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1898 (MDCCCXCVIII)
was a common year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1898th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 898th
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 98th year of the 19th century,
and the 9th year of the 1890s decade. As of
the start of 1898, 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] 1898 world map January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – 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 Bronxand Staten Island. ·
January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the
French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse…!, is published on the front
page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the government of
wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. ·
February 12 – The electric car 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.[1][2][3] ·
February 15 – Spanish–American War:
The USS Maine 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. February 15: USS Maine is
sunk. ·
February 23 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France,
after writing J'Accuse…!. ·
March 14 – Association football and
sports club BSC Young Boys is
established in Bern, Switzerland, as the Fussballclub
Young Boys. ·
March 16 – In Melbourne the representatives of five
colonies adopt a constitution,
which will become the basis of the Commonwealth of
Australia.[4] ·
March 24 – 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 – The Sabie Game Reserve in
South Africa is created, as the first officially designated game reserve. April–June[edit] ·
April 5 – 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."[5] In
the history
of women in the military, there are records of female U.S.
Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers who enlisted using male pseudonyms, but
Oakley's letter represents possibly the earliest political move towards
women's rights for combat service, in the United States military. ·
April 22 – Spanish–American War:
The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports
and the USS Nashvillecaptures
a Spanish merchant ship. ·
April 23 – 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 U.S. Congress announces
that a state of war has existed since April 21 (later backdating this one
more day to April 20). ·
April 25 – In Essen, German company
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk RWE is
founded.[6] ·
April 26 – An explosion in Santa Cruz,
California kills 13 workers, at the California Powder
Works.[7] ·
May 1 – Spanish–American War – Battle of Manila Bay: 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 – Thousands of Chinese scholars
and Beijing citizens seeking reforms protest in front of the capital controlyuan. ·
May 6 – Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia Fraternity is founded at the New
England Conservatory of Music by Ossian Everett Mills. ·
May 7–9 – Bava-Beccaris
massacre: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed, when General Fiorenzo
Bava-Beccarisorders troops to fire on a rally in Milan, Italy. ·
May 8 – The first games of the Italian Football
League are played. ·
May 12 – Spanish–American War:
The Puerto Rican
Campaign begins, with the Bombardment of
San Juan. ·
May 27 – The territory of Kwang-Chou-Wan is leased by China to
France, according to the Treaty of 12 April 1892,
as the Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan, forming part of French Indochina.[8] ·
May 28 – Secondo Pia takes the first photographs
of the Shroud of Turin and
discovers that the image on the Shroud itself appears to be a photographic
negative. 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 – The Trans-Mississippi
Exposition World's Fair opens, in Omaha, Nebraska. ·
June 7 – William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover neon at
their laboratory at University
College London, after extracting it from liquid nitrogen.[9] ·
June 9 – The British government
arranges a 99-year rent of Hong Kong from China. ·
June 12 – After more than 377 years of
Spanish dominance, Philippine
Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain. ·
June 13 – Yukon Territory is formed in Canada,
with Dawson chosen
as its capital. ·
June 21 – Spanish–American War:
The United States captures Guam,
making it the first U.S. overseas
territory. ·
June 28 – 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–September[edit] ·
July 1 – Spanish–American War – Battle of San
Juan Hill: United States troops (including Buffalo Soldiers 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: 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 – 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 – The United States annexes
