* 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 – 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

The archipelago became a French possession in 1892 when captain Richard of the Primauget made a formal claim.

*** Richard L. Conolly, American admiral ( b. 1892 )

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

* July 20 – Richard Owen, Anatomist, paleontologist, and zoologist ( d. 1892 )

He had five children by his first wife — Richard ( 1889 – 1968 ), Mair ( 1890 – 1907, who died during an appendectomy ), Olwen ( 1892 – 1990 ), Gwilym ( 1894 – 1967 ) and Megan ( 1902 – 1966 ) — and possibly one child by Stevenson, a girl named Jennifer ( 1929 – 2012 ).

Richard Aldington ( 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962 ), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.

* Richard Aldington 1892 – 1962: A Catalogue of The Frank G. Harrington Collection of Richard Aldington and Hilda H. D.

* Knight, Richard Payne, The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology, Kessinger Publishing, 1892

Two great American theologians, the brothers Reinhold Niebuhr and H. Richard Niebuhr were born in Wright City in 1892 and 1894 respectively.

Richard F. Pettigrew of Sioux Falls, a relative of Pettigrew settlers in Flandreau, made the establishment of an Indian School at Flandreau part of his successful 1889 campaign for the U. S. Senate ; the Riggs Institute was opened in 1892 and is today known as the Flandreau Indian School.

Richard Lewis Nettleship ( 17 December 1846 – 25 August 1892 ), English philosopher, youngest brother of Henry Nettleship, was educated at Uppingham and Balliol College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship.

* Richard Garnett in Dictionary of National Biography, volume xxix, ( London, 1892 )

* Richard D. Sears: First American amateur champion of court tennis in 1892, and apparent inventor of the overhead " railroad service ," currently the most popular serve in the game.

Idylls and Epigrams, by Richard Garnett ( 1869, reprinted 1892 in the Cameo series ), includes about 140 translations or imitations, with some original compositions in the same style.

Richard M. Jones, born Richard Marigny Jones, ( 13 June 1892 – 8 December 1945 ) was a jazz pianist, composer, band leader, and record producer.

In 1888, he became music director of Globe Theatre in London, also providing popular incidental music for many of its productions and those of other London theatres, including Richard III ( 1889 ), Henry VIII ( 1892 ) and Nell Gwynn ( 1900 ).

Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough KG, PC ( 13 November 1871 – 30 June 1934 ), styled Earl of Sunderland until 1883 and Marquess of Blandford between 1883 and 1892, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.

Richard Joseph Neutra ( April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970 ) was an Austrian American architect.

* Isabella Mitchelson Haldane ( 1823 – 1892 ), married Richard Burdon-Sanderson ( 1821 – 1876 ) in 1853

* Richard Charles Stanley Mountjoy Monck ( born 2 Aug 1858, died 13 Dec 1892 )

* Richard Byrd ( athlete ) ( 1892 – 1958 ), American Olympic athlete

* Richard Wodehouse ( 1892 – 1940 ), cricketer