Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
Kyuichi Tokuda was a Japanese politician and first chairman of the Japanese Communist Party from 1945 until his death in 1953.
Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (died 1953)
Arthur Freed was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for An American in Paris and in 1958 for Gigi. Both fi…
Arthur Freed, American composer and producer (died 1973)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the con…
Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (died 1976)
John Boynton Priestley was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.
J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (died 1984)
Julian Tuwim, known also under the pseudonym Oldlen as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where …
Julian Tuwim, Polish poet, playwright, and director (died 1953)
Charles Wesley "Chic" Harley was an American football player and athlete, often credited with bringing Ohio State University's football program to national attention. Harley was Oh…
Chic Harley, American football player (died 1974)
Oskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist now best remembered for the Klein-Gordon equation of relativistic quantum mechanics, the Kaluza-Klein theory, a unified fie…
Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1977)
Jean Renoir was a French filmmaker, actor, producer and author. His La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest film…
Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)
Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie,, known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best know…
Fay Compton, English actress (died 1978)
Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for her work Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Awar…
Rachel Field, American author and poet (died 1942)
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)
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)
George Inness was an American landscape painter.
George Inness, American painter (born 1825)
George Stoneman Jr. was an American military officer and politician who served as the 15th governor of California from 1883 to 1887.
George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (born 1822)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. Th…
Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (born 1821)
Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked a…
Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (born 1841)