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1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
899th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 99th year of the 19th century,
and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1899,
the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit]
·
Spanish
rule ends in Cuba. ·
Queens and Staten Island become administratively
part of New York City. ·
January 6 – Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. ·
January 8 – The Association football club SK Rapid Wien is founded, in Vienna. ·
January 10 – The Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
is founded, at Illinois
Wesleyan University in Bloomington,
Illinois. ·
January 17 – The United States takes
possession of Wake Island in
the Pacific Ocean. ·
January 19 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is
formed (it is disbanded in 1956). ·
January 21 – Opel Motors
opens for business in Germany.
January 21: Opel car. ·
January 22 – The leaders of six
Australian colonies meet in Melbourne, to discuss the confederation of
Australia as a whole. ·
Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in, as
President of the First
Philippine Republic. ·
The
British Southern Cross
Expedition crosses the Antarctic Circle. ·
February 2 – The participants in the
Australian Premiers' Conference, held in Melbourne, agree that Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney
and Melbourne. ·
February 4 – The Philippine–American
War begins as hostilities break out in Manila. ·
February 6 – Spanish–American War:
A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate. ·
February 12–14 – Great Blizzard of
1899: Freezing temperatures and snow extend
well south into North America, including southern Florida; it is the latest in a series of
disasters to Florida's citrus industry. ·
February 14 – Voting machines are approved by
the U.S. Congress,
for use in federal elections. ·
February 15 – The February
Manifesto is issued by the Emperor of Russia,
decreeing that a veto by the Diet of Finland may be overruled in
legislative matters concerning the interest of all Russia, including autonomous
Finland. The manifesto is viewed as unconstitutional and a coup
d'état by many Finns, who have come to consider their country a separate
constitutional state in its own right, in union with the Russian Empire.
Furthermore, the manifesto also fails to elaborate the criteria that a law
has to meet in order to be considered to concern Russian imperial interests,
and not an internal affair of Finland (affairs over which the Diet's
authority is supposed have remained unaltered), leaving it to be decided by
the autocratic Emperor. This results in Finnish fears that the Diet of
Finland may be overruled arbitrarily. ·
February 16 – Knattspyrnufélag
Reykjavíkur, the first Association football club
in Iceland, is established in the island's
capital, Reykjavík. ·
February 25 – In an accident at Grove
Hill, Harrow, London,
England, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle
to be killed; his passenger, Maj. James Richer, dies of injuries three days
later.[1] ·
March 1 – In Afghanistan,
Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes
a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannisthat have been raiding in the
Kurram Valley, and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle. ·
March 2 – Mount Rainier
National Park is established, in the U.S. state of Washington. ·
March 4 – Cyclone Mahina strikes Bathurst Bay, Queensland. A 12 meter high
wave reaches up to 5 km inland, leaving over 400 dead (the
deadliest natural disaster in
Australia's history).
March 6: Aspirin. ·
March 6 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann patents aspirin, and Bayer registers its name as a
trademark. ·
March 8 – The Frankfurter Fußball-Club
Victoria von 1899 (predecessor of Eintracht Frankfurt)
is founded. ·
March 20 – At Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New
York, Martha M. Place becomes
the first woman executed in an electric chair. ·
March 24 – George Dewey is made Admiral
of the U.S. Navy. ·
March 27 ·
Guglielmo Marconi successfully
transmits a radio signal across the English Channel.[2] ·
Philippine–American
War – Battle of Marilao
River: Filipino forces under the personal command of Emilio Aguinaldo, President of
the Philippines, fail to prevent troops of the United States Army crossing
the river. ·
March 30 – The German Society of
Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations, to
appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights. ·
