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Calendar overview 1892
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 was the last major outbreak of cholera in Germany. |
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| 1892 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1340/41 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1884/85 (change of the year September 10th/11th) |
| Baha'i calendar | 48/49 (20/21 March) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1297/98 (beginning of the year April 14 or 15) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2435/36 (Southern Buddhism); 2434/35 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Water Dragon 壬辰 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Rabbit 辛卯) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1254/55 (April turn of the year) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4225/26 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| Iranian calendar | 1270/71 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1309/10 (25/26 July) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 25 (
明治25年); Koki 2552 |
| Jewish calendar | 5652/53 (21/22 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 1608/09 (10/11 September) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1067/68 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1307/08 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2202/03 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 2203/04 (October turn of the year) |
| Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar) | 2434/35 (April 1) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1948/49 (April turn of the year) |
events
politics and world affairs
Europe
- January 1: Walter Hauser becomes President of Switzerland .
- March 14-18: At the Halberstadt Congress , the reorganization of the trade union movement was initiated after the repeal of the Socialist Law.
America
- January 1: Ellis Island in New York Harbor is established as a processing station for immigrants bound for the United States .
- November 8: Democrat Grover Cleveland , ousted from office four years ago, defeats Republican incumbent Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver of the Populist Party in the United States presidential election . This makes him the only US President to enter the White House for a second time.
Asia
- April : In Siam , Prince Damrong Rajanubhab becomes head of the Mahatthai Ministry, which he transforms into a European-style Ministry of the Interior in the years that follow. This marked the beginning of the comprehensive modernization and centralization of the administration of Siam and thus the basis for today's Thai state.
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- July 3: José Rizal founds the organization La Liga Filipina with the aim of peacefully fighting for independence or at least the greatest possible autonomy of the Philippines from Spain. The organization will be banned as early as July 6th.
- July 7: In the Philippines , Andrés Bonifacio founds the secret society Katipunan , which aims to liberate much of Luzon from Spanish rule . The reason for its establishment is the arrest of leading members of the Filipina League and the banishment of Rizal to Dapitan .
business
monetary economy
- With a currency conversion in Austria-Hungary , the guilder is replaced by the crown . However, the guilder remained in circulation until 1900.
patents
- February 27: Rudolf Diesel registers a new, rational heat engine with the Imperial Patent Office , the patent is granted to him on February 23, 1893 with the subject of working methods and design for internal combustion engines .
- March 15: Jesse W. Reno is granted a patent for his escalator in the United States .
- April 24: The Gelsenkirchen chemist Rudolf Rempel applies for a patent for the jar.
- May 22 Dentist Washington Sheffield sells toothpaste in a tube he invented for the first time in New London, Connecticut .
start-ups
- January 4: The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung launches its first edition.
- April 15: Merger of two predecessor companies creates General Electric Company , based in Schenectady , New York .
- Asa Griggs Candler founds The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia .
traffic
- January 6th: The first expedition of the private East African Lakes Mail of the company Schülke & Mayr sets off from Dar es Salaam to Lake Victoria .
- May 12: The Memphis Bridge , a single-track railroad bridge that is the first crossing over the Mississippi River below St Louis , opens.
- June 1st: The narrow-gauge railway from Wolkenstein to Jöhstadt is opened with a festive event.
- July 28: Limited state funding for the construction of new railway lines leads to the enactment of the Prussian Kleinbahngesetz . In the years that followed, the private railways brought about an upswing in passenger and freight traffic in Prussia .
- December 31: The first section of the Anatolian Railway , a forerunner of the Baghdad Railway , from Istanbul to Ankara is completed.
science and technology
- February 1: The astronomer Martin Brendel and the geographer Otto Baschin succeed in taking the first known photographs of the northern lights .
- February 25: Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa discovers the asteroid (324) Bamberga .
- June 20: In Norway, the Telemark Canal is completed after five years of construction. The opening will take place on September 20th.
- September 9: Edward Barnard discovers Jupiter 's moon Amalthea .
- 6th/7th November: British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes sights Comet 17P/Holmes , a periodic comet of the Jupiter family , near the Andromeda Nebula.
- François Hennebique develops the T- beam .
Culture
Visual arts
- February 5: The artist group Vereinigung der XI is founded in Berlin.
- April 4: The artists' association Munich Secession is formed as a spin-off from the Munich artists ' cooperative .
- May 9: The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring , a photographers' association dedicated to the development of photography as a medium of artistic expression, is founded by Henry Peach Robinson , George Davison and others as a spin-off from the Royal Photographic Society .
- November 5: An exhibition of paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch opens in Berlin, triggering a scandal (“The Munch Case ”) and leading to the founding of the Berlin Secession .
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- During his first stay in Tahiti , Paul Gauguin painted the painting Nafea faa ipoipo ( When are you going to get married? ).
literature
Holmes and Watson solving a case, illustration by Sidney Paget
- October 14: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle about the detective Sherlock Holmes , is published in Great Britain .
- Émile Zola publishes the novel La Débâcle ( The Breakdown ) which contributes to the spread of the word ' debacle ' into common parlance.
music and theatre
- January 20: The premiere of the lyrical drama La Wally by Alfredo Catalani to a libretto by Luigi Illica based on the novel Die Geierwally by Wilhelmine von Hillern takes place at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan.
- February 16: The opera Werther by Jules Massenet has its world premiere at the Vienna Court Opera . The libretto is by Édouard Blau , Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann , based on the epistolary novel Die Leiden des Junge Werthers by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
- February 17: The premiere of Louis Lacombe 's opera Winkelried takes place at the Grand Théâtre de Genève .
- March 8: The opera Heilmar der Narr by Wilhelm Kienzl is premiered in Munich.
- May 7: The Vienna Music and Theater Exhibition opens. By October 9, around 1.25 million people will visit the theme-oriented "small world exhibition " taking place around the Rotunda in Vienna's Prater on the grounds of the 1873 World Exhibition .
- May 21: The veristic opera Pagliacci ( The Bajazzo ) by Ruggero Leoncavallo is premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, conducted by Arturo Toscanini .
- June 14: The world premiere of Richard Genée 's operetta Signora Vedetta takes place in Wiesbaden.
- August 27: The Metropolitan Opera, located on New York's Broadway , is badly damaged in a fire.
- November 19: The Theater am Schiffbauerdamm is opened in Berlin as a private stage.
- December 18: The premiere of the opera Iolanta by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky takes place at the Court Opera in Saint Petersburg.
- December 18: The world premiere of the ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to the libretto by Marius Petipa with the choreography by Lev Ivanov and the equipment by the opera director Ivan Vsevolozhsky takes place in the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg . First Sugar Plum Fairy is Antonietta Dell'Era .
Others
- Founding of the Jewish National and University Library
society
- May 28: In San Francisco, John Muir and several university professors form the conservation organization Sierra Club . Over time, it develops into the largest association of its kind in the United States.
- August 4: Andrew and Abby Borden are found murdered in their Massachusetts home with numerous ax blows. Suspicion falls on her stepdaughter, Lizzie Borden .
- August 8: The German Main Association of the Blue Cross is founded.
