In the year 1892, Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States (Jan 1), the Liverpool Football Club is founded (Mar 15), the world’s first fingerprinting bureau is formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police (Mar 31), the Pledge of Allegiance is first recited (Sep 8), the Dalton Gang is shot by two townspeople in Coffeyville, Kansas (Oct 5), first issue of Vogue is published (Dec 17), a tortoise called Timothy is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England, where she lives until her death in 2004 - and all these fine people were born:

1892-0112 Alfred Rosenberg* Baltic German theorist and Nazi war criminal  - Reval (Tallinn), Estonia (1946/53) 1892-0118 Oliver Hardy* actor - Harlem, GA USA (1957/65) 1892-0131 1892-0201 1892-0205 Elizabeth Ryan* tennis player/credited for inventing the volleying style - Anaheim, CA USA (1979/87) 1892-0206 William P. Murphy* physician/N -  Stoughton, WI USA (1987/95) 1892-0210 1892-0215 James Forrestal* politician/MJ-12 member - Matteawan, NY USA (1949/57) 1892-0220 1892-0222 Edna St. Vincent Millay* poet/playwright - Rockland, ME (1950/58) 1892-0225 1892-0226 Alfred Nourney* Dutch-German salesman/the RMS Titanic survivor - Nijmegen, Netherlands (1972/80) 1892-0229 Augusta Savage* (b Fells) sculptor  - Green Cove Springs, FL USA (1962/70) 1892-0301 1892-0306 Clark Shaughnessy* Am. football coach/innovator - St. Cloud, MN USA (1970/78) 1892-0309 Vita Sackville-West* poet/novelist/garden designer - Knole House, Kent, England (1962/70) 1892-0328 Corneille Heymans* physiologist/N - Ghent, Flanders, Belgium (1968/76) 1892-0404 Edith Södergran* Finnish-Swedish poet - Saint Petersburg, Russia (1923/31) 1892-0406 Ernst L. Freud* Austrian-British architect/son of Sigmund Freud - Vienna, Austria (1970/78) 1892-0408 Mary Pickford* actress/producer - Toronto, ON Canada (1979/87) 1892-0413 Robert Watson-Watt* pioneer of radar technology - Brechin, Angus, Scotland (1973/81) 1892-0414 V. Gordon Childe* archaeologist/specialised in the study of European prehistory - Sydney, Australia (1957/65) 1892-0428 Frank Scully* journalist/author - New York, NY USA (1964/72) 1892-0502 Manfred “Red Baron” von Richthofen* fighter pilot - Breslau, German Empire (1918/25) 1892-0503 George Paget Thomson* physicist/N - Cambridge, England (1975/83) 1892-0520 1892-0531 1892-0601 Harry Mallin* boxer/OG/police officer/sports commentator - Hackney Wick, England (1969/77) 1892-0617 Ronald Rawson* boxer/OG - England (1952/59) 1892-0620 1892-0626 Pearl S. Buck* writer/novelist/N - Hillsboro, WV USA (1973/80) 1892-0629 Henry Gerber* an early homosexual rights activist in the United States - Passau, Kingdom of Bavaria (1972/80) 1892-0701 1892-0702 Anders Larsson* wrestler/OG - Varberg, Sweden (1945/52) 1892-0710 Spessard Holland* lawyer/ politician/Governor of Florida - Bartow, FL USA (1971/79) 1892-0713 Jonni Myyrä* athlete (javelin/OG)/to U.S. at age 32 - Savitaipale, Viipuri, GD of Finland (1955/62) 1892-0715 Henry Johnson* WWI soldier - Winston-Salem, NC USA (1929/36) 1892-0723 Haile Selassie* regent/emperor -  Ejersa Goro, Imperial Ethiopia (1975/83) 1892-0729 William Powell* actor - Pittsburgh, PA USA (1984/91) 1892-0801 1892-0814 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji* pianist/ composer/w Indian father - Chingford, Essex, England (1988/96) 1892-0815 Louis de Broglie* physicist/N - Dieppe, France (1987/94) 1892-0826 Elizebeth Smith Friedman* cryptographer/author - Huntington, IN USA (1980/88) 1892-0831 Wheeler Dryden* British-American actor/film director/half-brother of Charlie Chaplin - Brixton, London, England (1957/65) 1892-0905 Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund* (b Kuhlefelt) pioneering Finnish woman architect/wife of architect Hilding Ekelund - Loviisa, GD of Finland (1984/91) 1892-0906 Edward Victor Appleton* physicist/N - Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1965/72) 1892-0910 Arthur Compton* physicist/N - Wooster, OH USA (1962/69) 1892-0927 Tage Cervin* banker - Stockholm, Sweden (1971/79) 1892-0930 1892-1007 Francesco Illy* (b Illy Ferenc) Hungarian businessman/founder of illy/inventor of coffee machinery - Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (1956/63) 1892-1009 Ivo Andrić* Yugoslav poet/novelist/N - Dolac, Austria-Hungary (1975/82) 1892-1011 Beverly Price Evans* son of U.S. Congressman John Evans - Missoula, MT USA (1967/74) 1892-1012 Iisakki Robert Holm** - Peräseinäjoki, GD of Finland (1960/67) 1892-1025 Grace Banker* telephone operator during WW1 - Passaic, NJ USA (1960/67) 1892-1105 J. B. S. Haldane* British-Indian scientist/science popularizer - Oxford, England (1964/72) 1892-1109 Victor Hugo Green* postal employee/publisher of The Negro Traveler’s Green Book - Manhattan, NY USA (1960/67) 1892-1110 Domingo Pérez Cáceres* bishop active in the Canary Islands - Güímar, Tenerife, Spain (1961/) 1892-1120 1892-1125 Arthur Blackburn* soldier/ lawyer/politician - Woodville, SA Australia (1960/67) 1892-1130 1892-1201 1892-1202 Arvo Aaltonen* swimmer/OB - Pori, GD of Finland 1892-1203 Richard Talmadge* (b Sylvester Metz) German-American stuntman/actor/film director/to U.S. at age 17 - Munich, German Empire (1981/88) 1892-1204 Francisco Franco* military dictator - Ferrol, Galicia, Kingdom of Spain (1975/82) 1892-1207 Olena Stepaniv* the first female officer in the Ukrainian army/public figure/economist - Vishnivchik, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (19637/70) 1892-1208 Bert Hinkler* pioneer Australian aviator/inventor - Bundaberg, QLD Australia (1933/40) 1892-1210 1892-1211 John Augustus Larson* police officer/inventor of the polygraph machine/w Swedish parents - Shelburne, NS Canada (1965/72) 1892-1211 Edil Rosenqvist* wrestler/OS - Degerby, GD of Finland (1973/80) 1892-1213 Eine Laine* actress/ theater director/songwriter - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1970/77) 1892-1215 J. Paul Getty* oil tycoon - Minneapolis, MN USA (1976/83) 1892-1220 1892-1229 Aku Korhonen* actor- Käkisalmi, GD of Finland (1960/67) 1892-1229 Emory Parnell* vaudeville performer/actor - St. Paul, MN USA (1979/86) 1892-1231 1892-0 1892-0 1892-0 Updated 2025-0216 Helsinki-Tallinn Search for another year here