Explore 883 historical events from 1870–1879.
Calogero Vizzini, also commonly known as "Don Calò", was a Sicilian Mafia boss of Villalba in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was considered to be one of the most influen…
Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (died 1954)
Jesse Lauriston Livermore was an American stock trader. He is considered a pioneer of day trading and was the basis for the main character of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a b…
Jesse Lauriston Livermore, American investor and security analyst, "Great Bear of Wall Street" (died 1940)
Ernst von Dohnányi was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used the German form of his name on most published compositions.
Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1960)
Jesse Lauriston Livermore was an American stock trader. He is considered a pioneer of day trading and was the basis for the main character of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a b…
Jesse Livermore, American investor and security analyst, "Great Bear of Wall Street" (died 1940)
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of autho…
Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (died 1970)
Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt, known in English-language publications as George Hackenschmidt, was an Estonian strongman, amateur and professional wrestler, writer, and sports ph…
George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (died 1968)
Ravishankar Shukla was a leader of the Indian National Congress, Indian independence movement activist, the Premier of the Central Provinces and Berar from 27 April 1946 to 25 Janu…
Ravishankar Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (died 1956)
Dame Laura Knight was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced E…
Dame Laura Knight, English artist (died 1970)
Thomas John Thomson was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century. During his short career, he produced roughly 400 oil sketches on small wood panels and approximately 50 …
Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (died 1917)
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in…
Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1952)
Frank James Marshall was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
Frank Marshall, American chess player and author (died 1944)
Adolph M. Christianson was an attorney and a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.
Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and judge (died 1954)
Albert Bartha de Nagyborosnyó was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence twice: in 1918 and, almost thirty years later, between 1946 and 194…
Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (died 1960)
Tachiyama Mineemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture. He was the sport's 22nd yokozuna. He was well known for his extreme strength and …
Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (died 1941)
Roque Ruaño Garrido, O.P. was a Spanish priest and civil engineer. He was known after he drew up plans for University of Santo Tomas (UST) Main Building, the first earthquake-shock…
Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (died 1935)
Ralph McKittrick was an American golfer and tennis player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (died 1923)
István Medgyaszay was a Hungarian architect and writer. He was one of the first to employ Hungarian folk idioms, particularly from Transylvania, and combine them with influences ra…
István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and academic (died 1959)
Joshua Lionel Cowen was an American inventor and cofounder of the Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains who gained prominence in the market before an…
Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation (died 1965)
Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in a…
Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (died 1910)
Ernst Wetter was a Swiss politician.
Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1963)
Francis William Aston FRS was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many no…
Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. Many of his novels were adapted into films.
Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (died 1949)
Frederick Soddy FRS was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reac…
Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis was a Latvian politician and dictator. He was one of the most prominent Latvian politicians of pre-World War II Latvia during the Interwar period of…
Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (died 1942)