Editing 1892

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In [[Samoa]], this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as [[July 4]] repeated. This means that the [[International Date Line]] was drawn from the east of the country to go west.

== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Ellis Island]] begins processing [[Immigration to the United States|immigrants to the United States]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Harlan D. Unrau|title=Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York-New Jersey|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service|year=1984|page=208}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Rudolf Diesel]] applies for a patent, on his compression ignition engine (the [[Diesel engine]]).
* [[February 29]] – [[St. Petersburg, Florida]] is incorporated as a town.
* [[March 1]] – [[Theodoros Deligiannis]] ends his term as [[Prime Minister of Greece]] and [[Konstantinos Konstantopoulos]] takes office.
* [[March 6]]–[[March 8|8]] – "Exclusive Agreement": Rulers of the [[Trucial States]] ([[Abu Dhabi]], [[Dubai]], [[Sharjah]], [[Ajman]], [[Ras al-Khaimah]] and [[Umm al-Quwain]]) sign an agreement, by which they become ''de facto'' [[British protectorate]]s.
* [[March 11]] – The first [[basketball]] game is played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield YMCA before 200 spectators.<ref name=Republican>{{cite news | title = Basket Football Game | newspaper = Springfield Republican | location = [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] | date = March 12, 1892 | url = http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/206238 | access-date = June 9, 2014}}</ref> The final score is 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being scored by [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]].<ref name=Republican/>
* [[March 13]] – [[Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine|Ernest Louis]], a grandson of [[Queen Victoria]], becomes [[Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine]] on the death of his father, [[Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine|Grand Duke Louis IV]].
* [[March 15]]
** The [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool Football Club]] is founded in England by [[John Houlding]], the owner of [[Anfield]]; Houlding decides to form his own team after [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] leaves Anfield, in an argument over rent.
** [[Jesse W. Reno]] patents the first [[escalator]], installed at [[Coney Island]].
* [[March 17]] – The [[St. Patrick's Day Snowstorm]] besieges [[Tennessee]] with upwards of 26 inches of snow, establishing accumulation records that still stand.
* [[March 18]] – Sir [[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby|Frederick Stanley]], Governor General of Canada, announces his intention to donate the [[Stanley Cup]] for ice hockey.
* [[March 20]] – The first ever [[Top 14|French rugby championship]] final takes place in Paris. [[Pierre de Coubertin]] referees the match, which [[Racing Métro 92 Paris|Racing Club de France]] wins 4–3 over [[Stade Français Paris|Stade Français]].
* [[March 31]] – The world's first [[fingerprinting]] bureau is formally opened by the [[Buenos Aires]] Chief of Police; it has been operating unofficially since the previous year.
[[File:Lumbar patent dieselengine.jpg|thumb|[[February 27]]: [[Rudolf Diesel]]'s patent.]]

=== April–June ===
* [[April]] – The [[Johnson County War]] breaks out between small farmers and large ranchers in [[Wyoming]].
* [[April 15]] – The [[General Electric]] Company is established through the merger of the [[Thomson-Houston Electric Company]] and the Edison General Electric Company.
* [[May 19]] – Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat [[Ijebu Kingdom|Ijebu]] infantry in modern-day [[Nigeria]], using a [[maxim gun]].
* [[May 20]] – The last [[broad gauge]] train runs from [[Paddington]] on the [[Great Western Railway]] of England.
* [[May 22]] – The British conquest of [[Ijebu Ode]] marks a major extension of colonial power into the [[Nigeria]]n interior.
* [[May 24]] – Prince George (later [[George V of the United Kingdom]]) becomes [[Duke of York]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=48}}</ref>
* [[June 5]] – An oil fire in [[Oil City, Pennsylvania]], United States, kills 130 people.
* [[June 6]] – The [[Chicago "L"]] begins operation for the first time with the opening of the [[South Side Elevated Railroad|Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad]].
* [[June 7]] – [[Homer Plessy]], a mixed-race man, is arrested for deliberately sitting in a whites-only railroad car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark United States Supreme Court decision ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'', which legitimized "[[separate but equal]]" [[racial segregation in the United States]].
* [[June 11]] – The [[Limelight Department]], later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in [[Melbourne]], Australia.
* [[June 30]] – The [[Homestead Strike]] begins in [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]], culminating in a battle between striking workers and private security agents on [[July 6]].

