* 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 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist ( d. 1940 )

* 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 – 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

* October 15 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist ( b. 1892 )

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* Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji ( 1892 – 1988 ), British composer, music critic, pianist and writer of Parsi extraction

* 1965 – Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1892 )

The English composer Herbert Howells ( 1892 – 1983 ) wrote two significant collections of pieces for clavichord ( Lambert's Clavichord & Howells ' Clavichord ).

More generations of English speakers have learned about China through Wade – Giles ( proposed in 1859, revised in 1892 ) than through Pinyin ( approved in 1958, adopted in 1979 ).

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk ( 1886 ), Philomythus ( 1891 ), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman ( 1892 ), and his article " The Gospels " in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world.

* 1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist ( b. 1834 )

* 1892 – Basil Rathbone, English actor ( d. 1967 )

* 1892 – Richard Aldington, English poet ( d. 1962 )

* 1892 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player ( d. 1983 )

* 1808 – Henry Edward Manning, English archbishop and cardinal ( d. 1892 )

* 1892 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1975 )

* 1892 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( b. 1892 )

FISA, the “ Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d ’ Aviron ” in French ( or the English equivalent International Federation of Rowing Associations ) was founded by representatives from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Adriatica ( now a part of Italy ) and Italy in Turin on 25 June 1892.

It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century ( ; Wade – Giles: Wei < sup > 1 </ sup >- t ' o < sup > 3 </ sup >- ma < sup > 3 </ sup > P ' in < sup > 1 </ sup >- yin < sup > 1 </ sup >), and was given completed form with Herbert Giles ' Chinese – English dictionary of 1892.

Gladstone wrote on 16 July 1892 in his autobiographica that " In 1834 the Government ... did themselves high honour by the new Poor Law Act, which rescued the English peasantry from the total loss of their independence ".

* May 4 – Osbert Sitwell, English writer ( b. 1892 )

** Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( b. 1892 )

* June 2 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer and landscape gardener ( b. 1892 )

* July 27 – Richard Aldington, English poet ( b. 1892 )

* June 5 – John Couch Adams, English astronomer ( d. 1892 )

Thomas Pelham Dale English mystic ( d. 1892 )

* December 10 – Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet, English tank and vehicle designer ( b. 1892 )