1894
Year 1894 (MDCCCXCIV ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1894
January - March
January 7 - William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery -operated telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts ).
February 13 - Founding of Het Gezelschap "Practische Studie" , studyassociation of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands.
February 15 - 04:51 GMT , French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory , London , England with a bomb.
March 1 - Thomas McGreevy , Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government.
March 4 - The First Sino-Japanese War : Great fire in Shanghai ; over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
March 12 - For the first time, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
March 21 - Syzygy of planets as Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus , and Mercury and Venus both transited the Sun as seen from Saturn . But no two of the transits were simultaneous.
March 25 - Coxey's Army , the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
April - June
July - September
October - December
Undated
Births
January - June
January 1 - Satyendra Nath Bose , Indian physicist (d. 1974 )
January 8 - Vilmos Tkálecz , Hungarian politician (d. unknown)
January 20 - Walter Piston , American composer (d. 1976 )
January 30 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943 )
January 31 - Isham Jones , American jazz musician (d. 1956 )
February 3 - Norman Rockwell , American artist and illustrator (d. 1978 )
February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse , German philosopher (d. 1971 )
February 10 - Harold Macmillan , British Prime Minister (d. 1986 )
February 11 - Alfonso Leng , Chilean composer (d. 1974 )
February 14 - Jack Benny , American actor and comedian (d. 1974 )
February 25 - Meher Baba , Avatar of the Age, born in India (d. 1969 )
February 28 - Ben Hecht , American playwright, and film writer (d. 1964 )
March 17 - Paul Green , novelist and Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright (d. 1981 )
March 19 - Moms Mabley , American comedienne (d. 1975 )
March 30 - Nikolai P. Barabashov , Russian astronomer (d.1971 )
April 10 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla , Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationalist (d. 1983 )
April 10 - Ben Nicholson English abstract artist (d. 1982 )
April 13 - Arthur Fadden , Australian Prime Minister (d. 1973 )
April 15 - Bessie Smith , American blues singer (d. 1937 )
April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev , Soviet politician (d. 1971 )
April 26 - Rudolf Hess , Nazi official (d. 1987 )
April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky , Russian/American musicologist (d. 1995 )
May 11 - Martha Graham , American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991 )
May 16 - Walter Yust , American encyclopædia editor (d. 1960 )
May 20 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati , Indian religious scholar and saint (d.1994 )
May 27
May 31 - Fred Allen , American comedian (d. 1956 )
June 4 - Gabriel Pascal , Hungarian Film Producer (d. 1954 )
June 7 - Roy Thomson , Canadian publisher (d. 1976 )
June 9 - Nedo Nadi , Italian fencer (d. 1940 )
June 14 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924 )
June 23 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972 )
July - December
July 9 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984 )
July 18 - Isaac Babel , Ukrainian writer (d. 1940 )
July 19 - Khawaja Nazimuddin , Pakistani Prime Minister (d. 1965 )
July 26 - Aldous Huxley , English author (d. 1963 )
August 3 - Harry Heilmann , baseball player (d. 1951 )
August 28 - Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor (d. 1981 )
August 28 - Elisha Scott , footballer (d. 1959 )
September 2 - Joseph Roth , Austrian writer (d. 1939 )
September 7 - George Waggner , American film director, producer, and actor (d. 1984 )
September 13 - J. B. Priestley , English novelist and playwright (d. 1984 )
September 13 - Julian Tuwim , Polish poet (d. 1953 )
September 15 - Jean Renoir , French film director (d. 1979 )
September 24 - Tommy Armour , Scottish golfer (d. 1968 )
October 5 - Bevil Rudd , South African athlete (d. 1948 )
October 7 - Del Lord , Hollywood director (d. 1970 )
October 14 - E. E. Cummings , American poet (d. 1962 )
October 15 - Moshe Sharett , Israeli Prime Minister (d. 1965 )
October 18 - H. L. Davis , American author (d. 1960 )
October 25
November 2 - Alexander Lippisch , German aerodynamics engineer (d. 1976 )
November 4 - Chafik Charobim , Egyptian impressionist painter (d. 1975 )
November 5 - Harold Innis , Canadian communications scholar. (d. 1952 )
November 24 - Herbert Sutcliffe , English cricketer (d. 1978 )
November 26 - Norbert Wiener , American mathematician (d. 1964 )
November 29 - Lucille Hegamin , American singer and entertainer (d. 1970 )
December 5 - Philip K. Wrigley , American business and sports executive (d.1977 )
December 8 - James Thurber , American writer (d. 1961 )
December 17 - Arthur Fiedler , American conductor (d. 1979 )
December 20 - Robert Menzies , Australian Prime Minister (d. 1978 )
December 22 - Edwin Linkomies , Finnish Prime Minister (d. 1963 )
December 26 - Jean Toomer , American poet (d. 1967 )
December 31 - Pola Negri , Polish actress (d. 1987 )
Deaths
January - June
January 1 - Heinrich Hertz , German physicist (b. 1857 )
January 13 - Nadezhda von Meck , patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831 )
February 3 - Auguste Vaillant , French anarchist (b. 1861 ) (executed)
February 4 - Adolphe Sax , Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814 )
February 8 - Robert Michael Ballantyne , Scottish novelist (b. 1825 )
February 27 - Hilarión Daza , President of Bolivia (b. 1840 ) (assassinated)
March 3 - Ned Williamson , American baseball player (b. 1857 )
March 20 - Lajos Kossuth , Hungarian politician (b. 1802 )
April 8 - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay , Bengali poet (b. 1838 )
June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae , German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. 1812 )
June 7 - Hassan I of Morocco (b. 1836 )
June 23
June 25 - Marie François Sadi Carnot , French statesman (b. 1837 ) (assassinated)
July - December
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