Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Oscar Rabin was a Latvian-born English bandleader and musician. He was the musical director of his own big band.
Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (died 1958)
Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (died 1994)
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gle…
Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1974)
Mary Petty was an illustrator of books and magazines best remembered for a series of covers published by The New Yorker that feature a family she invented and named, "Peabody", alo…
Mary Petty, American illustrator (died 1976)
Freeman Fisher "Gozzie" Gosden was an American radio comedian, actor and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form. He is best known for his work in the Amos 'n' Andy…
Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (died 1982)
Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture th…
Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (died 1998)
Arthur Quirk Bryan was an American actor and radio personality. He is best remembered for his longtime recurring role as well-spoken, wisecracking Dr. Gamble on the radio comedy Fi…
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Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austrian economist and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek s…
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
Jacques Heim was a French fashion designer and costume designer for theater and film, and was a manufacturer of women's furs. From 1930 to his death in 1967, he ran the fashion hou…
Jacques Heim, French fashion designer (died 1967)
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as t…
Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1987)
Eugenie Peterson, known as Indra Devi, was a pioneering teacher of yoga as exercise, and an early disciple of the "father of modern yoga", Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.
Indra Devi, pioneer of Yoga (died 2002)
Charlotte "Lotte" Auerbach FRS FRSE was a German geneticist who contributed to founding the science of mutagenesis. She became well known after 1942 when she discovered, with A. J.…
Charlotte Auerbach, German-Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist (died 1994)
Pierre Victor Auger was a French physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. He is famous for being one of the dis…
Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist and academic (died 1993)
Earle Bryan Combs was an American professional baseball player who played his entire career for the New York Yankees (1924–1935). Combs batted leadoff and played center field on th…
Earle Combs, American baseball player and coach (died 1976)
Jean Étienne Valluy was a French general.
Jean Étienne Valluy, French general (died 1970)
María Carmen de Icaza y de León, 8th Baroness of Claret was a Spanish journalist and novelist from 1935–60. She enjoyed success with her 1936 novel, Cristina Guzmán, which was subs…
Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer (died 1979)
Lothar or Lotar Rădăceanu was a Romanian journalist and linguist, best known as a socialist and communist politician.
Lothar Rădăceanu, Romanian journalist, linguist, and politician (died 1955)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka was a Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of…
Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1969)
John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971. Harlan is usually called John Marshall Harlan…
John Marshall Harlan II, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (died 1971)
Panka Pelishek was a Bulgarian pianist and music teacher. She played as a soloist and a chamber musician, particularly known for performing Beethoven's works. In teaching, she enco…
Panka Pelishek, Bulgarian pianist and music teacher (died 1990)
Jeralean Talley was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years, 25 days, the world's verified oldest living person. She was previously thought to be the oldest living Ame…
Jeralean Talley, American super-centenarian (died 2015)
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was a French tennis player. She was the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning eight Grand Slam titles in singles and twenty-one in total. Sh…
Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (died 1938)
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Pari…
Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (died 1984)
Kazi Nazrul Islam was a Bengali poet, short story writer, journalist, lyricist, and musician. He was later honoured with the title of national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul produced a…
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player (died 1976)