* 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican politician, 45th President of Mexico ( d. 1955 )

** Emilio Aguinaldo, the last President of the Supreme Government Council 23 March 1897-16 December 1897 and chairman of the Revolutionary Government from 23 June to 1 November 1897, was dictator from 12 June 1898-23 January.

Hay was named U. S. ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1897 when William McKinley became President.

* 1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt ( d. 1918 )

Urged by Roosevelt's close friend, Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, President William McKinley appointed Roosevelt to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897.

* July 14 – Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, killed in action as fighter pilot ( b. 1897 )

** Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Mary Dimmick Harrison ( b. 1897 )

Putnam ’ s activities with the American Library Association led him to join with Justin Winsor and Melvil Dewey as official delegates to the International Conference of Librarians in London in 1897 When Winsor died shortly thereafter, Putnam served the remainder of his term as President of the ALA.

His grandfather Adlai E. Stevenson I was Vice President of the United States under President Grover Cleveland from 1893 – 1897.

Dewar was also the President of the Chemical Society in 1897 and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1902, as well as serving on the Royal Commission established to examine London's water supply from 1893 to 1894 and the Committee on Explosives.

The British at first rebuffed the United States government's suggestion of arbitration, but when President Grover Cleveland threatened to intervene according to the Monroe Doctrine, Britain agreed to let an international tribunal arbitrate the boundary in 1897.

* Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, 1885 – 1889 and 1893 – 1897

* Garret Hobart, the twenty-fourth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1897 to 1899

Garret Augustus Hobart ( June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899 ) was the 24th Vice President of the United States ( 1897 – 1899 ), serving under President William McKinley.

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.

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

It was here that the first Adlai E. Stevenson I ( 1835 – 1914 ), who held many important government positions and would become the 23rd Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897, courted Scott's sister-in-law, Letitia Green ; their wedding took place in this house in 1866.

From March 5, 1893 to March 5, 1897, Lamont served as United States Secretary of War in President Cleveland's cabinet.

In 1897, President William McKinley appointed George B. Jackson, an African American former buffalo soldier as customs collector at Presidio, a position that he held until his death in 1900.

He was President of the Confederation four times in 1886, 1897, 1903 and 1909.

President Grover Cleveland, in his second term of office ( 1893 – 1897 ), directed the national government to sue the Knight Company under the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act to prevent the acquisition.

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her gender and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean Society in 1897.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

* John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough ( 1897 – 1972 ), elder son of the 9th Duke

Edward Lippincott Tilton and William A. Boring won the 1897 competition to design the first phase, including the Main Building ( 1897 – 1900 ), Kitchen and Laundry Building ( 1900 – 01 ), Main Powerhouse ( 1900 – 01 ), and the Main Hospital Building ( 1900 – 01 ).

* 1897 – William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest ( d. 1983 )

* William D. P. Bliss, Historical Sketch of Individualist Anarchism ( 1897 ) – With further references

It debuted December 12, 1897 in the American Humorist, the Sunday supplement of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

* 1897 – William Joseph Browne, Canadian politician ( d. 1989 )

* 1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian ( b. 1810 ).

In 1897, this company was liquidated, and its interests were sold first to William Ansel Kinney, and then to Fred Wunderburg.

* William Stephenson ( 1897 – 1989 ), Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, and spymaster

* 1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian ( d. 1897 )

* 1821 – William Jervois, English engineer and caption, 10th Governor of South Australia ( d. 1897 )

First made at 60 Broad Street, Worcester, England, by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, the Lea & Perrins brand was commercialised in 1837 and has been produced in the current Midlands Road factory in Worcester since 16 October 1897.

* Walsh, William Shepard. Curiosities of Popular Customs And of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities ( 1897 ), p. 1014

* January 6 – William Gropper, American artist ( b. 1897 )

* William Daniel ( politician ), American temperance movement leader ( d. 1897 )

* October 2 – William Corby, American Catholic priest ( d. 1897 )

** William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )

* September 2 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian ( d. 1897 )

Since these five groups were constructed by methods which did not yield infinitely many possibilities, they were called " sporadic " by William Burnside in his 1897 textbook.

" Artichoke " wallpaper, by John Henry Dearle for William Morris & Co., circa 1897 ( Victoria and Albert Museum )