Events
January
January 21 : Hawaii, Queen Lili'Uokalani . January 1
A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence.
Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories.January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland.January 5
January 7
January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off.January 10 – In France , the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne . The French government promptly takes loan.January 11
3,000 Lakotas approach Pine Ridge with a view to surrender.
In Mahoning Valley , Ohio, sixteen blast furnaces shut down, putting 10,000 men out of work. January 12
January 14 – Conference of Lakota chiefs with General Miles at Pine Ridge Reservation : the Lakota agree to surrender.January 15 – Scottish railway strikers attempt to wreck a train near Greenock, Scotland .January 16 – The Chilean Civil War of 1891 breaks out.[ 1] January 19
General Miles officially announces the end of the native outbreak and congratulates his troops.
A British Royal Navy squadron is ordered to Chile . January 20 – Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.January 27 – May 2 – The Jamaica International Exhibition is held.[ 2] January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii .January 31 – The Portuguese republican revolution breaks out, in the northern city of Porto .July
July 7 – The Home Alliance July 30 – The Springboks rugby union team of South Africa play their first international test match against the Lions team of the British Isles, and lose by 4–0.Births
– MarchZora Neale Hurston Walther Bothe Antonio Segni José P. Laurel Earl Warren January 1 – Charles Bickford , American actor (d. 1967 )[ 19] January 7 – Zora Neale Hurston , African-American writer, anthropologist, ethnographer (d. 1960 )[ 20] January 8 – Walther Bothe , German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1957 )[ 21] January 13 – Miguel Pro , Mexican Jesuit priest , martyr and blessed (d. 1927 )[ 22] January 15 – Ray Chapman , American baseball player (d. 1920 )January 22
January 23
Marjorie Maynard , British artist and farmer (died 1975)Pavlo Tychyna , Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. (d. 1967)January 24 – Walter Model , German field marshal (d. 1945 )[ 24] January 27 – Ilya Ehrenburg , Russian writer (d. 1967 )February 1 – Shigeru Fukudome , Japanese admiral (d. 1971 )February 2 – Antonio Segni , Italian politician, 34th Prime Minister of Italy (1955–1957, 1959–1960), 4th President of the Italian Republic (d. 1972 )February 9 – Ronald Colman , English actor (d. 1958 )February 13 – Grant Wood , American painter (d. 1942 )[ 25] February 17 – Abraham Fraenkel , German-born Israeli mathematician, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1965 )February 21 – Seán Heuston , Irish rebel (d. 1916 )February 27 – David Sarnoff , Russian-born American broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971 )March 3 – Fritz Rumey , German World War I fighter ace (d. 1918 )March 9 – José P. Laurel , 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959 )[ 26] March 10 – Sam Jaffe , American actor (d. 1984 )[ 27] March 16 – Patsy Gallacher , Irish footballer (d. 1953 )March 19 – Earl Warren , American politician and Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974 )March 24 – Rudolf Berthold , German fighter pilot (d. 1920 )March 29 – Yvan Goll , French lyricist, dramatist (d. 1950 )– JuneAhmad bin Yahya John A. Costello April 2 – Max Ernst , German painter (d. 1976 )April 5 – Laura Vicuña , Chilean Roman Catholic holy figure and blessed (d. 1904 )April 7
April 13 – Nella Larsen , American novelist (d. 1964 )April 14 – B. R. Ambedkar , Indian jurist and politician (d. 1956 )April 15 – Wallace Reid , American actor (d. 1923 )[ 28] April 17 – George Adamski , Polish-born alleged UFO traveler (d. 1965 )April 23 – Sergei Prokofiev , Soviet composer (d. 1953 )April 29 – Bharathidasan , Tamil poet and rationalist (d. 1964 )[ 29] May 10
May 15
May 16
