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1899
The Second Boer War begins.
The Social Democratic Labor Party of Austria approves the Brno program .
1899 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1347/48 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1891/92 (September 10-11)
Baha'i calendar	55/56 (March 20/21)
Bengali solar calendar	1304/05 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2442/43 (southern Buddhism); 2441/42 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	76th (77th) cycle Year of the Earth-Pig 己亥 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Dog 戊戌)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1261/62 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4232/33 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1277/78 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1316/17 (May 11-12)
Japanese calendar	Meiji 32 ( 明治 32 年 ); Koki 2559
Jewish calendar	5659/60 (September 4th / 5th)
Coptic calendar	1615/16 (10/11 September)
Malayalam calendar	1074/75
Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire)	1314/15 (March 1st)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2209/10 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2210/11 (New Year October)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2441/42 (April 1)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1955/56 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

America, Philippines

• January 1 : Queens and Staten Island become boroughs of New York .
• January 17th : The US takes possession of Wake Island .
• January 20 : US President William McKinley sets up the Schurman Commission for the Benevolent Annexation of the Philippines .

First flag of the Philippines

• January 23 : In Malolos City , the Katipunan revolutionary movement proclaims the First Philippine Republic . The revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as president. Apolinario Mabini becomes Prime Minister.
• February 4 : The Philippine-American War begins.

US soldiers near Manila in 1899

• February 5 : In the two-day Battle of Manila during the Filipino-American War , the Americans have the upper hand while the native troops are forced to withdraw into the hinterland.
• February 14 : United States Congress approves " voting machines " for federal elections.
• US troops can take Malolos as early as March 31st . The first government then fled to Calumpit , which was captured on April 26th . The seat of government is then moved to Cabanatuan . On May 9th, Pedro Paterno becomes the new Prime Minister because the disabled Mabini is no longer able to cope with the strain. The Congress resides in San Isidro from May 13th . However, the Americans are catching up quickly, so that the seat of government and Congress has to be relocated to Tarlac and later to Bayambang , where the last government meeting will take place on November 13th . Aguinaldo explained in it the transition to guerrilla warfare and all members of the government go underground.

Australia and Oceania

• January 22 : The leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss a federation.
• February 2 : The Australian Founders' Conference, held in Melbourne, agrees that the capital of Australia should be between Sydney and Melbourne .
• February 12 : The German Empire forces Spain with the German-Spanish Treaty of 1899 to cede Pacific island groups to it.
• April 1 : German New Guinea becomes a colony of the German Empire .
• November 14th : The German Empire and the USA share the Samoan islands in the Samoa Treaty , whereby Upolu and Savaiʻi become German property.
• December 2 : The US joins the Samoa Treaty . The islands are at 171. latitude between the German Reich divided and the US.

Second Boer War

• October 12 : Beginning of the Second Boer War in South Africa
• October 20 : In the first battle of the Second Boer War, the Battle of Talana Hill , the British defeat the units of the Boer republics , but suffer heavy losses.
• October 21 : The British defeat the Boers at the Battle of ElandslaAGEN . However, if they withdraw prematurely, they lose their tactical advantage again.
• November 28 : British troops repel a Boer advance at the Battle of Modder River with heavy losses of their own .
• December 10th : The British suffer their first defeat in the Battle of Stormberg .
• December 11th . The British suffer a second defeat at the Battle of Magersfontein .
• December 15 : Britain suffers its third defeat in a week at the Battle of Colenso in the Second Boer War. The week goes down in British history as Black Week .

Other events in Africa

• January: The Voulet-Chanoine mission for the French conquest of Chad begins.
• October 14 : In the secret Treaty of Windsor recognize the UK and Portugal each other to their possessions in Africa. Great Britain is given the right to move troops freely in the Portuguese colonies in return for an obligation to help defend them.
• November 24th : With the battle of Umm Diwaykarat , the Mahdi uprising in Sudan is finally crushed .

Switzerland

• January 1 : Eduard Müller becomes President of Switzerland .

International Conferences

• July 29th : At the first Hague Peace Conference , agreements and declarations on the law of war and the peaceful settlement of international disputes are signed.

economy

• January 21 : The sons of Adam Opel buy the factory Friedrich Lutz's , to put him as a director and to begin construction of Opel - automobiles .
• February 3 : The consumer, building and savings association "Produktion" eGmbH, Hamburg, is created through an entry in the cooperative register.

Fayoum Light Railways Company share dated October 1, 1899

• February 17 : The Fayoum Light Railways Company is founded by a group of Coptic investors to build and operate a network of narrow-gauge railways with a gauge of 750 mm in the area around Fayoum in Egypt.
• March 6th : Bayer AG registers aspirin as a trademark .
• March 27th : The narrow-gauge railway line on the Brocken ( Brockenbahn ) is opened.
• April 22nd : The Association for German Shepherds is founded in Karlsruhe, which over time has developed into the world's largest pedigree dog breeding association .
• April 29th : The Association of Workers 'Cyclists' Associations is launched in Vienna. The Austrian transport club ARBÖ developed from him .
• May 19 : On the basis of a provisional contract with the Chinese Empire under the Qing Dynasty , a German-English company, represented by the German-Asian Bank and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , receives the license to build a railway between Tientsin and Tschinkiang .
• August 11 : Kaiser Wilhelm II opens the Dortmund-Ems Canal . The eastern Ruhr area thus has a shipping route to the North Sea .
• August 21 : In Schwerin , the German Forestry Association is created through the merger of the German Forestry Association with the Reich Forestry Association .
• September 5th : Christine Hardt has a woman's bodice as a breast strap , a forerunner of the brassiere , patented.
• December 14 : The Emschergenossenschaft (Germany's first water management company of its kind) is founded.
• December 30th : AT&T buys American Bell , thereby gaining the telephone monopoly in the USA .

• The company General Dynamics was founded under the name of Electric Boat.
• First introduction of the drug acetylsalicylic acid ( non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ) in Germany
• Walter C. Baker founds Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland, Ohio, which makes electric cars.

science and technology

• February 4 : The Neuveville – Saint-Pierre funicular commences operations as a water ballast railway in Freiburg in the Üechtland region .

Doctorate from Elsa Neumann at the University of Berlin

• February 18 : The physicist Elsa Neumann is the first woman to receive her doctorate in Berlin. Her work on the polarization capacity of reversible electrodes is published in the Annalen der Physik .
• March 17 : The astronomer William Henry Pickering discovers the moon Phoebe , the ninth companion of the planet Saturn , while evaluating photo plates taken on August 16, 1898 .
• March 26th : The German Orient Society begins excavations in Babylon , led by Robert Koldewey .
• March 27th : Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in establishing the first wireless telegraphic connection across the English Channel .
• April 27 : At the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna is the world's first sound archive the Phonogrammarchiv founded.

Camille Jenatzy in the La Jamais Contente at the Victory Parade

• April 29th : In a record run, the electrically powered La Jamais Contente by Frenchman Camille Jenatzy becomes the first land vehicle to reach speeds of over 100 km / h.
• June 12th : The Italian explorer Luigi Amadeo of Savoy sets off from Kristiania with the research vessel Stella Polare on an expedition that is to take him as close as possible to the North Pole .

Cover of the first edition

• November 4 : Sigmund Freud's early major work The Interpretation of Dreams appears in an edition of 1,500 copies - pre-dated to 1900 by the author.

• René Louis Baire proves Baire's theorem .
• The technical universities in Prussia receive the right to award diploma and doctoral titles

Culture

Visual arts

• The Russian artists' association Mir Iskusstva is holding its first exhibition, which opens on January 22nd .
• September 18 : In Toronto , the in is Romanesque Revival Built in style town hall opened, which at this time is both the largest building in town, and the largest administrative building in North America.

• With his Viennese row houses , Otto Wagner finally breaks with historicism .

