Explore 897 historical events from 1890–1899.
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 (Nobel Prize 1978) (died 1984)
Erna W. Mohr was a German zoologist who made contributions to ichthyology and mammalogy. Mohr was long associated with the Zoological Museum Hamburg, where she was successively hea…
Erna Mohr, German zoologist (died 1968)
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and ha…
Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (died 1940)
Dave Fleischer was an American film director and producer who co-owned Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer.
Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (died 1979)
Tadeusz Sendzimir was a Polish engineer and inventor of international renown. He held 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.
Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (died 1989)
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin was a Soviet mathematician and one of the most significant contributors to the Soviet school of probability theory.
Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1959)
Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin was a East Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the second governor-general of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951, and then as the second prime minister o…
Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 1965)
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (died 1963)
Mientje Kling was a Dutch theatre and film actress and radio personality.
Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (died 1966)
Kostas Krystallis was an ethnic Aromanian, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to…
Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (born 1868)
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the…
Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (died 1966)
Percy LaBaron Spencer was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven. As a boy he was twice orphaned and began work at a young age, never finish…
Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (died 1969)
Arthur Veary Treacher, Jr. was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English types, especially butler and manservant roles, such…
Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and television personality (died 1975)
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), mak…
Walter Brennan, American actor (died 1974)
Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, …
Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian Serb revolutionary and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (died 1918)
Émile Henry, nicknamed 'the Saint-Just of Anarchy', was an individualist and illegalist anarchist militant and terrorist. He is best known for his terrorist actions and is consider…
Émile Henry, French anarchist (born 1872)
August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt was a German physicist known for developing Kundt's tube, an appartus used to measure the speed of sound in gases and solids.
August Kundt, German physicist and academic (born 1839)
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal was a German jurist and the son of Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal.
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (born 1812)
Sir John Cox Bray was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia (1881–1884).
John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (born 1842)
Alexandre-Antonin Taché was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada.
Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (born 1823)
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (born 1837)
Giorgio Costantino Schinas was a Maltese architect and civil engineer. He was of Greek descent.
Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.
Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (born 1818)
Josef Hyrtl was an Austrian anatomist. His work in German, including the publication of Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen in 1846, which was considered the German equivalent of Gr…
Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (born 1810)