Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Âşık Veysel was a Turkish Alevi ashik, bağlama virtuoso, and folk poet. He was born and died in the village of Sivrialan, Sivas Province, in the Ottoman Empire. Blind since the age…
Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet and songwriter (died 1973)
Johan Wilhelm (Jukka) Rangell was the Prime Minister of Finland from 1941 to 1943.
Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Prime Minister of Finland (died 1982)
Florence Nagle was a British trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist. Nagle purchased her first Irish Wolfhound in 1913, and went on t…
Florence Nagle, English trainer and breeder of racehorses (died 1988)
Agda Helin was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1912 and 1968.
Agda Helin, Swedish actress (died 1984)
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer who saw distinguished active service during both the world wars. He commanded…
Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (died 1978)
Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel was a German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal. As General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until t…
Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
Ye Shengtao also known as Ye Shaojun, was a Chinese writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician. He was a founder of the Association for Literary Studies (文學研究會), the fi…
Ye Shengtao, Chinese writer, educator, and politician (died 1988)
Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher.
Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (died 1977)
Philip Arnold Heseltine, known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, w…
Peter Warlock, English composer and critic (died 1930)
Kostas Krystallis was an ethnic Aromanian, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to…
Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (born 1868)
Émile Henry, nicknamed 'the Saint-Just of Anarchy', was an individualist and illegalist anarchist militant and terrorist. He is best known for his terrorist actions and is consider…
Émile Henry, French anarchist (born 1872)
August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt was a German physicist known for developing Kundt's tube, an appartus used to measure the speed of sound in gases and solids.
August Kundt, German physicist and academic (born 1839)
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal was a German jurist and the son of Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal.
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (born 1812)
Sir John Cox Bray was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia (1881–1884).
John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (born 1842)
Alexandre-Antonin Taché was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada.
Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (born 1823)
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (born 1837)
Giorgio Costantino Schinas was a Maltese architect and civil engineer. He was of Greek descent.
Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.
Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (born 1818)
Josef Hyrtl was an Austrian anatomist. His work in German, including the publication of Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen in 1846, which was considered the German equivalent of Gr…
Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (born 1810)
George Inness was an American landscape painter.
George Inness, American painter (born 1825)
George Stoneman Jr. was an American military officer and politician who served as the 15th governor of California from 1883 to 1887.
George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (born 1822)
Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked a…
Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (born 1841)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. Th…
Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (born 1821)
Deng Shichang, courtesy name Zhengqing, posthumous name Zhuangjie, was an Imperial Chinese Navy officer who lived in the late Qing dynasty. He is best known for his service in the …
Deng Shichang, Chinese captain (born 1849)