Explore 552 historical events from 1890–1899.
Frederick Otis Barton Jr. was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.
Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere (died 1992)
Theippan Maung Wa was a Burmese writer, and one of the pioneers of the Hkit San literary movement. The movement searched for a new style and content in Burmese literature before th…
Theippan Maung Wa, Burmese writer (died 1942)
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction abou…
Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (died 1973)
Eugène Lapierre was a Canadian organist, composer, journalist, writer on music, arts administrator, and music educator. He was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 193…
Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (died 1970)
Ernst-Robert Grawitz was a German physician and an SS functionary during the Nazi era. Grawitz funded Nazi programs involving experimentation on inmates in Nazi concentration camps…
Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (died 1945)
Count Stanisław Michel Frederic Marie Czaykowski, also known as Stanislas Czaykowski and Stanislaus Czaykowski was a Polish Grand Prix motor racing driver.
Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish racing driver (died 1933)
Noel Wien was an American pioneer aviator. He was the founder of Wien Alaska Airways.
Noel Wien, Founded Wien Air Alaska (died 1977)
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese aut…
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Priz…
Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
Ascher Fellig, known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.
Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (died 1968)
Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He wa…
Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (died 1978)
Helen Francesca Traubel was an American opera and concert singer. A dramatic soprano, she was best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde.
Helen Traubel, American operatic soprano (died 1972)
Jean Pierre Moulin was a French civil servant and hero of the French Resistance who succeeded in unifying the main networks of the Resistance in World War II. He served as the firs…
Jean Moulin, French soldier and engineer (died 1943)
Joseph Wolf was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and natur…
Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (born 1820)
Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism.
Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (born 1824)
Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, fir…
Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (born 1822)
Emilio Jacinto y Dizon was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution. He was one of the highest-ranking officers in the Philippine Revolution and was one of the highest-r…
Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (born 1875)
Stefanos Koumanoudis was a Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer of the 19th century.
Stefanos Koumanoudis, Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer (born 1818)
Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a v…
Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (born 1825)
Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, …
Antonio Luna, Filipino general (born 1866)
Mary of the Divine Heart, born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a German noblewoman and religious sister of the Catholic Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. Sh…
Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (born 1863)
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer.
Ernest Chausson, French composer (born 1855)
Pearl Hart was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety pri…
Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robber
Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, …
Antonio Luna, Commanding General of the Philippine Army, was assassinated in the midst of the Philippine–American War