Events in Film & TV
- Mar 6 Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanent cinema, the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
- Jun 7 Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16
- Dec 11 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
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- Jan 27 Benoît-Constant Coquelin, French actor, dies at 68
- Mar 12 Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress and wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
- Apr 9 Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress, dies from Bright's disease at 68
- May 20 Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
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