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1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
908th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 8th year of the 20th century,
and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1908,
the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths According to NASA reports,
1908 was the coldest recorded year since 1880.[1]
1908 Baby New Year on the cover of The Saturday
Evening Post. Events[edit] January[edit]
January 24: Boy Scout movement. ·
January 1 – Nimrod Expedition: Ernest Shackleton sets
sail from New Zealand on the Nimrod, for Antarctica. ·
January 12 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. ·
January 13 – A fire at the
Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown,
Pennsylvania kills 170. ·
January 15 – Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C. ·
January 21 – New York City passes
the Sullivan Ordinance,
making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure
vetoed by the mayor.[2] ·
January 24 – Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys begins
publication in London. The book will sell over 100 million copies over time,
and effectively begin the worldwide Boy Scout movement. February[edit] ·
February 1 – Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante
Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon. ·
February 3 – Panathinaikos,
a well known professional multi-sports club of Greece, is founded in Athens.[citation needed] ·
February 12 – The first
around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York
to Paris Race, begins. ·
February 18 – Japanese emigration to
the United States is forbidden, under terms of the Gentlemen's
Agreement of 1907. March[edit] ·
March – The
Children's Encyclopædia begins publication in London. ·
March 4 ·
The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal
University College, precursor to the University of
Pretoria, is established. ·
The Collinwood school
fire near Cleveland, Ohio kills
174. ·
March 9 – Inter Milan, a well-known football club
in Italy, is founded.[3] ·
March 21 – French aviator Léon Delagrange made
the world's first flight with a female passenger, his partner and fellow
sculptor Thérèse Peltier.[4] ·
March 23 – American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, is assassinated in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants, unhappy with his recent
support for the increasing Japanese presence in Korea. ·
March 27 – The first Scout troop outside the U.K. is formed
in Gibraltar. April[edit] ·
April 20 – Sunshine rail
disaster: A rear-end collision of two trains in Melbourne, Australia kills 44 people, and
injures more than 400.[5] ·
April 21 – Frederick Cook claims to have reached
the North Pole on this date. May[edit] ·
May 14–October 31 – The Franco-British
Exhibition (1908) is held in London. ·
May 26 – At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia,
the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The
rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. June[edit]
Evidence of the Tunguska event (June 30). Photo
taken 19 years later. ·
June 30 (June 17 OS)
– The Tunguska event or
"Russian explosion" near the Podkamennaya
Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire, is believed to have been
caused by the air burst of a
large meteoroid or comet fragment, at an altitude of 5–10
kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface.[6][7][8] July[edit]
·
July 3 – Young Turk
Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200
followers (Ottoman troops and civilians), begins an open revolution by
defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia,
decamping into the hill country. ·
July 6 – Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole. ·
July 11–12 – The steamship Amalthea,
housing 80 British strikebreakers in Malmö harbour, Sweden, is bombed by Anton Nilson; 1 is killed, 20 injured. ·
July 13–25 – The 1908 Summer Olympics are
held in London (the Winter Olympics are held here from October 19–31.[9] ·
July 23 – Young Turk
Revolution: The Committee
of Union and Progress (CUP) issues a formal ultimatum
to Sultan Abdul Hamid II,
to restore the constitution of 1876 within
the Ottoman Empire (it
is restored the following day). ·
July 24 – Italian Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon (run from Windsor Castleto London) in one of the most
dramatic arrivals in Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards
for receiving assistance; victory is awarded to Irish-American Johnny Hayes. ·
July 27–28 – The 1908 Hong Kong
typhoon sinks the passenger steamer Ying King,
causing 421 deaths. August[edit] ·
August 8 ·
Wilbur Wright flies in France for the
first time, demonstrating true controlled powered flight in Europe. ·
The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights
to the upright portable vacuum cleaner just invented by James M. Spangler. ·
August 17 – Émile Cohl makes the first fully animated film, Fantasmagorie. ·
