1889 Crown Coin Solid Silver St George with Dragon Queen Victoria Fine Grade UK
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1889 Crown Coin Solid Silver St George with Dragon Queen Victoria Fine Grade UK:
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1889 Victorian Crown
Solid Silver CoinOver 100 Years Old
Crowns were struck for Victoria from 1844 to 1901 but their was a large gap in their production from 1847 to 1887 due to the introduction of the trial decimal coin the Florin. Their were four types of Crown struck. The third type struck was the Jubilee Head Type. It was struck from 1887 to 1892, the portrait was a new design by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm designed especially to mark Victoria\'s jubilee, it depicted her as being older and wearing her new small lightweight crown she had especially made for the Jubilee celebrations as her other crowns were becoming to heavy for her to wear for long periods of time. This new portrait proved to be very unpopular as at the time it was felt it made her look like a penguin. (personally I think it makes her look more like a spitting image puppet). The obverse inscription reads \"VICTORIA D:G: BRITT: REG: F:D:\". The reverse was designed by Benedetto Pistrucci, its of St George mounted slaying the dragon. Their is no inscription just the date below the image at the bottom of the coin. The coin was made of .925 fine silver, they had a diameter of 38.6 millimetres and weighed approximately 28.35 grams.
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Always a heavy silver coin weighing about one ounce, during the 19th and 20th centuries the Crown declined from being a real means of exchange to being a coin rarely spent and minted for commemorative purposes only. In that format it has continued to be minted, even following decimalization of the British currency in 1971. However, as the result of inflation the value of the coin was revised upwards to five pounds.
The coin\'s origins lay in the English silver crown, one of many silver coins that appeared in various countries from the 16th century onwards, the most famous example perhaps being pieces of eight, all of which were of a similar size and weight (approx 38mm diameter and containing approx 25 grams of fine silver) and thus interchangeable in international trade.[1] The kingdom of England also minted gold Crowns in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The dies for all gold and silver coins of Queen Anne and King George I were engraved by John Croker, a migrant originally from Dresden in the Duchy of Saxony.[2]
The British crown was always a large coin, and from the 19th century it did not circulate well. However, crowns were usually struck in a new monarch\'s coronation year, true of each monarch since King George IV up until the present monarch in 1953, with the single exception of King George V.
The Queen Victoria \"Gothic\" crown of 1847 (mintage just 8,000 and produced to celebrate the Gothic revival) is considered by many to be the most beautiful British coin ever minted.
The King George V \"wreath\" crowns struck from 1927 to 1936 (excluding 1935 when the more common \"rocking horse\" crown was minted to commemorate the King\'s Silver Jubilee) depict a wreath on the reverse of the coin and were struck in very low numbers. Generally struck late in the year and intended to be purchased as Christmas gifts, they did not circulate well with the rarest of all dates, 1934, (mintage just 932) now fetching several thousand pounds each. The 1927 \'wreath\' crowns were struck as proofs only (15,030 minted).
With its large size, many of the later coins were primarily commemoratives. The 1951 issue was for the Festival of Britain, and was only struck in proof condition. The 1965 issue carried the image of Winston Churchill on the reverse, the first time a non-monarch or commoner was ever placed on a British coin, and marked his death. According to the Standard Catalogue of coins, 9,640,000 of this coin were minted, a very high number at the time, making them of little value today except as a mark of respect for the national war leader. Production of the Churchill Crown began on the 11th of October 1965, and stopped in the summer of 1966.
The crown was worth five shillings (or 60 pre-decimal pence) until decimalisation in February 1971, and was also the basis of other denominations such as the half crown and double crown.
The last five shilling piece was minted in 1965.
The crown coin was nicknamed the dollar, but is not to be confused with the British trade dollar that circulated in the Orient.
After Decimalisation[edit]
After decimalisation on 15 February 1971 a new coin known as a 25p (25 pence) piece was introduced. Whilst being legal tender [3] and having the same decimal value as a crown, the 25p pieces were issued to commemorate events, e.g. 1972 was for the Silver Wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The 1977 issue was to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II\'s Silver Jubilee, the 1980 issue for the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and, in 1981, the coin was issued to celebrate the marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
Further issues continue to be minted to the present day, initially with a value of twenty-five pence, and then, from 1990, with a value of five pounds.
Changing values[edit]
The face or denominational value of the crown remained as five shillings from 1544 to 1965. For most of this period there was no mark of value on the coin. From 1927 to 1939 the word \"CROWN\" appears, and from 1951 to 1960 this was changed to \"FIVE SHILLINGS\". After decimalisation in 1971, the face value kept its five shillings equivalent at 25 new pence, later simply 25 pence, although the face value is not shown on any of these issues.