- October 5: The Dalton brothers are caught in a gunfight by a public posse while attempting to rob two banks in Coffeyville , Kansas . Four of the five bandits involved die, the survivor is later sentenced to life imprisonment.
religion
- February 16: In the encyclical Au milieu des sollicitudes on Church and State in France , Pope Leo XIII. to improve the difficult relations between the two institutions there.
- July 16: Pope Leo XIII commemorates the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. in the encyclical Quarto abeunte saeculo as an opportunity to acknowledge the missionary work carried out since then as a success for the Roman Catholic Church .
- September 8th: Pope Leo XIII describes the peculiarities of praying the rosary . in the encyclical Magnae Dei matris .
disasters
- April 29: The 1892 Mauritius cyclone devastates the island. 1200 people die, 50,000 become homeless.
- May 31: Careless handling of a miner's lamp causes a fire in the Marie mine in Příbram on level 29 at a depth of 950 m. 319 miners are killed. It is the world's worst mining accident to date.
- July 11: A pocket of water erupted from inside the Tête Rousse glacier on Mont Blanc , killing over 200 people in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains .
- August 14: A cholera epidemic begins in Hamburg . Unfiltered drinking water from the Elbe and unhygienic conditions in the slums favor the spread of the bacillus. Over 8,600 people die in the following weeks.
- October 10: British passenger liner Bokhara sunk in a typhoon in the Formosa Strait west of the island of Taiwan . 125 passengers and crew drown.
- October 27: The British passenger liner Roumania hit the rocky shore off Peniche on the Portuguese coast in storm and fog and broke up. 113 people die, only nine survive.
- Winter 1891/1892: There is a famine in Russia that kills up to 500,000 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- January 31st: The first ski jumping competition takes place on the Holmenkollbakken in Oslo . The Norwegian Arne Ustvedt WINS with a jump of 21.5 meters.
- 3 June: The football club formed in Liverpool in March as a spin-off from Everton FC is registered as Liverpool FC .
- July 25: The football club BFC Hertha 1892 is founded in Berlin , later renamed Hertha BSC .
- 20 August: Glasgow's Celtic Park stadium opens. In the opening game, the footballers of Celtic Glasgow beat Renton FC 4:3.
- 9 December: Newcastle East End football club changes its name to Newcastle United .
Born
January
- January 1: Mahidol Adulyadej , father of King Bhumibol of Thailand, physician (d. 1929)
- January 1: Miklós Radnai , Hungarian composer (died 1935)
- January 2: Edoardo Agnelli , Italian industrialist and President of Juventus Turin (died 1935)
- January 2: Luigi Brentani , Swiss lawyer, teacher and local historian (died 1962)
- January 2: Philipp Zoch , German general (died 1949)
- January 3: JRR Tolkien , English novelist and philologist (died 1973)
- January 3 Herman Johannes Lam , Dutch botanist (d. 1977)
- January 3: John F. Simmons , American diplomat (died 1968)
- January 6: Ludwig Berger , German film director (died 1969)
- January 6: Leonid Kubbel , Russian chess player (died 1942)
- January 6: Heinz Renner , German politician (died 1964)
- January 8: Horiguchi Daigaku , Japanese writer and translator (died 1981)
- January 10: Walter Frenzel , German prehistorian and museum director (died 1941)
- January 11: Valeska Gert , German dancer and cabaret artist (d. 1978)
- January 11: Tom Stewart , American lawyer and politician (died 1972)
- January 13: Freddy Kindell , British racing driver (d. 1961)
- January 14: Franz Dahlem , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED († 1981)
- January 14 – Paul Forell , German soccer player (died 1959)
- January 14 Martin Niemöller , German theologian and resistance fighter (died 1984)
- January 14 Hal Roach , American film producer, director and actor (d. 1992)
- January 15 Hobey Baker , American ice hockey player (d. 1918)
- January 15: Frank Hutchens , New Zealand composer (d. 1965)
- January 15: Rex Ingram , Irish-American film director (d. 1950)
- January 16: Homer Burton Adkins , American chemist (d. 1949)
- January 16: Wilhelm von Apell , German officer (died 1969)
- January 16: William A. Stanfill , American politician (died 1971)
- January 17 – James David Zellerbach , American businessman and diplomat (died 1963)
- January 18: Oliver Hardy , American comedian and film actor (d. 1957)
- January 18: Paul Rostock , German doctor, defendant in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial (died 1956)
- January 19 Maria Leitner , German-speaking Hungarian journalist and writer (died 1942)
- January 21: Arthur Vollstedt , German speed skater (died 1969)
- January 22: Marcel Dassault , French operator (d. 1986)
- January 23: Michel Doré , French racing driver (died 1945)
- January 23: Joshua B. Lee , American politician (died 1967)
- January 24: Arkady Shvetsov , Soviet engine designer (d. 1953)
- January 25: Paulus af Uhr , Swedish major general and track and field athlete (died 1972)
- January 25 – Toni Bauhofer , German automobile and motorcycle racer (d. 1968)
- January 25: Takeo Takagi , Vice Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy (d. 1944)
- January 26 Bessie Coleman , American pilot (d. 1926)
- January 28 Carlo Emilio Bonferroni , Italian mathematician (died 1960)
- January 28: Luke Jordan , American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1952)
- January 28 Willy Rosenstein , German pilot, fighter pilot and racing driver (d. 1949)
- January 29: Ernst Lubitsch , German film director (died 1947)
- January 31: Heinrich Bongartz , German fighter pilot in World War I (died 1946)
- January 31: Ozaki Kihachi , Japanese writer (died 1974)
February
- February 2 – Cuno Hoffmeister , German astronomer and geophysicist (died 1968)
- February 3: Louis Dollé , French racing driver (died 1968)
- February 4: Ugo Betti , Italian playwright (died 1953)
- February 4 Andreu Nin , Spanish revolutionary from Catalonia (died 1937)
- February 5: Tochigiyama Moriya , Japanese sumo wrestler and 27th yokozuna (died 1959)
- February 6: William Parry Murphy , American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- February 8 Ralph Chubb , British poet, printer and artist (died 1960)
- February 8 – Elizabeth Ryan , American tennis player (d. 1979)
- February 9 Joseph Braunstein , Austrian musician, writer, mountaineer (d. 1996)
- February 9: Richard Freudenberg , German businessman and politician (died 1975)
- February 10: Karl Arning , German officer (died 1964)
- February 10: Günther Blumentritt , Infantry General in the German Wehrmacht († 1967)
- February 10 – Clive Gallop , British designer and racing driver (d. 1960)
- February 10 Robert A. Green , American politician (died 1973)
- February 10: Roland Rohlfs , American test pilot (d. 1974)
- February 11: Ernst Schmidt , German technical thermodynamicist (died 1975)
- February 12: Theodor Plievier , German writer (died 1955)
- February 12 – Aniela Szlemińska , Polish singer and singing teacher (died 1964)
- February 13: Robert H. Jackson , US chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 1954)
- February 14 Heinrich Kautz , German educator and writer (died 1978)
- February 15 – James V. Forrestal , American politician (died 1949)
- February 15 Nickolas Muray , Hungarian-American photographer and saber fencer (died 1965)
- February 16: Joaquín Anselmo María Albareda , Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1966)
- February 16 – Hans von der Au , German theologian and folklorist (died 1955)
- February 16: Carl Theodor Auen , German film actor (died 1972)
- February 17: Aubrey Gwynn , Irish historian and Jesuit (died 1983)
- February 17: Jossyf Slipyj , Ukrainian clergyman, Archbishop of Lviv and cardinal (died 1984)
- February 18 – Wendell Willkie , American lawyer and presidential candidate (d. 1944)
- February 21 – Harry Stack Sullivan , American psychiatrist (d. 1949)
- February 22 Edna St. Vincent Millay , American writer (d. 1950)
- February 24 – Konstantin Fedin , Russian writer and actor (died 1977)
- February 25 Karl Lugmayer , Austrian educator, philosopher and politician († 1972)
- February 25 Nikolai Andreyevich Orlov , Russian-British pianist and music teacher (died 1964)
- February 25: Léon Saint-Paul , French racing driver (d. 1933)
- February 28 Kenneth S. Wherry , American politician (died 1951)
- February 29: Vilmos Apor , Romanian Bishop of the Diocese of Győr and Blessed of the Catholic Church (died 1945)
- February 29 Leandro Arpinati , Italian politician and sports official (died 1945)
- February 29: Dietrich von Jagow , German envoy and Obergruppenfuhrer of the SA (died 1945)
March
- March 1: Karl-Axel Kullerstrand , Swedish high jumper (d. 1981)
- March 1: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , Japanese poet and writer (died 1927)
- March 2: Heinrich Zerkaulen , German writer (died 1954)
- March 2: Karl Zilgas , German national football player († 1917)
- March 3: Georges Guignard , French racing driver (d. 1981)
- March 3: Ivan Albertovich Puni , Russian painter (died 1956)
- March 3: Imre Waldbauer , Hungarian violinist and music teacher († 1952)
- March 8: Mississippi John Hurt , American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
- March 9: Rudolf Friedrichs , Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony († 1947)
- March 9: Mátyás Rákosi , Hungarian politician, Stalinist dictator of Hungary from 1949 to 1956 (died 1971)
- March 9: Rudolf Riege , German painter and graphic artist (died 1959)
- March 9 Vita Sackville-West , English novelist (died 1962)
- March 9: Josef Weinheber , Austrian poet, storyteller and essayist († 1945)
- March 10: Karl Arndt , German officer (died 1981)
- March 10: Arthur Honegger , French-Swiss composer (died 1955)
- March 10 Gregory La Cava , American film director and cartoonist (d. 1952)
- March 11: Otto Laubinger , German actor (died 1935)
- March 14: Alexander Abt , German officer (died 1970)
- March 14 – Hans Freundt , German actor, radio play director, radio announcer and author († 1953)
- March 14 Charles Wheeler , British sculptor, painter and medallist (died 1974)
- March 15: Charles Nungesser , French World War I ace pilot (died 1927)
- March 16 Hans Androschin , Austrian cinematographer (died 1976)
- March 16: Lucien Daveluy , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher (d. 1975)
- March 16 Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev , Russian economist (died 1938)
- March 16: Gerda Weneskoski , Finnish pianist and music teacher (d. 1984)
- March 19: Franz Baumann , Austrian architect (died 1974)
- March 19 Siegfried Thomas Bok , Dutch neurologist (d. 1964)
- March 20 – Mort Dixon , American musician, songwriter and lyricist (d. 1956)
- March 22: Karel Poláček , Czech writer and journalist (died 1945)
- March 24: Roy Harvey , American country musician (d. 1958)
- March 25: Ferdinand Andergassen , Austrian composer and church musician (died 1964)
- March 26: Conrad Stein , German wrestler (died 1960)
- March 27: Ferde Grofé , American composer, arranger and conductor (d. 1972)
- March 28: Corneille Heymans , Belgian pharmacologist and Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- March 29: József Mindszenty , Hungarian Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest (died 1975)
- March 30: Erhard Milch , German Field Marshal (died 1972)
- March 30: Erwin Panofsky , German art historian (died 1968)
- March 30: Nosaka Sanzō , Japanese politician, co-founder of the Japanese Communist Party († 1993)
- March 30: Stefan Banach , Polish mathematician (died 1945)
- March 31: Stanisław Maczek , Polish general (died 1994)
April
- April 1 Alphonse Attardi , Italian-American mafioso and pentito (died 1970)
- April 1: Anton Storch , German politician (died 1975)
- April 2: Maurice-Yves Sandoz , Swiss writer (d. 1958)
- April 3 Emile Aerts , Belgian track cyclist (d. 1953)
- April 3 Gustav Gundlach , German social ethicist, social philosopher and social scientist († 1963)
- April 3: Hans Rademacher , German mathematician (died 1969)
- April 4 Wilhelm Altmann , German music historian and librarian (died 1951)
- April 4 Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth , German astronomer (died 1979)
- April 5: Hermann Kemper , German inventor of the maglev train (died 1977)
- April 6 Donald Wills Douglas , American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1981)
- April 6: Hermann Schäfer , German politician (died 1966)
- April 7: Julius Hirsch , German soccer player and Nazi victim (died 1943)
- April 7: Maria Fein , Austrian actress (d. 1965)
- April 8: Julius von Borsody , Austrian film architect and set designer (d. 1960)
- April 8: Werner Bula , Swiss technician, popular writer and playwright in dialect († 1962)
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- April 8 Mary Pickford , Canadian-American actress of the silent and early talkie era (d. 1979)
- April 8 Richard Neutra , Austrian-American architect (d. 1970)
- April 9: Anton Eberhard , German politician (died 1967)
- April 9: Satō Haruo , Japanese poet, short story writer and essayist († 1964)
- April 10: Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt , German anthropologist (died 1965)
- April 10 Edmond Trudel , Canadian conductor, pianist and music educator (d. 1977)
- April 11 Isacco Mariani , Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1925)
- April 12: Johnny Dodds , American jazz clarinetist (d. 1940)
- April 13 Arthur Harris , Air Marshal of the British Royal Air Force (d. 1984)
- April 14 Vere Gordon Childe , Australian archaeologist (died 1957)
- April 15: Cesare Zerba , Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1973)
- April 15 Corrie ten Boom , member of the Dutch Reformed Church (died 1983)
- April 15: Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre , Archbishop of Bourges and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1973)
- April 18 Bolesław Bierut , Polish politician (died 1956)
- April 18 Eugene Houdry , French engineer (died 1962)
- April 21: Freddie Dixon , British motorcycle and automobile racer (d. 1956)
- April 21: Jaroslav Kvapil , Czech composer (died 1958)
- April 22 Heinrich Gerns , German politician (died 1963)
- April 23: Klaus Thormaehlen , German inventor of the mulching sickle and winemaker († 1981)
- April 23: Lutz Heck , German biologist and zoo director (died 1983)
- April 23 Richard Huelsenbeck , German writer and chronicler (died 1974)
- April 24 Sami Gabra , Egyptian Egyptologist and Coptologist (died 1979)
- April 25: Anton Rosen , German teacher and local historian (died 1979)
- April 26: Harold Gleason , American organist, music educator and scholar (d. 1980)
- April 26 Adrienne Monnier , French bookseller and publisher (died 1955)
- April 27: Howard Fogg , Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1953)
- April 28: Ernst Aeppli , Swiss psychoanalyst (died 1954)
May
- May 1 Giovanni Vittorio Amoretti , Italian literary historian, literary scholar and Germanist († 1988)
- May 1: Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld , German aviation pioneer († 1929)
- May 2: Trude Hesterberg , German stage and film actress, cabaret artist († 1967)
- May 2: Ernst Sigg , Swiss church musician and high school teacher (died 1966)
- May 2: Manfred von Richthofen , German fighter pilot (died 1918)
- May 3: Elisabeth Kellermann , German drawing teacher and book illustrator (died 1979)
- May 3 George Paget Thomson , English physicist (died 1975)
- May 5 Dorothy Garrod , British prehistorian (died 1968)
- May 5: Robert Sénéchal , French entrepreneur and racing driver (d. 1985)
- May 6: Ernst Eikhof , German national soccer player († 1978)
- May 7: Siegfried Bernfeld , Austrian reform pedagogue, Marxist, psychoanalyst, Zionist († 1953)
- May 7 Archibald MacLeish , American poet and politician (died 1982)
- May 7: Josip Broz Tito , Prime Minister and President of Yugoslavia (died 1980)
- May 8 Arnold Hauser , Hungarian-German art historian and art sociologist (died 1978)
- May 8: Stanisław Sosabowski , Polish general in World War II (died 1967)
- May 9: Zita von Bourbon-Parma , last Empress of Austria († 1989)
- May 9: Hans Domizlaff , German stage designer, advertising consultant and creator of well-known brands and branded goods (d. 1971)
- May 9: Hanna Klose-Greger , German writer, graphic artist and painter (died 1973)
- May 9: Walter Zimmermann , German biologist and university professor (died 1980)
- May 10 Arthur E. Nelson , American politician (died 1955)
- May 10: Jan Weiss , Czech writer (died 1972)
- May 11: Margaret Rutherford , English actress (died 1972)
- May 12 Fritz Kortner , German actor and theater director (died 1970)
- May 12 William Preston Lane , American politician (died 1967)
- May 13: Henriette Arndt , German teacher (died 1942)
- May 14: Kaarlo Mäkinen , Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion (d. 1980)
- May 15 Karl Schneider , German architect and urban planner (died 1945)
- May 16: Manton S. Eddy , US Lieutenant General in World War II (d. 1962)
- May 16: Dietrich von Saucken , German general (died 1980)
- May 19: Christian Werner , German racing driver (d. 1932)
- May 20: Harry J. Anslinger , American diplomat (died 1975)
- May 21 – Peter Eng , Austrian caricaturist and animator († 1939)
- May 21 Gottlieb Söhngen , German Catholic theologian and philosopher (died 1971)
- May 22 Ralph Peer , American country music artist (d. 1960)
- May 23: Pichichi , Spanish soccer player (died 1922)
- May 23: Hans Dülfer , German mountaineer (died 1915)
- May 27: Artur Berger , Austrian film designer (d. 1981)
- May 28: Sepp Dietrich , SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer and Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS († 1966)
- May 29: Walter Bruchhausen , American lawyer (died 1976)
- May 30: René Gagnier , Canadian violinist, conductor, composer and euphonium player (d. 1951)
- May 31: Louis Fourestier , French composer and conductor (d. 1976)
- May 31: Josef Ivar Müller , Swiss composer (died 1969)
- May 31: Gregor Strasser , German Nazi politician (died 1934)
June
- June 1: Samuel Barlow , American composer (d. 1982)
- June 1: Amanullah Khan , from 1919 to 1929 King of Afghanistan (d. 1960)
- June 1 – Ōtsuka Hironori , Japanese founder of Wado-ryu karate († 1982)
- June 3: Hans Ludwig Rauh , German teacher and dialect researcher (died 1945)
- June 4: Franz Xaver von Hornstein , Swiss Catholic clergyman, pastoral theologian and university lecturer († 1980)
- June 5 – Carsten M. Carlsen , Norwegian organist, composer and conductor (died 1961)
- June 5: Hans Constantin Paulssen , German industrialist, President of the BDA († 1984)
- June 6: Johannes Kunze , German politician (died 1959)
- June 8: Giuseppe Campari , Italian racing driver (d. 1933)
- June 10: Ekkehard Arendt , Austrian actor (d. 1954)
- June 10: Konrad Hahm , German folklorist (died 1943)
- June 12 Djuna Barnes , American writer (died 1982)
- June 12: Ferdinand Schörner , Field Marshal in the Third Reich († 1973)
- June 12: Stephan Weickert , German expelled politician († 1952)
- June 13: Johann Paulus Appler , German politician (died 1978)
- June 13 Basil Rathbone , American actor (d. 1967)
- June 14: Ernst Penzoldt , German poet and storyteller (died 1955)
- 15 June: Keith Park , British Royal Air Force Air Marshal (d. 1975)
- June 16 Axel de Vries , German politician (died 1963)
- June 16: Juan Francisco García , Dominican composer (died 1974)
- June 17 Georges Jouatte , French tenor and music teacher (d. 1969)
- June 18 Ernst Anliker , Swiss politician (died 1975)
- June 18 – Eduard Steuermann , Austrian-American composer and pianist (d. 1964)
- June 20 – Marcellus Schiffer , German graphic artist, painter, lyricist and librettist († 1932)
- June 21: Hilding Rosenberg , Swedish composer and conductor (d. 1985)
- June 21: Walter Krämer , German politician (died 1941)
- June 22: Fiorenzo Abbondio , Swiss sculptor (d. 1980)
- June 22 – Valeriano Pompeo Maurizio Arri , Italian athlete (d. 1970)
- June 22 Ludwig Bäte , German writer (died 1977)
- June 22: Robert Ritter von Greim , German Field Marshal (died 1945)
- June 22 – Emil Telmányi , Hungarian violinist and conductor (died 1988)
- June 23: Mieczysław Horszowski , Polish pianist (died 1993)
- June 24: Gregor Ebner , German doctor and manager of the homes of the "Lebensborn e. V.” († 1974)
- June 25: Jan Cherniavsky , Canadian pianist of Ukrainian descent (died 1989)
- June 26 Pearl S. Buck , American writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 († 1973)
- June 27 Erich Köhler , German politician (died 1958)
- June 27: Greta Schröder , German actress (died 1980)
- June 30: László Lajtha , Hungarian composer (d. 1963)
- June 30: Oswald Pohl , member of the SS who was instrumental in the Holocaust († 1951)
- June 30: Wilhelm Schnarrenberger , German painter (died 1966)
July
- July 1 James M. Cain , American journalist and author (died 1977)
- July 2: Boris Hagelin , Swedish entrepreneur (died 1983)
