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1887 March 2011 1887 1887 2 Events January January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. January 20 The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.United States Naval Institute Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute https://books.google.com/books?id=AejNAAAAMAAJ 1930 The Institute 406 British emigrant ship Kapunda sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors.The Loss of the Kapunda: Details of the Disaster https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4659986/the_loss_of_the_kapunda_details_of_the/ 2016-03-18 Belfast Morning News 23 February 1887 5 January 21 The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of 465 mm in (a record for any Australian capital city). January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. January 28 In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 in cm wide and 8 in cm thick. Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.Gaston Tissandier The Eiffel Tower: A Description of the Monument, Its Construction, Its Machinery, Its Object, and Its Utility. With an Autographic Letter of M. Gustave Eiffel. Illustrated https://books.google.com/books?id=zfRBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27 1889 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 27 February February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.Dana Facaros Michael Pauls New York & the Mid-Atlantic States https://books.google.com/books?id=Pb4M4g9BnOUC 1982 Regnery Gateway 978-0-89526-856-3 171 February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, passed by the 49th United States Congress, is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.Serial set (no.0-3099) https://books.google.com/books?id=5IA3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA47 1891 47 February 5 – The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala, Milan. February 5 – The 1887 Hartford Railroad Disaster leaves thirty-seven dead in Vermont. February 8 – The Dawes Act, or the General Allotment Act, is enacted in the United States.Sister Mary Antonio Johnston Federal Relations with the Great Sioux Indians of South Dakota,1887-1933, with Particular Reference to Land Policy Under the Dawes Act https://books.google.com/books?id=bg_VAAAAMAAJ 1948 Catholic University of America Press 41 February 23 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000 along the coast of the Mediterranean. February 24 – The first international telephone line in Europe is opened to the public between Brussels and Paris.Today in History: First international telephone line between Brussels and Paris is opened 2023-02-24 Ugo A. Realfonzo The Brussels Times https://www.brusselstimes.com/378395/today-in-history-first-international-telephone-line-between-brussels-and-paris-is-opened 2026-02-24 February 26 – At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets, in a Test innings. March March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.thumb|125px|right| March 3: Helen Keller and Sullivan. March 7 – North Carolina State University is established, as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs in the United States. March 23 – The DS «Vardøhus» whaler sinks outside the town of Mandal in Norway. 46 dead. Hvalbåten "Vardøhus" af Sandefjord og dens tragiske forlis 23. mars 1887, Sandar Historical Association. April April 1 – The final of the first All-Ireland Hurling Championship is held.Mike Cronin William Murphy Paul Rouse The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009 https://books.google.com/books?id=UNsnAQAAIAAJ 2009 Irish Academic Press 978-0-7165-3028-2 266 April 4 – Argonia, Kansas, elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.Lewis Ford The Variety Book Containing Life Sketches and Reminiscences https://books.google.com/books?id=zk594-zLwkUC&pg=PA106 1892 Washington Press 106 April 10 (Easter Sunday) – The Catholic University of America is founded in Washington, D.C. April 20 – Occidental College is founded in Los Angeles, California. April 20−30 – Schnaebele incident: A French/German border incident nearly leads to war between the two countries.Charles Hitchcock Sherrill Bismarck & Mussolini https://books.google.com/books?id=fadCAAAAIAAJ 1931 Houghton Mifflin 97–101 May May 3 – An earthquake hits Sonora, Mexico. May 5 – Ricardo Palma founds the Peruvian Academy of Language.https://elcomercio.pe/luces/libros/5-mayo-paso-dia-hoy-194798-noticia/ 5 de mayo: ¿Qué pasó un día como hoy? El Comercio Carlos Batalla 5 May 2016 15 June 2023 Spanish May 14 – The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, is laid (the college opens in 1891). May 25 – The Hells Canyon massacre begins: 34 Chinese gold miners are ambushed and murdered in Hells Canyon, Oregon, United States.Oregon Historical Quarterly https://books.google.com/books?id=y7boPGAK4QAC 2006 Oregon Historical Society 326 June June 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a U.S. patent for his punched card calculator. June 18 – The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia. June 20 – The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th year of her reign.http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page929.