Explore 896 historical events from 1890–1899.
American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. By January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) h…
Gertrude Weaver, American supercentenarian (died 2015)
Georgios Grivas, also known by his nickname Digenis, was a Greek Cypriot officer of the Hellenic Army and founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisatio…
Georgios Grivas, Greek general (died 1974)
Hanns Eisler was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for…
Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian soldier and composer (died 1962)
Arnold Horween was an American football player and coach. He played and coached both collegiately for Harvard University and professionally in the National Football League (NFL).
Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (died 1985)
Melville Ruick was an American actor.
Melville Ruick, American actor (died 1972)
Renée Björling was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Lovö, Sweden and died in Täby.
Renée Björling, Swedish actress (died 1975)
Julius Schreck was a German Nazi official and close confidant of Adolf Hitler. Born in Munich, Schreck served in World War I and shortly afterwards joined right-wing paramilitary u…
Julius Schreck, German commander (died 1936)
Ivan Triesault was an Estonian-American character actor and dancer, who appeared in some 130 film and television productions between 1943 and 1969.
Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (died 1980)
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. was an American politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and served as its 44th and 49th governor. Aside from his p…
Happy Chandler, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky, second Commissioner of Baseball (died 1991)
Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour, was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agricul…
Lady Eve Balfour, British farmer, educator, and founding figure in the organic movement (died 1990)
Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban desi…
Berenice Abbott, American photographer (died 1991)
Osmond Hudson Borradaile was a Canadian cameraman, cinematographer, and veteran of World War I and World War II.
Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer (died 1999)
John Stuart was a Scottish actor, and was a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to talking pictures in the 1930s and …
John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (died 1979)
Herbert Marcuse was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studi…
Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher (died 1979)
Sara Elizabeth Carter was an American country music musician, singer, and songwriter. Remembered mostly for her deep, distinctive, mature singing voice, she was the lead singer on …
Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter (died 1979)
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928,…
Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (died 1943)
Daniel Cosío Villegas was a Mexican economist, essayist, historian, and diplomat.
Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexican historian, economist (died 1976)
Bengt Djurberg was a Swedish actor and singer. He appeared in about 25 roles in films from 1919 to 1940. His film debut was in Mauritz Stiller's film Sången om den eldröda blomman …
Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (died 1941)
Norman Alexander "Red" Dutton was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive. Also known earlier by the nickname "Mervyn", he played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Ca…
Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1987)
Herman Kruusenberg was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the light heavyweight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Herman Kruusenberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1970)
Jacob Marschak was a Russian and American economist. Affiliated with the Mensheviks in his youth, he had a brief participation in the Russian Revolution, serving as labour minister…
Jacob Marschak, Ukrainian-American economist, journalist, and author (died 1977)
Lawrence Gray was an American actor of the 1920s and 1930s.
Lawrence Gray, American actor (died 1970)
Israel Isaac "Isidor" Rabi was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nucle…
Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1988)
Henry Spencer Moore was an English visual artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moo…
Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (died 1986)