• 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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    1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    German aeronautical engineer (b. 1894) Dorothy Maud Wrinch, British mathematician and biochemical theorist (b. 1894) February 12 – Sal Mineo, American...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • playwright (b. 1896) January 19 – Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (b. 1894) January 20 – Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)...
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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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    – 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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  • President of Panama (b. 1883) April 15 – Estelle Taylor, American actress (b. 1894) April 16 – Rosalind Franklin, English crystallographer (b. 1920) April 17...
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    general and politician (b. 1868) February 2 – Rondo Hatton, American actor (b. 1894) February 3 Friedrich Jeckeln, German SS Officer and mass murderer (b. 1895)...
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    pathologist (b. 1877) December 20 Benigno Aquino Sr., Filipino politician (b. 1894) Luigi Chiarelli, Italian playwright (b. 1880) December 23 – Ziauddin Ahmad...
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    philosopher (b. 1906) January 22 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894) January 23 Terry Kath, American rock musician (Chicago) (b. 1946) Jack Oakie...
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