Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer,, styled The Honourable Albert Spencer until 1910 and Viscount Althorp from 1910 to 1922, and known less formally as Jack Spencer, was …
Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British peer (died 1975)
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis was an American children's writer. She received the Newbery Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (died 1958)
Minna Marie Gombell was an American stage and film actress.
Minna Gombell, American actress (died 1973)
Alfonsina Carolina Storni was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.
Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author (died 1938)
Fernand Amorsolo y Cueto was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," he was the first-ever to be recognized as a …
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (died 1972)
Michel Kikoïne was a Lithuanian Jewish-French painter who belonged to the Ecole de Paris art movement.
Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter (died 1968)
Erich Neumann was a German lawyer and civil servant, a member of the Nazi party and an SS-Oberführer. Neumann was a participant in the Wannsee Conference that determined the implem…
Erich Neumann, German lieutenant and politician (died 1951)
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968.
Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian poet and author (died 1968)
Gregor Strasser was a German politician and early leader of the Nazi Party. Along with his younger brother Otto, he was a leading member of the party's northern group, which brough…
Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant and politician (died 1934)
Ghazi Amanullah Khan Barakzai was Emir of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1926, and then King of Afghanistan from 1926 until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afgha…
Amanullah Khan, sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, (died 1960)
Juhan "Jaan" Kikkas was an Estonian middleweight weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics, setting a world record in the snatch.
Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter (died 1944)
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an importan…
Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (died 1982)
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and w…
Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (died 1967)
Robert Ritter von Greim was a German Generalfeldmarschall and First World War flying ace. In April 1945, in the last days of World War II in Europe, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim co…
Robert Ritter von Greim, German general and pilot (died 1945)
Leopold Adolph Emile Reise, Sr. was a Canadian hockey player who played 8 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Hamilton Tigers, New York Americans and New York Range…
Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1975)
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 y…
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (died 1971)
Surgeon General Shirō Ishii was a Japanese biological weapons specialist, microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, the largest biological wa…
Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and general (died 1959)
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which …
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Paul Colin born in Nancy, France, died in Nogent-sur-Marne. Colin was a prolific master illustrator of Decorative Arts posters. Alexandre-Marie Colin was a relative.
Paul Colin, French illustrator (died 1985)
Charles "Carl" Panzram was an American rapist, serial killer, and habitual offender. In prison confessions and in his autobiography, Panzram confessed to having murdered twenty-one…
Carl Panzram, American serial killer (died 1930)
Pierre Blanchar was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Domi…
Pierre Blanchar, Algerian-French actor and director (died 1963)
James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
James M. Cain, American author and journalist (died 1977)
László Lajtha was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.
László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (died 1963)
William Roderick James was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal, and nume…
Will James, American author and illustrator (died 1942)