Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running …
Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer (died 1966)
Elda Emma Anderson was an American physicist and health researcher. During World War II, she worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Lab…
Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (died 1961)
Charles Bruce Catton was an American historian and journalist who wrote books concerning the American Civil War. As a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, fe…
Bruce Catton, American historian and author (died 1978)
Edwin Hawley Dyer was an American left-handed pitcher, manager and farm system official in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1922 to 1944 and 1946–1950. In 194…
Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager (died 1964)
Adolf Brudes von Breslau was a Formula One driver from Germany and a member of German nobility. He started racing motorcycles in 1919. As an owner of a BMW and Auto Union dealershi…
Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)
Teikō Shiotani was a Japanese photographer whose work in the late 1920s and early 1930s in and near Tottori, where he lived, made him a major figure in Japanese pictorialism.
Teikō Shiotani, Japanese photographer (died 1988)
Armand Thirard was a French cinematographer. He worked on more than a hundred and twenty films during his career.
Armand Thirard, French cinematographer (died 1973)
Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was an Armenian-American actor. One of the premier character actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tamiroff developed a prolific career despite his thick acc…
Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor (died 1972)
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)
William Julius "Judy" Johnson was an American professional baseball third baseman, shortstop, manager and scout whose career in Negro league baseball spanned 17 seasons, from 1921 …
Judy Johnson, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
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)
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)
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)