], American electrical engineer (d. [[1983]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Constance Talmadge]], American actress (d. [[1973]])
* [[April 26]]
** [[Vicente Aleixandre]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1984]])
** [[John Grierson]], Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. [[1972]])
** [[Tomu Uchida]], Japanese film director (d. [[1970]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Bemelmans]], Austrian-American writer and illustrator (d. [[1962]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[E. J. Bowen]], British chemist (d. [[1980]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Henry Hall (bandleader)|Henry Hall]], British bandleader (d. [[1989]])
* [[May 3]]
** [[Golda Meir]], Prime Minister of Israel (d. [[1978]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Golda Meir |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/golda-meir |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=29 July 2021 |language=en |date=16 February 2019}}</ref>
** [[Septima Poinsette Clark]], American educator and civil rights activist (d. [[1987]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Blind Willie McTell]], American singer (d. [[1959]])
** [[Hans Heinrich von Twardowski]], German actor (d. [[1958]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Konrad Henlein]], Sudeten German Nazi leader (d. [[1945]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Hisamuddin of Selangor]], King of Malaysia (d. [[1960]])
* [[May 15]] 
** [[Arletty]], French model, actress (d. [[1992]])
** [[Tom Wintringham]], British politician and historian (d. [[1949]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[Tamara de Lempicka]], Polish Art Deco painter (d. [[1980]])
** [[Kenji Mizoguchi]], Japanese film director (d. [[1956]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[Anagarika Govinda]], German buddhist lama (d. [[1985]])
** [[A. J. Casson]], Canadian painter (d. [[1992]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Julius Evola]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1974]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Armand Hammer]], American entrepreneur, art collector (d. [[1990]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Frank McHugh]], American actor (d. [[1981]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Helen B. Taussig]], American cardiologist (d. [[1986]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Robert Aron]], French historian and writer (d. [[1975]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Andy Kirk (musician)|Andy Kirk]], American jazz bandleader and saxophonist (d.[[1992]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Norman Vincent Peale]], American clergyman (d. [[1993]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Stuart H. Ingersoll]], American admiral (d. [[1983]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Harry Crosby]], American publisher, poet (d. [[1929]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Federico García Lorca]], Spanish poet, playwright (d. [[1936]])
* [[June 6]]
** [[Ninette de Valois]], Irish dancer, founder of [[The Royal Ballet]] (d. [[2001]])
** [[Jim Fouché]], 5th [[President of South Africa]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Michel Hollard]], French Resistance hero (d. [[1993]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Lionel Penrose]], English geneticist (d. [[1972]])
* [[June 17]]
** [[M. C. Escher]], Dutch artist (d. [[1972]])
** [[Harry Patch]], British World War I soldier, the last [[Tommy Atkins|Tommy]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[June 22]] 
** [[Weeratunge Edward Perera]], Malaysian educator, businessman and social entrepreneur (d. [[1982]])
** [[Erich Maria Remarque]], German writer (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/26/archives/erich-maria-remarque-is-dead-novels-recorded-agony-of-war-erich.html |title=Erich Maria Remarque Is Dead; Novels Recorded Agony of War |newspaper=The New York Times |date=Sep 26, 1970}}</ref> 
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Winifred Holtby]], English novelist and journalist (d. [[1935]])
* [[June 26]]
** [[Sa`id Al-Mufti]], 3-time prime minister of Jordan (d. [[1989]])
** [[Willy Messerschmitt]], German aircraft designer, manufacturer (d. [[1978]])
* [[June 30]] 
** [[George Chandler]], American actor (d. [[1985]])
** [[Josef Jakobs]], German spy (d.[[1941]])

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:Stefanos Stefanopoulos 1965.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Stefanos Stefanopoulos]]]]
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[[File:II Rabi.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Isidor Isaac Rabi]]]]
[[File:Regis Toomey in Cry Danger trailer.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Regis Toomey]]]]
[[File:Leopold Infeld 1960.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Leopold Infeld]]]]
[[File:Alfons Gorbach 1965.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alfons Gorbach]]]]
[[File:Howard Walter Florey 1945.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Howard Florey]]]]
[[File:George Gershwin 1937.jpg|thumb|110px|[[George Gershwin]]]]
* [[July 2]]
** [[George J. Folsey]], American cinematographer (d. [[1988]])
** [[Anthony McAuliffe]], American general (d. [[1975]])
* [[July 3]]
