Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Olga Edna Purviance was an American actress of the silent film era. She was the leading lady in many of Charlie Chaplin's early films and in a span of eight years, she appeared in …
Edna Purviance, American actress (died 1958)
John Dewey Morrison, nicknamed "Jughandle Johnny", was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of ten seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates…
Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (died 1966)
Levi Eshkol, born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik, was the prime minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. A founder of the Israeli Labor Party, he served in …
Levi Eshkol, Ukrainian-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1969)
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a leading member of what was later derisively descri…
Vsevolod Merkulov, Russian head of the NKGB (died 1953)
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
Jack Warner was a British actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp and later in the television series Dixon …
Jack Warner, English actor and singer (died 1981)
Arthur Schmidt was an officer in the German military from 1914 to 1943. He attained the rank of Generalleutnant during World War II, and is best known for his role as the Sixth Arm…
Arthur Schmidt, German officer (died 1987)
Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. was an American physician and physiologist. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werne…
Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus u…
Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (born 1815)
Graf Eric Stanislaus Stenbock was a Baltic Swedish poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction.
Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (born 1860)
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of h…
José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (born 1853)
Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungar…
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1819)
Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. In electrom…
Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (born 1798)
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin…
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (born 1825)
Johann Josef Loschmidt, better known as Josef Loschmidt, was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics, and crystal forms.
Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (born 1821)
Edward Beecher was an American theologian, the son of Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (born 1803)
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha was an Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and historian who was a prominent figure in the Tanzimat reforms of the Ottoman Empire. He was t…
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (born 1822)
Floriano Vieira Peixoto was a Brazilian military officer and politician. A veteran of the Paraguayan War and several other conflicts in Brazil, he served as the second president of…
Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian general and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (born 1839)
Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he …
Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (born 1820)
John Wesley Hardin was an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter, lawyer and controversial folk icon. Hardin often got into trouble with the law from an early age. He killed his firs…
John Wesley Hardin, American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (born 1853)
Albert Frederick Mummery, was an English mountaineer and author. Although most notable for his many and varied first ascents put up in the Alps, Mummery, along with J. Norman Colli…
Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (born 1855)
Adam Opel was a German entrepreneur who founded the company Adam Opel AG, then a manufacturer of bicycles and sewing machines.
Adam Opel, German entrepreneur, founded Opel (born 1837)
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la…
Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (born 1822)
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. was an American scientist. His father and namesake was an inventor and partner of the Blake Brothers manufacturing firm. His great uncle was Eli Whitney, who …
Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (born 1836)