* 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 – 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 cave was the hideout of the aboriginal warrior, Jandamarra who was killed outside the entrance of the cave in 1897.

This was first demonstrated by J. J. Thomson in 1897 when, using a cathode ray tube, he found that an electrical charge would travel across a vacuum ( which would possess infinite resistance in classical theory ).

He negotiated around resistance from many quarters, leading to the Federation Act in 1887 and affiliation ( and later federation ) with St. Michael's College in 1881, Wycliffe College and Knox College in 1885, the Ontario College of Agriculture and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in 1888, Victoria College, the Ontario Medical College for Women and the Toronto College of Music in 1890, the College of Pharmacy in 1891, the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1896, and the Ontario Veterinary College in 1897.

He campaigned for lower rates throughout the Empire, and when met by resistance decided to go it alone, announcing that at the end of 1897 Canada would unilaterally lower the letter rate to Britain from five to three cents.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky ( January 23, 1897 – January 18, 2000 ) was the first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement.

The second battle of Malakand took place in 1897 during a period of Swat Ranizais resistance when even the Pukhtoon women came out to fight.

* 1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader ( d. 1975 )

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary ( 1897 ) incorrectly ascribes denial of the virgin birth to Ferenc Dávid, leader of the Transylvanian Unitarians.

* William Daniel ( politician ), American temperance movement leader ( d. 1897 )

** Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader ( b. 1897 )

** Shoghi Effendi, Bahá ' í leader ( b. 1897 )

* August 18 – Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian political leader ( b. 1897 )

** Edgardo Donato, Uruguayan tango composer and orchestra leader ( b. 1897 )

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

* W. Herbert Brewster ( 1897 – 1987 ) was an influential African American Baptist minister, composer, dramatist, singer, poet and community leader.

By March 1897 he was considered " the acknowledged leader of the federal movement in all Australia ".

He was again beaten during the 1896 elections in Neuilly, as a candidate of the Socialist leader Jean Jaurès, and then again in 1897 as a nationalist antisemitic candidate, having broken with the left-wing during the Dreyfus Affair.

These two founding fathers of The Forward were quick to enlist in the ranks of a new rival socialist political party founded in 1897, the Social Democratic Party of America, founded by the nationally famous leader of the 1894 American Railroad Union strike, Eugene V. Debs, and Victor L. Berger, a German-speaking teacher and newspaper publisher from Milwaukee.

Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini (, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni ; born c. 1897 ; died 4 July 1974 ) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine.

In 1897 the Riksdag had received among its members the first socialist representative in the person of Hjalmar Branting, the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats.

In addition to the beloved party leader Keir Hardie came the Scot Bruce Glasier, elected to the NAC in 1897 and succeeding Hardie as Chairman in 1900 ; Phillip Snowden, an evangelical socialist from the West Riding, and Ramsay MacDonald, whose adhesion to the ILP had been secured in the wake of his disillusionment with the Liberal Party over its rejection of trade unionist candidate in the 1894 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election.

* John Patrick Fitzgerald ( 1815 – 1897 ), New Zealand doctor, community leader and hospital superintendent

Elijah Muhammad ( born Elijah Robert Poole ; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975 ) was an African American religious leader, and led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975.

Bond became leader of the Liberal Party after Whiteway lost the 1897 election.

* Devil Anse Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield family, of the infamous Hatfield – McCoy feud, had a bout of pleurisy in the 1890's ( probably 1897 )

Joseph Darnand ( 19 March 1897 – 10 October 1945 ) was a French soldier and later a leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany.

A recognised industry leader ( he was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1896, knighted in 1897, and served on several Royal Commissions ), Wolfe-Barry played a prominent role in the development of industry standardisation, urging the ICE's Council to form a committee to focus on standards for iron and steel sections.

* Marion G. Romney ( 1897 – 1988 ), prominent leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, cousin of George W. Romney

* Kurt Daluege ( 1897 – 1946 ), SS leader

Tubal Uriah " Buzz " Butler ( 21 January 1897 – 20 February 1977 ), was a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago.