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1895 (MDCCCXCV) was
a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1895th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
895th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 95th year of the 19th century,
and the 6th year of the 1890s decade. As of
the start of 1895, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Sources Events[edit] January–March[edit]
The first internal combustion bus,
1895 (Siegen to Netphen in Germany) ·
January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army
rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.[1] ·
January 12 – The National Trust is founded in the United
Kingdom. ·
January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian
War – Battle of Coatit: Italian forces defeat the
Ethtiopians. ·
January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the
French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. ·
January 21 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or
Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert
Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. ·
February 9 – Mintonette, later known
as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke,
Massachusetts. ·
February 11 – The lowest ever UK
temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire.
This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. ·
February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The
Importance of Being Earnest, is first shown at St James's Theatre in
London. ·
The
gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is
saved, when J. P. Morgan and
the Rothschilds loan
$65 million worth of gold to the United States government. The offering of
syndicate bonds sells out only 22 minutes after the New York market opens,
and just two hours after going on sale in London.[2] ·
Venezuelan
crisis of 1895: U.S. President Grover Cleveland signs into law a bill
resulting from the proposition of House Resolution 252, by William Lindsay
Scruggs and Congressman Leonidas Livingston, to the third
session of the 53rd Congress of the United States of America. The bill
recommends that Venezuela and Great Britain settle their dispute by
arbitration. ·
February 25 – The first rebellions take
place, marking the start of the Cuban War of
Independence. ·
March 1 – William Lyne Wilson is
appointed United
States Postmaster General. ·
March 3 – In Munich, Germany, bicyclists have to pass a test and
display license plates. ·
March 4 – Japanese troops capture Liaoyang, and land in Taiwan. ·
March 15 – Bridget Cleary is killed and her body
burned in County Tipperary,
Ireland, by her husband, Michael; he is subsequently convicted and imprisoned
for manslaughter, his
defence being a belief that he had killed a changelingleft in his wife's place after she
had been abducted by fairies.[3] ·
March 18 – The first worldwide
gasoline bus route is started in Germany,
between Siegen and Netphen. ·
March 30 – Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine in Germany.
April 17: Shimonoseki treaty: Qing Chinarenounces claim on Korea
April–June[edit] ·
April 6 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in London for
"gross indecency", after losing a criminal libel case against the Marquess
of Queensberry. ·
April 7 – Nansen's Fram expedition to
the Arctic reaches 86°13.6'N, almost 3°
beyond the previous Farthest Northattained. ·
April 14 – A major
earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, the capital of Carniola. ·
April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls,
Ontario, is incorporated. ·
April 17 – The Treaty of
Shimonoseki is signed between China and Japan. This marks the
end of the First
Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its
claims on Korea, and to concede the southern portion of Fengtien province, Taiwan, and the Pescadores Islands to
Japan.[4] The huge indemnity exacted from China is used to
establish the Yawata Iron
and Steel Works in Japan. ·
April 22 – Gongche
Shangshu movement: 603 candidates sign a 10,000-word petition
against the Treaty of
Shimonoseki. ·
April 27 – The historic Spiral Bridge
is constructed to carry U.S. 61 over the Mississippi River, at Hastings, Minnesota.