May 18 – Rudolf Carnap , German philosopher (d. 1970 )May 19 – Oswald Boelcke , German World War I fighter ace (d. 1916 )May 23 – Pär Lagerkvist , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974 )May 24 – William F. Albright , American archeologist, Biblical scholar (d. 1971 )June 2 – Takijirō Ōnishi , Japanese admiral (d. 1945 )June 4 – Leopold Vietoris , Austrian mathematician (d. 2002 )June 5 - Hélène Sparrow , Polish-French medical doctor and bacteriologist (d. 1970)June 9 – Cole Porter , American composer, songwriter (d. 1964 )June 18 – Ahmad bin Yahya , King of Yemen (d. 1962 )June 20 – John A. Costello , second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976 )June 21 – Hermann Scherchen , German conductor (d. 1966 )June 24 – Devere Allen , American socialist, pacifist political activist, and journalist (d. 1955 )[ 32] June 28 – Carl Spaatz , American general (d. 1974 )June 30 – Man Mountain Dean , American professional wrestler (d. 1953 )– SeptemberKarl Kobelt Madame Minna Craucher Karl Dönitz William McKell July 5 – John Howard Northrop , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )July 7 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi , Imperial Japanese Army general (d. 1945 )July 12 – Jetta Goudal , Dutch-American actress (d. 1985 )July 18 – Gene Lockhart , Canadian-American actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1957 )July 21 – Elmer Ripley , American basketball coach (d. 1982 )July 27 – Ruby McKim , American quilter (d. 1976 )[ 33] July 28 – Joe E. Brown , American actor, comedian (d. 1973 )July 29 – Bernhard Zondek , German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (d. 1966 )July 30 – Roderic Dallas , Australian World War I fighter ace (d. 1918 )August 1 – Karl Kobelt , 2-time President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1968 )August 11 – Stancho Belkovski , Bulgarian architect, lecturer (d. 1962 )August 13 – Ethel Roosevelt Derby , youngest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1977 )August 14 – Ralph Barton , American artist (d. 1931 )August 17 – Dulcie Mary Pillers , English medical illustrator (d. 1961 )August 21 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro , Puerto Rican supercentenarian, oldest war veteran ever and last surviving person born in 1891 (d. 2007 )August 23 – Minna Craucher , Finnish socialite and spy (d. 1932 )[ 34] August 29 – Michael Chekhov , Russian-American actor, theatre director (d. 1955 )September 12 – Pedro Albizu Campos , advocate of Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965 )September 14 – William F. Friedman , American cryptographer (d. 1969 )September 16
September 22 – Hans Albers , German actor, singer (d. 1960 )September 22 – Alma Thomas , African-American painter (d. 1978 )September 26
– DecemberJames Chadwick Frederick Banting Nelly Sachs Hu Shih October 12 – Fumimaro Konoe , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1945 )October 13 – Irene Rich , American actress (d. 1988 )October 15 – Tadashige Daigo , Japanese admiral (d. 1947 )October 20 – James Chadwick , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974 )October 24 – Rafael Trujillo , dictator of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961 )October 25 – Charles Coughlin , American Catholic priest, anti-Semitic radio host (d. 1979 )October 28 – Ormer Locklear , American stunt pilot, film actor (d. 1920 )November 4 – Orlando Ward , American general (d. 1972 )November 7
November 10 – Carl W. Stalling , American musician (d. 1972 )November 12 – Władysław Bortnowski , Polish historian and general (d. 1966 )November 14 – Frederick Banting , Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941 )November 15
November 19 – Juan Yagüe , Spanish general (d. 1952 )November 24 – Mariano Ospina Pérez , Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (d. 1976 )November 28 – Gregorio Perfecto , Filipino jurist, politician (d. 1949 )November 29 – Julius Raab , Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964 )December 4 – T. V. Soong , Taiwanese businessman, politician (d. 1971 )December 6
December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič , Belarusian poet (d. 1917 )[ 35] December 10
December 14 – Katherine MacDonald , American silent screen actress (d. 1956 )December 17 – Hu Shih , Chinese liberal (d. 1962 )December 19 – Edward Bernard Raczynski , President of Poland (d. 1993 )December 24 – Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky , Russian illustrator (d. 1970 )December 25
December 26 – Henry Miller , American novelist (d. 1980 )[ 37] December 29 – Béla Imrédy , 32nd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946 )Deaths
– JuneCarl Johan Thyselius Nicolaus Otto Helena Petrovna Blavatsky John A. Macdonald Wilhelm Eduard Weber January 4 – Charles Keene , English artist and illustrator (b. 1823 )January 5 – Emma Abbott , American opera singer (b. 1849 )January 11
January 15 – John Wellborn Root , American architect (b. 1850 )January 16 – Léo Delibes , French composer (b. 1836 )January 20 – Kalākaua , last reigning King of Hawaii (b. 1836 )January 21
