Events

Below, the events of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

have the "WWI" prefix.

January

* January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial

Ottoman Army The military of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun silahlı kuvvetleri) was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. Army The military of the Ottoman Empire can be divided in five main periods. The foundation era covers the ...

garrison on the

Sinai Peninsula The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (now usually ) (, , cop, Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a ...

is captured by the

Egyptian Expeditionary Force The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning ...

's Desert Column. *

January 10 Events Pre-1600 * 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. * 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the ...

–

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Ernest Shackleton, Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the ...

: Seven survivors of the

Ross Sea party The Ross Sea party was a component of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Its task was to lay a series of supply depots across the Great Ice Barrier from the Ross Sea to the Beardmore Glacier, along the pola ...

were rescued after being stranded for several months. *

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 Muham ...

– Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day

Lyndhurst, New Jersey Lyndhurst is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 20,554, reflecting an increase of 1,171 (+6.0%) from the 19,383 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in tu ...

), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The

Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies ( da, Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles or Danish Virgin Islands were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with ; Saint John ( da, St. Jan) with ; and Saint Croix with . The ...

is sold to the United States for $25 million. *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor ('' Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw ...

– WWI: United States President

Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of P ...

calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British

armed merchantman An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In the days of sail, piracy and privateers, many merchantmen would be routinely armed, especially those engaging in ...

is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti- prostitution drive in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

occurs, and police close about 200 prostitution houses. *

January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. *1564 – The Council of Trent ...

– The sea defences at the English village of

Hallsands Hallsands is a village and beach in south Devon, England, in a precarious position between cliffs and the sea, between Beesands to the north and Start Point to the south. History The early history of Hallsands is unknown, but a chapel has exi ...

are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable. *

January 28 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...

– The United States ends its search for

Pancho Villa Francisco "Pancho" Villa (, Orozco rebelled in March 1912, both for Madero's continuing failure to enact land reform and because he felt insufficiently rewarded for his role in bringing the new president to power. At the request of Madero's c ...

. *

January 30 Events Pre-1600 *1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. *1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 *1607 – An estimated ...

– Pershing's troops in

Mexico Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...

begin withdrawing back to the United States. They reach

Columbus, New Mexico Columbus is a village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of a 1916 attack by Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco "Pancho" Villa that ca ...

February 5 Events Pre-1600 *AD 62, 62 – AD 62 Pompeii earthquake, Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. *1576 – Henry IV of France, Henry of Navarre :wikt:abjure, abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Re ...

February

* February 1 – WWI: Atlantic U-boat Campaign:

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

announces its

U-boat U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare ro ...

s will resume

unrestricted submarine warfare Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules (also known as "cruiser rules") that call for warships to ...

, rescinding the ' ''Sussex'' Pledge'. *

February 3 Events Pre-1600 *1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. * 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...

– WWI: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the '' Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. * 1462 – T ...

Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed ...

is arrested in Paris for spying. ** WWI – Raid on Nekhl: Units of the

completely reoccupy the

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...

ian Sinai Peninsula. *

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 ...

– British

troopship A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted from commercial shipping fleets, and were unable land troops directly on shore, typicall ...

is accidentally rammed and sunk off the

Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight ( ) is a Counties of England, county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the List of islands of England#Largest islands, largest and List of islands of England#Mo ...

, killing 646, mainly members of the South African Native Labour Corps. *

February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene Christianity, Nicene bishops with Arianism, Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. *1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of ...

– WWI: Walter Hines Page, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico, if Mexico will take sides with Germany, in case the United States declares war on Germany.

March

March 1 Events Pre-1600 *509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocletian and ...

** WWI: The U.S. government releases the text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. ** Ōmuta, Japan, is founded by Hiroushi Miruku. *

March 2 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost cu ...

– The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. *

March 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez (title), Knez Trpimir I of Cr ...

sworn in Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon ', also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to giv ...

for a second term, as President of the United States. **

Jeannette Rankin Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States in 1917. She was elected to the U.S. House of Represent ...

Montana Montana () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West List of regions of the United States#Census Bureau-designated regions and divisions, division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North ...

becomes the first woman member of the

United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together the ...

. * March 7 – "

Livery Stable Blues "Livery Stable Blues" is a jazz composition copyrighted by Ray Lopez ''(né'' Raymond Edward Lopez; 1889–1979) and Alcide Nunez in 1917. It was recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band on February 26, 1917, and, with the A side "Dixieland J ...

", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on

February 26 Events Pre-1600 * 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events. * 364 – Valentinian I is ...

, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in the United States, becomes the first

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a majo ...

recording commercially released. On August 17 the band records " Tiger Rag". *

March 8 Events Pre-1600 *1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. * 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. *1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bo ...

– (N.S.) (

February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...

, O.S.) – The February Revolution begins in Russia: Women calling for bread in

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

start riots, which spontaneously spread throughout the city. * March 10 – The Province of

Batangas Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas ( tl, Lalawigan ng Batangas ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Its capital is the city of Batangas, and is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and ...

is formally founded, as one of the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

' first encomiendas. *

March 11 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ve ...

– Mexican Revolution:

Venustiano Carranza José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (; 29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920) was a Mexican wealthy land owner and politician who was Governor of Coahuila when the constitutionally elected president Francisco I. Madero was overthrown in a Februa ...

is elected president of Mexico; the United States gives ''

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'' recognition of his government. *

March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. *1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...

– The Russian

Duma A duma (russian: дума) is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions. The term ''boyar duma'' is used to refer to advisory councils in Russia from the 10th to 17th centuries. Starting in the 18th century, city dumas were f ...

declares a

Provisional Government A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or f ...

. It was dissolved 4 months later. * March 14 – WWI: The

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northea ...

terminates diplomatic relations with Germany. *

March 15 Events Pre-1600 *474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. * 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 – ...

(N.S.) (

, O.S.) – Emperor

Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...

abdicates his throne and his son's claims. This is considered to be the end of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...

, after 196 years. *

March 16 Events Pre-1600 * 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. *1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. *1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...

(N.S.) (

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 & ...

, O.S.) –

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович, r=Mikhail Aleksandrovich; 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas ...

refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly formed Provisional Government, under Prince Georgy Lvov. * March 25 – The

Georgian Orthodox Church The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია, tr), commonly ...

restores the

autocephaly Autocephaly (; from el, αὐτοκεφαλία, meaning "property of being self-headed") is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. The term is primarily used in Eastern O ...

, abolished by Imperial Russia in

1811 Events January–March * January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana. * January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón B ...

. * March 26 – WWI – First Battle of Gaza: British

troops virtually encircle the Gaza garrison, but are then ordered to withdraw, leaving the city to the Ottoman defenders. * March 30 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld steps down as

Prime Minister of Sweden The prime minister ( sv, statsminister ; literally translating to "Minister of State") is the head of government of Sweden. The prime minister and their cabinet (the government) exercise executive authority in the Kingdom of Sweden and are su ...

; he is replaced by right-wing businessman and politician Carl Swartz. *

March 31 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. *1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the nec ...

– The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the

US Virgin Islands The United States Virgin Islands,. Also called the ''American Virgin Islands'' and the ''U.S. Virgin Islands''. officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory ...

, after paying $25 million to Denmark.

April

* April – ''

Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki was once considered to be the first professional Japanese animated film ever made. It was made by Ōten Shimokawa in 1917 to be shown in a cinema, in this case, in the Asakusa Kinema Kurabu, a theater in Tokyo managed directly by the film compa ...

'', the first

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, is released in Japan. *

April 2 Events Pre-1600 *1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...

– WWI: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the

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for a declaration of war on Germany. * April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany. * April 8 (N.S.) ( March 26, O.S.) – In

, 40,000 ethnic

Estonians Estonians or Estonian people ( et, eestlased) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Estonia who speak the Estonian language. The Estonian language is spoken as the first language by the vast majority of Estonians; it is closely related to othe ...

demand national autonomy within

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

. * April 9–

May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. *1364 ...

– WWI: Battle of Arras – British Empire troops make a significant advance on the Western Front but are unable to achieve a breakthrough. * April 9– 12 – WWI: Canadian troops win the Battle of Vimy Ridge. * April 10 – Eddystone explosion: an explosion at an ammunition plant near

Chester, Pennsylvania Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, it is the only city in Delaware County and had a population of 32,605 as of the 2020 census. Incorporated in 1682, Chester ...

, kills 139, mostly female workers. *

April 11 Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. *1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. * 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Fer ...

– WWI:

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

severs diplomatic relations with Germany. *

April 12 Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted t ...

(N.S.) ( March 30 O.S.) – The Autonomous Governorate of Estonia is formed within

, from the Governorate of Estonia and the northern part of the Governorate of Livonia. * April 16 ** (N.S.) (

April 3 Events Pre-1600 * 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. *1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. *1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. ...

, O.S.) –

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...

arrives at the Finland Station in

. ** WWI: The Nivelle Offensive commences. *

April 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of H ...

** (N.S.) (

April 4 Events Pre-1600 *503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...

, O.S.) –

's April Theses are published. They become very influential in the following July Days and

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. ** WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the Second Battle of Gaza. This unsuccessful frontal attack on strong Ottoman defences along with the first battle, results in 10,000 casualties, the dismissal of force commander General Archibald Murray, and the beginning of the

Stalemate in Southern Palestine The Stalemate in Southern Palestine was a six month standoff between the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and the Ottoman Army in World War I. The two hostile forces faced each other along the Gaza to Beersheba line during the Sinai and ...

. ** ''

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'' and the ''

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'' (London newspapers both owned by Lord Northcliffe) print atrocity propaganda of the supposed existence of a German Corpse Factory processing dead soldiers' bodies. * April 19 – WWI: Army transport fires the United States' first shots in anger in the war when her gun crew drives off a German

in the

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seven miles southeast of

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. * April 26 – WWI: The Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, between France, Italy and the United Kingdom, to settle interests in the Middle East, is signed.

May

* May 3 – WWI:

1917 French Army mutinies The 1917 French Army mutinies took place amongst French Army troops on the Western Front in Northern France during World War I. They started just after the unsuccessful and costly Second Battle of the Aisne, the main action in the Nivelle Offens ...

begin. * May 9 – WWI: The Nivelle Offensive is abandoned. * May 13 – Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by

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. * May 13–

October 13 Events Pre-1600 * 54 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adoptive son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina. * 409 – Vandals and Alans cross the ...

(at monthly intervals) – 10-year-old Lúcia Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto report experiencing a series of

Marian apparition A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by Mary, the mother of Jesus, or a series of related such appearances during a period of time. In the Catholic Church, in order for a reported appearance to be classified as a Marian a ...

s near Fátima, Portugal, which become known as Our Lady of Fátima. *

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 Arb ...

– Robert Nivelle is replaced as Commander-in-Chief of the

French Army The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (french: Armée de Terre, ), is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces. It is responsible to the Government of France, along with the other components of the Armed Force ...

, by

Philippe Pétain Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain (, ) or Marshal Pétain (french: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of Worl ...

. * May 18 – WWI: The Selective Service Act passes the

, giving the President the power of conscription. * May 21 – Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 in the United States. *

May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. ...

**The Commissioned Officer Corps of the

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is established. ** Ell Persons is lynched in Memphis, in connection with the rape and murder of 16-year-old Antoinette Rappal. * May 23 ** A month of civil violence in

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, Italy ends, after the Italian army forcibly takes over the city from anarchists and anti-war revolutionaries; 50 people are killed and 800 arrested. ** WWI: During the

the

Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway The Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway took place on 23 May 1917 after the Second Battle of Gaza and before the Battle of Beersheba during the Stalemate in Southern Palestine in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Subst ...

, by the British Desert Column, large sections of the railway line linking

Beersheba Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...

to the main Ottoman desert base are destroyed. * May 26 – A

tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, alt ...

strikes

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, causing devastation and killing 101 people. *

May 27 Events Pre-1600 *1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. *1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...

– WWI:

: Over 30,000 French troops refuse to go to the trenches at

Missy-aux-Bois Missy-aux-Bois () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost Regions of France, region of France, created by the territorial reform of French ...

. *

–

promulgates the 1917 ''Code of Canon Law''.

June

June 1 Events Pre-1600 *1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. *1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king o ...

–

: A French infantry regiment seizes

, and declares an anti-war military government. Other French army troops soon apprehend them. * June 4 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography, (for ''

Julia Ward Howe Julia Ward Howe (; May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American author and poet, known for writing the " Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the original 1870 pacifist Mother's Day Proclamation. She was also an advocate for abolitionism ...

''). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history, for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days.'' Herbert Bayard Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism, for his work for the ''

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.'' * June 5 – WWI: Conscription begins in the United States. * June 7 – WWI:

Battle of Messines Battle of Messines may refer to: *Battle of Messines (1914) *Battle of Messines (1917) The Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) was an attack by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), on the Western Front, near the village of ...

opens with the British Army detonating 24 ammonal mines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest deliberate non-nuclear man-made explosion in history. * June 8 –

Speculator Mine disaster The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, occurred as a result of a fire in a copper mine, and was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history. Most men died of suffocation underground as the ...

: A fire at the Granite Mountain and Speculator ore mine, outside Butte, Montana, kills at least 168 workers. * June 11 – King

Constantine I of Greece Constantine I ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Αʹ, ''Konstantínos I''; – 11 January 1923) was King of Greece from 18 March 1913 to 11 June 1917 and from 19 December 1920 to 27 September 1922. He was commander-in-chief of the Hellenic Ar ...

abdicates for the first time, being succeeded by his son

Alexander Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

. *

June 13 Events Pre-1600 * 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. * 1325 – Ibn Battut ...

