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| Born : | 12/16/1892 | A "Shon Nn" Morales, Antillean/Neth very old lady |
| Born : | 06/23/1892 | Able Kiviat, US, runner (Olympic-gold-1912) |
| Born : | 02/10/1892 | Alan Hale, [Rufus A Mackahan], Wash DC, actor (Little John-Robin Hood) |
| Born : | 10/19/1892 | Alexander A Aljechin, Russian/French chess champ (1927-35, 37-46) |
| Born : | 11/01/1892 | Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46) |
| Born : | 09/12/1892 | Alfred A Knopf, US, publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal) |
| Born : | 08/19/1892 | Alfred Lunt, Broadway actor (Emmy 1965) |
| Born : | 03/25/1892 | Andy Clyde, Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie) |
| Born : | 07/21/1892 | Anton Schnack, German writer/poet |
| Born : | 05/07/1892 | Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB) |
| Born : | 09/10/1892 | Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays) |
| Born : | 03/10/1892 | Arthur Honegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David) |
| Born : | 07/22/1892 | Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s)/war criminal |
| Born : | 01/01/1892 | Artur Rodzinski, Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, comductor |
| Born : | 07/06/1892 | Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot |
| Born : | 06/13/1892 | Basil Rathbone, Johannesburg S Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes) |
| Born : | 05/03/1892 | Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life) |
| Born : | 01/29/1892 | Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928) |
| Born : | 08/01/1892 | Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian (Lesson temps inquiets) |
| Born : | 04/04/1892 | Cyril Smith, Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot) |
| Born : | 12/21/1892 | Dame Rebecca West, journalist/novelist (Arnold Bennett Himself) |
| Born : | 09/04/1892 | Darius Milhaud, composer |
| Born : | 02/22/1892 | David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom) |
| Born : | 03/09/1892 | David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox) |
| Born : | 04/06/1892 | Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas) |
| Born : | 01/10/1892 | Dumas Malone, Miss, historian (Jefferson & His Time) |
| Born : | 01/31/1892 | Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater) |
| Born : | 09/28/1892 | Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot/air pioneer |
| Born : | 02/22/1892 | Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) |
| Born : | 06/11/1892 | Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic |
| Born : | 06/28/1892 | Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia) |
| Born : | 10/04/1892 | Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis |
| Born : | 01/28/1892 | Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor (Love Parade) |
| Born : | 03/30/1892 | Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian |
| Born : | 03/10/1892 | Eva Turner, British soprano |
| Born : | 05/08/1892 | Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show) |
| Born : | 12/06/1892 | F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame) |
| Born : | 03/27/1892 | Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof‚, NY, composer |
| Born : | 12/04/1892 | Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish General/dictator (1936-75) |
| Born : | 09/22/1892 | Frank Sullivan, humorist (New Yorker Magazine) |
| Born : | 02/08/1892 | Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt) |
| Born : | 05/03/1892 | George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937) |
| Born : | 04/19/1892 | Germaine Tailleferre, [Les Six], Pau-St-Maur France, composer |
| Born : | 04/14/1892 | Giorgio Cesana, Italy, coxswain, (Olympic-gold-1906) |
| Born : | 02/13/1892 | Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic) |
| Born : | 05/31/1892 | Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader |
| Born : | 07/21/1892 | G˜sbert Friedhoff, architect (tax office Wibautstraat) |
| Born : | 07/23/1892 | Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74) |
| Born : | 01/14/1892 | Hal Roach, early film director/producer (1 Million BC) |
| Born : | 08/16/1892 | Harold Foster, cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant") |
| Born : | 06/21/1892 | Hilding Rosenberg, Bosj”kloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn) |
| Born : | 08/06/1892 | Hoot Gibson, US western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw) |
| Born : | 05/01/1892 | Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone) |
| Born : | 08/11/1892 | Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland, writer (Scots Unbound) |
| Born : | 10/10/1892 | Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961) |
| Born : | 12/15/1892 | J Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil) |
| Born : | 08/02/1892 | Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros) |
| Born : | 11/20/1892 | James B Collip, Canadian biologist/physiologist (insulin) |
| Born : | 02/15/1892 | James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy |
| Born : | 07/01/1892 | James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice) |
| Born : | 11/14/1892 | James Meredith, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1912) |
| Born : | 12/31/1892 | Jason Robards Sr, Hillsdale Mich, actor (Acapulco) |
| Born : | 07/01/1892 | Jean Lur‡at, French painter |
| Born : | 07/28/1892 | Joe E Brown, Holgate Ohio, comedian (Buck Circus Hour) |
| Born : | 11/26/1892 | Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc) |
| Born : | 08/02/1892 | John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC) |
| Born : | 01/03/1892 | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, S Afr, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings) |
| Born : | 11/06/1892 | John Sigvard Olsen, Wabash Ind, comedian (Olsen & Johnson) |
| Born : | 04/12/1892 | Johnny Dodds, early jazz clarinettist |
| Born : | 04/28/1892 | Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger) |
| Born : | 09/05/1892 | Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933) |
| Born : | 03/09/1892 | Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Underworld) |
| Born : | 05/07/1892 | Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80) |