From 1990, the crown was re-tariffed at five pounds (£5), probably in view of its relatively large size compared with its face value, and taking into consideration its production costs, and the Royal Mint\'s profits on sales of commemorative coins. While this change was understandable, it has brought with it a slight confusion, and the popular misbelief that all crowns have a five pound face value, including the pre-1990 ones.
Although all \"normal\" issues since 1951 have been composed of cupro-nickel, special proof versions have been produced for sale to collectors, and as gift items, in silver, gold, and occasionally platinum.
The fact that gold £5 crowns are now produced means that there are two different strains of five pound gold coins, namely crowns and what are now termed \"quintuple sovereigns\" for want of a more concise term.
Numismatically, the term \"crown-sized\" is used generically to describe large silver or cupro-nickel coins of about 40 mm in diameter. Most Commonwealth countries still issue crown-sized coins for sale to collectors.
New Zealand\'s original and present fifty-cent pieces, and Australia\'s previously round but now dodecagonal fifty-cent piece, although valued at five shillings in predecimal accounting, are all smaller than the standard silver crown pieces issued by those countries (and the UK).
For silver crowns, the grade of silver adhered to the long-standing standard (established in the 12th century by Henry II) – the Sterling Silver standard of 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper. This was a harder-wearing alloy, yet it was still a rather high grade of silver. It went some way towards discouraging the practice of \"clipping\", though this practice was further discouraged and largely eliminated with the introduction of the milled edge seen on coins today.
In a debasement process which took effect in 1920, the silver content of all British coins was reduced from 92.5% to 50%, with a portion of the remainder consisting of manganese, which caused the coins to tarnish to a very dark colour after they had been in circulation for a significant period. Silver was eliminated altogether in 1947, with the move to a composition of cupro-nickel – except for proof issues, which returned to the pre-1920 92.5% silver composition.
Since standardisation of the UK\'s silver coinage in 1816 (UK Coinage Reform 1816), a crown has, as a general rule, had a diameter of 38.61 mm, and weighed 28.276g.[4]
Modern mintages[edit]
Monarch
Year
Number Minted
Detail
Composition*
Edward VII 1902 256,020 Coronation Ster. Silv.
George V 1927 15,030 (proof only) \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1928 9,034 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1929 4,994 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1930 4,847 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1931 4,056 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1932 2,395 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1933 7,132 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1934 932 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
1935 714,769 George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee 0.500 silver
1936 2,473 \'Wreath\' Crown 0.500 silver
George VI 1937 418,699 Coronation 0.500 silver
1951 1,983,540 Festival of Britain Cu/Ni
Elizabeth II 1953 5,962,621 Coronation Cu/Ni
1960 1,024,038 British Exhibition in New York Cu/Ni
1965 19,640,000 Death of Sir Winston Churchill Cu/Ni
1972 Queen Elizabeth II 25th Wedding Anniversary 25p Cu/Ni
1977 Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee 25p Cu/Ni
1980 Queen Mother 80th Birthday 25p Cu/Ni
1981 Charles & Diana Wedding 25p Cu/Ni
Silver is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag (Greek: άργυρος árguros, Latin: argentum, both from the Indo-European root *arg- for \"grey\" or \"shining\") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it possesses the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal. The metal occurs naturally in its pure, free form (native silver), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Most silver is produced as a byproduct of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining.
Silver has long been valued as a precious metal, used in currency coins, to make ornaments, jewelry, high-value tableware and utensils (hence the term silverware) and as an investment in the forms of coins and bullion. Silver metal is used industrially in electrical contacts and conductors, in mirrors and in catalysis of chemical reactions. Its compounds are used in photographic film and dilute silver nitrate solutions and other silver compounds are used as disinfectants and microbiocides (oligodynamic effect). While many medical antimicrobial uses of silver have been supplanted by antibiotics, further research into clinical potential continues
British coinage
Current circulation
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selected coins)
Quarter-farthing Third-farthing Half-farthing Farthing Halfpenny Penny Threepence Groat Sixpence One shilling Two shillings (florin) Half crown Double florin (four shillings) Crown Half guinea Guinea
See also
Pound sterling Coins of the pound sterling List of British banknotes and coins Scottish coinage Coins of Ireland List of people on coins of the United Kingdom
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and king of Hanover following the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later. From 1811 until his accession, he served as Prince Regent during his father\'s final mental illness.