** [[Donald Healey]], English motor engineer, race car driver (d. [[1988]])
** [[Stefanos Stefanopoulos]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1982]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Gulzarilal Nanda]], Indian politician, economist (d. [[1998]])
** [[Gertrude Lawrence]], English actress, singer (d. [[1952]])
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Hanns Eisler]], German composer (d. [[1962]])
* [[July 7]] 
** [[Teresa Hsu Chih]], Chinese-born Singaporean social worker, supercentenarian (d. [[2011]])
** [[Arnold Horween]], American Harvard Crimson, NFL football player (d. [[1985]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Vic Oliver]], Austrian-born British actor and radio comedian (d. [[1964]])
* [[July 14]]
** [[Happy Chandler]], American politician (d. [[1991]])
** [[Youssef Wahbi]], Egyptian actor, film director (d. [[1982]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Berenice Abbott]], American photographer (d. [[1991]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[John Stuart (actor)|John Stuart]], Scottish actor (d. [[1979]])
* [[July 22]]
** [[Stephen Vincent Benét]], American writer (d. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors|publisher=Salem Press|year=1958|page=96}}</ref>
** [[Alexander Calder]], American artist (d. [[1976]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Arthur Lubin]], American film director (d. [[1995]])
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1988]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Henry Moore]], English sculptor (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Piero Sraffa]], Italian political economist (d. [[1983]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Peter Mohr Dam]], 2-time prime minister of the Faroe Islands (d. [[1968]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Maria Klenova]], Russian marine geologist (d. [[1976]])
** [[Oscar Homolka]], Austrian actor (d. [[1978]])
* [[August 13]] 
** [[Mohamad Noah Omar]], Malaysian politician (d. [[1991]])
** [[Regis Toomey]], American actor (d. [[1991]])
* [[August 15]] 
** [[Jan Brzechwa]], Polish poet (d. [[1966]])
** [[Mohan Singh Oberoi]], Indian businessman and politician (d. [[2002]]) 
* [[August 18]]
** [[Lance Sharkey]], Australian Communist leader (d. [[1967]])
** [[Tsola Dragoycheva]], Bulgarian politician (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Eleanor Boardman]], American actress (d. [[1991]])
* [[August 20]]
** [[Leopold Infeld]], Polish physicist (d. [[1968]])
** [[Vilhelm Moberg]], Swedish novelist, historian (d. [[1973]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Herbert Mundin]], English actor (d. [[1939]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Peggy Guggenheim]], American art collector (d. [[1979]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[John Hamilton (gangster)|John Hamilton]], Canadian criminal, bank robber (d. [[1934]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Preston Sturges]], American director, writer (d. [[1959]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Shirley Booth]], American actress (d. [[1992]])
* [[September 1]]
** [[Violet Carson]], British actress (d. [[1983]]) 
** [[Marilyn Miller]], American actress, singer, and dancer (d. [[1936]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Alfons Gorbach]], 15th Chancellor of Austria (d. [[1972]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Walter B. Rea]], American university administrator and basketball player (d. [[1970]])
* [[September 10]]
** [[George Eldredge]], American actor (d. [[1977]])
** [[Bessie Love]], American actress (d. [[1986]])
* [[September 13]]
** [[László Baky]], Hungarian Nazi leader (d. [[1946]])
** [[Emilio Núñez Portuondo]], Cuban diplomat, lawyer and politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Cuba]] (d. [[1978]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Saragat]], [[President of Italy]] (d. [[1988]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Howard Florey]], Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1968]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[George Gershwin]], American composer (d. [[1937]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Trofim Lysenko]], Russian biologist (d. [[1976]])
* [[September 30]]
** [[Renée Adorée]], French actress (d. [[1933]])
** [[Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois]] (d. [[1977]]), Monégasque princess

=== October&ndash;December ===
[[File:Justice William O Douglas.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William O. Douglas]]]]
[[File:Peng_Dehuai2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Peng Dehuai]]]]
[[File:Karl Ziegler Nobel.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Karl Ziegler]]]]
[[File:Gunnar Myrdal 1964 002 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gunnar Myrdal]]]]
* [[October 6]]
** [[Arthur G. Jones-Williams]], British aviator (d. [[1929]])
** [[Mitchell Leisen]], American film director (d. [[1972]])
** [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]], American [[jazz]] pianist, composer (d. [[1965]]) 
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Joe Sewell]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Lilly Daché]], French milliner (d. [[1989]])