=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]] – [[Samoa]] changes its time zone from 4 hours ahead of [[Imperial Japan|Japan]] to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crosses the International Date Line, and Monday, July 4 occurs twice.
* [[July 4]]–[[July 18|18]] – [[1892 United Kingdom general election|British general election]]: The [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] and [[Liberal Unionist]] coalition government loses its majority in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]], eventually leading to [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Lord Salisbury]]'s resignation on [[August 12]].
* [[July 6]]
** Dr. [[José Rizal]], Filipino writer, philosopher and political activist, is arrested by Spanish authorities in connection with [[La Liga Filipina]].
** [[Homestead Strike]]: The arrival of a force of 300 [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency|Pinkerton detectives]] from New York and Chicago results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.
* [[July 8]] – The [[Great Fire of 1892]] devastates the city of [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's, Newfoundland]].
* [[July 12]] – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of [[Mont Blanc]], flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in [[Saint-Gervais-les-Bains]].
* [[July 13]] – The United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or [[BIRPI]]) is established in Bern, Switzerland.
* [[July 16]] – [[Queen Victoria]] meets with [[Martha Ann Ricks]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vincent |first=Benjamin |title=Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |year=1911 |edition=25th |location=New York |pages=824}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – The [[Community of the Resurrection]], an [[Anglican religious order|Anglican religious community]] for men, is founded by [[Charles Gore]] and Walter Frere, initially in Oxford.
* [[August 4]]
** The father and stepmother of [[Lizzie Borden]] are found murdered in their [[Fall River, Massachusetts]] home; she will be acquitted of their murder.
* [[August 9]] – [[Thomas Edison]] receives a [[patent]] for a two-way [[Telegraphy|telegraph]].
* [[August 15]] – [[Valparaíso]], [[Chile]] founds its first football team, [[Santiago Wanderers]].
* [[August 18]] – [[William Ewart Gladstone]] assumes the U.K. premiership, as head of the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] government, with [[Irish Nationalist Party]] support.
* [[September 8]] – [[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|The Pledge of Allegiance]] is first recited in the United States.
* [[September 9]] – [[Amalthea (moon)|Amalthea]], the fifth moon of [[Jupiter]], is discovered by [[Edward Emerson Barnard]].
* [[September 15]] – [[Sergei Witte]] replaces [[Ivan Vyshnegradsky]], as Russian finance minister.
* [[September]] – Women are first admitted to Yale University's graduate school.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] – The [[University of Chicago]] holds its first classes.
[[File:Daltongang.jpg|thumb|[[October 5]]: [[Dalton Gang]].]]
[[File:Holmes by Paget.jpg|thumb|[[October 31|Oct.31]]: "[[Sherlock Holmes]]"]]
* [[October 5]]
** The [[Dalton Gang]], attempting to rob two banks in [[Coffeyville, Kansas]], is shot by the townspeople; only [[Emmett Dalton]], with 23 wounds, survives, to spend 14 years in prison.
** Master criminal [[Adam Worth]] is captured in [[Liège]], Belgium, during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
* [[October 12]] – To mark the 400th anniversary [[Columbus Day]] holiday, the "[[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]]" is first recited in unison by students in U.S. [[Public school (government funded)|public school]]s.
* [[October 30]] – The [[Historical American Exposition]] opens in Madrid.
* [[October 31]] – The first collection of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories from ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'', is published in London.
* [[November 2]] – The first football club in Bohemia, [[SK Slavia Prague|Slavia Praha]] is established, originally under name of Akademický cyklistický odbor Slavia (A.C.O.S.), focusing on cycling.
* [[November 8]]
** [[1892 United States presidential election]]: [[Grover Cleveland]] is elected over [[Benjamin Harrison]] and [[James B. Weaver]], to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
** An [[anarchist]] bomb kills six in a police station in [[Avenue de l'Opéra]], Paris.
** The four-day [[New Orleans General Strike]] begins.
* [[November 17]] – French troops occupy [[Abomey]], capital of the kingdom of [[Dahomey]].
* [[November 24]] – The Hotel Zinzendorf catches fire in the city of [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]]; 45 people die.
* [[December 5]] – [[John Sparrow David Thompson|John Thompson]] becomes Canada's fourth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[December 17]] – First issue of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' is published in the United States.
* [[December 18]] – ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' [[ballet]], with music by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], is premiered at the [[Mariinsky Theatre|Imperial Mariinsky Theatre]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia.
* [[December 22]] – The [[Newcastle East End F.C.]] is renamed [[Newcastle United F.C.]], following the demise of the [[Newcastle West End F.C.]] and East End's move to [[St James' Park]], formerly West End's home, in the [[North East England|north east of England]].

