Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
Air Marshal Sir Brian Edmund Baker was an officer of the Royal Air Force who served in both World Wars. He was a flying ace in World War I credited, in conjunction with his gunners…
Brian Edmund Baker, English Air Marshal (died 1979)
Félix-Antoine Savard, was a Canadian priest, academic, poet, novelist and folklorist.
Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (died 1982)
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was an Indian spiritual, philosophical, and religious teacher who spread the Hare Krishna mantra and the teachings of "Krishna c…
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna…
Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz. According to historian Stanley Green, Diet…
Howard Dietz, American publicist and songwriter (died 1983)
Adele Astaire Douglass was an American dancer, stage actress, and singer. After beginning work as a dancer and vaudeville performer at the age of nine, Astaire built a successful p…
Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (died 1981)
Robert Taschereau was a lawyer who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967, as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1963, and briefly a…
Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1970)
Ye Ting was a Chinese military officer and figure who played a key role in the Northern Expedition to reunify China after the 1911 Revolution. After serving with the Kuomintang, Ye…
Ye Ting, Chinese general (died 1946)
Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica was a Mexican Franciscan friar and former tenor and film actor. He was known in the music and film fields as José Mojica.
José Mojica, Mexican tenor and actor (died 1974)
Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work i…
Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright (died 1948)
Thomas Meik was a 19th-century Scottish engineer.
Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (born 1812)
Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in…
Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (born 1815)
Silas Adams was an American attorney and politician from Kentucky who served for one term as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 11th congression…
Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (born 1839)
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execu…
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Clara Josephine Schumann was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influen…
Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (born 1819)
Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. He was the brother of general Nikolai Stoletov.
Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1839)
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée MIF FRS FRSE was a French geologist, best known for applying experimental methods to structural geology. He served as the director of the École des Mines as…
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (born 1814)
Pavlos Carrer or Pavlos Carreris, was a Greek composer, one of the leaders of the Ionian art music school and the first to create national operas and national songs on Greek plots,…
Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (born 1829)
John Berryman VC was a British Army non-commissioned officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to …
John Berryman, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1825)
Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists i…
August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (born 1829)
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and publisher, founded Académie Goncourt (born 1822)
Abraham Hoagland Cannon was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Abraham H. Cannon, American publisher and religious leader (born 1859)
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts t…
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (born 1811)
Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights wi…
Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (born 1848)
Thomas Davee Chamberlain was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, the brother of Union general Joshua L. Chamberlain,…
Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (born 1841)