* 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 )

** Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist ( b. 1897 )

* May 6 – Edmund Colhoun, American admiral ( d. 1897 )

** Edmund Heines, Deputy SA leader ( b. 1897 )

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

The church was built between 1888 and 1897 and designed by George Fellowes Prynne, a pupil of George Edmund Street.

The church was built between 1888 and 1897 and designed by George Fellowes Prynne, a pupil of George Edmund Street.

In 1897 Edmund Barton topped the poll of the delegates elected from New South Wales to the Constitutional Convention which developed a constitution for the proposed federation.

This test was invented in 1897 by the Polish doctor Edmund Biernacki.

* Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy, The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean, Tragedian, 1787-1833 ( Downey & Co. Limited, London, 1897 )

William Vestey ( later Lord Vestey ) and his younger brother Edmund ( later Sir Edmund ) established the Vestey empire in 1897 from a family butchery business in Liverpool.

* John Edmund Fitzmaurice ( 1862 – 1897 )

He also translated, alone or in collaboration, other productions of the Scandinavian stage: Ibsen's A Doll's House ( 1889 ), The Master Builder ( 1893, with Edmund Gosse ); Edvard Brandes's A Visit ( 1892 ); Ibsen's Peer Gynt ( 1892, with Charles Archer ); Little Eyolf ( 1895 ); and John Gabriel Borkman ( 1897 ); and he edited Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas vols., 1890 – 1891 ).

These peaks were named in 1897 by USGS topographer Edmund Taylor Perkins, Jr. Perkins named Jean Peak for his sweetheart and future bride, Jean Waters of Plumas County, whom he married in 1903.

* John Edmund Liggett ( 1826 – 1897 ), owner of Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company, South St. Louis

The provincial Conservative government of Edmund James Flynn lost the 1897 Quebec election.

In 1895, Hugo Stinnes married Cläre Wagenknecht ; the couple had seven children: Edmund ( 1896 – 1980 ), Hugo Hermann ( 1897 – 1982 ), Clärenore ( 1901 – 1990 ), Otto ( 1903 – 1983 ), Hilde ( 1904 – 1975 ), Ernst ( 1911 – 1986 ), and Else ( 1913 – 1997 ).

* Costello Platoon ( Lieutenant Edmund William COSTELLO V. C., Matakand, India 1897 )

Edmund Ross Colhoun ( 6 May 1821 – 17 February 1897 ) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy who served during the Mexican War and the American Civil War.

Together with his younger brother Edmund, he established Vestey Brothers ( which later became the Vestey Group ) in 1897 from a family butchery business in Liverpool.

In 1897, suffering from work anxiety and exhaustion, and advised by doctors that he had just six months to live, writer Edmund James Banfield moved to Dunk Island with his wife Bertha-so becoming the island ’ s first white settlers.

He played a significant behind-the-scenes role in the Australian federation movement, as adviser to Edmund Barton and chair of the Drafting Committee at the 1897 – 1898 Constitutional Convention.

Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1897

The last mayor of Over was Edmund Leigh who held office during the Diamond Jubilee of 1897.