=== Date unknown ===
* Diplomat [[Henry Galway]] secures a treaty by which [[Ovonramwen]], [[Oba of Benin]], ostensibly accepts British protection for his kingdom.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Igbafe|first=Philip A. |author-link=Philip Igbafe |year=1970|title=The fall of Benin: A Reassessment|journal=[[The Journal of African History]]|volume=XI|issue=3|pages=385–400|doi=10.1017/S0021853700010215|jstor=180345|s2cid=154621156 }}</ref>
* A [[cholera]] outbreak occurs in [[Hamburg]], Germany.
* A 50-year-old tortoise called ''[[Timothy (tortoise)|Timothy]]'', previously serving as a naval mascot, is brought to the estate of [[Powderham Castle]] in England, where she lives until her death in [[2004]].
* [[Virus]]es are first described by [[Russian people|Russian]] [[biologist]] [[Dmitri Ivanovsky]].

== Births ==
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=== January ===
[[File:Manuel Roxas 2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Manuel Roxas]]]]
<!--[[File:J. R. R. Tolkien, 1940s.jpg|thumb|110px|[[J. R. R. Tolkien]]]]-->
[[File:Olafur Thors.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ólafur Thors]]]]
[[File:Ernst_Lubitsch_01.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ernst Lubitsch]]]]
[[File:Juan Negrín.png|thumb|110px|[[Juan Negrín]]]]
[[File:William P Murphy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William P. Murphy]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Artur Rodziński]], Polish conductor (d. [[1958]])
** [[Manuel Roxas]], 5th [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[1948]])
* [[January 3]] – [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], English professor and writer (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carpenter |first=Humphrey |author-link=Humphrey Carpenter |url=https://archive.org/details/inklingscslewisj00carp |title=The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-395-27628-0 |location=Boston |page=14}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] – [[Mikhail Kirponos]], Soviet general (d. [[1941]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Martin Niemöller]], German theologian and prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust (d. [[1984]])
** [[Hal Roach]], American film, television producer (d. [[1992]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Rex Ingram (director)|Rex Ingram]], Irish film director (d. [[1950]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Oliver Hardy]], American comedian, actor (d. [[1957]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Ólafur Thors]], Icelandic politician, 5-times prime minister (d. [[1964]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Marcel Dassault]], French aircraft industrialist (d. [[1986]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Takeo Takagi]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1944]])
* [[January 28]]
**[[Ernst Lubitsch]], German-born film director (d. [[1947]])
**[[Fyodor Raskolnikov]], Soviet revolutionary, writer, journalist, naval commander and diplomat (d. [[1939]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Eddie Cantor]], American actor, singer (d. [[1964]])