** [[Marie-Pierre Kœnig]], French general, politician (d. [[1970]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Boughera El Ouafi]], Algerian athlete (d. [[1959]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[William O. Douglas]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Shinichi Suzuki (violinist)|Shinichi Suzuki]], Japanese musician, educator (d. [[1998]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Lotte Lenya]], Austrian actress, singer (d. [[1981]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Peng Dehuai]], Chinese military leader (d. [[1974]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Abdul Khalek Hassouna]], Egyptian diplomat, 2nd [[Secretary-General of the Arab League]] (d. [[1992]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Vera Stanley Alder]], English painter and mystic (d. [[1984]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Raphael Girard]], Swiss-Guatemalan ethnographer (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[René Clair]], French filmmaker, novelist, and non-fiction writer (d. [[1981]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Leon Štukelj]], Slovene gymnast (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Walter Karig]], American naval captain and author (d. [[1956]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Fondane]], Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (d. [[1944]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Sylvan Goldman]], American businessman and inventor (d. [[1984]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Colleen Clifford]], Australian actress (d. [[1996]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Joris Ivens]], Dutch director (d. [[1989]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[René Magritte]], Belgian artist (d. [[1967]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Gabriel González Videla]], 24th [[president of Chile]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Bess Flowers]], American actress (d. [[1984]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Liu Shaoqi]], [[President of the People's Republic of China]] (d. [[1969]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Karl Ziegler]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]])
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[C. S. Lewis]], British author (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{cite web |title=C.S. Lewis {{!}} Biography, Books, Mere Christianity, Narnia, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/C-S-Lewis |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] 
** [[Firpo Marberry]], American baseball pitcher (d. [[1976]])
** [[Link Lyman]], American professional football player (d. [[1972]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Indra Lal Roy]], Indian World War I pilot (d. [[1918]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Grace Moore]], American opera singer, actress (d. [[1947]])
* [[December 6]]
** [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]], American photojournalist (d. [[1995]])
** [[Gunnar Myrdal]], Swedish sociologist, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1987]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Emmett Kelly]], American circus clown (d. [[1979]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Howard Beale (politician)|Howard Beale]], Australian politician and diplomat (d. [[1983]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Lillian Randolph]], American actress, singer (d. [[1980]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Zheng Zhenduo]], Chinese author, translator (d. [[1958]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Irene Dunne]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Baby Dodds]], American jazz drummer (d. [[1959]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Inejiro Asanuma]], Japanese politician (d. [[1960]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Shigematsu Sakaibara]], Japanese admiral and war criminal (d. [[1947]])
* [[December 31]]
** [[István Dobi]], Hungarian prime minister (d. [[1968]])
** [[Ivan Miller (journalist)|Ivan Miller]], Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{Citation|last=Haworth|first=S.|title=Schedule A: Births|page=292|location=[[Wentworth County, Ontario]]|date=January 1899}}</ref>
** [[Krishna Ballabh Sahay]], Indian freedom fighter (d. [[1974]])

=== Unknown Dates: ===

* [[Ernest Born]], American architect, designer, and artist (b. [[1992]])
* [[Robert Piguet]], Swiss-born, Paris-based fashion designer (d. [[1953]])
* [[Henryk Sucharski]], Polish military officer (d. [[1946]])
* [[Piotr Triebler]], Polish sculptor (d. [[1952]])

== Deaths ==

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Lewis Carroll photograph.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Lewis Carroll]]]]
[[File:MatildaJoslynGage.jpeg|thumb|110px|[[Matilda Joslyn Gage]]]]
[[File:Gladstone2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William Ewart Gladstone]]]]
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Lawrence Sullivan Ross]], [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] brigadier general, [[Texas]] governor, and president of [[Texas A&M University]] (b. [[1838]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Lewis Carroll]], British writer, mathematician (''Alice in Wonderland'') (b. [[1832]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Charles Pelham Villiers]], longest-serving MP in the [[British House of Commons]] (b. [[1802]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Henry Liddell]], English Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. [[1811]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Cornelia J. M. Jordan]], American lyricist (b. [[1830]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Tsuboi Kōzō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1843]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Abdul Samad of Selangor]], Malaysian ruler, 4th [[Sultan of Selangor]] (b. [[1804]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bracken]], author of the official national anthem of New Zealand (''[[God Defend New Zealand]]'') (b. [[1843]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[George Bruce Malleson]], Indian officer, author (b. [[1825]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Andrei Alexandrovich Popov]], Russian admiral (b. [[1821]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Marie-Eugénie de Jésus]], French religious (b. [[1817]])
