* 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 )

Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot ( 17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946 ) was a French doctor and serial killer.

It is situated in the Place Marcel Sembat, named after the journalist Marcel Sembat ( 1862 – 1922 ) who was a director of the socialist review the Petite République from 1890 to 1897 and husband of the painter Georgette Agutte from 1897 until their deaths in 1922.

Petiot was born 17 January 1897 at Auxerre, France.

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 )

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

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

* 1897 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher and writer ( d. 1962 )

* 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 )

* July 8 – Georges Bataille, French writer ( 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.