* Charles Atlas ( 1892 – 1972 ), a famous bodybuilder

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.

* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

* 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer ( d. 1978 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* 1892 – Gin Kanie, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 108 ( d. 2001 )

* 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 107 ( d. 2000 )

* 1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor ( b. 1892 )

* 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist ( d. 1892 )

* 1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer ( d. 1922 )

* 1892 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist ( d. 1988 )

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1820 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician ( d. 1892 )

* 1892 – Otto Messmer, American cartoonist ( d. 1983 )

* 1892 – Alfred Lunt, American actor ( d. 1977 )

* 1892 – Charles Vanel, French actor and director ( d. 1989 )

It has been edited by G. Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores, Band xxvi ( Hanover and Berlin, 1826 – 1892 ).

** Friedrich Blass, Die attische Beredsamkeit, part 2 ( 1892 ) online, pp. 345 – 363

* August 8 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist ( b. 1892 )

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

Johnny Dodds ( April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940 ) was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe " King " Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong.

Horticulturist John Dunbar, later known in local circles as Johnny Lilacseed, started the park's famous lilac collection in 1892 ; some of the 20 varieties he installed were descendants of native Balkan Mountain flowers brought to North America by early colonists.

* 1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of Baseball ( d. 1892 )

* 1808 – William W. Chapman, American politician ( d. 1892 )

* 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress ( b. 1892 )

* 1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian ( b. 1892 )

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

) The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name " Stern-Halma " as a variation of the older American game Halma.

* 1892 – J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon ( d. 1976 )

* 1962 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor ( b. 1892 )

* 1810 – Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician ( d. 1892 )

* 1892 – Jay Gould, American entrepreneur ( b. 1836 )

David Hayes Agnew ( November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892 ) was an American surgeon.

* 1892 – Ed Appleton, American baseball player ( d. 1932 )

* 1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet ( d. 1950 )

* 1892 – James Forrestal, American politician, Secretary of the Navy ( d. 1949 )

* 1892 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1892 – Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1954 )

* 1892 – William Demarest, American actor ( d. 1983 )

* 1892 – Peggy Wood, American actress ( d. 1978 )