See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class
children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo).
January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000.
January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.
March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators
had to be dispersed by Russian troops.
May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
July 29 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts movement with the first scout
camp at Brownsea Island.
September 26 - New Zealand becomes a dominion.
November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are
admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
The Diamond Sutra of AD 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of
block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.
The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of
electronics as a practical technology.
The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
Births:
January 3 -
Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986).
January 19 -
Lilian Harvey, actress (d. 1968).
January 20 -
Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990).
January 20 -
Paula Wessely, actress (d. 2000).
January 23 -
Dan Durya, actor (d. 1968).
January 25 -
Antoinetta Harmina van den Houten.
February 1 -
Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972).
February 11 -
E. W. Swanton, author & sports commentator (d. 1990).
February 15 -
Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994).
February 17 -
Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (d. 1983).
February 21 -
W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973).
February 22 -
Robert Young, actor (d. 1998).
February 22 -
Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer (d. 1997).
Febrary 24 -
Izak Maarten van Oeveren.
February 27 -
Mildred Bailey, jazz performer (d. 1951).
March 8 -
Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998).
March 11 -
Helmut von Moltke, jurist (d. 1945).
March 15 -
Zarah Leander, actress and singer (d. 1981).
March 19 -
Jozefina Antoinette Alberthina van den Houten.
March 21 -
Samuel van den Houten.
April 3 -
Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999).
April 12 -
Felix de Weldon, sculptor (d. 2003).
April 26 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
April 29 -
Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983).
May 8 -
Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general (d. 1993).
May 9 -
Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974).
May 11 -
Rose Ausänder, poet (d. 1988).
May 12 -
Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003).
May 13 -
Dame Daphne du Maurier, author (d. 1989).
May 14 -
Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974).
May 22 -
Herge, Belgian writer-artist (d. 1983).
May 22 - Sir
Laurence Olivier, actor, director (d. 1989).
May 26 -
John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (d. 1979).
May 30 -
Elly Beinhorn, pilot.
June 14 -
René Char, French poet (d. 1988).
July 6 -
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954).
July 7 -
Robert Heinlein, American (science fiction author).
August 13 -
Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British parliamentarian (d. 1966).
August 24 -
Maarten Lokker.
September 15 -
Fay Wray, actress.
September 18 -
Leon Askin, actor.
September -
Nicolaas Jan Jacobus Storm.
October 2 -
Maaike Bas.
October 3 -
Marinus Adriaan Padmos.
October 5 -
Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997).
October 9 -
Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (d. 2001).
October 15 -
Varian Fry, ran an escape network in wartime Marseille, France (d. 1967).
October 17 -
Johannes Jochems.
October 19 -
Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (d. 1962).
November 3 -
Leendert Jacob van den Houten.
November 3 -
Adriaantje Wilhelmina de Zwarte.
November 8 -
Gerrit van den Houten.
November 14 -
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002).
December 7 - [Lily]
Teresa Ferster Glazier (Glazier is her married name), American author
of The Least You Should Know About English.
December 23 -
James Roosevelt, businessman, politician (d. 1991).
December 27 -
Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943).
Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, later Sultan of Terengganu
and 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Still born:
November 16 -
Still born van As.
Deaths:
January 20 -
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, periodic table.
January 31 -
Timothy Eaton, department store founder.
February 11 -
Peter J. Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder.
March 18 -
N.N. van den Houten.
May 12 -
Joris-Karl Huysmans, author.
May 19 -
Benjamin Baker, English engineer.
August 15 -
Joseph Joachim, violinist.
August 16 -
James Hector, geologist.
September 4 -
Edvard Grieg, composer.
September 22 -
N.N. Zweerus. (boy).
November 19 -
Hendrik ten Haaf.
November 25 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
December 17 -
Lord Kelvin, physicist and engineer, created kelvin temperature scale.
December 23 -
Adriaantje (Adrianje) van Kerkhoven.
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