March 31 – Philippine–American
War: Capture of Malolos – Malolos, capital of the First
Philippine Republic, is taken by American forces. April–June[edit] ·
April 15 – Students at the University
of California, Berkeley steal the Stanford Axe from Stanford University,
yelling at leaders following a baseball game, thus establishing the Axe as a
symbol of the rivalry between the schools. ·
April 26 – Jean Sibelius's First Symphony premiers
in Helsinki, Finland. ·
May 3 – The Ferencvárosi TC Association football club
is founded in Budapest. ·
May 13 – The Esporte Clube
Vitória Association football club is founded in Salvador, Brazil. ·
May 14 – The three time world
champion Club Nacional
de Football is founded in Montevideo, Uruguay. ·
May 18 – The First Hague
Peace Conference is opened in The Hague by Willem de Beaufort, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. ·
May 30 – Female outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles
(48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona. ·
May 31 – The Harriman
Alaska Expedition is launched. ·
June 5 – Filpino army general Antonio Luna is assassinated. ·
June 9 – American boxer James J. Jeffries knocks
out Cornish-born Bob Fitzsimmons in the 11th round and
wins the world heavyweight championship in a bout at Coney Island, New
York.[3] ·
June 12 – The New Richmond
tornado completely destroys the town of New Richmond,
Wisconsin, killing 117 and injuring more than 200. ·
June 17 – David Hilbert creates the modern
concept of geometry, with the
publication of his book Grundlagen der Geometrie, released on
this date at Göttingen.[4] ·
June 19 – Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations premieres
in London. ·
June 20 – Right-wing nationalist
movement Action Française formed
in France ·
June 22–27 – The highest ever recorded
individual cricket score, 628
not out, is made by A. E. J. Collins. This record stood
until 2016. ·
June 25 – Three Denver newspapers publish a story
(later proved to be a fabrication) that the Chinese government under
the Guangxu Emperor is
going to demolish the Great Wall of China. ·
June 27 – The paperclip is patented by Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor.[5] ·
June 30 – Mile-a-Minute Murphy earns
his nickname after he becomes the first man to ride a bicycle for one-mile
(1.6 km) in under a minute, on Long Island. July–September[edit] ·
July 1 – The International
Council of Nurses is founded in London, at a meeting of the
Matron's Council of Great Britain and Ireland.[6] ·
July 14 – The first Republic of Acre is declared in South
America. ·
July 17 ·
America's
first juvenile court is
established in Chicago. ·
NEC Corporation is organized as the
first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. ·
Battle of Togbao: The French Bretonnet–Braun mission is destroyed in Chad,
by the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr. ·
The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation takes
effect, ending extraterritoriality and
the unequal status of Japan in foreign commerce.[7] ·
July 21 – The Newsboys' strike takes
place, when the Newsies of New York go on strike (until August 2). ·
July 27 – Gold is discovered in Nome, Alaska, leading to the Nome Gold Rush.[8] ·
July 29 – The first international Peace
Conference ends, with the signing of the First Hague
Convention. ·
July 30 – The Harriman
Alaska Expedition ends successfully. ·
July 31 – Duke of
York Island, outside Antarctica, is discovered by explorer Carsten Borchgrevink and
the British Southern Cross
Expedition.[9] ·
August 3 – The John
Marshall Law School is founded in Chicago. ·
August 10 – Marshall "Major" Taylor wins
the world 1-mile (1.6 km) professional cycling championship in Montreal, securing his place as the
first African Americanworld
champion in any sport.[10] ·
August 17 – The San Ciriaco
hurricane makes landfall in North Carolina's Outer Banks, completely destroying the town
of Diamond City. ·
August 28 – At least 512 are killed
when a debris hill from the Sumitomo Besshi copper mine at Niihama, Shikoku, Japan, collapses after heavy rain;
122 houses, a smelting factory, hospital and many other facilities are
destroyed.[citation needed] ·
August 31 – The Olympique de
Marseille association football club is founded in France.[11] ·
September 6 – The White Star Line's transatlantic ocean liner RMS Oceanic sails
on her maiden voyage. At 17,272 gross tons and 704 ft
(215 m), she is the largest ship afloat, following scrapping of
the SS Great Eastern a
decade earlier.[12] ·
