Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)

Birth

R M Rilke, writer

Birth

William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail

Event

Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies)

Birth

Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)

Birth

Herbert Hamilton Harty, composer

Birth

Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)

Birth

Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45

Death

Aleksandar I Karadordjevic, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)

Birth

Isabel Randolph, IL, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)

Birth

Buck Jones, [Charles F Gebhart], US actor (War Horse)

Birth

Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean

Event

Willem III, Dutch king, buried

Event

Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish General/dictator (1936-75)

Birth

Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)

Birth

Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS]

Birth

Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)

Birth

56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes

Event

Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor

Event

Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Frisian farmer/writer

Birth

Anne Russell's "Girl and the judge," premieres in NYC

Event

Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Negro)

Birth

Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian

Birth

Emilio M‚dici, president Brazil (1969-74)

Birth

British government of Balfour resigns

Event