| Born : | 02/01/1892 | K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall) |
| Born : | 10/24/1892 | Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter |
| Born : | 12/11/1892 | Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form) |
| Born : | 04/27/1892 | Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) |
| Born : | 05/22/1892 | Louis of Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk Up to High C) |
| Born : | 08/15/1892 | Louis-Victor due de Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929) |
| Born : | 04/06/1892 | Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure) |
| Born : | 10/28/1892 | Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch) |
| Born : | 08/17/1892 | Mae West, Bkln, actress (Go up & see her sometime, Klondike Annie |
| Born : | 05/02/1892 | Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, [Red Baron], German WW I ace |
| Born : | 01/01/1892 | Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines |
| Born : | 05/11/1892 | Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul) |
| Born : | 01/14/1892 | Martin Niem”ller, clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned by Hitler |
| Born : | 04/23/1892 | Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer |
| Born : | 03/09/1892 | M ty R kosi, [Rosencranz], premier of Hungary (1952-53) |
| Born : | 02/14/1892 | Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin) |
| Born : | 01/19/1892 | Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM (6 times, 1942-63) |
| Born : | 01/18/1892 | Oliver Hardy, Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy) |
| Born : | 01/13/1892 | Paul Smart, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948) |
| Born : | 06/26/1892 | Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938) |
| Born : | 02/09/1892 | Peggy Wood, Bkln NY, actress (One Life to Live, Mama) |
| Born : | 07/28/1892 | Petro Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite) |
| Born : | 03/11/1892 | Raoul Walsh, US director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry) |
| Born : | 12/25/1892 | Rebecca West, journalist/feminist/writer (Meaning of Treason) |
| Born : | 06/21/1892 | Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) |
| Born : | 05/16/1892 | Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor |
| Born : | 04/13/1892 | Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar) |
| Born : | 02/13/1892 | Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54) |
| Born : | 03/18/1892 | Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II) |
| Born : | 01/20/1892 | Roscoe Ates, Grange Miss, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass) |
| Born : | 03/01/1892 | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa) |
| Born : | 05/27/1892 | Sara Heyblom, actress |
| Born : | 10/14/1892 | Sumner Yes, US diplomat (Good neighbor policy) |
| Born : | 02/17/1892 | Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad) |
| Born : | 07/11/1892 | Thomas Mitchell, NJ, academy award winning actor (Outlaw, Adventures) |
| Born : | 04/14/1892 | Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian |
| Born : | 10/27/1892 | Victor E van Vriesland, poet/critic (Mirror of Dutch Poetry) |
| Born : | 04/10/1892 | Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor (Il Macigno) |
| Born : | 03/09/1892 | Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist/poet (The Land) |
| Born : | 07/15/1892 | Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer |
| Born : | 12/21/1892 | Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19) |
| Born : | 02/18/1892 | Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World) |
| Born : | 05/31/1892 | Willem Ravelli, baritone singer |
| Born : | 02/27/1892 | William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons) |
| Born : | 07/29/1892 | William Powell, actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey) |
| Born : | 08/11/1892 | Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general |
| Born : | 05/09/1892 | Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary) |
| Died : | 08/04/1892 | Abby Plates & Spouse, killed by Lizzie Borden(?) |
| Died : | 05/29/1892 | Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies |
| Died : | 10/05/1892 | Bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende, dies |
| Died : | 10/05/1892 | Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende, dies |
| Died : | 10/25/1892 | Caroline L Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 10/05/1892 | Dick Broadwell, US member of Daltonbende, dies |
| Died : | 12/06/1892 | E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officier, dies |
| Died : | 10/05/1892 | Grat Dalton, US member of Daltonbende, dies |
| Died : | 02/20/1892 | Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies |
| Died : | 05/16/1892 | John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies |
| Died : | 01/21/1892 | John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies |
| Died : | 09/07/1892 | John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies |
| Died : | 08/09/1892 | Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies |
| Died : | 12/18/1892 | Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 |
| Died : | 01/07/1892 | Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies |
| Died : | 07/19/1892 | Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies |
| Died : | 06/16/1892 | Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80 |
| Died : | 03/26/1892 | Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ |
| Died : | 12/03/1892 | William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien |
| Died : | 03/29/1892 | William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75 |
| Died : | 10/29/1892 | William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies |
| Interest: | 05/29/1892 | [Bah '¡] Death (ascension) of prophet Bah 'u'll h ('Azamat 7, 49) |
| Special : | 02/22/1892 | "Lady Windermere's Fan" byy Oscar Wile premiers at St James Theater |
| Special : | 04/17/1892 | 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1 |
| Special : | 09/08/1892 | 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion) |
| Special : | 01/20/1892 | 1st basketball game played (Mass) |
| Special : | 04/21/1892 | 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park |
| Special : | 03/03/1892 | 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn |
| Special : | 02/23/1892 | 1st college student govt established, Bryn Mawr, Penn |
| Special : | 10/18/1892 | 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) |
| Special : | 07/10/1892 | 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) |
| Special : | 09/29/1892 | 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn) |
| Special : | 09/26/1892 | 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ) |
| Special : | 03/11/1892 | 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass) |
| Special : | 03/22/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #327 Columbia |
| Special : | 04/01/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #331 Etheridgea |
| Special : | 09/19/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #336 Lacadiera |
| Special : | 09/22/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #337 Devosa |
| Special : | 09/25/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #338 Budrosa |
| Special : | 11/15/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #344 Desiderata |
| Special : | 11/23/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #345 Tercidina |
| Special : | 11/25/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #346 Hermentaria |
| Special : | 11/28/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #347 Pariana & #348 S05 |
| Special : | 12/09/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #349 Dembowska |
| Special : | 12/14/1892 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #350 Ornamenta |
| Special : | 09/01/1892 | A Staus discovers asteroid #335 Roberta |
| Special : | 09/14/1892 | AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo |
| Special : | 09/09/1892 | Almalthea, moon of Jupiter, discovered |
| Special : | 07/08/1892 | American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass |
| Special : | 09/16/1892 | Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y" |
| Special : | 01/15/1892 | Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass |
| Special : | 04/21/1892 | Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo |
| Special : | 02/02/1892 | Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter, Baltimore |
| Special : | 02/29/1892 | Britian & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea |
| Special : | 01/01/1892 | Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY |
| Special : | 04/19/1892 | Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin |
| Special : | 04/29/1892 | Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter |
| Special : | 10/05/1892 | Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup |
| Special : | 12/30/1892 | Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal |
| Special : | 09/09/1892 | E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon |
| Special : | 01/01/1892 | Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants |
| Special : | 12/27/1892 | Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC) |
| Special : | 11/08/1892 | Grover Cleveland (D) elected president |
| Special : | 01/11/1892 | Hawaiian Historical Society founded |
| Special : | 06/08/1892 | Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson) |
| Special : | 02/25/1892 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #324 Bamberga |
| Special : | 03/19/1892 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #326 Tamara |
| Special : | 09/07/1892 | James J Corbett KOs John L Sullivan in round 21 at New Orleans |
| Special : | 06/07/1892 | John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game |
| Special : | 03/18/1892 | Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) |
| Special : | 03/04/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #325 Heidelberga |
| Special : | 03/18/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #328 Gudrun |
| Special : | 03/21/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #329 Svea |
| Special : | 03/19/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #332 Siri |
| Special : | 08/22/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #333 Badenia |
| Special : | 08/23/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #334 Chicago |
| Special : | 10/17/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #342 Endymion |
| Special : | 12/16/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #351 Yrsa |
| Special : | 11/15/1892 | M Wolf discovers asteroids #343 Ostara & #549 Jessonda |
| Special : | 06/18/1892 | Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii |
| Special : | 09/27/1892 | Match book patented |
| Special : | 08/27/1892 | Metroplitian Opera House in NYC destroyed by fire |
| Special : | 12/27/1892 | N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game |
| Special : | 03/15/1892 | NY State unveils automatic ballot cabinet (voting machine) |
| Special : | 05/19/1892 | National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded |
| Special : | 06/12/1892 | Neth Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms |
| Special : | 06/04/1892 | Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die |
| Special : | 12/26/1892 | Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala) |
| Special : | 02/16/1892 | Opera "Werther" is produced (Vienna) |
| Special : | 12/20/1892 | Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne |
| Special : | 06/28/1892 | Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories |
| Special : | 12/20/1892 | Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY |
| Special : | 06/07/1892 | Republican convention in Minneapolis begins |
| Special : | 05/28/1892 | Sierra Club forms in SF, for conservation of nature |
| Special : | 07/06/1892 | Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7 |
| Special : | 08/04/1892 | Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass |
| Special : | 05/01/1892 | US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay |
| Special : | 08/13/1892 | US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore |
| Special : | 10/01/1892 | University of Chicago opens |
| Special : | 01/11/1892 | William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia |
| Special : | 09/25/1892 | Wolf discovers asteroid #339 Dorothea, #340 Eduarda & #341 California |
| Special : | 04/04/1892 | 80øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
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