the Hawaiian Islands. ·
July 17 – 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 – "The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont"
first appear in The Wide World
Magazine, as its August 1898 issue goes on sale.[10] ·
July 25 – Spanish–American War:
The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins, with a landing
at Guánica Bay. ·
August 12 – Spanish–American War:
Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba. ·
August 13 – Spanish–American War – Battle of Manila:
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 – The Gornergrat railway opens,
connecting Zermatt to
the Gornergrat in Switzerland. ·
August 21 – Clube de
Regatas Vasco da Gama is founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ·
August 23 – The Southern Cross
Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic
Age of Antarctic Exploration, sets sail from London. ·
August 24 – Chickasaw and Choctaw
tribes sign the Atoka Agreement,
a requirement of the Curtis Act of 1898. ·
August 25 – 700 Greeks and 15
Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece, leading to the
establishment of the autonomous Cretan State. ·
August 28 – American pharmacist Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola. ·
September 2 – Battle of Omdurman:
British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese
tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British
dominance in the Sudan. ·
September 10 – Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni assassinates Empress
Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva, as an act of propaganda of the
deed. ·
September 18 – Fashoda Incident: A powerful flotilla of British gunboats 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. October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – The Vienna
University of Economics and Business is founded, under the
name K.U.K. Exportakademie. ·
October 3 – Battle of Sugar
Point: Ojibwe tribesmen defeat U.S. government troops, in
northern Minnesota. ·
October 3–8 – The Stuttgart Congress of
the Social
Democratic Party of Germany is held in Stuttgart. ·
October 6 – The Sinfonia Club, later to
become the Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia Fraternity, is founded at the New England
Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. ·
October 12 – The first town council is
established in Mateur, Tunisia. November 26: blizzard. ·
October 15 – The Fork Union
Military Academy is founded, in Fork Union, Virginia.[11] ·
October 31 – The Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem, is dedicated. ·
November 5 – Negros Revolution:
Filipinos on the island of Negros revolt
against Spanish rule and
establish the short-lived Republic of Negros. ·
November 10 – The Wilmington
insurrection of 1898, a coup d'état by the white Democratic Party
of North Carolina, begins. ·
November 26 – A two-day blizzard known
as the Portland Gale piles
snow in Boston, severely impacting the Massachusettsfishing industry and several
coastal New England towns. ·
December 9 – The first of the two Tsavo Man-Eaters is shot by John Henry
Patterson; the second is killed 3 weeks later, after 135 railway
construction workers have been killed by the lions. ·
December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is
signed, ending the Spanish–American War. ·
December 18 – Gaston de
Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first official land speed record in
an automobile, averaging 63.15 km/h (39.24 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in
France. ·
December 26 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of
an element that they name radium. ·
December 29 (December 17 Old Style) – The
Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov opens.[12] ·
December 31 – French serial
killer Joseph Vacher is
executed at Bourg-en-Bresse.[13] Unknown dates[edit] ·
North Petherton becomes the first
community in England to install acetylene lighting. ·
Wakita is founded in the Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma. ·
Henry
Adams Consulting Engineers founded by Henry
Adams (mechanical engineer) in Baltimore, Maryland (the firm
will still be in business in the 21st century). ·
The
first volume of the Linguistic Survey Of India is published
in Calcutta. ·
As
a result of the merger of several small oil companies, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controls
84% of the USA's oil, and most American pipelines. Births[edit] January–March[edit] ·
Tony DeMarco,
American dancer (d. 1965) ·