August 24 – After an intense power
struggle, Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco is
deposed, and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafid. September[edit] ·
September 10 – The first Minas
Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas
Geraes is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's
yard on the River Tyne in
England, catalysing the "South
American dreadnought race". ·
September 17 – At Fort Myer, Virginia, Thomas Selfridge becomes the first
person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the
crash but recovers. ·
September 27 – Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile at the Ford Piquette
Avenue Plant, in Detroit, Michigan. October[edit] ·
October 1 – Penny Post is established between
the United Kingdom and United States.[10] ·
October 5 – Bulgaria declares
its independence from the Ottoman Empire; Ferdinand I of
Bulgaria becomes Tsar. ·
October 5 – The Melting Pot,
a play by Israel Zangwill,
opens in Washington, D.C. The title quickly becomes a widely-used symbol for
assimilation of immigrants to the United States. ·
October 6 – The Bosnian crisis begins, after the Austro-Hungarian
Empire annexes Bosnia and
Herzegovina. November[edit] ·
November 3 – United
States presidential election, 1908: Republican candidate William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings
Bryan, 321 electoral votes to 162. ·
November 6 – Western bandits Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are supposedly killed
in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large
group of soldiers. There are many rumors to the contrary however, and their
grave sites are unmarked. ·
November 15 – King Leopold II of
Belgium formally relinquishes his personal control of
the Congo Free State (becoming Belgian Congo) to Belgium, following evidence
collected by Roger Casement of
maladministration. ·
November 25 – The
Christian Science Monitor newspaper is first published,
in the United States. December[edit] ·
December 2 – Young Emperor Puyi ascends
the Chinese throne at age 2. ·
December 16 – Construction begins on
the RMS Olympic,
at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard
in Belfast. ·
December 28 – The 7.1 Mw Messina
earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and
200,000. Date unknown[edit] ·
A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found
at Le Moustier in
southwest France, by Otto Hauser. ·
The University of
Pittsburgh is organized. ·
Madison College, precursor to James Madison
University, is founded. ·
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is
founded. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
January 8 – William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975) ·
January 9 – Simone de Beauvoir,
French feminist writer (d. 1986) ·
January 10 – Paul Henreid, Austrian-born American actor
(d. 1992) ·
January 11 – Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994) ·
January 12 – Jean Delannoy, French film director
(d. 2008) ·
January 14 – Russ Columbo, Italian-American singer,
bandleader, and composer (d. 1934) ·
January 15 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist
(d. 2003) ·
January 16 – Günther Prien, German submarine commander
(d. 1941) ·
January 17 – Cus D'Amato, American boxing trainer
(d. 1985) ·
January 22 – Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1968) ·
January 24 – Duncan Sandys, British politician (d. 1987) ·
Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (d. 2009) ·
Stéphane Grappelli,
French jazz violinist, composer (d. 1997) ·
January 27 – Hot Lips Page, American jazz singer,
trumpeter, and bandleader (d. 1954) February[edit]
·
February 1 – George Pal, Hungarian-born American animator
(d. 1980) ·
Peg Entwistle, English actress (d. 1932) ·
Eugen Weidmann, German serial killer, last
person publicly executed in France (d. 1939) ·
Amintore Fanfani, 32nd Prime Minister of
Italy (d. 1999) ·
Michael Maltese, American screenwriter
(d. 1981) ·
February 7 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer, actor
(d. 1983) ·
Philip Dunne,
American screenwriter, director, and producer (d. 1992) ·
Vivian Fuchs, English geologist, explorer
(d. 1999) ·
February 12 – Jean Effel, French painter, journalist
(d. 1982) ·
February 15 – Qin Hanzhang, Chinese engineer ·
February 17 – Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2007) ·
Rómulo Betancourt, President of
Venezuela (d. 1981) ·
John Mills, British actor (d. 2005) ·
February 23 – William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of
Australia (d. 1988) ·
February 25 – George Duning, American film composer
(d. 2000) ·
Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980) ·
Nestor Mesta Chayres,
Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (d. 1971) ·
Jean-Pierre Wimille,
French race car driver (d. 1949) ·
Balthus, French painter (d. 2001) ·
Dee Brown,
American writer, historian (d. 2002) March[edit]
Walter Bruchbehind camera
·
