Explore 1130 historical events from 1870–1879.
Prince Francis Joseph of Braganza was a member of the exiled branch of House of Braganza and an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. During his life he was involved in a number of…
Francisco José of Bragança, exiled member of the Miguelist branch of the House of Bragança and officer in the…
Louis Hervé Coatalen was an automobile engineer and racing driver born in Brittany who spent much of his adult life in Britain and took British nationality. He was a pioneer of th…
Louis Coatalen, French engineer (died 1962)
Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood,…
Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (died 1966)
Ann "Annie" Kenney was an English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first b…
Annie Kenney, leading British suffragette (died 1953)
Joseph Aloysius Lyons was an Australian politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Australia, from 1932 until his death in 1939. He held office as the inaugural leader of…
Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1939)
Andrew "Rube" Foster was an American professional baseball co-founder, player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.
Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (died 1930)
Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy, commonly known as Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician. He was the organiser of the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam and is c…
Periyar, Indian social activist and politician (died 1973)
Lope K. Santos was a Filipino Tagalog-language writer and former senator of the Philippines. He is best known for his 1906 socialist novel, Banaag at Sikat and for his contribution…
Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (died 1963)
Hans Hahn was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order th…
Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (died 1934)
Frederick William Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer. He competed for the track and field teams …
Frederick Schule, American hurdler and coach (died 1962)
Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and…
Cyril Scott, English poet and composer (died 1970)
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an exe…
Wallace Stevens, American poet (died 1955)
Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor. His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances. He is most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-America…
Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor and singer (died 1938)
Robert Edwards, also known as Bobby Edwards, was an American artist, musician, and writer, and a prominent figure among New York City's Greenwich Village in the 1920s and '30s. He …
Robert Edwards, American artist, musician, and writer (died 1948)
Huntley Ashworth Gordon was a Canadian actor who began his career in the Silent Film era.
Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (died 1956)
Francis Peyton Rous was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller University known for his works in oncoviruses, blood transfusion and physiology of digestion. A medical graduate …
Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Joe Hill was a Swedish-American labor activist, poet, and songwriter. He worked as an itinerant worker for much of his life, organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World (IW…
Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet (died 1915)
Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."
Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
Ernst Mally was an Austrian analytic philosopher, initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory. Mally was one of the founders of deontic logic and is ma…
Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher and academic (died 1944)
Edward August Hennig was an American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He died in Summit County, Ohio.
Edward Hennig, American gymnast (died 1960)
Jane Darwell was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than 100 major movies spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best remembered for …
Jane Darwell, American actress (died 1967)
Emma Bell Miles was a writer, poet, and artist. Her works capture the essence of the natural world and the culture of southern Appalachia.
Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist (died 1919)
Hajime Kawakami was a Japanese professor and economist who studied Marxism and was active in Japanese communism. He was the editor and publisher of multiple magazines and journals…
Hajime Kawakami, Japanese economist (died 1946)
Benjamin Albert Rolfe was an American musician known as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder" who went on to be a bandleader, recording artist, radio personality, and film producer.
B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (died 1956)