Oct 25   Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89.   

Oct 25   Nico van Suchtelen, Dutch publisher.   

Oct 26   Australian bushranger Ned Kelly shoots and results in the deaths of three police officers at Stringybark Creek, Victoria   

Oct 29   Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II)   

Nov 01   Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)   

Nov 01   Edward Scripps and John Sweeney are discovered Penny Press (Cleveland Press)   

Nov 06   Ernest Irving, composer.   

Nov 06   Henrik Ibsens "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo.   

Nov 07   Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist (Protactinium).   

Nov 08   Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899).   

Nov 10   Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow.   

Nov 13   John C Kielstra, Dutch economist/governor of Suriname (1933-44)   

Nov 15   Bela Reinitz, composer   

Nov 17   Grace Abbott, Grand Island Neb, social worker (US Children Bureau)   

Nov 17   inaugural assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy   

Nov 21   Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice   

Nov 23   Andre Caplet, composer.   

Nov 24   Mark N Tod, English classicist/historian.   

Nov 25   Georg Kaiser, writer.   

Nov 27   Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer   

Nov 28   Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary (Hadewych)   

Nov 28   Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer, dies at 78.   

Dec 01   1st White House telephone installed.   

Dec 01   Arthur B Spingarn, US NAACP-chairman (1940-65).   

Dec 01   inaugural White House telephone installed   

Dec 03   Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel   

Dec 05   Arrigo Pedrollo, composer   

Dec 07   Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair).   

Dec 09   Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2500.   

Dec 10   Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the inaugural Governor General of independent India (d.1972)   

Dec 12   Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"   

Dec 15   Hans Carossa, writer   

Dec 18   French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed   

Dec 19   Anton Lajovic, composer.   

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Jan 01   Edwin franko goldman: Composer   

Jan 01   Agner krarup erlang: Danish scientist and engineer    

Jan 04   Alfred edgar coppard: England, writer (black dogs & other stories)   

Jan 04   Augustus john: Welsh painter   

Jan 06   Carl sandburg: Us, poet/biographer of lincoln (the people, yes)   

Jan 06   Dame adeline genée: Danish-british ballerina    

Jan 11   Theodorus pangalos: Greek general/dictator (1926)   

Jan 12   Ferenc molnar: Hungarian/us playwright (a pal utrai fiuk)   

Jan 07   François-vincent raspail: French chemist (b. 1794)   

Jan 09   Victor emmanuel ii: King of sard (1849-61)/italy (1861-78),   

Jan 18   Antoine césar becquerel: French physicist (b. 1788)   

Jan 19   Henri v regnault: French physicist/chemist,   

Feb 01   George cruikshank: English illustrator (grimm),   

Feb 07   Pius ix: "pio nono", [giovanni ferretti], pope (1846-78),    

Feb 08   Elias m fries: Swedish botanist (mycologicum),    

Feb 17   Jose amador de los rios: Spanish historian/poet,