George IV led an extravagant lifestyle that contributed to the fashions of the Regency era. He was a patron of new forms of leisure, style and taste. He commissioned John Nash to build the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and remodel Buckingham Palace, and Sir Jeffry Wyattville to rebuild Windsor Castle. He was instrumental in the foundation of the National Gallery and King\'s College London.
He had a poor relationship with both his father and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, whom he even forbade to attend his coronation. He introduced the unpopular Pains and Penalties Bill in a desperate, unsuccessful, attempt to divorce his wife.
For most of George\'s regency and reign, Lord Liverpool controlled the government as Prime Minister. George\'s governments, with little help from the King, presided over victory in the Napoleonic Wars, negotiated the peace settlement, and attempted to deal with the social and economic malaise that followed. He had to accept George Canning as foreign minister and later prime minister, and drop his opposition to Catholic emancipation.
His charm and culture earned him the title \"the first gentleman of England\", but his bad relations with his father and wife, and his dissolute way of life, earned him the contempt of the people and dimmed the prestige of the monarchy. Taxpayers were angry at his wasteful spending in time of war. He did not provide national leadership in time of crisis, nor act as a role model for his people. His ministers found his behaviour selfish, unreliable and irresponsible. At all times he was much under the influence of favouritesReign
29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830
Coronation
19 July 1821
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George III
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William IV
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George III
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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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12 August 1762
St James\'s Palace, London
Died
26 June 1830 (aged 67)
Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Burial
15 July 1830
St George\'s Chapel, Windsor Castle
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Events
January 30: Rudolf & Maria at Mayerling.
January–March January 1
A total eclipse is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
Wovoka experiences a vision leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas.
January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers as a predecessor to the current U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
January 5 – Preston is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England.
January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States.
January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
January 30 – Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder suicide) in the Mayerling hunting lodge.
February 5 – The first issue of Glasgow University Magazine is published.
February 11 – The Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
March 4 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States (1885 – 1889) is succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893).
March 9 – Yohannes IV, Emperor of Ethiopia. is killed in the Battle of Metemma; Sudanese forces, who had been almost defeated, rally and destroy the Ethiopian army. Yohannes is probably the world\'s last ruler ever to die in battle.
March 11 – The North Carolina Legislature issues a charter for the creation of Elon College.
March 15 – German warships and American warships keep each other at bay in a standoff in Apia harbor, ending when a cyclone blows in.
March 23 – Claiming to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founds the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in India.
March 22 – English football team Sheffield United F.C. formed at the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield.
March 31 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6). At 300 m, its height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.April 22: Land Run.
April–June April 1 – Following a failed attempt at a coup, French defense minister Georges Boulanger is forced to flee the country.
April 10 – The Hammarby Roddförening (later Hammarby Fotboll) is founded in Sweden.
April 20 – Adolf Hitler is born at Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary on the border with Bavaria, a town where his father Alois Hitler is a customs official.
April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000.
May 2 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea.
May 6 – The Exposition Universelle opens in Paris with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch. The Galerie des machines, at 111 m, spans the longest interior space in the world at this time.
May 31
Johnstown Flood: The South Fork Dam collapses in western Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,200 people in and around Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
The Naval Defence Act dictates that the fleet strength of the British Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.[1]
June – Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
June 3 – The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
June 6 – The Great Seattle Fire ravages through the downtown area without any fatalities.
June 8 – The Wall Street Journal is established.
June 12 – The Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in the north of Ireland kills 80 people.
June 19 – A Neapolitan baker named Raffaele Esposito invents the Pizza Margherita, named after the queen consort of Italy Margherita of Savoy. This is the forerunner of the modern pizza.
June 29–30 – First Inter-Parliamentary Conference held.Eiffel Tower.
July–September July 8
The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published in New York City.
The last official bare-knuckle boxing title fight ever held (under London Prize Ring Rules) as Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan, the \"Boston Strong Boy\", defeats Jake Kilrain in a world championship bout lasting 75 rounds in Mississippi.
July 14 – International Workers Congresses of Paris open and establish the Second International.
July 31 – Louise, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, marries Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.
August 3 – Mahdist War: Egyptian and British victory at the Battle of Toski.
August 6 – The Savoy Hotel in London opens.[2]
August 10 – At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held for the Imperial Natural History Museum (German: K.k. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum), begun in 1871; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175,000 visitors.
August 14–September 15 – London Dock Strike: Dockers strike for a minimum wage of sixpence an hour (\"The dockers\' tanner\"), which they eventually receive, a landmark in the development of New Unionism in Britain.[3]
August 26 – The Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act, commonly known as the Children\'s Charter, is passed in the United Kingdom; for the first time it imposes criminal penalties to deter child abuse.[4]
August 30 – Official opening of Royal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office in London.
