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1897 (MDCCCXCVII ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar , the 1897th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 97th year of the19th century , and the 8th year of the1890s decade. As of the start of 1897, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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March 4 , U.S. PresidentWilliam McKinley inauguratedDisplay in celebration ofQueen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on Alma Place inColeraine ,County Londonderry ,Ulster October 6 ,Ethiopian flag. October:USS Baltimore in Hawaii Marion Davies Ludwig Erhard Judith Anderson Marian Anderson January 3 January 6 –Ferenc Szálasi , 37th prime minister of Hungary (d.1946 )January 8 –Dennis Wheatley , English writer (d.1977 )[ 18] January 11 –Georges Stuttler , French footballer (d.1976 )January 14 –Hasso von Manteuffel , German general, politician (d.1978 )January 23 January 26 –Yakov Alksnis , Soviet aviator, commander of the Red Army Air Forces (d.1938 )January 28 –Ivan Stedeford , British industrialist (d.1975 )February 1 –Denise Robins , British romance novelist (d.1985 )February 4 –Ludwig Erhard , Chancellor of Germany (d.1977 )February 8 –Zakir Husain , Indian politician, 3rdPresident of India (d.1969 )February 9 –Charles Kingsford Smith , Australian aviator famous for his trans-Pacific flight (d.1935 )February 10 February 19 –Elizabeth Rummel , German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist (d.1980 )February 21 –Celia Lovsky , Austrian-born American actress (d.1979 )February 25 –Peter Llewelyn Davies , British publisher, inspiration forPeter Pan (d.1960 )February 27 Lefty O'Doul Princess Mary March 1 –Shoghi Effendi , Ottoman Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (d.1957 )March 4 –Lefty O'Doul , American baseball player, restaurateur (d.1969 )March 5 –Set Persson , Swedish communist politician (d.1960 )March 11 –Henry Cowell , American avant-garde composer (d.1965 )March 16 –Flora Eldershaw , Australian novelist, critic, and historian (d.1956 )March 18 –John Langdon-Davies , British writer (d.1971 )March 19 –Betty Compson , American actress (d.1974 )March 24 –Wilhelm Reich , Austrian psychotherapist (d.1957 )March 28 March 31 –Oto Iskandar di Nata , Indonesian politician (d.1945 )April 7 April 8 –Herbert Lumsden , British general (d.1945 )April 10 –Prafulla Chandra Sen , Indian politician andChief Minister of West Bengal (d.1990 )April 13 –Werner Voss , German World War I fighter ace (d.1917 )April 17 –Thornton Wilder , American dramatist (d.1975 )April 19 Jiroemon Kimura , Japanese supercentenarian, world's longest lived man, last surviving man born in the 19th century and last surviving person born in 1897 (d.2013 )Vivienne Segal , American actress (d.1992 )April 20 –Sudhakar Chaturvedi , Indian Vedic scholar and longevity claimant (d.2020 )April 21 –A. W. Tozer , American Protestant pastor (d.1963 )April 23 –Lester B. Pearson , 14thPrime Minister of Canada , recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (d.1972 )April 24 –Manuel Ávila Camacho , Mexican general, politician, and 45thPresident of Mexico , 1940-1946 (d.1955 )[ 19] April 25 –Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood , British princess (d.1965 )April 26 Einar Gerhardsen Odd Hassel Anthony Eden Paavo Nurmi May 2 –John Frederick Coots , American songwriter (d.1985 )May 4 –Phelps Phelps , 38thGovernor of American Samoa ,United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (d.1981 )May 10 –Einar Gerhardsen , 15th prime minister of Norway (d.1987 )May 12 –Earle Nelson , American serial killer and rapist (d.1928 )May 14 –Sidney Bechet , American-born jazz saxophonist (d.1959 )May 17 May 18 –Frank Capra , American film producer, director and writer (d.1991 )May 19 –Frank Luke , American World War I pilot (d.1918 )May 27 –John Cockcroft , English physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1967 )May 29 –Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Austrian composer (d.1957 )June 2 –Tan Malaka , Indonesian teacher, philosopher, founder of Struggle Union and Murba Party, guerilla and fighter (d.1949 )June 5 –Charles Hartshorne , American philosopher, theologian and ornithologist (d.2000 )[ 20] June 7 June 8 June 10 –Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d.1918 )[ 21] June 11 –Ram Prasad Bismil , Indian revolutionary (H.R.A. founder) (d.1927 )June 12 –Anthony Eden , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.1977 )June 13 –Paavo Nurmi , Finnish runner (d.1973 )June 16 –Georg Wittig , German chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1987 )June 19 June 22 June 24 –Daniel K. Ludwig , American businessman; billionaire philanthropist (d.1992 )June 26 –Viola Dana , American actress (d.1987 )Plaek Phibunsongkhram Tadeusz Reichstein July 1 –Bert Schneider , Canadian boxer (d.1986 )July 5 –Mogens Wöldike , Danish conductor (d.1988 )July 9 –Albert Coady Wedemeyer , American general (d.1989 )July 10 –John Gilbert , American actor (d.1936 )July 11 –Bull Connor , American civil rights opponent (d.1973 )July 14 –Plaek Phibunsongkhram , Thai field marshal, prime minister, and dictator (d.1964 )July 20 –Tadeusz Reichstein , Polish-born chemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1996 )July 24 –Amelia Earhart , American aviator (d.1937 )[ 22] July 28 –James Fairbairn , Australian pastoralist, aviator, and politician (d.1940 )July 29 – SirNeil Ritchie , British WWII general (d.1983 )August 4 –José Nucete Sardi , Venezuelan historian and diplomat (d. 1972)[ 23] August 5 –Aksel Larsen , Danish politician (d.1972 )August 10 –Jack Haley , American actor (d.1979 )August 11 –Enid Blyton , British children's writer (d.1968 )August 15 –Jane Ingham , English botanist and scientific translator (d.1982 )August 16 August 22 –Elisabeth Bergner , Austrian actress (d.1986 )August 26 –Yun Posun , 2nd president of South Korea (d.1990 )August 31 –Fredric March , American actor (d.1975 )Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco Walter Pidgeon William Faulkner September 7 –Al Sherman , Russian-born AmericanTin Pan Alley songwriter (d.1973 )September 8 –Jimmie Rodgers , American singer (d.1933 )September 10 –Otto Strasser , German Nazi politician (d.1974 )September 12 –Irène Joliot-Curie , French physicist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Chemistry (d.1956 )September 13 –Michel Saint-Denis , French-born actor, theatre director, drama theorist and radio broadcaster (d.1971 )September 15 –Kurt Daluege , German Nazi officer, war criminal (d.1946 )September 20 –Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco , 26thPresident of Brazil (d.1967 )September 22 – Frank O'Connor , American actor, rancher, and painter (d. 1979)[ 24] September 23 –Walter Pidgeon , Canadian actor (d.1984 )September 25 –William Faulkner , American writer,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962 )September 26 September 30 –Alfred Wintle , British army officer, eccentric (d.1966 )October 3 –Louis Aragon , French author (d.1982 )October 7 –Elijah Muhammad , African-American co-founder of the Nation of Islam (d.1975 )October 8 –Rouben Mamoulian , Armenian-American film, theatre director (d.1987 )October 15 –Johannes Sikkar , Estonian statesman (d.1960 )October 20 –Yi Un , Korean Crown Prince (d.1970 )October 28 –Edith Head , American costume designer (d.1981 )October 29 –Joseph Goebbels , German Nazi propagandist (d.1945 )October 30 –Agustín Lara , Mexican composer and interpreter of songs and boleros (d.1970 )[ 25] Quentin Roosevelt Hermione Gingold November 4 –Dmitry Pavlov , Soviet general (d.1941 )November 9 –Ronald George Wreyford Norrish , British chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1978 )November 12 –Milward Simpson , American politician, governor and senator from Wyoming (d.1993 )November 15 November 18 –Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett , English physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1974 )November 19 –Quentin Roosevelt , youngest son of American PresidentTheodore Roosevelt , killed in action as fighter pilot (d.1918 )November 23 –Nirad C. Chaudhuri , Bengali author (d.1999 )November 24 –Lucky Luciano , Sicilian-American Mafia bossSalvatore Lucania (d.1962 )November 26 –Robert Accard , French footballer (d.1971 )November 30 –Virginia Henderson , American nurse theorist (d.1996 )December 2 –Dean Alfange , American politician (d.1989 )December 5 –Gershom Scholem , German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher, historian (d.1982 )December 9 –Hermione Gingold , English actress (d.1987 )December 14 December 18 –Fletcher Henderson , American musician (d.1952 )December 24 –Lazare Ponticelli , Italian-French supercentenarian; last surviving officially recognized French veteran of the First World War (d.2008 )December 31 –Rhys Williams , Welsh actor (d.1969 )Johannes Brahms Andrés Bonifacio Minna Canth Louis Brière de l'Isle January 1 –Joseph S. Skerrett , American admiral (b.1833 )January 9 –Thomas Gwyn Elger , English astronomer (b.1836 )January 25 –Albion P. Howe , Union Army general (b.1818 )January 30 –Robert Themptander , 4th prime minister of Sweden (b.1844 )February 1 –Jeanne Merkus , Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier and political activist (b.1839 )February 4 –Charles Bendire , U.S. Army captain, ornithologist (b.1836 )February 15 –Dimitrie Ghica , 10th prime minister of Romania (b.1816 )February 17 –Edmund Colhoun , American admiral (b.1821 )February 19 –Karl Weierstrass , German mathematician (b.1815 )March 6 –Sir Thomas Elder , Australian businessman and philanthropist (b.1818 )March 9 –Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani , Iranian teacher, writer (b.1838 )March 10 –Savitribai Phule , Indian social reformer and poet (b.1831 )March 11 –Henry Drummond , Scottish evangelical writer, lecturer (b.1851 )March 19 –Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie , Irish-born traveler (b.1810 )April 1 –Jandamarra , Australian Aboriginal insurrectionist (b. c.1873 )April 3 –Johannes Brahms , German composer (b.1833 )[ 26] April 8 –Heinrich von Stephan , German postal director (b.1831 )April 10 –Friedrich Franz III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b.1851 )April 30 –A. Viola Neblett , American activist, suffragist, women's rights pioneer (b.1842 )May 3 –Sir Frederick Knight , British politician (b.1812 )May 4 –Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (b.1847 )May 7 May 10 –Andrés Bonifacio , Filipino revolutionary (b.1863 )May 12 –Minna Canth , Finnish writer and social activist (b.1844 )[ 28] May 21 –Gregorio Luperón , Dominican revolutionary leader (b.1839 )May 23 –Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju , Indian rajah (b.1850 )June 17 –Sebastian Kneipp , German priest and naturopath (b.1821 )June 19 –Louis Brière de l'Isle , French general (b.1827 )Antonio Cánovas del Castillo SaintThérèse of Lisieux Jan Heemskerk July 1 –Ropata Wahawaha , New Zealand Māori military leader (b. c.1820)July 6 August 8 August 17 –Sir William Jervois , British military engineer and diplomat (b.1821 )August 24 August 31 –Louisa Lane Drew , English-born American actress, theater manager (b.1820 )September 9 September 20 –Louis Pierre Mouillard , French artist and aviation pioneer (b.1834 )[ 29] September 21 –Wilhelm Wattenbach , German historian (b.1819 )September 27 September 30 – SaintThérèse of Lisieux , FrenchRoman Catholic andDiscalced Carmelite nun, saint (b.1873 )October 2 –Edward Maitland , British writer (b.1824 )October 3 –Yamaji Motoharu , Japanese general (b.1841 )October 9 October 13 –William Daniel , American temperance movement leader (b.1826 )October 19 –George Pullman , American inventor and industrialist (b.1831 )October 26 –John J. Robison , American politician in Michigan (b.1824 )[ 30] October 27 October 28 –Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead , British colonial governor (b.1824 )October 29 –Henry George , American economist (b.1839 )November –Francisco Gonzalo Marín , Cuban poet, freedom fighter (b.1863 ) November 3 –Thomas Lanier Clingman , American "Prince of Politicians" (b.1812 )November 13 –Ernest Giles , Australian explorer (b.1835 )November 15 –Lucinda Barbour Helm , American women's religious activist (b.1839 )November 17 –George Hendric Houghton , American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b.1820 )[ 31] November 18 –Sir Henry Doulton , English pottery manufacturer (b.1820 )November 19 –William Seymour Tyler , American educator, historian (b.1810 )November 23 –Étienne Stéphane Tarnier , French obstetrician (b.1828 )December 14 –Robert Simpson , Scottish-Canadian businessman (b.1834 )December 16 –Alphonse Daudet , French writer (b.1840 )December 19 –Stanislas de Guaita , French poet (b.1861 )December 28 –William Corby , American Catholic priest (b.1833 )Isidora Goyenechea ^ Oxford English Dictionary McCoy, Lisa (2010).Computers and Programming 1 . ^ Baird, W. 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