– WWI: The first major German bombing raid on London by fixed-wing aircraft leaves 162 dead and 432 injured. * June 15 – The United States enacts the Espionage Act.

July

* July – The first Cottingley Fairies photographs are taken in

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...

, England, apparently depicting fairies (a hoax not admitted by the child creators until

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major off ...

). * July 1 ** East St. Louis riot: A labor dispute ignites a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois, which leaves 250 dead. ** Russian General

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begins the major Kerensky Offensive in

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, initially advancing towards Lemberg. *

July 2 Events Pre-1600 * 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. * 626 – Li Shimin ...

– WWI: Greece joins the war on the side of the Allies. * July 6 – WWI: ** Battle of Aqaba: Arabian troops, led by T. E. Lawrence, capture

Aqaba Aqaba (, also ; ar, العقبة, al-ʿAqaba, al-ʿAgaba, ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative centre of the Aqaba Gove ...

from the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. ** The

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in Canada leads to passage of the Military Service Act. * July 7 – The

Lions Clubs International The International Association of Lions Clubs, more commonly known as Lions Clubs International, is an international non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, by Melvin Jones. It is now headquarte ...

is formed in the United States. * July 8– 13 – WWI – First Battle of Ramadi: British troops fail to take Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire; a majority of British casualties are due to extreme heat. * July 12 – Bisbee Deportation: The Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1,000 suspected IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona. * July 16– July 17 – Russian troops mutiny, abandon the Austrian front, and retreat to

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...

; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat. * July 16– July 18 – July Days: Serious clashes occur in

;

escapes to

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

;

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian M ...

is arrested. * July 17 – King

George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Q ...

of the United Kingdom issues a proclamation, stating that thenceforth the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor, vice the Germanic bloodline of ''

House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (; german: Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) is a Europeans, European Royal House, royal house. It takes its name from its oldest domain, the Ernestine duchies, Ernestine duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, its member ...

'', which is an offshoot of the historic (800+ years)

House of Wettin The House of Wettin () is a dynasty of Germany, German monarch, kings, Prince Elector, prince-electors, dukes, and counts that once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The dynasty is one of ...

. * July 20 ** The

Parliament of Finland The Parliament of Finland ( ; ) is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that power is vested in the Parliament. Th ...

, with a Social Democratic majority, passes a "Sovereignty Act", declaring itself, as the representative of the Finnish people, sovereign over the Grand Principality of Finland. The Russian Provisional Government does not recognize the act, as it would have devolved Russian sovereignty over Finland, formerly exercised by the Russian Emperor as Grand Prince of Finland, and alter the relationship between Finland and Russia into a real union, with Russia solely responsible for the defence and foreign relations of an independent Finland. ** ( July 7, O.S.) – Alexander Kerensky becomes

premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of govern ...

of the

Russian Provisional Government The Russian Provisional Government ( rus, Временное правительство России, Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of the Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediatel ...

, replacing Prince Georgy Lvov. ** The Russian Provisional Government enacts

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to gran ...

. ** The Corfu Declaration, which enables the establishment of the post-war

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and the

Kingdom of Serbia The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Prin ...

. * July 20– July 28 – WWI: Austrian and

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forces repulse the Russian advance into

. * July 25 – Sir William Thomas White introduces Canada's first

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as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). * July 28 – The

Silent Parade The Negro Silent Protest Parade, commonly known as the Silent Parade, was a silent march of about 10,000 African Americans along Fifth Avenue starting at 57th Street in New York City on July 28, 1917. The event was organized by the NAACP, church ...

is organized by the

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in New York City, to protest the East St. Louis riot of

, as well as lynchings in

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to ...

and

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. * July 30 – The

is dissolved by the

. New elections are held in the autumn, resulting in a bourgeois majority. * July 31 – WWI –

Battle of Passchendaele The Third Battle of Ypres (german: link=no, Dritte Flandernschlacht; french: link=no, Troisième Bataille des Flandres; nl, Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by t ...

("Third Battle of Ypres"): Allied offensive operations commence in Flanders.

August

August 2 Events Pre-1600 *338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. * 216 BC – The Carthaginian a ...

– August 3 – The

Green Corn Rebellion The Green Corn Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in rural Oklahoma on August 2 and 3, 1917. The uprising was a reaction by European-Americans, tenant farmers, Seminoles, Muscogee Creeks, and African-Americans to an attempt to enforc ...

, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the WWI draft, takes place in central Oklahoma. *

– Squadron Commander E.H. Dunningbr>lands his aircraft on the ship
in

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. He is killed 5 days later during another landing on the ship. * August 3 – The New York Guard is founded. *

August 10 Events Pre-1600 * 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I. * 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. * 991 – Battle of Maldon: T ...

– A general strike begins in Spain; it is smashed after 3 days with 70 left dead, hundreds of wounded and 2,000 arrests. *

August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...

– The

declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. * August 17 – One of English literature's important meetings takes place, when

Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced ...

introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at the

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. * August 18 – The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 in Greece destroys 32% of the city, leaving 70,000 individuals homeless. *

August 29 Events Pre-1600 * 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). * 870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzanti ...

– WWI: The Military Service Act is passed in the House of Commons of Canada, giving the

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the right to conscript men into the army.

September

* September 14 (September 1

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) – Russia is declared a republic by the

. *

September 23 Events Pre-1600 * 38 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified. * 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat ...

–

is elected Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. *

September 25 Events Pre-1600 * 275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus. * 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt a ...

– The Mossovet (

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Soviet of People's Deputies) votes to side with the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

. * September 26– October 3 – WWI – Battle of Polygon Wood (part of the

) near

Ypres Ypres ( , ; nl, Ieper ; vls, Yper; german: Ypern ) is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. Though the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality ...

in Belgium: British and Australian troops capture positions from the Germans. *

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 o ...

– 29 – WWI –

Second Battle of Ramadi Battle of Ramadi may refer to one of the following: * Battle of Ramadi (1917) - Battle between British and Ottoman Empire forces in September 1917 during the First World War * Battle of Ramadi (2004), part of the Iraq War * Battle of Ramadi ...

: British troops take Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire.