March 2 – Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990) ·
March 5 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990) ·
March 7 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973) ·
March 14 – Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer
(d. 1991) ·
March 19 – George Rodger, British photojournalist
(d. 1995) ·
March 20 ·
Kermit Murdock, American actor (d. 1981) ·
Michael Redgrave, English actor, playwright
(d. 1985) ·
Frank Stanton,
American businessman (d. 2006) ·
March 22 – Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988) ·
March 25 ·
Helmut Käutner,
German actor, director (d. 1980) ·
David Lean, English film director (d. 1991) ·
March 29 – Arthur O'Connell,
American actor (d. 1981) April[edit]
·
April 1 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
(d. 1970) ·
April 2 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor, dancer
(d. 2003) ·
April 5 ·
Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989) ·
Herbert von Karajan,
Austrian conductor (d. 1989) ·
April 7 – Percy Faith, Canadian-born American
composer, musician (d. 1976) ·
April 8 – Tito Guízar, Mexican singer, film actor
(d. 1999) ·
April 11 ·
Masaru Ibuka, Japanese electronics
industrialist (d. 1997) ·
Dan Maskell, British tennis coach,
commentator (d. 1992) ·
April 12 ·
Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013) ·
Carlos Lleras
Restrepo, President of Colombia (d. 1994) ·
April 20 – Lionel Hampton, African-American musician,
bandleader (d. 2002) ·
April 24 – Józef
Gosławski, Polish sculptor, medallic artist (d. 1963) ·
April 25 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist
(d. 1965) ·
April 26 – Fred
Phillips, American make-up artist (d. 1993) ·
April 28 – Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian (Sudeten
German) industrialist (d. 1974) ·
April 29 – Jack Williamson, American science fiction
author (d. 2006) ·
April 30 ·
Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990) ·
Bjarni
Benediktsson, Icelandic prime minister (d. 1970) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born World War II
heroine (d. 1952) ·
May 5 – Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989) ·
May 7 – Max Grundig, German inventor, industrialist
(d. 1989) ·
May 8 – Cristian Vasile, Romanian singer (d. 1974) ·
May 11 – Hide Hyodo Shimizu,
Japanese-Canadian educator, activist (d. 1999) ·
May 17 – Muhammad Ahmad
Mahgoub, Sudanese author, 6th Prime Minister of
Sudan (d. 1976) ·
May 19 – Percy Williams,
Canadian athlete (d. 1982) ·
May 20 ·
Aleksei Arbuzov, Soviet playwright (d. 1986) ·
James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997) ·
May 23 ·
Max Abramovitz, American architect (d. 2004) ·
John Bardeen, American physicist, twice
awarded the Nobel Prize (d. 1991) ·
Hélène Boucher,
French aviator (d. 1934) ·
May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963) ·
May 26 ·
Robert Morley, British actor (d. 1992) ·
Nguyễn
Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam (d. 1976) ·
May 25 – Barbara Luddy, American voice actress
(d. 1979) ·
May 28 – Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964) ·
May 30 ·
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1995) ·
Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989) ·
Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, English
peer and Earl Marshal (d. 1975) ·
May 31 – Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993) June[edit]
·
June 11 – Francisco Marto, Portuguese, beatified
(d. 1919) ·
June 12 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina
(d. 2010) ·
June 13 – Marjorie F. Lambert,
American archaeologist & anthropologist (d. 2006) ·
June 21 ·
Yun Bong-gil, Korean resister against the
Japanese occupation of Korea (d. 1932) ·
William Frankena, American moral philosopher
(d. 1994) ·
Marjorie Gladman, American amateur tennis
player (d. 1999) ·
Luis Oliva, Argentine athlete (d. 2009) ·
June 23 ·
Gwyn Davies,
Welsh rugby footballer (d. 1992) ·
Karl Warner, American athlete (d. 1995) ·
June 24 ·
Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942) ·
Tullio Pinelli, Italian screenwriter
(d. 2009) ·
Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander
(d. 1976) ·
June 25 ·
Joe Becker,
American baseball player (d. 1998) ·
Willard Van Orman
Quine, American philosopher, academic (d. 2000) ·
June 26 ·
Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973) ·
William F. Knowland,
American politician (d. 1974) ·
June 27: ·
Bill Kennedy,
American actor (d. 1997) ·
Charles Stevenson,
American philosopher (d. 1979) ·
June 28 – Norman Lewis,
British journalist, author (d. 2003) ·
June 29 ·
Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975) ·
Sally Haley, American painter (d. 2007) ·
Oliver Tomkins, Anglican Bishop of Bristol
(d. 1992) ·
June 30 ·
Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003) ·
Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (d. 1999) ·
Eunice Norton, American pianist (d. 2005) ·
Luigi Rovere, Italian film producer
