1897

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1894 1895 1896 – 1897 – 1898 1899 1900

Births

• February 4 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician (d. 1977)
• March 1 – Shoghi Effendi (d. 1957)
• March 24 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (d. 1957)
• March 28 – Sepp Herberger, German football player (d. 1977)
• April 4 – Dina Manfredini, Italian-American supercentenarian (d. 2012)
• April 19 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian
• April 23 – Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister (1963-1968) (d. 1972)
• April 26 – Douglas Sirk, German movie director (d. 1987)
• April 30 – Walt Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1966)
• May 30 – Frank Wise, 16th Premier of Western Australia (1945-1947) (d. 1986)
• June 7 – George Szell, Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1970)
• June 10 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• June 12 – Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister (1955-1957) (d. 1977)
• June 19 – Moe Howard, American actor & comedian (d. 1975)
• July 4 – Jake Forbes, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
• July 9 – Albert Coady Wedemeyer, American army officer (d. 1989)
• July 20 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist (d. 1996)
• July 24 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937)
• August 2 – Max Weber Swiss politician (d. 1974)
• August 11 – Enid Blyton, children's author (d. 1968)
• August 12 – Otto Struve, Russian astronomer (d. 1963)
• August 16 – Hersch Lauterpacht, Polish politician & judge (d. 1960)
• August 19 – Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (d. 1990)
• August 26 – Yun Poson, President of South Korea (1960-1962) (d. 1990)
• August 31 – Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
• September 12 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French scientist (d. 1956)
• September 23 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (d. 1994)
• September 23 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
• September 25 – William Faulkner, American author (d. 1962)
• September 26 – Pope Paul VI, (d. 1978)
• October 8 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American movie director (d. 1987)
• October 22 – Ettore Boiardi, Italian-American chef (d. 1985)
• October 29 – Joseph Goebbels, German politician (d. 1945)
• November 16 – Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, known for coining the name "Pakistan" (d. 1951)
• November 22 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
• November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian mobster (d. 1962)
• December 7 – Lazare Ponticelli, French World War I veteran (d. 2008)
• December 14 – Kurt Schuschnigg, 15th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977)
• December 24 – Koto Okubo, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2013)

• A.R. Chughtai – Pakistani artist (d. 1975)
• Frank O'Connor – American actor & painter (d. 1979)
• Thích Quảng Đức – Buddhist monk (d. 1963)

Deaths

• February 19 – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (b. 1815)

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