* 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 )

* January 10 – Louisa Lane Drew, actress and prominent theater manager, grandmother of the Barrymores ( d. 1897 )

* Drew Pearson ( 1897 – 1969 )-Wrote syndicated newspaper column " Washington Merry-Go-Round ".

Andrew Russell Pearson ( December 13, 1897 – September 1, 1969 ), known professionally as Drew Pearson, was one of the best-known American columnists of his day, noted for his yellow press journalism and muckraking syndicated newspaper column " Washington Merry-Go-Round ," in which he attacked various public persons, often with little or no objective proof for his allegations.

* Louisa Lane Drew ( 1820 – 1897 ), British-American actress and theatre owner

Bruce Adamson wrote: " On November 1, 1897 Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore and John Drew performed in Rosemary, at the Opening Night of The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel before her close friends Jonas, Grace and Lillian Kissam, and the George W. Ely's.

A ' Melting House ' between the churchyard and the river became a skilled bronze foundry in 1874, and successively as Cox & Son ( 1874 – 80 ), Drew & Sons ( 1880 – 83 ), Moore & Co ( 1883 – 97 ), Hollinshead & Burton ( 1897 – 1902 ) and A.

With George Richard Crooks ( 1822 – 1897 ), his colleague at Dickinson College and in 1880 – 1897 professor of historical theology at Drew Seminary, McClintock edited several elementary textbooks in Latin and Greek ( of which some were republished in Spanish ), based on the pedagogical principle of imitation and constant repetition.

Louisa Lane Drew ( January 10, 1820-August 31, 1897 ) was an American actress and theatre owner of British birth, and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family.

In 1897 an ailing Louisa Drew spent the summer at her annual Larchmont, New York retreat with her grandsons Lionel and John Barrymore.

* December 27 – Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1897 )

* John Loughborough Pearson ( 1817 – 1897 ), English architect

The older western tunnel was designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and built by S. Pearson & Sons, between 1892 and 1897.

John Loughborough Pearson ( 15 July 1817 – 11 December 1897 ) was a Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals.

* December 27-Lester B. Pearson, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, diplomat and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize recipient ( b. 1897 )

In the meantime, Pearson had died in 1897 ; his work was continued by his son, Frank Loughborough Pearson.

The original Martin Mill railway was constructed and operated by Pearson & Son in 1897 for the construction of the Admiralty harbour.

* John Loughborough Pearson, ( 1817 – 1897 ) English architect.

* Lester B. Pearson ( 1897 – 1972 ), former Prime Minister of Canada.