Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (died 1981)
Albert Barnett Facey, publishing as A. B. Facey, was an Australian writer and World War I veteran, whose main work was his autobiography, A Fortunate Life, now considered a classic…
Albert Facey, Australian soldier and author (died 1982)
Moses Joseph Roth was an Austrian novelist, journalist and essayist, born into a Jewish family in Galicia in Austria-Hungary. He is widely regarded as one of the major German-langu…
Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist and author (died 1939)
Daniel van der Meulen was a Dutch civil servant who served as the consul to Jeddah from 1926 through 1931. Born in Laren, van der Meulen entered the civil service and was assigned …
Daniel van der Meulen, Dutch diplomat (died 1989)
Victor York "Yorker" Richardson, nicknamed The Guardsman, was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australia cricket team and the South Australia A…
Vic Richardson, Australian cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster (died 1969)
George Waggner was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for producing and directing the 1941 film The Wolf Man. For some unknown reason, Waggner somet…
George Waggner, American actor, director, and producer (died 1984)
John Samuel Bourque was a Quebec politician, Cabinet Minister, military member and businessman. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Sherbrooke for…
John Samuel Bourque, Canadian soldier and politician (died 1974)
Willem Frederik Johannes Pijper was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 2…
Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and critic (died 1947)
Humphrey Mitchell, was a Canadian politician and trade unionist.
Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 1950)
William Albert Stanley Oldfield was an Australian cricketer and businessman. He played for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. Oldfield's 52 stumpings during his Test…
Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1976)
Alexander or Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko, also known as Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one o…
Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (died 1956)
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)
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)
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)
Anton Piëch was an Austrian-German lawyer and the son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche. He headed Volkswagenwerk GmbH between 1941 and 1945, which produced the Volkswagen vehicles (KdF-…
Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer and businessman (died 1952)
Elisabeth Rethberg was a German operatic spinto soprano singer who was active from the period of the First World War through the early 1940s. After Richard Strauss assigned the rol…
Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (died 1976)
Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-born golfer who played primarily in the United States. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championshi…
Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster (died 1968)