=== February ===
* [[February 3]] – [[Juan Negrín]], Spanish physician, politician and 67th [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (d. [[1956]])
* [[February 6]] – [[William P. Murphy]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1987]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Peggy Wood]], American actress (d. [[1978]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Alan Hale Sr.]], American actor (d. [[1950]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Robert H. Jackson]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]], chief prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials]] (d. [[1954]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Radola Gajda]], Czech commander and politician (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 15]] – [[James Forrestal]], first [[United States Secretary of Defense]] (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Wendell Willkie]], U.S. Republican presidential candidate (d. [[1944]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Harry Stack Sullivan]], American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], American writer (d. [[1950]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Kathleen Harrison]], English actress (d. [[1995]])
* [[February 27]] – [[William Demarest]], American actor (d. [[1983]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Augusta Savage]], American sculptor (d. [[1962]])

=== March ===
[[File:Cesar vallejo 1929 RestauradabyJohnManuel.jpg|thumb|110px|[[César Vallejo]]]]
[[File:Ferde Grofé.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ferde Grofé]]]]
[[File:Mary Pickford cph.3c17995u.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mary Pickford]]]]
[[File:Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Arthur Harris|Arthur "Bomber" Harris]]]]
* [[March 1]] 
** [[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]], Japanese writer (d. [[1927]]) 
** [[Mercedes de Acosta]], American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. [[1968]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Mississippi John Hurt]] (some sources give his year of birth as [[1893]]), American [[country blues]] singer, guitarist (d. [[1966]]) 
* [[March 9]]
** [[David Garnett]], English novelist and writer (d. [[1981]])
** [[Mátyás Rákosi]], 43rd prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1971]])
** [[Vita Sackville-West]], English writer and gardener (d. [[1962]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Arthur Honegger]], French-born Swiss composer (d. [[1955]])
** [[Gregory La Cava]], American director, producer and writer (d. [[1952]])
** [[Eva Turner]], English operatic soprano (d. [[1990]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Charles Nungesser]], French aviator, World War I fighter ace (d. [[1927]])
* [[March 16]] – [[César Vallejo]], Peruvian poet (d. [[1938]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Andy Clyde]], Scottish-born screen actor (d. [[1967]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Ferde Grofé]], American pianist, composer (d. [[1972]])
* [[March 28]]
** [[Corneille Heymans]], Belgian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]])
** [[Tom Maguire]], Irish republican (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 30]]
** [[Stefan Banach]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1945]])
** [[Erhard Milch]], German field marshal, ''Luftwaffe'' officer (d. [[1972]])
** [[Sanzō Nosaka]], Japanese Communist Party chairman and leader of [[Japanese People's Emancipation League|JPEL]] (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Stanisław Maczek]], Polish general (d. [[1994]])

=== April ===
* [[April 6]]
** [[Donald Wills Douglas Sr.]], American industrialist (d. [[1981]])
** [[Lowell Thomas]], American journalist (d. [[1981]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Julius Hirsch]], German footballer (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The imperishable story of Julius Hirsch: the great goalscorer murdered at Auschwitz who adorns Stamford Bridge mural|first=Sam|last=Wallace|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=January 25, 2020|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian actress, studio founder (d. [[1979]])
* [[April 12]] 
** [[Johnny Dodds]], American jazz clarinettist (d. [[1940]])
** [[Henry Darger]], American [[outsider art]]ist and writer (d. [[1973]])
* [[April 13]] 
** [[Arthur Harris|Sir Arthur Harris]], British World War II Royal Air Force commander (d. [[1984]])
** [[Sir Robert Watson-Watt]], Scottish inventor of radar (d. [[1973]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Dora Richter]], German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female [[gender-affirming surgery]] (d. 1966)<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 May 2023 |title=Was wurde aus Dora? |trans-title=What became of Dora? |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/rbb-was-wurde-aus-dora-100.html |website=[[Tagesschau (German TV programme)|Tagesschau]] |language=de}}</ref> 
* [[April 19]] – [[Germaine Tailleferre]], French composer (d. [[1983]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Richard L. Conolly]], American admiral (d. [[1962]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Raizō Tanaka]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1969]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Joseph Dunninger]], American mentalist (d. [[1975]])