(d. 1996) July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Luis Regueiro, Spanish footballer (d. 1995) ·
Alvino Rey, American swing era musician,
bandleader (d. 2004) ·
Estée Lauder,
American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004) ·
Raúl de Anda, Mexican actor, screenwriter,
film producer and director (d. 1997) ·
July 2 – Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1993) ·
July 3 – Héctor Croxatto,
Chilean physiologist (d. 2010) ·
July 5 ·
Don Dunphy, American television, radio sports
announcer (d. 1998) ·
Count
Henri of Orléans, (d. 1999) ·
Lyman S. Ayres II,
American businessman (d. 1996) ·
July 6 ·
Sam Vanni, Finnish painter (d. 1992) ·
Anton Muttukumaru,
Ceylonese Army officer (d. 2001) ·
John
Price, English cricketer (d. 1995) ·
July 7 ·
Laurie Fitzhardinge,
Australian historian, librarian (d. 1993) ·
Spiro Koleka, Albanian statesman, communist
politician and military officer (d. 2001) ·
July 8 – Nelson Rockefeller,
American businessman, philanthropist, public servant and politician, 41st Vice
President of the United States (d. 1979) ·
July 9 ·
Princess
Lucia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 2001) ·
Aden Abdullah
Osman Daar, Somali politician (d. 2007) ·
July 10 ·
Carl Richard Jacobi,
American journalist, author (d. 1997) ·
Wally Hayward, South African athlete
(d. 2006) ·
Kourkène
Medzadourian, Armenian activist (d. 1996) ·
July 11 – Gérard Légaré,
Canadian politician (d. 1997) ·
July 12 ·
Alois Hudec, Czechoslovak gymnast, Olympic
champion (d. 1997) ·
Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002) ·
July 13 – Garfield Todd, 5th Prime Minister of
Southern Rhodesia (d. 2002) ·
July 16 – Gerd Achgelis, German aviator, test pilot,
and pioneer in the development of helicopters (d. 1991) ·
July 17 ·
Enzo Fiermonte, Italian actor, boxer
(d. 1993) ·
Mohammad Natsir, Indonesian scholar and
politician; 5th Prime Minister of Indonesia (d. 1993) ·
July 19 – Daniel Fry, American contactee (d. 1992) ·
July 21 ·
Magruder Tuttle, American rear admiral,
football player (d. 1998) ·
Jug McSpaden, American professional golfer
(d. 1996) ·
July 22 ·
Ljerko Spiller, Croat-Argentine violinist
(d. 2008) ·
Claire Falkenstein,
American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer and teacher
(d. 1997) ·
July 23 ·
Karl Swenson, American actor (d. 1978) ·
James C. Tison, Jr.,
American admiral, civil engineer, sixth Director of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and first director of the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps (d. 1991) August[edit]
·
August 4 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994) ·
August 5 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 1967) ·
August 6 – Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982) ·
August 8 ·
Arthur Goldberg, American politician,
diplomat, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1990) ·
Chivu Stoica, 48th Prime Minister
of Romania (d. 1975) ·
August 9 – A. I. Bezzerides, American screenwriter
(d. 2007) ·
Rica Erickson, Australian naturalist,
botanical artist (d. 2009) ·
Lauri Lehtinen, Finish Olympic athlete
(d. 1973) ·
August 13 – Gene Raymond, American actor (d. 1998) ·
August 18 – Edgar Faure, 2-time Prime Minister
of France (d. 1988) ·
M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004) ·
Tom Tully, American actor (d. 1982) ·
August 22 – Henri
Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004) ·
Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer
(d. 2001) ·
Lyndon B. Johnson,
36th President
of the United States (d. 1973) ·
August 28 – Robert Merle, French writer (d. 2004) ·
Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996) ·
Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991) ·
August 31 – William Saroyan, American writer (d. 1981) September[edit]
·
Ruth Bancroft, American landscape, garden
designer (d. 2017) ·
Nikolai
Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer, astrophysicist
(d. 1983) ·
Dorothea Leighton,
American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology
(d. 1989) ·
September 3 – Lev Semenovich
Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988) ·
September 4 – Richard Wright,
African-American author (d. 1960) ·
Ahmed Balafrej, Moroccan politician, Foreign
Minister and 2nd Prime Minister
of Morocco (d. 1990) ·
Josué de Castro,
Brazilian activist against hunger (d. 1973) ·
Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer, painter ·
Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997) ·
Anthony Wagner, British herald at the
College of Arms (d. 1995) ·
September 7 – Michael E. DeBakey,
American surgeon, medical researcher (d. 2008) ·
September 10 – Raymond Scott, American composer,
bandleader, and electronic music pioneer (d. 1994) ·
September 13 – Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998) ·
Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (d. 1983) ·
Penny Singleton, American film actress
(d. 2003) ·
September 18 – Victor Ambartsumian,
Soviet Armenian scientist (d. 1996) ·