January 25 – Theo van Gogh , Dutch art dealer (b. 1857 )January 26 – Nicolaus Otto , German engineer (b. 1832 )February 4 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos , Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire , 1863-1864 (b. 1816 )[ 40] February 10 – Sofia Kovalevskaya , Russian mathematician (b. 1850 )February 13 – David Dixon Porter , American admiral (b. 1813 )February 14 – William Tecumseh Sherman , American general (b. 1820 )March 13 – Théodore de Banville , French writer (b. 1823 )[ 41] March 15 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette , English civil engineer (b. 1819 )[ 42] March 17 – Eduard Clam-Gallas , Austrian general (b. 1805 )March 27 – James A. Ekin , Union Army general (b. 1819 )March 29 – Georges Seurat , French painter (b. 1859 )April 2 – Ahmed Vefik Pasha , Turkish statesman (b. 1823 )April 7 – P. T. Barnum , American showman (b. 1810 )April 9 – George Cavendish-Bentinck , British Conservative politician (b. 1821 )April 24 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder , Prussian field marshal (b. 1800 )April 25 – Nathaniel Woodard , English educationalist (b. 1811 )May 2 – Albany James Christie , British Jesuit priest and academic (b. 1817 )May 8
May 16 – Ion C. Brătianu , 2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821 )June 6 – John A. Macdonald , 1st Prime Minister of Canada , Father of Confederation (b. 1815 )June 19 – David Settle Reid , American politician (b. 1813 )June 23 – Samuel Newitt Wood , American politician (b. 1825 )June 24 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber , German physicist (b. 1804 )– DecemberHerman Melville Saint Ambrose of Optina Prince Kuni Asahiko Arthur Rimbaud July 1 – Mihail Kogălniceanu , 3rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1817 )July 4 – Hannibal Hamlin , 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809 )July 20 – Sir Frederick Weld , 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1823 )July 24 – Hermann Raster , German-born Forty-Eighter , editor-in-chief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (b. 1827 )August 12 – James Russell Lowell , American poet and essayist (b. 1819 )[ 43] August 14 – Sarah Childress Polk , First Lady of the United States (b. 1803 )August 27 – Samuel C. Pomeroy , American politician, railroad executive (b. 1816 )August 29 – Pierre Lallement , French inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 ?)September 4 – José María Urvina , 5th President of Ecuador (b. 1808 )September 7 – Lorenzo Sawyer , 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820 )September 11 – Antero de Quental , Portuguese poet (b. 1842 )September 15 – Ivan Goncharov , Russian author (b. 1812 )[ 44] September 19 – José Manuel Balmaceda , 10th President of Chile (b. 1840 )September 28 – Herman Melville , American novelist (b. 1819 )[ 45] September 30 – Georges Ernest Boulanger , French general, politician (b. 1837 )October 6
October 15 – Lawrence Dudley Bailey , American abolitionist and jurist who served on the Kansas Supreme Court from 1861 to 1869 (b. 1819 )October 23 – Ambrose of Optina , Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1812 )October 25 – Prince Kuni Asahiko of Japan (b. 1824 )November 6 – J. Gregory Smith , Vermont governor (b. 1818 )November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud , French poet (b. 1854 )[ 46] November 17 – George H. Cooper , United States Navy admiral (b. 1821 )November 28 – Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet , British politician (b. 1826 )December 4 – Frederick Whitaker , English-New Zealand lawyer, politician and 5th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812 )December 5 – Pedro II , 2nd and last Emperor of Brazil (b. 1825 )December 6 – Émile Bayard , French artist (b. 1837 )December 7 – Mary Crane , American activist; mother of the writer, Stephen Crane (b. 1827 )December 12 – Julia A. Ames , American reformer (b. 1861 )December 17 – José María Iglesias , Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877 (b. 1823 )[ 47] December 20 – William Robert Woodman , British co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (b. 1828 )December 29 – Leopold Kronecker , Polish-born German mathematician, academic (b. 1823 )December 31 – Samuel Ajayi Crowther , 1st African Anglican bishop, linguist and legendary missionary (b. 1809 )References
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