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January 1 - The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.

January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

France, Loisy's L'évangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis

February 11 - Police physically abuse universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.

February 15 - Berlin underground opened.

February 18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.

March 4 - The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded.

March 7 - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.

March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.

March 31 - Disputed first powered heavier-than-air flight; most date it 1903 if at all

April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.

The Irish National Theatre Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and George Russell.

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May 5 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service

May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroys the town of Saint-Pierre, and kills over thousands of people. Out of the whole 28,000 people who were killed there were only two survivors.

May 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain formally begins his reign

May 15 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).

May 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism

May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States

May 29 - Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics

May 31 - Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War

June 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.

June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City, New York.

June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.

June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.

July 10 - Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA, kills 112 miners.

July 11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British prime minister.

July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.

July 23 - Excelsior Rotterdam was founded.

August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.

August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.

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September 3 - Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.

October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.

November 30 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.

November-December - Venezuela Crisis between the United States and Germany.

December 31 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S

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January 1 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)

January 9 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)

January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)

January 11 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)

January 12 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)

January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)

January 20 - Kevin Barry, Irish republican (d. 1920)

January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)

January 24 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)

January 25 - André Beaufre, French general (d. 1975)

January 26 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)

January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)

January 31 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986)

February 1 - Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)

February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)

February 4 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 2003)

February 6 - George Brunies, American jazz trombonist (d. 1974)

February 8 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)

February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971)

February 19 - Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)

February 19 - Eddie Peabody, American musician (d. 1970)

February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)

February 26 - Albert Anastasia, American Gangster (d. 1957)

February 27 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)

February 27 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

March 7 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)

March 9 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)

March 16 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)

March 17 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)

March 21 - Son House, American musician (d. 1988)

March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)

March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)

March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)

March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)

March 30 - Brooke Astor, American Socialite and Philanthropist

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April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969)

April 12 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)

April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

April 25 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)

April 30 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

May 3 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)

May 6 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)

May 6 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)

May 8 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)

May 10 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)

May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965)

May 15 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)

May 18 - Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)

May 21 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)

May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)

May 22 - Al Simmons, baseball player (d. 1956)

June 18 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992)

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July 4 - George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and US Senator from California (d. 1992)

July 4 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983)

July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

July 28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)

July 28- Albert Namatjira, Australian Painter (d. 1959)

August 2 - Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1971)

August 4 - Clara Peller, American Actress (d. 1987)

August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)

August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)

August 10 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)

August 10 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)

August 18 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (d. 1968)

August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)

August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)

August 24 - Carlo Gambino, American Gangster (d. 1976)

August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)

September 12 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)

September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)

September 22 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988)

September 24 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric (d. 1989)

September 29 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)

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October 5 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)

October 5 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)

October 13 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)

October 18 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)

October 25 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)

November 1 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)

November 2 - Princess Mafalda of Savoy (d. 1944)

November 9 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)

November 17 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)

December 2 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)

December 5 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)

December 9 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)

December 20 - Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)

December 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)

December 28 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)

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January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)

November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (b. 1847)

March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853)

April 2 - Esther Morris, suffragist and the first American woman judge (b. 1814)

May 6 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836)

May 26 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)

June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)

June 18 - Samuel Butler, British author (b. 1835)

July 4 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863)

July 6 - Maria Goretti, Italian Catholic saint (b. 1890)

August 8 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)

September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821)

September 6 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)

September 29 - Emile Zola, French author (b. 1840)

October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (b. 1815)

December 3 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)

December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840)

December 23 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)

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Ethna Carbery, Irish poet (b. 1866)

Hale Johnson, American politician (b. 1847)

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Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman

Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer

Medicine - Ronald Ross

Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat