* 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 – 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 )

Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897.

* 1974 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( b. 1897 )

In 1897 Max Weber Sr. died, two months after a severe quarrel with his son that was never resolved.

Maxwell Herman Alexander " Max " Newman, FRS ( 7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984 ) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.

Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England, on 7 February 1897.

* December 2 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor ( b. 1897 )

* Max Weber ( politician ) ( 1897 – 1974 ), Swiss politician ; former member of the Swiss Federal Council

* Max Tau ( 1897 – 1976 ), Jewish-German-Norwegian writer, editor and publisher

Max Fremery and Johann Urban developed a method to produce carbon fibers for use in light bulbs in 1897.

The original ideas of process theology were developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ), and influenced a number of Jewish theologians, including British philosopher Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ), and Rabbis Max Kadushin, Milton Steinberg and Levi A. Olan, Harry Slominsky, and Bradley Shavit Artson.

Max Weber ( 2 August 1897, Zürich – 2 December 1974, Bern ) was a Swiss politician.

" A similar statement was made by Max Planck in 1897, not labeled as a law but as an important proposition: " If a body, A, be in thermal equilibrium with two other bodies, B and C, then B and C are in thermal equilibrium with one another.

Max Knoll ( 17 July 1897 – 6 November 1969 ) was a German electrical engineer.

He lost championship matches to Max Judd ( 1890, + 3-7 = 0 ), S. Lipschütz ( 1892, + 1-7 = 7 ), Albert Hodges ( 1894, + 3-5 = 1 ), Harry Nelson Pillsbury ( twice, 1897 (+ 7-11 = 3 ) and 1898 (+ 3-7 = 2 ), and Frank Marshall ( 1909, + 2-7 = 3 ).

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

* Max Newman ( 1897 – 1984 ), British mathematician

Max Joseph Oertel ( March 20, 1835-July 17, 1897 ) was a German physician.

Working for Edison, Armat refined the projector in 1897 by replacing the beater mechanism with a more precise Geneva drive, duplicating an invention made a year earlier in Germany by Oskar Messter and Max Griewe and in England by Robert William Paul.

In 1897, brothers Max and Oscar Schwab, Hermann Bauer, and Franz Kehrli studied at the University of Bern.

In pieces such as Franz Liszt's À la Chapelle Sixtine ( 1862 ), Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite ( 1884 ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's divertissement from The Queen of Spades ( 1890 ), George Enescu's Piano Suite in the Old Style ( 1897 ) and Max Reger's Concerto in the Old Style ( 1912 ), composers " dressed up their music in old clothes in order to create a smiling or pensive evocation of the past " ( Albright 2004, 276 ).

A considerable number of Jews have held diplomatic posts, among the more prominent being Mordecai M. Noah, consul to Tunis, 1813 – 16 ; Edwin de Leon, consul-general to Egypt, 1854 ; August Belmont, secretary of legation at The Hague, 1853 – 55, and minister resident, 1855 – 58 ; Oscar S. Straus, minister to Turkey, 1887 – 89, 1897 – 1900 ; Solomon Hirsch, minister to Turkey, 1889 – 92 ; B. F. Peixotto, consul to Bucharest, 1870 – 76 ; Simon Wolf, consul-general to Egypt, 1881 ; Max Judd, consul-general to Vienna, 1893 – 97 ; and Lewis Einstein, third secretary of embassy at Paris, 1903, and London, 1905.

* Max Knoll ( 1897 – 1969 ), German electrical engineer, inventor and professor

* Max Weber Sr. ( 1836 – 1897 ), German politician and father of Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 )