- July 3: Franz Heske , German-Austrian forest scientist, founder of "world forestry", general forest master of Ethiopia and philosopher († 1963)
- July 5: Lauge Koch , Danish geologist (died 1964)
- July 5 Ross Rizley , American politician (died 1969)
- July 7 Carlos Villarias , Hispanic-American actor (d. 1976)
- July 7: Pavel Korin , Russian icon, history, landscape and portrait painter (died 1967)
- July 8: Dean O'Banion , American gang leader ( North Side Gang ) and rival Al Capones (d. 1924)
- July 8 Lester C. Hunt , American politician (d. 1954) for the Democratic Party
- July 8: Nikolai Nikolayevich Polikarpov , Soviet aircraft designer (died 1944)
- July 8 Richard Aldington , English novelist (died 1962)
- July 8: Days Gills Torsten Carleman , Swedish mathematician (died 1949)
- July 9: Eric Nares , British officer (died 1947)
- July 10 Spessard Holland , American politician (died 1971)
- July 11: Nico Bouvy , Dutch footballer (died 1957)
- July 11 Trafford Leigh-Mallory , British Air Marshal (d. 1944)
- July 11 Thomas Mitchell , American actor and author (d. 1962)
- July 12: Zyrill Fischer , Austrian Franciscan priest and resistance fighter († 1945)
- July 12: Alfred Freyberg , lawyer and NSDAP politician († 1945)
- July 12: Paula Grogger , Austrian writer (died 1984)
- July 12 Harry Piel , German director and actor (died 1963)
- July 12 Bruno Schulz , Polish writer, graphic artist and draftsman (died 1942)
- July 13 Léo-Pol Morin , Canadian pianist, music critic and composer (died 1941)
- July 13: Hans Streuli , Swiss politician (died 1970)
- July 14 Gerhard Rohlfs , German Romanist (died 1986)
- July 15 – Walter Benjamin , German writer and art and literary critic (died 1940)
- July 18 Arthur Friedenreich , Brazilian soccer player (d. 1969)
- July 17 Edwin Harris Dunning , British pilot (died 1917)
- July 17 Elsa Nöbbe , German painter (died 1968)
- July 18 Karl Scharrer , Austrian agricultural chemist (died 1959)
- July 20: Joseph Elmer Ritter , American clergyman, Archbishop of Saint Louis and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1967)
- July 21 Anton Schnack , German writer (died 1973)
- July 21: Renée Falconetti , French actress (died 1946)
- July 22: Arthur Seyss-Inquart , National Socialist politician and lawyer († 1946)
- July 23 – Erik Willam "Loppan" Adlerz , Swedish diver (d. 1975)
- July 23 Bruno Brehm , Austrian writer (died 1974)
- July 23: Joseph Seiden , American director and producer of Yiddish film (d. 1974)
- July 23: Haile Selassie I , last Ethiopian Emperor (died 1975)
- July 23 Vladimir Yakovlevich Klimov , Soviet aircraft engine designer (died 1962)
- July 26: Philipp Jarnach , German composer and music teacher (d. 1982)
- July 27: Max Fechner , Minister of Justice of the GDR († 1973)
- July 28: Peter Paul Althaus , German poet (died 1965)
- July 28: Hans Behrendt , German Lieutenant General (died 1959)
- July 29 Maurits Frank , Dutch cellist and music teacher (died 1959)
- July 29: Eugen Grimminger , member of the resistance movement White Rose († 1986)
- July 29: Walter Reppe , German chemist (died 1969)
- July 29: William Powell , American actor (d. 1984)
August
- August 2 Jack L. Warner , Canadian film producer, screenwriter and director (d. 1978)
- August 5 Marius Hiller , German-Argentinian soccer player (died 1964)
- August 6: Paul Artaria , Swiss architect and trainer of designers († 1959)
- August 6 – Elma Grohs-Hansen , German sculptress in Textile artist (d. 1981)
- August 6 Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna , Polish poet and translator (died 1983)
- August 7 Helene Fernau-Horn , German speech therapist and philologist (died 1975)
- August 8 Wall Doxey , American politician (died 1962)
- August 8: Hans Heusser , Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1942)
- August 8: Otto Renois , German communist and resistance fighter (died 1933)
- August 9: SR Ranganathan , Indian mathematician and librarian (died 1972)
- August 11: Władysław Anders , Polish general and politician (died 1970)
- August 11 Gerrit Bouwmeester , Dutch footballer (d. 1961)
- August 11: Yoshikawa Eiji , Japanese writer (died 1962)
- August 11: Ezequiel Plaza , Chilean painter (died 1947)
- August 12: Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen , Danish poet (died 1986)
- August 14 María Luisa Sepúlveda , Chilean composer and music teacher (d. 1958)
- August 15: Ivan Boldin , head of the Soviet military administration in Thuringia (died 1965)
- August 16 Hal Foster , American comic book writer and illustrator (d. 1982)
- August 15: Louis de Broglie , French physicist (died 1987)
- August 18: Franz Findeisen , professor at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management († 1962)
- August 19: Maurice Benoist , French racing driver (d. 1951)
- August 20 George Aiken , American politician (died 1984)
- August 20: Marcel Delabarre , French racing driver (†unknown)
- August 21: Charles Vanel , French actor and director (d. 1989)
- August 23 Alexander G. Barry , American politician (died 1952)
- August 25 Erich Aberger , German cyclist (died 1941)
- August 25: Georgi Asagarov , Russian film director and actor († 1957)
- August 25: Wilhelm Niemann , German navigation officer of the flying ship DO-X († 1935)
- August 27 – Alexander Chuhaldin , Canadian violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1951)
- August 28 Augustin Souchy , German anarchist and anti-militarist (died 1984)
- August 28: Fujimori Seikichi , Japanese writer and playwright (d. 1977)
- August 31: Auguste Caralp , French racing driver (d. 1981)
September
- September 4: Darius Milhaud , French composer (died 1974)
- September 4 Helmuth Plessner , German philosopher and sociologist (died 1985)
- September 4: Franz Sedlacek , Austrian football player and coach (d. 1933)
- September 4: Pete Smith , American film producer and Academy Award winner (d. 1979)
- September 5: Əhməd Bakıxanov , Azerbaijani tar player and music teacher († 1973)
- September 5 Joseph Szigeti , American violinist of Hungarian descent (died 1973)
- September 6: Edward Victor Appleton , English physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
- September 7: Georg Mickler , German athlete and Olympian († 1915)
- September 7: Oscar O'Brien , Canadian composer, arranger, organist, pianist and music educator (d. 1958)
- September 8: Robert Lestienne , French racing driver (d. 1944)
- September 10 Arthur Holly Compton , American physicist (d. 1962)
- September 10 – János Balogh , Hungarian correspondence chess player (died 1980)
- September 11: Lucien Buysse , Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
- September 11 - Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig , American actor, author, animator, cartoonist and voice actor (d. 1967)
- September 11: Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern , German draftsman and painter († 1982)
- September 13: Viktoria Luise of Prussia , daughter of Empress Auguste Viktoria († 1980)
- September 15: Silpa Bhirasri , Thai sculptor (d. 1962)