The picturesque bridge is one-of-a-kind, and serves the citizens of Hastings
for 56 years, until it is demolished in 1951. ·
May 1 – Dundela Football, Sports & Association Club is
formed in Belfast. ·
May 2 – Gongche
Shangshu movement: Thousands of Beijing scholars and citizens
protest against the Treaty of
Shimonoseki. ·
May 9 – Thirteen workers are killed by
soldiers of the Russian Empire during
the Yaroslavl
Great Manufacture strike. ·
May 18 – The first motor race in Italy
is held. It runs on a course from Turin to Asti and
back, a total of 93 km (58 mi). Five entrants start the event; only
three complete it. It is won by Simone Federman in a four-seat Daimler Omnibus, at an average speed of
15.5 km/h (9.6 mph).[5] ·
May 24 – Anti-Japanese officials, led
by Tang Jingsong in Taiwan, declare independence from the Qing Dynasty, forming the short-lived Republic of Formosa. ·
May 25 – R. v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted in London of
"unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male
persons" (under the Labouchere Amendment)
and given a two years' sentence of hard labour, during which he will
write De Profundis. ·
May 27 – In re Debs: The Supreme
Court of the United States decides that the federal
government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the
military suppression of the Pullman Strike. ·
June 5 – The Liberal Revolution begins
in Ecuador, making the civil war more intense
in this country. ·
June 11 ·
Britain
annexes Tongaland,
between Zululand and Mozambique. ·
The Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race
is held, sometimes called the first automobile race in history. ·
June 20 ·
The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea to the Baltic across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Germany, is
officially opened. ·
The
Treaty of Amapala establishes the union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador (which ends in 1898). ·
June 28 – The United
States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to the Barony of
Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent". July–September[edit]
July 31: Sabino Aranafounds the Basque
Nationalist Party
October: The Cosmopolitan
October 22: Montparnasse
derailment ·
July 10–11 – The Doukhobors' pacifist protests culminate in
the "burning of the arms" in the South Caucasus. ·
July 15 – Archie MacLaren scores an English County Championship cricket record innings of 424 for Lancashire,
against Somerset,
at Taunton.
This record lasted until 1994. ·
July 31 – The Basque
Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido
Nacionalista Vasco) is founded, by Basque nationalist leader Sabino Arana. ·
August 7 – The Aljaž Tower, a symbol of the Slovenes, is erected on Mount Triglav. ·
August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert,
origin of The Proms, is held
at the Queen's Hall in
London, opening a series conducted by Henry Wood.[6] ·
August 19 – American frontier murderer
and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is
killed by an off-duty policeman, in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. ·
The
Northern Rugby Football Union (the modern-day Rugby Football
League) is formed at a meeting of 21 rugby clubs at the George Hotel,
Huddersfield, in the north of England,[7] leading
to the creation of the sport of rugby league football. ·
The Mat Salleh Rebellion in North Borneo is incited. ·
September – Shelbourne F.C. is founded in Dublin, Ireland. ·
September 3 – The first
professional American football game
is played, in Latrobe,
Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and
the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0). ·
September 7 – The first game of what
will become known as rugby league football
is played in England, starting the 1895–96
Northern Rugby Football Union season. ·
Booker T. Washington delivers
the Atlanta compromise speech.[8] ·
Daniel David Palmer performs
the first chiropractic spinal adjustment,
on Harvey Lillard,
whose complaint was partial deafness after an injury. ·
September 24 to October 3 – the Automobile Club
de France sponsors the longest race to date, a
1,710 km (1,060 mi) event, from Bordeaux to Agen and
back.[5] Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered
the first rally. The first three
places are taken by a Panhard, a Panhard, and
a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.[5] October–December[edit] ·
October ·
Rudyard Kipling publishes the
story Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever in The Cosmopolitan illustrated
magazine in the United States (price 10 cents), collected in The Second Jungle
Book, published in England in November. ·
The London School
of Economics holds its first classes in London, England. ·
October 1 – French troops capture Antananarivo, Madagascar. ·
October 8 – The Eulmi Incident: Empress Myeongseong of
Korea is killed at her private residence within Gyeongbokgung Palace, by Japanese
agents. ·
October 22 – Montparnasse
derailment: A train runs through the exterior wall of the Gare Montparnasse terminus,
in Paris. ·
October 23 – The city of Tainan, last stronghold of the Republic of Formosa,
capitulates to the forces of the Empire of Japan, ending the short-lived
republic, and beginning the era of Taiwan under
Japanese rule. ·
October 31 – A major earthquake occurs
in the New Madrid
Seismic Zone of the midwestern
United States, the last to date. ·
November 1 – The Berlin
Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first cinema ever,
with a short movie presented by the Skladanowsky brothers ·
November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first
U.S. patent for an automobile. ·
November 8 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers
a type of radiation (later
known as X-rays). ·
November 17 – Flamengo,
a well known professional football club in Brazil, is officially founded.[9] ·
November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens
the Olympia
Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district. ·
November 27 – At the Swedish-Norwegian
Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs
his last will and
testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death. ·
November 28 – Chicago
Times-Herald race: The
first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald.
