The Painted Cave of Galdar discovered at Gáldar, Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria.
May 27: Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British Egyptologist (died 1934)
October 26: Thomas J. Preston, Jr., American archaeologist (died 1955)
November 26: Aurel Stein, Hungarian archaeologist (died 1943)
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