- September 16: Werner Bergengruen , German writer (died 1964)
- September 17: Hendrik Andriessen , Dutch composer and professor (d. 1981)
- September 22: Grete Reiner , German translator and editor
- September 23: Lorenz Jaeger , Archbishop of Paderborn and Cardinal (died 1975)
- September 23: Otto Sartorius , German oenologist (died 1977)
- September 25 Martha Muchow , German psychologist (died 1933)
- September 28: Elmer Rice , American playwright (d. 1967)
- September 28: Benvenuto Terzi , Italian composer and concert guitarist (d. 1980)
- September 29 Georg Dewald , German politician and MP (died 1970)
- September 30: Heinz-Hellmuth von Wühlisch , German Lieutenant General (died 1947)
October
- October 2: Ernst Sagebiel , German architect (died 1970)
- October 2 Henry Victor , British-American actor (d. 1945)
- October 3: Bernhard Schweitzer , German archaeologist (died 1966)
- October 4: Engelbert Dollfuss , Austrian Chancellor and dictator (died 1934)
- October 4: Karen Fredersdorf , German actress (died 1985)
- October 4: Luis Trenker , South Tyrolean mountaineer, actor and writer († 1990)
- October 5: Leyland Hodgson , English actor (d. 1949)
- October 6 – Friedrich Ahlfeld , German-Bolivian mining engineer and geologist (died 1982)
- October 8: Marcel Michelot , French racing driver (died 1927)
- October 8 Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva , Russian poet and writer (died 1941)
- October 9: Ivo Andrić , Bosnian writer (died 1975)
- October 9 Maximilian Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian ambassador, economist and writer (died 1977)
- October 9: Johannes Theodor Baargeld , German author and publicist († 1927)
- October 11 – Karl Hähnel , German athlete and Olympian († 1966)
- October 12 Antonio María Barbieri , Uruguayan cleric, Archbishop of Montevideo and cardinal (died 1979)
- October 12 Hubert Ney , German politician (died 1984)
- October 14 Piet Bouman , Dutch footballer (died 1980)
- October 14 Andrei Ivanovich Erjomenko , Marshal of the Soviet Union and military theorist (died 1970)
- October 15 – József Nagy , Hungarian football player and coach (died 1963)
- October 16: Hanni Weisse , German actress (died 1967)
- October 16 – Adolf Ziegler , German painter and President of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts (died 1959)
- October 17: Herbert Howells , English composer (d. 1983)
- October 17 – Otakar Jeremiáš , Czech composer and conductor (died 1962)
- October 17: Theodor Eicke , commander of the Dachau concentration camp and inspector of the concentration camps († 1943)
- October 18: Thomas Ohm , German Benedictine (died 1962)
- October 19: Ilmari Hannikainen , Finnish composer (died 1955)
- October 21 Alf Robert Bertil Ahlberg , Swedish writer, humanist and philosopher (died 1979)
- October 21 Geoffroy Atkinson , American novelist (died 1960)
- October 21: Lydia Lopokova , Russian ballet dancer (d. 1981)
- October 21 - Otto Nerz , German soccer player and first Reich coach of the DFB († 1949)
- October 23 – Seymour Felix , American show dancer and choreographer (d. 1961)
- October 23 Fritz Maenicke , German sculptor and restorer (died 1970)
- October 23 – Gummo Marx , American comedian (d. 1977)
- October 24: Rafael Hernández Marín , Puerto Rican composer (died 1965)
- October 26: André Chapelon , French engineer (died 1978)
- October 28 Ludwig Strauss , German writer and literary scholar (died 1953)
- October 28: Pierre Frieden , Luxembourg Christian Social politician and writer (d. 1959)
- October 29: Walter Alnor , German politician (died 1972)
- October 29: Carlos Bonnet , Venezuelan composer and conductor (died 1983)
- October 29: Recha Freier , German-Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1984)
- October 29 Stanisław Ostrowski , Polish doctor, military officer and politician (died 1982)
- October 30: Angelo Siciliano , Italian-American bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- October 31: Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine , Russian chess player and 4th world chess champion († 1946)
- October 31: Eugène Van den Bossche , Belgian racing driver (d. 1962)
November
- November 1: Hubert Klausner , NSDAP Gauleiter and Governor of Carinthia († 1939)
- November 2: Paul Abraham , Hungarian composer (died 1960)
- November 3 Jur Haak , Dutch footballer (died 1945)
- November 3 Lindley Murray , American tennis player (d. 1970)
- November 3 Yuen Ren Chao , Chinese linguist (died 1982)
- November 4: Konrad Huber , Finnish sports shooter (died 1960)
- November 5: John Alcock , British pilot (died 1919)
- November 5: JBS Haldane , British Indian geneticist (d. 1964)
- November 8: Theodor Boehm , German pharmaceutical chemist (died 1969)
- November 9 Erich Auerbach , German literary scholar and Romanist (died 1957)
- November 9 Mabel Normand , American silent film actress and director († 1930)
- November 11 Duarte Monteverde Abecasis , Portuguese engineer (died 1966)
- November 13: Jean Gutweninger , Swiss gymnast (died 1979)
- November 13 Karl Jakob Hirsch , German artist and writer (died 1952)
- November 13 Rafael Quiñones Vidal , Puerto Rican journalist and television host (died 1988)
- November 14: Hermann Roeder , German pilot and aviation pioneer (died 1937)
- November 15 – Clarence Horning , American football player (d. 1982)
- November 16 Tazio Nuvolari , Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
- November 17: Max Deutsch , French composer, conductor and music teacher (d. 1982)
- November 19 Lucien N. Andriot , French cinematographer (died 1979)
- November 20 Richard Theophil Imanuel Aeckerle , German painter, draftsman, sculptor and lithographer († 1966)
- November 20: Wendell Engstrom Hoss , American horn player (d. 1980)
- November 20 Daniel Chanis Pinzón , 24th President of Panama (d. 1961)
- November 20: Erik Nölting , German politician (died 1953)
- November 22 – Ermanno Aebi , Swiss-Italian footballer (d. 1976)
- November 22: Bohuslav Kokoschka , Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer (died 1976)
- November 23: Erté , Russian illustrator, stage and fashion designer (died 1990)
- November 24: Karl Steinhoff , Prime Minister of Brandenburg and Minister of the GDR († 1981)
- November 24: Aimé Steck , French composer (died 1966)
- November 25 – Otto Harder , German soccer player (died 1956)
- November 25: Honoré Vaillancourt , Canadian singer (baritone) (d. 1933)
- November 26 Charles Brackett , American screenwriter (d. 1969)
- November 26 – Joe Guyon , American football player (d. 1971)
- November 28 Thomas Ring , German painter, poet and astrologer (died 1983)
- November 30: Siegmund Sredzki , German resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1944)
December
- 2 December: Jona Ustinov , spy for British MI5 intelligence agency. († 1962)
- December 4: Carlyle Atkinson , British swimmer (died 1968)
- December 4 Francisco Franco , Spanish politician and general (died 1975)
- December 5: Cyril Ring , American actor (died 1967)
