Editing 1897 (section)

=== March&ndash;April ===
[[File:Lefty-odoul.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Lefty O'Doul]]]]
[[File:Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood|Princess Mary]]]]
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Shoghi Effendi]], Ottoman Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (d. [[1957]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Lefty O'Doul]], American baseball player, restaurateur (d. [[1969]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Set Persson]], Swedish communist politician (d. [[1960]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Henry Channon]], American-born British politician (d. [[1958]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Karoly Grosz (illustrator)|Karoly Grosz]], Hungarian–American illustrator of film posters (d. [[1952]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Henry Cowell]], American avant-garde composer (d. [[1965]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Richard Hildebrandt]], German Nazi politician and SS-''[[Obergruppenführer]]'' (d. [[1951]])
* [[March 16]] 
** [[Flora Eldershaw]], Australian novelist, critic, and historian (d. [[1956]])
** [[Conrad Nagel]], American actor (d. [[1970]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[John Langdon-Davies]], British writer (d. [[1971]])
* [[March 19]] 
** [[Betty Compson]], American actress (d. [[1974]])
** [[Moms Mabley]], American stand-up comedian and actress (d. [[1975]])
* [[March 21]] 
** [[Eugene Borden]], French-American actor (d. [[1971]])
** [[Johnny Ertle]], Hungarian-American boxer (d. [[1976]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Leslie Andrew]], New Zealand soldier (d. [[1969]])
* [[March 24]] 
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], Austrian psychotherapist (d. [[1957]])
** [[Theodora Kroeber]],  American writer and anthropologist (d. [[1979]])
* [[March 25]] 
** [[Yeghishe Charents]], Armenian poet, writer and public activist (d. [[1937]])
** [[John Laurie]], Scottish actor (d. [[1980]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Douglas Hartree]], English mathematician and physicist (d. [[1958]])
* [[March 28]]
**[[Frank Hawks]], American aviator (d. [[1938]])
**[[Sepp Herberger]], German football coach (d. [[1977]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Oto Iskandar di Nata]], Indonesian politician (d. [[1945]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[John Kotelawala]], Sri Lankan statesman and 3rd [[List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[April 7]]
** [[Erich Löwenhardt]], German World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]])
** [[Walter Winchell]], American broadcast journalist (d. [[1972]])
** [[Michael Musmanno]], American jurist, politician, and naval officer (d. [[1968]])
* [[April 8]] 
** [[Herbert Lumsden]], British general (d. [[1945]])
** [[Helen Gandy]], American secretary to [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (d. [[1988]])
* [[April 10]] 
** [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]], Indian politician and [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (d. [[1990]])
** [[Miles Browning]], American Navy officer (d. [[1954]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Werner Voss]], German World War I fighter ace (d. [[1917]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Iida Chōko]], Japanese actress (d. [[1972]])
* [[April 17]] 
** [[Thornton Wilder]], American dramatist (d. [[1975]])
** [[Thomas Ryum Amlie]], American politician (d. [[1973]])
** [[Nisargadatta Maharaj]], Indian [[guru]] of [[Nonduality (spirituality)|nondualism]] (d. [[1981]])
* [[April 19]]
** [[Jiroemon Kimura]], Japanese supercentenarian, world's longest lived man, last surviving man born in the 19th century and last surviving person born in 1897 (d. [[2013]])
** [[Vivienne Segal]], American actress (d. [[1992]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Sudhakar Chaturvedi]], Indian Vedic scholar and longevity claimant (d. [[2020]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[A. W. Tozer]], American Protestant pastor (d. [[1963]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Lester B. Pearson]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Canada]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1972]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Manuel Ávila Camacho]], Mexican general, politician, and 45th [[President of Mexico]], 1940-1946 (d. [[1955]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.economia.com.mx/manuel_avila_camacho.htm|title=Manuel Avila Camacho|publisher=economia.com.mx|language=es|access-date=May 31, 2019}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] 
** [[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood]], British princess (d. [[1965]])
** [[Merritt A. Edson]], American marine corps general (d. [[1955]])
* [[April 26]]
** [[Eddie Eagan]], American boxer, bobsledder (d. [[1967]])
** [[Douglas Sirk]], German film director (d. [[1987]])

* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Mainie Jellett]], Irish painter (d. [[1944]])