1898
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 7 - General Bava-Beccaris killed 80 demonstrants in Milan, Italy shooting on a rally; King of Italy Umberto
I will be killed two years after to revenge this shooting.
June
July
September
October
December
Births
- January 7 - Rudolf Fernau, actor (d. 1985)
- January 16 - Margaret
Booth, film editor (d. 2002)
- January 21 - Ahmad Shah Qajar, last Persian
Shah of the Qajar dynasty (d. 1930)
- January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (d. 1948)
- February 3 - Alvar
Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
- February 10 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright, writer and poet (d. 1956)
- February 14 - Fritz
Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
- February 14 - George Steed, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1988)
- February 15 - Allen
Woodring, American sprinter (d. 1982)
- February 18 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (d. 1980)
- February 18 - Enzo
Ferrari, Italian auto racer, manufacturer (d. 1988)
- February 24 - Kurt Tank,
German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983)
- March 6 - Therese Giehse, actress (d. 1975)
- March 11 - Dorothy Gish,
American actress (d. 1968)
- April 3 - George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
- April 6 - Jeanne
Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920)
- April 26 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (d. 1984)
- May 3 - Golda Meir - Israeli Prime Minister (d. 1978)
- May 15 - Arletty, French model, actress (d. 1992)
- May 17 - Alfred Joseph Casson painter (d. 1992)
- May 21 - Armand Hammer,
American entrepreneur, art collector (d. 1990)
- May 23 - Scott O'Dell,
author (d. 1989)
- May 31 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
- June 4 - Harry Crosby,
American publisher, poet (d. 1929)
- July 6 - Hanns Eisler, German
composer (d. 1962)
- June 17 - M. C. Escher,
Dutch graphic artist (d. 1972)
- July 2 - Gen Paul, French artist (d.
1975)
- July 22 - Erich
Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
- July 30 - Henry Moore,
English sculptor (d. 1986)
- August 26 - Peggy
Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
- August 29 - Preston
Sturges, American director and writer (d. 1959)
- September 22 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
- September 26 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
- September 30 - Renee
Adoree, French actress (d. 1933)
- September 30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
- October 10 - Lilly
Daché, French milliner (d. 1989)
- October 15 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1959)
- November 8 - Marie
Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
- November 18 - Joris
Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989)
- November 21 - René
Magritte, Belgian surrealist artist (d. 1967)
- November 29 - C. S.
Lewis, British author (d. 1963)
- December 20 - Irene
Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
- December 24 - Baby
Dodds, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
- Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman
Shah, later Sultan of Selangor and
2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1960)
- Berenice Abbot, American
photographer
Deaths
- January 14 - Lewis
Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b. 1932)
- January 18 - Henry
George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811)
- March 1 - George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author (b. 1825)
- March 15 - Henry
Bessemer, British engineer, inventor (b. 1813)
- March 16 - Aubrey
Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
- April 15 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
- May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister {b. 1809)
- July 30 - Otto von
Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)
- September 2 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
- October 24 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
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