Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Charles Bowers Momsen, nicknamed "Swede", was born in Flushing, New York. He was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater …
Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented the Momsen lung (died 1967)
Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray, CB, CBE was an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy who played a central role in the Battle of the Atlantic, and was the only Canadian to command …
Leonard W
Hessy Doris Lloyd was a British actress. She appeared in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965).
Doris Lloyd, English actress (died 1968)
Marie Thérèse Casgrain was a Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the …
Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician (died 1981)
Mordecai Ardon was an Israeli painter.
Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter and educator (died 1992)
Shen Dehong, best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, and literary and cultural critic. He was highly celebrated for his rea…
Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (died 1981)
Sir Thomas Playford was an Australian politician from the state of South Australia. He served as Premier of South Australia and leader of the Liberal and Country League (LCL) from …
Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (died 1981)
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant and a leading figure in Spanish anarchism before and during the Spanish Civil War. As a prominent membe…
Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish soldier and anarchist (died 1936)
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer was a German human biologist and geneticist, who was the Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Münster until he retired in 1965. A member of…
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (died 1969)
Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian gov…
Trygve Lie, Norwegian trade union leader and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (died 1968)
Captain Rupert Norman Gould Atkinson was a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer (died 1919)
Reginald Poynton Baker, MC FCA FRSA was a British film producer and a major contributor to the development of the British film industry. Along with his younger brother Leslie Forsy…
Reginald Baker, English film producer (died 1985)
Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who…
A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (died 1981)
Robert William Meusel was an American professional baseball player. A left and right fielder, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eleven seasons from 1920 through 1930, al…
Bob Meusel, American baseball player and sailor (died 1977)
Sophie Bledsoe Aberle was an American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist known for her work with Pueblo people. She was one of two women first appointed to the National Sci…
Sophie Bledsoe Aberle, American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist (died 1996)
Jack Perrin was an American actor specializing in Westerns.
Jack Perrin, American actor and stuntman (died 1967)
Sir Henry Ralph Stanley Birkin, 3rd Baronet, known as Tim Birkin, was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.
Tim Birkin, English soldier and race car driver (died 1933)
Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. She is known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which started with The Man in the Queue (1929). …
Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (died 1952)
Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia from 23 February 1953 until 7 March 1960. He was born in t…
Robert George, Scottish air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (died 1967)
Marie François Henri Longchambon was a French scientist and politician known for his work in geology, particularly on clay minerals, and his role in the French Resistance during Wo…
Henri Longchambon, French lawyer and politician (died 1969)
Barbara La Marr was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926. La Marr was also noted by the media for he…
Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter (died 1926)
María Rebecca Latigo de Hernández was a Mexican-American rights activist. She was born in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico. During the 1930s, she spoke publicly and demonstrated on b…
Maria L. de Hernández, Mexican-American rights activist (died 1986)
Ralph Horween was an American football player and coach. He played fullback and halfback and was a punter and drop-kicker for the unbeaten Harvard Crimson football teams of 1919 an…
Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (died 1997)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts…
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (died 1953)