September 13 – Mackinder,
Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m or 17,057 ft),
the highest peak of Mount Kenya. ·
September 13 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the
United States to be killed in an automobile accident. ·
September 18 – Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is registered for
copyright, as ragtime music
enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States. ·
September 19 – Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned in France. October–December[edit] ·
October 9–14 – The Hanover Congress of
the Social
Democratic Party of Germany is held in Hanover. ·
October 11 – The Second Boer War: In South Africa, a war
between the United Kingdom and the Boers of
the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts. ·
October 13 – Second Boer War: The siege of Mafeking begins. ·
October 14 – Second Boer War: Kimberley comes
under siege by
the Boers. ·
October 20 – Second Boer War – Battle of Talana
Hill: In the first major clash of the conflict, near Dundee, Natal,
the British Army drives
the Boers from a hilltop position, but with heavy casualties, including their
commanding general Sir Penn Symons. ·
October 30 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Ladysmith begins. ·
October 30 – The Augusta High School
Building is completed in Augusta, Kentucky; Augusta
Methodist College shuts down. ·
November 4 – The Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority is founded
in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ·
November 8 – The New York
Zoological Society opens the Bronx Zoological Park to the public,
in New York City. ·
November 15 – The American Line's SS St. Paul becomes the
first ocean liner to
report her imminent arrival by wireless telegraphy,
when Marconi's
station at The Needles contacts
her 66 nautical miles (122 km) off the coast of England. ·
November 24 – Mahdist War – Battle of Umm
Diwaykarat: A decisive British and Egyptian victory ends the war in
the Sudan. ·
November 29 – The FC Barcelona Association football club
is founded. ·
Philippine–American
War – Battle of Tirad Pass ("The
Filipino Thermopylae"): General Gregorio del Pilar and
his troops are able to guard the retreat of Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo, before being wiped out. ·
During
the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of
the classical planets and
several binocular Solar System bodies occur. The Sun,
Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all within 15° of each
other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction
and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the
classical planets in this grand conjunction are Uranus (technically visible unaided
in pollution-free
skies), Ceres and Pallas. ·
Four-month-old Sobhuza II begins his 82-year reign
as King of Swaziland,
on the death of his father, Ngwane V; his grandmother Labotsibeni Mdluli serves
as queen regent. ·
The
college fraternity Delta Sigma Phi is founded at the City College of
New York, by Charles
A. Tonsor Jr. and Meyer
Boskey. ·
December 11 – Second Boer War – Battle of
Magersfontein: Boers defeat British forces trying to relieve
the Siege of Kimberley. ·
December 15 – Glasgow School of
Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Scottish
architect Charles Rennie
Mackintosh.[13] ·
The Association football club A.C. Milan is founded in Italy. ·
Augusta
High School in Augusta, Kentucky burns
down, due to a heating plant failure. ·
December 26 – Pinnacle Rock, a Balancing rock in Cumberland Gap, falls down.[14] Date unknown[edit] ·
The
significance of Chinese oracle bones is discovered. ·
The North Carolina
General Assembly incorporates the town of Manteo,
which was originally laid out as the Dare County
seat in 1870. ·
Riro, last of the Kings of Easter
Island, on a visit to Valparaíso, Chile, dies either from alcohol poisoning,
or an assassination plot by the Chilean government.[15] ·
Oxo beef stock cubes are introduced,
by Liebig's
Extract of Meat Company. ·
Alfred R. Tucker becomes Bishop of Uganda.[16] ·
The
German company Miele is founded. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
January 1 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower
(d. 1977) ·
January 3 – Karl Diebitsch, German fashion designer (1985) ·
Alphonse Castex, French rugby union player
(d. 1969) ·
Heinrich Nordhoff,
German automotive engineer (d. 1968) ·
Elsie Steele, British supercentenarian
(d. 2010) ·
January 7 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963) ·
January 8 – S. W. R. D.
Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959) ·
January 11 – Eva Le Gallienne, English actress (d. 1991) ·
January 12 – Paul Hermann Müller,
Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965) ·
Fritz Bayerlein, German general (d. 1970) ·
Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat (d. 1985) ·
January 15 – Goodman Ace, American actor, comedian and
writer (d. 1982) ·
Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947) ·
Nevil Shute, English-born novelist (d. 1960) ·
January 20 – Kenjiro Takayanagi,
Japanese television development pioneer (d. 1990) ·
January 21 – Dr. John Bodkin Adams,
British physician acquitted of murder (d. 1983) ·
January 23 – Alfred
Denning, Baron Denning, English lawyer, judge and Master of the Rolls (d. 1999) ·
January 25 – Paul-Henri Spaak, 31st Prime Minister of
Belgium and international statesman (d. 1972) ·
January 27 – Béla Guttmann, Hungarian-born Association
football coach (d. 1981) ·
January 30 – Max Theiler, South African virologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972) February[edit]
·
February 2 – Herbie Faye, American actor (d. 1980) ·
Café Filho, 18th President of Brazil
(d. 1970) ·
Doris Speed, British actress (d. 1994) ·
Lao She, Chinese author (d. 1966) ·
Mildred Trotter, American forensic
anthropologist (d. 1991) ·
February 6 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968) ·
February 7 – Earl Whitehill, American baseball player
(d. 1954) ·
February 10 – Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey
(d. 1982) ·
Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983) ·
Lillian Disney, American artist (d. 1997) ·
Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985) ·
Jibanananda Das, Indian poet, writer,
novelist and essayist in Bengali (d. 1954) ·
Leo Najo, American baseball player (d. 1978) ·
February 19 – Ehrenfried Pfeiffer,
German scientist (d. 1961) ·
Joseph Le Brix, French aviator, naval
officer (d. 1931) ·
George O'Hara,
American actor (d. 1966) ·
Ian Clunies Ross, Australian scientist
(d. 1959) ·
Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986) ·
February 23 – Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974) ·
February 24 – Mikhail Gromov,
Soviet aviator (d. 1985) ·
Alec Campbell, Australian WWI soldier, last
Australian Gallipoli veteran (d. 2002) ·
Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal
Council (d. 1994) ·
February 27 – Charles Best,
Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978) March[edit]
·
March 4 – Harry R. Wellman, University of
California president (d. 1997) ·
March 8 ·
Eric Linklater, American author (d. 1974) ·
Elmer Keith, American rancher, author, and
firearms enthusiast (d. 1984) ·
March 11 – King Frederick IX of
Denmark (d. 1972) ·
March 13 – John Hasbrouck
Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1980) ·
March 18 – Jean Goldkette, French-born musician
(d. 1962) ·
March 21 – Panagiotis Pipinelis,
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1970) ·
March 24 – Dorothy C. Stratton,
American director of the SPARS during World War II (d. 2006) ·
March 27 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983) ·
March 28 ·
August
Anheuser Busch, Jr., American founder of the Anheuser-Busch
Brewery Company (d. 1989) ·
Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973) ·
March 29 – Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet official (d. 1953) April[edit]
·
April 1 – Gustavs Celmiņš,
Latvian fascist leader (d. 1968) ·
April 3 – Maria
Redaelli-Granoli, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in
Europe (d. 2013) ·
April 4 – Hillel Oppenheimer,
German-born Israeli botanist (d. 1971) ·
April 5 – Elsie Thompson, American supercentenarian
(d. 2013) ·
April 7 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972) ·
April 9 – Hans Jeschonnek, German general (d. 1943) ·
April 16 – Osman Achmatowicz,
Polish chemist (d. 1988) ·
April 19 – George O'Brien,
American actor (d. 1985) ·
April 20 – Alan Arnett McLeod,
Canadian soldier (d. 1918) ·
April 21 – Percy Lavon Julian,
American scientist (d. 1975) ·
April 22 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American
writer (d. 1977) ·
April 23 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1979) ·
April 24 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician
(d. 1986) ·
April 26 – John Fearns Nicoll,
British colonial governor (d. 1981) ·
April 27 – Walter Lantz, American animator, creator
of Woody Woodpecker (d. 1994) ·
April 29 ·
Duke Ellington, Afrrican-American jazz
musician, bandleader (d. 1974) ·
Mary Petty, American illustrator (d. 1976) May[edit]
·
May 3 – Aline MacMahon, American actress (d. 1991) ·
May 6 – Billy Cotton, British entertainer,
bandleader (d. 1969) ·
May 8 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1992) ·
May 10 ·
Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and
actor (d. 1987) ·
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer
(d. 1979) ·
May 12 – Indra Devi, Baltic-born yogi, and actress
(d. 2002) ·
May 15 – Jean-Étienne Valluy,
French general (d. 1970) ·
May 17 – Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer (d. 1979) ·
