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1911 (MCMXI ) was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Saturday of theJulian calendar , the 1911th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the2nd millennium , the 11th year of the20th century , and the 2nd year of the1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Sketch byMarguerite Martyn of 1911 women's fashion styles January 3 :Siege of Sidney Street in LondonApril 3 –Jean Sibelius conducts the première of hisSymphony No. 4 , inHelsinki .April 8 –Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discoverssuperconductivity ; he presents his findings onApril 28 .[ 4] April 13 –Mexican Revolution : Rebels takeAgua Prieta on theSonora –Arizona border; government troops take the town backApril 17 , when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk.April 18 –SS Lusitania , a 5,557-tonPortuguese passenger liner en route fromMozambique toLisbon , strikes Bellows Rock just offCape Point and sinks.April 19 –Mexican Revolution :Francisco I. Madero 's troops besiegeCiudad Juárez , but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand.April 22 – A passenger train fromPort Alfred toGrahamstown , South Africa derails on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge, and plunges into the ravine 200 feet (61 metres) below, killing 31 and seriously injuring 23.[ 5] [ 6] April 26 –HŠK Građanski Zagreb (predecessor ofGNK Dinamo Zagreb ), a Croatian Association football club, is founded inZagreb .April 27 –Huanghuagang Uprising : In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt").May 8 –Mexican Revolution :Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops inCiudad Juárez without Madero's permission; the government troops surrender onMay 10 .May 13 –15 –Mexican Revolution :Torreón massacre – Over 300Chinese residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces ofFrancisco I. Madero , in the Mexican city ofTorreón .May 15 –Standard Oil is dissolved by theSupreme Court of the United States into 34 separate oil companies includingExxon ,Mobil ,Chevron ,Texaco , and others due to violation of theSherman Anti-Trust Act May 17 –Mexican Revolution :Porfirio Díaz is convinced to resign, but does not do so yet.May 21 –Mexican Revolution : InCiudad Juárez , a peace treaty is signed between Madero's rebels and government troops.May 24 –Mexican Revolution : Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).May 25 –Mexican Revolution :Porfirio Díaz signs his resignation and leaves forVeracruz ; onMay 31 he leaves for exile in France.May 30 – The firstIndianapolis 500 automobile race is held in the United States, won byRay Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.May 31 – The hull of theRMS Titanic is launched inBelfast , on the same dayRMS Olympic starts her sea trials.June 7 –Mexican Revolution :Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the1911 Michoacán earthquake .June 14 –RMS Olympic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France.June 15 – RMSOlympic arrives inQueenstown , Ireland, to discharge and take up passengers.June 21 –RMS Olympic arrives in New York at the end of her maiden voyage. She proceeds to her quarantine station off Staten Island, which she leaves at 7:45 a.m., and is saluted on her way upNew York Harbor by all kinds of craft as she steams to Pier 59 in the North River. With the assistance of twelve tugs,Olympic is safely moored at 10 a.m.June 22 –George V andMary are crownedKing and Queen of the United Kingdom and theBritish Dominions , atWestminster Abbey in London.[ 7] Moored at Pier 59 of New York Harbor,RMS Olympic is decorated for the occasion.June 23 –Frank C. Mars starts the Mars Candy Factory inTacoma, Washington , origin ofMars, Incorporated , the globalconfectionery and pet food brand.