1897: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1897

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Birthdays

January 2 - Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
January 3 - Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
January 8 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
January 9 - Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
January 11 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
January 14 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978)
January 15 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
January 16 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
January 17 - Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946)
January 21 - René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
January 22 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
January 23 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)
January 23 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier
January 23 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
January 23 - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian Leader and Freedom Fighter (d. Unknown
January 28 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
February 2 - Aimé Avignon, France's former oldest living man (d. 2007)
February 2 - Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972)
February 4 - Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)
February 6 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
February 9 - Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot (d. 1935)
February 10 - Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
February 10 - John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
February 12 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
February 18 - Charles Kuentz, WW1 veteran
February 19 - Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
February 22 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
February 27 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
March 4 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
March 5 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
March 11 - Henry Cowell, American composer and impresario (d. 1965)
March 15 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
March 16 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
March 17 - Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
March 20 - Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam
March 24 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957)
March 25 - John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
March 27 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
March 28 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
April 1 - Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961)
April 4 - Pierre Fresnay, French stage and film actor (d. 1975)
April 7 - Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)
April 7 - Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918)
April 9 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (d. 1974)
April 10 - Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927)
April 13 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
April 14 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
April 17 - Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d. 1975)
April 18 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
April 19 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
April 19 - Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
April 23 - Lucius Clay, American general (d. 1978)
April 23 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada
April 24 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
April 25 - Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
April 26 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
April 26 - Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
April 28 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986)
April 30 - Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
May 2 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
May 6 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (d. 1979)
May 10 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987)
May 11 - Kurt Gerron, German director (d. 1944)
May 11 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
May 14 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
May 14 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
May 17 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist
May 18 - Frank Capra, American film producer
May 19 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
May 20 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (d. 1983)
May 25 - Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
May 27 - John Cockcroft, British physicist
May 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
June 7 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
June 8 - John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
June 11 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia, (d. 1918)
June 12 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
June 13 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
June 16 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
June 16 - Georg Wittig, German chemist
June 19 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist
June 19 - Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975)
June 20 - Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973)
June 22 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
June 22 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
June 24 - Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
June 29 - Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
July 10 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
July 10 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
July 11 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
July 18 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)
July 20 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist
July 24 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
July 26 - Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
July 29 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
August 2 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
August 2 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
August 5 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
August 10 - John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
August 11 - Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
August 11 - Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)
August 12 - Maurice Fernandes, West Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
August 20 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
August 24 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
August 26 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
August 31 - Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
September 1 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
September 3 - Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
September 8 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer (d. 1933)
September 10 - Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)
September 10 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
September 12 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist
September 17 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
September 25 - William Faulkner, American writer
September 26 - Pope Paul VI, (d. 1978)
September 26 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
September 29 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
October 3 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
October 7 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
October 8 - Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (d. 1987)
October 11 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (d. 1982)
October 16 - Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008)
October 18 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
October 19 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
October 20 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea, (d. 1970)
October 28 - Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
October 29 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
October 30 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
November 7 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer
November 8 - Dorothy Day, social activist (d. 1980)
November 9 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
November 9 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist
November 13 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
November 15 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
November 15 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (d. 1988)
November 16 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
November 17 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
November 18 - Patrick Blackett, British physicist
November 19 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
November 21 - Mollie Steimer anarchist agitator, (d. 1980)
November 22 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
November 23 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
November 23 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
November 24 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
November 27 - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
December 2 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
December 5 - Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
December 9 - Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. 1987)
December 13 - Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969)
December 14 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
December 14 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)
December 18 - Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
December 30 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)

Deaths

January 12 - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
February 1 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)
February 7 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)
February 19 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815)
February 23 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
March 9 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
March 19 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (b. 1810)
March 20 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
March 27 - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
April 3 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
May 10 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)
July 20 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
August 8 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
September 21 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
September 30 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
October 8 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
October 11 - Léon Boëllmann, French composer (b. 1862)
October 19 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
November 17 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
November 19 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
December 16 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and short story writer (b. 1840)
December 28 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
December 29 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)

Events

January 23 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
February 1 - Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
February 28 - Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
March 11 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
March 13 - San Diego State University is founded.
April 5 - The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
May 15 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
May 18 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
May 19 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
May 22 - The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was officially opened
June 16 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
July 2 - Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London.
July 11 - Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
August 14 - The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
August 30 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
August 31 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 1 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 10 - Lattimer Massacre
September 11 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
September 12 - Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi
September 21 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is published in the New York Sun.
December 6 - London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
December 9 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
December 12 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded.
December 30 - Natal annexes Zululand.

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