Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
Garimella Satyanarayana was a poet and freedom fighter of Andhra Pradesh, India. He influenced and mobilised the Andhra people against the British Raj with his patriotic songs and …
Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (died 1952)
Enid Eulalie Bennett was an Australian silent film actress, mostly active in American film.
Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (died 1969)
Richard Harvie Rauch was an American football player and coach. Rauch attended Pennsylvania State University. He was a player-coach for the Boston Bulldogs, New York Yankees and th…
Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (died 1970)
Miroslav Krleža was a Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry, theater,…
Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (died 1981)
Clarence James Brown Sr. was an American politician; he represented Ohio as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until his death in Bethesda, Maryla…
Clarence J. Brown, American publisher and politician, 36th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (died 1965)
Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, was a Scottish peer, soldier and courtier. He was the father-in-law of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilv…
David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (died 1968)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prom…
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (died 1930)
George Llewelyn Davies was the eldest son of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Along with his four younger brothers, George was the inspiration for playwright J. M. Barrie's chara…
George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier (died 1915)
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). His wo…
Hans Fallada, German author (died 1947)
Jesse Joseph Haines, nicknamed "Pop", was an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). After a lengthy …
Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (died 1978)
Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist, author, and activist. He was a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Me…
Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (died 1990)
Ugo Agostoni was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Agostoni was professional from 1911 to 1924 during which time he won the Giro dell'Emilia, and a stage in the 1920 Giro…
Ugo Agostoni, Italian cyclist (died 1941)
Rued Langgaard was a late-Romantic Danish composer and organist. His then-unconventional music was at odds with that of his Danish contemporaries but was recognized 16 years after …
Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (died 1952)
Alexander was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death on 25 October 1920.
Alexander of Greece (died 1920)
George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec…
George Grosz, German painter and illustrator (died 1959)
Charles Wilber Rogan, nicknamed "Bullet Joe", was an American pitcher, outfielder, second baseman and player-manager for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro baseball leagues from…
Bullet Rogan, American baseball player (died 1967)
Fritz Gause was a German historian, archivist, and curator described as the last great historian of his native city, Königsberg, East Prussia. Gause's most important work was his t…
Fritz Gause, German historian and curator (died 1973)
Leslie John Comrie FRS was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation.
Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and academic (died 1950)
John Brahm was a German film and television director. His films include The Undying Monster (1942), The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square (1945), The Locket (1946), The Brasher Doublo…
John Brahm, German-American director and production manager (died 1982)
Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than seven decades. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of h…
Mae West, American stage and film actress (died 1980)
Burleigh Arland Grimes was an American professional baseball player and manager, and the last major league pitcher who was officially permitted to throw the spitball. Grimes made t…
Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (died 1985)
Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan was a Canadian conductor, composer and organist. He was Canada's only "Musical Knight", and is widely regarded as being Canada's pre-eminent…
Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (died 1973)
Wilfred Kitching CBE was a British Salvation Army officer who was their seventh General between 1954 and 1963.
Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (died 1977)
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (died 1967)