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20051101004551/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page929.asp dead Royal.gov.uk November 1, 2005 June 21 – Zululand becomes a British colony. June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25 Parks Canada - This Week in History March 18, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20040318112228/http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25 March 18, 2004 thumb|110px|right| June 23: Banff National Park June 28 – Minot, North Dakota, is incorporated as a city.History Minot, ND https://www.minotnd.gov/338/History 2025-07-20 www.minotnd.gov June 29 – The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane, Australia. July July 1 – Construction of the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France. July 6 King Kalākaua of Hawai'i is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the 'Bayonet Constitution', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, as well as disenfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor. Berthe bombing, targeting a Parisian landowner in conflict with several Italian anarchists. Nobody is sentenced but Vittorio Pini and Paolo Chiericotti are heavily suspected by French authorities. July 12 – Odense Boldklub, the Danish football team, is founded as the Odense Cricket Club. July 19 – Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first U.S. patent for his comptometer.U.S. Patent No. 366,945, filed July 6, 1886; second patent granted October 11, 1887: U.S. Patent No. 371,496, filed March 12, 1887. July 21 – Ten Italian workers are killed and six are injured by a train in New Jersey.July 22, 1887 Ten Men Cut To Pieces - A Train Runs Over A Gang Of Italians https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/07/22/issue.html The New York Times 5 July 26 L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Unua Libro" (Dr. Esperanto's International Language), the first description of Esperanto, the constructed international auxiliary language. Blackpool F.C. is created in England, U.K. July – James Blyth operates the first working wind turbine at Marykirk, Scotland.Price Trevor J. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/100957 Blyth, James (1839–1906) Online 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/100957 2014-04-16 August August 13 – Hibernian F.C. of Scotland defeats Preston North End F.C. of England to win the 'Championship of the World', after the two teams win the Association football Cup competitions in their respective countries. August – The earliest constituent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health is established at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, as the Laboratory of Hygiene. September September 5 – The Theatre Royal, Exeter, England, burns down, killing 186 people. September 28 – The 1887 Yellow River flood begins in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people. thumb|135px|right| July 26: Esperanto October October 1 – The British Empire takes over Balochistan. October 3 – Florida A&M University opens in Tallahassee, Florida. October 12 – Yamaha Corporation, the global musical instrument and audiovisual brand, is founded as Yamaha Organ Manufacturing in Hamamatsu, Japan.https://www.yamaha.com/en/about/history/ Brand and History - About Us - Yamaha Corporation www.yamaha.com en-US 2021-05-19 October 17 – French Indochina was established, comprising (Lower) Cochinchina, (Upper) Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodia. October 18 – Johannes Brahms conducts the premiere of his Double Concerto, composed for violinist Joseph Joachim and cellist Robert Hausmann.Huth, Andrew: Concerto for violin and cello in A minor 'Double Concerto', Op 102 Hyperion 2022 November November 3 – The Coimbra Academic Association, the students' union of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, is founded. November 6 – The Association football club Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid, to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the 'Poor Children's Dinner Table'.Coogan Tim Pat Tim Pat Coogan Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora Palgrave Macmillan 2002 250 978-1-4039-6014-6 November 8 – Emile Berliner is granted a U.S. patent for the Berliner Gramophone. November 10 – Louis Lingg, sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket affair (a bombing in Chicago on May 4, 1886), kills himself by dynamite. November 11 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket affair. November 13 – Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters. November Results of the Michelson–Morley experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion. Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual. December December 4 – Örgryte IS, the Swedish football team is founded by Wilhelm Friberg. December 5 – The International Bureau of Intellectual Property is established. December 25 – Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky is first produced. Date unknown thumb|Harvest Time (Mowers), by Grigoriy Myasoyedov, 1887 Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves (radio); this is an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light. Franz König publishes "Über freie Körper in den Gelenken" in the medical journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, describing (and naming) the disease Osteochondritis dissecans for the first time. Teachers College, later part of Columbia University, is founded. The first English-language edition of Friedrich Engels' 1844 study of The Condition of the Working Class in England, translated by Florence Kelley, is published in New York City. Publication in Barcelona of Enrique Gaspar's El anacronópete, the first work of fiction to feature a time machine.Kathryn Westcott HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12900390 BBC News 2011-04-09 2011-04-09 Publication begins of Futabatei Shimei's The Drifting Cloud (Ukigumo), the first modern novel in Japan. