* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter ( d. 1983 )

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )

* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.

* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

* 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.

* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

* 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer ( d. 2001 )

* 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1975 – Fredric March, American actor ( b. 1897 )

* 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar ( b. 1897 )

Oldtiden og den ældre Middelalder, pp. 570 – 735 ( Copenhagen, 1897 – 1905 ).

* 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident

* 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American dramatist ( d. 1975 )

* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )

* 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet ( d. 1970 )

* 1897 – Damerla Rama Rao, Indian artist, ( d. 1925 )

* Pierre Deval ( 1897 – 1993 ), a French modernist and figurist painter, lived and worked at the Domaine d ' Orvès in La Valette-du-Var from 1925 until his death in 1993.

Based on the data provided by Latvijas Statistika, the population of Rēzekne has been 10795 in the year 1897 decreasing to 9997 in 1920, while increasing again to 12620 then to 13139 years in 1925 and 1935, respectively.

The book was subsequently republished in 1897 and 1925, but with large sections of Young's perceptive social detail edited out.

: Formerly known as: Ottawa Football Club 1876 to 1897, Ottawa Senators 1925 to 1930.

Those clubs were: Port Melbourne ; Williamstown ; Brunswick ( joined 1897 ); Prahran ( 1898 ); Brighton ( 1908 ); Northcote ( 1908 ); Coburg ( 1925 ); Camberwell ( 1926 ); Preston ( 1926, after a temporary period between 1903-1911 ); Yarraville ( 1928 ); Oakleigh ( 1929 ); Sandringham ( 1929 ).

* Manchester Cup 1894, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1925, 1951, 1952, 1962, 1968

Chartered by the state of North Carolina in 1897 as Slater Industrial and State Normal School and renamed Winston-Salem Teachers College in 1925, it was the first African American institution in the United States to grant degrees in elementary teacher education.

Incorporation started in 1897 with a takings case, continued with Gitlow v. New York ( 1925 ), which was a First Amendment case, and accelerated in the 1940s and 1950s.

He served as the head football coach at Ohio Wesleyan University ( 1897 ), the University of Nebraska – Lincoln ( 1898 ), the University of Kansas ( 1899 ), Stanford University ( 1900 ), San Jose State University ( 1900 ), and the University of Michigan ( 1901 – 1923, 1925 – 1926 ), compiling a career college football record of 198 – 35 – 12.

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

** 1897 – 98 †, 1899 – 00 †, 1901 – 02 †, 1922 – 23 ‡, 1925 – 26 ‡, 1929 – 30 †, 1946 – 47 †, 1949 – 50 †, 1956 – 57 †, 1957 – 58 †, 1971 – 72 †, 2001 – 02 †, 2003 – 04 †

From 1897 to 1925 more British stamps were overprinted using the protectorate's name in various layouts.

# Lady Mary Louisa Elizabeth Montagu ( Kimbolton Castle, 27 December 1854 – 10 February 1934 ), married firstly at Kimbolton Castle, 10 December 1873 William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton and had issue, and secondly 20 July 1897 to Robert Carnaby Forster of Easton Park, Wickham Market, Suffolk ( d. 23 June 1925 ), without issue.

Jovan " Jovo " Stanisavljević (), known by his nickname Čaruga ( Чаруга ; 1897 – 27 February 1925 ) was a 20th-century Serb outlaw ( hajduk ) in Slavonia in the early 20th century.

The genesis of incorporation has been traced back to either Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad v. City of Chicago ( 1897 ) in which the Supreme Court appeared to require some form of just compensation for property appropriated by state or local authorities ( although there was a state statute on the books that provided the same guarantee ) or, more commonly, to Gitlow v. New York ( 1925 ), in which the Court expressly held that States were bound to protect freedom of speech.

** 1897 / 98, 1901 / 02, 1904 / 05, 1906 / 07, 1908 / 09, 1910 / 11, 1924 / 25, 1925 / 26, 1930 / 31, 1932 / 33, 1937 / 38, 1947 / 48 †, 1957 / 58 †, 1965 / 66 †, 1971 / 72 †, 1976 / 77 †, 1983 / 84, 1985 / 86, 1988 / 89, 1990 / 91, 1998 / 99, 2004 / 05, 2009 / 10, 2010 / 11

Battling Siki ( September 16, 1897 – December 15, 1925 ), aka Louis Mbarick Fall, was a French light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912 – 1925, and briefly reigned as the lineal light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier.

From 1897 to 1906, he was assistant physician at the eye clinic of Julius Hirschberg ( 1843 – 1925 ) in Berlin.

#† John James Joseph Monaghan ( 1897 – 1925 )

William Earl Webb ( September 17, 1897 – May 23, 1965 ) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball, playing from 1925 to 1933.

In April 1925, Kiki married investment banker Jerome " Gerry " Preston ( 15 March 1897 – 28 May 1934 ), a Harvard alumnus from Colorado, a man later described by writer Frédéric de Janzé in his memoirs as " a creature of instincts " and " untamed ".