Binay Ranjan Sen, Indian diplomat, 4th
Director General of the Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (d. 1993) ·
January 3 – John Loder,
British actor (d. 1988) ·
January 7 – Art Baker,
American actor (d. 1966) ·
January 9 – Gracie Fields, British singer, actress and
comedian (d. 1979) ·
January 13 – Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor and martyr (d. 1944) ·
Margaret Booth, American film editor
(d. 2002) ·
Irving Rapper, English-born American
director (d. 1999) ·
January 18 – Margaret Irving, American actress (d. 1988) ·
John George,
Ottoman-born American actor (d. 1968) ·
Tudor Owen Welsh-American
actor (d. 1979) ·
Norma Varden, British-born American actress
(d. 1989) ·
Rudolph Maté, Polish-born American
cinematographer, film director (d. 1964) ·
Shah Ahmad Shah Qajar of Persia (d. 1930) ·
Sergei Eisenstein,
Russian and Soviet film director (d. 1948) ·
Elazar Shach, Lithuanian-born Israeli Haredi
rabbi (d. 2001) ·
Randolph Scott, American film actor
(d. 1987) ·
January 24 – Karl Hermann Frank,
German Nazi official, war criminal (d. 1946) ·
January 25 – Hymie Weiss, American gangster (d. 1926) ·
January 26 – Katarzyna Kobro, Russian sculptor (d. 1951) ·
February 1 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician,
supercentenarian (d. 2012) ·
February 2 – William
"Billy" Costello, American voice actor, the original
voice of Popeye (d. 1971) ·
February 3 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976) ·
Sidney Fields, American actor (d. 1975) ·
Denjirō
Ōkōchi, Japanese actor (d. 1962) ·
Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d. 1956) ·
Robert Keith,
American actor (d. 1966) ·
Joseph Kessel, French journalist, author
(d. 1979) ·
Henry de La Falaise,
French film director, Croix
de guerre recipient (d. 1972) ·
Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist
(d. 1964) ·
Wallace Ford, British actor (d. 1966) ·
Roy Harris, American composer (d. 1979) ·
Audrey Jeffers, Trinidadian social worker,
politician (d. 1968) ·
Blue Washington, American actor, Negro league baseball
player (d. 1970) ·
Eva Novak, American actress (d. 1988) ·
Raúl Scalabrini
Ortiz, Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet (d. 1959) ·
Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist, astronomer
(d. 1974) ·
Bud Geary, American actor (d. 1946) ·
Totò, Italian comedian, actor, poet, and
songwriter (d. 1967) ·
Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982) ·
Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver,
automobile manufacturer (d. 1988) ·
Luis Muñoz Marín,
Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (d. 1980) ·
February 20 – Semyon
Davidovich Kirlian, Russian inventor (d. 1978) ·
February 25 – William Astbury, English physicist,
molecular biologist (d. 1961) ·
February 24 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer
(d. 1983) ·
February 27 – Otto Hulett, American actor (d. 1983) ·
Hugh O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest
(d. 1963) ·
Molly Picon, American actress, lyricist
(d. 1992) ·
March 3 – Emil Artin, Austrian mathematician (d. 1962) ·
March 4 – Georges Dumézil,
French philologist (d. 1986) ·
March 5 ·
Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian
(d. 2015) ·
Zhou Enlai, Premier
of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976) ·
Soong Mei-ling, First Lady of China
(d. 2003) ·
March 6 – Therese Giehse, German actress (d. 1975) ·
March 8 – Eben Dönges, acting Prime
Minister of South Africa and elected President of
South Africa (d. 1968) ·
March 10 – Cy Kendall, American actor (d. 1953) ·
March 11 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968) ·
March 13 – Henry Hathaway, American film director,
producer (d. 1985) ·
March 14 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist
(d. 1985) ·
March 21 – 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 25 – Marcelle Narbonne,
French supercentenarian, oldest European living person (d. 2012) ·
March 30 – Joyce Carey, English actress (d. 1993) ·
March 31 – Hermann van Pels, German-Dutch father of
Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1944) April–June[edit] ·
April 1 – William James Sidis,
American mathematician (d. 1944) ·
April 2 – Harindranath
Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician (d. 1990) ·
April 3 – George Jessel,
American comedian (d. 1981) ·
April 4 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940) ·
April 6 – Jeanne Hébuterne,
French painter (d. 1920) ·
April 9 – Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer
and political activist (d. 1976) ·
April 12 – Lily Pons, French-American opera singer,
actress (d. 1976) ·