October

* October 4 – WWI: Battle of Broodseinde near Ypres – British Imperial forces overpower the German 4th Army's defences. * October 12 – WWI: First Battle of Passchendaele: – Allies fail to take a German defensive position, with the biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand, over 800 men and 45 officers are killed, roughly 1 in 1,000 of the nation's population at this time. * October 12- 19 – WWI: Operation Albion – German forces land on and capture the West Estonian archipelago. *

– The Miracle of the Sun is reported at Fátima, Portugal. * October 19 ** Dallas Love Field Airport is opened in Texas. ** Carl Swartz leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after dismal election results for the right-wing in the Riksdag elections in September. He is replaced by liberal leader and history professor Nils Edén. * October 23 – A

ian ship is destroyed by a German U-Boat, encouraging Brazil to enter World War I. * October 24 – WWI:

Battle of Caporetto The Battle of Caporetto (also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, the Battle of Kobarid or the Battle of Karfreit) was a battle on the Italian front of World War I. The battle was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Central ...

opens between the

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and the

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near Kobarid in the Austrian Littoral. It is the first major engagement for junior German officer Erwin Rommel. * October 26 – WWI:

declares war against the

* October 27 – WWI:

Battle of Buqqar Ridge The Battle of el Buqqar Ridge took place on 27 October 1917, when one infantry regiment and cavalry troops of the Yildirim Army Group, attacked the 8th Mounted Brigade of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) in the last days of the stalemate ...

– Ottoman forces attack British Desert Mounted Corps units garrisoning El-Buqqar Ridge, during the last days of the

. * October 31 – WWI: Battle of Beersheba – The British XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps (

) attack and capture

from Ottoman forces, ending the

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. The battle includes a rare (by this date) mounted charge, by Australian

mounted infantry Mounted infantry were infantry Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infant ...

November

* November 1 – WWI: ** The British XXI Corps of the

begins the Third Battle of Gaza. ** The British Desert Mounted Corps begins the Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe, in the direction of

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and

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. * November 2 –

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: The British Foreign Secretary

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makes the

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, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities". * November 5 (N.S.) ( October 23, O.S.) – Estonian and Russian Bolsheviks seize power in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

, Autonomous Governorate of Estonia, two days before the

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key mome ...

. * November 6 ** WWI – Second Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium (the battle concludes on November 10). ** WWI: The Battle of Hareira and Sheria is launched by the British XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps, against the central Ottoman defences protecting the Gaza to Beersheba Road. ** Militants from Trotsky's committee join with trusty Bolshevik soldiers, to seize government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government. * November 7 ** (N.S.) ( October 25, O.S.) –

in Russia: The workers of the

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in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party and leader

, storm the

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and successfully destroy the

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after less than eight months of rule. This immediately triggers the

Russian Civil War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Russian Civil War , partof = the Russian Revolution and the aftermath of World War I , image = , caption = Clockwise from top left: {{flatlist, *Soldiers ...

. **

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(which has provided weapons for Russia) refuses to support the Allied Forces after the

. ** WWI – Third Battle of Gaza: The British Army XXI Corps occupies

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, after the Ottoman garrison withdraws. ** WWI: The Battle of Hareira and Sheria continues, when the XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps capture Hareira and Sheria, marking the end of the Ottoman Gaza to Beersheba line. **

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: Women win the right to vote in New York State. * November 8 ** (N.S.) ( October 26, O.S.) – Following the

Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич; – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist the ...

is appointed

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for Social Welfare in the

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of the

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, the first woman

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minister Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric ** Minister (Catholic Church) * Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department) ** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...

in Europe. * November 13 – WWI: ** Battle of Mughar Ridge: The

attacks retreating Yildirim Army Group forces, resulting in the capture of 10,000 Ottoman prisoners, 100 guns and of Palestine territory. ** The ANZAC Mounted Division ( Desert Mounted Corps) successfully fights the Battle of Ayun Kara, in the aftermath of the Battle of Mughar Ridge against strong

rearguards. * November 15 ** "Night of Terror" in the United States: Influential suffragettes from the Silent Sentinels are deliberately subjected to physical assaults by guards while imprisoned. ** The

passes another "Sovereignty Act", dissolving Russian sovereignty over Finland and effectively declaring Finland independent. ** (N.S.) ( November 2, O.S.) – The

Provincial Assembly Provincial may refer to: Government & Administration * Provincial capitals, an administrative sub-national capital of a country * Provincial city (disambiguation) * Provincial minister (disambiguation) * Provincial Secretary, a position in Ca ...

of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia declares itself the highest legal body in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

, in opposition to

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

s. * November 16 ** WWI: Battle of Ayun Kara: The ANZAC Mounted Division occupies Jaffa. **

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was ...

becomes prime minister of France. * November 17 ** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS ''Fanning'' and USS ''Nicholson'' capture Imperial German Navy

SM ''U-58'' off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U.S. ships take a submarine (which is then scuttled). ** WWI: The Battle of Jerusalem (1917) begins, with the

launching attacks against Ottoman forces in the

Judean Hills The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills ( he, הרי יהודה, translit=Harei Yehuda) or the Hebron Mountains ( ar, تلال الخليل, translit=Tilal al-Khalīl, links=, lit=Hebron Mountains), is a mountain range in Palestine and Israel wh ...

. ** The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom. * November 19 – WWI:

ends with Austrian and German forces driving the Italian army to retreat 150 kilometres south to the Piave river. The Italians lose 13,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, around 270,000 taken prisoner (mostly willingly) and 50,000 deserted; the government of Paolo Boselli collapses on November 29. * November 20 ** WWI: Battle of Cambrai – British forces, using

tank A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful e ...

s, make early progress in an attack on German positions, but are soon beaten back. ** The

is declared a republic. * November 22 – In

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

, Quebec, Canada, the

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suspends operations. * November 23 – The

release the full text of the previously secret Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916 in ''

Izvestia ''Izvestia'' ( rus, Известия, p=ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in 1917, it was a newspaper of record in the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, and describes ...

'' and ''

Pravda ''Pravda'' ( rus, Правда, p=ˈpravdə, a=Ru-правда.ogg, "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the ...

''; it is printed in the '' Manchester Guardian'' on November 26. *

November 24 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Theodosius I makes his ''adventus'', or formal entry, into Constantinople. *1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. * 1221 – Genghis Khan d ...

– A bomb kills 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history (until the

September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commerc ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

). * November 25 – WWI:

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– German forces defeat a Portuguese army of about 1,200 at

Negomano Negomano or Ngomano is a village in northern Mozambique, in Cabo Delgado Province. It is located on the border with Tanzania on the confluence of the Ruvuma River and the Lugenda River. Negomano was the scene of fierce battle between the German Ar ...

, on the border of modern-day

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Mala ...

and

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

. * November 26 – The

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is formed in Montreal, as a replacement for the recently disbanded

. * November 28 – WWI: The

offer peace terms to the

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December

* December – Annie Besant becomes president of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

. * December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the

Quebec Bridge The Quebec Bridge (french: pont de Québec) is a road, rail, and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy (a former suburb that in 2002 became a western area of Quebec City) and Lévis, in Quebec, Canada. The ...

opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on

, 1907 and September 11, 1916). Senate1917

* December 6 ** The Senate of Finland officially declares the country's independence from

. ** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in

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, and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1,963 people, injures 9,000 and destroys part of the city (the biggest man-made explosion in recorded history until the

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in 1945). ** WWI: U.S. Navy destroyer is torpedoed and sunk in the

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by German submarine , killing 66 crew in the first significant American naval loss of the war. *

December 9 Events Pre-1600 * 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital. * 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, ...

