* 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 )

Similarly lavish but less successful was Margaret Mather's production in New York in 1897.

Benn's mother, Margaret Wedgwood Benn ( née Holmes ) ( 1897 – 1991 ), was a dedicated theologian, feminist and the founder President of the Congregational Federation.

The church was completed in 1897 as a memorial to Margaret Green.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Among the productions staged at this theater was Margaret Mather's ill-fated production of Cymbeline in 1897.

* Margaret Chase Smith ( 1897 – 1995 ), United States Senator from Maine

His sudden death on 14 December 1897, at the age of 63, with no son to inherit the business, placed a heavy burden on his wife and his daughter, Margaret.

Her siblings included Dora Furry ( born 1880 ); Sherman Furry ( born 1882 ); Cameron Furry ( born 1887 ); Edgar Furry ( 1889 – 1975 ); Frank M. Furry ( born 1891 ); and Margaret Furry ( born 1897 ).

In 1897, Rosenblum began a torrid affair with Margaret Thomas ( née Callaghan ), the youthful wife of Reverend Hugh Thomas, shortly before the latter's death.

Margaret Hamer ) ( 4 colour plates, 19 line, 1897 )

* Kechnie, Margaret C. Organizing Rural Women: the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897 – 1910.

* Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Irish novelist ( 1855 – 1897 )

After Penrose's death, Margaret married the mathematician Max Newman ( 1897 – 1984 ).

It produced two daughters, Margaret Mary (" Mardi ") and Beatrix Waring (" Bixie "), born in 1897 and 1901, respectively.

Margaret Abbott was one of the first women golfers, having begun play in 1897 as a member of the prestigious Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois.

Another son died in infancy, and then his sister Margaret was born in 1897.

Poindexter married Margaret Conger in Dillon, Montana on April 22, 1897.

* Author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, who wrote numerous Victorian era novels, lived in Bandon until her death of typhoid fever on 24 Jan 1897.

Kathleen Mary Margaret Bryant ( 8 March 1897 in Kingston upon Hull – 1 January 1988 in Manchester ) was an English actress, best known for playing Minnie Caldwell on the soap opera Coronation Street.

In 1897 he married Margaret Forbes Cornwall, of Aberdeen.

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant ( née Margaret Oliphant Wilson ) ( 4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897 ), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant.

** Margaret Thompson Biddle ( 1897 – 1956 ) ( m. 1916 Theodore Schulze II div.

Naomi May Margaret Mitchison, CBE ( née Haldane ; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999 ) was a Scottish novelist and poet.