=== May ===
[[File:Manfred von Richthofen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Manfred von Richthofen]]]]
[[File:Josip Broz Tito uniform portrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Josip Broz Tito]]]]
[[File:Mieczyslaw Horszowski Polish pianist.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mieczysław Horszowski]]]]
[[File:Pearl Buck 1972.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pearl S. Buck]]]]
* [[May 2]] – [[Manfred von Richthofen]] (the "Red Baron"), German World War I fighter pilot (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 3]]  
** [[George Paget Thomson]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]])
** [[Jacob Viner]], Canadian economist (d. [[1970]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[Archibald MacLeish]], American poet (d. [[1982]])
** [[Josip Broz Tito]], [[President of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Zita of Bourbon-Parma]], Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. [[1989]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Margaret Rutherford]], English actress (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Fritz Kortner]], Austrian-born director (d. [[1970]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Shigeyoshi Miwa]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1959]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Manton S. Eddy]], American general (d. [[1962]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Ezio Pinza]], Italian bass (d. [[1957]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Pichichi (footballer)|Pichichi]], Spanish footballer (d. [[1922]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Maxwell Bodenheim]], American poet and novelist (k. [[1954]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Fernando Amorsolo]], Filipino painter (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Gregor Strasser]], German Nazi politician (d. [[1934]])

=== June ===
* [[June 1]] – [[Amānullāh Khān]], ruler of Afghanistan (d. [[1960]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Nikolai Polikarpov]], Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer (d. [[1944]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Basil Rathbone]], British actor (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Redmond | first = Christopher | title = A Sherlock Holmes handbook | publisher = Simon & Pierre | location = Toronto Oxford | year = 1993 | isbn = 9781554880577 | page=167}}</ref>
* [[June 21]]
** [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], American theologian (d. [[1971]])
** [[Hilding Rosenberg]], Swedish composer (d. [[1985]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Robert Ritter von Greim]], German field marshal (d. [[1945]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Mieczysław Horszowski]], Polish pianist (d. [[1993]])
* [[June 25]]
** [[Katherine Kennicott Davis]], American composer (d. [[1980]])
** [[Shirō Ishii]], Japanese microbiologist, lieutenant general of [[Unit 731]] (d. [[1959]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Pearl S. Buck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]])
* [[June 28]] 
** [[Clifford Campbell]], Jamaican educator, politician (d. [[1991]])
** [[E. H. Carr]], English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist (d. [[1982]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Oswald Pohl]], German S.S. officer (d. [[1951]])

=== July ===
[[File:Haile Selassie in full dress (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie I]]]]
[[File:William Powell by Hurrell.jpg|110px|thumb|[[William Powell]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[James M. Cain]], American author and journalist (d. [[1977]])
* [[July 2]] – [[Daniel Mercier]], French footballer and soldier (d. [[1914]])
* [[July 4]] – [[A. G. Gaston]], American businessman (d. [[1996]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Willy Coppens]], Belgian World War I flying ace (d. [[1986]])
* [[July 8]]
** [[Richard Aldington]], English poet (d. [[1962]])
** [[Dean O'Banion]], American gangster (d. [[1924]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Cromwell Dixon]], American pioneer aviator (d. [[1911]])
* [[July 11]]
**[[Trafford Leigh-Mallory]], British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (d. [[1944]])
**[[Thomas Mitchell (actor)|Thomas Mitchell]], American actor (d. [[1962]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Bruno Schulz]], Polish writer and painter (d. [[1942]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Walter Benjamin]], German philosopher and cultural critic (suicide [[1940]])
** [[Milena Rudnytska]], Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer (d. [[1979]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Michel Coiffard]], French World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Lenore Ulric]], American actress (d. [[1970]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]], Austrian Nazi politician (d. [[1946]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Haile Selassie I]], Ethiopian emperor (d. [[1975]])
* [[July 29]] – [[William Powell]], American actor (d. [[1984]])

