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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 - 1890 - 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
See also:
Events
- January 2 - Alice Sanger[?] becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
- January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America[?] is founded
- January 25 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days
- U.S. Census - Herman Hollerith devises method using punch cards (like Jacquard's loom) to tabulate the data by machine, since existing methods would use more than ten years. (see also History of computing). Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
- July 3 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- July 10 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- December 29 - The United States Seventh Cavalry[?] massacres over 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
- The cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair.
Births
- January 1 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer.
- January 7 - Henny Porten[?], actress (+ 1960)
- January 9 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist.
- February 10 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958 (+ 1960)
- February 11 - John de Vries[?], fairy tale writer.
- February 14 - Nina Hamnett, artist
- February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (+ 1963)
- February 24 - Marjorie Main[?], actress (+ 1975)
- February 25 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (+ 1986)
- March 9 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Union politician (+ 1986)
- March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author of As We May Think (+ 1974)
- March 20 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor (+ 1957)
- March 20 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer (+ 1973)
- March 28 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader
- April 6 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer.
- May 10 - Alfred Jodl, German general (+ 1946)
- May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter[?], author (+ 1980)
- May 19 - Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (+ 1969)
- May 23 - Herbert Marshall[?], actor (+ 1966)
- June 16 - Arthur Stanley Jefferson , British actor later known as Stan Laurel.
- August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer.
- August 24 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer.
- September 15 - Agatha Christie, English mystery writer.
- September 20 - Jelly Roll Morton, pianist
- October 2 - Groucho Marx, comedian (+ 1977)
- October 14 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States
- October 16 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (+ 1922)
- October 16 - Paul Strand[?], American photographer.
- November 22 - Charles de Gaulle, French president.
- December 5 - David Bomberg, painter
- December 8 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer
Deaths
- July 29 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
- October 26 - Carlo Collodi, italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio
- December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
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