• The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. January 7 William Kennedy Dickson receives...
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    Beaux-Arts architecture (/boʊz ˈɑːr/ bohz AR, French: [boz‿aʁ] ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly...
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    The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings...
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    American actress (b. 1881) January 12 – Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894) January 18 – Konstantin Päts, 1st president of Estonia (b. 1874) January...
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    screenwriter (b. 1895) January 5 – Donald Knight, English cricketer (b. 1894) January 7 – Dorothea Chambers, English tennis champion (b. 1878) January...
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    November 2 James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894) Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, 12th Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894) November 3 – Thomas Flynn, British Roman...
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    – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (executed) (b. 1894) January 29 – Nedo Nadi, Italian fencer (b. 1894) February – Zheng Pingru, Chinese spy (executed)...
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  • endocrinology (b. 1850) April 2 – Bennie Moten, American jazz pianist (b. 1894) April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect (b. 1842) April 6 – Edwin Arlington...
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    Karl von Eberstein, German politician (b. 1894) February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director and actor (b. 1894) February 14 – Reginald Maudling, British...
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    pioneer (b. 1888) January 10 – Franz Planer, Austrian film cinematographer (b. 1894) January 13 Sonny Clark, American jazz pianist (b. 1931) Sylvanus Olympio...
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    From 1879 to 1894, he worked in the studio of the prominent architect Henri Beyaert, a master of eclectic and neoclassical architecture. Through Beyaert...
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    Soviet Army (b. 1896) June 19 Frank Borzage, American film director (b. 1894) Will Wright, American character actor (b. 1891) June 24 – Lucile Watson...
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    1883) January 3 – Tess Gardella, Italian-born American actress, dancer (b. 1894) January 7 Monty Banks, Italian comedian, director (b. 1897) Alfonso Daniel...
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  • of Wisconsin Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-299-09510-9. Henry Morse Stephens (1894). Europe, 1789-1815. Rivington. p. 96. Robert Sears (1845). Sears' Guide...
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  • 1869) June 26 – Minoru Murata, Japanese actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1894) June 27 – Sandro Akhmeteli, Soviet director (b. 1866) June 28 – Max Adler...
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    (b. 1867) August 10 – Carlo Galimberti, Italian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1894) August 11 – Jean Bugatti, German automobile designer (b. 1909) August 12...
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  • Republican Party (b. 1860) July 14 – Roshanara, Anglo-Indian dancer (b. 1894) July 17 – Bernard Coyne, Irish Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1854) July 18...
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    (b. 1864) September 10 – Wiley Rutledge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1894) September 12 Harry Burleigh, American composer (b. 1866) Erik Adolf von...
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    June 18 – René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace (b. 1894) June 19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and...
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  • commander (executed) (b. 1873) Iosif Vareikis, Soviet politician (executed) (b. 1894) July 29 Yakov Alksnis, Soviet aviator, commander of Red Army Air Forces...
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  • Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894) Stuart Buchanan, American actor (d. 1894) February 8 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer...
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  • Helton, American actor (b. 1894) Joe Jordan, American ragtime composer (b. 1882) Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (b. 1894) September 13 – Lin Biao, Chinese...
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    American playwright (b. 1888) February 13 Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1894) Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (b. 1880) February 15 – Little Walter...
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  • – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189. 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners...
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  • laureate (b. 1910) January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894) February 2 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887) February 3 Eduardo Mondlane...
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  • mayor in the United States. 1894 – Foyot bombing by the Russian or French state during the Ère des attentats (1892-1894). 1904 – Two Ms  ~7.1 earthquakes...
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    the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. January 1 – Watergate scandal...
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    Sir Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand general, lawyer and chief justice (b. 1894) March 8 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi politician and SS functionary...
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  • the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies...
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  • The year 1885 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. May – The original wooden structures of Hobson Block, West...
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