Explore 552 historical events from 1890–1899.
Helge Andreas Løvland was a Norwegian military officer, track and field athlete, sports official and writer. He won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1920 Olympics. Løvland wa…
Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (died 1984)
Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German military officer and convicted war criminal who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German …
Alfred Jodl, German general (died 1946)
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in t…
Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (died 1980)
Edith Grace White was an American zoologist known for her studies of elasmobranchs. She was a professor of biology at Wilson College, and was a research associate of the American M…
Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist (died 1975)
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell was an ethnic German silhouette artist. Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved t…
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German-American illustrator (died 1962)
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.…
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (died 1969)
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall was an English actor of stage, screen, and radio. He starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a succes…
Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer (died 1966)
Roger Henri Charles Salengro was a French politician. He achieved fame as Minister of the Interior during the Popular Front government in 1936. He committed suicide a few months af…
Roger Salengro, French soldier and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1936)
Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916…
Frank Morgan, American actor (died 1949)
Baburao Krishnarao Mestry, popularly known as Baburao Painter was an Indian filmmaker and artist. He was a man of many talents with proficiency in painting, sculpture, film product…
Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1954)
Ted Lewis was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He was well known for his catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" He fronted a band and touring stage show that p…
Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (died 1971)
Karl Spencer Lashley was an American psychologist and behaviorist remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory. A Review of General Psychology survey, publi…
Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (died 1958)
Leslie James Banks CBE was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930…
Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (died 1952)
Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced,…
Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter (died 1918)
May Allison was an American actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in silent films, although she also appeared on stage.
May Allison, American actress (died 1989)
Georg Adolf Otto Wüst was a German oceanographer. His pioneering work on the Atlantic Ocean provided a new view of the motions of water masses between the northern and southern hem…
Georg Wüst, German oceanographer and academic (died 1977)
Stan Laurel was an English actor, comedian, director and writer who was in the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, fea…
Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (died 1965)
Paweł Bryliński was a Polish folk-sculptor. He is perhaps best known for a series of works concerning Holy Week.
Paweł Bryliński, Polish sculptor (born 1814)
Crowfoot was a chief of the Siksika. His father, Istowun-ehʼpata, and mother, Axkahp-say-pi, were Kainai. He was five years old when Istowun-ehʼpata was killed during a raid on the…
Crowfoot, Canadian tribal chief (born 1830)
Mihkel Veske was an Estonian poet and linguist.
Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (born 1843)
Unryū Kyūkichi was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Yanagawa, Chikugo Province. He was the sport's 10th yokozuna. Although the name of the style of the yokozuna 's in-ring ceremony i…
Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (born 1822)
Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same …
The opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, premieres at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, beginning the verismo perio
Ulm Minster is a Gothic style Evangelical church located in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the second tallest church in the world, with a steeple measuring 161.53 metres (5…
The Ulm Minster, the world's tallest church building, is completed in Ulm, Germany
Ulm Minster is a Gothic church of the Evangelical Church in Germany located in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. It is the second-tallest church building in the world, with a steeple measuri…
Ulm Minster, the world's tallest church building, was completed in Ulm, Germany