Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Lilyan Tashman was an American stage, silent film, and sound film actress.
Lilyan Tashman, American actress (died 1934)
Marjorie Joyner was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create …
Marjorie Joyner, American make-up artist and businesswoman (died 1994)
Nils Robert Backlund was a Swedish water polo player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was part of the Swedish team, which was ab…
Nils Backlund, Swedish water polo player (died 1964)
Rexford Raymond Cherryman was an American actor of the stage and screen whose career was most prolific during the 1920s.
Rex Cherryman, American actor (died 1928)
Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and educator (died 1928)
Thomas Meik was a 19th-century Scottish engineer.
Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (born 1812)
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…
H
Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provide…
Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (died 1981)
Ruth Gordon Jones was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, widely known for a career that spanned seven decades, beginning by performing on Broadway at age 1…
Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (died 1985)
Harry R. Truman was an American businessman, bootlegger, and prospector. He lived near Mount St. Helens, a volcano in the Cascade Range in the state of Washington, and was the owne…
Harry R. Truman, American soldier and inn keeper on Mount St. Helens, killed in the eruption (died 1980)
Antonino Votto, was an Italian operatic conductor and vocal coach. Votto developed an extensive discography with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan during the 1950s, when EMI produced …
Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (died 1985)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)