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1899

• January 1st : World premiere of the opera Eva by Josef Bohuslav Foerster at the National Theater in Prague
• January 17th : World premiere of the opera Die POWs by Karl Goldmark at the Court Opera in Vienna
• January 29th : World premiere of the opera Your Excellency by Richard Heuberger at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
• February 26th : World premiere of the opera Der Pfeifertag by Max von Schillings at the Court Theater in Schwerin
• May 1 : At the Apollo Theater in Berlin, the composer conducts the world premiere of the burlesque-fantastic furnishing operetta Frau Luna by Paul Lincke based on a libretto by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers . It becomes the composer's most successful work.

Poster of the premiere

• May 24 : The fairy tale opera Cendrillon by Jules Massenet with the libretto by Henri Cain based on the fairy tale Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de verre ( Cinderella or the little glass shoe ) by Charles Perrault has its world premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris with great success . It will be played on three continents over the next ten years.
• July 26th : The operetta Die Landstreicher by Carl Michael Ziehrer will be premiered at the Venice Summer Theater in Vienna . The libretto is by Leopold Krenn and Karl Lindau .
• October 26th : Anton Chekhov's drama Uncle Vanya is premiered in the Moscow Art Theater. Konstantin Stanislavsky lead director and plays even the Astrow following the instructions Chekhov. Olga Knipper , Chekhov's future wife, plays Jélena.
• October 26 : The operetta Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss (son) with the libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein is premiered at the Vienna Carltheater . The premiere turns into a fiasco.
• November 14 : World premiere of the opera The Saracen by César Cui at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg
• December 18 : The operetta Im Reiche des Indra by Paul Lincke based on a libretto by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers and Hans Brennecke is premiered at the Berlin Apollo Theater .

Others

• January 3 : first known use of the word "automobile" (Eng .: Automotive ) in an editorial of the New York Times

• The musician Konrad Büttgenbach invents the board game " Salta ", which enjoyed great popularity before the First World War .
• Rediscovery of the Crypt of the Savior in Taranto by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Viola

society

• March 10th : The driving license with driving test becomes compulsory throughout France .

Martha M. Place

• March 20 : Martha M. Place is the first woman to be executed on the electric chair in Sing-Sing prison .
• September 13 : In New York City , Henry Bliss becomes the first American to be killed in a car accident.

• The first modern boy shooting takes place on the Albisgüetli in Zurich .

religion

• May 25th : In the encyclical Annum sacrum Pope Leo XIII consecrates . the whole world to the heart of Jesus Christ and sets the church solemnity to June 11th. The festival is now celebrated on the third Friday after Pentecost .
• September 8th : In the encyclical Depuis le jour addressed to the French clergy , Pope Leo XIII. Fundamentals of priestly formation that affect canon law .
• September 18 : The encyclical Paternae of Pope Leo XIII. is aimed at the episcopate in Brazil and has the training of the clergy there as its object.
• The foundation stone for the Church of the Immaculate Conception , the largest Catholic church in all of Russia, is laid in Moscow .

Disasters

• Beginning of the year: The famine in central Kenya reaches its peak.
• March 30th : The British passenger steamer Stella rams the rocks of Casquets off the island of Guernsey (English Channel) in thick fog and sinks within eight minutes. 105 people are killed.

• A severe famine prevails in India , exacerbated by the policies of the British colonial rulers under Viceroy George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston , and kills millions.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

nature and environment

• March 2 : Mount Rainier National Park is established in Washington .

Sports

→ Main article : Sports year 1899

• January 8th : The football club SK Rapid Wien is founded.
• February 4th : The sports club "Werder" from 1899 e. V. is founded (known today as Werder Bremen ).
• February 16 : In Iceland, KR Reykjavík, the country's first football club, is founded.
• March 8th : The "Frankfurt Football Club Victoria von 1899" is founded (now known as Eintracht Frankfurt ).
• April 17th : VfL Osnabrück is founded.
• May 3 : Ferencváros Budapest is set up as a gymnastics club , with the football department added the following year.
• July 1st : The "Turnverein Hoffenheim" is founded (known today under the name TSG 1899 Hoffenheim ).
• July 16 to 24 : The Tour de France for automobiles is held for the first time. The winner René de Knyff needs almost two days on a Panhard & Levassor for the route from Paris via Vichy and Nantes back to Paris.
• August 20th : The FSV Frankfurt is founded and still exists under this name without any merger with other clubs.
• September 21 : The Stuttgarter Kickers are founded.
• November 29th : The Catalan football club FC Barcelona is founded.
• December 16 : AC Milan is founded.
• The Dutch football association KNVB is founded.
• The SpVgg 1899 Leipzig is founded.
• The Sportfreunde Siegen are called Football Club Jahn victories established.

Born

January

• 0January 1 : Jack Beresford , British rower and Olympic champion († 1977 )
• 0January 1 : Raymond Loucheur , French composer († 1979 )
• 0January 2 : Hermann Schwann , German politician († 1977 )
• 0January 3 : Johan Hin , Dutch sailor and documentary filmmaker († 1957 )
• 0January 3 : Adolf Ziegler , German actor († 1985 )
• 0January 4 : Alfred Sohn-Rethel , German economist, epistemologist and industrial sociologist († 1990 )
• 0January 5 : Ruggero Gerlin , Italian harpsichordist and music teacher († 1983 )
• 0January 5 : Wilhelm Hagemann , German chess problem composer († 1973 )
• 0January 6 : Heinrich Nordhoff , German entrepreneur († 1968 )
• 0January 6th : Max Simon , SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS († 1961 )
• 0January 7th : Franciska Clausen , German-Danish painter († 1986 )
• 0January 7 : John Augustine Collins , Australian naval officer († 1989 )
• 0January 7th : Ernst Kuntscher , German politician († 1971 )
• 0January 7th : Francis Poulenc , French pianist and composer († 1963 )
• 0January 8 : Sherman A. Adams , American politician († 1986 )
• 0January 8 : Hans Aufricht-Ruda , German-American writer and psychotherapist († 1970 )
• 0January 8 : SWRD Bandaranaike , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka († 1959 )
• 0January 8 : Ela Elborg , German screenwriter, dialogue director and acting agent († 2004 )
• 0January 9 : John A. Danaher , American politician († 1990 )
• January 10 : Axel Eggebrecht , German journalist, writer and screenwriter († 1991 )
• January 10 : Daniel Guilet , French-American violinist and music teacher of Russian origin († 1990 )

Paul Hermann Müller

• January 12 : Piero Meriggi , Italian classical philologist, linguist and Indo-Europeanist († 1982 )
• January 12 : Paul Hermann Müller , Swiss chemist († 1965 )
• January 12 : Josef Wagner , NSDAP Gauleiter of Gaus Westfalen-Süd and Gaus Silesia († 1945 )
• January 13 : Lev Vladimirovich Kuleschow , Soviet director († 1970 )
• January 13 : Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer , German chemist († 1957 )
• January 14th : Fritz Bayerlein , German Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht († 1970 )
• January 14 : Carlos P. Rómulo , Foreign Minister of the Philippines († 1985 )
• January 16 : Michl Lang , German folk actor († 1979 )

