Explore 552 historical events from 1890–1899.
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and …
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (died 1979)
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson was the second president of Iceland; he served from 1952 to 1968. He also served as the prime minister of Iceland from 3 June 1932 to 28 July 1934 for the Progres…
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland (died 1972)
Frederic Seymour Murray, known as Fred Murray or Feg Murray, was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles. He won a bronze medal in the 1920 Summer Olympics…
Feg Murray, American hurdler and cartoonist (died 1973)
Walter M. Yust was an American journalist and writer. Yust was the American editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1938 to 1960.
Walter Yust, American journalist and writer (died 1960)
Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Mahaswamigal also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyava was the 68th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Moolamnaya Sar…
Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian guru and scholar (died 1994)
Friedrich Pollock was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt…
Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1970)
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (died 1961)
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created…
Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (died 1961)
Beatrice Gladys Lillie, Lady Peel was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedy performer.
Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer (died 1989)
Josef von Sternberg was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the ma…
Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1969)
Hubertus Johannes "Huib" van Mook was a Dutch administrator in the East Indies. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he served as the lieutenant governor-general of the Dutch…
Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1965)
John Florence Sullivan, known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian. His absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of…
Fred Allen, American comedian, radio host, game show panelist, and author (died 1956)
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher and academic (died 1976)
Alexander Nikolayevich Prokofiev de Seversky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, inventor, and influential advocate of strategic air power. He was also a World War I flying ac…
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Erwin Schulhoff was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by …
Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (died 1942)
Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese engineer and businessman, and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufac…
Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (died 1952)
Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to infantile autism. Before working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric…
Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and medical doctor (died 1981)
Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986)
Marie-Adélaïde, was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg, its first female monarch since Duches…
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (died 1924)
José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira, sometimes referred to in Peru as El Amauta, was a Peruvian writer, sociologist, historian, journalist, politician, and Marxist philosopher. A proli…
José Carlos Mariátegui (died 1930)
William Wrighton Eustace Ross [often misspelt William Wrightson Eustace Ross] was a Canadian geophysicist and poet. He was the first published poet in Canada to write Imagist poetr…
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Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving …
Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and conductor (died 1981)
Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov was a Soviet mathematician. He is best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem.
Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1947)
Lloyd Augustus Hall was an American chemist, who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number …
Lloyd Hall, American chemist and academic (died 1971)