Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
John Joseph Haley Jr. was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. He is most notable for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand co…
Jack Haley, American actor and singer (died 1979)
Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1945, a role today known as U.S. Poet Laureate, becoming the firs…
Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (died 1970)
Roberta Dodd Crawford was an African-American lyric soprano and voice instructor who performed throughout the United States and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Roberta was born in Bo…
Roberta Dodd Crawford, American soprano and educator (died 1954)
Enid Mary Blyton was an English children's writer. She is one of the best-selling and most prolific writers of all time, particularly in the realm of children's literature. Blyton'…
Enid Blyton, English author, poet, and educator (died 1968)
Maurius Pacheco Fernandes, known as Maurice Fernandes, was a West Indian Test cricketer who played first-class cricket for British Guiana between 1922 and 1932. He made two Test ap…
Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer (died 1981)
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since Wo…
Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (died 1970)
Major-General Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First World War and the Second World War.
Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish soldier and peer (died 1966)
William Maldon Woodfull was an Australian cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s. He captained both Victoria and Australia, and was best known for his dignified and moral conduct during …
Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (died 1965)
Henry Fowles Pringle was an American historian and writer most famous for his witty but scholarly biography of Theodore Roosevelt which won the Pulitzer prize in 1932, as well as a…
Henry F. Pringle, American historian and journalist (died 1958)
Knowles Fred Rose was an American musician, Hall of Fame songwriter, and music publishing executive.
Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher (died 1954)
Yun Po-sun was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the second president of South Korea from 1960 to 1962. He was the only president of the short-lived Second Repub…
Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea (died 1990)
Fredric March was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numer…
Fredric March, American actor (died 1975)
Andrew Lynd Kennedy was an Irish footballer.
Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (died 1963)
Fazlollah Zahedi was an Iranian military officer and statesman who replaced the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh through a coup d'état supported by the United States and t…
Fazlollah Zahedi, Iranian general and statesman, 36th Prime Minister of Iran (died 1963)
Sally Benson was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre. She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in Junior Miss and her semi-autob…
Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter (died 1972)
Morris Carnovsky was an American stage and film actor. He was one of the founders of the Group Theatre (1931-1940) in New York City and had a thriving acting career both on Broadwa…
Morris Carnovsky, American actor (died 1992)
Arthur Charles Nielsen Sr. was an American businessman, electrical engineer and market research analyst who created and tracked the Nielsen ratings for television as founder of the…
Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (died 1980)
Avrum Sherman, pen name Al Sherman, was an American songwriter and composer active during the Tin Pan Alley era in American music history. Some of his most recognizable song titles…
Al Sherman, Tin Pan Alley era songwriter (died 1973)
James Charles Rodgers was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Known as Jimmie Rodgers and widely regarded as the "Father of Count…
Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1933)
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French writer, essayist, librarian and theorist whose work crossed the boundaries of literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, p…
Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (died 1962)
Emma Minna Hilde Hildebrand was a German actress born in Hanover, Germany on 10 September 1897. She died at the age of 78 in Grunewald, Berlin, on 27 May 1976.
Hilde Hildebrand, German actress and singer (died 1976)
Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioac…
Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
Merle Eugene Curti was an American progressive historian who influenced peace studies, intellectual history and social history, including by using cliometrics. At Columbia Universi…
Merle Curti, American historian and author (died 1997)
Milton J. Franklyn was an American musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoons, working alongside and later succeeding Carl Stalling…
Milt Franklyn, American composer (died 1962)