and Quincy Railroad 1910–1914, is born (d. 1914). April 11 — Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900–1905 (d. 1943). July births July 21 — Hugo Lentz, Austrian inventor of a valve gear for steam engines (d. 1944). November births November 13 — Georg Knorr, inventor of the Knorr brake, is born (d. 1911). December births December 3 — Vincent Raven, chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922 (d. 1934). Deaths September deaths September 15 — Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer of the Great Western Railway, dies (b. 1806). October deaths October 12 — Robert Stephenson, English railway civil engineer and steam locomotive builder (b. 1803). References