April 14 – Lee Tracy, American actor (d. 1968) ·
April 15 – Marian Driscoll
Jordan, American actress (d. 1961) ·
April 19 – Constance Talmadge,
American actress (d. 1973) ·
April 20 – Sidney Lanfield, American film director
(d. 1972) ·
April 21 – Walter Forde, British actor, screenwriter
and film director (d. 1984) ·
April 23 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American
cinematographer (d. 1984) ·
April 26 ·
Vicente Aleixandre,
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1984) ·
John Grierson, Scottish documentary
filmmaker (d. 1972) ·
Tomu Uchida, Japanese film director
(d. 1970) ·
May 2 – Henry Hall,
British bandleader (d. 1989) ·
May 3 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
(d. 1978) ·
May 5 ·
Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer
(d. 1983) ·
Blind Willie McTell,
American singer (d. 1959) ·
Hans
Heinrich von Twardowski, German actor (d. 1958) ·
May 6 – Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German Nazi leader
(d. 1945) ·
May 13 ·
Hisamuddin of
Selangor, King of Malaysia (d. 1960) ·
Justin Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran
(d. 2007) ·
May 14 ·
Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1997) ·
Betty Farrington, American actress (d. 1989) ·
May 15 – Arletty, French model, actress (d. 1992) ·
May 16 ·
Tamara de Lempicka,
Polish Art Deco painter (d. 1980) ·
Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director
(d. 1956) ·
May 17 – Alfred Joseph Casson,
Canadian painter (d. 1992) ·
May 19 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974) ·
May 21 – Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur, art
collector (d. 1990) ·
May 23 ·
Frank McHugh, American actor (d. 1981) ·
Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989) ·
May 24 – Helen B. Taussig, American cardiologist
(d. 1986) ·
May 25 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher (d. 1971) ·
May 27 – Lee Garmes, American cinematographer
(d. 1978) ·
May 31 ·
Ernest Haller, American cinematographer
(d. 1974) ·
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale,
American clergyman (d. 1993) ·
June 3 – Stuart H. Ingersoll,
American admiral (d. 1983) ·
June 4 – Harry Crosby, American publisher, poet
(d. 1929) ·
June 5 ·
Federico García
Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright (d. 1936) ·
Guy La Chambre, French politician (d. 1975) ·
June 6 ·
Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987) ·
Ninette de Valois,
Irish dancer, founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. 2001) ·
Jim Fouché, 5th President of
South Africa (d. 1980) ·
June 10 ·
Michel Hollard, French Resistance hero
(d. 1993) ·
Virginia Valli, American film actress
(d. 1968) ·
June 11 – Lionel Penrose, English geneticist (d. 1972) ·
June 12 – Charley Foy, American actor (d. 1984) ·
June 17 ·
M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972) ·
Harry Patch, British World War I soldier,
last Tommy Atkins (d. 2009) ·
June 18 ·
Carleton Hobbs, English actor who
played Sherlock Holmes for
two decades (d. 1978) ·
Dink Trout, American actor (d. 1950) ·
June 22 ·
Weeratunge
Edward Perera, Malaysian educator, businessman and social
entrepreneur (d. 1982) ·
Erich Maria Remarque,
German writer (d. 1970) ·
June 23 – Lillian Hall-Davis,
English actress (d. 1933) ·
June 25 – Buddy Roosevelt, American actor, stunt
performer (d. 1973) ·
June 26 ·
Sa`id Al-Mufti, 3-time Prime Minister of
Jordan (d. 1989) ·
Willy Messerschmitt,
German aircraft designer, manufacturer (d. 1978) ·
June 28 – Louis King, American film director (d. 1962) ·
June 30 ·
George Chandler, American actor (d. 1985) ·
Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean politician
(d. 1985) July–September[edit] ·
July 1 – Charles Hartmann, American jazz trombonist
(d. 1982) ·
July 2 ·
George J. Folsey, American cinematographer
(d. 1988) ·
Anthony McAuliffe,
American general (d. 1975) ·
Gen Paul, French artist (d. 1975) ·
July 3 ·
Donald Healey, English motor engineer, race
car driver (d. 1988) ·
Stefanos
Stefanopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1982) ·
July 4 ·
Gertrude Weaver, American supercentenarian
(d. 2015) ·
Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician,
economist (d. 1998) ·
Gertrude Lawrence,
English actress, singer (d. 1952) ·
Johnny Lee,
American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1965) ·
July 5 – Richard P. Condie,
American conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (d. 1985) ·
July 6 ·
Bill Amos, American college football player,
coach (d. 1987) ·
Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962) ·
July 7 ·
Maria
Nunes da Silva, Portuguese supercentenarian (d. 2011) ·