[ 8] July 24 :Machu Picchu rediscoveredOctober 4 –China adopts "Cup of Solid Gold " as its first national anthem. However, it is never performed publicly and is replaced a few months later with a new composition.October 7 – Liberal leaderKarl Staaff returns asPrime Minister of Sweden after a Riksdag election victory based on the promises of defense cuts and social reforms.October 10 – TheWuchang Uprising starts theXinhai Revolution that leads to the founding of theRepublic of China .October 16 –Mexican Revolution :Felix Diaz , nephew ofPorfirio Díaz , occupies the port ofVeracruz , as a sign of rebellion against Madero.October 20 –Amundsen and Scott expeditions :Amundsen 's expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp.October 26 – In American baseball, thePhiladelphia Athletics defeat theNew York Giants , 13–2, to win the1911 World Series in 6 games. The game is tied 1–1 after three innings, but with four runs in the fourth, and seven runs in the seventh, the A's demolish the Giants. The most unusual play of the game is aninside-the-park home run made by the A's Jack Barry, on abunt .November 1 November 3 –Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T.November 4 –Morocco–Congo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).November 5 – Italy annexesTripoli andCyrenaica (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament onFebruary 25 ,1912 ).November 17 –Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.December 14 :Roald Amundsen reaches theSouth Pole December 18 :Franz Marc ,Blaues Pferd I Hank Greenberg Zenkō Suzuki Eduardo Frei Montalva Danny Kaye Bruno Kreisky Polykarp Kusch January 1 January 2 –Pavel Rychagov , Soviet air ace, air force general (d.1941 )January 3 –Al Sack , American conductor, composer and violinist (d.1947 )January 5 –Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor (d.2001 )January 7 –Butterfly McQueen , American actress (d.1995 )January 10 January 11 January 13 –Joh Bjelke-Petersen , 31stPremier of Queensland (d.2005 )January 15 January 16 –Eduardo Frei Montalva , Chilean politician, 29thPresident of Chile (d.1982 )January 17 January 18 January 19 January 22 –Bruno Kreisky ,Chancellor of Austria (d.1990 )January 25 –Kurt Maetzig , German director (d.2012 )January 26 –Polykarp Kusch , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1993 )January 28 –Johan van Hulst , Dutch politician, academic, author andYad Vashem recipient (d.2018 )January 29 –Peter von Siemens , German industrialist (d.1986 )January 30 January 31 Ronald Reagan Elizabeth Bishop Merle Oberon February 5 –Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d.1960 )February 6 –Ronald Reagan , 40thPresident of the United States and actor (d.2004 )February 8 –Elizabeth Bishop , American poet (d.1979 )February 10 –Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel , Venezuelan classical musician (d.1986 )February 12 February 13 –Jean Muir , American actress (d.1996 )February 14 –Willem Johan Kolff , Dutch inventor (d.2009 )February 17 –Oskar Seidlin , Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d.1984 )February 19 February 21 –Madeline Barclay , French SOE espionage agent (d.1943 )February 24 –Eduardo Vañó Pastor , Spanish cartoonist (d.1993 )February 27 –Fanny Edelman , Argentine politician (d.2011 )February 28 –Otakar Vávra , Czech director (d.2011 )Jean Harlow Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Alfonso García Robles Joseph Barbera Tennessee Williams March 1 –Mike Gilbert , New Zealand rugby union player (d.2002 )March 3 –Jean Harlow , American actress (d.1937 )March 5 –Wolfgang Larrazábal , 52ndPresident of Venezuela (d.2003 )March 6 –Nikolai Baibakov , Soviet statesman (d.2008 )March 8 –Alan Hovhaness , American composer (d.2000 )March 10 –Marita Camacho Quirós ,First Lady of Costa Rica ,supercentenarian March 12 –Gustavo Díaz Ordaz , 49thPresident of Mexico (d.1979 )March 13 –L. Ron Hubbard , American author, founder ofScientology (d.1986 )[ 13] March 16 March 18 March 20 –Alfonso García Robles , Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d.1991 )March 24 