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| + | Sayaji Rao meets [[Ravi Varma]] in Ooty and commissions fourteen paintings drawn from the epics to decorate the Durbar hall in the newly built Laxmi Vilas Palace |
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| + | The meeting in the Nilgiris.. |
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| + | meeting with Gaekwad of Baroda arranged for probably by Dewan Tanjore Madhav Rao. The painting of Sita Bhoomipravesham has been shown to the Gaekwad. |
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| + | The Gaekwad commissions fourteen paintings..all from the Indian epics. And offers a handsome price of Fifty thousand rupees. |
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| + | These animated moments are painted between 1888 and 1890 of moral dilemma or of suffering, pleasure, rage, in the stories from the epics. |
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| + | Nala's self debasement through gambling and his desertion of Damayanti |
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| + | the temptation and seduction of the noble sage Vishvamitra. |
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| + | The departure of Urvashi from Purvuras. |
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| − | '''1888''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCLXXXVIII]]''') is a [[leap year starting on Sunday]] (click on link for calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] or a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. In [[Germany]], 1888 is known as the 1888 [[Year of Three Emperors]]. Currently, it is the year that, when written in [[roman numerals]], has the most digits (13). This record will not be equalled until [[2388]] (MMCCCLXXXVIII), or surpassed until [[2888]] (MMDCCCLXXXVIII).
| + | To make this commission, the two brothers travel, all over India, observing clothes, ornamentation, draperies.. |
| | + | Ravi Varma decides to clothe his classical heroines in a saree. |
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| − | ===January===
| + | He used a zinc disc covered with a thin layer of beeswax, the recording sound box was moved across the disc as it rotated. Then it was etched with choromic acid. |
| − | * [[January 3]] - 91cm telescope first used at [[Lick Observatory]]
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| − | * [[January 12]] - [[Blizzard]]s in [[Dakota]] and [[Montana]], [[Minnesota]], [[Nebraska]] and [[Texas]] - 235 dead, many of which were children on their way home from school
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| − | * [[January 24]] - [[Jacob L. Wortman]] patents the [[typewriter ribbon]].
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| − | * [[January 26]] - [[Australia]] celebrates the first [[centenary]] of European settlement.
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| − | * [[January 27]] - In [[Washington, DC]] the [[National Geographic Society]] is founded.
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| − | ===February===
| + | Photograph: The scene with the pioneer's wet plates required speed, the luck of an alchemist and the dexterity of an acrobat( returned to his darkroom, prepared his dark plate, cleaned it with cotton or brushes, coated it with viscous collodion, then immersed it with silver nitrate, recovered the exposed plate from camera, immersed the plate in developer). |
| − | * [[February 27]]- In [[West Orange, New Jersey]], [[Thomas Edison]] meets with [[Eadweard Muybridge]] who proposes a scheme for [[sound film]].
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| − | ===March===
| + | Sunflowers. Van Gogh. |
| − | * [[March 11]] - The "[[Great Blizzard of '88]]" begins along the [[eastern seaboard]] of the [[United States]], shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
| + | Adding Machines |
| − | * [[March 22]] - [[The Football League]] is formed
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| − | ===April===
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| − | * [[April 11]] - The [[Concertgebouw]] in [[Amsterdam]] is inaugurated.
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| − | ===May===
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| − | * [[May 13]] - [[Brazil]] abolishes [[slavery]].
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| − | * [[May 28]] - [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] played their first official match against [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] and won 5-2
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| − | ===June===
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| − | * [[June 3]] - "[[Kingdom of Sedang]]" formed in modern-day [[Vietnam]]
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| − | * [[June 19]] - In [[Chicago, Illinois]], Republican Convention opens at [[Auditorium Building, Chicago|Auditorium Building]]. General [[Benjamin Harrison]] & [[Levi Morton]] will win the nominations.
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| − | ===July===
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| − | * [[July 25]] - Frank McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City who was purportedly the only person using [[touch typing]] at the time, won a decisive victory over Louis Taub in a [[typing contest]] held in Cincinnati. This date can be called as the birthday of touch typing method that is widely used now.
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| − | * [[July 27]] - [[British parliament]] passes an act that permits [[bicycle]]s on road on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway. The law is abolished [[1930]]
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| − | ===August===
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| − | * [[August 7]] - The body of [[Martha Tabram]] was found, a possible murder victim of [[Jack the Ripper]]
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| − | * [[August 20]] - There is a mutiny at [[Dufile]] and [[Emin Pasha]] is imprisoned.
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| − | * [[August 31]] - [[Mary Ann Nichols]] is murdered. She is perhaps the first of [[Jack the Ripper]]'s victims.
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| − | ===September===
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| − | * [[September 4]] - [[George Eastman]] registers the trademark [[Kodak]], and receives a patent for his [[camera]] which uses roll film.
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| − | * [[September 6]] - [[Charles Turner (cricketer)|Charles Turner]] becomes the first [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by [[Tom Richardson]] (twice), [[Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne)|J.T. Hearne]], [[Wilfred Rhodes]] (twice) and [[Tich Freeman]] (six times).
