Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Antonio J. Barrette was a Canadian politician born in Joliette, Quebec, Canada, who served as the 18th premier of Quebec.
Antonio Barrette, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Quebec (died 1968)
Muriel McQueen Fergusson, was a Canadian activist, judge and politician. Fergusson served in the Senate of Canada and the first woman Speaker of the Senate. She is known for a long…
Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (died 1997)
Johannes Türn was an Estonian chess player.
Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (died 1993)
Douglas Charles Abbott was a Canadian Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Abbott's appointment directly from the Cabinet of …
Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Defence (died 1987)
Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose ac…
Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (died 1936)
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the old…
Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (died 1981)
Edwin Way Teale was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1…
Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (died 1980)
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-American biophysicist.
Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
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)
Pavel Haas was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz…
Pavel Haas, Czech composer (died 1944)
Richard Gurley Drew was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.
Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape (died 1980)
Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxian economist. Over the course of his life, Kalecki worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and War…
Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic (died 1970)