March 25 –Jack Ruby , American mobster, killer ofLee Harvey Oswald (d.1967 )March 26 March 27 –Erich Heller , British philosopher (d.1990 )March 29 –Brigitte Horney , German-born actress (d.1988 )March 31 Hédi Amara Nouira Feodor Lynen Melvin Calvin Józef Cyrankiewicz April 3 April 4 –Narciso J. Alegre , Filipino civil liberties advocate (d. 1980)April 5 –Hédi Amara Nouira , Tunisian politician, 11thPrime Minister of Tunisia (d.1993 )April 6 –Feodor Lynen , German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1979 )April 8 April 10 –Maurice Schumann , French politician (d.1998 )April 13 –Donald Leslie , American creator of the Leslie speaker (d.2004 )April 15 –Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi , Egyptian jurist (d.1998 )April 18 –Maurice Goldhaber , Austrian-American physicist (d.2011 )April 23 April 26 –Paul Verner , German politician (d.1986 )April 27 –Antonio Sastre , Argentine footballer (d.1987 )April 28 Big Joe Turner Vincent Price Maurice Allais May 5 –Andor Lilienthal , Hungarian chess Grandmaster (d.2010 )May 6 –Frank Nelson , American actor (d.1986 )May 7 –Ishirō Honda , Japanese film director (d.1993 )May 8 –Robert Johnson , American guitarist, singer (d.1938 )May 10 –Bel Kaufman , German-born American author (d.2014 )May 11 –Phil Silvers , American actor, comedian (d.1985 )May 12 –Dorothy Rungeling , Canadian aviator (d.2018 )May 15 –Max Frisch , Swiss playwright and novelist (d.1991 )[ 16] May 16 –Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah , Malayan queen (d.1999 )May 17 May 18 –Big Joe Turner , African-American singer (d.1985 )May 20 –Gardner Fox , American writer (d.1986 )May 22 –Anatol Rapoport , Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d.2007 )May 24 –Carleen Hutchins , American violin maker (d.2009 )May 25 –Eric P. Newman , American numismatist (d.2017 )May 27 May 31 –Maurice Allais , French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.2010 )Luis Walter Alvarez Wilbert Awdry Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark Bernard Herrmann Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld Czesław Miłosz June 3 –Ellen Corby , American actress (d.1999 )June 4 –Milovan Đilas , Yugoslavian Marxist (d.1995 )June 5 –Neel E. Kearby , American fighter ace (d.1944 )June 9 –Hawley Pratt , American film director, animator and illustrator (d.1999 )June 13 June 15 –Wilbert Awdry , English children's writer (d.1997 )June 16 –Paulo Gracindo , Brazilian actor (d.1995 )June 19 –Dudley Senanayake , 2ndPrime Minister of Sri Lanka (d.1973 )June 20 –Paul Pietsch , German racer, magazine magnate (d.2012 )June 21 June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 Pablo Gomez Sarino Gian Carlo Menotti John Archibald Wheeler Ginger Rogers Yang Jiang Marshall McLuhan José María Lemus July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 –Amalia Solórzano ,First Lady of Mexico (d.2008 )July 11 July 14 –William Norris , American business executive (d.2006 )July 15 July 16 July 17 –Yang Jiang , Chinese playwright, author and translator (d.2016 )July 18 July 19 –Ben Eastman , American middle-distance runner (d.2002 )July 19 –Loda Halama , Polish dancer and actress (d. 1996)July 21 –Marshall McLuhan , Canadian author (d.1980 )July 22 –José María Lemus , 33rdPresident of El Salvador (d.1993 )July 26 –Jerry Burke , American musician (d.1965 )July 28 –Ann Doran , American actress (d.2000 )July 29 –Ján Cikker , Slovak composer (d.1989 )July 31 –George Liberace , American musician (d.1983 )Lucille Ball Thanom Kittikachorn Cantinflas Mikhail Botvinnik August 2 –Rusty Wescoatt , American actor (d.1987 )August 3 –Manuel Esperón , Mexican musician, composer (d.2011 )August 5 –Robert Taylor , American actor (d.1969 )August 6 August 7 –Nicholas Ray , American director (d.1979 )August 8 –Rosetta LeNoire , American actress (d.2002 )August 9 –William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1995 )August 10 August 11 August 12 –Cantinflas , Mexican actor (d.1993 )August 13 –Roy Pinney , American herpetologist, photographer, war correspondent and writer (d.2010 )August 15 –Anthony Salerno , American gangster (d.1992 )August 17 August 18 –Amelia Boynton Robinson , African-American civil rights activist (d.2015 )August 22 –Joe Hickey , American politician, jurist, governor and senator fromWyoming (d.1970 )August 23 August 25 –Võ Nguyên Giáp , General of theVietnam People's Army (d.2013 )August 29 –John Charnley , English orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer of hip replacement operation (d.1982 )August 31 –Ramón Vinay , Chilean operatic tenor (d.1996 )Todor Zhivkov SirJohn Gorton Konstantin Chernenko September 1 –Kōmei Abe , Japanese composer (d.2006 )September 2 –Romare Bearden , American artist (d.1988 )September 6 –Harry Danning , American baseball player (d.2004 )September 7 –Todor Zhivkov , 36thPrime Minister of Bulgaria (d.1998 )September 8 –Byron Morrow , American actor (d.2006 )September 9 September 10 September 13 –Bill Monroe , American musician (d.1996 )September 15 –Joseph Pevney , American director (d.2008 )September 19 –William Golding , English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1993 )September 24 September 25 –Eric Williams , 1stPrime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d.1981 )September 27 –John Harvey , American actor (d.1982 )September 29 –Charles Court , Australian politician (d.2007 )September 30 Joe Rosenthal Lê Đức Thọ October 3 –Edgar Sanabria , Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, InterimPresident of Venezuela (d.1989 )October 4 –Mary Two-Axe Earley , Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (d.1996 )October 5 October 9 –Joe Rosenthal , American photographer (d.2006 )October 10 –Clare Hollingworth , English journalist (d.2017 )October 12 –Vijay Merchant , Indian cricketer (d.1987 )October 13 October 14 –Lê Đức Thọ , Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d.1990 )October 15 –James H. Schmitz , German-born American science fiction writer (d.1981 )[ 19] October 21 October 26 October 27 –Leif Erickson , American actor (d.1986 )October 30 Odysseas Elytis Jorge Negrete November 1 November 2 –Odysseas Elytis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1996 )November 5 –Roy Rogers , American singer, actor (d.1998 )November 7 November 12 November 13 –Buck O'Neil , American baseball player, manager (d.2006 )November 15 –Kay Walsh , British actress (d.2005 )November 24 –Erik Bergman , Finnish composer (d.2006 )November 25 –Roelof Frankot , Dutch painter (d.1984 )November 26 –Robert Marchand , French cyclist (d.2021 )November 27 November 28 –Václav Renč , Czech poet, dramatist and translator (d.1973 )November 30 –Jorge Negrete , Mexican singer and actor (d.1953 )[ 20] Broderick Crawford Naguib Mahfouz Trygve Haavelmo Hans von Ohain Niels Kaj Jerne December 1 –Walter Alston , American baseball player, manager (d.1984 )December 3 –Nino Rota , Italian composer (d.1979 )[ 21] December 5 –Władysław Szpilman , Polish pianist, memoirist (d.2000 )December 8 –Lee J. Cobb , American actor (d.1976 )December 9 –Broderick Crawford , American actor (d.1986 )December 10 –Chet Huntley , American television reporter (d.1974 )December 11 December 13 December 14 December 15 –Stan Kenton , American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d.1979 )[ 22] December 17 –André Claveau , French singer,Eurovision Song Contest 1958 winner (d.2003 )December 18 –Jules Dassin , American director (d.2008 )December 20 –Hortense Calisher , American author (d.2009 )December 21 –Josh Gibson , African-American baseball player (d.1947 )December 23 –Niels Kaj Jerne , English-born immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1994 )December 25 –Louise Bourgeois , French-born American artist (d.2010 )December 26 December 27 December 28 –Sam Levenson , American humorist and author (d.1980 )December 29 –Klaus Fuchs , German theoretical physicist, spy (d.1988 )Marcelina Darowska SirFrancis Galton January 1 –John I. Curtin , American general (b. 1837)January 3 January 4 January 5 January 6 –Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet , English civil engineer (b. 1833)January 8 –Pietro Gori , Italian lawyer, journalist and poet (b. 1865)January 12 –Georg Jellinek , Austrian legal philosopher (b.1851 )January 13 –Władysław Czachórski , Polish painter (b. 1850)January 15 –Carolina Coronado , Spanish poet (b. 1820)January 17 – SirFrancis Galton , British explorer, biologist (b. 1822)January 23 –Edmund Beswick , English rugby football player (b. 1858)SaintGiuditta Vannini Alice Morse Earle February 1 –Charles Stillman Sperry , American admiral (b. 1847)February 2 –Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (b. 1852)February 4 February 8 –Joaquín Costa , Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and historian (b. 1846)February 10 –Gustavo Maria Bruni , Italian childhoodRoman Catholic servant of God (b. 1903)February 14 –David Boyle , Canadian archaeologist (b. 1842)February 15 February 16 –Alice Morse Earle , American historian (b. 1851)February 18 –Buttons Briggs , American baseball player (b. 1875)February 21 –Isidre Nonell , Spanish painter (b. 1873)February 23 February 25 –Fritz von Uhde , German painter (b. 1848)Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Dragan Tsankov George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Gustav Mahler BaronDezső Bánffy Maurice Rouvier June 1 –Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido , Cuban violinist (b. 1852)June 2 –Axel Olof Freudenthal , Finnish philologist, politician (b. 1836)June 5 –Édouard Bague , French aviator (b. 1879)June 7 June 9 –Carrie Nation , American temperance activist (b. 1846)June 16 –Joshua H. Berkey , American publisher, minister and political activist (b. 1852)June 20 –Ghazaros Aghayan , Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure (b. 1840)June 23 –Cecrope Barilli , Italian painter (b. 1839)June 25 –Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (b. 1843)June 26 –Lucy Hughes Brown , American physician (b. 1863)George Johnstone Stoney Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg July 2 July 5 July 6 –Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1830)July 8 –Henry Perrine Baldwin , American businessman (b. 1842)July 11 –Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse , American temperance activist and juvenile literature author (b. 1841)July 14 –Ignaz von Peczely , Hungarian scientist, physician and homeopath (b. 1826)July 15 July 16 –August Harambašić , Croatian writer (b. 1861)July 17 –Rufino José Cuervo , Colombian linguist, philologist and writer (b. 1844)July 19 –Manuel Iradier , Spanish explorer and Africanist (b. 1854)July 20 –Caleb Cook Baldwin , AmericanPresbyterian missionary (b. 1820)July 25 July 26 –José Alves de Cerqueira César , Brazilian politician (b. 1835)Konrad Duden Mahbub Ali Khan August 1 August 2 –Ioryi Mucitano , Aromanian revolutionary (b. 1882)[ 28] August 6 –Florentino Ameghino , Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1853)August 7 August 11 August 12 –Jules Brunet , French military leader (b. 1838)August 14 –Henry Rathbone , Union Army officer and diplomat (b.1837 )August 15 –William R. Badger , American pioneer aviator (b. 1886)August 16 –Patrick Francis Moran , Australian cardinal,Archbishop of Sydney (b. 1830)August 17 –Petro Nini Luarasi , Albanian activist (b. 1854)August 29 –Mahbub Ali Khan of Hyderabad (b. 1886)August 31 –Benjamin Grierson , American Civil War general (b.1826 )Pyotr Stolypin September 4 –John Francon Williams , Welsh-born journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)September 7 –Friedrich Breitfuss , Russian philatelist (b. 1851)September 9 –Francis March , American comparative linguist (b.1825 )September 12 –William Alexander , Irish Anglican bishop, Primate of All Ireland (b.1824 )September 15 –Joel