* 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 )

** Constance Talmadge, American actress ( b. 1897 )

* Constance Talmadge ( 1897 – 1973 ), American actress

* Constance Talmadge ( 1897 – 1973 ), actress

* Vera Constance Victoria Studd b. 14 Jun 1897

Beaufort married the Lady Victoria Constance Mary Cambridge ( 1897 – 1987 ), daughter of Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge and niece of Queen Mary, on 14 June 1923.

Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort ( née Princess Mary of Teck and later The Lady Victoria Constance Mary Cambridge ) ( 12 June 1897 – 23 June 1987 ) was the daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge and Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor.

Driven by the support, encouragement and guidance of Mrs. Matheson, Hetherington became involved, along with Richard Bradshaw, and Edith Constance Murray ( née Blackwell ) ( 1897 – 1988 ), with regular performances at the sisters ' Clovelly Puppet Theatre ( which they had established in 1949 ), which staged puppet shows every Saturday, in an old army hut in Burnie Park, Clovelly.

* 1897 – John W. Galbreath, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Darby Dan Farm ( d. 1988 )

* 1928 – Rex Cherryman, American actor ( b. 1897 )

* 1897 – Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist ( d. 1941 )

* 1962 – Milt Franklyn, American composer and arranger ( b. 1897 )

* 1897 – Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist ( d. 1972 )

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

On November 24, 1897, French naval authorities found three Americans on Clipperton working for the American Guano Company, who had raised the American flag on the island.

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.

Sockalexis, a Native American, had played in Cleveland 1897 – 99.

* Commodore ( shipwreck ), a steamer lost to a maritime disaster in 1897 that occurred off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida, of which American novelist Stephen Crane was a surviving passenger

* 1897 – Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer ( d. 1977 )

* 1954 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive ( b. 1897 )

* 1897 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician ( d. 1995 )

* 1897 – Drew Pearson, American journalist ( d. 1969 )

* 1897 – Alma Rubens, American actress ( d. 1931 )

* 1897 – Louis Buchalter, American organized crime figure ( d. 1944 )

* 1897 – William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest ( d. 1983 )

Frank L. Baum published “ Mother Goose in Prose ” in 1897, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, and American Fairy Tales in 1901.

* 1897 – Marian Anderson, American contralto ( d. 1993 )