of Tucson is canonically erected on May 8, 1897. The population of Japan reaches c. 30 million. Births January–March January 1 – Snitz Edwards, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1937) January 6 – Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (d. 1922) January 9 – S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939) January 11 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940) January 15 – Otto von Lossow, Bavarian and German general (d. 1938) January 18 – Kantarō Suzuki, 29th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948) January 21 – Felix Hoffmann, German chemist (d. 1946) January 31 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) February 4 – Constance Markievicz, Irish politician (d. 1927) February 5 – Maxine Elliott, American actress (d. 1940) February 12 – William Faversham, English actor (d. 1940) February 16 – Edward S. Curtis, American photographer, ethnologist, and film director (d. 1952) February 23 – W. E. B. Du Bois, African American civil rights leader (d. 1963) February 25 – Constantin Dumitrescu, Romanian general (d. 1935) February 26 – Venceslau Brás, Brazilian president (d. 1966) March 1 – Adolf von Trotha, German admiral (d. 1940) March 14 – Emily Murphy, Canadian woman's rights activist (d. 1933) March 22 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) March 25 – Bill Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932) March 28 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936) March 29 – Joseph Cawthorn, American actor (d. 1949) April–June April 1 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (d. 1918) April 10 – George Arliss, English actor (d. 1946) April 12 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese admiral (d. 1918) April 17 – Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková, Moravian pioneer of female education (d. 1915) April 25 John Moisant, American aviator (d. 1910) Willie Maley, Scottish football player and manager (d. 1958) May 6 Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927) Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918) May 12 – Al Shean, German-born actor (d. 1949) May 21 – John L. Hines, American general, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (d. 1968) May 29 – Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1944) June 5 – James Connolly, Irish-Scots socialist (d. 1916) June 6 – Robert Falcon Scott, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1912) June 7 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (d. 1928) John Sealy Townsend, Irish mathematical physicist (d. 1957) June 14 Anna B. Eckstein, German peace campaigner (d. 1947) Karl Landsteiner, Austrian