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| | * January 3 - The 91-centimeter telescope is first used at Lick Observatory. | | * January 3 - The 91-centimeter telescope is first used at Lick Observatory. |
| − | * January 12 - Blizzards (see: ''Schoolhouse Blizzard'') hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, [[Kansas]], and Texas, with 235 dead, many of whom were children on their way home from school. | + | * January 12 - Blizzards (see: ''Schoolhouse Blizzard'') hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, with 235 dead, many of whom were children on their way home from school. |
| | * January 27 - In Washington, DC, the National Geographic Society is founded. | | * January 27 - In Washington, DC, the National Geographic Society is founded. |
| | * February 27 - In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film. | | * February 27 - In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film. |
| − | * [[March 11]] - The "[[Great Blizzard of 1888|Great Blizzard of '88]]" begins along the [[eastern seaboard]] of the [[United States]], shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. | + | * March 11 - The "Great Blizzard of '88" begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. |
| − | * [[March 22]] - [[The Football League]] is formed | + | * March 22 - The Football League is formed |
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| | === April - June === | | === April - June === |
| | **''Casey at the Bat'' published | | **''Casey at the Bat'' published |
| − | * [[June 29]] - Handel's [[Israel in Egypt]] is recorded onto wax cylinder at [[The Crystal Palace]], it being the earliest known recording of classical music. | + | * June 29 - Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace, it being the earliest known recording of classical music. |
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| | === July - September === | | === July - September === |
| − | [[Image:Jack-the-Ripper-The-Nemesis-of-Neglect-Punch-London-Charivari-cartoon-poem-1888-09-29.jpg |thumb|145px|right| [[August 31]]: Victim found from [[Jack the Ripper]]?]]
| + | * August 7 - The body of Martha Tabram was found, a possible murder victim of Jack the Ripper. |
| − | * [[July 25]] - Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, who was purportedly the only person using [[touch typing]] at the time, won a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used now.
| + | * August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She was perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims. |
| − | * [[July 27]] - [[British parliament]] passes an act that permits [[bicycle]]s on road on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway. The law was abolished in 1930.
| + | * September 4 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film. |
| − | * [[August 5]] - [[Berta Benz]] arrived in [[Pforzheim]] in a [[car]], which was manufactured by her husband [[Karl Benz]], in order to complete the first "long-distance" drive in the history of the [[automobile]], which was started in [[Mannheim]] (40 miles away from Pforzheim).
| + | * September 6 - Charles Turner becomes the first cricket bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times). |
| − | * [[August 7]] - The body of [[Martha Tabram]] was found, a possible murder victim of [[Jack the Ripper]]. | + | * September 8 |
| − | * [[August 20]] - There is a mutiny at [[Dufile]], India, and the [[Emin Pasha]] is imprisoned. | + | ** In London, the dead body of [[Annie Chapman]] is found. She is considered to be the second victim of [[Jack the Ripper]]. |
| − | * [[August 31]] - [[Mary Ann Nichols]] is murdered. She was perhaps the first of [[Jack the Ripper]]'s victims.
| + | ** In England, the first 6 [[Football League]] matches ever were played. |
| − | * [[September 4]] - [[George Eastman]] registers the trademark [[Kodak]], and receives a patent for his [[camera]] which uses roll film. | + | * September 30 - In London, the bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victim respectively. |
| − | * [[September 6]] - [[Charles Turner (cricketer)|Charles Turner]] becomes the first cricket [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] (a sport) to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by [[Tom Richardson]] (twice), [[Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne)|J.T. Hearne]], [[Wilfred Rhodes]] (twice) and [[Tich Freeman]] (six times). | |
| − | * [[September 8]] | |
| − | **In [[London]], the dead body of [[Annie Chapman]] is found. She is considered to be the second victim of [[Jack the Ripper]]. | |
| − | **In [[England]], the first 6 [[Football League]] matches ever were played. | |
| − | *[[September 30]] - In [[London]], the bodies of [[Elizabeth Stride]] and [[Catherine Eddowes]] are found. They are generally considered [[Jack the Ripper]]'s third and fourth victim respectively. | |
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| − | [[Image:Washmem.jpg |thumb|145px|right| [[October 6]]: [[Washington Monument]] opens.]]
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| | === October - December === | | === October - December === |
| − | *[[October 1]] - [[Sofia University]] is officialy opened becoming the first university in liberated Bulgaria. | + | * October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. |
| − | * [[October 9]] - The [[Washington Monument]] officially opens to the general public.
| + | * October 14 - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: ''Roundhay Garden Scene'' in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Followed by his movie ''Leeds Bridge''. |
| − | * [[October 14]] - [[Louis Le Prince]] films the first motion picture: ''[[Roundhay Garden Scene]]'' in [[Roundhay]], [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[UK]]. Followed by his movie ''[[Leeds Bridge]]''. | + | * November 6 - The U.S. presidential election, 1888. United States Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the U.S. Electoral College vote to United States Republican Party challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election. |
| − | * [[November 6]] - The [[U.S. presidential election, 1888]]. [[United States Democratic Party]] incumbent [[Grover Cleveland]] wins the popular vote, but loses the [[U.S. Electoral College|Electoral College]] vote to [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] challenger [[Benjamin Harrison]], therefore losing the election. | + | * November 9 - In London, England, the dead body of Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers. |
| − | * [[November 9]] - In [[London]], England, the dead body of [[Mary Jane Kelly]] is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of [[Jack the Ripper]]'s victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers. | + | * December 23 - During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear and gives it to a prostitute. |
| − | * [[December 23]] - During a bout of [[mental illness]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[painter]] [[Vincent van Gogh]] infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear and gives it to a [[prostitute]]. | |
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| − | * [[Annie Besant]] organizes the [[London matchgirls strike of 1888]] in June
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| − | * [[John Robert Gregg]] first publishes [[Gregg Shorthand]].
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| − | * Prosecution of [[Edward King (English bishop)|Edward King]], [[Anglican]] [[bishop of Lincoln]] for using [[Ritualism|ritualistic practices]] begins.
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| − | * [[Sarawak]] and [[Borneo]] become British [[protectorate]]s.
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| − | * [[Susan B. Anthony]] organizes a "congress for women's" rights in Washington, DC.
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| − | * National library in [[Athens]], [[Greece]], (established?)
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| − | * The first [[railway]] in [[China]] goes into operation.
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| − | * The [[Kodak]] camera increases the popularity of [[photography]] as a hobby.
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| − | * The first recorded [[film]], [[Roundhay Garden Scene]], is made in [[Roundhay]] in [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]]. The film is two seconds and 18 frames in length.
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| − | * First sightings of the dolphin [[Pelorus Jack]] in [[Cook Strait]], [[New Zealand]].
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| − | * [[Camborne School of Mines]] founded in [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom]].
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| − | * The [[Finnish language|Finnish]] epic, [[Kalevala]] published for the first time in the [[English Language]] by [[John Martin Crawford (scholar)|John Martin Crawford]].
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| − | * An unknown inventor develops [[Mum (deodorant)]], widely recognized as the first personal product developed to prevent body odor.
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| − | ===January - June===
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Victor Goldschmidt]], Swiss geochemist (d. [[1947]])
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| − | * [[January 8]] - [[Matthew Moore|Matt Moore]], Irish-born actor (d. [[1960]])
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| − | * [[January 18]] - [[Thomas Sopwith]], British aviation pioneer and yachtsman (d. [[1989]])
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| − | * [[January 24]] - [[Vicki Baum]], Austrian writer (d. [[1960]])
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| − | ** [[Ernst Heinkel]], German aircraft designer (d. [[1958]])
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| − | * [[February 2]] - [[Frederick Lane]], Australian swimmer (d. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[February 8]] - [[Edith Evans]], British actress (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Otto Stern]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[February 19]] - [[José Eustasio Rivera]], Colombian writer (d. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[February 20]] - [[Georges Bernanos]], French writer (d. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[February 25]] - [[John Foster Dulles]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[February 27]] - [[Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.]] was an American historian (d.[[1965]])
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| − | * [[February 27]] - [[Lotte Lehmann]], German singer (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[Ewart Astill]], English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Knute Rockne]], American football player and coach (d. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[March 10]] - [[Barry Fitzgerald]], Irish actor (d. [[1966]])
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| − | * [[March 26]] - [[Elsa Brändström]], Russian nurse (d. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[April 4]]
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| − | **[[Tris Speaker]], [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r (d. [[1958]])
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| − | **[[Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr.]], Polish literary historian (d. [[1975]])
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| − | * [[April 6]] - [[Hans Richter (artist)|Hans Richter]], German filmmaker (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[April 18]] - [[Duffy Lewis]], [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[April 26]] - [[Anita Loos]], American writer (d. [[1981]])
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| − | * [[April 27]] - [[Florence La Badie]], Canadian actress (d. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[May 10]] - [[Karl Barth]], Protestant theologian (d. [[1968]])
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| − | ** [[Max Steiner]], Austrian-American composer (d. [[1971]])
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Irving Berlin]], American composer (d. [[1989]])
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Tich Freeman]], English cricketer (d. [[1965]])
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| − | * [[May 23]] - [[Zack Wheat]], [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r (d. [[1972]])
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| − | * [[May 25]] - [[Miles Malleson]], English actor (d. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Louis Durey]], French composer (d. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[May 28]] - [[Jim Thorpe]], American athlete (d. [[1953]])
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| − | * [[June 3]] - [[Tom Brown (trombonist)|Tom Brown]], American jazz musician (d. [[1958]])
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| − | * [[June 6]] - [[Pete Wendling]], American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. [[1974]])
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| − | * [[June 9]] - [[Ida Rentoul Outhwaite]], Australian illustrator (d. [[1960]])
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| − | * [[June 13]] - [[Fernando Pessoa]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[June 16]] - [[Peter Stoner]], American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (d. [[1980]])
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| − | * [[June 24]] - [[Gerrit Rietveld]], Dutch architect (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[June 27]] - [[Antoinette Perry]], New York Stage Director, [[Tony Award]] named for her (d. [[1946]]}
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| − | *[[July 5]] - [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[July 10]] - [[Giorgio Chirico]], Italian painter (d. [[1978]])
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| − | *[[July 16]]
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| − | **[[Percy Kilbride]], American actor (d. [[1964]])
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| − | **[[Frits Zernike]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1966]])
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| − | *[[July 17]] - [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], Israeli writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[July 22]]
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| − | **[[Kirk Bryan (geologist)|Kirk Bryan]], American geologist (d. [[1950]])
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| − | **[[Selman Waksman]], Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[July 23]] - [[Raymond Chandler]], American-born novelist (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[August 4]] - [[Syedna Taher Saifuddin]], Bohra Spiritual Leader (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[August 6]] - [[Heinrich Schlusnus]], German baritone (d. [[1952]])
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| − | *[[August 13]] - [[Gleb W. Derujinsky]], Russian-American sculptor (d. [[1975]]
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| − | *[[August 14]] - [[John Logie Baird]], Scottish inventor (d. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[August 16]]
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| − | **[[Armand J. Piron]], American jazz musician (d. [[1943]])
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| − | **[[T. E. Lawrence]] ("Lawrence of Arabia") British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d. [[1935]])
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| − | *[[August 25]] - [[Allama Mashriqi]], Pakistani scholar and politician (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[September 5]] - [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], [[President of India]] (d. [[1975]])
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| − | *[[September 6]] - [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.]], American politician (d. [[1969]])
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| − | *[[September 12]] - [[Maurice Chevalier]], French singer and actor (d. [[1972]])
