Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
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)
Ernest Henry Volwiler was an American chemist. He spent his career at Abbott Laboratories working his way from staff chemist to CEO. He was a pioneer in the field of anesthetic pha…
Ernest H. Volwiler, American chemist (died 1992)
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)
Haim Ernst Wertheimer was an Israeli biochemist.
Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (died 1978)
Henry Trendley Dean was the first director of the United States National Institute of Dental Research and a pioneer investigator of water fluoridation in the prevention of tooth de…
Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (died 1962)
Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 u…
Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died 1935)
Lily Laskine was one of the most prominent harpists of the twentieth century who was born and died in Paris. Born Lily Aimée Laskine to Jewish parents in Paris, she studied at the …
Lily Laskine, French harp player (died 1988)
Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japanese-American painter and photographer (died 1953)
Claire Lee Chennault was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II.
Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (died 1958)
Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha was a British politician, at first a member of the Liberal Party, later of the Liberal Nationals, and eventually of the Conservati…
Leslie Hore-Belisha, English politician, Secretary of State for War (died 1957)
Wallace Douglas Hawkes was a British motor car designer, businessman and racing driver. He was born in Barton, Gloucestershire, married Gwenda Stewart in 1937, and died, aged 80, i…
Douglas Hawkes, English-Greek racing driver and engineer (died 1974)
Lawrence James Shields was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist. He was a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record commercially.
Larry Shields, American clarinet player (died 1953)
Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British film director, producer, and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company.
Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1956)
Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and disc…
Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featur…
Arthur Benjamin, Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1960)
William March was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated U.S. Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by cr…
William March, American soldier and author (died 1954)
Colin Fraser Barron was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and…
Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1958)
Hermann Lux was a German footballer.
Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (died 1962)
Erna Scheffler was a German senior judge.
Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (died 1983)
Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson was an American blues and gospel singer-songwriter and musician. He was one of the most popular and successful blues singers of the 1920s and ha…
Blind Lemon Jefferson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1929)
Harald Cramér was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. John Kingman described him as "one of…
Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician (died 1985)
Hilda Geiringer, also known as Hilda von Mises and Hilda Pollaczek-Geiringer, was an Austrian mathematician.
Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (died 1973)