Tesla coil.
*
Michelin
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patents the removable pneumatic
bicycle tire.
* Production of the
Swiss Army Knife by
Victorinox
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begins.
*
Philips
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founded in
Eindhoven
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, for the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products.
* The
1891 census of India
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is conducted.
*
New Mexico Military Institute
New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) is a public military junior college and high school in Roswell, New Mexico. Founded in 1891, NMMI operates under the auspices of the State of New Mexico, under a dedicated Board of Regents that reports to the G ...
is founded (as Goss Military Institute) in Roswell, New Mexico Territory.
Births
January–March
*
January 1
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–
Charles Bickford, American actor (d.
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
)
*
January 7
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso IV ...
–
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on Hoodoo (spirituality), hoodoo. The most ...
, African-American writer, anthropologist, ethnographer (d. 1960)
*
January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1957)
*
January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
– Miguel Pro, Mexican Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (d. 1927)
* January 22
**Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer, politician (d. 1937)
**Bruno Loerzer, German aviator, air force general (d. 1960)
* January 23 – Marjorie Maynard, British artist and farmer (died 1975)
* January 24 – Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
– Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d.
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
)
* January 30 – Walter Beech, American pioneering aviator, aircraft manufacturer (d. 1950)
* February 1 – Shigeru Fukudome, Japanese admiral (d. 1971)
* February 2 – Antonio Segni, Italian politician, 34th Prime Minister of Italy (1955–1957, 1959–1960), 4th President of the Italian Republic (d. 1972)
* February 5 – Renato Petronio, Italian rower (d. 1976)
* February 9 – Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958)
* February 11 – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1965)
* February 13 – Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
*
February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– Henry J. Knauf, American politician (d. 1950)
* February 17 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-born Israeli mathematician, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1965)
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
* 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The Prus ...
– Seán Heuston, Irish rebel (d. 1916)
* February 27 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born American broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971)
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
– Fritz Rumey, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)
*
March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
* 1226 – ...
– José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
* March 10 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)
* March 16 - Patsy Gallacher, Irish footballer (d. 1953)
* March 19 – Earl Warren, American politician and Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
* March 24 – Rudolf Berthold, German fighter pilot (d. 1920)
* March 26 – Will Wright (actor), Will Wright, American actor (d. 1962)
* March 28 – May Mabel Adamson, Australian principal (d. 1966)
* March 29 – Yvan Goll, French lyricist, dramatist (d. 1950)
April–June
* April 2 – Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976)
*
April 5
Events Pre-1600
* 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
* 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
– Laura Vicuña, Chilean Roman Catholic holy figure and blessed (d. 1904)
* April 7
**Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish founder of ''The Lego Group'' (d. 1958)
**Minoru Ōta, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
* April 13 – Nella Larsen, American novelist (d. 1964)
* April 14 – B. R. Ambedkar, a founding father of modern India and architect of its constitution (d. 1956)
* April 15
** Väinö Raitio, Finnish composer (d. 1945)
** Wallace Reid, American actor (d. 1923)
* April 17 – George Adamski, Polish-born alleged UFO traveler (d. 1965)
* April 20 – Aldo Finzi (politician), Aldo Finzi, Italian politician (d. 1944)
*
April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
– Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
* April 29 – Bharathidasan, Tamil poet and rationalist (d. 1964)
* May 7 – Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988)
* May 10
**Anton Dostler, German general (d. 1945)
**Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (d. 1934)
*
May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...
** Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
** Hjalmar Dahl, Finnish journalist, translator and writer (d. 1960)
** Fritz Feigl, Austrian-born chemist (d. 1971)
** Nipo T. Strongheart, Native American filmmaker (d. 1966)
* May 16
** Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)
** Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, German fighter ace (d. 1918)
* May 18 – Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
*
May 19 – Oswald Boelcke, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1916)
* May 22 – Eddie Edwards (musician), Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
* May 23 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
* May 24 – William F. Albright, American archeologist, Biblical scholar (d. 1971)
* May 26
** Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born American actor (d. 1971)
** Mamie Smith, American vaudeville singer (d. 1943)
* June 2 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
* June 3 – Jim Tully, American vagabond, pugilist and writer (d. 1947)
* June 4 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (d. 2002)
* June 9 – Cole Porter, American composer, songwriter (d. 1964)
* June 18 – Ahmad bin Yahya, King of Yemen (d. 1962)
* June 20 – John A. Costello, second President of Ireland (d. 1976)
*
June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
– Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
* June 23
** Ion Codreanu, Romanian general (d. 1960)
** Valērija Seile, Latvian politician (d. 1970)
* June 27 – Mina Wylie, Australian swimmer (d. 1984)
* June 28
** Esther Forbes, American writer (d.
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
)
** Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (d. 1974)
* June 30 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
July–September
* July 2 – Karin Kock-Lindberg, Swedish politician (d. 1976)
* July 5 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
* July 7 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Imperial Japanese Army general (d. 1945)
*
July 10
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prin ...
