Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
Harry Edwin Heilmann, nicknamed "Slug", was an American baseball player and radio announcer. He played professional baseball for 19 years between 1913 and 1932, including 17 season…
Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1951)
Varahagiri Venkata Giri, better known as V. V. Giri was an Indian statesman, activist, and diplomat who served as the president of India from 1969 to 1974. He previously served as …
V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (died 1980)
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)
Frederick Charles Keenor was a Welsh professional footballer. He began his career at his hometown side Cardiff City after impressing the club's coaching staff in a trial match in 1…
Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (died 1972)
Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. She …
Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (died 1976)
Frank Burge was an Australian rugby league footballer. He was one of the greatest forwards in the history of rugby league in Australia, and later became one of the game's finest co…
Frank Burge, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1958)
William George Meany was an American labor union administrator for 57 years. He was a vital figure in the creation of the AFL–CIO and served as its first president, from 1955 to 19…
George Meany, American plumber and labor leader (died 1980)
Christian Schad was a German painter and photographer. He was associated with the Dada and the New Objectivity movements. Schad's portraits are regarded as emblematic of the decade…
Christian Schad, German painter (died 1982)
John Lorimer Auden MC, was an English solicitor, deputy coroner for Staffordshire and a territorial soldier who served in the First World War. He was a collector of natural history…
John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (died 1959)
Earl John "Sparky" Adams was an American professional Major League Baseball player who played with the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds. A…
Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer (died 1989)
Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (died 1981)
William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes GBE was a British motor manufacturer. He opened his first car sales agency in 1913, leading to the global Rootes Group. During the Second Wo…
William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group (died 1964)
Albert Barnett Facey, publishing as A. B. Facey, was an Australian writer and World War I veteran, whose main work was his autobiography, A Fortunate Life, now considered a classic…
Albert Facey, Australian soldier and author (died 1982)
Moses Joseph Roth was an Austrian novelist, journalist and essayist, born into a Jewish family in Galicia in Austria-Hungary. He is widely regarded as one of the major German-langu…
Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist and author (died 1939)
Daniel van der Meulen was a Dutch civil servant who served as the consul to Jeddah from 1926 through 1931. Born in Laren, van der Meulen entered the civil service and was assigned …
Daniel van der Meulen, Dutch diplomat (died 1989)
Victor York "Yorker" Richardson, nicknamed The Guardsman, was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australia cricket team and the South Australia A…
Vic Richardson, Australian cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster (died 1969)
George Waggner was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for producing and directing the 1941 film The Wolf Man. For some unknown reason, Waggner somet…
George Waggner, American actor, director, and producer (died 1984)
John Samuel Bourque was a Quebec politician, Cabinet Minister, military member and businessman. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Sherbrooke for…
John Samuel Bourque, Canadian soldier and politician (died 1974)
Willem Frederik Johannes Pijper was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 2…
Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and critic (died 1947)
Humphrey Mitchell, was a Canadian politician and trade unionist.
Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 1950)
William Albert Stanley Oldfield was an Australian cricketer and businessman. He played for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. Oldfield's 52 stumpings during his Test…
Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1976)
Alexander or Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko, also known as Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one o…
Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (died 1956)