Explore 1130 historical events from 1870–1879.
Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis was a Latvian politician and dictator. He was one of the most prominent Latvian politicians of pre-World War II Latvia during the Interwar period of…
Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (died 1942)
James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardia…
James Agate, English journalist, author, and critic (died 1947)
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet…
Felix Dzerzhinsky, Polish-Russian academic and politician (died 1926)
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Roy…
James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1946)
Wilhelm Filchner was a German army officer, scientist and explorer. He conducted several surveys and scientific investigations in China, Tibet and surrounding regions, and led the …
Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer (died 1957)
Stanley Phillip Lord was a British merchant seaman who was captain of the SS Californian on the night the RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912. The ship, which was primarily a freight…
Stanley Lord, English captain (died 1962)
Yente Serdatzky was a Russian-born American Yiddish-language writer of short fiction and plays, active in New York City.
Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright (died 1962)
Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company.
Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (died 1937)
Alfred Denis Cortot was a Swiss pianist, conductor, and teacher who lived and worked in France for many years. He was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th centu…
Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1962)
Bertha De Vriese was a Belgian physician. When she earned her degree as a doctor of medicine at Ghent University, where she was the first woman to conduct research and the first wo…
Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (died 1958)
Albert Young was an American welterweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a gold medal in boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (died 1940)
Jakob Ehrlich was an early Zionist and leader of the Jewish Community in Vienna, Austria. Ehrlich represented the city's 180,000 Jewish citizens in the city government before World…
Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian politician (died 1938)
Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican politician and military officer who served as the 47th president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. After the assassination of Álvaro Obregón, Calles …
Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (died 1945)
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric cu…
Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (died 1963)
William Charles "Razor" Smith was a Surrey slow bowler. Nicknamed "Razor" because of his extreme thinness, Smith was a frail man and prone to serious injury; he could rarely get th…
Razor Smith, English cricketer (died 1946)
Michael Joyce O'Neill was an Irish born starting pitcher and left fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1901 through 1907, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1901–04) and Cinc…
Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (died 1959)
Sir Hans Heysen was an Australian artist.
Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter (died 1968)
Gopabandhu Das (1877–1928), popularly known as Pandit Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das, was a social worker, reformer, political activist, journalist, poet and essayist.
Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (died 1928)
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Vanderbilt family. A sportsman, he participated in and pioneered a number of related endeavors. He died i…
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, American businessman (died 1915)
Adolf Möller was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the German crew who won the bronze medal in the coxed fours final A.
Adolf Moller, German rower (died 1968)
Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frede…
Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (died 1957)
Walter Francis Kuhn was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.
Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (died 1949)
William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered for establishing …
William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (died 1963)
Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. Avery was o…
Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist (died 1955)