– WWI – Battle of Jerusalem: The British

accepts the surrender of

by the mayor,

Hussein al-Husayni Hussein Bey al-Husayni ( ar, حسين الحسيني; died 1918) was a Palestinian politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1909 to 1917, the last years of Ottoman rule over the city. Born into the prominent Jerusalemite Arab family ...

, following the effective defeat of the

's Yildirim Army Group. * December 11 – WWI: General

Edmund Allenby Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led ...

leads units of the British

into

on foot through, the

Jaffa Gate Jaffa Gate ( he, שער יפו, Sha'ar Yafo; ar, باب الخليل, Bāb al-Khalīl, "Hebron Gate") is one of the seven main open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman gate ...

. * December 17 – The ''

Raad van Vlaanderen The Council of Flanders ( nl, Raad van Vlaanderen, or RVV) was formed by members of the "activist" or "maximalist" faction of the Flemish Movement in German-occupied Belgium on 4 February 1917 with tacit German support. Its founders, who inc ...

'' proclaims the independence of

Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to cultu ...

. * December 20 (N.S.) ( December 7, O.S.) – The Cheka, a predecessor to the KGB, is established in Russia. *

December 23 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity. * 558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks. * 583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque. * 962 &ndas ...

(N.S.) ( December 10, O.S.) – A local plebiscite supports transferring

Narva Narva, russian: Нарва is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in Ida-Viru county, at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva river which forms the Estonia–Russia international border. With 54, ...

and Ivangorod (''Jaanilinn'') from the Petrograd Governorate, to the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia. * December 25 –

Jesse Lynch Williams Jesse Lynch Williams (August 17, 1871 – September 14, 1929) was an American author and dramatist. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ''Why Marry?'' (1917). He was a journalist for three New York publications and co-founded ...

's ''

Why Marry? ''Why Marry?'' is a 1917 play written by American playwright Jesse Lynch Williams. It won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1918. Productions ''Why Marry?'' premiered on Broadway at the Astor Theatre on December 25, 1917 and closed on April ...

'', the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre, New York City. * December 26 – United States President

uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the

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, hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently. * December 30 – WWI: The

secures the victory at the Battle of Jerusalem, by successfully defending Jerusalem from numerous Yildirim Army Group counterattacks.

Date unknown

* The first edition of the

World Book Encyclopedia The ''World Book Encyclopedia'' is an American encyclopedia. The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, historical and medical subjects. ''World Book'' wa ...

– simply known as The World Book – is published by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company, and is one of the first American encyclopedias to cover the major areas of knowledge to a mass audience. * Women are permitted to stand in national elections in the Netherlands. * The True Jesus Church is established in Beijing. *

Nakajima Aircraft Company The was a prominent Japanese aircraft manufacturer and aviation engine manufacturer throughout World War II. It continues as the car and aircraft manufacturer Subaru. History The Nakajima Aircraft company was Japan's first aircraft manufac ...

, as predecessor of Subaru, a car manufacturing company in Japan, founded in Ota, Gunma Prefecture.

Births

January

Ernest Borgnine McHale McHale's Navy 1962

* January 2 ** Vera Zorina, Norwegian dancer, actress (d.

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

) ** K. M. Mathew, Indian newspaper editor (d. 2010) * January 3 **

Liu Zhonghua Liu Zhonghua (; 3 January 1917 – 16 January 2018) was a Chinese military officer. He was commander and political commissar of the PLA Navy 6th Fleet in 1953, and president of Naval Senior Institute (now Naval Aeronautical Engineering Institu ...

, Chinese military officer (d. 2018) ** D. J. Finney, British statistician (d. 2018) *

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; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 *1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French army ...

Adolfo Consolini Adolfo Consolini (5 January 1917 – 20 December 1969) was an Italian discus thrower. He competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and finished in 1st, 2nd, 6th and 17 place, respectively. While winning the gold medal in 1948 he set an O ...

, Italian discus thrower (d. 1969) ** Lucienne Day, British textile designer (d. 2010) ** Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat, prominent socialite (d. 2006) **

Jane Wyman Jane Wyman ( ; born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007)"Actress, P ...

, American actress, philanthropist, and first wife of Ronald Reagan (d.

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

) *

January 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...

– Koo Chen-fu, Nationalist Chinese negotiator (d.

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

) *

** Saul Cherniack, Canadian politician, lawyer (d. 2018) ** Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d.

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

) *

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reig ...

– Jimmy Skinner, American hockey coach (d.

) * January 15 –

K. A. Thangavelu Karaikal Arunachalam Thangavelu (15 January 1917 – 28 September 1994) popularly known as "Danaal Thangavelu", was an Indian actor and comedian popular in the 1950s to 1970s. Not known for physical, acrobatic comedy like his contemporarie ...

, Indian film actor, comedian (d.

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

) *

January 17 Events Pre-1600 *38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. *1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people o ...

– M. G. Ramachandran, Tamil Nadu chief minister, actor (d. 1987) *

January 21 Events Pre-1600 * 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa. *1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Co ...

– Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M (d. 2002) *

January 24 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. * 1438 – The ...

– Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d.

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

) * January 25 ** Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist, chemist, and recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Chemistry ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "M ...

(d.

) **

Jânio Quadros Jânio da Silva Quadros (; January 25, 1917 – February 16, 1992) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd president of Brazil from January 31 to August 25, 1961, when he resigned from office. He also served as the 24th ...

, 22nd

President of Brazil The president of Brazil ( pt, Presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil ( pt, Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the ''President of the Republic'', is the head of state and head o ...

(d. 1992) *

– Louis Zamperini, American prisoner of war (World War II), Olympic distance athlete (1936), and Christian evangelist (d.

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

) *

January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ru ...

– John Raitt, American actor, singer (d.

)

February

* February 2 – Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese leader (d. 2018) *

– Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (d.

) *

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling ...

– Yahya Khan, 3rd President of Pakistan (d. 1980) *

– Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d.

) * February 6 ** John Franzese, Italian-born American prisoner (d.

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

) ** Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 2016) *

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. *1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...

–

Joseph Conombo Joseph Issoufou Conombo (9 February 1917 – 20 December 2008) served as Prime Minister of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 7 July 1978 to 25 November 1980. Born in the department of Kombissiri, he attended medical school in Dakar, Seneg ...

, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (d.

) *

February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

** T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary (d. 1976) ** Sidney Sheldon, American author, television writer (d.

