Explore 570 historical events from 1870–1879.
Henri Léon Thiébaut was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the si…
Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (died 1943)
Margaret Ives Abbott was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (died 1955)
Leopold Löwenheim [ˈle:o:pɔl̩d ˈlø:vɛnhaɪm] was a German mathematician doing work in mathematical logic. The Nazi regime forced him to retire because under the Nuremberg Laws he wa…
Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (died 1957)
Jacques Rosenbaum was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. Between 1904 and 1907 he served as municipal architect of Tartu, Estonia, and is best known for his Art Nouvea…
Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (died 1944)
George Michael Cohan was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.
George M. Cohan, American songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer (died 1942)
Eino Leino was a Finnish poet and journalist who is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry and a national poet of Finland. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk eleme…
Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist (died 1926)
Otto Freundlich was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. One of the first generation of abstract artists, Freundlich deeply admired cubism and spent much of his life in …
Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (died 1943)
Peeter Siegfried Nikolaus Põld was an Estonian pedagogy specialist, school director, and politician, and the first Estonian Minister of Education. He was born in Puru, Kreis Wierla…
Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (died 1930)
Thomas Donald Meek was a Scottish-American actor. He first performed publicly at the age of eight and began appearing on Broadway in 1903.
Donald Meek, Scottish-American stage and film actor (died 1946)
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor. He was an early c…
Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (died 1942)
James Thomas Milton Anderson was the fifth premier of Saskatchewan and the first Conservative to hold the office.
James Thomas Milton Anderson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Saskatchewan (died 1946)
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He published more than 90 books during his lifetime,…
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish author, poet, and playwright (died 1957)
Masaharu Anesaki , also known under his pen name "Chōfū Anesaki" , was a leading Japanese intellectual and scholar of the Meiji period. Anesaki is credited as being the father of r…
Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese philosopher and scholar (died 1949)
Edward Belden Greene was an American banking, mining, and steel company executive. He joined the Cleveland Trust Company in 1900, and by 1914 was a vice president. He later was a d…
Edward B. Greene, American banking, mining, and steel company executive (died 1957)
Ernst Heinrich Hoppenberg was a German swimmer and water polo player who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in the 200 metre events. He participated in Swimmi…
Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (died 1937)
Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for crea…
Don Marquis, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1937)
Anna Sewell was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby.…
Anna Sewell, English author (born 1820)
Anselme Payen was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose.
Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (born 1795)
Joseph Henry was an American physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promot…
Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (born 1797)
Ōkubo Toshimichi was a Japanese statesman and samurai of the Satsuma Domain. Regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan, he was one of the "Three Great Nobles" who led th…
Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (born 1830)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and …
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1792)
Robert Stirling was a Scottish clergyman and engineer. He invented the Stirling engine and was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.
Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (born 1790)
Crawford Williamson Long was an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an anesthetic.
Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (born 1815)
Kikuchi Yōsai , also known as Kikuchi Takeyasu and Kawahara Ryōhei, was a Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures.
Kikuchi Yōsai, Japanese painter (born 1781)