May 20 – John Marshall
Harlan II, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1971) ·
May 23 – Jeralean Talley, American supercentenarian
(d. 2015) ·
May 24 ·
Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player
(d. 1938) ·
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi national poet (d. 1976) ·
May 30 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer
(d. 1936) June[edit]
·
June 1 – Edward Charles
Titchmarsh, British mathematician (d. 1963) ·
June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette
animator (d. 1981) ·
June 3 – Georg von Békésy,
Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972) ·
June 4 – Arthur Barker, American criminal, son
of Ma Barker (d. 1939) ·
June 11 – Yasunari Kawabata,
Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1972) ·
June 12 – Fritz Albert Lipmann,
American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986) ·
June 13 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978) ·
June 16 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972) ·
June 18 – John Warburton,
British actor (d. 1981) ·
June 24 – Bruce Marshall, Scottish writer (d. 1987) ·
June 25 – Arthur Tracy, American singer (d. 1997) ·
June 26 ·
Odus Mitchell, American football player and
coach (d. 1989) ·
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) ·
June 27 – Juan Trippe, American airline pioneer,
entrepreneur (d. 1981) ·
June 29 – Edward Twining, British diplomat, formerly
Governor of North Borneo[1] and Governor of Tanganyika (d. 1967) ·
June 30 ·
Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990) ·
Harry Shields, American jazz clarinettist
(d. 1971) July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician
(d. 1993) ·
Charles Laughton, English-American stage,
film actor (d. 1962) ·
Konstantinos Tsatsos,
President of Greece (d. 1987) ·
July 4 – Austin Warren, American literary critic,
author, and professor of English (d. 1986) ·
July 5 – Marcel Achard, French playwright,
scriptwriter (d. 1974) ·
July 6 – Susannah Mushatt
Jones, American supercentenarian (d. 2016) ·
July 7 ·
George Cukor, American film director
(d. 1983) ·
Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th
Governor of American Samoa (d. 1961) ·
July 10 – John Gilbert,
American actor (d. 1936) ·
July 11 ·
Frank R. Walker, American admiral (d. 1976) ·
E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985) ·
July 15 – Seán Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971) ·
July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene Expressionist,
Realist and Symbolist painter, printmaker, art teacher, photographer and
filmmaker (d. 1989) ·
July 17 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986) ·
July 18 – Floyd Stahl, American collegiate athletic
coach (d. 1996) ·
July 20 – Paul Christoph
Mangelsdorf, American botanist and agronomist (d. 1989) ·
July 21 ·
Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932) ·
Ernest Hemingway, American author,
journalist (d. 1961) ·
July 22 – King Sobhuza II of
Swaziland (d. 1982) ·
July 23 – Gustav Heinemann, former German president
(d. 1976) ·
July 24 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, writer and
tribal chief of the Tsleil-Waututh
First Nation (d. 1981) ·
July 29 ·
Walter Beall, American baseball player
(d. 1959) ·
Alice Terry, American film actress (d. 1987) August[edit]
·
August 1 – Kamala Nehru, Spouses of Prime Minister of
India (d. 1936) ·
August 4 – Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994) ·
August 9 ·
Paul Kelly,
American stage, film actor (d. 1956) ·
P. L. Travers, Australian-born British
actress, journalist and author (d. 1996) ·
August 13 – Alfred Hitchcock, British-born American film
director (d. 1980) ·
August 16 – Glenn Strange, American actor (d. 1973) ·
August 17 – Janet Lewis, American novelist and poet
(d. 1998) ·
August 19 – Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988) ·
Jorge Luis Borges,
Argentine writer (d. 1986) ·
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient
of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1983) ·
C. S. Forester, English novelist (d. 1966) ·
Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970) ·
Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978) ·
Vernon Huber, American rear admiral; 36th
Governor of American Samoa (d. 1967) ·
Lyman Lemnitzer, American general (d. 1988) ·
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991) ·
August 30 – Ray Arcel, American boxing trainer (d. 1994) ·
August 31 – Boots Adams, American business magnate,
president of Phillips
Petroleum Company (d. 1975) September[edit] ·
Andrei
Platonovich Klimentov, Russian-born Soviet writer (d. 1951) ·
Takuma Nishimura, Japanese general (d. 1951) ·
September 3 – Frank Macfarlane
Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985) ·
Brassaï, French photographer (d. 1984) ·
Waite Hoyt, American baseball player
(d. 1984) ·
September 13 – Corneliu Zelea
Codreanu, Romanian fascist politician, leader of the Iron Guard
(d. 1938) ·
September 17 – Harold Bennett, British actor (d. 1981) ·
September 18 – Ida Kamińska, Polish-Jewish actress,
playwright, and translator (d. 1980) ·