) * February 14 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, recipient of the

(d. 2011) * February 17 ** Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (d. 2002) ** Whang-od, Filipino ''mambabatok'' or tattoo artist * February 18 – Tuulikki Pietilä, Finnish artist (d. 2009) * February 19 – Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967) * February 20 – Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist, composer (d. 2019) *

– Lucille Bremer, American actress, dancer (d. 1996) *

– Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, 2-time prime minister of Jordan (d. 1985) * February 25 ** Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993) ** Brenda Joyce (actress), Brenda Joyce, American actress (d. 2009) * February 27 ** John Connally, Governor of Texas (d. 1993) ** Laine Mesikäpp, Estonian actress, singer and folk song collector (d.

) * February 28 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer (d.

)

March

** Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977) ** Dinah Shore, American singer (d.

) *

** Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician, and television producer; co-founder of Desilu Productions (d. 1986) ** Babiker Awadalla, 8th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 2019) ** Max Webb, Polish-American real estate developer and philanthropist (d. 2018) *

– Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952) * March 5 – Raymond P. Shafer, 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2006) * March 6 ** Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977) ** Will Eisner, American cartoonist (d.

) *

** Giovanni Benedetti, Italian Catholic prelate (d. 2017) ** Leonard Chess, Polish-American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969) ** Googie Withers, British actress (d. 2011) *

– Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian royal and politician (d. 2018) * March 18 – Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, Romanian politician (d. 2017) * March 19 ** Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950) ** Sardon Jubir, Malaysian politician (d. 1985) * March 20 ** Haddon Donald, New Zealand Army Lieutenant Colonel and politician (d. 2018) ** Dame Vera Lynn, English actress, singer (d.

) * March 21 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician, and Military Chief of Staff (d. 1984) * March 22 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004) * March 24 ** Constantine Andreou, Brazilian-Greek artist (d.

) ** John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the

(d. 1997) * March 26 – Rufus Thomas, American singer (d.

) * March 27 – Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)

April

* April 1 – Sydney Newman, Canadian-born television producer (d. 1997) * April 5 – Robert Bloch, American writer (d.

) * April 7 ** R. G. Armstrong, American actor (d.

) ** Mongo Santamaría, Cuban jazz musician (d.

) * April 8 – Hubertus Ernst, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) * April 9 – Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002) * April 10 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) *

– Morton Sobell, American spy (d. 2018) *

– Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslav politician (d. 1977) * April 13 ** Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (d. 2011) ** Li Rui (politician), Li Rui, Chinese Communist Party politician (d. 2019) * April 14 – Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998) * April 15 – Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982) * April 16 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d.

) * April 22 – Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (d. 2016) * April 23 – Dorian Leigh, American model (d.

) * April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer (d. 1996) * April 26 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-born architect (d. 2019) * April 28 – Minoru Chiaki, Japanese actor (d. 1999) * April 29 ** Bernard Blossac, French fashion illustrator (d. 2002) ** Celeste Holm, American actress (d.

) ** Maya Deren, Russian-American experimental filmmaker (d. 1961)

May

* May 1 ** John Beradino, American baseball player and actor, best known for his role in ''General Hospital'' (d. 1996) ** Ulric Cross, Trinidadian judge, diplomat and war hero (d. 2013) ** Danielle Darrieux, French singer, actress (d. 2017) ** Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator (d.

) * May 3 ** José Del Vecchio, Venezuelan physician, youth baseball promoter (d. 1990) ** George Gaynes, Finland-born American actor (d. 2016) ** Kiro Gligorov, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (d.

) * May 6 – Morihiro Higashikuni, Japanese prince (d. 1969) * May 7 – David Tomlinson, English actor (d. 2000) * May 12 – Frank Clair, Canadian football coach (d.

) * May 14 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d.

) *

– Jerzy Duszyński (actor), Jerzy Duszyński, Polish actor (d. 1978) *

– Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer, photographer (d. 1986) * May 20 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d.

) * May 21 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor, best known for his role in ''Perry Mason (1957 TV series), Perry Mason'' (d. 1993) *

– Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999) * May 24 – Florence Knoll, American architect, furniture designer (d. 2019) * May 28 ** Papa John Creach, African-American fiddler (d.

) ** Marshall Reed, American film, television actor (d. 1980) * May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963) * May 31 – Zilka Salaberry, Brazilian actress (d.

)

June

– William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d.

) * June 4 – Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004) * June 6 – Kirk Kerkorian, Armenian-American businessman, billionaire (d. 2015) * June 7 ** Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American writer (d. 2000) ** Dean Martin, American actor, singer (d. 1995) * June 8 – Byron White, American American football, football player and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2002) * June 9 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British historian (d.

) * June 10 – Ruari McLean, Scottish-born typographer (d. 2006) *

– Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (d.

) * June 14 ** Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, writer ** Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d.

) * June 15 – John Fenn (chemist), John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) * June 16 ** Phaedon Gizikis, President of Greece (d. 1999) ** Katharine Graham, American publisher (d.

) ** Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009) * June 17 – Huang Feili, Chinese conductor, musical educator (d. 2017) * June 18 ** Richard Boone, American actor (d.

) ** Erik Ortvad, Danish artist (d.

) * June 24 – Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, Iranian lawyer, political activist and politician (d. 2013) * June 25 ** Nils Karlsson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d.

) ** Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018) * June 26 – Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist (d. 2019) * June 29 – Ling Yun (politician), Ling Yun, Chinese politician (d. 2018) * June 30 ** Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975) ** Lena Horne, American singer, actress (d. 2010)

July

Reg Smyth from a family photograph owned by the Smyth family 2007

* July 1 ** Shyam Saran Negi, Indian schoolteacher (d. 2022) ** Virginia Dale, American actress, dancer (d.

) ** Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (d.

) *

– André Lafargue, French journalist, resistance fighter (d. 2017) * July 4 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947) * July 6 ** Heribert Barrera, Spanish chemist, politician (d. 2011) ** Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner, athletics coach (d. 2004) * July 7 ** Larry O'Brien, American politician, former NBA commissioner (d. 1990) ** Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (d.

) * July 9 ** Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of the Holocaust (d. 2019) ** Peter Moyes, Australian educator (d.

) * July 10 ** Şeref Alemdar, Turkish basketball player (d. unknown) ** Dayton S. Mak, U.S. diplomat (d. 2018) ** Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998) * July 11 – Per Carleson, Swedish épée fencer (d. 2004) * July 12 ** Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier, pilot (d.

) ** Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009) ** Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman (d. 2006) * July 15 ** Robert Conquest, British historian (d. 2015) ** Reidar Liaklev, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2006) ** Joan Roberts, American actress (d.

) * July 17 ** Gus Arriola, Mexican-American comic strip cartoonist, animator (d.

) ** Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian (d.

) ** Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015) ** Generoso Jiménez, Cuban trombone player (d.

) ** Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan revolutionary communist politician, journalist and writer (d. 1979) * July 18 ** Henri Salvador, French singer (d.

) ** Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (d. 2019) * July 19 – William Scranton, American politician (d. 2013) * July 20 – Paul Hubschmid, Swiss actor (d.