September 19 – Paul Bénichou, French intellectual (d. 2001) ·
September 21 – Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier (d. 1994) ·
September 25 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (d. 1993) ·
September 29 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967) ·
September 30 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist
(d. 1974) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Umar Dimayev, Chechen folk singer (d. 1972) ·
October 6 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942) ·
October 7 – Baek Du-jin, Korean politician, 4th Prime
Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (d. 1993) ·
October 10 – Min Chueh Chang, Chinese-born American
reproductive biologist (d. 1991) ·
October 15 – John Kenneth
Galbraith, Canadian economist (d. 2006) ·
October 16 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian communist dictator
(d. 1985) ·
October 17 – Kenji
Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007) ·
October 19 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981) ·
October 20 – Geraldine Branch, American gynecologist
(d. 2016) ·
October 21 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (d. 2003) ·
Abdurakhman
Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian (d. 1997) ·
Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1990) ·
Tauno Palo, Finnish actor (d. 1982) ·
Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004) ·
October 27 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984) ·
October 28 – Arturo Frondizi, 35th President of
Argentina (d. 1995) ·
October 30 – Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer,
Minister of Defense (d. 1984) ·
October 31 – Muriel Duckworth, Canadian pacifist, social
activist (d. 2009) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Felix Knight, American actor, tenor, and
vocal coach (Babes in
Toyland (1934)) (d. 1998) ·
November 3 – Giovanni Leone, 68th Prime Minister of
Italy, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001) ·
November 4 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel
Peace Prize laureate (d. 2005) ·
November 12 – Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1999) ·
November 14 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician
(d. 1957) ·
November 16 – Sœur Emmanuelle,
French nun (d. 2008) ·
November 18 – Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001) ·
November 20 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American
journalist (d. 2004) ·
November 23 – Nelson S. Bond, American author, playwright
(d. 2006) ·
November 24 – Libertad Lamarque,
Argentine-Mexican actress, singer (d. 2000) ·
November 28 – Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Belgian-born French anthropologist (d. 2009) December[edit]
·
December 2 – Aron Schvartzman, Argentine chess player
(d. 2013) ·
December 4 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) ·
Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor
(d. 2003) ·
Baby Face Nelson, American gangster
(d. 1934) ·
Trudy
Späth-Schweizer, Swiss politician (d. 1990) ·
December 7 – Phyllis Barry, English actress (d. 1954) ·
December 10 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992) ·
Carlos Arias Navarro,
Spanish politician, 71st President of Spain (d. 1989) ·
Elliott Carter, American composer (d. 2012) ·
Manoel de Oliveira,
Portuguese film director (d. 2015) ·
Hákun Djurhuus,
4th Prime
Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987) ·
Alfred Proksch, Austrian Olympic athlete
(d. 2011) ·
Morey Amsterdam, American actor, comedian
(d. 1996) ·
Laurence Naismith,
English actor (d. 1992) ·
Frances Day, American actress, singer
(d. 1984) ·
Hans Schaffner, 69th President of
Switzerland (d. 2004) ·
December 17 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1980) ·
Giovanni Luigi
Bonelli, Italian comic book author, writer (d. 2001) ·
Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet,
revolutionary (d. 1943) ·
December 25 – Quentin Crisp, English gay icon, author and
raconteur (d. 1999) ·
December 28 – Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996) ·
December 31 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter
(d. 2005) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Takieddin el-Solh,
2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1988) ·
Suleiman Nabulsi, Prime Minister of Jordan
(d. 1976) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 9 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter, poet
(b. 1832) ·
January 14 – Holger Drachmann, Danish poet (b. 1846) ·
January 17 – Ferdinand
IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835) ·
January 23 – Edward MacDowell, American composer
(b. 1860) ·
January 25 – Ouida, English writer (b. 1839) ·
King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863) ·
Luís
Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (b. 1887) ·
February 7 – Manuel Curros
Enríquez, Spanish Galician writer (b. 1851) ·
Annie Ryder Gracey,
