Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Robert Taschereau was a lawyer who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967, as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1963, and briefly a…
Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1970)
Ye Ting was a Chinese military officer and figure who played a key role in the Northern Expedition to reunify China after the 1911 Revolution. After serving with the Kuomintang, Ye…
Ye Ting, Chinese general (died 1946)
Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica was a Mexican Franciscan friar and former tenor and film actor. He was known in the music and film fields as José Mojica.
José Mojica, Mexican tenor and actor (died 1974)
Uri Zvi Greenberg was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (died 1981)
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold …
Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (died 1930)
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini was an Italian journalist, socialist politician, partisan and statesman who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.
Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (died 1990)
Gilbert Ashton MC was an English cricketer who played 62 first-class matches between the wars, mostly for Cambridge University and Worcestershire. His obituary in Wisden called him…
Gilbert Ashton, English cricketer (died 1981)
Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of the Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy that they…
Ted Healy, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1937)
Auvergne Mary Doherty was an Australian businesswoman, working in her family's cattle business. She was one of the first nine women called to the bar in England; Doherty was the fi…
Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman (died 1961)
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is most notable for his…
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (died 1940)
Samuel James Ervin Jr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A Southern Democrat, he liked to call himself a "country lawye…
Sam Ervin, American soldier and politician (died 1985)
Gerardo Diego Cendoya was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.
Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic (died 1987)
Dorothy Lawrence was an English journalist who posed as a male soldier to report from the front line during World War I. In 1915, she went to France, where she managed to obtain a …
Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I (died 1964)
David Howard was an American film director. He directed 46 films between 1930 and 1941, 29 of them westerns starring George O'Brien, including the acclaimed Mystery Ranch (1932).
David Howard, American film director (died 1941)
Paulino Alcántara Riestrá was a Spanish and Filipino professional footballer and manager who played as a forward. Born in the Philippines, he played for Catalonia, Philippines and …
Paulino Alcántara, Spanish Filipino football player and manager (died 1964)
Julien Duvivier was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are La Bande…
Julien Duvivier, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1967)
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artist…
Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia was a member of the House of Romanov.
Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (died 1978)
Robert Arthur O'Farrell was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for 21 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Ca…
Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player and manager (died 1988)
Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein was a Belarusian-Canadian Yiddish-language poet and screenwriter active in New York City and Los Angeles.
Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (died 1985)
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the…
Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist (died 1982)
Charles Glen King was an American biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of nutrition research and who isolated vitamin C at the same time as Albert Szent-Györgyi. A biography o…
Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (died 1988)
José Júlio Marques Leitão de Barros was a Portuguese film director and playwright.
José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese film director and playwright (died 1967)
Hilario "Dodong" Abellana y Hermosa was a Filipino Visayan lawyer, politician and legislator from Cebu, Philippines. He was the municipal president of Cebu (1922–1931), a member of…
Hilario Abellana, Filipino politician (died 1945)