Al Capone, around 1935

• January 17th : Al Capone , American criminal during Prohibition († 1947 )
• January 17 : Nevil Shute , English writer, aircraft engineer and pilot († 1960 )
• January 18 : Jan Bontjes van Beek , German sculptor and ceramist († 1969 )
• January 18 : Fritz Bracht , NSDAP Gauleiter of Upper Silesia († 1945 )
• January 19 : Hans Reif , German politician († 1984 )
• January 20 : Michael Laßleben , German publisher († 1972 )
• January 21 : John Bodkin Adams , British medic and alleged serial killer († 1983 )
• January 21 : Rudi Blesh , American jazz writer († 1985 )
• January 21 : Hugo Mayer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1968 )
• January 21 : Alexander Nikolayevich Tscherepnin , Russian composer († 1977 )
• January 23 : Alfred Denning , English judge († 1999 )
• January 23 : Konstantin Kammerhofer , SS group leader and representative of Heinrich Himmler in Croatia († 1958 )
• January 23 : Glen Kidston , British racing car driver († 1931 )
• January 24 : Theodor M. Auer , German diplomat († 1972 )
• January 24th : Hoyt S. Vandenberg , American air fleet commander in World War II († 1954 )
• January 25 : Gérard Marinier , French racing car driver († unknown)
• January 25 : Paul-Henri Spaak , Belgian politician and statesman († 1972 )
• January 27 : Béla Guttmann , Hungarian football player and coach († 1981 )
• January 27 : Piet van Mever , Dutch composer († 1985 )
• January 28 : Rupert Angermair , German moral theologian and specialist book author († 1966 )
• January 28 : August Annist , Estonian literary scholar, translator, folklorist and poet († 1972 )
• January 29 : Gerhard Graubner , German architect († 1970 )
• January 29 : Hans Henn , German politician († 1958 )
• January 30th : Max Theiler , American biologist († 1972 )

February

• 0February 2 : Heinrich Wehking , German politician († 1984 )
• 0February 2 : Wolfgang Gröbner , Austrian mathematician († 1980 )
• 0February 3 : João Café Filho , Brazilian President († 1970 )
• 0February 3 : Lao She , Chinese writer († 1966 )
• 0February 3 : Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar , German military († 1944 )
• 0February 4 : Elfriede Jaeger , German politician († 1964 )
• 0February 4th : Viktor Fyodorowitsch Bolchowitinow , Soviet aircraft designer († 1970 )

Ramón Novarro

• 0February 6 : Ramón Novarro , Mexican-American silent film star († 1968 )
• 0February 8 : Juan Pedro Arremón , Uruguayan football player († 1979 )
• February 12 : Erich Nehlhans , chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin († 1950 )
• February 12 : Irnfried von Wechmar , German officer and journalist († 1959 )
• February 15 : Ernst Biberstein , German Protestant pastor, SS-Obersturmbannführer; Mass murderer († 1986 )
• February 15 : George Auric , French composer († 1983 )
• February 15 : Iknadios Bedros XVI. Batanian , Patriarch of Cilicia († 1979 )
• February 15 : Willi Kobe , Swiss Protestant clergyman and peace activist († 1995 )
• February 16 : Cayetano Córdova Iturburu , Argentine journalist, art critic and writer († 1977 )
• February 16 : Hermann Grossmann , German author († 1968 )
• February 16 : Kurt Lieck , German actor and radio play speaker († 1976 )
• February 17 : Karl Adam , German lawyer and district chief († 1943 )
• February 18 : Erich Kosiol , German professor of business administration († 1990 )
• February 19 : Lucio Fontana , Italian painter and sculptor († 1968 )
• February 19 : Werner Beumelburg , German journalist and writer († 1963 )
• February 20 : Emmy Meyer-Laule , German politician († 1985 )
• February 21 : Bernard William Griffin , English clergyman, Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal († 1956 )
• February 22nd : Gustav Aufhammer , German crop scientist and plant breeder († 1988 )
• February 22nd : Berthold Koch , German chess player († 1988 )
• February 23 : Vitaly Viktor Chaim Arlosoroff , Russian politician († 1933 )
• February 23 : Elisabeth Langgässer , German writer († 1950 )

Erich Kästner, 1968

• February 23 : Erich Kästner , German writer, screenwriter and cabaret artist († 1974 )
• February 23 : Norman Taurog , American film director († 1981 )
• February 24 : Helmut Kolle , German painter († 1931 )
• February 24 : Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov , Soviet pilot († 1985 )
• February 25 : Willi Henkelmann , German motorcycle racer († 1928 )
• February 25 : Henry Hensche , American painter († 1992 )
• February 26 : Max Petitpierre , Swiss politician († 1994 )
• February 26 : Theodor Babilon , managing director of the Kolping House in Cologne († 1945 )

Charles Best, ca.1924

• February 27 : Charles Best , American physiologist and biochemist († 1978 )
• February 28 : Harold Bruce Farncomb , Australian naval officer and lawyer († 1971 )

March

• 0March 1 : Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski , SS-Obergruppenführer († 1972 )
• 0March 2nd : Alessandro Vallebona , Italian radiologist, developer of tomography († 1987 )
• 0March 3 : Jacob Klein , German-American philosopher and mathematician of Jewish origin († 1978 )
• 0March 3 : Albert Krebs , Gauleiter of Hamburg († 1974 )
• 0March 3 : Yuri Olescha , Russian writer († 1960 )
• 0March 5th : Erich Koß , City Planning Officer of Magdeburg († 1982 )
• 0March 7 : Werner Hochbaum , German film director († 1946 )
• 0March 8 : Eric Linklater , Scottish writer († 1974 )
• 0March 9 : Giuseppe Antonio Ferretto , Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1973 )
• March 10 : Finn Høffding , Danish composer and music teacher († 1997 )
• March 10 : Grete von Zieritz , Austrian pianist and composer († 2001 )

Friedrich IX. from Denmark

• March 11th : Friedrich IX. , King of Denmark († 1972 )
• March 13 : Clara Döhring , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1987 )
• March 13 : John H. van Vleck , American physicist († 1980 )
• March 13 : Pancho Vladigerov , Bulgarian composer († 1978 )
• March 14 : Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango , Panamanian President († 1969 )
• March 15 : Ernst Simon , German educator and Jewish religious philosopher († 1988 )
• March 16 : Franz Josef Brecht , German philosophy professor († 1982 )
• March 16 : Ok Formenoy , Dutch football player († 1977 )
• March 17 : Radie Britain , American composer († 1994 )
• March 17 : Arthur E. Summerfield , American politician († 1972 )
• March 19 : Jan Hendrik de Boer , Dutch physicist and chemist († 1971 )
• March 19 : Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld , German engineer, inventor and racing driver († 1992 )
• March 19 : Aksel Sandemose , Danish-Norwegian writer († 1965 )
• March 20 : Gunther Ipsen , Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1984 )
• March 23 : Louis Adamic , American journalist and writer († 1951 )
• March 23 : Dora Gerson , German actress and singer († 1943 )
• March 23 : Boris Alexandrovich Tschagin , Russian philosopher and historian († 1987 )
• March 25 : Jacques Audiberti , French poet († 1965 )
• March 27 : Carl Aage Hilbert , Danish lawyer and Governor of the Faroe Islands († 1953 )
• March 27 : Gloria Swanson , American actress († 1983 )
• March 29 : Lavrenti Beria , Soviet head of intelligence († 1953 )
• March 31 : Franz Völker , German singer (tenor) († 1965 )

