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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1894

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Birthdays

January 3 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
January 8 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
January 12 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
January 20 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
January 30 - Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, (d. 1943)
January 31 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
February 1 - John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
February 1 - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
February 3 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)
February 6 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
February 11 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)
February 14 - Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
February 28 - Ben Hecht, American playwright (d. 1964)
March 9 - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
March 17 - Paul Green, American writer (d. 1981)
March 19 - Moms Mabley, American comedian (d. 1975)
March 26 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
April 15 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
April 23 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
April 26 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d. 1995)
May 11 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
May 20 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage
May 27 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
May 27 - Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
May 29 - Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
May 29 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born writer and film director (d. 1969)
May 31 - Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
June 4 - Madame Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
June 5 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet
June 11 - Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner), Canadian magician
June 14 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
June 15 - Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (d. 1981)
June 16 - Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
June 21 - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
July 13 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
July 23 - Arthur Treacher, English character actor (d. 1975)
July 25 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
July 25 - Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
July 26 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
July 31 - Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d.1972)
August 1 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
August 3 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (d. 1951)
August 26 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
August 31 - Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982)
September 2 - Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
September 9 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
September 9 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
September 13 - J.B. Priestley, English playwright and novelist (d. 1984)
September 13 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
September 15 - Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
September 24 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
September 27 - Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
September 27 - Lothar von Richthofen German pilot, (d. 1922)
October 5 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
October 7 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
October 12 - Elisabeth of Romania, queen of Greece (d. 1956)
October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
October 18 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
October 20 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
October 21 - Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
October 22 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
October 23 - Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
October 24 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
October 30 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
November 24 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
December 2 - Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
December 19 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)
December 26 - Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
December 31 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)

Deaths

January 13 - Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
February 4 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)
February 12 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
March 3 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
May 21 - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
July 1 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
July 17 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
July 17 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
September 13 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
October 7 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
November 1 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia, (b. 1845)
November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
November 27 - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman
December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (b. 1850)
December 29 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)

Events

January 1 - The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
February 7 - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
February 12 - Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
February 13 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
March 4 - Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
March 5 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
March 8 - The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law.
March 12 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
March 22 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
March 25 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
April 14 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
April 21 - Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
April 30 - Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
May 1 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
May 11 - Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
May 21 - The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
May 21 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
May 26 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
June 6 - Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
June 23 - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
June 24 - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
June 28 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
July 4 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
July 20 - The troops sent by Grover Cleveland to Chicago to end the Pullman Strike are recalled.
July 25 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
August 1 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
August 25 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
September 1 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
September 4 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
September 15 - First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
September 17 - The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
October 1 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
October 15 - The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
October 30 - Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
November 1 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
November 21 - Port Arthur massacre: Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War.
December 22 - The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.

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