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| − | ===January===
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| − | * [[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 27]]- In [[West Orange, New Jersey]], [[Thomas Edison]] meets with [[Eadweard Muybridge]] who proposes a scheme for [[sound film]].
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| − | * [[March 11]] - The "[[Great Blizzard of '88]]" begins along the [[eastern seaboard]] of the [[United States]], shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
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| − | * [[March 22]] - [[The Football League]] is formed
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| − | * [[April 11]] - The [[Concertgebouw]] in [[Amsterdam]] is inaugurated.
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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 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 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 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 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 9]] - The [[Washington Monument]] officially opens to the general public.
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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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| − | * [[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 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 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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