1892

Births
 January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien
 February 10 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
 July 23 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
 Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, British Indian statesman and leader of the Punjab.

 Art, music, theatre, and literature 
 December 17 – Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker premieres in St Petersburg.