Year (''' MDCCCXCIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for Motion Picture film.
- January 8 - A fire at the 1893 -1894 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
- January 9 - New England Telephone And Telegraph installs the first Battery -operated Telephone Switchboard ( Lexington, Massachusetts ).
- , French Anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory , London , England with a bomb.
- March 1 - Thomas McGreevy , Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government.
- ; over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
- March 12 - For the first time, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
- March 15 - Anarchist Jean Pauwels dies in a Madeline Church in Paris when his bomb explodes in his pocket.
- March 21 - Syzygy of planets as Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus , and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from Saturn .
- End of the rule of chief Touch The Clouds
- March 25 - Coxey's Army , the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
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- January 1 - Satyendra Nath Bose , Indian physicist (d. 1974 )
- January 20 - Walter Piston , American composer (d. 1976 )
- January 30 - King Boris III Of Bulgaria (d. 1943 )
- January 31 - Isham Jones , American jazz musician (d. 1956 )
- February 3 - Norman Rockwell , American artist and illustrator (d. 1978 )
- February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse , German philosopher (d. 1971 )
- February 10 - Harold Macmillan , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1986 )
- February 11 - Alfonso Leng , Chilean composer (d. 1974 )
- February 14 - Jack Benny , American actor and comedian (d. 1974 )
- February 25 - Meher Baba , Avatar of the Age, was born in India (d. 1969 )
- February 28 - Ben Hecht , American playwright, and film writer (d. 1964 )
- March 17 - Paul Green , novelist and Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright (d. 1981 )
- March 19 - Moms Mabley , American comedienne (d. 1975 )
- March 30 - Nikolai P. Barabashov , Russian astronomer (d. 1971 )
- April 10 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla , Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationalist (d. 1983 )
- April 10 - Ben Nicholson English abstract artist (d. 1982 )
- April 13 - Arthur Fadden , thirteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1973 )
- April 15 - Bessie Smith , American blues singer (d. 1937 )
- April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev , Soviet politician (d. 1971 )
- April 26 - Rudolf Hess , Nazi official (d. 1987 )
- April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky , Russian/American musicologist (d. 1995 )
- May 11 - Martha Graham , American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991 )
- May 16 - Walter Yust , American encyclopædia editor (d. 1960 )
- May 27
- --- Louis-Ferdinand Céline , French writer (d. 1961 )
- --- Dashiell Hammett , American author (d. 1961 )
- May 31 - Fred Allen , American comedian (d. 1956 )
- June 4 - Gabriel Pascal , Hungarian Film Producer (d. 1954 )
- June 7 - Roy Thomson , Canadian publisher (d. 1976 )
- June 9 - Nedo Nadi , Italian fencer (d. 1940 )
- June 14 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess Of Luxembourg (d. 1924 )
- June 23 - King Edward VIII Of The United Kingdom (d. 1972 )
- July 9 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984 )
- July 18 - Isaac Babel , Ukrainian writer (d. 1940 )
- July 19 - Khawaja Nazimuddin , second Prime Minister Of Pakistan (d. 1965 )
- July 26 - Aldous Huxley , English author (d. 1963 )
- August 3 - Harry Heilmann , baseball player (d. 1951 )
- August 21 - Katie Harris, folklorist (d. 2001 )
- August 28 - Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor (d. 1981 )
- August 28 - Elisha Scott , footballer (d. 1959 )
- September 2 - Joseph Roth , Austrian writer (d. 1939 )
- September 7 - George Waggner , American film director, producer, and actor (d. 1984 )
- September 13 - J. B. Priestley , English novelist and playwright (d. 1984 )
- September 13 - Julian Tuwim , Polish poet (d. 1953 )
- September 15 - Jean Renoir , French film director (d. 1979 )
- September 24 - Tommy Armour , Scottish golfer (d. 1968 )
- October 5 - Bevil Rudd , South African athlete (d. 1948 )
- October 7 - Del Lord , Hollywood director (d. 1970 )
- October 14 - E. E. Cummings , American poet (d. 1962 )
- October 15 - Moshe Sharett , second Prime Minister Of Israel (d. 1965 )
- October 18 - H. L. Davis , American author (d. 1960 )
- October 25 - Claude Cahun , French photographer and writer (d. 1954 )
- October 25 - Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu , Turkish poet, songwriter and saz player (d. 1973 )
- November 2 - Alexander Lippisch , German aerodynamics engineer (d. 1976 )
- November 4 - Chafik Charobim , Egyptian impressionist painter (d. 1975 )
- November 24 - Herbert Sutcliffe , English cricketer (d. 1978 )
- November 26 - Norbert Wiener , American mathematician (d. 1964 )
- November 29 - Lucille Hegamin , American singer and entertainer (d. 1970 )
- December 5 - Philip K. Wrigley , American Chewing Gum manufacturer and executive in Major League Baseball (d. 1977 )
- December 8 - James Thurber , American writer (d. 1961 )
- December 17 - Arthur Fiedler , American conductor (d. 1979 )
- December 20 - Robert Menzies , twelfth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1978 )
- December 22 - Edwin Linkomies , Finnish Prime Minister (d. 1963 )
- December 26 - Jean Toomer , Poet (d. 1967 )
- December 31 - Pola Negri , Polish actress (d. 1987 )
: ''See also .''
- January 1 - Heinrich Hertz , German physicist (b. 1857 )
- January 13 - Nadezhda Von Meck , patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831 )
- February 4 - Adolphe Sax , Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814 )
- February 6 - Maria Deraismes , French feminist (b. 1828 )
- February 8 - Robert Michael Ballantyne , Scottish novelist (b. 1825 )
- March 3 - Ned Williamson , American baseball player (b. 1857 )
- March 20 - Lajos Kossuth , Hungarian politician (b. 1802 )
- June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae , German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. 1812 )
- June 7 - Hassan I Of Morocco (b. 1836 )
- June 23 - Marietta Alboni , opera singer (b. 1826 )
- June 25 - Marie François Sadi Carnot , French statesman (b. 1837 ) (assassinated)
: ''See also .''
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