August – The Jewish Settlement of Moisés Ville is founded in Argentina.
September 10 – Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi becomes Albert I, Prince of Monaco.
September 17 – Civil War veteran Charles Jefferson Wright founds New York Military Academy with 75 students on 30 acres (120,000 m2) of land in Cornwall, New York.
September 23 – The Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market Hanafuda playing cards.October–December
September 23: Nintendo founded as a playing card manufacturer October 2 – In Washington, DC, the first International Conference of American States begins.
October 6 – The Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris.
October 24 – Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, delivers the Tenterfield Oration calling for the Federation of Australia.
October 29 – British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.[1]
November – The first free elections are held in Costa Rica.
November 2 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
November 8 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 11 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
November 14 – Inspired by Jules Verne, pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finishes the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes).
November 15 – Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca organizes a military coup which deposes Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and abolishes the Brazilian monarchy. Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims Brazil a Republic and forms a Provisional Government.
November 17 – The Brazilian Imperial Family is forced into exile in France.
November 19 – The current Flag of Brazil is adopted by the Provisional Government of the Republic.
November 20 – Argentina is the first country to recognize the abolition of the monarchy in Brazil.
November 21 – Gustav Mahler\'s First Symphony premieres.
November 23 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
November 27 – Clemson University is founded in Clemson, South Carolina.
December 4 – The Bayswater Railway Station (Victoria, Australia) officially opens.
December 14 – Wofford and Furman play the first intercollegiate football game in the state of South Carolina.
December 23 – The Spanish football team Recreativo de Huelva is formed (currently the oldest club in Spain).Panama, yellow fever.
Date unknown An early method of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission as developed by the Swiss engineer René Thury [5] is implemented commercially in Italy by the Acquedotto de Ferrari-Galliera company. This system transmits 630 kW at 14 kV DC over a distance of 120 km.[6][7]
The first West Virginia tornado is recorded.
The Wisden Cricketers\' Almanack publishes its first Wisden Cricketers of the Year (actually titled Six Great Bowlers Of The Year). The cricketers chosen are George Lohmann, Bobby Peel, Johnny Briggs, Charles Turner, John Ferris and Sammy Woods.
Frederick Abel invents cordite.
Influenza pandemic originates in Russia.
Yellow fever interrupts the building of the Panama Canal.
A huge locust swarm crosses the Red Sea and destroys crops in the Nile Valley.
The Capilano Suspension Bridge (the longest suspension foot-bridge in the world) is opened.
Capilano Bridge.
English football team Wimbledon F.C. is formed.
Brook trout is introduced into the upper Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park.
Schools founded include:
Plattsburgh Normal School (Plattsburgh, New York)
Riverside Elementary School (Wichita, Kansas)
Battle Ground Academy Franklin, Tennessee
The Indian Religious Code is created which foroffers Native Americans to practice their religions.[citation needed]
Samuel Marinus Zwemer co-founds the American Arabian Mission[8]Births
January–March January 2 – Walter Baldwin, American actor (d. 1977)
January 12 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam (d. 1965)
January 21 – Edith Bratt, English wife of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (d. 1971)
January 31 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
February 2 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (d. 1952)
February 3 – Risto Ryti, Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1956)
February 5 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
February 7 – Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
February 11 – John H. Mills, Sr., African-American singer, one of the Mills Brothers (d. 1967)
February 12
Edward Hanson, 28th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1959)
Marjorie Newell Robb, Survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912 (d. 1992)
February 19 – Ernest Marsden, British physicist (d. 1970)
February 22
Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guides (d. 1977)
R. G. Collingwood, British philosopher and historian (d. 1943)
February 23 – Victor Fleming, American motion picture director, (d. 1949)
February 24 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (d. 1936)
March 1
Kanoko Okamoto, Japanese novelist, poet, and Buddhism scholar (d. 1939)
Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
March 4
Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai\'i (d. 1965)
Pearl White, American silent film actress (d. 1938)
March 6 – William D. Francis, Australian botanist (d. 1959)
March 7 – Godfrey Chevalier, American naval aviation pioneer (d. 1922)
March 16 – Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
March 21 – Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer and actor (d. 1957)
March 24 – Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
March 25 – Bernard J. Sullivan, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1970)
March 29 – Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
March 30 – Herman Bing, German-American character actor and voice actor (d. 1947)April–June April 4 – Angelo Iachino, Italian admiral (d. 1976)
April 7 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
April 8 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (d. 1983)
April 11 – Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)
April 14 – Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian (d. 1975)
April 15 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (d. 1975)Charlie Chaplin April 16 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor and film director (d. 1977)
April 20 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born dictator of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
April 21
Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, former President of Peru (d. 1967)
April 23 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942)
April 26 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
April 28
Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (d. 1977)
António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese dictator (d. 1970)