=== August ===
[[File:Jack Warner portrait copy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jack L. Warner]]]]
* [[August 2]] – [[Jack L. Warner]], Canadian film producer (d. [[1978]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Hoot Gibson]], American actor, film director (d. [[1962]])
* [[August 11]]
**[[Władysław Anders]], Polish general, politician (d. [[1970]])
**[[Hugh MacDiarmid]], Scottish poet (d. [[1978]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Alfred Lunt]], American actor, stage director (d. [[1977]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Louis de Broglie]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1987]])
** [[Walther Nehring]], German general (d. [[1983]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Tamon Yamaguchi]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1942]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Gabriel Guérin]], French World War I fighter ace (d. [[1918]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Elizebeth Smith Friedman]], American cryptographer (d. [[1980]])

=== September ===
[[File:Appleton.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Edward Victor Appleton]]]]
[[File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Arthur Compton]]]]
[[File:Pinto Colvig in Jacksonville School.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pinto Colvig]]]]
[[File:S. Kragujevic, Ivo Andric, 1961.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ivo Andrić]]]]
* [[September 4]] – [[Darius Milhaud]], French composer (d. [[1974]])
* [[September 5]] – [[Joseph Szigeti]], Hungarian violinist (d. [[1973]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Edward Victor Appleton]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Tsuru Aoki]], Japanese American actress (d. [[1961]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Arthur Compton]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1962]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Pinto Colvig]], American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor and circus performer (original voice of Goofy) (d. [[1967]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Alfred A. Knopf Sr.]], American publisher (d. [[1984]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Patricia Collinge]], Irish-American actress (d. [[1974]])

=== October ===
* [[October 2]] – [[Ilie Crețulescu]], Romanian general (d. [[1971]])
* [[October 4]] 
** [[Engelbert Dollfuss]], Austrian statesman, chancellor (d. [[1934]])
** [[Luis Trenker]], South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect and alpinist (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], Russian poet (d. [[1941]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Ivo Andrić]], Serbo-Croatian writer, [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Andrei Yeremenko]], Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. [[1970]])
* [[October 17]] – [[R. K. Shanmukham Chetty]], Indian jurist, economist (d. [[1953]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Gummo Marx]], American actor, comedian (d. [[1977]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Graciliano Ramos]], Brazilian writer (d. [[1953]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Stanisław Ostrowski]], [[President of Poland]] (d. [[1982]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Charles Atlas]], Italian-American [[strongman (strength athlete)|strongman]], [[sideshow]] performer (d. [[1972]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Alexander Alekhine]], Russian chess champion (d. [[1946]])

=== November ===
[[File:Franco0001.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Francisco Franco]]]]
[[File:Rebecca West.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Rebecca West]]]]
* [[November 2]] – [[Alice Brady]], American actress (d. [[1939]])
* [[November 5]] – [[J. B. S. Haldane]], British geneticist (d. [[1964]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Erich Auerbach]], German philologist (d. [[1957]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Guo Moruo]], Chinese author, poet (d. [[1978]])
* [[November 16]]
**[[Richard Hale]], American singer, actor (d. [[1981]])
**[[Tazio Nuvolari]], Italian racing driver (d. [[1953]])
*[[November 20]]
**[[James Collip]], Canadian [[biochemist]] (d. [[1965]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Emma Tillman]], American supercentenarian, briefly the world's oldest living person and last surviving person born in 1892 (d. [[2007]])

