Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald, also known as Blossom Rock, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage, film and television. During her career she was also billed as Marie Blake o…
Blossom Rock, American actress (died 1978)
László Adolf Ede György Mária Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós was a Hungarian aristocrat, motorist, desert explorer, aviator, Scout-leader, and sportsman.
László Almásy, Hungarian captain, pilot, and explorer (died 1951)
Paul Comtois was a Canadian politician.
Paul Comtois, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1966)
András (Andreas) Ede Zsigmond Alföldi was a Hungarian historian, art historian, epigraphist, numismatist and archaeologist, specializing in the Late Antique period. He was one of t…
Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian archaeologist and historian (died 1981)
Engelbert Zaschka was a German chief engineer, chief designer and inventor. Zaschka is one of the first German helicopter pioneers and he is a pioneer of flying with muscle power a…
Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (died 1955)
Jacques Vaché was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said:"En littérature, je me…
Jacques Vaché, French author and poet (died 1919)
Richard James Cushing was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Boston from 1944 to 1970 and was made a cardinal in 1958. Cushing's main role was a…
Richard Cushing, American cardinal (died 1970)
Viswanatha Satyanarayana was a 20th-century Telugu writer. His works included poetry, novels, dramatic play, short stories and speeches, covering a wide range of subjects such as a…
Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (died 1976)
Vinayak Narahar Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave, was an Indian philosopher and an advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya, he is best known for the Bhoodan…
Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1982)
Freymóður Jóhannsson was an Icelandic artist, painter and song composer.
Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (died 1973)
Morris Marshall Kirksey was an American track and field athlete and rugby union footballer who won two gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He is one of the few athletes to win…
Morris Kirksey, American rugby player and sprinter (died 1981)
Magda Lupescu, known as Princess Elena of Romania after 1947, was the mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania.
Magda Lupescu, mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (died 1977)
Tan Sri Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad or better known by the moniker Za'aba, was a Malaysian writer and linguist. He modernised the Malay language with the publication of a series of gra…
Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Malaysian author and scholar (died 1973)
Jean Batmale was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for the France national team at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.
Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (died 1973)
John George Diefenbaker was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1935 and 1979 to lead the pa…
John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1979)
Dr. Walter Albert Koch was a German astrologer who founded the Koch House System in Astrology. He was born in Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and died in Göppingen.
Walter Koch, German astrologer and author (died 1970)
Walter Dubislav was a German logician and philosopher of science (Wissenschaftstheoretiker).
Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (died 1937)
Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious…
Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967)
Miron Ivanovich Merzhanov, born Meran Merzhanyantz, was a Soviet architect of Armenian descent, notable for being the de facto personal architect of Joseph Stalin in 1933–1941. Arr…
Miron Merzhanov, Russian architect and engineer (died 1975)
John Leo Mokan was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He batted and threw right-handed.
Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (died 1985)
André Frédéric Cournand was a French-American physician and physiologist.
André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942–1943 and 19…
Jürgen Stroop, German general (died 1952)
Clarence "Tom" Ashley was an American musician and singer, who played the clawhammer banjo and the guitar. He began performing at medicine shows in the Southern Appalachian region …
Clarence Ashley, American singer, guitarist, and banjo player (died 1967)
Joseph Banks Rhine, usually known as J. B. Rhine, was an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University,…
Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1980)