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| − | * [[September 8]] - In [[London]], the body of [[Annie Chapman]] is found. She is generally considered the second victim of [[Jack the Ripper]].
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| − | * [[September 8]] - In [[England]] the first 6 [[Football League]] matches ever were played.
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| − | *[[September 30]] - In [[London]], the bodies of [[Elizabeth Stride]] and [[Catherine Eddowes]] are found. They are generally considered [[Jack the Ripper]]'s third and fourth victim respectively.
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| − | ===October===
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| − | * [[October 9]] - The [[Washington Monument]] officially opens to the general public.
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| − | ===November===
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| − | * [[November 6]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1888]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] incumbent [[Grover Cleveland]] wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the [[U.S. Electoral College|Electoral College]] to [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] challenger [[Benjamin Harrison]].
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| − | *[[November 9]] - In [[London]] the body of [[Mary Jane Kelly]] is found. She is typically considered the fifth and last of [[Jack the Ripper]]'s victims. A number of similar murders actually follow, but police attribute them to copycat killers.
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| − | ===December===
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| − | * [[Phonograph|Gramophone]] patented by [[Emile Berliner]]
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| − | * [[Annie Besant]] organizes a match girl strike
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| − | * [[John Robert Gregg]] first published [[Gregg Shorthand]]
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| − | * Prosecution of [[Edward King (English bishop)|Edward King]], [[Anglican]] [[bishop of Lincoln]] for using [[Ritualism|ritualistic practices]] begins
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| − | * [[Sarawak]] and [[Borneo]] become British [[protectorate]]s
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| − | * [[Susan B. Anthony]] organizes a congress for women's rights in Washington DC
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| − | * National library in [[Athens]], [[Greece]]
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| − | * First [[railway]]s in [[China]]
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| − | * [[Kodak]] camera increases the popularity of [[photography]] as a hobby.
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| − | * The first recorded [[film]], [[Roundhay Garden Scene]], is made in [[Roundhay]] in [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]]. The film is two seconds and 18 frames in length.
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| − | * First sightings of the dolphin [[Pelorus Jack]] in [[Cook Strait]], [[New Zealand]]
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| − | * [[Camborne School of Mines]] founded in [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom|UK]].
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| − | * The [[Finnish language|Finnish]] epic, [[Kalevala]] published for the first time in the [[English Language]]. By [[John Martin Crawford (scholar)|John Martin Crawford]].
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | ===January-March===
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Victor Goldschmidt]], Swiss geochemist (d. [[1947]])
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| − | * [[January 8]] - [[Matthew Moore|Matt Moore]], Irish-born actor (d. [[1960]])
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| − | * [[January 24]] - [[Vicki Baum]], Austrian writer (d. [[1960]])
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| − | ** [[Ernst Heinkel]], German aircraft designer (d. [[1958]])
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| − | * [[February 2]] - [[Frederick Lane]], Australian swimmer (d. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Otto Stern]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[February 19]] - [[José Eustasio Rivera]], Colombian writer (d. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[February 20]] - [[Georges Bernanos]], French writer (d. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[February 25]] - [[John Foster Dulles]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. [[1959]])
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| − | * [[February 27]] - [[Lotte Lehmann]], German singer (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[Ewart Astill]], English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Knute Rockne]], American football player and coach (d. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[March 10]] - [[Barry Fitzgerald]], Irish actor (d. [[1966]])
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| − | * [[March 26]] - [[Elsa Brändström]], Russian nurse (d. [[1948]])
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| − | ===April-June===
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| − | * [[April 4]] - [[Tris Speaker]], [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r (d. [[1958]])
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| − | * [[April 6]] - [[Hans Richter (artist)|Hans Richter]], German filmmaker (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[April 18]] - [[Duffy Lewis]], [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[April 26]] - [[Anita Loos]], American writer (d. [[1981]])
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| − | * [[April 27]] - [[Florence La Badie]], Canadian actress (d. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[May 10]] - [[Karl Barth]], Protestant theologian (d. [[1968]])
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| − | ** [[Max Steiner]], Austrian-American composer (d. [[1971]])
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Irving Berlin]], American composer (d. [[1989]])
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Tich Freeman]], English cricketer (d. [[1965]])
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| − | * [[May 23]] - [[Zack Wheat]], [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r (d. [[1972]])
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| − | * [[May 25]] - [[Miles Malleson]], English actor (d. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Louis Durey]], French composer (d. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[June 3]] - [[Tom Brown (trombonist)|Tom Brown]], American jazz musician (d. [[1958]])
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| − | * [[June 6]] - [[Pete Wendling]], American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. [[1974]])
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| − | * [[June 9]] - [[Ida Rentoul Outhwaite]], Australian illustrator (d. [[1960]])
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| − | * [[June 13]] - [[Fernando Pessoa]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[June 24]] - [[Gerrit Rietveld]], Dutch architect (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[June 27]] - [[Antoinette Perry]], New York Stage Director, [[Tony Award]] named for her (d. [[1946]]}