Press coverage first arouses significant American interest in the automobile.[10] ·
December ·
Ottoman
troops burn 3,000 Armenians alive
in Urfa[citation needed]. ·
The Fourth
Anglo-Ashanti War begins. ·
December 7 – A corps of 2,350 Italian
troops, mostly Askari, are crushed by
30,000 Abyssinian troops at Amba Alagi. ·
December 11 – Svante Arrhenius becomes the first
scientist to deliver quantified data about the sensitivity of
global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide (the "Greenhouse effect"),
as he presents his paper "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air
Upon The Temperature of the Ground" to the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences.[11] ·
December 15 – The railways of the Cape of Good Hope, Colony of Natal, the Orange Free State,
the South African
Republic and southern Mozambique are all linked at Union
Junction near Alberton.[12] ·
Kingstown
lifeboat disaster: 15 crew are lost when their life-boat capsizes,
while trying to rescue the crew of the SS Palme off
Kingstown (modern-day Dún Laoghaire), near Dublin, Ireland. ·
George
Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate, inviting his family and
guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville,
North Carolina. ·
December 28 – Auguste and
Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in
Paris. Date unknown[edit] ·
The
world's first portable handheld electric drill is developed, by brothers Wilhelm and
Carl Fein in Germany. ·
Konstantin
Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator. ·
Grace Chisholm Young becomes
the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university. ·
W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the
first African American to
receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. ·
The Swarovski Company is founded by Armand
Kosman, Franz Weis and Daniel Swarovski in the Austrian Tyrol, for the production of crystal glass. ·
The
name HP Sauce is first registered in the
United Kingdom for a brown sauce. ·
The Duck Reach Power
Station opens in Tasmania (the first publicly
owned hydroelectric plant
in the Southern Hemisphere). ·
The
first Boxer dog show
is held at Munich, Germany. ·
A
huge crowd at the first Welsh Grand National at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff, breaks down barriers and almost
overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers.[13] ·
German trade unions have c. 270,000 members. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
Bert Acosta, American aviator (d. 1954) ·
J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of
Investigation director (d. 1972) ·
January 4 – Leroy Grumman, American aeronautical
engineer, test pilot and industrialist (d. 1982) ·
January 5 – A. Edward Sutherland,
English film director and actor (d. 1973) ·
January 9 – Lucian Truscott, American general (d. 1965) ·
January 11 – Graciela Amaya
de García, Mexican feminist, organizer (d. 1995) ·
Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor, scholar
of Islamic art (d. 1959) ·
Artturi Ilmari
Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1973) ·
Isamu Chō, Japanese general (d. 1945) ·
Arthur
Coningham, British air force air marshal (d. 1948) ·
Cristóbal Balenciaga,
Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972) ·
Davíð Stefánsson,
Icelandic poet (d. 1964) ·
January 23 – Raymond Griffith, American actor (d. 1957) ·
January 24 – Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976) ·
January 30 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi
party leader (d. 1936) February[edit]
·
February 2 – George Halas, American football player,
coach, and co-founder of the National Football League (d. 1983) ·
February 6 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player
(d. 1948) ·
February 10 – John Black,
English chairman of Standard-Triumph (d. 1965) ·
February 14 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher,
sociologist (d. 1973) ·
February 15 – Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971) ·
February 18 (O.S. 6 February) – Semyon Timoshenko,
Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1970) ·
Louis Calhern, American actor (d. 1956) ·
Diego Mazquiarán,
Spanish matador (d. 1940) ·
February 21 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of
the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976) ·
February 25 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach
(d. 1984) ·
February 27 – Edward Brophy, American character actor
(d. 1960) ·
Louise Lovely, Australian actress (d. 1980) ·
Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright
(d. 1974) March[edit]
·
March 3 ·
Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1973) ·
Matthew Ridgway, United States Army Chief of
Staff, Commander of NATO (d. 1993) ·
March 4 ·
Mikuláš Galanda,
Slovak painter and illustrator (d. 1938) ·
Shemp Howard, American actor, comedian (The
Three Stooges) (d. 1955) ·
Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator,
animator (d. 1953) ·
March 12 – William C. Lee, American general (d. 1948) ·
March 20 ·
Robert Benoist, French race car driver, war
hero (d. 1944) ·
Johnny
Morrison, American professional baseball player (d. 1966) ·
March 22 – Archie Cameron, Australian politician
(d. 1956) ·
March 23 – Encarnacion Alzona,
Filipino historian (d. 2001) ·
March 27 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer (d. 1928) ·
March 28 ·
Archduke
Joseph Francis of Austria, (d. 1957) ·
Donald Grey
Barnhouse, American theologian, pastor, author, and radio pioneer
(d. 1960) ·
Spencer W. Kimball,
American president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(d. 1985) ·
James McCudden, British World War I flying
ace (d. 1918) ·
March 29 ·
Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998) ·
George Vasey,
Australian general (d. 1945) ·
March 30 – Carl Lutz, Swiss-American WWII humanitarian
(d. 1975) April[edit]
·
April 1 – Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984) ·
April 3 – Mario
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968) ·
April 4 – John Kotelawala, 3rd Prime Minister of Sri
Lanka (d. 1980) ·
April 5 – Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (d. 1957) ·
April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, American singer (d. 1976) ·
April 10 – Elena Aiello, Italian Roman Catholic
professed religious (d. 1961) ·
April 12 – John Erskine,
Lord Erskine, British soldier and politician (d. 1953) ·
April 13 – Olga Rudge, American violinist (d. 1996) ·
April 14 – Anton Reinthaller,
Austrian right-wing politician (d. 1958) ·
April 15 ·
Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer, journalist
(d. 1968) ·
Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker,
billiards player (d. 1980) ·
April 19 – Antonio Locatelli,
Italian aviator and journalist (d. 1936) ·
April 20 – Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973) ·
April 25 – Stanley Rous, English administrator, 6th
President of FIFA (d. 1986) ·
April 26 – Hans Kopfermann, German physicist (d. 1963) ·
April 29 – Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet politician and police
chief, Great Purge Perpetrator (d. 1940) ·
May 5 – Charles Lamont, Russian-born film director
(d. 1993) ·
May 6 – Rudolph Valentino,
Italian actor (d. 1926) ·
May 8 – Fulton J. Sheen, American Catholic
archbishop, television personality (d. 1979) ·
May 9 – Richard Barthelmess,
American actor (d. 1963) ·
May 10 – Kama Chinen, Japanese woman supercentenarian, oldest person in the world (d. 2010) ·
May 11 – Jiddu Krishnamurti,
Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer (d. 1986) ·
May 12 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1982) ·
May 15 – Prescott Bush, American banker and
politician (d. 1972) ·
May 17 ·
Saul Adler, Russian-born British-Israeli
expert on parasitology (d. 1966) ·
May 21 – Lázaro Cárdenas,
44th President of Mexico (d. 1970) ·
May 25 – Dorothea Lange, American documentary
photographer, photojournalist (d. 1965) June[edit]
·
June 3 – K. M. Panikkar, Indian scholar, diplomat and
journalist (d. 1963) ·
June 4 – Dino Grandi, Italian Fascist politician
(d. 1988) ·
Russell Hicks, American actor (d. 1957) ·
June 5 – William Boyd,
American actor (d. 1972) ·
June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, actress, first
African-American woman to win an Academy Award (in 1939) (d. 1952) ·
June 12 ·
Eugénie Brazier,
French cook (d. 1977) ·
Wilfrid Kent Hughes,
Australian Olympian and politician (d. 1970) ·
June 17 – Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder
of Tetra Pak (d. 1983) ·
June 21 ·
Mark Reizen, Soviet opera singer (d. 1992) ·
John
Wesley Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary
(d. 1985) ·
June 23 – Joseph Vogt, German classical historian
(d. 1986) ·
June 24 ·
Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight boxer
(d. 1983) ·
Juan Miles, Argentine polo player (d. 1981) ·
June 27 – Anna Banti, Italian writer, art historian,
critic, and translator (d. 1985) ·
June 28 – Kazimierz Sikorski,
Polish composer (d. 1986) ·
June 29 ·
Alice Lardé de
Venturino, Salvadoran poet and writer (d. 1983) ·
Dorothy Stuart
Russell, Australian-British pathologist (d. 1983) ·
June 30 – Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (d. 1983) July[edit]
·
July 1 – Lucy Somerville
Howorth, American lawyer, feminist and politician (d. 1997) ·
July 2 ·
Leslie Frise, British aerospace engineer and
aircraft designer (d. 1979) ·
Pavel Osipovich
Sukhoi, Russian aircraft engineer (d. 1975) ·
July 3 – Jean Paige, American actress (d. 1990) ·
July 4 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist, theater
composer (d. 1996) ·
July 5 – Frederic McGrand, Canadian physician and
politician (d. 1988) ·
July 8 ·
Heinrich-Hermann
von Hülsen, German major general (d. 1982) ·
Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1971) ·
July 9 ·
Joe Gleason, American pitcher (d. 1990) ·
Frederick
Melrose Horowhenua Hanson, New Zealand soldier, engineer, military
leader and public servant (d. 1979) ·
Gunnar Aaby, Danish soccer player (d. 1966) ·
July 10 ·
Andrew Earl
Weatherly, American philatelist (d. 1981) ·
Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982) ·
Nahum Goldmann, leading Zionist (d. 1982) ·
July 12 ·
Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano
(d. 1982) ·
Buckminster Fuller,
American architect (d. 1983) ·
July 13 ·
Geoffrey Hawkins, British Royal Navy officer
(d. 1980) ·
Bradley Kincaid, American folk singer and
radio entertainer (d. 1989) ·
July 14 ·
F. R. Leavis, English literary critic
(d. 1978) ·
Jin Yuelin, Chinese philosopher (d. 1984) ·
LeRoy Prinz, American choreographer,
director and producer (d. 1983) ·
July 18 – Olga Spessivtseva,
Russian ballerina (d. 1991) ·
July 19 ·
Snake Henry, American baseball player
(d. 1987) ·
Tee Tee Luce, Burmese philanthropist
(d. 1982) ·
Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953) ·
July 20 – Chapman Revercomb,
American politician and lawyer (d. 1979) ·
July 21 ·
Adam Papée, Polish fencing star (d. 1990) ·
Henry Lynn, American film director,
screenwriter, and producer (d. 1984) ·
Ken Maynard, American actor (d. 1973) ·
July 22 – León de Greiff,
Colombian poet (d. 1976) ·
July 24 – Robert Graves, English writer (d. 1985) ·
July 25 ·
Yvonne Printemps, French singer, actress
(d. 1977) ·
Ingeborg Spangsfeldt,
Danish actress (d. 1968) ·
