The Tower Bridge in London in 1900
In the year 1894, William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States (Jan 7), Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time (Mar 12), Blackpool Tower is opened for visitors in Blackpool, England (May 14), the Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic (Jun 30), the First Sino-Japanese War starts (Aug 1), New Zealand enacts the world’s first minimum wage law (Aug 31), Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia (Nov 1) - and all these fine people were born:
1894-xxxx Enrique Talg Schulz* pioneer in the touristic development in Tenerife/hotel manager - (1962/68)
1894-0101 Satyendra Nath Bose* mathematician/physicist - Calcutta, Bengal, British India (1974/80)
1894-0103 ZaSu Pitts* actress - Parsons, KS USA (1963/69)
1894-0108 Maximilian Kolbe* Catholic priest/martyr - Zduńska Wola, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (1941/47)
1894-0115 José Luis Bustamante y Rivero* lawyer/politician/P - Arequipa, Peru (1989/94)
1894-0120 Walter Piston* composer/ music theorist - Rockland, ME USA (1976/82)
1894-0125 Aino Aalto* (b Mandelin) architect/designer/wife of Alvar Aalto - Helsinki, Finland (1949/54)
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1894-0201 John Ford* film director - Cape Elisabeth, ME USA (1973/79)
1894-0201 Jalmari Lankinen* architect - Antrea, Karelia, GD of Finland (1970/76)
1894-0201 Dick Merrill* aviation pioneer - Iuka, MS USA (1982/88)
1894-0203 Norman Rockwell* author/painter/illustrator - New York, NY USA (1978/84)
1894-0210 Harold MacMillan* statesman - Belgravia, London, England (1986/92)
1894-0211 Izaak Kolthoff* analytical chemist/educator - Almelo, Netherlands (1993/99)
1894-0214 Jack Benny* stand-up comedian/actor - Chicago, IL USA (1974/80)
1894-0225 Meher Baba* spiritual master - Pune, British India (1969/74)
1894-0313 Arbella Ewing* supercentenarian - Texas, USA (2008/114)
1894-0313 Olga Vuolle* (b Holmberg) author - Tampere, GD of Finland (1966/72)
1894-0314 Heikki Liimatainen* runner/OG/businessman - Karstula, GD of Finland (1980/86)
1894-0319 Moms Mabley* stand-up comedian - Brevard, NC USA (1975/81)
1894-0321 Hannah Ryggen* Norwegian textile artist/pacifist - Malmö, Sweden (1970/75)
1894-0403 Dora Russell* author/feminist - London, England (1986/98)
1894-0415 Bessie Smith* blues singer - Chattanooga, TN USA (1937/43)
1894-0415 Nikita Khruschev* politician - Kalinovka, Russian Empire (1971/77)
1894-0419 Elizabeth Dilling* writer/political activist- Chicago, IL USA (1966/72)
1894-0426 Rudolf Hess* Nazi official - Alexandria, Egypt (1987/93)
1894-0429 Marietta Blau* physicist/active in the U.S./Cecil Powell’s Nobel Prize in Physics based on her work - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1970/75)
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1894-0510 Dimitri Tiomkin* Russian-American composer (The Ballad of High Noon)/to U.S. at age 30 - Kremenchuk, Poltava, Russian Empire (1979/85)
1894-0513 Ásgeir Ásgeirsson* politician/P - Koranesi a Myrum, Iceland (1972/78)
1894-0531 Fred Allen* stand-up comedian - Cambridge, MA USA (1956/61)
1894-0531 Jane Joseph* composer/arranger - Notting Hill, London, England (1929/34)
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1894-0611 Kiichiro Toyoda* 豊田 喜一郎とよだ きいちろう businessman/founder of Toyota Motor Corporation - Kosai, Shizuoka, Empire of Japan (1952/57)
1894-0614 Jack Adams* hockey player/coach/ GM - Fort William, ON Canada (1968/73)
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1894-0622 Bernard Ashmole* archaeologist/ art historian - Ilford, Essex, England (1988/93)
1894-0623 Alfred Kinsey* sexologist - Hoboken, NJ USA (1956/62)
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1894-0705 Oskar Lindberg* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Björknäs Sweden (1977/83)
1894-0709 Pyotr Kapitsa* physicist/N - Kronstadt, Russian Empire (1984/89)
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1894-0725 Walter Brennan* actor - Lynn, MA USA (1974/80)
1894-0725 Gavrilo Princip* assassin - Obljaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire (1918/23)
1894-0726 Aldous Huxley* writer/novelist/ philosopher - Godalming, Surrey, England (1963/69)
1894-0802 Bertha Lutz* zoologist/politician/diplomat – Sao Paulo, Brazil (1976/82)
1894-0816 George Meany* plumber/labor union leader - New York City, NY USA (1980/85)
1894-0825 Talbot Jennings* playwright/screenwriter - Shoshone, ID USA (1985/90)
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1894-0913 Thor Henning* swimmer/OS - Stockholm, Sweden (1967/73)
1894-0914 August Tammekann* (b Jürgenson) geographer/active in Finland - Tallinn, Estonia (1959/64)
1894-0915 Jean Renoir* film director/ screenwriter/actor - Paris, France (1979/84)
1894-0923 Mauri Kajas* (b Mäkinen) author - Tampere, GD of Finland (1976/82)
1894-1004 Frans G. Bengtsson* novelist/poet/ biographer - Ramnekulla farm, Scania, Sweden (1954/60)
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1894-1018 Marie Burke* (b Altfuldisch) comedian/actress/singer - London, England (1988/93)
1894-1025 Pia Ravenna* (b Hjördis Sophie Tilgmann) opera singer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1964/69)
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1894-1121 Max Miller* stand-up comedian - Brighton, England (1963/68)
1894-1122 Joe Moore* Irish-American actor/to U.S at age 1 – Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland (1926/31)
1894-1127 Koonosuke Matsushita* industrialist /founder of Panasonic - Wakayama, Japan (1989/94)
1894-1208 E. C. Segar* cartoonist/creator of Popeye - Chester, IL USA (1938/43)
1894-1212 Philip Drinker* industrial hygienist/co-inventor of the iron lung - Haverford, PA USA (1972/77)
1894-1215 Vibert Douglas* astronomer/the first Canadian female astrophysicist - Montreal, QC Canada (1988/93)
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1894-1220 Robert Menzies* Australian lawyer/ politician/PM - Jeparit, Colony of Victoria, British Empire (1978/83)
1894-1222 Edwin Linkomies* politician - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1963/68)
1894-1224 Jack Thayer* Titanic survivor/treasurer of the University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA USA (1945/50)
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