Teresa Hsu Chih, Chinese-born Singaporean
social worker, supercentenarian (d. 2011) ·
Arnold Horween, American Harvard Crimson,
NFL football player (d. 1985) ·
Hugh Llewellyn
Keenleyside, Canadian university professor, diplomat, and civil
servant (d. 1992) ·
July 9 ·
Gerard Walschap, Belgian writer (d. 1989) ·
Al Bedner, American football player
(d. 1988) ·
July 10 – Theodore Miller
Edison, American businessman, inventor, and environmentalist
(d. 1992) ·
July 13 – Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor
(d. 1980) ·
July 14 ·
David Horne,
English actor (d. 1970) ·
John Twist, American screenwriter (d. 1976) ·
Happy Chandler, American politician
(d. 1991) ·
Youssef Wahbi, Egyptian actor, film director
(d. 1982) ·
July 15 ·
Howard
Graham, Canadian Army Officer (d. 1986) ·
Erik Wilén, Finnish sprinter (d. 1982) ·
July 17 ·
Osmond Borradaile,
Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of the First and Second World
Wars (d. 1999) ·
Berenice Abbott, American photographer
(d. 1991) ·
George Robert
Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985) ·
Benito Díaz, Spanish football manager,
player (d. 1990) ·
July 18 – John Stuart,
Scottish actor (d. 1979) ·
July 19 – Gustavo Machado
Morales, Venezuelan politician and journalist (d. 1983) ·
July 21 – Sara Carter, American country music singer, musician, and
songwriter (d. 1979) ·
July 22 ·
Stephen Vincent
Benét, American writer (d. 1943) ·
Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976) ·
July 23 – Walter L. Morgan, American banker (d. 1998) ·
July 25 – Arthur Lubin, American film director
(d. 1995) ·
July 28 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970) ·
July 29 – Isidor Isaac Rabi,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1988) ·
July 30 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986) ·
July 31 – Ken Harris, American animator (d. 1982) ·
August 2 – Glenn Tryon, American actor, screenwriter,
and film director (d. 1970) ·
August 5 ·
Lewis R. Foster, American film director,
screenwriter (d. 1974) ·
Kumbakonam
Rajamanickam Pillai, Indian Tamil Carnatic music violinist
(d. 1970) ·
August 11 – Peter Mohr Dam, 2-time Prime Minister of the
Faroe Islands (d. 1968) ·
Kenneth Hawks, American film director
(d. 1930) ·
Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist
(d. 1976) ·
Oskar Homolka, Austrian actor (d. 1978) ·
Mohamad Noah Omar,
Malaysian politician (d. 1991) ·
Regis Toomey, American actor (d. 1991) ·
August 15 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966) ·
August 17 – Dewey Robinson, American actor (d. 1950) ·
Lance Sharkey, Australian Communist Leader
(d. 1967) ·
Tsola Dragoycheva,
Bulgarian politician (d. 1993) ·
August 19 – Eleanor Boardman, American actress (d. 1991) ·
Leopold Infeld, Polish physicist (d. 1968) ·
Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish novelist, historian
(d. 1973) ·
August 21 – Herbert Mundin, English actor (d. 1939) ·
August 23 – W. E. Butler, British occultist (d. 1978) ·
August 25 – Van Nest Polglase,
American art director, design department head at RKO Pictures (d. 1968) ·
August 26 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector
(d. 1979) ·
August 27 – John Hamilton,
Canadian criminal, bank robber (d. 1934) ·
August 29 – Preston Sturges, American director, writer
(d. 1959) ·
August 30 – Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992) ·
Violet Carson, British actress (d. 1983) ·
Marilyn Miller, American actress, singer,
and dancer (d. 1936) ·
Alfons Gorbach, 15th Chancellor of Austria
(d. 1972) ·
Arthur Young,
English actor (d. 1959) ·
September 8 – Queenie Smith, American actress (d. 1978) ·
George Eldredge, American actor (d. 1977) ·
Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986) ·
Roger Désormière,
French conductor (d. 1963) ·
Emilio Núñez
Portuondo, Cuban diplomat, lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of
Cuba (d. 1978) ·
September 16 – Baruch Lumet, Polish-born American actor
(d. 1992) ·
September 19 – Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy (d. 1988) ·
September 22 – Katharine Alexander,
American actress (d. 1981) ·
September 24 – Howard Florey, Australian-born
pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968) ·
September 25 – Robert Brackman, American artist (d. 1980) ·
September 26 – George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937) ·
September 29 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976) ·
Renée Adorée,
French actress (d. 1933) ·
Princess
Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977) October–December[edit] ·
October 3 – Morgan Farley, American actor (d. 1988) ·
Arthur G.
