* 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 )

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

Richard Le Gallienne ( 1866 – 1947 ) produced a verse translation, subtitled " a paraphrase from several literal translations ", in 1897.

The philologist and Sanskritist Professor Chlodwig Werba, of the Institute of Indology at the University of Vienna, regards the 1883 translation as being second only in accuracy to the academic German-Latin text published by Richard Schmidt in 1897.

* The Beetle, an 1897 novel by Richard Marsh ( author )

* Richard Russell, Jr. ( D-Georgia ), U. S. Senator, ( 1897 – 1971 )

Winifred Wagner ( 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980 ) was an English woman and wife of Siegfried Wagner, Richard Wagner's son.

Richard John Seddon and party in Samoa, 1897

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 in Hamilton ( a suburb of Brisbane ), Queensland, Australia, and was the youngest of seven children of William Charles Smith ( 1852 – 1930 ), a bank manager, and Catherine Mary Kingsford ( 1857 – 1938 ), daughter of Richard Ash Kingsford, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

Richard Holt Hutton ( 2 June 1826 – 9 September 1897 ) was an English writer and theologian.

The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright.

In August 1897 a three member " Colonization Committee " was established, consisting of Col. Richard J. Hinton ( Washington, DC ), Wilfred P. Borland ( Bay City, Michigan ), and Cyrus Field Willard ( Chicago ).

* Richard W. Johnson ( 1827 – 1897 ), Civil War brigadier general

* Richard Russell, Jr. ( 1897 – 1971 ), his son, governor and United States Senator from Georgia ( 1933-1971 )

* Richard Folsom Cleveland ( 1897 – 1974 ) – lawyer.

Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. ( November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971 ) was an American politician from Georgia.

* General Sir Richard Denis Kelly KCB ( 1815 – 1897, Colonel 34th Cumberland Regiment, born in Ceylon wounded and taken prisoner at Sebastapol, lived in ' Shrublands ' Earley, buried in St Peter's Churchyard Earley )

* Richard Bernard Boyle, 7th Earl of Shannon ( 1897 – 1917 )

Richard Sebastian Willoughby Dickinson ( 1897 – 1935 )

The Steiff's nephew Richard joined in 1897 and gave the company an enormous boost in popularity by creating the teddy bear in 1902.

It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford ( 1800 – 1870 ), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace ( 1818 – 1890 ), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation.

* Roberts, Field Marshal Lord, Forty-one Years in India, Richard Bentley, London, 1897

He married on 22 May 1897, in Vienna, Maria Magda Fuchs ; they had a son: Richard ( 1898 – 1967 ).

At their persistent request, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith applied, on 1 May 1897, to the United States rules already set out in a letter of 2 May 1890 to François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, the Archbishop of Paris.