page_title: 1894
section_title: January–February
hierarchical_section_title: 1894 / Births / January–February
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Internationaal Hof van Justitie bijeen verdeling Continentale plat Noordzee nr. 2 , 3: President Jose Luis Bustamente Y Rivero (Peru) 23 oktober 1968
context_page_description: 1894 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1894th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 894th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1894, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1974)
  January 3 – Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
  January 8
  Maximilian Kolbe, Polish friar and martyr (k. 1941 in Auschwitz concentration camp)
  Vilmos Tkálecz, Hungarian politician (d. 1950)
  January 15 – José Bustamante y Rivero, Peruvian politician, diplomat and jurist, 78th President of Peru (d. 1989)
  January 20 – Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
  January 21 – Geoffrey Street, Australian politician (d. 1940)
  January 30
  Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, British aristocrat (d. 1989)
  King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
  René Dorme, French World War I fighter ace (d. 1917)
  January 31
  Isham Jones, American bandleader (d. 1956)
  Percy Helton, American film, television actor (d. 1971)
  February 1
  John Ford, American film director (d. 1973)
  Dick Merrill, American aviation pioneer (d. 1982)
  February 3 – Norman Rockwell, American artist, illustrator (d. 1978)
  February 8
  Billy Bishop, Canadian World War I fighter ace (d. 1956)
  Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (d. 1971)
  February 10
  Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister (d. 1986)
  Mãe Menininha do Gantois, Brazilian spiritual leader (iyalorixá) (d. 1986)
  February 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)
  February 14 – Jack Benny, American actor, comedian (d. 1974)
  February 19 – Ilie Antonescu, Romanian general (d. 1974)
  February 22 – Enid Markey, American actress (d. 1981)
  February 25 – Meher Baba, Indian Avatar of the Age (d. 1969)
  February 26
  Wilhelm Bittrich, German Waffen SS general (d. 1979)
  Ernest N. Harmon, American general (d. 1979)
  February 28 – Ben Hecht, American playwright, film writer (d. 1964)
caption: José Bustamante y Rivero
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