* 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.

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 )

Concentrating on two plays and two novels from the period — Victorien Sardou's Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1893 ), Maurice Barrès's Les Déracinés ( 1897 ), Edmond Rostand's L ' Aiglon ( 1900 ), and André de Lorde and Gyp's Napoléonette ( 1913 ) Datta examines how writers and critics of the Belle Epoque exploited the Napoleonic legend for diverse political and cultural ends.

Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for the first thirty years of Confederation at both the federal and provincial levels, in the 20th century the party was never able to be a force in provincial politics, being out of power starting in 1897, and ultimately dissolved into the Union Nationale in 1935 which took power in 1936 under Maurice Duplessis.

Image: Prendergast Maurice Summer Visitors 1897. jpg | Summer Visitors ( 1897 )

* October-Moss ( Maurice ) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army ( born 1897 ).

Brigadier Alfred Maurice Toye VC MC ( 15 April 1897 – 6 September 1955 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Emil Maurice ( 19 January 1897, Westermoor – 6 February 1972, Munich ) was an early member of the Nazi Party and one of the founders of the SS.

Although versions of the Sigil of Baphomet appear as early as the 1897 book La Clef de la Magie Noire by Stanislas de Guaita, the variant in common use by the Church of Satan is known as the Hell's Kitchen Baphomet, a slightly modified version of an original which appeared on the cover Maurice Bessy's 1964 book A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural.

More recent authors include Charles Ferdinand Ramuz ( 1878 – 1947 ), whose novels describe the lives of peasants and mountain dwellers, set in a harsh environment, the poets Blaise Cendrars ( born Frédéric Sauser, 1887 – 1961 ), Gustave Roud ( 1897 – 1976 ), Maurice Chappaz ( 1916 – 2009 ) and Philippe Jaccottet (* 1925 ) and the novelists Catherine Colomb ( 1892 – 1965 ), Monique Saint-Hélier ( 1895 – 1955 ), Alice Rivaz ( 1901 – 1998 ) and Prix Goncourt winner Jacques Chessex ( 1934 – 2009 ).

Moss ( Maurice ) Twomey ( 10 June 1897 – October 1978 ) was an Irish republican and chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ).

He married in Guimarães, Vermil, on 24 April 1982, to Rosa Sofia Pinto Martins Salazar, born in Guimarães, Vermil, on 8 May 1957, a Licentiate in Modern Literatures and Languages ( English and German ), daughter of António Martins Fernandes Salazar ( b. Guimarães, Vermil, Calçada, 19 May 1931 ), an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife ( m. Vila do Conde, São Miguel de Arcos, 21 April 1955 ) Berta da Silva Pinto ( Penafiel, Penafiel, 23 May 1934 – Guimarães, Creixomil, 13 February 1995 ), and paternal granddaughter of José Fernandes Salazar ( Guimarães, Vermil, 3 March 1890 – Porto, Miragaia, 1 December 1975 ), an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife ( m. Guimarães, Ronfe, 19 February 1925 ) Rosa Correia da Silva Martins ( Guimarães, Ronfe, 2 January 1897 – Porto, Cedofeita, 31 August 1972 ).

* William Smith ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( 1839 – 1897 ), first class cricketer for Yorkshire

* George Francis ( cricketer ) ( 1897 – 1942 ), West Indian cricketer

* George Mitchell ( cricketer ) ( born 1897 ), English cricketer

William Maldon " Bill " Woodfull OBE ( 22 August 1897 – 11 August 1965 ) was an Australian cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s.

* 25 November-Robert Bowers, cricketer ( born 1897 ).

* Charles Fynn ( 1897 – 1976 ), English cricketer

Alan Falconer Kippax ( 25 May 1897 – 5 September 1972 ) was a cricketer for New South Wales ( NSW ) and Australia.

John Thomas Cottam ( 5 September 1867 in Sydney, New South Wales – 30 January 1897 in Western Australia ) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1887.

The former cricketer was lured to the goldfields at Coolgardie, Western Australia, near Kalgoorlie, where he died of typhoid fever, aged 29, in 1897.

John James " Jack or J. J ." Lyons ( 21 May 1863 in Gawler, South Australia – 21 July 1927 in Adelaide ) was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests between 1887 and 1897.