* 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 )

The standard pattern for early film studios was provided by the studio which Georges Méliès had built in 1897.

Films of acted reproductions of scenes from the Greco-Turkish war were made by Georges Méliès in 1897, and although sold separately, these were no doubt shown in continuous sequence by exhibitors.

* July 8 – Georges Bataille, French writer ( b. 1897 )

Idrotts Föreningen Kamraterna i Helsingfors was formed on the 15 of October in 1897 by Georges Doubitsky, a 15-year old student at the Svenska Reallyceum school in Helsinki.

Georges Richard was a French automobile that was manufactured from 1897 to 1902.

* Georges Henri Rivière ( 1897 – 1985 ), French museologist

Named by the British Antarctic Expedition ( 1907 – 09 ) for Lt. Georges Lecointe, who was second in command of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition ( 1897 – 99 ) under Adrien de Gerlache.

In 1897, Georges Méliès established the first cinema studio on a rooftop property in Montreuil, near Paris.

Paul Schützenberger ( 23 December 1829 – 26 June 1897 ), French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger ( 1779 – 1859 ) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger ( 1809 – 1881 ) professor of chemical medicine.

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.

The first use of time-lapse photography in a feature film was in Georges Méliès ' motion picture Carrefour De L ' Opera ( 1897 ).

However Smith also corresponded with special effects pioneer Georges Méliès whose influence can be seen in The X-Rays and The Haunted Castle ( both 1897 ) the later of which, along with The Corsican Brothers, Photographing a Ghost and, perhaps his most accomplished work from this time, Santa Claus ( all 1898 ), include special effects created using a process of double-exposure patented by Smith.

The poetic dramas of Edmond Rostand, especially Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897, were immensely popular at the turn of the century, as too the " well-made " plays and bourgeois farces of Georges Feydeau.

The bay was discovered by Adrien de Gerlache during the 1897 – 99 Belgian Antarctic Expedition and named after the fiancée of Georges Lecointe, Gerlache's executive officer, hydrographer and second-in-command of the expedition.

* Georges Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane ( 1897 or 1899 – 1944 ), married Florinda Fernández y Anchorena ( 1901 -?).

* Georges Paul Ernest de Castellane ( 1897 or 1899 – 1944 ) who married Florinda Fernández y Anchorena ( 1901 -?

In 1897, the shoal became a French possession, later being placed under the administration of a commissioner residing in Réunion in 1968.

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.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

* 1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.

* 1824 – Blondin, French tightrope walker ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-born French WW1 veteran and centenarian ( d. 2005 )

In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would come to be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association ( in French, l ’ Association phonétique internationale ).

* 1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French Roman Catholic nun ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer ( d. 1946 )

* 1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French novelist ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian ( d. 2008 )

* 1897 – Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1956 )

** Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( b. 1897 )

* December 24 – Louis Aragon, French writer ( b. 1897 )

* April 22 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general ( d. 1897 )

In 1897, the Commission de décimalisation du temps was created by the French Bureau of Longitude, with the mathematician Henri Poincaré as secretary.

* Alphonse Daudet ( 1840 – 1897 ) was the best-known French writer from Provence in the 19th century, though he lived mostly in Paris and Champrosay.

* 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.