the Pilgrim's Rest area. An diamond is discovered, resulting in a diamond rush, and the town of New Rush springs up; Colonial Commissioners arrive there on November 17. The Harvard Summer School is founded. Continental AG is founded as Continental-Caoutchouc und Gutta-Percha Compagnie in Hanover, Germany, on 8th October. The Shinto shrine of Izumo-taisha in Japan is designated as an Imperial shrine. Modern "neoclassical economics" is initiated by publication of William Stanley Jevons's Theory of Political Economy and Carl Menger's Principles of Economics (Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre). Births January–February January 1 – Manuel Gondra, Paraguayan author and journalist, 21st President of Paraguay (d. 1927) January 7 – Émile Borel, French mathematician, politician (d. 1956) January 17 – David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral (d. 1936) January 30 – Wilfred Lucas, Canadian-born actor (d. 1940) February 4 – Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany (d. 1925) February 9 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (d. 1910) February 18 – Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948) February 25 – Lesya Ukrainka (Larysa Petrivna Kosach), Ukrainian writer, an active political, civil, and feminist activist (d. 1913) February 27 – Otto Praeger, American postal official, implemented U.S. Airmail (d. 1948) February 28 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer and politician (d. 1927) March–April March 1 – Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (d. 1938) March 4 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945) March 5 – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (d. 1919) March 6 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer, professor, politician and 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1937) March 12 – Kitty Marion, German-born actress and women's rights activist in England and the United States (d. 1944) March 15 – Constantin Argetoianu, 41st Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1955) March 17 – Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general (d. 1941) March 19 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (d. 1921) March 24 – Birdie Blye, American pianist (d. 1935) March 27 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950) March 31 – Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922) April 4 – Luke McNamee, American admiral (d. 1952) April 8 – Clarence Hudson White, American photographer (d. 1925) April 12 – Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1941) April 13 – Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian author, Roman Catholic archbishop and blessed (d. 1927) April 15 – Jonathan Zenneck, German physicist, electrical engineer (d. 1959) May–June May 2 – Francis P. Duffy, Canadian-born American Catholic priest (d. 1932) May