April

• 0April 1 : Herbert Lewin , German President of the Central Council of Jews († 1982 )
• 0April 2 : Heinrich Rau , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED († 1961 )
• 0April 2 : Robert Hill , British biochemist († 1991 )
• 0April 2 : Vinzenz Platajs , Jehovah's Witness and Nazi victim († 1944 )
• 0April 6 : Georg Traeg , German politician († 1978 )
• 0April 6 : Hans Wentorf , German football player († 1970 )
• 0April 7th : Robert Casadesus , French pianist († 1972 )
• 0April 7 : Jo Hanns Rösler , German writer († 1966 )
• 0April 7 : Victor Schiøler , Danish pianist († 1967 )
• 0April 8 : Edward D. Crippa , American politician († 1960 )
• 0April 9 : Raoul de Verneuil , Peruvian composer and conductor († 1975 )
• April 10 : Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina , Polish writer († 1986 )
• April 10 : Friedrich Traugott Wahlen , Swiss Professor of Agriculture and Politician (Federal Council) († 1985 )
• April 11 : Albrecht Aschoff , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1972 )
• April 11 : Leopold Hochgatterer , Austrian politician († 1971 )
• April 12 : Emil Gsell , Swiss Professor of Economics († 1973 )
• April 13 : Alfred Mosher Butts , American architect and game designer († 1993 )
• April 13 : Alfred Schütz , Austrian sociologist († 1959 )
• April 13 : Friedrich Wilckens , Austrian composer and pianist († 1986 )
• April 14 : Josef Oesterle , German politician († 1959 )
• April 15 : Curtis Bernhardt , German-American director († 1981 )
• April 17 : Bernhard Sprengel , German chocolate manufacturer and art patron († 1985 )
• April 18 : Zdeněk Chalabala , Czech conductor († 1962 )
• April 18 : Matthias Leis , German ice hockey goalkeeper
• April 19 : Robert Lusser , German engineer († 1969 )
• April 20 : Margaret Harrison , British violinist († 1995 )
• April 21 : Rolland-Georges Gingras , Canadian organist, music critic and composer († 1964 )
• April 21 : Randall Thompson , American composer and music teacher († 1984 )
• April 22 : Vladimir Nabokov , Russian writer († 1977 )
• April 22 : Erich Häßler , German pediatrician († 2005 )
• April 23 : Alfred Jurzykowski , Polish manager and art patron († 1966 )
• April 23 : Bertil Ohlin , Swedish economist († 1979 )
• April 26 : Antoine Adam , French Romance studies and literary scholar († 1980 )
• April 26 : Joseph Fuchs , American violinist and music teacher († 1997 )
• April 26 : Xaver Gmelch , German motorcycle racer († 1976 )
• April 27 : Erik Aaes , Danish production designer († 1966 )
• April 29 : Robert Cooley Angell , American sociologist († 1984 )
• April 29 : Duke Ellington , American jazz composer († 1974 )
• April 29 : Yngve Sköld , Swedish composer († 1992 )
• April 29 : Gustav Tauschek , Austrian computer pioneer († 1945 )
• April 30 : Lucie Mannheim , German-British actress († 1976 )
• April 30 : Olaf Wieghorst , Danish-American painter († 1988 )

May

• 0May 1 : Jón Leifs , Icelandic composer († 1968 )
• 0May 1 : Josef Lokvenc , Austrian chess player († 1974 )
• 0May 2 : Kurt Pohle , German politician († 1961 )
• 0May 3 : Aline MacMahon , American actress († 1991 )
• 0May 4 : Fritz von Opel , German industrialist, rocket pioneer and motor sportsman († 1971 )
• 0May 8 : Friedrich Hayek , Austrian economist and Nobel Prize winner († 1992 )

Fred Astaire with his sister Adele, 1919

• May 10 : Fred Astaire , American dancer, singer and actor († 1987 )
• May 10 : Karl Hartl , Austrian film director († 1978 )
• May 10 : Josef Menke , German politician (Member of the Bundestag) († 1975 )
• May 10 : Karl Georg Pfleiderer , German politician and diplomat († 1957 )
• May 10 : Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg , Austrian politician († 1956 )
• May 11 : Curt Courant , German-American cameraman and expert on film-technical matters († 1968 )
• May 12 : Maurice Carême , Belgian writer († 1978 )
• May 13 : Sarah Afonso , Portuguese painter († 1983 )
• May 14 : Pierre Auger , French physicist († 1993 )
• May 14 : Charlotte Auerbach , German-English biologist, geneticist and university professor († 1994 )
• May 15 : Leonard B. Jordan , American politician († 1983 )
• May 18 : Adelmo Melecci , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher († 2004 )
• May 19 : Roger C. Peace , American politician († 1968 )
• May 20 : Alexander Deineka , Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor († 1969 )
• May 21 : Constantin Bobescu , Romanian violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher († 1992 )
• May 23 : Josef Aust , German politician († 1973 )
• May 23 : Jeanne Marie Nancy d'Autremont , French chess player († 1979 )
• May 23 : Jeralean Talley , American Supercentenarian († 2015 )
• May 24 : Heinrich Fassbender , German politician († 1971 )
• May 24th : Suzanne Lenglen , French tennis player († 1938 )
• May 24 : Henri Michaux , French poet and painter († 1984 )
• May 24 : Robert Philipp Nöll von der Nahmer , German financial scientist and politician († 1986 )
• May 25 : Boris Artzybasheff , American illustrator († 1965 )
• May 25 : Hans von Helms , German Nazi politician, SA group leader († 1980 )
• May 27 : Hans Brausewetter , German film and theater actor († 1945 )
• May 28 : Bill Stein , American football player († 1983 )
• May 29 : Gebhard Friedrich Amann , Austrian politician († 1979 )
• May 30 : Irving Thalberg , American film producer († 1936 )
• May 31 : Leonid Leonow , Russian-Soviet writer († 1994 )

June

• 0June 1st : Fritz Nüßlein , German hunting and forestry scientist († 1984 )
• 0June 1 : Edward Charles Titchmarsh , English mathematician († 1963 )
• 0June 2 : Lotte Reiniger , German cutter, silhouette animation filmmaker, book illustrator († 1981 )
• 0June 3 : Alfred Adam , German theologian and university professor († 1975 )
• 0June 3 : Georg von Békésy , Hungarian-American physicist and physiologist († 1972 )
• 0June 3 : Gerhard Desczyk , functionary in the GDR and chief editor of Union Verlag Berlin († 1983 )
• 0June 3 : Taco Hajo van den Honert , Dutch botanist († 1959 )
• 0June 4 : Stringer Davis , English actor († 1973 )
• 0June 7 : Elizabeth Bowen , British writer († 1973 )
• 0June 8 : Ernst-Robert Grawitz , German doctor and chairman of the DRK († 1945 )
• 0June 8 : Hans Herter , German classical philologist († 1984 )
• 0June 8 : Maruyama Kaoru , Japanese writer († 1974 )
• 0June 9 : Robert Sidney Cahn , British chemist († 1981 )
• June 10 : Anita Berber , German dancer and actress († 1928 )
• June 10 : Stanisław Czaykowski , Polish racing car driver († 1933 )
• June 10 : Raoul Salan , French general († 1984 )
• June 11 : Kawabata Yasunari , Japanese writer and Nobel Prize for Literature († 1972 )
• June 11 : Oskar Notz , German pilot († 1932 )
• June 12 : Anni Albers , German-American textile artist and graphic designer († 1994 )
• June 12 : Fritz Albert Lipmann , American biochemist († 1986 )
• June 13 : Axel Bakunts , Armenian writer, translator and screenwriter († 1937 )
• June 13 : Carlos Chávez Ramírez , Mexican composer and music teacher († 1978 )
• June 13 : Anton Slodnjak , Slovenian writer, editor, literary scholar and historian († 1983 )
• June 14 : Vasile Aftenie , Romanian auxiliary bishop († 1950 )
• June 15 : Jerwand Kotschar , Armenian painter and sculptor († 1979 )
• June 15 : Gladys Tantaquidgeon , Mohican anthropologist, matriarch and medicine woman († 2005 )
• June 16 : John L. Sullivan , American politician († 1982 )
• June 18 : Maria Felchlin , first practicing doctor in the canton of Solothurn († 1987 )
• June 19 : Rudolf Carl , Austrian actor and comedian († 1987 )
• June 20 : Jean Moulin , head of the French Resistance during the Second World War († 1943 )
• June 21 : Pavel Haas , Czech composer († 1944 )
• June 21 : Herbert Kensington-Moir , British racing car driver († 1961 )
• June 22nd : Hedwig Jochmus , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1993 )
• June 22 : Michał Kalecki , Polish economist († 1970 )
• June 22nd : Hans Zehrer , German journalist († 1966 )
• June 23 : Jean Fourquet , French German studies specialist († 2001 )
• June 23 : Paul-Otto Schmidt , chief interpreter at the Federal Foreign Office († 1970 )
• June 23 : Gerhard Graf von Schwerin , German soldier († 1980 )
• June 23 : Franz Ziegler , German politician († 1949 )
• June 24th : Ludwig Auber , Austrian ornithologist († 1974 )
• June 24 : Bruce Marshall , Scottish writer († 1987 )
• June 25 : Charlotte von Kirschbaum , German theologian († 1975 )
• June 25 : Hans Schwippert , German architect († 1973 )
• June 26th : Maria Nikolajewna Romanowa , daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hessen-Darmstadt († 1918 )
• June 27 : Erich Limpach , German poet († 1965 )
• June 27 : Juan Trippe , American entrepreneur and founder of Pan American World Airways († 1981 )
• June 28 : Max Ilgner , German war criminal, board member of IG Farben († 1966 )
• June 28 : Manfred Näslund , Swedish forest scientist († 1988 )
• June 30 : Kurt Tackenberg , German prehistorian († 1992 )
• June 30th : František Tomášek , Czech clergyman, Archbishop of Prague and Cardinal († 1992 )
• June 30th : Jean-Marie Plum , Belgian composer and organist. († 1944 )
• 00June: Zakī al-Arsūzī , Syrian teacher, philosopher and politician († 1968 )

July

• 0July 1 : Charles Laughton , British film actor († 1962 )
• 0July 1 : Thomas A. Dorsey , American blues and gospel singer and pianist († 1993 )
• 0July 1 : Konstantinos Tsatsos , Greek lawyer, author and politician († 1987 )
• 0July 3 : Ernst Fischer , Austrian writer and communist († 1972 )
• 0July 3 : Thomas Peter McKeefry , New Zealand Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Wellington and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1973 )
• 0July 4th : Roy Henderson , Scottish baritone and music teacher († 2000 )
• 0July 4th : Benjamin Péret , French poet and writer of surrealism († 1959 )
• 0July 4th : Schaggi Streuli , Swiss screenwriter, cabaret artist and dialect actor († 1980 )
• 0July 5 : Marcel Arland , French writer and literary critic († 1986 )
• 0July 5 : Marcel-Auguste Ferréol , French playwright and screenwriter († 1974 )
• 0July 5 : Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson , Chilean composer and music teacher († 1987 )
• 0July 6 : Konrad Ameln , German hymnologist and musicologist († 1994 )
• 0July 6th : Folke Rogard , Swedish chess official († 1973 )
• 0July 6 : Gustav Ucicky , German film director, son of Gustav Klimt († 1961 )
• 0July 6 : Susannah Mushatt Jones , American age record holder († 2016 )
• 0July 7 : George Cukor , American film director († 1983 )
• 0July 9 : Marion Ashmore , American football player († 1948 )
• July 11 : François Ayoub , Syrian Archbishop († 1966 )
• July 11 : Margot von Gans , German aviation pioneer and racing car driver († 1986 )
• July 11 : Wilfrid Israel , philanthropist and businessman († 1943 )
• July 11 : Elwyn Brooks White , American author and comedian († 1985 )
• July 14 : Gregory Breit , American physicist († 1981 )
• July 15 : Remzi Oğuz Arık , Turkish archaeologist and politician († 1954 )
• July 15 : Hugo Decker , German politician († 1985 )
• July 17th : James Cagney , American film actor († 1986 )
• July 18 : Grete Hinterhofer , Austrian pianist, music teacher and composer († 1985 )

Ernest Hemingway, 1918

• July 21 : Ernest Hemingway , American writer († 1961 )
• July 21 : Ralph Staub , American producer of short films († 1969 )
• July 21 : Alfred Treibs , German engineer and geochemist († 1983 )
• July 22 : Sobhuza II , King of Swaziland († 1982 )
• July 22nd : Wolfgang Metzger , German psychologist and Gestalt theorist († 1979 )

Gustav Heinemann, 1969

• July 23 : Gustav Heinemann , German politician, Federal President of the FRG († 1976 )
• July 25 : Henry Holst , Danish violinist and music teacher († 1991 )
• July 26 : Eduard Wandrey , German actor († 1974 )
• July 26 : Hermann Josef Wehrle , German Catholic priest and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• July 27 : Harl McDonald , American composer († 1955 )
• July 28 : Hans Adler , German business economist († 1966 )
• July 30th : August Eichhorn , German musician and professor († 1980 )
• July 30 : Gerald Moore , English pianist and accompanist († 1987 )

August

• 0August 1 : Jimmie Angel , American bush pilot († 1956 )
• 0August 1 : Alwin Aßmann , Austrian politician († 1984 )
• 0August 1 : Raymond Mays , British racing driver and entrepreneur († 1980 )
• 0August 2nd : Ove Andersen , Finnish obstacle runner († 1967 )
• 0August 2 : Paul Eugen Sieg , German physicist and writer († 1950 )
• 0August 3 : Louis Chiron , Monaco racing driver († 1979 )
• 0August 4th : Walter Rafelsberger , NSDAP regional economic advisor of Vienna, SS-Oberführer († 1989 )
• 0August 5 : Mart Stam , Dutch architect and designer († 1986 )
• 0August 7th : August Anhalt , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist († 1975 )
• 0August 8 : Frank Hanson , Canadian music teacher and composer († 1975 )

PL Travers, ca.1924

• 0August 9 : PL Travers , Australian writer (Mary Poppins) († 1996 )
• August 11 : Kaj Andersen , Danish badminton player and athlete
• August 11 : Jindřich Štyrský , Czech painter, photographer, graphic artist, poet, representative of surrealism and art theorist († 1942 )
• August 12 : Peter Altmeier , German politician and Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate († 1977 )
• August 12 : Eduard Andorfer , Austrian art historian († 1973 )
• August 12 : Thea Rasche , German journalist († 1971 )
• August 12 : Alfred Kantorowicz , German-Jewish writer († 1979 )

Alfred Hitchcock

• August 13 : Alfred Hitchcock , English film director and producer († 1980 )
• August 14 : Margarete Gröwel , German politician († 1979 )
• August 14th : Fritz Schwarz , German bobsleigh driver
• August 16 : Dewey Scanlon , American football coach († 1944 )
• August 18 : Pietro Belluschi , American architect († 1994 )
• August 19 : Anton Powolny , Austrian football player († unknown)
• August 20 : Johannes Lilje , German theologian, art historian and regional bishop († 1977 )
• August 21 : Lewis Lyne , British officer († 1970 )
• August 23 : Albert Claude , Belgian medic and Nobel Prize winner († 1983 )
• August 24 : Ferhat Abbas , Algerian politician († 1985 )
• August 24 : Giuseppe Amato , Italian film producer and director († 1964 )
• August 24 : Johan Fabricius , Dutch writer, illustrator, journalist and adventurer († 1981 )
• August 24 : Jorge Luis Borges , Argentinian writer († 1986 )
• August 25 : Guy Butler , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1981 )
• August 26 : Rufino Tamayo , Mexican painter († 1991 )
• August 26 : Wolfgang Krull , German mathematician, algebraic scientist († 1971 )
• August 27 : Anselme Brusa , Italian-French rower and gymnast († 1969 )
• August 27 : Cecil Scott Forester , English writer and journalist († 1966 )
• August 27 : Byron Foulger , American actor († 1970 )
• August 27 : Eduardo Torroja Miret , Spanish civil engineer and architect († 1961 )
• August 27 : Hans Wilhelmi , German politician († 1970 )
• August 27 : Michl Ehbauer , German (Bavarian) dialect poet († 1964 )
• August 28 : Charles Boyer , French actor († 1978 )
• August 30 : Ray Arcel , American boxing coach († 1994 )
• August 31 : Albert Akst , American musician and film editor († 1958 )
• August 31 : Aleksander Antson , Estonian writer († 1945 )
• August 31 : Walter Müller von Kulm , Swiss composer and music teacher († 1967 )