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| − | *[[September 16]] - [[Frans Eemil Sillanpaa|Frans Eemil Sillanpää]], Finnish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[September 26]]
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| − | **[[J. Frank Dobie]], American folklorist and journalist (d. [[1964]])
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| − | **[[T. S. Eliot]], British (American-born) writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[October 6]] - [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], French pilot (d. [[1918]])
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| − | *[[October 7]] - [[Henry A. Wallace]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[October 8]] - [[Ernst Kretschmer]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[October 9]] - [[Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin]], Russian politician (d. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[October 16]]
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| − | **[[Eugene O'Neill]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1953]])
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| − | **[[Paul Popenoe]], American eugenicist (d. [[1979]])
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| − | *[[October 25]] - [[Lester Cuneo]] American actor (d. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[November 7]] - [[Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman]], Indian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1980]])
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| − | * [[November 15]]
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| − | **[[Harald Sverdrup]], Norwegian scientist (d. [[1957]])
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| − | **[[José Raúl Capablanca]], [[World chess champion]] 1921-1927 (d. [[1942]])
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| − | * [[November 23]] - [[Harpo Marx]], American comedian (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[November 26]] - [[Francisco Canaro]], Uruguayan-born violinist and composer (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[November 30]] - [[Ralph Hartley]], American electronics researcher and inventor (d. [[1970]])
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| − | * [[December 4]] - [[Alexander of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[December 6]] - [[Will Hay]], British actor and comedian (d. [[1949]]}
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| − | * [[December 7]] - [[Joyce Cary]], Northern Irish author (d. [[1957]])
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| − | * [[December 18]] - [[Robert Moses]], American civil engineer, public works director, and highway and bridge builder (d. 1981)
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| − | * [[December 19]] - [[Fritz Reiner]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1963]])
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| − | * [[December 28]] - [[F.W. Murnau]], German film director (d. [[1931]])
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| − | *''date unknown'' - [[Mariano Andreu]], [[List of Spanish artists|Spanish painter]] (d. [[1976]])
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| − | ===January - June===
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Anton de Bary]], German biologist (b. [[1831]])
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| − | * [[January 20]] - [[William Pitt Ballinger]], Texas lawyer, southern statesman (b. [[1825]])
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| − | * [[January 29]] - [[Edward Lear]], British artist and writer (b. [[1812]])
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[John Bosco]], Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the [[Salesian Society]] (b. [[1815]])
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| − | * [[February 3]] - [[Henry Maine]], British jurist (b. [[1822]])
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| − | *[[February 5]] - [[Anton Mauve]], Dutch painter (b. [[1838]])
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| − | * [[March 6]]
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| − | **[[Louisa May Alcott]], American novelist (b. [[1832]])
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| − | **[[Josif Pančić]], botanist (b. [[1814]])
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| − | * [[March 9]] - [[Wilhelm I of Germany|German Emperor Wilhelm I]] (b. [[1797]])
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| − | * [[March 12]] - [[Henry Bergh]], founder of the [[American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]] (b. [[1811]])
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| − | *[[March 16]] - [[Hippolyte Carnot]], French statesman (b. [[1801]])
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| − | *[[March 23]] - [[Morrison Waite]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1816]])
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| − | *[[March 27]] - [[Francesco Faà di Bruno]], mathematician (b. [[1825]])
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| − | * [[April 15]] - [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (b. [[1822]])
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| − | *[[May 26]] - [[Ascanio Sobrero]], chemist (b. [[1812]])
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| − | * [[June 15]] - [[Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern)|German Emperor Friedrich III]] (b. [[1831]])
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| − | * [[July 20]] - [[Paul Langerhans]], German pathologist and biologist (b. [[1847]])
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| − | * [[August 9]] - [[Charles Cros]], French poet (b. [[1831]])
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| − | * [[August 16]] - [[John Stith Pemberton]], Founder of Coca-Cola
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| − | *[[August 20]] - [[Henry Richard]], Welsh peace campaigner (b. [[1812]])
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| − | * [[August 23]] - [[Philip Henry Gosse]], British scientist (b. [[1810]])
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| − | * [[August 24]] - [[Rudolf Clausius]], German physicist, contributions to [[thermodynamics]] (b. [[1822]])
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| − | *[[September 24]] - [[Karl von Prantl]], philosopher (b. [[1820]])
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| − | * [[October 16]]
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| − | **[[John Wentworth (mayor)|John Wentworth]], Mayor of Chicago (b. [[1815]])
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| − | **[[Horatio Spafford]], author of hymn ''"It is well with my soul"'' (b. [[1820]])
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| − | * [[December 31]] - [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]], German rabbi (b. [[1808]])
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