1898: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1898

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Birthdays

January 3 - Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974)
January 6 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
January 6 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
January 9 - Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
January 9 - Gracie Fields, English vaudeville performer (d. 1979)
January 9 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian
January 10 - Katharine Blodgett, American Scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
January 13 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor
January 13 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
January 16 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
January 16 - Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)
January 20 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
January 23 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
January 23 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
January 24 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
February 3 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
February 7 - Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)
February 10 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
February 10 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
February 11 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 1964)
February 12 - Wallace Ford, English-born actor (d. 1966)
February 14 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
February 15 - Totò, Italian actor and composer (d. 1967)
February 15 - Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
February 16 - Katharine Cornell, American actress (d. 1974)
February 18 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980)
February 20 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer
February 20 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951)
February 24 - Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot (d. 1983)
March 4 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
March 5 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
March 5 - Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)
March 11 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
March 13 - Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (d. 1985)
March 14 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
March 18 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
March 26 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
April 1 - William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944)
April 3 - George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
April 3 - Henry Luce, American publisher (d. 1967)
April 4 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
April 9 - Curly Lambeau, American football coach
April 9 - Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (d. 1976)
April 12 - Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
April 25 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
April 26 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer
April 26 - John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (d. 1972)
May 3 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
May 10 - Ariel Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
May 13 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
May 15 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
May 16 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)
May 16 - 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 physician (d. 1990)
May 21 - Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (d. 1967)
May 23 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
May 25 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher
May 31 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
June 1 - Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
June 5 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
June 5 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet
June 6 - Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
June 6 - Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
June 9 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
June 17 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
June 17 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
June 19 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
June 21 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
June 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
June 26 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
June 26 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971)
July 4 - Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
July 4 - Gertrude Lawrence, English-born actress (d. 1952)
July 5 - Yip Man, Ving Tsun Sifu and Master of Style (Gung-Gung) (d. 1972)
July 6 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
July 8 - Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972)
July 13 - Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
July 14 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
July 17 - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985)
July 17 - Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
July 17 - Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)
July 18 - John Stuart, Scottish actor (d. 1979)
July 19 - Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
July 22 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
July 22 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
July 23 - Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
July 23 - Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
July 28 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
July 29 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist
July 30 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
August 8 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
August 10 - Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
August 15 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)
August 20 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
August 24 - Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic (d. 1989)
August 25 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
August 25 - Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
August 26 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
August 27 - Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
August 28 - Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983)
August 29 - Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
August 30 - Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
September 9 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
September 10 - Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
September 10 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
September 12 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
September 12 - Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American artist (d. 1969)
September 14 - Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
September 15 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
September 16 - H.A. Rey, American children's author
September 19 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)
September 22 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
September 24 - Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
September 25 - Robert Brackman American artist, (d. 1980)
September 26 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
September 27 - Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (d. 1946)
September 28 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
September 29 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
September 30 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
September 30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco, (d. 1977)
October 3 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
October 7 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
October 10 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
October 15 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1951)
October 16 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
October 17 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998)
October 17 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
October 21 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960)
October 30 - Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
November 1 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
November 7 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
November 8 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
November 11 - Rene Clair, French film director (d. 1981)
November 12 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
November 14 - Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)
November 18 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1989)
November 19 - Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
November 21 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
November 22 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
November 26 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist
November 27 - Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
November 29 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
November 30 - Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)
December 2 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
December 5 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)
December 5 - Grace Moore, American soprano (d. 1947)
December 6 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photojournalist (d. 1995)
December 6 - Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist
December 9 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
December 20 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
December 22 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
December 24 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)
December 24 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
December 28 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
December 28 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)

Deaths

January 14 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
January 16 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
February 16 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
March 1 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India
March 11 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
March 12 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
March 15 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
March 16 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
March 18 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
March 27 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)
April 12 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
April 15 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
April 18 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
June 10 - Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
June 13 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
June 17 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
July 8 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
July 15 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
July 30 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
August 8 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
September 2 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
September 5 - Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse
September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
September 10 - Elisabeth of Austria, (assassinated)
September 14 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
September 16 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician
September 20 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
October 12 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
October 24 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
November 2 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
December 16 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
December 24 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828)

Events

January 1 - New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
January 12 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
January 13 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
February 7 - Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
February 15 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
February 23 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
April 21 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
April 22 - Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
April 24 - The Spanish-American War: The United States declare war on Spain.
April 25 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
May 1 - Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay
May 8 - The first games of the Italian Football League are played.
June 10 - Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
June 11 - Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships start to sail for Cuba.
June 11 - The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor in hope to change social, political and educational institutions in China, however suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolishment of Imperial Examination in 1905.
June 12 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
June 13 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
June 17 - The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
June 21 - Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
June 22 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
June 27 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
July 1 - Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba.
July 3 - Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
July 7 - President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
July 8 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
July 20 - Spanish-American War: A boiler exploded on the USS Iowa (BB-4) off the coast of Santiago de Cuba.
July 25 - The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Gu¨¢nica, Puerto Rico (The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898).
August 11 - Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
August 12 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
August 12 - The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States.
August 25 - 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
August 28 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
August 29 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 2 - Battle of Omdurman
September 10 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
September 13 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
September 18 - Fashoda Incident
September 21 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
October 1 - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
October 1 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
October 6 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
October 12 - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
October 18 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
November 2 - Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
November 24 - The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
December 10 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
December 10 - The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
December 18 - Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the new land speed record going 39.245 mph, in a Jeantaud electric car. This is the first recognized land speed record.
December 26 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

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