April 30 – Fritz Pfeffer, German-Dutch housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1944)
May 12 – Otto Frank, German publisher, businessman, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
May 18 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
May 25
Günther Lütjens, German admiral (d. 1941)
Igor Sikorsky, Russian developer of the helicopter (d. 1972)
June 13 – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot and World War I fighter ace (d. 1915)
June 21 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
June 23 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
June 27 – Moroni Olsen, American actor (d. 1954)Adolf Hitler
July–September July 5 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
July 7 – Shiro Kawase, Japanese admiral (d. 1946)
July 17 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American author (d. 1970)
July 22 – Tony Jannus, American aviator and aircraft designer (d. 1916)
July 24 – Murray Kinnell, English actor (d. 1954)
July 30 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American inventor and engineer (d. 1982)
August 5 – Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)
August 6 – George Kenney, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. 1977)
August 10 – Norman Scott, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)
August 11 – William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Scottish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and a central figure in the development of the object relations theory of psychoanalysis. (d. 1942)
August 12 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
August 21 – Sir Richard O\'Connor, British general in World War II (d. 1981)
August 29 – Joseph Egger, Austrian character actor (d. 1966)
September 2 – George H. Plympton, American screenwriter (d. 1972)
September 7 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (d. 1953)
September 8 – Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio (d. 1953)
September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (d. 1963)
September 12 – Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)
September 14 – María Capovilla, Ecuadorian supercentenarian, the last surviving person verified as born in 1889 (d. 2006)
September 18 – Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
September 20 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
September 25 – C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
September 26 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
September 27 – Kolten Frazier, First American Ninja (d. 1976), cousin to Robert Frazier, the first American Sumo Wrestler.October–December October 1 – Charles Hurlbut \"Dutch\" Sterrett, American professional baseball player (d. 1965)
October 3 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
October 8 – C. E. Woolman, American airline executive (d. 1966)
October 13
Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian-born actor (d. 1974)
Cedric Holland, British admiral (d. 1950)
November 1 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982)
November 10 – Claude Rains, English stage and film actor (d. 1967)
November 12 – DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader\'s Digest) (d. 1981)
November 14 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
November 16 – George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
November 18 – Zoltán Tildy, President of Hungary (d. 1961)
November 19 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (d. 1938)
November 20 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
November 23
Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league administrator (d. 1964)
Alexander Patch, officer in the United States Army (d. 1945)
November 25 – George McMillin, American admiral, last Naval Governor of Guam (d. 1983)
November 30
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian - born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971)
Shōji Nishimura, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
December 4 – Isabel Randolph, American actress (d. 1973)
December 7 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher and playwright (d. 1973)
December 9 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (d. 1966)
December 11 – Walter Knott, American farmer and creator of Knott\'s Berry Farm (d. 1981)Date unknown Dr. Rai Rajeshwar Bali, Indian intellectual reformist (d. 1945)
James Alexander Allan, Australian poet (d. 1956)
Marthe Richard, French prostitute, spy, and politician (d. 1982)Deaths
January–June January 13 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
January 30
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (suicide) (b. 1858)
Baroness Mary Vetsera (suicide) (b. 1871)
February 3 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)
February 13 – João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1815)
March 8 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (b. 1803)
March 9 – Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia
March 24 – The Leatherman (b. 1833)
April 7 – Youssef Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader (b. 1823)
April 15 – Father Damien, a priest who won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy (b. 1840)
April 23 – Jules Barbey d\'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
May 9 – William S. Harney, U.S. Army general (b. 1800)
May 14 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
May 12 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
June 25 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831)July–December
Jefferson Davis July 7 – Giovanni Bottesini, Italian conductor, composer, and virtuoso double bass player (b. 1821)
July 10 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (b. 1820)
August 2 – Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
August 19 – Auguste Villiers de l\'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)
September 16 – Bob Younger, American outlaw and youngest of the Younger outlaws
September 23 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist (b. 1824)
September 24 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (b. 1856)
October 10 – Adolf von Henselt, German composer
October 11 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
October 17 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law (b. 1833)
October 19 – King Luis I of Portugal (b. 1838)
October 25 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (b. 1820)
November 18 – William Allingham, Irish author (b. 1824 or 1828)
December 6 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
December 12 – Robert Browning, English poet (b. 1812)
December 29 – Glele, King of Dahomey (suicide)
December 31 – Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (b. 1837 or 1839)
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