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| − | ===July-October===
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| − | *[[July 5]] - [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[July 10]] - [[Giorgio Chirico]], Italian painter (d. [[1978]])
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| − | *[[July 16]] - [[Frits Zernike]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1966]])
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| − | *[[July 17]] - [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], Israeli writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[July 22]] - [[Selman Waksman]], Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[July 23]] - [[Raymond Chandler]], American-born novelist (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[August 14]] - [[John Logie Baird]], Scottish inventor (d. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[August 16]] - [[Armand J. Piron]], American jazz musician (d. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[August 16]] - [[T. E. Lawrence]] ("Lawrence of Arabia") British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d. [[1935]])
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| − | *[[September 5]] - [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], [[President of India]] (d. [[1975]])
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| − | *[[September 6]] - [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.]], American politician (d. [[1969]])
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| − | *[[September 12]] - [[Maurice Chevalier]], French singer and actor (d. [[1972]])
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| − | *[[September 16]] - [[Frans Eemil Sillanpaa|Frans Eemil Sillanpää]], Finnish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[September 26]] - [[J. Frank Dobie]], American folklorist and journalist (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[September 26]] - [[T. S. Eliot]], American-born writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[October 6]] - [[Roland Garros]], French pilot (d. [[1918]])
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| − | *[[October 7]] - [[Henry A. Wallace]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[October 8]] - [[Ernst Kretschmer]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[October 9]] - [[Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin]], Russian politician (d. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[October 16]] - [[Eugene O'Neill]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[October 16]] - [[Paul Popenoe]], American eugenicist (d. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[November 7]] - [[Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman]], Indian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1980]])
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| − | * [[November 15]] - [[Harald Sverdrup]], Norwegian scientist (d. [[1957]])
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| − | * [[November 15]] - [[José Raúl Capablanca]], [[World chess champion]] 1921-1927 (d. [[1942]])
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| − | * [[November 23]] - [[Harpo Marx]], American comedian (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[November 26]] - [[Francisco Canaro]], Uruguayan-born violinist and composer (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[November 30]] - [[Ralph Hartley]], American electronics researcher and inventor (d. [[1970]])
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| − | * [[December 4]] - King [[Alexander of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[December 7]] - [[Joyce Cary]], Northern Irish author (d. [[1957]])
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| − | * [[December 19]] - [[Fritz Reiner]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1963]])
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| − | * [[December 28]] - [[F.W. Murnau]], German film director (d. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Anton de Bary]], German biologist (b. [[1831]])
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| − | * [[January 29]] - [[Edward Lear]], British artist and writer (b. [[1812]])
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[John Bosco]], Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the [[Salesian Society]] (b. [[1815]])
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| − | * [[February 3]] - [[Henry Maine]], British jurist (b. [[1822]])
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| − | * [[March 6]] - [[Louisa May Alcott]], American novelist (b. [[1832]])
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| − | * [[March 9]] - [[Wilhelm I of Germany|German Emperor Wilhelm I]] (b. [[1797]])
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| − | * [[March 12]] - [[Henry Bergh]], founder of the [[American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]] (b. [[1811]])
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| − | * [[March 23]] - [[Morrison Waite]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1816]])
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| − | * [[April 15]] - [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (b. [[1822]])
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| − | * [[April 15]] - [[Father Damien]], Belgian priest (b. [[1811]])
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| − | * [[June 15]] - [[Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern)|German Emperor Friedrich III]] (b. [[1831]])
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| − | * [[July 20]] - [[Paul Langerhans]], German pathologist and biologist (b. [[1847]])
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| − | * [[August 9]] - [[Charles Cros]], French poet (b. [[1831]])
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| − | * [[August 23]] - [[Philip Henry Gosse]], British scientist (b. [[1810]])
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| − | * [[August 24]] - [[Rudolf Clausius]], German physicist, contributions to [[thermodynamics]] (b. [[1822]])
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| − | * [[October 16]] - [[John Wentworth (mayor)|John Wentworth]], Mayor of Chicago (b. [[1815]])
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| − | * [[October 16]] - [[Horatio Spafford]], author of hymn ''"It is well with my soul"''
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| − | * [[December 31]] - [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]], German rabbi (b. [[1808]])
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Elias Disney]] & [[Flora Disney]]
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| − | * [[April 11]] - [[Henry Ford]] & [[Clara Jane Bryant]]
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| − | * [[May 2]] - [[Josephus Daniels]] & [[Addie Worth Bagley]]
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| − | * [[September 5]] - [[Billy Sunday]] & H[[elen Amelia Thompson]]
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| − | * [[September 11]] - [[Robert Homans]] & [[Agnes Mary Josephine Mellon]]
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| − | * [[November 29]] - [[Axel Blixen-Finecke]] & [[Bertha Henriette Marie Castenschiold]]
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| − | * [[December 20]] - [[Charles Urban]] & [[Julia Avery]]
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