) * July 21 ** Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer, jurist (d.

) ** Sidney Leviss, American Democratic politician (d.

) * July 22 ** Larry Hooper, American singer, musician (d. 1983) ** Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1984) * July 23 – Omar Yoke Lin Ong, Malaysian politician, diplomat and businessman (d. 2010) * July 24 – Henri Betti, French composer, pianist (d.

) * July 25 – Fritz Honegger, 79th president of Switzerland (d. 1999) * July 26 – Lorna Gray, American actress (d. 2017) * July 27 – Wu Zhonghua, Chinese physicist, pioneered three-dimensional flow theory (d. 1992) * July 30 – Keith Rae (footballer), Keith Rae, Australian rules footballer (d. 2021)

August

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* August 6 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997) * August 7 – Raja Perempuan Zainab, Queen of Malaysia (d. 1993) * August 8 – Earl Cameron (actor), Earl Cameron, Bermudian actor (d.

) * August 9 – Jao Tsung-I, Chinese-born Hong Kong scholar, poet, calligrapher and painter (d. 2018) * August 11 – Vasiľ Biľak, Slovak Communist leader (d.

) * August 12 – Marjorie Reynolds, American actress (d. 1997) * August 15 ** Jack Lynch, 5th Taoiseach, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 1999) ** Óscar Romero, El Salvador, Salvadoran Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. 1980) * August 17 – Zvi Keren, American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer (d.

) * August 18 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006) * August 21 – Esther Cooper Jackson, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2022) * August 22 – John Lee Hooker, African-American musician (d.

) * August 23 ** Hu Chengzhi, Chinese palaeontologist, palaeoanthropologist (d. 2018) ** Miguel Alvarez del Toro, Mexican biologist (d. 1996) * August 25 ** Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director, producer (d.

) ** Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress (d. 2011) ** Lou van Burg, Dutch television personality, game show host (d. 1986) * August 26 – William French Smith, 74th United States Attorney General (d. 1990) * August 28 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d.

) *

– Isabel Sanford, African-American actress, best known for her role in ''The Jeffersons'' (d. 2004) * August 30 – Denis Healey, English politician, author (d. 2015)

September

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* September 5 – Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (d.

) * September 6 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d.

) * September 7 ** Xerardo Fernández Albor, Spanish politician and physician (d. 2018) ** Leonard Cheshire, British war hero (d. 1992) ** John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) ** Tetsuo Hamuro, Japanese swimmer (d.

) * September 10 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean diplomat, explorer and journalist (d. 2009) * September 11 ** Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d.

) ** Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor (d.

) ** Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines (d. 1989) ** Jessica Mitford, Anglo-American writer (d. 1996) ** Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer, racehorse owner (d.

) * September 17 – Henry Pearce (politician), Henry Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1992) * September 18 – June Foray, American voice actress (d. 2017) * September 20 ** Red Auerbach, American basketball coach, official (d. 2006) ** Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d.

) * September 22 – Anna Campori, Italian actress (d. 2018) *

**Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (d. 2006) **El Santo, Mexican professional wrestler and actor (d. 1984) * September 24 – Otto Günsche, German general (d.

) * September 26 – Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese phenomenologist and Marxist philosopher (d. 1993) *

– Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (d.

)

October

* October 2 ** Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013) ** Charles Drake (actor), Charles Drake, American actor (d.

) * October 6 – Fannie Lou Hamer, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1977) * October 7 – June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006) * October 8 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985) * October 10 – Thelonious Monk, African-American jazz pianist (d. 1982) * October 15 – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian, political commentator (d.

) * October 17 ** Martin Donnelly (cricketer), Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999) ** Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917), Marsha Hunt, American actress (d. 2022) * October 19 – Walter Munk, Austrian-born American oceanographer (d. 2019) * October 20 ** Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director, film producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973) ** Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and writer (d. 2013) ** X. M. Sellathambu, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. 1984) * October 21 – Dizzy Gillespie, African-American musician (d. 1993) * October 22 – Joan Fontaine, British-born actress (d. 2013) * October 24 – Fang Huai, Chinese military officer and major general of PLA (d. 2019) * October 27 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist, revolutionary (d. 1993) * October 28 ** Shams Pahlavi, Iranian royal (d. 1996) ** Jack Soo, Japanese-American actor (d. 1979) * October 30 ** Paul Eberhard, Swiss bobsledder (d. 1983) ** Maurice Trintignant, French racing driver (d.

) * October 31 – Gordon Steege, Australian military officer (d. 2013)

November

* November 1 – Erich Rudorffer, German fighter ace (d. 2016) * November 2 ** Durward Knowles, Bahamian sailor, Olympic champion (d. 2018) ** Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (d.

) * November 3 – Chung Sze-yuen, Hong Kong politician (d. 2018) * November 4 – Virginia Field, British-born actress (d. 1992) * November 5 – Jacqueline Auriol, French aviator (d. 2000) * November 10 – Koun Wick, Cambodian statesman and diplomat (d. 1999) * November 11 – Madeleine Damerment, French WWII heroine (d. 1944) * November 12 ** Hedley Jones, Jamaican musician (d. 2017) ** Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim, Malaysian judge (d. 2000) ** Jo Stafford, American traditional pop singer (d.

) * November 13 – Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Austrian-born Spanish and Italian princess (d. 2017) * November 14 – Park Chung-hee, 3rd president of South Korea (d. 1979) * November 18 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor, singer (d. 1957) * November 19 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984) * November 22 – Andrew Huxley, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.

) *

– Shabtai Rosenne, British-born Israeli diplomat, jurist (d. 2010) * November 28 ** Orville Rogers, American pilot, competitive runner (d. 2019) ** Xiang Shouzhi, Chinese general (d. 2017) * November 29 – Pierre Gaspard-Huit, French film director, screenwriter (d. 2017)

December

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* December 5 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (d. 2011) * December 6 – Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977) * December 7 – Hurd Hatfield, American actor (d. 1998) * December 8 – Ian Johnson (cricketer), Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (d. 1998) *

– James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) * December 10 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, King of Malaysia (d. 1979) * December 15 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Pakistani poet, author and lexicographer (d.

) * December 16 ** Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science-fiction author, best known for co-writing the screenplay of ''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (d.

) ** Beatrice Wright (psychologist), Beatrice Wright, American psychologist (d. 2018) * December 18 – Ossie Davis, African-American actor, film director and activist (d.

) * December 19 – Paul Brinegar, American actor (d. 1995) * December 20 ** David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist (d. 1992) ** Petrus Hugo, South African Second World War, WWII fighter pilot (d. 1986) ** Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013) * December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) * December 22 – Marthe Gosteli, Swiss women's suffrage campaigner (d. 2017) * December 25 ** Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist, politician (d. 2009) ** Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer and pilot (d. 2019) * December 28 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010) * December 29 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d.

