The last confirmed Cape lion dies. E. Remington and Sons, in the United States, introduce their No. 2 typewriter, the first with a shift key, enabling production of lower as well as upper case characters. In Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, the much studied stele of the Roman legionary Caius Largennius is discovered. Births January–March January 4 A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (d. 1957) Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961) January 6 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967) January 9 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958) January 11 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general, politician and President of Greece (d. 1952) January 12 – Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian-born author (d. 1952) January 16 – Harry Carey, American actor (d. 1947) January 20 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (d. 1968) January 22 – Constance Collier, English stage, screen actress (d. 1955) January 23 – Rutland Boughton, English composer (d. 1960) January 25 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born American television pioneer (d. 1975) February 1 – Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (d. 1944) February 2 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer, architect (d. 1955) February 3 – Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1943) February 5 – André Citroën, French automobile manufacturer (d. 1935) February 8 – Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (d. 1965) February 14 – Kōki Hirota, 21st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948) February 16 – Big Jim Colosimo, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1920) February 18 – Kate Gordon Moore, American psychologist (d. 1963) February 21 – Mirra Alfassa, multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville, India (d. 1973) February 26 – Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (d. 1930) February 28 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929) March 4 Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter, pianist (d. 1951) Arishima Takeo, Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist (d. 1923) March 5 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1947) March 7 – Boris Kustodiev, Soviet painter and designer (d. 1927) March 16 Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1944) Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1946) March 20 – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (d. 1927) March 22 – Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d. 1923) March 26 – Henry Gullett, Australian politician (d. 1940) March 31 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946) April–June April 1 – C. Ganesha Iyer, Ceylon Tamil philologist (d. 1958)