Explore 723 historical events from 1870–1879.
Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creat…
Reginald Punnett, English geneticist, statistician, and academic (died 1967)
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic…
Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, was a Norwegian skier and supercentenarian. He was the world's oldest verified living man from the death of 111-year-old Joe Thomas of the Unit…
Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (died 1987)
Forrest Reid was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator. He was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster novelist, being awarded th…
Forrest Reid, Irish novelist, literary critic and translator (died 1947)
Henri Léon Lebesgue was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between a…
Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (died 1941)
Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil was one of the best known American con men of his era. Weil's biographer, W. T. Brannon, wrote of Weil's "uncanny knowledge of human nature". During the co…
Joseph Weil, American con man (died 1976)
Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery.
Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon and academic (died 1951)
Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and pr…
Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (died 1955)
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister and temporary Minister of Finance of the second counter-revolutionary govern…
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician (died 1973)
Henry Matthew Brock was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was one of four artist brothers, all of them illustrators…
H. M. Brock, British painter and illustrator (died 1960)
Charles Gondouin was a French rugby union player and tug of war competitor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the g…
Charles Gondouin, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (died 1947)
Edward James Corbett was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his …
Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (died 1955)
Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end …
Alice Dunbar Nelson, American poet and activist (died 1935)
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustr…
Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (died 1961)
Ernesta Di Capua was an Italian botanist, taxonomist, and explorer. She was executed at the Auschwitz concentration camp for her Jewish heritage. The species Caralluma dicapuae was…
Ernesta Di Capua, Italian botanist and explorer (died 1943)
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, simply known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary move…
Antonio Machado, Spanish poet and academic (died 1939)
Jacques Villon, also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.
Jacques Villon, French painter (died 1963)
Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th president of Brazil from 1922 to 1926. Bernades' presidency was marked by the crisis of the Fi…
Artur Bernardes, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil (died 1955)
Albert William Ketèlbey was an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music. He was born in Birmingham and moved to London in …
Albert Ketèlbey, English pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1959)
Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky or Dobujinsky was a Russian-Lithuanian artist noted for his cityscapes conveying the explosive growth and decay of the early 20th-century city.
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (died 1957)
William Henry Eccles, FRS was an English physicist who was a pioneer in the development of radio communication.
William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (died 1966)
Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, also often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir isk…
Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1946)
Agnes Mowinckel was a Norwegian actress and theatre director. Born in Bergen into a distinguished family, she became Norway's first professional stage director. A pioneer in bringi…
Agnes Mowinckel, Norwegian actress (died 1963)
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadia…
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada (died…