September 21 – Frederick Coutts, 8th General of The
Salvation Army (d. 1986) ·
September 23 – Tom C. Clark, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1977) ·
September 28 – Boris Yefimov, Russian political cartoonist
(d. 2008) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950) ·
October 3 – Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966) ·
October 4 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (d. 1974) ·
October 5 – George, Duke
of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
(d. 1963) ·
October 9 – Bruce Catton, American Civil War historian,
Pulitzer Prize winner (1954) (d. 1978) ·
October 19 – Miguel Ángel
Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1974) ·
October 20 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (d. 1975) ·
October 24 – Burr Shafer, American cartoonist (d. 1965) ·
October 29 – Akim Tamiroff, Armenian actor (d. 1972) ·
October 30 – Katarina
Marinič, Slovenian supercentenarian
(d. 2010) November[edit] ·
November 5 – Forrest Lewis, American actor (d. 1977) ·
November 6 – Feng Zhanhai, Chinese military leader,
government official (d. 1963) ·
November 7 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet,
columnist (d. 1954) ·
November 11 – Pat O'Brien,
American actor (d. 1983) ·
Vera Caspary, American screenwriter,
novelist, playwright (d. 1987) ·
Iskander Mirza, 1st President of Pakistan
(d. 1969) ·
November 15 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian Minister of War in
Exile (d. 1990) ·
November 17 – Douglas Shearer, American film sound
engineer (d. 1971) ·
November 18 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor
(d. 1985) ·
November 19 – Abu al-Qasim
al-Khoei, Shia Ayatollah (d. 1992) ·
November 21 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967) ·
November 22 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer,
pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader (d. 1981) ·
November 23 – Manuel dos Reis
Machado, Brazilian martial arts master (d. 1974) ·
November 24 – Soraya Tarzi, Afghan feminist, queen
(d. 1968) ·
Mona Bruns, American stage, film, radio, and
television actress (d. 2000) ·
Richard Hauptmann,
German murderer of Charles Lindbergh,
Jr. (d. 1936) ·
Maurice Rose, American general (d. 1945) ·
November 29 – Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian,
oldest Italian ever, last surviving person born in the 1800s (d. 2017) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Gaetano Lucchese, American gangster, boss of
the Lucchese crime
family (d. 1967) ·
John Barbirolli, English conductor (d. 1970) ·
Ray Morehart, American baseball player
(d. 1989) ·
December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan
(d. 1965) ·
December 4 – Sam Newfield, American film director
(d. 1964) ·
December 8 – John Qualen, Canadian-American actor
(d. 1987) ·
December 9 – Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (d. 1937) ·
December 14 – DeFord Bailey, American country musician
(d. 1982) ·
December 15 – Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978) ·
Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and
composer (d. 1973) ·
Aleksander Zawadzki,
former President of Poland (d. 1964) ·
December 18 – Peter Wessel Zapffe,
Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990) ·
December 19 – Martin Luther King
Sr., American Baptist pastor, missionary, and early figure in
the civil rights
movement, father of Martin Luther King
Jr. (d. 1984) ·
Finn Ronne, Norwegian-American explorer
(d. 1980) ·
John Sparkman, American politician (d. 1985) ·
Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957) ·
Frank Ferguson, American actor (d. 1978) ·
December 28 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943) ·
December 29 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military
leader (d. 1992) ·
December 31 – Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist
(d. 1973) Date unknown[edit] ·
Otto Klemperer,
German physicist (d. 1987) ·
Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of
Lebanon (d. 1980) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 23 – Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California
(b. 1831) ·
January 29 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist
landscape painter (b. 1839) ·
January 31 – Princess
Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, princess consort of Bulgaria
(b. 1870) ·
Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany
(b. 1831) ·
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1874) ·
February 16 – Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841) ·
February 23 – Gaëtan de Rochebouët,
Prime Minister of France (b. 1813) ·
February 25 – Paul Reuter, German-born news agency founder
(b. 1816) ·
March 3 – William P. Sprague,
American politician from Ohio (b. 1827) ·
March 6 – Princess Kaʻiulani, last monarch of Hawaii
(b. 1875) ·
March 12 – Sir Julius Vogel, Premier of New Zealand
(b. 1835) ·
March 20 – Martha Place, American murderer, first woman
executed in the electric chair (b. 1849) ·
March 24 – Marie
Goegg-Pouchoulin, Swiss national, international women's rights
activist, pacifist (b. 1826) ·
April 1 – Charles C.