=== December ===
* [[December 4]] – [[Francisco Franco]], Spanish dictator (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Francisco Franco {{!}} Biography, Nickname, Beliefs, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Franco |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=19 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] – [[Cyril Ring]], American film actor (d. [[1967]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Osbert Sitwell]], English writer (d. [[1969]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Max Ehrlich]], German actor, screenwriter and humor writer (d. [[1944]] in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Bert Hinkler]], Australian aviator (d. [[1933]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Arnold Majewski]], Finnish military hero of Polish descent (d. [[1942]])<ref name="castrén">Castrén, Klaus: [https://www.genealogia.fi/genos-old/70/70_38.htm Majewski-suku Suomessa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202929/https://www.genealogia.fi/genos-old/70/70_38.htm |date=June 24, 2021 }}, GENOS - journal of the Finnish genealogy society, issue #70/1999. Accessed on 24 June 2021.</ref>
* [[December 12]]
**[[Edward Almond]], American general (d. [[1979]])
**[[Herman Potočnik]], Slovenian rocket engineer (d. [[1929]])
* [[December 15]] – [[J. Paul Getty]], American industrialist  (d. [[1976]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Rebecca West]], English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer (d. [[1983]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Ruth Chatterton]], American actress, novelist and aviator (d. [[1961]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Don Barclay (actor)|Don Barclay]], American actor (d. [[1975]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Emory Parnell]], American actor (d. [[1979]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Stanley Price]], American film, television actor (d. [[1955]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Ahmad Daouk]], two-time prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1979]])
* [[Abdallah Khalil]], third Prime Minister of Sudan (d. [[1970]])