American missionary (b. 1836) ·
Baron Ignaz von
Plener, 3rd Minister-President of Cisleithania (b. 1810) ·
February 22 – Eliza A. Pittsinger,
"The California Poetess" (b. 1837) ·
John
Hope, 1st Governor-General of Australia (b. 1860) ·
Pat Garrett, Sheriff in the Old West;
shot Billy the Kid in
1881 (b. 1850) ·
March 1 – Augusta Hejnek, Polish-American centenarian,
latest known surviving person born in the 18th century (b. 1799) ·
March 11 – Edmondo De Amicis,
Italian novelist (b. 1846) ·
March 12 – Susan Marr Spalding,
American poet (b. 1841) ·
March 27 – Charles N. Sims, American Methodist
preacher, third chancellor of Syracuse University (b. 1835) ·
March 29 – Esther Pugh, American temperance reformer
(b. 1834) ·
March 30 – Chester Gillette, American murderer
(executed) (b. 1883) ·
April 22 ·
Qasim Amin, Egyptian writer (b. 1863) ·
Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836) ·
April 26 – Karl Möbius, German ecologist (b. 1825) ·
May 2 – Prince Yamashina
Kikumaro, Japanese Prince (b. 1873) ·
May 23 – François Coppée,
French poet, novelist (b. 1842) ·
May 24 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821) ·
May 26 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad,
Sikh Empire-born founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835) ·
May 29 – Eliza Trask Hill, American activist,
journalist, philanthropist (b. 1840) ·
June 2 – Sir Redvers Buller, British general,
Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1839) ·
June 5 ·
Jef Lambeaux, Belgian sculptor (b. 1852) ·
Jonas Lie,
Norwegian author (b. 1833) ·
June 14 – Frederick
Stanley, Governor-General of Canada, founder of the Stanley Cup
(b. 1841) ·
June 20 – Federico Chueca, Spanish composer (b. 1846) ·
June 21 – Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844) ·
June 24 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President
of the United States (b. 1837) July–December[edit]
·
July 3 – Joel Chandler Harris,
American author (b. 1848) ·
July 6 – Felipe Calderón y
Roca, Filipino politician (b. 1868) ·
July 19 – Ignacio de
Veintemilla, 11th President of Ecuador (b. 1828) ·
July 20 – Demetrius Vikelas,
1st President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835) ·
July 22 – Randal Cremer, English politician and
pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828) ·
July 29 – Estelle M. H.
Merrill, American journalist and editor (b. 1858) ·
August 4 – Radoje
Domanović, Serbian writer (b. 1873) ·
August 7 – Antonio
Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1839) ·
August 10 – Louise Chandler
Moulton, American author and critic (b. 1835) ·
August 24 – Éleuthère Mascart,
French physicist (b. 1837) ·
August 25 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1852) ·
August 26 – Tony Pastor, American theater impresario
(b. 1837) ·
August 31 – Leslie Green, British architect (b. 1875) ·
September 17 – Thomas Selfridge, United States Army
officer, first person killed in an airplane crash (b. 1882) ·
September 20 – Pablo de Sarasate,
Spanish violinist, composer (b. 1844) ·
Sir Arnold
Kemball, British army officer and diplomat (b. 1820) ·
Nicolás Salmerón,
3rd President of the First Spanish
Republic (b. 1838) ·
September 29 – Joaquim
Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author (b. 1839) ·
October 11 – Rita Cetina
Gutiérrez, Mexican educator, poet and activist (b. 1846) ·
October 18 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese general (b. 1840) ·
October 26 – Enomoto Takeaki, Japanese samurai,
admiral (b. 1836) ·
November 1 – Julia
Abigail Fletcher Carney, American writer of poems, many of which
were set to music (b. 1823) ·
November 3 – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (b. 1861) ·
Richard Gerstl, Austrian artist (b. 1883) ·
Tomás Estrada Palma,
1st President of Cuba (b. 1832) ·
Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (b. 1866) ·
Sundance Kid, American outlaw (b. 1867) ·
Josephine E. Keating,
American literary critic and musician (b. 1838) ·
Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (b. 1831)
·
November 14 – Emperor Guangxu of China (b. 1871) ·
November 15 – Empress Dowager Cixi of
China (b. 1835) ·
November 17 – Lydia Thompson, English dancer, actress
(b. 1838) ·
November 22 – Claude-Paul Taffanel,
French flautist, composer (b. 1844) ·
December 13 – Augustus Le Plongeon,
American archaeologist (b. 1825) Date unknown[edit] ·
Jacob W. Davis, Latvian American tailor,
inventor of jeans (b. 1831) ·
Eleanor Kirk, American publisher (b. 1831) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Chemistry – Ernest Rutherford ·
Medicine – Élie Metchnikoff, Paul Ehrlich ·
Literature – Rudolf Christoph
Eucken ·
Peace – Klas Pontus
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events online ·
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the
Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of
politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 105 – 22. ·
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