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is founded. Nagase Shoten (長瀬商店), predecessor of Japanese cosmetics and toiletry brand Kao Corporation, is founded in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.May 2020thumb|The garden party at Buckingham Palace for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria Tokyo Fire Insurance, predecessor of Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance, is founded.The Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Limited History http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/THE-YASUDA-FIRE-AND-MARINE-INSURANCE-COMPANY-LIMITED-Company-History.html Funding Universe 2021-05-19 Taiwan becomes a Chinese province Global construction and real estate development company Skanska is founded in Malmö, Sweden.Our history https://group.skanska.com/about-us/our-history/ 2020-10-19 Skanska - Global corporate website en-US American financial services company A. G. Edwards is founded by General Albert Gallatin Edwards in St. Louis, Missouri. Heyl & Patterson Inc., a pioneer in coal unloading equipment, is founded by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first battery rail car is used on the Royal Bavarian State Railways.Johnston Ben 2010 Battery Rail Vehicles http://railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/GetDoc.axd?ctID=MTk4MTRjNDUtNWQ0My00OTBmLTllYWUtZWFjM2U2OTE0ZDY3&rID=NzA=&pID=Nzkx&attchmnt=True&uSesDM=False&rIdx=MjUyOA==&rCFU= 2021-05-19 Rail Knowledge Bank November 7, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201107232713/http://railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/GetDoc.axd?ctID=MTk4MTRjNDUtNWQ0My00OTBmLTllYWUtZWFjM2U2OTE0ZDY3&rID=NzA=&pID=Nzkx&attchmnt=True&uSesDM=False&rIdx=MjUyOA==&rCFU= dead Births January–February thumb|100px|Miklós Kállay thumb|100px|Arthur Rubinstein thumb|100px|Edelmiro Julián Farrell thumb|100px|Joseph Bech thumb|100px|Chico Marx January 1 Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945) Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1918) January 2 – Mayme Ousley, American politician and the first female mayor in Missouri history (d. 1970) January 3 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)Anna Meseure August Macke August Macke August Macke, 1887-1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=44ErAQAAMAAJ 1993 Benedikt Taschen 978-3-8228-0551-0 7 January 3 – Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff, Bulgarian‑American philosopher and author (d. 1976) January 10 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962) January 13 – Jorge Chávez, Peruvian aviator (d. 1910) January 17 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst, philologist (d. 1975) January 19 – Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943) January 23 Miklós Kállay, 34th prime minister of Hungary (d. 1967)Tibor Szy Hungarians in America: A Biographical Directory of Professionals of Hungarian Origin in the Americas https://books.google.com/books?id=jGUOAQAAMAAJ 1966 Kossuth Foundation 218 Dorothy Payne Whitney, American-born philanthropist, social activist (d. 1968) January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. 1982)Opus https://books.google.com/books?id=2EM9AQAAIAAJ 1999 Warwick Publishing Group 30 February 2 – Ernst Hanfstaengl, German-born American businessman and politician (d. 1975) February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)Georg Trakl Georg Trakl Robin Skelton Robin Skelton Dark Seasons: A Selection of Poems https://books.google.com/books?id=q5SLUMh-2gcC&pg=PA9 1994 Broken Jaw Press 978-0-921411-22-2 9 February 5 – Corneliu Dragalina, Romanian general (d. 1949) February 6 – Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978) February 12 – Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (d. 1980) February 17 Joseph Bech, Luxembourgish politician, 2-time prime minister of Luxembourg (d. 1975)Official Journal of the European Communities: Debates of the European Parliament https://books.google.com/books?id=LDIHAQAAMAAJ March 1975 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 2 Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)Mark Morris A Guide to 20th-century Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ 1996 Methuen 978-0-413-45601-4 112 February 20 – Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada (d. 1967)Claude Bissell Claude Bissell The Young Vincent Massey https://books.google.com/books?id=IzpEDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT10 15 December 1981 University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 978-1-4426-3371-1 10 February 21 – Korechika Anami, Japanese general (d. 1945) March–April thumb|100px|Julian Huxley thumb|100px|Marc Chagall thumb|100px|Gustav Ludwig Hertz thumb|100px|Erwin Schrödinger 100px|thumb|Giovanni Gronchi March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)Gerard Béhague Gerard Béhague Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil's Musical Soul https://books.google.com/books?id=tGQIAQAAMAAJ 1994 Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin 978-0-292-70823-5 2 March 11 – Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980) March 13 – Alexander Vandegrift, American general (d. 1973) March 14 – Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952)Bruce Kellner A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui7uAAAAMAAJ 1988 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-25078-1 153 March 18 – Aurel Aldea, Romanian general and politician (d. 1949) March 21 – Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (d. 1908) March 22 – Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961) March 23 Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter, graphic artist (d. 1927)Marcel Brion Marcel Brion Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art https://books.google.com/books?id=u74YAAAAYAAJ 1958 Thames and Hudson 95 Prince Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967) March 24 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter (d. 1933) March 25 – Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese admiral (d. 1944) April 3 – Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (d. 1966) April 10 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) April 12 – Harold Lockwood, American film actor (d.1918) April 22 – Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (d. 1951)Salomon Bochner Salomon Bochner Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner https://books.google.com/books?id=EUIBUzD75UAC&pg=PA73 1992 American Mathematical