Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
Waite Charles Hoyt was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for seven different teams during 1918–1938. He was one of the domi…
Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1984)
Bruno Ernst Jacob was a professor at Ripon College in Wisconsin and founder of the National Forensic League. He served as the league's executive secretary from 1925 until his retir…
Bruno E. Jacob, American academic, founded the National Forensic League (died 1979)
Philipp Bouhler was a German senior Nazi Party functionary who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also the SS official responsi…
Philipp Bouhler, German politician (died 1945)
James Houston Davis was an American singer, songwriter, and Democratic Party politician. After achieving fame for releasing both sacred and country songs, Davis served as the 47th …
Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (died 2000)
Anton Koolmann was a wrestler and coach from Kuusalu Parish, Estonia who took part at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Anton Koolmann, Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1953)
Hans Swarowsky was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth.
Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (died 1975)
Joseph Wolf was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and natur…
Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (born 1820)
Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism.
Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (born 1824)
Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, fir…
Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (born 1822)
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, born Corneliu Zelinski and commonly known as Corneliu Codreanu, was a fascist Romanian politician, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or …
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian politician (died 1938)
Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and historian of philosophy whose work greatly influenced twentieth-century political theory in the United States and the st…
Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (died 1973)
Emilio Jacinto y Dizon was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution. He was one of the highest-ranking officers in the Philippine Revolution and was one of the highest-r…
Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (born 1875)
Stefanos Koumanoudis was a Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer of the 19th century.
Stefanos Koumanoudis, Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer (born 1818)
Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a v…
Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (born 1825)
Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, …
Antonio Luna, Filipino general (born 1866)
Mary of the Divine Heart, born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a German noblewoman and religious sister of the Catholic Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. Sh…
Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (born 1863)
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer.
Ernest Chausson, French composer (born 1855)
Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through go…
Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (born 1832)
Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1833)
Ulises Hilarión Heureaux Leibert nicknamed Lilís, was president of the Dominican Republic from September 1, 1882 to September 1, 1884, from January 6, 1887 to February 27, 1889 and…
Ulises Heureaux, 22nd, 26th, and 27th President of the Dominican Republic (born 1845)
Jacob Henricus Maris was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be t…
Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (born 1837)
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gus…
Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (born 1811)
Charles Alfred Pillsbury was an American businessman, flour industrialist, and politician. He was a co-founder of the Pillsbury Company.
Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (born 1842)
Pearl Hart was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety pri…
Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robber