* 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 )

Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

** Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Mary Dimmick Harrison ( b. 1897 )

His father Benjamin Clemenceau ( 1810 – 1897 ) came from a long line of physicians, but he lived off his lands and investments and did not practice medicine.

1877 ); S. F. Alleyne and A. Goodwin, Plato and the Older Academy ( 1876 ); Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe and J. H. Muirhead, Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics ( 1897 ); O. J. Reichel, Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics ( 1870 and 1880 ); S. F. Alleyne, History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy ( 1883 ).

* Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett ( with EA Abbott, 1897 )

The Benjamin Caryl House at 107 Dedham St. dates from about 1777 and was home to Dover's first minister, Benjamin Caryl, his son George, who was the town's first doctor, and their descendants until 1897.

** Willcox, David, Memorial of Benjamin Helm Bristow, Cambridge, Mass., privately printed, 1897.

For example, Martin Buber drew on Hassidism in articulating his anarchist philosophy, Gershom Scholem was an anarchist and a kabbalah scholar, Walter Benjamin was equally influenced by Marxism and Jewish messianism, Gustav Landauer was a religious Jew and a libertarian communist, Jacob Israël de Haan combined socialism with Haredi Judaism, while left-libertarian Bernard Lazare became a passionately Jewish Zionist in 1897 but wrote 2 years later to Herzl – and by extension to the Zionist Action Committee, " You are bourgeois in thoughts, bourgeois in your feelings, bourgeois in your ideas, bourgeois in your conception of society .".

Hergé was a great admirer of Benjamin Rabier and may have derived the name ( and hairstyle ) from Rabier's Tintin lutin ( 1897 ).

Carl Benjamin Eielson ( 1897 – 1929 ) was an aviator, bush pilot and explorer.

1897: John Benjamin Stone founds the National Photographic Record Association, of which he becomes president.

Benjamin Joseph Webb ( February 25, 1814-August 2, 1897 ) was a Catholic editor, state senator for Kentucky, and historian.

Elizabeth Harrison ( February 21, 1897, Indianapolis, Indiana – December 25, 1955, New York City ) was the third of three surviving children of the former U. S. President, Benjamin Harrison, and the only child of his second wife, Mary Scott Lord Dimmick .< ref >

# E. Benjamin Bierman, 1890 – 1897

* Sir Benjamin Duff, 5th Baronet ( 1808 – 1897 )

# Samuel Philips Lee ( February 13, 1812 – June 5, 1897 ); Rear Admiral ; married Elizabeth Blair, daughter of Francis Preston Blair

Laird & Lee Publishers ; Chicago, 1897.

* South Dakota: Andrew E. Lee, 1897 – 1901

He married Ione Lee Gaut on September 28, 1897 in Washington, D. C., and had six children.

Charles Cameron Kingston, ( 22 October 1850-11 May 1908 ) Australian politician, was an early liberal Premier of South Australia serving from 1893 to 1899 with the support of Labor led by John McPherson from 1893 and Lee Batchelor from 1897 in the House of Assembly, winning the 1893, 1896, and 1899 state elections against the conservatives.

Emma Louise Batchelor Lee French ( April 21, 1836 – November 16, 1897 ), better known as Emma Lee French, was a British woman, born in Uckfield, East Sussex who travelled to Utah and Arizona, in the United States, where she became well known as a carer for the sick.

Between 1871 and 1897, Lee served as the ninth president of Washington and Lee University.

In 1897, Lee resigned as president of Washington and Lee University.

His first wife, Mildred Lee, died in 1894, and in 1897 he married Julie Noiregard, subsequently becoming a resident of the United States.

In particular, Lee Craig sold fossils from 1897 to 1937.

He died, while on holiday, on 10 Au ­ gust 1897 in Lee ­ nane, Coun ­ ty Mayo, Ire ­ land.

Ionactis was classified as a separate genus by Edward Lee Greene in 1897 with the species Ionactis linariifolia, which had been classified by Carolus Linnaeus as Aster linariifolius.

Among others may be mentioned: Barthenia ( Berlin, 1877 ); Götz und Gisela ( Berlin, 1886 ); Heimkunft ( Dresden, 1894 ); Aus See und Sand ( Dresden, 1897 ); Luv und Lee ( Berlin, 1897 ); and the narratives, Aus den Tagen der Hansa ( Leipzig, 1885 ); Aus stiller Zeit ( Berlin, 1881 – 1885 ); and Heimat.

Prince Imperial Yeong, the Crown Prince Uimin ( also Euimin ), also known as Yi Un, Yi Eun, Lee Eun, and Un Yi ( 20 October 1897 – 1 May 1970 ), was the 28th Head of Korean Imperial House, and the last crown prince of Korea.

In addition to lives of his father ( 1862 ), Professor Robert Lee ( 1870 ) and William Carstares ( 1876 ), he published a devotional book Christ the Consoler ; a volume of sermons, Creed and Conduct ( 1878 ); The Apostolic Ministry in the Scottish Church ( Baird Lecture, 1897 ), and several pamphlets on church questions.

Marine battalions scheduled to be equipped with the 6 mm Lee rifle did not begin to receive their new rifles and ammunition until 1897, two years after adoption of the cartridge and rifle.

Despite this threat, the September 1897 report of the Marine Corps Quartermaster to the Secretary of the Navy urgently requested an mimimum additional $ 10, 000 in funding to purchase sufficient 6mm ammunition to allow Marines to conduct live fire and target practice with the Lee rifle.