Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Franklin Carmichael was a Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven. Though he was primarily famous for his use of watercolours, he also used oil paints, charcoal and other …
Franklin Carmichael, Canadian painter (died 1945)
Christopher Darlington Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (died 1957)
William Reuben Applegarth was a British track and field athlete and winner of a gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (died 1958)
Helge Andreas Løvland was a Norwegian military officer, track and field athlete, sports official and writer. He won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1920 Olympics. Løvland wa…
Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (died 1984)
Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German military officer and convicted war criminal who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German …
Alfred Jodl, German general (died 1946)
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in t…
Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (died 1980)
Edith Grace White was an American zoologist known for her studies of elasmobranchs. She was a professor of biology at Wilson College, and was a research associate of the American M…
Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist (died 1975)
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell was an ethnic German silhouette artist. Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved t…
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German-American illustrator (died 1962)
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.…
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (died 1969)
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall was an English actor of stage, screen, and radio. He starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a succes…
Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer (died 1966)
Roger Henri Charles Salengro was a French politician. He achieved fame as Minister of the Interior during the Popular Front government in 1936. He committed suicide a few months af…
Roger Salengro, French soldier and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1936)
Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916…
Frank Morgan, American actor (died 1949)
Baburao Krishnarao Mestry, popularly known as Baburao Painter was an Indian filmmaker and artist. He was a man of many talents with proficiency in painting, sculpture, film product…
Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1954)
Ted Lewis was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He was well known for his catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" He fronted a band and touring stage show that p…
Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (died 1971)
Karl Spencer Lashley was an American psychologist and behaviorist remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory. A Review of General Psychology survey, publi…
Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (died 1958)
Leslie James Banks CBE was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930…
Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (died 1952)
Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced,…
Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter (died 1918)
May Allison was an American actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in silent films, although she also appeared on stage.
May Allison, American actress (died 1989)
Georg Adolf Otto Wüst was a German oceanographer. His pioneering work on the Atlantic Ocean provided a new view of the motions of water masses between the northern and southern hem…
Georg Wüst, German oceanographer and academic (died 1977)
Stan Laurel was an English actor, comedian, director and writer who was in the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, fea…
Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (died 1965)
Aleksander Warma VR I/3 was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat, and painter.
Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1970)
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was a Dutch supercentenarian who lived to the age of 115 years, 62 days. She is the oldest person ever from the Netherlands, breaking the previous reco…
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (died 2005)
Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorit…
Paul Boffa, Maltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1962)
Frederick Lewis Allen was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about rece…
Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist (died 1954)