Society 978-0-8218-7054-9 73 April 26 – Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese critic of the French colonial empire in Africa (d. 1936) May–June May 2 Vernon Castle, British-born American dancer (d. 1918) Eddie Collins, American baseball player (d. 1951) May 5 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972) May 11 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951) May 15 – John H. Hoover, American admiral (d. 1970) May 22 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953) May 23 – C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, English historian (d. 1941)Ellis Geoffrey Cruttwell, Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32655 2007 10.1093/ref:odnb/32655 1 November 2010 May 25 – Padre Pio, Italian saint (d. 1968) May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)Bernard S. Schlessinger June H. Schlessinger The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=qFRqAAAAMAAJ 1991 Oryx Press 978-0-89774-599-4 74 June 3 – Carlo Michelstaedter, Italian philosopher (d. 1910) June 4 – Tom Longboat, Canadian distance runner (d. 1949) June 5 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (d. 1948) June 22 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975) June 26 – Ganna Walska, Polish-born American opera singer and horticulturist (d. 1984) July–August July 1 – Morton Deyo, American admiral (d. 1973) July 6 – Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer and actress (d. 1975) July 7 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born French painter (d. 1985)Anthony Mason Marc Chagall https://books.google.com/books?id=b-KH8_EHX1wC&pg=PA6 5 July 2004 Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP 978-0-8368-5649-1 6 July 9 Emilio Mola, Spanish Nationalist commander (d. 1937) Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (d. 1976) July 14 – Curtis Shake, American jurist (d. 1978) July 16 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951) July 18 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician, traitor (d. 1945) July 21 – Luis A. Eguiguren, Peruvian historian and politician (d. 1967) July 22 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) July 28 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist (d. 1968)Marcel Brion Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art https://books.google.com/books?id=u74YAAAAYAAJ 1958 Thames and Hudson 94 July 29 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born American composer (d. 1951) Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician (d. 1957) July 31 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (d. 1945) August 3 Rupert Brooke, British war poet (d. 1915)John Lehmann Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend https://books.google.com/books?id=5FFaAAAAMAAJ 1980 Weidenfeld & Nicolson 978-0-297-77757-1 20 August Wesley, Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (d.?)August 2024 August 6 – Oliver Wallace, English film composer (d. 1963) August 8 – Germaine Marie-Thérèse Hannevart, Belgian teacher, women's rights activist and peace campaigner (d. 1977)Young Amanda Verdery 2017-05-11 Germaine Hannevart https://www.womeninpeace.org/h-names/2017/7/3/germaine-hannevart 2026-02-03 Women In Peace en-US August 12 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961) August 17 Emperor Charles I of Austria (d. 1922) Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born American publisher, entrepreneur and Pan Africanist (d. 1940)Marcus Garvey Robert A. Hill Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers https://books.google.com/books?id=47UwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 17 August 1987 University of California Press 978-0-520-06265-8 35 August 22 – Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, British trade unionist (d. 1983) August 24 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974) September–October thumb|100px|Avery Brundage thumb|100px|Le Corbusier thumb|100px|Chiang Kai-shek September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)John Flower Historical Dictionary of French Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 17 January 2013 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7945-4 118 September 5 – Irene Fenwick, American actress (d. 1936) September 8 – Jacob L. Devers, American general (d. 1979) September 9 – Alf Landon, American Republican politician, presidential candidate (d. 1987) September 10 – Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd president of Italy (d. 1978) September 12 – Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Azerbaijani statesman, writer and claimed "core author" of novel Ali and Nino (d. in Gulag 1943) September 13 Lancelot Holland, British admiral (d. 1941) Leopold Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) September 16 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979)Alan Kendall The Tender Tyrant, Nadia Boulanger: A Life Devoted to Music : a Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=nK4QAQAAMAAJ 1976 Macdonald and Jane's 978-0-356-08403-9 8 September 26 – William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, British aviator, first airman to receive the Victoria Cross (d. 1915) September 28 – Avery Brundage, American sports official, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)John Apostal Lucas The Modern Olympic Games https://books.google.com/books?id=w7eBAAAAMAAJ 1980 A. S. Barnes 978-0-498-02447-4 161 October 2 – Violet Jessop, Argentine-born British RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1971) October 4 – Charles Alan Pownall, American admiral, 3rd Military Governor of Guam (d. 1975) October 5 – René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976) October 6 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)Juan Antonio Ramírez The Beehive Metaphor: From Gaudí to Le Corbusier https://books.google.com/books?id=es5Nb92a5t4C&pg=PA116 2000 Reaktion Books 978-1-86189-056-6 