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(''' MDCCCXCII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (see link for calendar).
- January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States .
- January 14 - Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke Of Clarence , second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland . Next in line is his younger brother Prince George Of Wales .
- January 15 - James Naismith publishes the rules for Basketball .
- January 20 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts , the first official Basketball game is played.
- February 12 - Former President Abraham Lincoln 's birthday is declared a national Holiday in the United States .
- March 1 - Theodoros Deligiannis ends his term as Prime Minister Of Greece and Konstantinos Konstantopoulos takes office
- March 13 - Ernest Louis , a grandson of Queen Victoria becomes Grand Duke Of Hesse And The Rhine on the death of his father, Grand Duke Louis IV .
- March 15 - Liverpool Football Club founded by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield . Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent.
- March 31 - The world's first Fingerprinting bureau formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police; it had been operating unofficially since the previous year.
- April - Johnson County War in Wyoming
- April 15 - The General Electric Company is established through the merger of the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General Electric Company.
- May 7 - The Cook Islands issue their first Postage Stamp s.
- May 19 - British troops defeat Ijebu infantry at the battle of Yemoja River , in modern-day Nigeria , using a Maxim Gun
- May 22 - British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks major extension of colonial power into Nigeria n interior.
- May 24 - Prince George Of Wales becomes Duke Of York .
- May 28 - In San Francisco, California , John Muir organizes the Sierra Club .
- June 11 - The Limelight Department , one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne , Australia .
- January 1 - Artur Rodzinski , Croatian conductor (d. 1958 )
- January 1 - Manuel Roxas , President of the Philippines (d. 1948 )
- January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien , South African-born author (d. 1973 )
- January 14 - Hal Roach , American film and television producer (d. 1992 )
- January 18 - Oliver Hardy , American comedian and actor (d. 1957 )
- January 18 - Paul Rostock , German surgeon (d. 1956 )
- January 19 - Ólafur Thors , Icelandic politician and five times prime minister (d. 1964 )
- January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch , German-born film director (d. 1947 )
- January 31 - Eddie Cantor , American actor, singer (d. 1964 )
- February 6 - William Parry Murphy , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1987 )
- February 13 - Grant Wood , American painter (d. 1942 )
- February 15 - James Forrestal , first United States Secretary Of Defense (d. 1949 )
- February 18 - Wendell Wilkie , U.S. Presidential candidate (d. 1944 )
- February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay , American writer (d. 1950 )
- February 27 - William Demarest , American actor (d. 1983 )
- March 10 - Arthur Honegger , French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955 )
- March 10 - Gregory La Cava , American director, producer, and writer (d. 1952 )
- March 28 - Corneille Heymans , Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968 )
- March 30 - Stefan Banach , Polish mathematician (d. 1945 )
- April 6 - Donald Wills Douglas , American industrialist (d. 1981 )
- April 6 - Lowell Thomas , American journalist (d. 1981 )
- April 8 - Mary Pickford , Canadian actress and studio founder (d. 1979 )
- April 12 - Johnny Dodds , American jazz clarinettist (d. 1940 )
- April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre , French composer (d. 1983 )
- May 2 - Manfred Von Richthofen (the Red Baron), German fighter pilot (d. 1918 )
- May 3 - George Paget Thomson , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- May 7 - Archibald MacLeish , American poet (d. 1982 )
- May 7 - Josip Broz Tito , President Of Yugoslavia (d. 1980 )
- May 9 - Zita Of Bourbon-Parma , Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989 )
- May 11 - Margaret Rutherford , English actress (d. 1972 )
- May 12 - Fritz Kortner , Austrian-born director (d. 1970 )
- May 18 - Ezio Pinza , Italian bass (d. 1957 )
- May 31 - Michel Kikoine , Belarusian painter (d. 1968 )
- June 21 - Reinhold Niebuhr , American theologian (d. 1971 )
- June 26 - Pearl S. Buck , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
- July 8 - Richard Aldington , English poet (d. 1962 )
- July 11 - Thomas Mitchell , American actor (d. 1962 )
- July 12 - Bruno Schulz , Polish writer and painter (d. 1942 )
- July 23 - Haile Selassie I , Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975 )
- July 26 - Sad Sam Jones , baseball player (d. 1966 )
- July 29 - William Powell , American actor (d. 1984 )
- August 2 - Jack Warner , Canadian film producer (d. 1978 )
- August 8 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi , Spanish footballer (d. 1922 )
- August 15 - Louis, 7th Duc De Broglie , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
- September 4 - Darius Milhaud , French composer (d. 1974 )
- September 5 - Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist (d. 1973 )
- September 6 - Edward Victor Appleton , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965 )
- September 10 - Arthur Compton , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962 )
- September 12 - Alfred A. Knopf , American publisher (d. 1984 )
- October 7 - Dwain Esper , Director (d. 1982 )
- October 9 - Ivo Andrić , Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- October 9 - Marina Tsvetaeva , Russian poet (d. 1941 )
- October 23 - Gummo Marx , American actor and comedian (d. 1977 )
- October 28 - Dink Johnson , American jazz musician (d. 1954 )
- October 31 - Alexander Alekhine , Russian chess champion (d. 1946 )
- November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane , British geneticist (d. 1964 )
- November 12 - Guo Moruo , Chinese author and poet (d. 1978 )
- December 2 - Leo Ornstein , Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002 )
- December 4 - Francisco Franco , Spanish dictator (d. 1975 )
- December 6 - Osbert Sitwell , English writer (d. 1969 )
- December 8 - Bert Hinkler , Australian pioneer aviator (d. 1933 )
- December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung , Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929 )
- January 14 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke Of Clarence , second in line for the throne of the United Kingdom (b. 1864 )
- January 21 - John Couch Adams , English astronomer (b. 1819 )
- January 31 - Charles Spurgeon , English preacher (b. 1834 )
- March 13 - Ludwig IV, Grand Duke Of Hesse And By Rhine
- March 26 - Walt Whitman , American poet (b. 1819 )
- April 19 - Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC , Anglo-Catholic Clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821 )
- April 22 - Edouard Lalo , French composer (b. 1823 )
- April 25 - William Backhouse Astor, Jr. , American businessman (b. 1830 )
- April 26 - Sir Provo William Perry Wallis , British admiral and naval hero
- May 29 - Bahá'u'lláh , Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817 )
- June 9 - William Stairs , Canadian explorer (b. 1863 )
- October 12 - Ernest Renan , French philologist and historian (b. 1823 )
- October 23 - Emin Pasha , German doctor and Governor of Equatoria (b. 1840 )
- December 2 - Jay Gould , American financier (b. 1836 )
- December 6 - Werner Von Siemens , German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816 )
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