- December 6: Lina Carstens , German film and theater actress (d. 1978)
- December 9: Beatrice Harrison , English cellist (d. 1965)
- December 9: Erwin Ott , Moravian writer (died 1947)
- December 11: Leo Ornstein , Russian pianist and composer († 2002)
- December 12 – Liesl Karlstadt , German (Bavarian) soubrette, actress and cabaret artist (d. 1960)
- December 12 – Hugo Kersten , German writer and publicist (died 1919)
- December 12: Joseph Suder , German composer and conductor (died 1980)
- December 13: Werner von Schmieden , German diplomat (died 1979)
- December 15: José María Castro , Argentine composer (d. 1964)
- December 15 J. Paul Getty , American industrialist and patron of the arts (died 1976)
- December 15: Josef Wagner , German politician (died 1979)
- December 18 Albin Köbis , German sailor (died 1917)
- December 18 Kilian Kirchhoff , German priest, translator and dissident (died 1944)
- December 19: Max Seydewitz , socialist politician of the GDR and Prime Minister of Saxony († 1987)
- December 21: Rebecca West , British actress (d. 1983)
- December 22: Herman Potočnik , Austrian officer and space theorist (d. 1929)
- December 22 Lawrence Sperry , American pilot and inventor (d. 1923)
- December 22: Peter Tatsuo Doi , Archbishop of Tokyo and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1970)
- December 24: Ewald Aufermann , German professor (died 1958)
- December 25 Otto Nebel , German painter, poet and actor (died 1973)
- December 26: Ester Kristina Aronson , Swedish writer (died 1956)
- December 27 Walther Kühn , German politician (died 1962)
- December 27: Feliks Łabuński , Polish-American composer, pianist and music educator (d. 1979)
- December 28 Emil Hermann Werner Ackermann , German writer, publisher and co-owner of the artists' colony Monte Verità (died 1982)
- December 28 Karl Appel , Austrian politician (died 1967)
- December 29: Alexander Alexandrovich Arkhangelsky , Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1978)
- December 29 Richard Atwater , American journalist, university lecturer and children's book author (died 1948)
- December 29: Heinrich Beerbom , mayor and city director of Bramsche († 1980)
- December 29: Adele Duttweiler-Bertschi , wife of Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler († 1990)
- December 29 Géza Nagy , Hungarian chess player (died 1953)
- December 30: Heinrich Laakmann , German-Baltic historian (died 1955)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Egon Adler , Czech-American painter and graphic artist (died 1963)
- Kurd Adler , German poet († 1916)
- Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker , Turkish officer (died 1961)
- Eduardo Andreozzi , Brazilian jazz musician (died 1979)
- Maria Dolors Anglada i Sarriera , Spanish writer, illustrator and cartoonist († 1984)
- Cevat Rıfat Atilhan , Turkish author, journalist, publicist and general (died 1967)
- Joseph Fournier de Belleval , Canadian singer and singing teacher (died 1945)
- Franz Bieber , German motorcycle racer, motorsport official and entrepreneur († 1980)
- Mike Connors , Australian actor and theater director (died 1949)
- Gregori Garbovitsky , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher (died 1954)
- Alberto Lobos , Chilean painter (died 1925)
- Attilio Marinoni , Italian racing driver (died 1940)
- Enrique Moya , Chilean painter (died c. 1918)
- Gertrud Schaeffer , German painter and graphic artist (died 1960)
- Ahmed Jan Thirakwa , Indian tabla player (died 1976)
- Ernest Thompson , American old-time musician (died 1961)
- Ulises Vásquez , Chilean painter (died 1949)
Died
First quarter
- January 2: George Biddell Airy , English astronomer (born 1801)
- January 5: Fritz Eunike , honorary citizen in Wittenberg (b. 1831)
- January 7: Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke , German physiologist (b. 1819)
- January 7: Tawfiq , Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
- January 10: Heinrich Dorn , German Romantic composer (b. 1804)
- January 12: Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Apfelstedt , German pastor and local historian (b. 1811)
- January 14: Albert Victor , Prince of Great Britain and Duke of Clarence and Avondale (b. 1864)
- January 18: Anton Maria Anderledy , Swiss Jesuit (b. 1819)
- January 20: John Couch Adams , British mathematician (b. 1819)
- January 26: Ludovika Wilhelmine of Bavaria , German noblewoman (b. 1808)
- January 31: Charles Haddon Spurgeon , English Baptist pastor and preacher (born 1834)
- January: Gaston Hardouin Joseph d'Andlau , French general (b. 1824)
- February 2: Ludwig Eichrodt , German writer (b. 1827)
- February 5: David Clopton , American politician (b. 1820)
- February 5: Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish writer (born 1807)
- 9 February: Gonville Bromhead , British officer, commanded the British troops at Rorke's Drift (b. 1845)
- February 12: Hermann Rudolph Aubert , German physiologist (b. 1826)
- February 13: Wilhelm Junker , German explorer of Africa (b. 1840)
- February 13: Lambert Joseph Massart , Belgian violinist (b. 1811)
- February 17: Johan Sverdrup , Norwegian politician (b. 1816)
- February 17: Heinrich Feiten , German auxiliary bishop (b. 1835)
- February 23: Pasquale Lucchini , Swiss engineer and politician (b. 1798)
- February 25: Brond de Grave Winter , East Frisian organ builder (b. 1824)
- February 27: Louis Vuitton , French entrepreneur, founder of the Louis Vuitton suitcase company (b. 1821)
- February 28: Elias Conway , American politician (b. 1812)
- March 1: William Woods Holden , American politician (b. 1818)
- March 1: Franz von Löher , German jurist, historian and politician (b. 1818)
- March 2: Otto Glagau , German journalist and writer (b. 1834)
- March 6: Leopold Schmidt , German classical scholar (b. 1824)
- March 7: Étienne Arago , French writer (b. 1802)
- March 7: Louis Schwartzkopff , German entrepreneur (b. 1825)
- March 8: Benno Adam , German animal painter (b. 1812)
- March 9: Gustav von Bonstetten , Swiss archaeologist (b. 1816)
- March 9: Heinrich Cordes , German evangelical missionary in South India (b. 1813)
- March 11: Caroline Reinagle , English composer, pianist and music teacher (b. 1818)
- March 16 Karl Aberle , Austrian physician (b. 1818)
- March 16: Eduard Franz Ludwig Kullmann , German craftsman, assassin (b. 1853)
- March 18: Franz Ullmann , Austrian organ builder (b. 1815)
- March 20: Arthur Goring Thomas , English composer (b. 1850)
- March 21: Annibale de Gasparis , Italian astronomer (b. 1819)
- March 23: Louis Angermann , German architect (b. 1861)
- March 26: Walt Whitman , American poet (b. 1819)
Second quarter
- April 1: Charles D. Drake , American politician (b. 1811)
- April 6: John Irvin Gregg , American Civil War general (b. 1826)
- April 6: Willard Saulsbury , American jurist and politician (b. 1820)
- April 13: Eugène Manet , brother of the painter Édouard Manet and husband of the painter Berthe Morisot (b. 1833)
- April 16 Matthias Lexer , Austrian Germanist and lexicographer (b. 1830)
