imaging brand, is founded in Tokyo, Japan. The Swedish arms company Aktiebolaget (AB) Bofors-Gullspång, better known as Bofors, is founded. In Mexico, the Veracruz–Mexico City railroad is completed. Nine Pekin ducks are imported to Long Island (the first in the United States). The Married Woman's Property Rights Association is founded in Sweden. Births January–March January 2 – Thérèse of Lisieux, Catholic saint, mystic (d. 1897) January 4 – Blanche Walsh, American stage, screen actress (d. 1915) January 7 – Adolph Zukor, Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976) January 8 – Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953) January 9 Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944) Hayim Nahman Bialik, Israel's national poet (d. 1934) January 10 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958) January 12 – Spyridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940) January 20 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950) January 28 – Colette, French writer (d. 1954) January 29 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian mountaineer, explorer and admiral (d. 1933) January 30 – Vassily Balabanov, administrator, Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia (d. 1947) January 31 – Melitta Bentz, German entrepreneur who invented the coffee filter in 1908 (d. 1950) February 2 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961) February 3 Hugh Trenchard, British military aviation pioneer (d. 1956) Karl Jatho, German aviation pioneer (d. 1933) February 4 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905) February 7 – Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (d. 1912) February 13 Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass opera singer (d. 1938) Red Wing, Native American silent film actress (d. 1974) February 15 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) February 19 – Louis Feuillade, French film director (d. 1925) February 22 – Carrie Langston Hughes, African-American writer and actress (d. 1938) February 25 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921) February 28 – William McMaster Murdoch, Officer of Titanic (d. 1912) March 3 – William Green, American labor leader (d. 1952) March 11 – David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933) March 19 – Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916) March 29 – Billy Quirk, American actor (d. 1926) April–June April 1 (N.S.)/March 20 (O.S.) – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1943) April 4 – Gyula Peidl, 23rd prime minister of Hungary (d. 1943) April 7 – John McGraw, American baseball player, manager (d. 1934) April 10 – Kyösti Kallio, Prime Minister and