Explore 896 historical events from 1890–1899.
Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs…
Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (died 1993)
Charles Laughton was an English actor and director. Over his career he received an Academy Award and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two BAFTAs and a Golden Globe. He ear…
Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962)
Konstantinos D. Tsatsos was a Greek diplomat, professor of law, scholar and politician. He served as the second President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1975 to 1980.
Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (died 1987)
Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and lite…
Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author (died 1974)
Susannah Mushatt Jones was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years and 311 days, the world's oldest living person and the last living American verified to have been bo…
Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentarian (died 2016)
George Dewey Cukor was an American film director and producer. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the…
George Cukor, American director and producer (died 1983)
John Gilbert was an American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover". His breakthrough c…
John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1936)
Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1923. Two weeks after hi…
Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (died 1978)
Wilfrid Berthold Jacob Israel was an Anglo-German businessman and philanthropist, born into a wealthy Anglo-German Jewish family, who was active in the rescue of Jews from Nazi Ger…
Wilfrid Israel, German businessman and philanthropist (died 1943)
Elwyn Brooks White was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Litt…
E. B. White, American essayist and journalist (died 1985)
Seán Francis Lemass was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1959 to 1966. He also served as Tánaiste from 1957 to 1959, 1951 to 1…
Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 1971)
James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor and dancer. On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comi…
James Cagney, American actor and dancer (died 1986)
Ernst Scheller was a German Nazi Hauptmann and politician.
Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg (died 1942)
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali-language writer, physician, and playwright, best known by his pen name Banaphul,. His oeuvre spanned novels, poetry, plays, essays an…
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (died 1979)
Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection Whit…
Hart Crane, American poet (died 1932)
Sobhuza II was Ngwenyama (King) of Swaziland for 82 years and 254 days, the longest verifiable reign of any monarch in recorded history.
Sobhuza II of Swaziland (died 1982)
Gustav Walter Heinemann was a German politician who was President of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He served as mayor of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Inte…
Gustav Heinemann, German lawyer and politician, 3rd President of West Germany (died 1976)
Chief Dan George was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of North Vanco…
Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (died 1981)
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has …
Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Percival Mitchell Hornibrook was an Australian cricketer who played in six Test matches from 1929 to 1930. He played first-class cricket for Queensland from 1919–20 to 1933–34.
Percy Hornibrook, Australian cricketer (died 1976)
Walter Esau Beall was an American baseball player who played for the New York Yankees on several championship teams in the 1920s.
Walter Beall, American baseball player (died 1959)
Gerald Moore was an English classical pianist best known for his career as a collaborative pianist for many distinguished musicians. Among those with whom he was closely associated…
Gerald Moore, English pianist (died 1987)
Emilio Jacinto y Dizon was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution. He was one of the highest-ranking officers in the Philippine Revolution and was one of the highest-r…
Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (born 1875)
Joseph Wolf was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and natur…
Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (born 1820)