116 October 13 – Jozef Tiso, Prime Minister of Slovakia (d. 1947) October 20 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Japanese prince (d. 1981) October 22 – John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)New Times https://books.google.com/books?id=afkSAQAAMAAJ September 1987 28 October 23 – Lothar Rendulic, Austrian-born German general (d. 1971) October 24 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen Consort of Spain (d. 1969) October 31 – Chiang Kai-shek, 1st president of the Republic of China (d. 1975) November–December thumb|100px|Bernard Montgomery thumb|100px|Boris Karloff thumb|100px|Erich von Manstein November 1 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (d. 1976)Allen Andrews The Life of L. S. Lowry, 1887-1976 https://books.google.com/books?id=QRs3AQAAIAAJ 1977 Jupiter Books 978-0-904041-60-6 30 November 6 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946) November 10 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968)Irene Harand His Struggle (an Answer to Hitler) https://books.google.com/books?id=tQZ02whlxZoC 1937 Artcraft Press 240 November 11 – Roland Young, English actor (d. 1953) November 14 – Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Portuguese painter (d. 1918) November 15 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)Britta Benke Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert https://books.google.com/books?id=qggwE6o5ykAC&pg=PA5 2000 Taschen 978-3-8228-5861-5 5 November 17 – Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976) November 19 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) November 23 Boris Karloff, British horror film actor (d. 1969) Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915) November 24 – Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (d. 1973) November 25 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)Sputnik https://books.google.com/books?id=NlA8AQAAIAAJ 1997 Novosti Printing House 5 November 27 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946) November 28 Jacobo Palm, Curaçao-born composer (d. 1982) Ernst Röhm, German Nazi SA leader (d. 1934) December 3 – Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, prime minister of Japan (d. 1990) December 6 – Lynn Fontanne, British actress (d. 1983) December 12 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974) December 13 – Alvin York, American World War I hero (d. 1964) December 16 – Adone Zoli, Italian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1960) December 22 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920) December 25 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979) December 26 – Arthur Percival, British general (d. 1966) Deaths January–June January 12 – Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, British politician (b. 1818) February 19 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (b. 1820)Frank Northen Magill Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ 1958 Salem Press 777 February 25 – Jesse W. Fell, American businessman and landowner (b. 1808)Sarah M. Fell: Genealogy of the Fell family in America, descended from Joseph Fell, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1705 : With some account of the family remaining in England, &c. Sickler, Philadelphia, 1891, p. 139: Jesse W. Fell February 26 – Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian woman doctor (b. 1865) February 27 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833)Overture: The Magazine of the Baltimore Symphony https://books.google.com/books?id=0uZLAAAAYAAJ 1979 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Association 20 March 4 – Catherine Huggins, British actor, singer, director and manager (b. 1821) March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, reformer (b. 1813) March 24 Jean-Joseph Farre, French general and statesman (b. 1816) Justin Holland, American musician, civil rights activist (b. 1819) Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (b. 1837) March 28 – Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Danish politician (b. 1811)Jon Bartley Stewart Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries: Philosophy, politics and social theory https://books.google.com/books?id=m54s4QqpM0UC&pg=PA169 2009 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-0-7546-6872-5 169 April 10 – John T. Raymond, American actor (b. 1836) April 19 – Henry Hotze, Swiss-American Confederate propagandist (b. 1833) April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet (b. 1832)https://biography.wales/article/s-HUGH-CEI-1832 Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet David Gwenallt Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 November 2020 May 7 – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (b. 1811) May 8 – Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary, brother of V. I. Lenin (b. 1866) May 14 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808) June 4 – William A. 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Blanding The Frontier Experience: A Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West https://books.google.com/books?id=h58UAQAAIAAJ 1984 McFarland 978-0-89950-118-5 124 November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859)Emma Lazarus The Poems of Emma Lazarus https://books.google.com/books?id=XL04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 1888 Houghton, Mifflin 1 9781421934624 November 28 – Gustav Fechner, German experimental psychologist (b. 1801) December 3 – Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1809) December 5 – Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, British diplomat (b. 1817) December 14 – William Garrow Lettsom, British diplomat, mineralogist and spectroscopist (b. 1805) December 23 – Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, British parson (b. 1821) Date unknown Antoinette Nording, Swedish perfume entrepreneur (b. 1814) References