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January
* January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the
ensuing disaster.
* January 31 – An earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale) and associated tsunami strikes Ecuador and
Colombia.
February
* February 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
* February 22 - Belgium bans absinthe.
March
* March 10 – An explosion in a coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1,060.
* March 18 – Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
April
* April 7 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
* April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much
of San Francisco, California, USA, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in
damages.
* April 23 – In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
May
* May - Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
June
* June 7 – The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
July
* July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
* July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus
Affair.
August
* August 16 – A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
* August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
* August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States
intervention. The subsequent provisional occupation administration lasts until 1909.
September
* September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South
Africa.
* September 18 – A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.[citation needed]
* September 30 – The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting
the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
October
* October 1 – The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as
candidates when it adopts universal suffrage.
* October 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
* October 11 – A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises when the San Francisco public school board
orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
* October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a
short time.
* October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200
feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe..
* October 28 – The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.
November
* November 3 – SOS becomes an international distress signal.
* November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class
of land-owning peasants.
December
* December 2 – HMS Dreadnought, the first all-big-gun warship, is commissioned.
* December 14 – The first German submarine, U-1, enters the German Imperial Navy.
* December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
* December 26 – The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released.
Undated
* The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis is first developed.
* Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
* Construction begins on the current Great Mosque of Djenné.
* The Simplo Filler Pen company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company.
* Algeciras Conference.
* A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals revolt in Persia. The shah is forced to
grant a constitution and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
B i r t h s
January
* January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
* January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
* January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
* January 22 – Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
February
* February 4
- Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945)
* February 10 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
* February 18 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
* February 22 – Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
* February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
* February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
March
* March 1 – Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
* March 6 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
* March 7 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
* March 16 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
* March 19 – Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal (d. 1962)
* March 25 – A.J.P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
* March 26 – Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player (d. 1981)
* March 31 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
April
* April 1 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
* April 9 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
* April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
* April 19 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976)
* April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
* April 28
- Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
- Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
May
* May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
* May 3 – Mary Astor, American actress and writer (d. 1987)
* May 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
* May 8 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
* May 11 – Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980)
* May 15 – Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965)
* May 16 – Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
* May 19 – Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
* May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
* May 23 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
* May 27 – Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
* May 29 – T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
* May 30 – Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
June
* June 3 – Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer (d. 1975)
* June 4 – Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)
* June 6 – Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (d. 1993)
* June 12 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
* June 15 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
* June 19 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
* June 22
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
- Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
* June 24 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
* June 28 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
July
* July 1 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
* July 2 – Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
* July 2 – Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
* July 3 – George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
* July 7 – William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
* July 7 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
* July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
* July 23 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
* July 25 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
August
* August 5 – Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
* August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
* August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
* August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
September
* September 1
- Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)
- Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
- Eleanor Burford, English writer (d. 1993)
* September 4 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
* September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
* September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d. 1990)
* September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
October
* October 6 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
* October 9 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of Senegal (d. 2001)
* October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
* October 14
- Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
- Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975)
* October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
* October 24 – Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
* October 27 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
November
* November 2 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)
* November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
* November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
* November 16 – Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973)
* November 17 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1991)
* November 18
- Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
- George Wald, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
December
* December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1986)
* December 6 – Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer (d. 1965)
* December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
* December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
* December 24 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
* December 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
* December 26 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (d. 2003)
* December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)
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