Jones-Williams, British aviator (d. 1929) ·
Mitchell Leisen, American film director
(d. 1972) ·
Clarence
Williams, American jazz pianist,
composer (d. 1965) (some sources give his year of birth
as 1893) ·
October 7 – Joe Giard, American baseball player
(d. 1956) ·
Lilly Daché, French milliner (d. 1989) ·
Marie-Pierre Kœnig,
French general, politician (d. 1970) ·
October 15 – Boughera El Ouafi,
Algerian athlete (d. 1959) ·
October 16 – William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1980) ·
October 17 – Shinichi
Suzuki, Japanese musician, educator (d. 1998) ·
George Curzon,
English actor (d. 1976) ·
Lotte Lenya, Austrian actress, singer
(d. 1981) ·
October 22 – Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet (d. 1990) ·
October 28 – Abdul Khalek
Hassouna, Egyptian diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General
of the Arab League (d. 1992) ·
November 1 – Philip Ray, British actor (d. 1978) ·
November 4 – Joe Dougherty, first voice of Porky Pig (d. 1978) ·
November 8 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937) ·
November 11 – René Clair, French filmmaker, novelist, and
non-fiction writer (d. 1981) ·
November 12 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999) ·
November 14 – Benjamin Fondane (née Wechsler),
Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher
(d. 1944) ·
Colleen Clifford, Australian actress
(d. 1996) ·
Maurice Journeau, French composer (d. 1999) ·
Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989) ·
Andrés Soler, Mexican actor (d. 1969) ·
November 19 – Arthur R. von Hippel,
German-born physicist (d. 2003) ·
November 21 – René Magritte, Belgian artist (d. 1967) ·
November 22 – Gabriel González
Videla, Chilean politician (d. 1980) ·
November 23– Bess Flowers, American actress (d. 1984) ·
November 24 – Liu Shaoqi, President
of the People's Republic of China (d. 1969) ·
November 25 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and
writer (d. 1971) ·
November 26 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1973) ·
Rod La Rocque, American actor (d. 1969) ·
C. S. Lewis, British author (d. 1963) ·
November 30 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball pitcher
(d. 1976) ·
December 2 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I pilot
(d. 1918) ·
December 3 – Monte Collins, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 1951) ·
December 5 – Grace Moore, American opera singer, actress
(d. 1947) ·
Alfred Eisenstaedt,
American photojournalist (d. 1995) ·
Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist,
economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) ·
Emmett Kelly, American circus clown
(d. 1979) ·
Clarine Seymour, American actress (d. 1920) ·
December 11 – Benno Mengele, Austrian electrical engineer
(d. 1971) ·
December 14 – Lillian Randolph, American actress, singer
(d. 1980) ·
December 19 – Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author, translator
(d. 1958) ·
December 20 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990) ·
December 24 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959) ·
December 27 – Hilda Vaughn, American actress (d. 1957) ·
December 29 – Randi Anda, Norwegian politician (d. 1999) ·
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress
(d. 1975) ·
Claire Huchet Bishop,
author of The Five
Chinese Brothers (with illustrator Kurt Wiese) and The Man Who Lost His
Head (with illustrator Robert McCloskey) (d. 1993) ·
December 31 – István Dobi, Hungarian leader (d. 1968) Date unknown[edit] ·
I. K. Taimni, Indian chemist (d. 1978) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 3 – Lawrence Sullivan
Ross, Confederate brigadier
general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A&M
University (b. 1838) ·
January 14 – Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician
(Alice in Wonderland) (b. 1832) ·
January 16 – Charles Pelham
Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of
Commons (b. 1802) ·
January 18 – Henry George Liddell, English Dean of Christ
Church, Oxford (b. 1811) ·
January 26 – Cornelia
Jane Matthews Jordan, American lyricist (b. 1830) ·
February 1 – Tsuboi Kōzō, Japanese admiral
(b. 1843) ·
February 6 – Abdul Samad of
Selangor, Malaysian ruler, 4th Sultan of Selangor (b. 1804) ·
February 16 – Thomas Bracken, author of the official
national anthem of New Zealand (God Defend New
Zealand) (b. 1843) ·
March 1 – George Bruce
Malleson, Indian officer, author (b. 1825) ·
March 6 – Andrei
Alexandrovich Popov, Russian admiral (b. 1821) ·
March 10 ·
Marie-Eugénie de
Jésus, French religious (b. 1817) ·
George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder
of the Ashley
Down orphanage (b. 1805) ·
March 15 – Sir Henry Bessemer, British engineer,
inventor (b. 1813) ·
March 16 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872) ·
March 18 – Matilda Joslyn Gage,
American feminist (b. 1826) ·
March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder
(b. 1817) ·
April 13 – Aurilla Furber, American author (b. 1847) ·
April 15 – Te Keepa Te
Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader ·
April 18 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826) ·
April 29 – Mary Towne Burt, American benefactor
(b. 1842) ·
May 19 – William Ewart
Gladstone, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809) ·
May 29 – Theodor Eimer, German zoologist (b. 1843) ·
June 10 – Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian last speaker
of the Dalmatian language (b. 1821) ·
June 14 – Dewitt Clinton
Senter, Americian politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee b. 1830) ·
June 25 – Ferdinand Cohn, German biologist,
bacteriologist and microbiologist (b. 1828) July–December[edit] Saint Charbel Makhluf ·
July 1 – Siegfried Marcus, Austrian automobile
pioneer (b. 1831) ·
July 5 – Richard Pankhurst,
English lawyer, radical and supporter of women's rights (b. 1834) ·
July 12 – Louis-François
Richer Laflèche, Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières,
Native American missionary (b. 1818) ·
July 30 – Otto von Bismarck,
German statesman (b. 1815) ·
August 8 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) ·
August 11 – Sophia Braeunlich,
American business manager (b. 1854) ·
September 2 – Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807) ·
September 5 – Sarah Emma Edmonds,
Canadian nurse, spy (b. 1841) ·
September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé,
French poet (b. 1842) ·
September 10 – Empress
Elisabeth of Austria, empress consort of Austria, queen consort of
Hungary (assassinated) (b. 1837) ·
September 16 – Ramón Emeterio
Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat
(b. 1827) ·
September 19 – George Grey, 11th Premier of New
Zealand (b. 1812) ·
September 20 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819) ·
September 26 – Fanny Davenport, American actress (b. 1850) ·
September 28 – Tan Sitong, Chinese revolutionary (executed)
(b. 1865) ·
September 29 – Louise of
Hesse-Kassel, German princess, queen consort of Christian IX of
Denmark (b. 1817) ·
October 24 – Pierre Puvis de
Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824) ·
November 2 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South
Australia (b. 1826) ·
November 20 – Sir John
Fowler, British civil engineer (b. 1817) ·
December 24 – Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese Maronite, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic monk, priest and saint
(b. 1828) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Sotirios
Sotiropoulos, Greek economist, politician (b. 1831) References[edit] 1.
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2009. Retrieved 2009-05-07.needs Flash) ·
1898
U S Battleship Indiana. Thomas Edison. Retrieved 2009-05-07. view of USS Indiana (BB-1) (needs
Flash) ·
1898
Transport Ship Whitney Leaving Dock. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. 1898-05-20 (needs Flash) ·
1898
10th U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion leaving Train. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-20. 1898-05-20 view of 10th
U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion (needs Flash) ·
1898
U.S. Cavalry Supplies Unloading at Tampa, Florida. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. 1898-05-20 view of Tampa, Florida (needs Flash) ·
1898
Military Camp at Tampa, taken from train. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. 1898-05-20 view of Tampa, Florida (needs Flash) ·
1898
Cuban Refugees Waiting for Rations. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. 1898-05-20 (needs Flash) ·
1898
Colored Troops Disembarking. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. 1898-05-20 (needs Flash) ·
1898
Troops Ship for the Philippines. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. June 1898 (needs Flash) ·
1898
U.S. troops landing at Daiquirí, Cuba. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. 1898-08-05 view of Daiquirí after the United States invasion
of Cuba in the Spanish–American War (needs
Flash) ·
1898
Major General Shafter. Thomas Edison.
Retrieved 2009-05-07. 1898-08-05 view of Major General Shafter (needs
Flash) ·
1898
Troops making road in front of Santiago. Thomas Edison.
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