Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
Waldo Lonsbury Semon was an American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama. He is credited with inventing methods for making polyvinyl chloride useful.
Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (died 1999)
Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria was a Spanish composer.
Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (died 1963)
Ben Shahn was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.
Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (died 1969)
Roger Désormière was a French conductor. He was an enthusiastic champion of contemporary composers, but also conducted performances of early eighteenth century French music.
Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (died 1963)
Cathiravelu Sittampalam was a Ceylon Tamil civil servant, politician, Member of Parliament and government minister.
C. Sittampalam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (died 1964)
Lawrence Gellert (1898-1979?), was a music collector, who in the 1920s and 1930s amassed a significant collection of field-recorded African-American blues and spirituals and also c…
Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector (died 1979)
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and was involved in the British response to the 1936–1939 Arab re…
Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya (died 1979)
Alma Mary Templeton Moodie was an Australian violinist who established an excellent reputation in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. She was regarded as being among the foremost femal…
Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator (died 1943)
Ernest Nash was a student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography. Nash was born as Ernst Nathan in Potsdam, Germany, but later changed his name to Nash whe…
Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar (died 1974)
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch poet and novelist. He is considered one of the most important Dutch language writers.
J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author (died 1936)
H. A. Rey was a German-born American illustrator and author, known best for the series of children's picture books that he and his wife Margret Rey created about Curious George.
H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George (died 1977)
Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1964 to 1971.
Giuseppe Saragat, Italian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Italy (died 1988)
Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunne…
Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (born 1826)
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)
Dewitt Clinton Senter was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871. He had previously served in the Tennessee House of Representatives …
Dewitt Clinton Senter, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (born 1830)
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Edward Burne-Jones, English soldier and painter (born 1833)
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe was a French-born prelate who serve as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico in the United States from 1885 to 1894.
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (born 1825)
William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He began in politics as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for …
William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as …
Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1815)
Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and alo…
Eugène Boudin, French painter (born 1824)
Wilford Woodruff Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death. He ended the …
Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born…
Sarah Emma Edmonds was a British North America-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War. Although recogni…
Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (born 1841)
Étienne Mallarmé, known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revol…
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (born 1842)
Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (born 1837)