Carpenter, American admiral (b. 1834) ·
April 5 – T. E. Ellis, Welsh politician (b. 1859) ·
April 7 – Pieter Rijke, Dutch physicist (b. 1812) ·
April 11 – Lascăr Catargiu,
4-time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1823) ·
April 16 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet, revolutionary
(b. 1875) ·
April 22 – Johann Köler, Estonian painter (b. 1826) ·
May 24 – William
Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, British law lord (b. 1817) ·
May 25 – Emilio Castelar
y Ripoll, President of the First Spanish Republic (b. 1832) ·
June 3 – Johann Strauss, Jr.,
Austrian composer (b. 1825) ·
June 4 – Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician (b. 1835) ·
June 5 – Antonio Luna, Filipino general (Assassinated)
(b. 1866) ·
June 7 – Augustin Daly, American theatrical
impresario, playwright (b. 1838) ·
June 10 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855) July–December[edit]
·
July 1 – Sir William Flower,
British museum curator and surgeon (b.1831) ·
July 16 – Margaretta Riley, British botanist (b. 1804) ·
July 18 – Horatio Alger, Jr.,
American writer (b. 1832) ·
July 21 – Robert G. Ingersoll,
American politician (b. 1833) ·
July 27 – Tassilo
von Heydebrand und der Lasa, German chess-master (b. 1818) ·
August 4 – Karl, Freiherr
von Prel, German philosopher (b. 1839) ·
August 9 – Grand
Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Russian Grand Duke, younger
brother of Nicholas II of
Russia (b. 1871) ·
August 16 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811) ·
September 2 – Ernest Renshaw, British tennis player
(b. 1861) ·
September 12 – Cornelius
Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (b. 1843) ·
September 17 – Charles Alfred
Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842) ·
September 28 – Giovanni Segantini,
Italian painter (b. 1858) ·
October 2 – Emma Hardinge
Britten, British writer (b. 1823) ·
Percy Pilcher, British aviation pioneer,
glider pilot (b. 1866) ·
October 14 – Anna
Waterston, American diarist (b. 1812) ·
October 22 – Ella Hoag
Brockway Avann, American educator (b. 1853) ·
October 23 – Sir Penn Symons, British general (died of
wounds) (b. 1843) ·
Sir Arthur Blomfield, British architect
(b. 1829) ·
William Henry Webb,
American industrialist, philanthropist (b. 1816) ·
Vincas Kudirka, Lithuanian doctor, poet, and
national hero (b. 1858) ·
Julius
Hermann Moritz Busch, German publicist (b. 1821) ·
November 21 – Garret Hobart, 24th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1844) ·
November 23 – Thomas Henry Ismay,
British owner of the White Star Line (b. 1837) ·
November 24 – Abdallahi ibn
Muhammad, Sudanese political, religious leader (killed in battle)
(b. 1846) ·
November 28 – Virginia
Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (b. 1837) ·
December 2 – Gregorio del Pilar,
Filipino general (killed in battle) (b. 1875) ·
December 10 – King Ngwane V of Swaziland (b. 1876) ·
December 19 – Henry Ware Lawton,
American general (b. 1843) ·
Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist
(b. 1837) ·
Hugh
Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, British landowner and
politician (b. 1825) ·
December 27 – Erebus Black, English occultist (b. 1851) Unknown date[edit]
·
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