Historical Events
- Jan 1 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes
Event of Interest
Jan 1 Ambrose Bierce is appointed editor of the The Wasp magazine
Ambrose Bierce
Event of Interest
Jan 25 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva)
- Jan 1 Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
- Jan 4 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)
- Jan 5 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer
- Jan 8 Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
- Jan 9 Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (Il Diavolo)
- Jan 9 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)
- Jan 9 Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
- Jan 13 Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
- Jan 17 Alfred Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1955)
- Jan 17 Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
- Jan 18 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard) [or 1908]
- Jan 25 Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man)
- Jan 25 Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer
- Jan 31 Irving Langmuir, inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932)
- Jan 31 Joseph A Cushman, American palaentologist