Year 1894 (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). [edit] Events of 1894 [edit] January–March - January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- February 12 – French anarchist Émile Henry set off a bomb in a Parisian cafe, killing one person and wounding twenty.
- February 13 – The Het Gezelschap "Practische Studie", a study association of civil engineering, is founded at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands.
- February 15 – At 04:51 GMT, 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.
- March 4 – First Sino-Japanese War: A great fire in Shanghai destroys over 1,000 buildings.
- March 12 – For the first time, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
- March 21 – A syzygy of planets occurs as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn. But no two of the transits are simultaneous.
- March 25 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs from Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
[edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 1 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1974)
- January 8 – Vilmos Tkálecz, Hungarian politician (d. unknown)
- 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, British Prime Minister (d. 1986)
- February 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)
- February 14 – Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
- February 25 – Meher Baba, Indian Avatar of the Age (d. 1969)
- February 28 – Ben Hecht, American playwright, film writer (d. 1964)
- March 17 – Paul Green, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (d. 1981)
- March 19 – Moms Mabley, African American comedienne (d. 1975)
- March 30 – Nikolai P. Barabashov, Russian astronomer (d. 1971)
- April 6 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian, world's oldest verified living person (d. 2009)
- April 10
- April 13 – Arthur Fadden, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1973)
- April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
- April 17 – Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician (d. 1971)
- April 26 – Rudolf Hess, German 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 20 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian religious scholar and saint (d.1994)
- May 27
- 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
[edit] July–December - July 9 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- July 18 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
- July 19 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistani Prime Minister (d. 1965)
- July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English author (d. 1963)
- August 3 – Harry Heilmann, baseball player (d. 1951)
- August 28
- September 2 – Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (d. 1939)
- September 7 – George Waggner, American film director, producer, and actor (d. 1984)
- September 13
- 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, Israeli Prime Minister (d. 1965)
- October 18 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
- October 25
- November 2 – Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamics engineer (d. 1976)
- November 4 – Chafik Charobim, Egyptian impressionist painter (d. 1975)
- November 5 – Harold Innis, Canadian communications scholar (d. 1952)
- November 24 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
- November 26 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)
- November 27 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
- November 29 – Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
- December 5 – Philip K. Wrigley, American business and sports executive (d. 1977)
- December 8 – James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961)
- December 17 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
- December 20 – Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1978)
- December 22 – Edwin Linkomies, Finnish Prime Minister (d. 1963)
- December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet (d. 1967)
- December 31 – Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 1 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
- January 13 – Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
- February 3 – Auguste Vaillant, French anarchist (b. 1861) (executed)
- February 4 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
- February 8 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish novelist (b. 1825)
- February 11 – Margaret Emma Henley, inspiration for the name "Wendy" in Peter Pan (b. 1888)
- February 27 – Hilarión Daza, President of Bolivia (assassinated) (b. 1840)
- March 3 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
- March 20 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (b. 1802)
- April 8 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali poet (b. 1838)
- June 3 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. 1812)
- June 7 – King Hassan I of Morocco (b. 1836)
- June 23
- June 25 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (assassinated) (b. 1837)
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