Date unknown The dolphin Pelorus Jack is first sighted in Cook Strait, New Zealand. The Camborne School of Mines is founded in Cornwall, England. John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg shorthand in the United States. Rudyard Kipling's short story collection Plain Tales from the Hills is published in Calcutta, India. The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English language, by American linguist John Martin Crawford. The Baldwin School is founded in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, as "Miss [Florence] Baldwin's School for Girls, Preparatory for Bryn Mawr College". Chin Gee Hee starts the Quong Tuck Company to supply construction workers to North American railroads. Global pharmaceutical and health care brands are founded in the United States: G.D. Searle by Gideon Daniel Searle in Omaha, Nebraska. Abbott Laboratories as Abbott Alkaloidal by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott in Illinois. Katz's Delicatessen is founded in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. First British rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand. Births January–February January 1 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (d. 1947) January 8 – Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (d. 1960) January 16 – Robert Henry English, American admiral (d. 1943) January 18 – Thomas Sopwith, English aviation pioneer, yachtsman (d. 1989) January 19 – Millard Harmon, American general (d. 1945) c. January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), American folk, blues singer (d. 1949) January 22 – Carlos Quintanilla , 37th President of Bolivia (d. 1964) January 23 – Aritomo Gotō, Japanese admiral (d. 1942) January 24 Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960) Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958) January 29 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (d. 1985) February 2 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969) February 5 – Bruce Fraser, British admiral (d. 1981) February 8 – Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976) February 11 – John Warren Davis, American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (d. 1980) February 13 – Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968) February 14 – Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist (d. 1956) February 17 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969) February 19 Adelina Domingues, World's oldest person American supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1888 (d. 2002) Tom Phillips, British admiral (d. 1941) Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949) José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928) February 20 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948) February 25 – John Foster Dulles,