Explore 419 historical events from 1890–1899.
Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunne…
Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (born 1826)
William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He began in politics as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for …
William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 or the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897 was fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause involved the status of the Ottom…
The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations …
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Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian guru of nonduality, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya.
Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator (died 1981)
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our…
Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (died 1975)
Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his pro…
Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (died 1983)
Count Ardito Desio was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.
Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (died 2001)
Chevalier Peter Bertram Cypriano Castellino de Noronha was a businessman and civil servant of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christia…
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)
Jiroemon Kimura was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the verified oldest living person between Dina Manfredini's death on 17 December 2012 and his own death at age 116 years and…
Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever (died 2013)
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was a Norwegian military officer and war historian. He participated in the Norwegian Campaign in Northern Norway during the Second World War as the chief-of-sta…
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen, Norwegian Army general and war historian (died 1975)
Folke Georg "Pytta" Jansson was a Swedish athlete who specialized in the triple jump.
Folke Jansson, Swedish athlete (died 1965)
Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian politician, diplomat, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as leader of the Liberal Pa…
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Manuel Ávila Camacho was a Mexican politician and military leader who served as the president of Mexico from 1940 to 1946. Having participated in the Mexican Revolution and achievi…
Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico (died 1955)
Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. He believed that the structures of different la…
Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (died 1941)
Edward Patrick Francis Eagan was an American athlete who won a gold medal as a light-heavyweight boxer at the 1920 Summer Olympics and a gold medal in four-man bobsled at the 1932 …
Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (died 1967)
Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. Sirk started his …
Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (died 1987)
Humberto Duarte Mauro was a Brazilian film director. His best known work is Ganga Bruta. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema.
Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (died 1983)
John Frederick Coots, better known as J. Fred Coots or Fred Coots, was an American songwriter. He composed more than 700 popular songs and more than a dozen Broadway shows. In 1934…
John Frederick Coots, American songwriter (died 1985)
William Joseph Browne, was a Canadian lawyer, judge and politician. He served in the Newfoundland House of Assembly and the House of Commons of Canada.
William Joseph Browne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Solicitor General of Canada (died 1989)
Mary, Princess Royal, was a member of the British royal family. She was the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, the sister of kings Edward VIII and George VI, and the au…
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (died 1965)
Ye Jianying was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. He was the top military leader in the 1976 coup …
Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (died 1986)
Paul Alverdes was a German novelist and poet.
Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (died 1979)
Robert Ellsworth Gross was an American businessman involved in the field of aviation. His first venture, the Viking Flying Boat Company, failed with the loss of the aircraft market…
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