- April 17: Alexander Mackenzie , Canadian politician and Prime Minister (b. 1822)
- April 19: Friedrich von Müller , Field Marshal Lieutenant of the Kuk Army (b. 1822)
- April 22: Édouard Lalo , French composer (b. 1823)
- April 25 Karl von Ditmar , Baltic German explorer and naturalist (b. 1822)
- April 25: William Backhouse Astor Jr. , American millionaire (b. 1829)
- April 27: Eduard August von Regel , German gardener and botanist (b. 1815)
- May 2: Hermann Burmeister , German explorer of South America (b. 1807)
- May 2: Wilhelm Rust , German composer and musicologist (b. 1822)
- May 5: August Wilhelm von Hofmann , German chemist (b. 1818)
- May 5: Jan Nepomuk Škroup , Czech composer (b. 1811)
- May 6: Ernest Guiraud , French composer (b. 1837)
- May 13: Ferdinand Poise , French composer (b. 1828)
- May 18: John Alexander Anderson , American politician (b. 1834)
- May 18: Marcos Segundo Maturana , Chilean general (b. 1830)
- May 26: Max von Forckenbeck , German jurist, politician and mayor of Berlin (b. 1821)
- May 29 Baha'u'llah , Persian religious founder of the Baha'i religion (b. 1817)
- May 30: Mária Lebstück , Hungarian officer and freedom fighter (b. 1830)
- May 31: Heinrich Auer , German industrialist (b. 1825)
- June 14: Eugène Borel , Swiss politician (b. 1835)
- June 20: James McNair Baker , American lawyer and politician (b. 1821)
- June 28: Harry Atkinson , Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1831)
- June 29: John Robson , Canadian politician and journalist (b. 1824)
- June 29: Pashko Vasa , Albanian writer and politician (b. 1825)
Third quarter
- July 5: Teodoro Anastasia , Swiss engineer and architect (b. 1843)
- July 6: Nabil-i-Akbar , Iranian Baha'i (b. 1829)
- July 10 Rudolf Westphal , German classical scholar (b. 1826)
- July 11: Filippo Pagnamenta , Swiss politician and Italian major general (b. 1826)
- July 11: Ravachol , French anarchist (b. 1859)
- July 14: Wilhelm Büchner , pharmacist, chemist, manufacturer and politician (b. 1816)
- July 14: Newton Booth , American politician (b. 1825)
- July 18 Thomas Cook , British tourism pioneer (b. 1808)
- July 20: Friedrich Christian Benedikt Avé-Lallemant , German criminalist and writer (b. 1809)
- July 21: Henry Gardner , American politician (b. 1818)
- July 29: Charles Hardin , American politician (born 1820)
- July 31: Anthony Kennedy , American politician (born 1810)
- July: George Washborne Morgan , American organist and composer (born 1822)
- August 3 August Nauck , German classical scholar (b. 1822)
- August 11: Julius Arnoldt , German philologist (b. 1816)
- August 11: Ladislav Stroupežnický , Czech dramaturge of the National Theater in Prague (b. 1850)
- August 18: Elise Henle , German writer (b. 1832)
- August 19: Richard Adelbert Lipsius , German Protestant theologian (b. 1830)
- August 19: František Zdeněk Skuherský , Czech composer and music teacher (b. 1830)
- August 22: Cornelis Willem Opzoomer , Dutch jurist, philosopher, literary scholar and logician (b. 1821)
- August 23: Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca , Marshal of Brazil and first President (b. 1827)
- August 23: Enoch Louis Lowe , American politician (born 1820)
- September 2: Grigore Arghiropol , Romanian politician (b. 1825)
- September 7: Joseph Reid Anderson , American engineer, brigadier general and entrepreneur (b. 1813)
- September 7: Francis Kernan , American politician (b. 1816)
- 7 September: Hermann Schubert , Austrian Benedictine, preacher and minister (b. 1826)
- 15 September: Erich Kling , German officer and explorer (b. 1854)
- September 17: Rudolf von Jhering , German legal scholar (b. 1818)
- September 17: Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle , South Tyrolean literary scholar and writer (b. 1825)
- September 24: Patrick Gilmore , American composer and military bandmaster (b. 1829)
- September 30: Hector Crémieux , French librettist and playwright (b. 1828)
Fourth Quarter
- October 2: Ernest Renan , French writer, historian, archaeologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
- October 4: Karl August Deinhard , German naval officer (b. 1842)
- October 6: Alfred Tennyson , British poet (b. 1809)
- October 7: Friedrich Schlögl , Austrian writer (b. 1821)
- October 11: Abdyl Frashëri , Albanian politician (b. 1839)
- October 14: Peter Nicolai Arbo , Norwegian painter (b. 1831)
- October 17: Kurt Bernhardi , German educator (b. 1847)
- October 21: Anne Charlotte Leffler , Swedish writer (b. 1849)
- October 23: Eduard Schnitzer , Africa explorer (b. 1840)
- October 24: Robert Franz , German composer (b. 1815)
- October 26 Bernhard Windscheid , German jurist (b. 1817)
- October 30: Olga Nikolayevna Romanova , Russian Grand Duchess (b. 1822)
- November 1: Heinrich de Ahna , Austrian violinist (b. 1832)
- November 6: Juana Manuela Gorriti , Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1816)
- November 6: Wilhelm Maurenbrecher , German Reformation historian (b. 1838)
- November 12: Wilhelm von Schrenck , German politician (b. 1828)
- November 13: Aleksander Niewiarowski , Polish writer and columnist (b. 1824)
- November 16: Johann Anton Breil , German organ builder (b. 1821)
- November 18: Hannes Finsen , Icelandic jurist and governor in the Faroe Islands (b. 1828)
- November 21: Jens Christian Hostrup , Danish writer (b. 1818)
- 26 November: Charles Martial Lavigerie , Archbishop of Algiers and founder of the Order of the White Fathers and White Sisters (b. 1825)
- November 29: Sigmund Aichhorn , Austrian geologist (b. 1814)
- November 30: Pierre-Victor Galland , French painter (b. 1822)
- December 6: Werner von Siemens , German inventor (founder of electrical engineering) and industrialist (b. 1816)
- December 11: Paul Otto Apian-Bennewitz , German organist and teacher (born 1847)
- December 12: James J. Faran , American politician (b. 1808)
- December 14: Adams George Archibald , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1814)
- December 15: Randall L. Gibson , American politician and general in the Confederate Army (b. 1832)
- December 18: Richard Owen , British surgeon, zoologist, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (born 1804)
- December 20: Eduarda Mansilla , Argentine writer, journalist and composer (b. 1834)
- 25 December: Nikolai Vladimirovich Adlerberg , Russian Count, Councilor of State, Court Chamberlain, Governor of Taganrog, Simferopol and Administrator of Finland (b. 1819)
- December 26: Angelo Somazzi , Swiss politician and journalist (b. 1803)
- December 28: Gottlieb Leonhard Gaiser , German merchant (b. 1817)
- December 28: Viktor von Meibom , German legal scholar (b. 1821)
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- Grigor Ardzrouni , Armenian writer and publicist (born 1845)
- Claus Jensen , Norwegian organ builder (b. c. 1817)
- Juan Mochi , Italian painter (born 1831)
- Max Strakosch , American opera impresario (born 1835)
- Joseph Wielhorski , Russian composer (b. 1817)
- Johann Leopold Zillmann , German missionary in Australia (b. 1813)
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