Explore 723 historical events from 1870–1879.
Dorothy Miller Richardson was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson…
Dorothy Richardson, English author and journalist (died 1957)
Hans Berger was a German psychiatrist. He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) in 1924, which is a method used for recording the electrical activity of the…
Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (died 1941)
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson was a Norwegian artist, painter and designer. He is probably best known for his caricatures and illustrations.
Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1958)
Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among othe…
Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (died 1918)
Elena Alistar-Romanescu was a Bessarabian physician and politician who was part of Sfatul Țării from Bessarabia.
Elena Alistar, Bessarabian politician (died 1955)
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the N…
Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifeti…
Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (died 1942)
Jacques Pellegrin was a French zoologist.
Jacques Pellegrin, French zoologist (died 1944)
Karin Swanström was a Swedish actress, producer and director.
Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (died 1942)
Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda, Italian Diptera and Sout…
Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (died 1949)
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for …
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)
Leo Viktor Frobenius was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.
Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (died 1938)
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a fil…
Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1968)
Andrass Samuelsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was the first Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948 (Heim…
Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1954)
Dimitrios E. Maximos was a Greek banker and politician. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Greece after World War II.
Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician, 140th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1955)
Emmanuel Michel Benner, known as Many Benner, was a French painter. The son of Jean Benner, Many was the nephew of his father's twin brother, also named Emmanuel Benner. All four B…
Many Benner, French painter (died 1965)
John Albertson Sampson was a gynecologist who studied endometriosis.
John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (died 1946)
Fred Andrew Stone was an American actor. Stone began his career as a performer in circuses and minstrel shows, went on to act in vaudeville, and became a star on Broadway and in fe…
Fred Stone, American actor and producer (died 1959)
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating …
Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (died 1950)
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air a…
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian pilot (died 1932)
Ramaprasad Chanda was an Indian anthropologist, historian and archaeologist from Bengal. A pioneer in his field in South Asia, Chanda's lasting legacy is the Varendra Research Muse…
Ramaprasad Chanda, Indian archaeologist and historian (died 1942)
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and Bolshevik revolutionary. He was a p…
Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (died 1928)
Lee de Forest was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the t…
Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (died 1961)
Justus Freiherr von Liebig was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemist…
Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (born 1803)