Explore 897 historical events from 1890–1899.
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher and academic (died 1976)
Alexander Nikolayevich Prokofiev de Seversky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, inventor, and influential advocate of strategic air power. He was also a World War I flying ac…
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Erwin Schulhoff was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by …
Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (died 1942)
Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese engineer and businessman, and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufac…
Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (died 1952)
Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986)
Marie-Adélaïde, was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg, its first female monarch since Duches…
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (died 1924)
José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira, sometimes referred to in Peru as El Amauta, was a Peruvian writer, sociologist, historian, journalist, politician, and Marxist philosopher. A proli…
José Carlos Mariátegui (died 1930)
William Wrighton Eustace Ross [often misspelt William Wrightson Eustace Ross] was a Canadian geophysicist and poet. He was the first published poet in Canada to write Imagist poetr…
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Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to infantile autism. Before working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric…
Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and medical doctor (died 1981)
Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving …
Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and conductor (died 1981)
Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov was a Soviet mathematician. He is best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem.
Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1947)
Lloyd Augustus Hall was an American chemist, who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number …
Lloyd Hall, American chemist and academic (died 1971)
Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge was an English civil servant, journalist, crime writer and literary critic. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He served wit…
Milward Kennedy, English journalist and civil servant (died 1968)
Harry Schmidt was a German mathematician. Core areas of his research were experimental physics, as well as the theory of boundary layers and wings in aerodynamics.
Harry Schmidt, German mathematician and physicist (died 1951)
Bernard Ashmole was a British archaeologist and art historian, who specialized in ancient Greek sculpture. He held a number of professorships during his lifetime; Yates Professor o…
Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and art historian (died 1988)
Major General Sir Harold Eric Barrowclough was a New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice from 1953 to 1966.
Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice (died 1972)
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in Decemb…
Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (died 1972)
Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the W…
Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (died 1989)
Jessie Baetz was a Canadian-American artist, composer, and pianist.
Jessie Baetz, Canadian-American artist, composer and pianist (died 1974 or later)
Francis "Frank" Townsend Hunter was an American tennis player who won an Olympic gold medal. He won the U.S. National Indoor Championships in 1922 and 1930 and the Eastern Clay Cou…
Francis Hunter, American tennis player (died 1981)
Ants Lauter was an Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was born in the parish of Velise within Veski, Wiek County, and died, aged…
Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (died 1973)
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now…
Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (died 1956)
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, also known as Peter Kapitza, was a Russian and Soviet physicist, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Phy…
Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
James Francis McHugh was an American composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he is credited with over 500 songs. His songs were recorded by many…
Jimmy McHugh, American composer (died 1969)