Year (''' MDCCCXCVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- June 1 - The great miners strike of 1897 begins. The strike would successfully establish the United Mine Workers Union and brought about the 8-hour work day to the mines.
- June 2 - Mark Twain , responding to rumors that he was dead, is quoted by the ''New York Journal'' as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
- June 12 - World's first Fingerprint Bureau opens in Calcutta (now Kolkata) India after the Council of the Governor General approved a committee report that fingerprints should be used for classification of criminal records.
- June 22 - Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee .
- January 3 - Marion Davies , American actress (d. 1961 )
- January 21 - René Iché , French sculptor (d. 1954 )
- January 23
- --- Subhash Chandra Bose , India n political leader (d. 1945 (?))
- --- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , Austrian architect and anti-Nazi activist (d. 2000 )
- January 28 - Ivan Stedeford , British Industrialist (d. 1975 )
- February 4 - Ludwig Erhard , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1977 )
- February 7 - Quincy Porter , American composer (d. 1966 )
- February 10
- --- John F. Enders , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1985 )
- ---Dame Judith Anderson , Australian actress (d. 1992 )
- February 21 - Elizabeth Harrison , daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Mary Dimmick Harrison (d. 1955 )
- February 27
- --- Ferdinand Heim , WWII German general, the "Scapegoat of Stalingrad" (d. 1977 )
- --- Marian Anderson , American contralto (d. 1993 )
- March 1 - Shoghi Effendi , Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1957 )
- March 4 - Lefty O'Doul , baseball player and restaurateur (d. 1969 )
- March 5 - Set Persson , Swedish communist politician (d. 1960 )
- March 15 - Jackson Scholz , American sprinter (d. 1986 )
- March 20 - Ruby Muhammad , African Americans' rights activist
- March 24 - Wilhelm Reich , Austrian psychotherapist (d. 1957 )
- March 28 - Sepp Herberger , German football coach (d. 1977 )
- April 1 - Nita Naldi , American film actress (d. 1961 )
- April 7 - Walter Winchell , American broadcast journalist (d. 1972 )
- April 9 - John B. Gambling , American radio talk-show host (d. 1974 )
- April 19
- --- Peter De Noronha , Indian businessman (d. 1970 )
- --- Constance Talmadge , American actress (d. 1973 )
- April 21 - Aiden Wilson Tozer , American Protestant pastor (d. 1963 )
- April 23 - Lester B. Pearson , Prime Minister Of Canada , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1972 )
- April 25 - Mary, Princess Royal of England (d. 1965 )
- April 26
- --- Douglas Sirk , German-born director (d. 1987 )
- --- Eddie Eagan , American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967 )
- May 2 - J. Fred Coots , American songwriter (d. 1985 )
- May 14 - Sidney Bechet , American musician (d. 1959 )
- May 17 - Odd Hassel , Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981 )
- May 18 - Frank Capra , American producer, director, and writer (d. 1991 )
- May 19 - Frank Luke , American World War I pilot (d. 1918 )
- May 21 - Nikola Avramov , Bulgarian painter (d. 1945 )
- May 27 - John Cockcroft , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967 )
- May 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Austrian composer (d. 1957 )
- June 7 - George Szell , Hungarian conductor (d. 1970 )
- June 10 - Grand Duchess Tatiana Of Russia (d. 1918 )
- June 12 - Anthony Eden , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1977 )
- June 13 - Paavo Nurmi , Finnish runner (d. 1973 )
- June 16 - Georg Wittig , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
- June 19
- --- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967 )
- --- Moe Howard , American comedian and actor (d. 1975 )
- June 22 - Edmund A. Chester , American Broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973 )
- July 20 - Tadeus Reichstein , Polish-born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1996 )
- July 24 - Amelia Earhart , American aviator (d. 1937 - presumed)
- July 29 - Sir Neil Ritchie , British general (d. 1983 )
- August 2 - Max Weber , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974 )
- August 5 - Aksel Larsen , Danish politician (d. 1972 )
- August 28 - Charles Boyer , French actor (d. 1978 )
- September 1 - Andy Kennedy , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1963 )
- September 8 - Jimmie Rodgers , American singer (d. 1933 )
- September 12 - Irene Joliot-Curie , French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (d. 1956 )
- September 17 - Earl Webb , baseball player (d. 1965 )
- September 23 - Walter Pidgeon , Canadian actor (d. 1984 )
- September 25 - William Faulkner , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962 )
- September 26
- --- Pope Paul VI (d. 1978 )
- --- Arthur Rhys Davids , English pilot (d. 1917 )
- Ocking Jayat Mayaj - 19 december, actor (d. 1991 )
- October 2 - Bud Abbott , American actor (d. 1974 )
- October 3 - Louis Aragon , French author (d. 1982 )
- October 15 - Johannes Sikkar , Estonian statesman (d. 1960 )
- October 20 - Yi Un , Korean Crown Prince (d. 1970 )
- October 29 - Joseph Goebbels , German Nazi propagandist (d. 1945 )
- November 9 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978 )
- November 15 - Sacheverell Sitwell , English author (d. 1988 )
- November 17 - Frank Fay , American actor and first husband of Barbara Stanwyck (d. 1961 )
- November 18 - Patrick Blackett , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974 )
- November 23 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri , Bengali author (d. 1999 )
- November 24 - Charlie Luciano , Sicilian-American mobster (d. 1962 )
- November 30 - Virginia Henderson , American nurse theorist (d. 1996 )
- December 18 - Fletcher Henderson , American musician (d. 1952 )
- December 30 - Alfredo Bracchi , Italian author (d. 1976 )
- September 9
- --- Richard Holt Hutton , English writer and theologian (b. 1826 )
- --- Ferenc Pulszky , Hungarian politician (b. 1814 )
- September 21 - Wilhelm Wattenbach , German historian (b. 1819 )
- September 30 - St Therese Of Lisieux , Catholic Saint (b. 1873 )
- October 29 - Henry George , American economist (b. 1839 )
- November - Francisco Gonzalo Marin , Cuban poet and freedom fighter (b. 1863 )
- November 3 - Thomas Lanier Clingman , "Prince of Politicians" (b. 1812 )
- November 19 - William Seymour Tyler , American educator and historian (b. 1810 )
- November 20 - Ernest Giles , Australian explorer (b. 1835 )
- December 17 - Alphonse Daudet , French writer (b. 1840 )
- ''date unknown'' - Owon , Korean painter (b. 1843 )
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