) * December 30 – Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004) * December 31 – Suzy Delair, French actress, singer (d.

)

Date unknown

* Hazza' al-Majali, 22nd & 32nd Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1960)

Deaths

January–March

* January 2 – Edward Burnett Tylor, Sir Edward Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832) * January 4 – Frederick Selous, British explorer (b. 1851) *

** Frederick William Borden, Sir Frederick Borden, Canadian politician (b. 1847) **Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist, historian (b. 1834) * January 8 – Mary Arthur McElroy, ''de facto'' First Lady of the United States (b. 1841) *

– Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman (b. 1846) * January 16 – George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) * January 18 – Andrew Murray (minister), Andrew Murray, South African author, educationist and pastor (b. 1828) *

– Yikuang, Prince Qing of the First Rank (b. 1838) *

– Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British diplomat and colonial administrator (b. 1841) *

– Alexey Abaza, Russian admiral and politician (b. 1853) *

– Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860) * February 8 – Anton Haus, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1851) * February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born English artist (b. 1849) * February 16 – Octave Mirbeau, French art critic and novelist (b. 1848) * February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837) *

** Joaquín Dicenta, Spanish writer (b. 1862) ** Fred Mace, American actor (b. 1878) * March 5 – Manuel de Arriaga, 1st President of Portugal (b. 1840) * March 6 – Jules Vandenpeereboom, 17th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1843) *

– Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and inventor (b. 1838) * March 14 - Robert Viren, Imperial Russian Navy admiral (b. 1857) * March 17 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (b. 1838) * March 29 – Maximilian von Prittwitz, German general (b. 1848) *

– Emil von Behring, German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)

April–June

* April 1 – Scott Joplin, African-American ragtime composer, pianist (b. c.1868) *

– Milton Wright (bishop), Milton Wright, American bishop, father of the Wright brothers (b. 1828) * April 6 – Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917), Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (b. 1893) * April 7 – George Brown (missionary), George Brown, British missionary (b. 1835) * April 8 – Richard Olney, American politician (b. 1835) * April 13 – Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1856) * April 14 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859) * April 18 – F. C. Burnand, British playwright and comic writer (b. 1836) * April 29 – Tehaapapa III, Tahitian queen (b. 1879) * May 7 – Albert Ball, British World War I fighter ace, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient (killed in action) (b. 1896) * May 17 **Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829) **Radomir Putnik, Serbian field marshal (b. 1847) * May 18 – John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician and inventor (b. 1839) * May 20 – Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (b. 1850) * May 23 – Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar (b. 1855) * May 24 – Les Darcy, Australian boxer (b. 1895) * May 25 ** Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891) ** René Dorme, French World War I fighter ace (b. 1894) *

– Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Imperial Russian Navy admiral and politician (b. 1843) * May 29 – Kate Harrington (poet), Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (b. 1831) * June 3 – Matilda Carse, Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer (b. 1835) * June 5 – Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1891) * June 12 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer and conductor (b. 1853) * June 14 – Thomas W. Benoist, American aviator, aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the worlds first scheduled airline (b. 1874) * June 15 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867) * June 17 – José Manuel Pando, 25th President of Bolivia (b. 1849) * June 18 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840) * June 26 – Ella Giles Ruddy, American author and essayist (b. 1851) * June 27 ** Karl Allmenröder, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1896) ** Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (b. 1838) * June 29 – Frans Schollaert, 19th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1851) * June 30 ** Antonio de La Gándara, French painter (b. 1861) ** Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian politician (b. 1825)

July–September

** William Henry Moody, 35th United States Secretary of the Navy, 45th United States Attorney General, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1853) ** Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor (b. 1852) * July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) * July 12 ** Donald Cunnell, British World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1893) ** Hugo Simberg, Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1873) * July 15 – Andrey Selivanov, Russian general and politician (b. 1847) * July 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847) * July 20 – Ignaz Sowinski, Polish architect (b. 1858) * July 27 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841) * July 28 – Ririkumutima, Queen regent of Burundi * July 31 ** Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (killed in action) (b. 1887) ** Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (killed in action) (b. 1887) * August 3 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849) * August 7 – Edwin Harris Dunning, British aviator (b. 1892) * August 13 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860) * August 17 – John W. Kern, American Democratic politician (b. 1849) * August 20 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) * August 30 – Alan Leo, British astrologer (b. 1860) * September 9 ** Boris Stürmer, Russian statesman, former prime minister (b. 1848) ** Madge Syers, British figure skater (b. 1881) * September 11 – Georges Guynemer, French World War I fighter ace (missing in action) (b. 1894) * September 15 – Kurt Wolff (aviator), Kurt Wolff, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1895) *

– Werner Voss, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1897) * September 26 – Edward Miner Gallaudet, American educator of the deaf (b. 1837) * September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834) * September 30 – Patricio Montojo y Pasarón, Spanish admiral (b. 1839)

October–December

* October 3 – Eduardo di Capua, Neapolitan composer and songwriter (b. 1865) * October 4 – Dave Gallaher, New Zealand rugby union football player (killed in action) (b. 1873) * October 9 – Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt, (b. 1853) * October 11 – Duke Philipp of Württemberg (b. 1838) *

– Florence La Badie, American actress (accident) (b. 1888) * October 15 –

, Dutch dancer, spy (executed) (b. 1876) * October 17 – Bobby Atherton, Welsh footballer (b. 1876) * October 22 – Bob Fitzsimmons, British boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1863) * October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845) * October 27 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1897) * October 28 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831) * October 30 – Heinrich Gontermann, German fighter ace (flying accident) (b. 1896) * November 2 – Tringe Smajli, Albanian guerrilla fighter and sworn virgin (b. 1880) * November 3 – Frederick Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1842) * November 7 – Margaret Cleaves, American physician and writer (b. 1848) * November 8 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879) * November 11 – Liliʻuokalani, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1838) * November 15 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858) * November 16 – Adolf Reinach, German philosopher (killed in action) (b. 1883) * November 17 ** Neil Primrose (politician), Neil Primrose, British Liberal MP (killed in action) (b. 1882) ** Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840) * December 8 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian Yiddish, Hebrew writer (b. 1836) * December 10 – Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823) * December 12 – Andrew Taylor Still, American father of osteopathy (b. 1828) * December 17 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and suffragette (b. 1836) * December 19 – Richard Maybery, British fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1895) * December 20 – Eric Campbell (actor), Eric Campbell, Scottish actor (accident) (b. 1879) * December 22 ** Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American canonized as a saint (b. 1850) ** Stanisław Tondos, Polish painter (b. 1854) * December 24 – Ivan Goremykin, Russian statesman, former prime minister (b. 1839) * December 28 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1892)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Charles Glover Barkla * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – not awarded * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – not awarded * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross

Events

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April

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July

August

September

October

November

December

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Births

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April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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Deaths

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Nobel Prizes

References

Further reading

Primary sources and year books