July 26 ·
Gracie Allen, American actress, comedian
(d. 1964) ·
Kenneth Harlan, American actor (d. 1967) ·
July 30 – Joseph DuMoe, American football coach
(d. 1959) August[edit]
·
August 3 – Neva Morris, American supercentenarian (d. 2010) ·
August 6 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist, composer
(d. 1963) ·
August 8 ·
Aimé Giral, French rugby player (d. 1915) ·
Jean Navarre, French World War I fighter ace
(d. 1919) ·
August 10 – Harry Richman, American entertainer
(d. 1972) ·
August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick,
American admiral (d. 1956) ·
August 13 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player
(d. 1948) ·
Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000) ·
Lucien Littlefield,
American actor (d. 1960) ·
August 18 – Sibyl Morrison, Australian barrister
(d. 1961) ·
August 19 – François Demol,
Belgian footballer (d. 1966) ·
Guido Masiero, Italian World War I flying
ace, aviation pioneer (d. 1942) ·
Tuanku Abdul Rahman,
King of Malaysia (d. 1960) September[edit]
·
Chembai, Indian Carnatic musician (d. 1974) ·
Engelbert Zaschka,
German helicopter pioneer (d. 1955) ·
September 6 – Margery Perham, English Africanist (d. 1982) ·
Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (d. 1985) ·
Jacques Vaché, French writer, associated
with Surrealism (d. 1919) ·
September 8 – Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980) ·
September 11 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian religious leader
(d. 1982) ·
September 13 – Ruth McDevitt, American actress (d. 1976) ·
September 16 – Zainal
Abidin Ahmad (writer), Malayan nationalist writer (d. 1973) ·
John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1979) ·
Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2009) ·
September 20 – Lloyd W. Bertaud, American aviator (d. 1927) ·
September 21 – Juan de la Cierva,
Spanish civil engineer, aviator, aeronautical engineer and inventor of the
autogyro (d. 1936) ·
September 22 – Paul Muni, American actor (d. 1967) ·
September 24 – André Frédéric
Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988) ·
September 29 – Joseph Banks Rhine,
American parapsychologist (d. 1980) ·
September 30 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky,
Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1977) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister of
Pakistan (d. 1951) ·
Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969) ·
Sergei
Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyric poet (d. 1925) ·
October 4 – Buster Keaton, American actor, film director
(d. 1966) ·
October 6 – Caroline Gordon, American writer, critic
(d. 1981) ·
Juan Perón, 2-time President of Argentina
(d. 1974) ·
King Zog of Albania (d. 1961) ·
October 9 – Ivan Yumashev,
Soviet admiral (d. 1972) ·
October 10 – Wolfram
Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945) ·
Cemal Gürsel, Turkish army officer,
President (d. 1966) ·
Mike Gazella, American baseball player
(d. 1978) ·
October 14 – Silas Simmons, American Pre-Negro League
Baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (d. 2006) ·
October 17 – Miguel Ydígoras
Fuentes, 21st President of Guatemala (d. 1982) ·
October 19 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990) ·
October 20 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (d. 1975) ·
October 21 – Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958) ·
October 22 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician
(d. 1980) ·
October 24 – Charles Walter
Allfrey, British general (d. 1964) ·
October 25 – Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister
(d. 1969) ·
October 28 – Ismail of Johor, Malaysian sultan (d. 1981) ·
Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964) ·
Dickinson W.
Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1973) ·
October 31 – Basil Liddell Hart,
British military historian (d. 1970) November[edit]
·
November 4 – Thomas G. W. Settle,
American record-setting balloonist and admiral (d. 1980) ·
November 5 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d. 1956) ·
Franz Bachelin, German art director (d. 1980) ·
John Knudsen
Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981) ·
Walter Freeman,
American physician (d. 1972) ·
Grand
Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) ·
Antoni
Słonimski, Polish poet, writer (d. 1976) ·
November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963) ·
November 17 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher,
literary scholar (d. 1975) ·
Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991) ·
Helen Hooven
Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986) ·
Ludvík Svoboda,
8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979) ·
Busby Berkeley, American film director,
choreographer (d. 1976) ·
William Tubman, 19th President of Liberia
(d. 1971) December[edit]
·
December 2 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (d. 1967) ·
December 3 – Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (d. 1970) ·
December 5 – Mamerto
Urriolagoitía, 50th President of Bolivia (d. 1974) ·
December 9 – Dolores Ibárruri,
Spanish republican leader (d. 1989) ·
Kiyoto Kagawa, Japanese admiral (d. 1943) ·
Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer
(d. 2002) ·
Paul Éluard, French poet (d. 1952) ·
King George VI of the United Kingdom
(d. 1952) ·
December 24 – Marguerite Williams,
African-American geologist (d.1991?) ·
December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink,
American author (d. 1981) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Husayn Al-Khalidi,
Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1966) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 3 – Mary Torrans Lathrap,
American temperance reformer (b. 1838) ·
January 9 – Aaron Lufkin
Dennison, American watchmaker (b. 1812) ·
January 10 – Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849) ·
January 24 – Lord Randolph
Churchill, British statesman (b. 1849) ·
February 9 – Ōdera Yasuzumi,
Japanese general (killed in action) (b. 1846) ·
February 10 – Liu Buchan, Chinese admiral (suicide)
(b. 1852) ·
February 12 – Ding Ruchang, Chinese army officer, admiral
(killed in action) (b. 1836) ·
February 18 – Archduke
Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (b. 1817) ·
February 20 – Frederick Douglass,
American ex-slave and author (b. 1818) ·
February 25 – Henry
Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician (b. 1815) ·
February 26 – Salvador
de Itúrbide y de Marzán, Prince of Mexico (b. 1849) ·
March 2 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841) ·
March 10 – Charles Frederick
Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826) ·
March 13 – Louise Otto-Peters,
German women's rights movement activist (b. 1819) ·
April 4 – Nikolai
Baranov, Russian politician (b. 1843) ·
April 25 – Emily Thornton
Charles, American newspaper founder (b. 1845) ·
May 19 – José Martí, Cuban independence leader
(b. 1853) ·
May 21 – Franz von Suppé,
Austrian composer (b. 1819) ·
May 23 – Franz Ernst Neumann,
German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (b. 1798) ·
May 26 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha,
Ottoman statesman (b. 1822) ·
May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham,
American politician (b. 1832) ·
June 6 – Gustaf Nordenskiöld,
Swedish explorer (b. 1868) ·
June 13 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla,
Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1833) ·
June 27 – Sophie Adlersparre,
Swedish feminist (b. 1823) ·
June 29 ·
Thomas Henry Huxley,
English evolutionary biologist (b. 1825) ·
Green Clay Smith, American politician
(b. 1826) ·
Floriano Vieira
Peixoto, 2nd president of Brazil (b. 1839) ·
Émile Munier, French artist (b. 1840) July–December[edit]
·
July 18 – Stefan Stambolov, 9th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1854) ·
July 28 – Edward Beecher, American theologian
(b. 1803) ·
August 4 – Louis-Antoine
Dessaulles, Quebec journalist, politician (b. 1818) ·
August 5 – Friedrich Engels, German communist
philosopher (b. 1820) ·
August 22 – Luzon B. Morris, American politician
(b. 1827) ·
September 8 – Adam Opel, German founder of the automobile
company Adam Opel AG (b. 1837) ·
September 26 – Ephraim Wales Bull,
American horticulturalist, creator of Concord grape (b. 1806) ·
September 28 – Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist,
chemist (b. 1822) ·
October 8 – Empress Myeongseong (Queen
Min), last Korean empress (assassinated) (b. 1851) ·
October 14 – Clara Doty Bates, American author (b. 1838) ·
October 25 – Charles Hallé, German-born pianist,
conductor (b. 1819) ·
November 5 – Prince
Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan (b. 1847) ·
November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch-American marine
painter (b. 1832) ·
November 27 – Alexandre Dumas,
fils, French author, playwright (b. 1824) ·
December 12 – Allen G. Thurman, American politician
(b. 1813) ·
December 13 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist, inventor
of the dynamo (b. 1800) ·
December 27 – Eivind Astrup, Norwegian Arctic explorer
(b. 1871) Unknown date[edit] ·
Adelia Cleopatra
Graves, American educator (b. 1821) References[edit] 1.
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