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Portrait-Louis-Vuitton.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Louis Vuitton (designer)|Louis Vuitton]]]]
[[File:Walt Whitman photograph.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Walt Whitman]]]]
[[File:Alexander McKenzie3.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Alexander Mackenzie (politician)|Alexander Mackenzie]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[George Biddell Airy|Sir George Biddell Airy]], English astronomer royal (b. [[1801]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Tewfik Pasha]], Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan (b. [[1852]])
* [[January 7]] –  [[Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess)|Maria Cederschiold]], Swedish deaconess (b. [[1815]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers]], American admiral (b. [[1819]])
* [[January 12]] – [[William Reeves (bishop)|William Reeves]], Irish antiquarian (b. [[1815]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale]], second in line for the throne of the United Kingdom (b. [[1864]])
* [[January 21]] – [[John Couch Adams]], English astronomer (b. [[1819]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Charles Spurgeon]], English preacher (b. [[1834]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Darinka Petrovic]], princess consort of Montenegro (b. [[1838]])  
* [[February 5]] – [[Emilie Flygare-Carlén]], Swedish novelist (b. [[1807]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Andrew Bryson]], American admiral (b. [[1822]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Charlotte Norberg]], Swedish ballerina (b. [[1824]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Louis Vuitton (designer)|Louis Vuitton]], French fashion designer (b. [[1821]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Edmond Jurien de La Gravière]], French admiral, naval historian and biographer (b. [[1812]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse]] (b. [[1837]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Samuel F. Miller (U.S. politician)|Samuel F. Miller]], American politician (b. [[1827]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Walt Whitman]], American poet (b. [[1819]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Emily Lucas Blackall]], American author and philanthropist (b. [[1832]])
* [[April 4]] – [[José María Castro Madriz]], President of Costa Rica (b. [[1818]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Ogarita Booth Henderson]], American stage actress, daughter of [[John Wilkes Booth]] (b. [[1859]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Alexander Mackenzie (politician)|Alexander Mackenzie]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1822]])
* [[April 19]] – [[T. Pelham Dale|Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale]] [[Society of the Holy Cross|SSC]], [[Anglo-Catholic]] [[clergyman]] prosecuted for [[Ritualism in the Church of England|Ritualist]] practices in the [[1870s]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Emelie Tracy Y. Swett]], American author (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Édouard Lalo]], French composer (b. [[1823]])
* [[April 25]] – [[William Backhouse Astor Jr.]], American businessman (b. [[1830]])
* [[April 26]] – Sir [[Provo Wallis|Provo William Parry Wallis]], British admiral, naval hero (b. [[1791]])
* [[May 5]] – [[August Wilhelm von Hofmann]], German chemist (b. [[1818]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Gábor Baross]], Hungarian statesman (b. [[1848]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Alexander Campbell (Canadian politician)|Alexander Campbell]], Canadian politician (b. [[1822]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Bahá'u'lláh]], Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. [[1817]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Mary H. Gray Clarke]], American correspondent (b. [[1835]])
* [[June 8]] 
** [[Dimitrie Brătianu]], 15th prime minister of Romania (b. [[1818]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Hitchins | first = Keith | author-link = Keith Hitchins | title = Rumania, 1866-1947 | publisher = Clarendon Press | location = Oxford | year = 1994 | url = https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13685656W/Rumania_1866-1947 | isbn = 9780198221265 | page=110}}</ref>
** [[Robert Ford (outlaw)|Robert Ford]], American assassin of [[Jesse James]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[June 9]] 
** [[William Grant Stairs]], Canadian explorer (b. [[1863]])
** [[Tsukioka Yoshitoshi|Yoshitoshi]], Japanese artist (b. [[1839]])
* [[June 28]] – Sir [[Harry Atkinson]], 10th [[Premier of New Zealand]] (b. [[1831]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:John Greenleaf Whittier portrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[John Greenleaf Whittier]]]]
[[File:Alfred Tennyson with book, by Julia Margaret Cameron.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]]]
[[File:Ernst Werner von Siemens.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Werner von Siemens]]]]
* [[July 18]] – [[Rose Terry Cooke]], American author (b. [[1827]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Count Joseph Alexander Hübner]], Austrian diplomat (b. [[1811]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Ernestine Rose]], Polish-born feminist (b. [[1810]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Charles Lafontaine]], Swiss mesmerist (b. [[1803]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Deodoro da Fonseca]], 1st president of Brazil (b. [[1827]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Betty Bentley Beaumont]], British merchant (b. [[1828]])
* [[September 7]] – [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], American poet, abolitionist (b. [[1807]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Louisa Jane Hall]], American literary critic (b. [[1802]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel Atkins Eliot|author-link=Samuel A. Eliot (minister) |title=Heralds of a Liberal Faith|publisher=American Unitarian Association|year=1910|page=151}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] – [[Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop]], American social reformer  (b. [[1847]])
* [[September 12]] – [[John Cummings Howell]], United States Navy admiral (b. [[1819]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Ernest Renan]], French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer (b. [[1823]]) 
* [[October 5]] – [[Bob Dalton (outlaw)|Bob Dalton]], American Wild Western outlaw (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-daltonbrothers/|title=The Dalton Brothers – Lawmen & Outlaws – Legends of America|website=www.legendsofamerica.com}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] 
** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], English poet laureate (b. [[1809]])
** [[Jean-Antoine Villemin]], French physician (b. [[1827]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[Abdyl Frashëri]], Albanian politician (b. [[1839]])
** [[Emin Pasha]], Ottoman-German doctor, Governor of Equatoria (b. [[1840]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Mir-Fatah-Agha]], Persian Shiite cleric
* [[October 25]] – [[Caroline Harrison]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1832]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Thomas Neill Cream]], Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. [[1850]])
* December – [[Eudora Stone Bumstead]], American poet (b. [[1860]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Travelers' Record|publisher=Travelers Insurance Company|year=1891|page=6}}</ref>
* [[December 1]] – [[Mary Allen West]], American superintendent of schools (b. [[1837]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Beckenham Abstainers' Union|title=The Abstainers' Advocate, Volumes 6–11|year=1895|page=182}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] – [[Jay Gould]], American financier (b. [[1836]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Werner von Siemens]], German inventor, industrialist (b. [[1816]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Nancy Edberg]], Swedish pioneer of women's swimming (b. [[1832]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Adams George Archibald|Sir Adams Archibald]], Canadian lawyer and politician (b. [[1814]])
* [[December 18]]
** [[John M. Lloyd]], American bricklayer and police officer (b. [[1835]])
** [[Richard Owen|Sir Richard Owen]], English paleontologist (b. [[1804]])

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