– Edith Quimby, American medical researcher, physicist (d. 1982)
* July 11 – Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, French aviator (d. 1944)
* July 12 – Jetta Goudal, Dutch-American actress (d. 1985)
* July 18
** Billy Sullivan (actor), Billy Sullivan, American actor (d. 1946)
** Gene Lockhart, Canadian-American actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1957)
* July 21 – Elmer Ripley, American basketball coach (d. 1982)
* July 26 – William J. Connors, American politician (d. 1961)
* July 27 – Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist (d. 1968)
* July 28 – Joe E. Brown, American actor, comedian (d. 1973)
* July 29 – Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (d. 1966)
*
July 30
Events Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
*1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
*1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands ...
– Roderic Dallas, Australian World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)
* August 1
** Karl Kobelt, 2-time President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1968)
** Charles Ritz, French hotelier, fly fisherman (d. 1976)
* August 2 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
* August 11 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect, lecturer (d. 1962)
* August 13 – Ethel Roosevelt Derby, youngest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1977)
* August 14 – Ralph Barton, American artist (d. 1931)
* August 15
** Marin Ceaușu, Romanian general (d. 1954)
** Chief Yowlachie, Native American actor (d. 1966)
* August 17 – Dulcie Mary Pillers, English medical illustrator (d. 1961)
* August 21 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian, oldest war veteran ever and last surviving person born in 1891 (d. 2007)
* August 23 – Minna Craucher, Finnish socialite and spy (d. 1932)
* August 29 – Michael Chekhov, Russian-American actor, theatre director (d. 1955)
* September 3 – Bessie Delany, African-American physician, author (d. 1995)
* September 5 – Edward Molyneux, English fashion designer (d. 1974)
* September 12 – Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate of Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
*
September 14 – William F. Friedman, American cryptographer (d. 1969)
* September 16
** Teruo Akiyama, Japanese admiral (d. 1943)
** Karl Dönitz, German admiral, briefly President of Germany (d. 1980)
** Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (d. 1972)
** Julie Winnefred Bertrand, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2007)
*
September 18
Events Pre-1600
* 96 – Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects.
* 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor a ...
– Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish writer (d. 1984)
*
September 22
Events Pre-1600
* 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
* 1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of th ...
– Hans Albers, German actor, singer (d. 1960)
*
September 22
Events Pre-1600
* 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
* 1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of th ...
– Alma Thomas, African American painter (d. 1978)
* September 25 – Godfrey Ince, British civil servant (d. 1960)
* September 26
** Charles Munch (conductor), Charles Munch, French conductor, violinist (d. 1968)
** William McKell, 12th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1985)
*
September 28
Events Pre-1600
*48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
* 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
– Myrtle Gonzalez, American film, stage actress (d. 1918)
October–December
* October 12 – Fumimaro Konoe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1945)
* October 13 – Irene Rich, American actress (d. 1988)
* October 15 – Tadashige Daigo, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
* October 17 – Yasuyo Yamasaki, Imperial Japanese Army officer (d. 1943)
* October 18 – Joe Abbott (Australian politician), Joe Abbott , Australian politician (d. 1965)
*
October 20 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
* October 24 – Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
* October 25
**Petre Antonescu (general), Petre Antonescu, Romanian general (d. 1957)
**Charles Coughlin, American Catholic priest, anti-Semitic radio host (d. 1979)
*
October 28
Events Pre-1600
* 97 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
* 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
* 312 – Constantine I defeats ...
** Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot, film actor (d. 1920)
** Maria José de Castro Rebello Mendes, Brazilian diplomat
* November 2 – David Townsend (art director), David Townsend, American art director (d. 1935)
* November 4 – Orlando Ward, American general (d. 1972)
* November 7
**Miriam Cooper, American silent film actress (d. 1976)
**Genrikh Yagoda, Soviet police and intelligence official (d. 1938)
* November 10 – Carl Stalling, American musician (d. 1972)
* November 12 – Władysław Bortnowski, Polish historian and general (d. 1966)
* November 14 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
*
November 15
Events Pre-1600
* 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
*1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morg ...
** Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959)
** Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
* November 24 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (d. 1976)
*
November 28 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist, politician (d. 1949)
* November 29 – Julius Raab, former Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964)
* December 4 – T. V. Soong, Republic of China, Taiwanese businessman, politician (d. 1971)
* December 6
**Masatomi Kimura, Japanese admiral (d. 1960)
**Gotthard Sachsenberg, German World War I naval aviator, fighter ace (d. 1961)
* December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
* December 10
**Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal (d. 1969)
**Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
* December 14
**Katherine MacDonald, American silent screen actress (d. 1956)
**Lester Melrose, American record producer, known primarily for promoting the Chicago blues genre (d. 1968)
*
December 17
Events Pre-1600
* 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
* 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
* 920 – Romanos I Lekap ...
** Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1917)
** Hu Shih, Chinese liberal (d. 1962)
* December 19 – Edward Bernard Raczyński, Edward Bernard Raczynski, former President of Poland (d. 1993)
* December 24 – Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian illustrator (d. 1970)
* December 25
**Kenneth Anderson (British Army officer), Kenneth Anderson, British general (d. 1959)
**Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980)
* December 26 – Henry Miller, American novelist (d. 1980)
* December 29 – Béla Imrédy, 32nd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946)
Deaths
January–June
*
January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
– Charles Keene (artist), Charles Keene, English artist and illustrator (b. 1823)
*
January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Duchy of Burgundy, Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Turckh ...
– Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849)
*
January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhamma ...
– Carl Johan Thyselius, Swedish politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1811)
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
– John Wellborn Root, American architect (b. 1850)
*
January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
– Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 &ndas ...
– Kalākaua, last reigning King of Hawaii (b. 1836)
* January 21
** Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
** James Timberlake, American lawman (b. 1846)
* January 25 - Theo van Gogh (art dealer), Theo van Gogh, Dutch art dealer (b. 1857)
*January 26 – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (b. 1832)
* February 4 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire, 1863-1864 (d. 1816)
* February 10 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
* February 13 – David Dixon Porter, American admiral (b. 1813)
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
– William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (b. 1820)
* March 13 – Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
* March 15 – Joseph Bazalgette, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
*
March 17 – Eduard Clam-Gallas, Austrian general (b. 1805)
* March 27 – James A. Ekin, Union Army general (b. 1819)
* March 29 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
* April 2 – Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Turkish statesman (b. 1823)
* April 7 – P. T. Barnum, American showman (b. 1810)
* April 9 – George Cavendish-Bentinck, British Conservative politician (b. 1821)
* April 24 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
* April 25 – Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
*
May 2 – Albany James Christie, British Jesuit priest and academic (b. 1817)
* May 8
** Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author, theosophist (b. 1831)
** John Robertson (premier), Sir John Robertson, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816)
* May 16 – Ion C. Brătianu, 2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
* June 6 – John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Father of Confederation (b. 1815)
* June 19 – David Settle Reid, American politician (b. 1813)
* June 23 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American politician (b. 1825)
* June 24 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
July–December
* July 1 – Mihail Kogălniceanu, 3rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1817)
* July 4 – Hannibal Hamlin, List of Vice Presidents of the United States, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
* July 20 – Frederick Weld, Sir Frederick Weld, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1823)
* July 24 – Hermann Raster, German-born Forty-Eighter, editor-in-chief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (b. 1827)
* August 12 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
* August 14 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
*
August 27 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, American politician, railroad executive (b. 1816)
* August 29 – Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843?)
* September 4 – José María Urvina, 5th President of Ecuador (b. 1808)
* September 7 – Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
* September 11 – Antero de Quental, Portuguese poet (b. 1842)
* September 15 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
* September 19 – José Manuel Balmaceda, 10th President of Chile (b. 1840)
*
September 28
Events Pre-1600
*48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
* 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
– Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
* September 30 – Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general, politician (b. 1837)
* October 6
** Charles I of Württemberg (b. 1823)
** Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (b. 1846)
* October 23 – Ambrose of Optina, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1812)
* October 25 – Prince Kuni Asahiko of Japan (b. 1824)
* October 29 – Prince Yamashina Akira of Japan (b. 1816)
* November 6 – J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor (b. 1818)
* November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
* November 17 – George H. Cooper, United States Navy admiral (b. 1821)
*
November 28 – Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet, British politician (b. 1826)
* December 4 – Frederick Whitaker, English-New Zealand lawyer, politician and 5th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
* December 5 – Pedro II of Brazil, Pedro II, 2nd and last Emperor of Brazil (b. 1825)
* December 6 – Émile Bayard, French artist (b. 1837)
* December 7 – Mary Helen Peck Crane, Mary Crane, American activist; mother of the writer, Stephen Crane (b. 1827)
* December 12 – Julia A. Ames, American reformer (b. 1861)
*
December 17
Events Pre-1600
* 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
* 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
* 920 – Romanos I Lekap ...
– José María Iglesias, Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877 (b. 1823)
* December 20 – William Robert Woodman, British co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (b. 1828)
* December 29 – Leopold Kronecker, Polish-born German mathematician, academic (b. 1823)
* December 31 – Samuel Ajayi Crowther, 1st African Anglican bishop, linguist and legendary missionary (b. 1809)
Date unknown
* Anna Sprengel, German countess (alleged death)
References
Sources
* ''Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1891: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry'' (1892); highly detailed compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage. not online.
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