September

• 0September 1 : Lotte Friese-Korn , German politician († 1963 )
• 0September 3 : Frank MacFarlane Burnet , Australian medic († 1985 )
• 0September 4th : Edmond Mouche , French racing car driver († 1989 )
• 0September 5 : Helen Creighton , Canadian ethnomusicologist and folk song collector († 1989 )
• 0September 5 : Wilhelm Mellies , German politician († 1958 )
• 0September 5 : Georg Leibbrandt , German politician († 1982 )
• 0September 6 : Athanasios Toutoungi , Syrian Archbishop († 1981 )
• 0September 6 : Emídio Guerreiro , Portuguese freedom fighter († 2005 )
• 0September 7th : Wladimir Konstantinowitsch Gribowski , Soviet pilot and aircraft designer († 1977 )
• 0September 7 : Isidore Soucy , Canadian fiddle player and composer († 1963 )
• 0September 8 : Bernd von Arnim , German Slavist († 1946 )
• 0September 9 : CR Smith , US Secretary of Commerce († 1990 )
• September 11th : Jimmie Davis , American country singer and governor of Louisiana († 2000 )
• September 13 : Bolko von Richthofen , German prehistorian († 1983 )
• September 13 : Anton Levien Constandse , Dutch author, editor, publisher, free thinker († 1985 )
• September 14 : Josef Meisinger , German police colonel, SS-Standartenführer and war criminal († 1947 )
• September 16 : Hans Swarowsky , Austrian conductor and professor († 1975 )
• September 18 : Alfred Frenzel , German politician († 1968 )
• September 18 : Ida Kamińska , Polish-Jewish actress († 1980 )
• September 20 : Bruno d'Harcourt , French racing driver († 1930 )
• September 20 : Leo Strauss , German-American philosopher († 1973 )
• September 21 : Juliusz Schauder , Polish mathematician († 1943 )

Veit Harlan, 1949

• September 22 : Veit Harlan , German actor and director († 1964 )
• September 23 : Tom C. Clark , American politician († 1977 )
• September 23 : Odd Grüner-Hegge , Norwegian composer, conductor and pianist († 1973 )
• September 23 : Hans-Detlef Herhudt von Rohden , German major general († 1951 )
• September 23 : Wilhelm Nauhaus , German bookbinder, artist, archivist and publicist († 1979 )
• September 24 : Jovan Bandur , Croatian composer († 1956 )
• September 24 : Eduardo Hernández Moncada , Mexican composer, pianist and conductor († 1995 )
• September 25 : Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , Romanian nationalist and leader of the Iron Guard († 1938 )
• September 26 : Charles Arthur Anderson , American politician († 1977 )
• September 26 : Alfred Johann Maria Anton Rupert Prince Auersperg , Austrian psychiatrist († 1968 )
• September 26 : William L. Dawson , American composer, choir director and music teacher († 1990 )
• September 26 : Irena Dubiska , Polish violinist and music teacher († 1989 )
• September 27 : Antoinette Giroux , Canadian actress († 1978 )
• September 27 : Luigi Picchi , Italian organist, composer and music teacher († 1970 )
• September 27 : Dmitri Ludwigowitsch Tomaschewitsch , Soviet aircraft designer († 1974 )
• September 28 : Achille Campanile , Italian journalist and playwright († 1977 )
• September 29 : Fritz Selbmann , writer and party functionary in the GDR († 1975 )
• September 29 : Herbert Firl , German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime († 1941 )
• September 29 : László József Bíró , Hungarian inventor (ballpoint pen) († 1985 )
• September 29 : Robert Gilbert , German composer, lyricist, singer and actor († 1978 )
• September 30 : Peter Kuhlen , German co-founder of the apostolic community († 1986 )

October

• 0October 1 : Joseph Guillemot , French athlete and Olympic champion († 1975 )
• 0October 3 : Adrien Arcand , Canadian journalist and fascist († 1967 )
• 0October 3 : Louis Hjelmslev , Danish linguist († 1965 )
• 0October 3 : Artur da Costa e Silva , President of Brazil during the military dictatorship († 1969 )
• 0October 3 : Konstantin Waginow , Russian poet († 1934 )

Franz Jonas, 1969

• 0October 4 : Franz Jonas , Mayor of Vienna and Federal President of Austria († 1974 )
• 0October 5 : Hans Achinger , German economist and social scientist († 1981 )
• 0October 5 : Adolf Jentzen , German resistance fighter († 1943 )
• 0October 5 : Georges Bidault , French Resistance fighter and politician († 1983 )
• 0October 7th : Antoinette Roberte Sophie Wilhelmine von Nassau-Weilburg , Bavarian Crown Princess († 1954 )
• October 10 : Wilhelm Röpke , German economist († 1966 )
• October 12 : Josef Eichner , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1979 )
• October 13 : Piero Dusio , Italian football player and official, racing car driver and businessman († 1975 )
• October 13 : Willo Welzenbach , German mountaineer († 1934 )
• October 15 : Adolf Brudes , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver († 1986 )
• October 17 : Robert Kempner , German lawyer and prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials († 1993 )
• October 18 : Hans Münstermann , German economist († 1986 )
• October 18 : Erwin Schoettle , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, SPD state chairman († 1976 )
• October 19 : Miguel Ángel Asturias , Guatemalan writer, diplomat, Nobel Prize winner († 1974 )
• October 19 : Sidonie Goossens , British harp virtuoso († 2004 )
• October 20 : Marnix Gijsen , Flemish writer († 1984 )
• October 20 : Gaston Mottet , French racing car driver († 1973 )
• October 22 : Otto Krayer , German pharmacologist and toxicologist († 1982 )
• October 24 : Philippe Kieffer , French officer († 1962 )
• October 25 : Alfred Quellmalz , German musicologist († 1979 )
• October 27 : Bill Springsteen , American football player († 1985 )
• October 28 : Hilding Hagberg , Swedish politician († 1993 )
• October 30 : Tomoda Kyōsuke , Japanese actor († 1937 )
• October 31 : Busso Thoma , German merchant, executed as an accessory to the assassination plans on July 20 († 1945 )

November

• 0November 1 : Marco Bontá , Chilean painter († 1974 )
• 0November 2 : Peter Aufschnaiter , Austrian mountaineer, development worker († 1973 )
• 0November 2 : Samuel Isenegger , Swiss chess problem composer († 1964 )
• 0November 3 : Ralph Bates , British writer († 2000 )
• 0November 3 : Rezső Seress , Hungarian composer († 1968 )
• 0November 4 : Blandine Ebinger , German actress and chansonniere († 1993 )
• 0November 4 : Bernhard Rogge , German naval officer († 1982 )
• 0November 4 : Jóhannes úr Kötlum , Icelandic writer († 1972 )
• 0November 4 : Nicolas Frantz , Luxembourg cyclist († 1985 )
• 0November 4 : Paul Nicolas , French football player († 1959 )
• 0November 9 : Mezz Mezzrow , American jazz soprano saxophonist and clarinetist († 1972 )
• November 11th : Pat O'Brien , American film actor († 1983 )
• November 11 : Williston B. Palmer , American officer, general in the US Army († 1973 )
• November 12 : Hildegard Bleyler , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1984 )
• November 12 : Martín Cárdenas , Bolivian botanist († 1973 )
• November 17 : Roger Vitrac , French playwright and surrealist († 1952 )
• November 19 : Andrija Artuković , Croatian politician († 1988 )
• November 19 : Abu l-Qasim al-Choei , Persian Grand Ayatollah († 1992 )
• November 21 : Takeharu Asō , Japanese mountaineer, Nordic skier and athlete († 1993 )
• November 22 : Hoagy Carmichael , American composer, pianist, actor and singer († 1981 )
• November 22 : Alex Moore , American singer and piano player († 1989 )
• November 24 : Jan Adam Maklakiewicz , Polish composer († 1954 )
• November 25 : Fouad Ammoun , Lebanese lawyer and diplomat († 1977 )
• November 26 : Walter Gerwig , German musician († 1966 )
• November 26 : Bruno Richard Hauptmann , German murderer († 1936 )
• November 29 : Arvid Kleven , Norwegian composer († 1929 )