Benton , American writer, poet and lecturer (b. 1832)September 16 –Edward Whymper , British explorer, mountaineer (b. 1840)September 18 –Pyotr Stolypin , 3rdPrime Minister of Russia (assassinated) (b. 1862)September 20 –Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet , British diplomat (b. 1835)September 23 –John Arthur Barry , British-born Australian journalist, author (b. 1850)September 25 –Emma Helen Blair , American journalist, editor (b. 1851)September 29 –Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote , 3rdGovernor-General of Australia (b. 1846)September 30 –Sir Herbert Risley , British ethnographer and colonial administrator (b. 1851)Carolina Beatriz Ângelo Antonio Borrero José López Domínguez October –Blanche Atkinson , British novelist (b. 1847)October 1 –Wilhelm Dilthey , German psychologist, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1833)October 2 October 3 –Carolina Beatriz Ângelo , Portuguese physician (b. 1878)October 5 –William Astley , Australian writer (b. 1855)October 7 October 8 –Lee Batchelor , Australian politician (b. 1865)October 9 October 11 October 13 –Miguel Malvar , Filipino general (b. 1865)October 14 –John Marshall Harlan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)October 17 –José López Domínguez , Spanish military officer, politician and 24thPrime Minister of Spain (b. 1829)October 18 –Alfred Binet , French psychologist (b. 1857)October 19 –Eugene Burton Ely , American aviation pioneer (b. 1886)October 24 –Ida Lewis , American lighthouse keeper (b. 1842)October 27 –Arthur Lloyd , BritishAnglican missionary (b. 1852)October 28 –Clement V. Rogers , Cherokee politician, father ofWill Rogers (b. 1839)October 29 –Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born newspaper publisher, journalist (b.1847 )[ 30] October 30 –Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness Herbert of Lea , English Catholic writer, translator, philanthropist and social figure (b.1822 )October 31 –John Joseph Montgomery , American glider pioneer (b. 1858)Christian Lundeberg Ramón Cáceres Nikola Hristić November 2 –Kyrle Bellew , English actor (b. 1850)November 3 –George Chrystal , British mathematician (b. 1851)November 7 November 8 –Oscar Bielaski , American baseball player (b. 1847)November 9 –Howard Pyle , American artist and fiction writer (b. 1853)November 10 –Christian Lundeberg , Swedish politician, 10thPrime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)November 11 –Josef Roman Lorenz , Austrian naturalist (b. 1825)November 14 –Francis Buxton , British barrister and politician (b. 1847)November 19 November 20 –Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild , British needlework artist (b. 1824)November 22 November 23 November 25 –Paul Lafargue , French Marxist theorist, activist (b. 1842)November 26 November 28 –Preston Jacobus , American developer, businessman and politician (b. 1864)November 29 –Stanley Calvert Clarke , British army officer, courtierVassily Maximov Emilio Estrada Carmona December 1 –Vassily Maximov , Russian painter (b. 1844)December 2 George Davidson , English-born American geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer (b. 1825)Eugène Alphonse Dyer , Canadian merchant, farmer and political figure (b. 1838)December 7 –Robert Maitland Brereton , English railway engineer (b. 1834)December 9 – BlessedBernard Mary of Jesus , ItalianRoman Catholic priest, blessed (b. 1831)December 10 – SirJoseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist (b. 1817)December 11 –Thomas Ball , American sculptor, musician (b. 1819)December 13 –Nikolay Beketov , Russian chemist (b. 1827)December 19 –John Bigelow , American lawyer, statesman (b. 1817)December 20 –Rose Eytinge , American actress (b. 1835)December 21 December 22 December 24 –Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski , AmericanRoman Catholic priest (b. 1847)December 25 –Arthur F. 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