** [[George Müller]], Prussian evangelist, founder of the [[New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol|Ashley Down orphanage]] (b. [[1805]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[William Rosecrans]], California congressman, [[Register of the Treasury|Register of the U.S. Treasury]] (b. [[1819]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Henry Bessemer|Sir Henry Bessemer]], British engineer, inventor (b. [[1813]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Aubrey Beardsley]], British artist (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Crawford |first1=Alan |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter=Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator |page=<!-- online, no page numbers -->|date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1821 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], American feminist (b. [[1826]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; Sir [[Syed Ahmad Khan]], Indian university founder (b. [[1817]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Anton Seidl]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1850]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Aurilla Furber]], American author (b. [[1847]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui]], Maori military leader
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (b. [[1826]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Mary Towne Burt]], American benefactor (b. [[1842]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1809]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Edward Bellamy]], American author (b. [[1850]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Theodor Eimer]], German zoologist (b. [[1843]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Rosalie Olivecrona]], Swedish feminist activist (b. [[1823]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Tuone Udaina]], Croatian-Italian last speaker of the [[Dalmatian language]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Dewitt Clinton Senter]], American politician, 18th [[Governor of Tennessee]] (b. [[1830]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Cohn]], German biologist, bacteriologist and microbiologist (b. [[1828]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R29818, Otto von Bismarck.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Otto von Bismarck]]]]
[[File:Kurzbio fontane05.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Theodor Fontane]]]]
[[File:Charbel.jpg|thumb|right|110px|Saint [[Charbel Makhluf]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Siegfried Marcus]], Austrian automobile pioneer (b. [[1831]])
** [[Joaquín Vara de Rey y Rubio]], Spanish general (killed in action) (b. [[1841]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Richard Pankhurst (politician)|Richard Pankhurst]], English lawyer, radical and supporter of women's rights (b. [[1834]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Soapy Smith]], American con artist and gangster (b. [[1860]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Louis-François Richer Laflèche]], Roman Catholic Bishop of [[Trois-Rivières]], Native American missionary (b. [[1818]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Otto von Bismarck]], German statesman (b. [[1815]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steinberg |first=Jonathan |title=Bismarck: A Life |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-19-997539-6 |author-link=Jonathan Steinberg (historian)|pages=462–3}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (b. [[1824]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Sophia Braeunlich]], American business manager (b. [[1854]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Félicien Rops]], Belgian artist (b. [[1833]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Wilford Woodruff]], fourth president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1807]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Sarah Emma Edmonds]], Canadian nurse, spy (b. [[1841]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Stéphane Mallarmé]], French poet (b. [[1842]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]], empress consort of Austria, queen consort of Hungary (assassinated) (b. [[1837]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Ramón Emeterio Betances]], Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. [[1827]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[George Grey|Sir George Grey]], 11th [[Premier of New Zealand]] (b. [[1812]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Theodor Fontane]], German writer (b. [[1819]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto Drude|title=Theodor Fontane|publisher=Insel Verlag, Frankfurt|year=1994|page=176}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Fanny Davenport]], American actress (b. [[1850]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Tan Sitong]], Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b. [[1865]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Louise of Hesse-Kassel]], German princess, queen consort of [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (b. [[1817]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], French painter (b. [[1824]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[George Goyder]], surveyor-general of South Australia (b. [[1826]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet|Sir John Fowler]], [[British people|British]] [[civil engineer]] (b. [[1817]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Charbel Makhluf]], Lebanese [[Maronite]], [[Roman Catholic]] and [[Eastern Catholic]] monk, priest and saint (b. [[1828]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Laura Gundersen]], Norwegian actress (b. [[1832]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Ilia Solomonovich Abelman]], Russian astronomer (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|title=ABELMAN, ILIA SOLOMONOVICH|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/231-abelman-ilia-solomonovich|author=[[Herman Rosenthal]]|volume=1|page=52}}</ref>

===Date unknown===
* [[Sotirios Sotiropoulos]], Greek economist, politician (b. [[1831]])

==References==
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==Sources==
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* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=Morro Castle, Havana Harbor. 00694250 |quote=Filmed ca. March 17 to April 1, 1898 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(sawmp+1046)) |access-date=2009-05-25 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212061308/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(sawmp+1046)) |archive-date=December 12, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }} [[Morro Castle (Havana)|Morro Castle (fortress)]] downloadable videos. ({{cite video|publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Morro Castle, Havana Harbor, YouTube stream |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoZQk2EWYpE |access-date=2009-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305101931/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozqk2ewype |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |url-status=live }} needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 U S Battleship Indiana |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D92DQwUCt0  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/-D92DQwUCt0| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} view of [[USS Indiana (BB-1)]] (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Transport Ship Whitney Leaving Dock |quote=1898-05-20 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4i2evPoeto  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/J4i2evPoeto| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 10th U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion leaving Train |quote=1898-05-20 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhuiqL8Z9Z0  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/mhuiqL8Z9Z0| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-20}}{{cbignore}} view of [[10th Infantry Regiment (United States)#2nd Battalion|10th U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion]] (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 U.S. Cavalry Supplies Unloading at Tampa, Florida |quote=1898-05-20 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlL8stPXzMA  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/hlL8stPXzMA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} view of [[Tampa, Florida]] (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Military Camp at Tampa, taken from train |quote=1898-05-20 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHtEpxF2ag  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/hYHtEpxF2ag| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} view of [[Tampa, Florida]] (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Cuban Refugees Waiting for Rations |quote=1898-05-20 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW7fyQwsbEo  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/dW7fyQwsbEo| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Colored Troops Disembarking |quote=1898-05-20 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XB2iroTGsI  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/3XB2iroTGsI| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Troops Ship for the Philippines |quote=June 1898 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqUyi4JutU  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/4dqUyi4JutU| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 U.S. troops landing at Daiquirí, Cuba
|quote=1898-08-05 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl-iNvtwkGk  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Gl-iNvtwkGk| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} view of [[Daiquirí]] after the United States invasion of Cuba in the [[Spanish–American War]] (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Major General Shafter |quote=1898-08-05 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKO6BQSdCms  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/YKO6BQSdCms| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} view of [[William Rufus Shafter|Major General Shafter]] (needs Flash)
* {{cite video |publisher=Thomas Edison |title=1898 Troops making road in front of Santiago |quote=1898-09-03 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtapAKGTt6s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/gtapAKGTt6s| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-07}}{{cbignore}} view of [[Santiago de Cuba|Santiago]] (needs Flash)
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