Emma Morano at the age of 30

• November 29 : Emma Morano , Italian age record holder († 2017 )
• November 30th : Hans Krása , Czech-German composer († 1944 )

December

• 0December 2 : Peter Herman Adler , Czech-American conductor († 1990 )
• 0December 4 : Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler , German painter († 1940 )
• 0December 4 : Friedo Lampe , German writer († 1945 )
• 0December 5 : Bolesław Woytowicz , Polish composer, pianist and music teacher († 1980 )
• 0December 6 : Charles Peaker , Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher († 1978 )
• 0December 8th : Maria Viktoria Josepha Mathilde Jacqueline Countess of Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian restaurateur († 1983 )
• 0December 9 : Léonie Fuller Adams , American poet († 1988 )
• 0December 9 : Frank Wisbar , German director, producer and screenwriter († 1967 )
• December 11 : Theodor Joedicke , German general staff doctor († 1996 )
• December 14 : DeFord Bailey , American country musician († 1982 )
• December 14 : Walter Hulverscheidt , German forester and author († 1989 )
• December 15 : Alfred Ahrens , German politician († 1959 )
• December 15 : Harold Abrahams , British athlete († 1978 )
• December 16 : Hans Barion , German Catholic canon lawyer († 1973 )
• December 16 : Noël Coward , English actor, writer and composer († 1973 )
• December 16 : Paul Heuäcker , German chess problem and study composer († 1969 )
• December 16 : Hans Korte , German major general († 1990 )
• December 16 : Kate Kühl , German cabaret artist († 1970 )
• December 16 : Aleksander Zawadzki , Polish communist politician († 1964 )
• December 17 : Paul Minick , American football player († 1978 )
• December 18 : Karl Abt , German painter († 1985 )
• December 18 : Walther Hans Reinboth , German painter and poet († 1990 )
• December 19 : Barbette , American trapeze artist († 1973 )
• December 20 : Katharina Christine Augenstein , German photographer († 1981 )
• December 20 : Hermann Claasen , German photographer († 1987 )
• December 20 : Finn Ronne , Norwegian-American polar explorer († 1980 )
• December 21 : Juliana von Stockhausen , German writer († 1998 )

Gustaf Gründgens, 1936

• December 22nd : Gustaf Gründgens , German actor, director and general manager († 1963 )
• December 23 : Andreas Nielsen , German Lieutenant General († 1957 )
• December 23 : Elisabeth Schnack , Swiss writer († 1992 )
• December 24 : Eugeniusz Arct , Polish painter and university professor († 1974 )
• December 24th : Carl Troll , German geographer, brother of Wilhelm Troll († 1975 )

Humphrey Bogart, oil on canvas, 2007

• December 25th : Humphrey Bogart , American film actor († 1957 )
• December 25th : Roger Hellot , French racing driver († 1968 )
• December 25 : Ozaki Kazuo , Japanese writer († 1983 )
• December 26 : Paul Arnsberg , German historian, journalist, writer and publisher († 1978 )
• December 27 : Walther Kolbe , German politician († 1953 )
• December 27 : Lasgush Poradeci , Albanian poet († 1987 )
• December 28 : Eugeniusz Bodo , Polish actor, film director and producer († 1943 )
• December 30th : Walter Hollstein , German soccer coach († 1977 )
• December 30th : Helge Ingstad , Norwegian archaeologist, writer and adventurer († 2001 )
• December 31 : Silvestre Revueltas , Mexican composer († 1940 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Gabriel María Gregorio del Carmen Lucio Argüelles , Mexican teacher and ambassador († 1981 )
• Sünuhi Arsan , Turkish lawyer († 1970 )
• Frédéric Auckenthaler , Swiss ice hockey player († 1946 )
• Victor Brault , Canadian singer, choir conductor and music teacher († 1963 )
• Abdollah Davami , Iranian singer († 1980 )
• André Durieux , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher († 1951 )
• Pietro Ghersi , Italian automobile and motorcycle racing driver († 1972 )
• Maude Hutchins , American writer († 1991 )
• Al Plunkett , Canadian singer († 1957 )

Died

January to March

• 0January 5 : Albert Schultz-Lupitz , German landowner and agricultural scientist (* 1831 )
• 0January 9 : Arthur A. Denny , American politician (* 1822 )
• January 15 : Serafino Dubois , Italian chess master (* 1817 )
• January 20 : Job Adams Cooper , American politician (* 1843 )
• January 21 : Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Annenkow , Russian general (* 1835 )
• January 23 : Romualdo Pacheco , American politician (* 1831 )
• January 24th : Christian Friele , Norwegian editor (* 1821 )
• January 25 : Adolphe d'Ennery , French writer (* 1811 )
• January 26 : Augustus Hill Garland , American politician (* 1832 )
• January 28 : James H. Slater , American politician (* 1826 )

Alfred Sisley

• January 29th : Alfred Sisley , French impressionist painter (* 1839 )

• 0February 2 : Giacomo Lepori , Swiss engineer and architect (* 1843 )
• 0February 2 : Cherubino Patà , Swiss landscape and portrait painter (* 1827 )
• 0February 3 : Geert Adriaans Boomgaard , Dutch, proven to be the first 110-year-old person (* 1788 )
• 0February 6 : Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , hereditary prince and heir to the throne of the double duchy (* 1874 )

Leo von Caprivi, 1880

• 0February 6 : Leo von Caprivi , German military and statesman (* 1831 )
• February 10 : Archibald Lampman , Canadian poet (* 1861 )
• February 16 : Félix Faure , President of France (* 1841 )
• February 18 : Philipp Galen , German writer and doctor (* 1813 )
• February 18 : Sophus Lie , Norwegian mathematician (* 1842 )
• February 20 : Heinrich Böckeler , German priest and church musician (* 1836 )
• February 24 : Charles Nuitter , French librettist, translator and archivist (* 1828 )
• February 24 : Emil Welti , Swiss politician (* 1825 )
• February 28 : Georg Apponyi von Nagy-Apponyi , Hungarian nobleman and politician (* 1808 )
• February 28 : José María Cabral , Dominican politician and President of the Dominican Republic (* 1816 )
• February 28 : James Madison Wells , American politician (* 1808 )

• 0March 5 : Georg Rudolf Koegel , German Germanist (* 1855 )
• 0March 7th : Werner Friedrich Alexander Ulfried von Arnswaldt , German manor owner, lawyer and politician (* 1832 )
• March 12 : Julius Vogel , Prime Minister of New Zealand (* 1835 )
• March 13 : Julius Schulhoff , Austrian pianist and composer (* 1825 )
• March 14 : Ludwig Bamberger , German banker and politician (* 1823 )
• March 18 : Othniel Charles Marsh , American paleontologist (* 1831 )
• March 19 : Patrick Walsh , American politician (* 1840 )
• March 24 : Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin , Switzerland's first women's rights activist (* 1826 )
• March 24th : Francis Harrison Pierpont , American politician (* 1814 )
• March 25 : Thomas Clement Fletcher , American politician (* 1837 )

April to June

• 0April 1 : Josef Eisenkolb , Romanian-German composer (* 1821 )
• 0April 3 : Adolf Guyer-Zeller , Swiss entrepreneur (* 1839 )
• April 17th : Jan Balatka , American composer (* 1825 )
• April 17 : Wilhelm Jordan , German geodesist and mathematician (* 1842 )
• April 20 : Charles Friedel , French chemist (* 1832 )
• April 20 : Nathaniel Job Hammond , American politician (* 1833 )
• April 21 : Leopold Hoesch , German entrepreneur (* 1820 )
• April 21 : Heinrich Kiepert , German geographer and cartographer (* 1818 )
• April 21 : John T. Wait , American politician (* 1811 )
• April 22 : Samuel T. Baird , American politician (* 1861 )
• April 22nd : Frederick Smyth , American politician (* 1819 )
• April 23 : Félix María del Monte , Dominican lawyer, journalist, playwright and poet (* 1819 )
• April 24 : Richard James Oglesby , American politician (* 1824 )
• April 26 : Dragotin chain , Slovenian writer (* 1876 )
• April: Victor Sieg , French organist and composer (* 1837 )

