Explore 1125 historical events from 1890–1899.
Richard Semler Barthelmess was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way …
Richard Barthelmess, American actor (died 1963)
Lucian Blaga was a Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, poetry translator and novelist. He is one of the most important philosophers and poets of Romania, and a prominent philos…
Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (died 1961)
Frank Kent Foss was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record.
Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (died 1989)
Jacques Marie Stanislas Jean Brugnon, nicknamed "Toto", was a French tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early…
Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (died 1978)
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the…
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
William Grant Still Jr. was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, ch…
William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (died 1978)
Joseph Patrick Murphy was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was one of 22 Irish Republicans who died on hunger strike in the 20th century. He was an officer in the Iris…
Joe Murphy, (Irish-American), died during the 1920 Cork hunger strike (died 1920)
William Francis Giauque was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate. He was recognized in 1949, for his studies in the properties of matter, at temperatures close to ab…
William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the…
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (died 1986)
Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.
Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author (died 1964)
Prescott Sheldon Bush was an American banker and Republican Party politician. After working as a Wall Street executive investment banker, he represented Connecticut in the United S…
Prescott Bush, American captain, banker, and politician (died 1972)
William Devereux Byron II, a Democrat, was a U.S. congressman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1939, to February 27, 1941. After his death…
William D
Saul Adler OBE FRS was an Israeli expert on parasitology.
Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist (died 1966)
Reinhold Saulmann was an Estonian track and field sprinter.
Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player (died 1936)
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was a British aircraft designer who worked for the Southampton aviation company Supermarine from 1916 until 1936. He is best known for designing racing sea…
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Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. was an American broadcasting businessman, as well as a magazine and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of Advance Publications.
Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs …
Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist (died 1965)
Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan revolutionary, founder of the militant group EDSN, and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupation of Ni…
Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (died 1934)
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican revolutionary, army officer, and politician who served as the 51st president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general i…
Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (died 1970)
Paul Lukas was a Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, as well as a Photoplay Award and …
Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor and singer (died 1971)
Douglas Lloyd Campbell was a Canadian politician in Manitoba. He served as the 13th premier of Manitoba from 1948 to 1958. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba f…
Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (died 1995)
Maurice William Tate was an English cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s and the leader of England's Test bowling attack for a long time during this period. He was also the first Susse…
Maurice Tate, English cricketer (died 1956)
William Lawrence Boyd was an American actor and film producer, known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in dozens of Western films released during the 1930s and '40s.
William Boyd, American actor and producer (died 1972)
William Patrick Roberts was a British artist.
William Roberts, English soldier and painter (died 1980)