• 0May 1 : Ludwig Büchner , German physician, natural scientist (* 1824 )
• 0May 2 : Eduard von Simson , German lawyer and politician (* 1810 )
• 0May 6 : Philipp Krementz , German theologian, cardinal and archbishop of Cologne (* 1819 )

Carlotta Grisi, 1841

• May 14 : Lars Fredrik Nilson , Swedish chemist (* 1840 )
• May 16 : Joseph Probst , German homeland researcher (* 1852 )
• May 16 : Wilhelm Schwartz , German educator and writer (* 1821 )
• May 18 : John F. Potter , American lawyer, judge and politician (* 1817 )
• May 19 : Charles R. Buckalew , American politician (* 1821 )
• May 20 : Carlotta Grisi , Italian ballerina (* 1819 )
• May 25 : Rosa Bonheur , French painter (* 1822 )
• May 29 : Frederick WM Holliday , American politician (* 1828 )

• 0June 1 : Klaus Groth , Low German poet and writer (* 1819 )
• 0June 2 : William Haselden Ellerbe , American politician (* 1862 )

Johann Strauss Sohn, 1888

• 0June 3rd : Johann Strauss son, Austrian composer and "Waltz King" (* 1825 )
• 0June 7th : Heinrich Christian Horn , German entrepreneur (* 1837 )
• 0June 9 : Ernst Heinrich Gebhardt , German songwriter and Methodist preacher (* 1832 )
• June 16 : Benjamin F. Harding , American politician (* 1823 )
• June 25 : Franziskus von Paula Schönborn , Czech Roman Catholic clergyman, cardinal and archbishop of Prague (* 1844 )

July to September

• 0July 9 : Heinrich von Achenbach , German politician and lawyer (* 1829 )
• July 18 : Horatio Alger , American author (* 1832 )
• July 22nd : Siegfried Saloman , Danish composer (* 1816 )
• July 23 : Valentin von Massow (colonial officer) , German colonial officer (* 1864 )
• July 25th : Niklaus Riggenbach , Swiss engineer, inventor of the rack railway (* 1817 )
• July 27th : Tassilo von Heydebrand and the Lasa , German chess master (* 1818 )
• July 28 : Antonio Guzmán Blanco , General and President of Venezuela (* 1829 )
• July 30th : Oktavio Philipp von Boehn , Prussian general of the infantry (* 1824 )

• 0August 1 : Johan Adam Wijnne , Dutch historian (* 1822 )
• 0August 2nd : Benno Richard von Arent , Prussian lieutenant general (* 1823 )
• 0August 6 : Johann Matthäus Adä , German physician and politician (* 1814 )
• 0August 8 : William Yates Atkinson , American politician (* 1854 )
• August 13 : Gustav von Mevissen , German politician and entrepreneur (* 1815 )
• August 13 : Carl von Weizsäcker , German theologian (* 1822 )

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

• August 16 : Robert Wilhelm Bunsen , German chemist (* 1811 )
• August 19 : Oluf Rygh , Norwegian archaeologist and researcher of place names (* 1833 )
• August 21 : Hermann Joseph Schmitz , auxiliary bishop and official in Cologne (* 1841 )
• August 29 : Catharine Parr Traill , British-Canadian botanist and author (* 1802 )
• August 31 : Samuel Merrill , American politician (* 1822 )

• 0September 7th : Johann Joseph Otto Duvigneau , Magdeburg local politician and honorary citizen (* 1828 )
• 0September 8 : Wilhelm Amberg , German genre painter (* 1822 )
• 0September 9 : James B. Eustis , American politician (* 1834 )
• September 16 : Amadou dan Ténimoun , Sultan of Zinder
• September 26 : Ernst Faber , German sinologist and missionary (* 1839 )
• September 28 : Giovanni Segantini , Italian painter of symbolism (* 1858 )

October to December

• 0October 2nd : Percy Sinclar Pilcher , British inventor and aviation pioneer (* 1866 )
• 0October 5 : James Harlan , American politician (* 1820 )
• 0October 8 : Julius Mařák , Czech-Bohemian landscape painter between Romanticism and Realism (* 1832 )
• October 10 : Albert Böhler , Austrian industrialist (* 1845 )
• October 10 : Allan James Foley , Irish opera singer (bass) (* 1835 )
• October 12 : Oskar Baumann , Austrian explorer, philosopher, ethnologist, geographer and cartographer (* 1864 )
• October 13 : Aristide Cavaillé-Coll , French organ builder (* 1811 )
• October 13 : Wilhelm Speidel , German composer, pianist and university professor (* 1826 )
• October 15 : William Wallace Thayer , American politician (* 1827 )
• October 21 : Romain Bussine , French singer, vocal teacher and poet (* 1830 )
• October 27 : Florence Marryat , English writer (* 1833 )
• October 27 : Franz Ludwig Fleck , Alsatian Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop of the diocese of Metz (* 1824 )
• October 30 : Hermann Blumenau , German pharmacist (* 1819 )

• 0November 2 : Paul Leopold Haffner , German theologian (* 1829 )
• 0November 6th : Abdisho V. Khayat , Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (* 1827 )
• 0November 8 : Alexander Faltin , Baltic-German lawyer and liberal politician (* 1819 )
• November 10 : W. Jasper Blackburn , American politician (* 1820 )
• November 13 : Ulrike von Levetzow , German nun, last great (unrequited) love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (* 1804 )
• November 14 : Ferdinand Tiemann , German chemist (* 1848 )
• November 19 : Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld , German medic (* 1842 )
• November 21 : Garret Hobart , American politician (* 1844 )
• November 24th : Caliph Abdallahi ibn Sayyid Muhammad , Caliph of Omdurman (* 1846 )
• November 27 : Samuel Hitt Elbert , American politician (* 1833 )
• November 27th : Constant Fornerod , Swiss politician (* 1819 )
• November 27 : Guido Gezelle , Flemish poet (* 1830 )
• November 27 : Felipe Gutiérrez y Espinosa , Puerto Rican composer (* 1825 )
• November 27 : Anton Krettner , composer and mayor of Bad Tölz (* 1849 )
• November 28 : Albert Steck , co-founder of the Swiss Social Democratic Party (* 1843 )

• 0December 3 : Gregor Ata , Lebanese Archbishop (* 1815 )
• 0December 4 : Leopold Ullstein , German publisher (* 1826 )
• 0December 5 : August Rauschenbusch , German theologian (* 1816 )
• 0December 7th : Charles Brooks Smith , American politician (* 1844 )
• December 11th : Philipp Paulitschke , Austrian geographer and Africa explorer (* 1854 )
• December 15 : Numa Droz , Swiss politician (* 1844 )
• December 15 : George W. Shell , American politician (* 1831 )
• December 16 : Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius , Swedish zoologist (* 1854 )
• December 21 : Charles Lamoureux , French conductor (* 1834 )
• December 22nd : Pascual Ortega Portales , Chilean painter (* 1839 )
• December 28 : Dominique Ducharme , Canadian pianist, organist and music teacher (* 1840 )
• December 28 : Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg , German chemist (* 1813 )
• December 30th : Kristian Arentzen , Danish poet and literary historian (* 1823 )
• December 30th : James Paget , English surgeon and pathologist (* 1814 )
• December 31 : Karl Millöcker , Austrian operetta composer (* 1842 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Eduard Bruna , Czech philosopher and professor (* 1822 )
• Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye : Tibetan master of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism ( Vajrayana ) (* 1813 )

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