Explore 1125 historical events from 1890–1899.
Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage, better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Louis Verneuil, French actor and playwright (died 1952)
José Nepomuceno y Zialcita was a Filipino filmmaker. A founding father of Philippine cinema, he is widely known for pioneering film directing and producing locally until the Second…
José Nepomuceno, Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema (died 1959)
Arthur William Carr was an English cricketer. He played for the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the English cricket team, captaining both sides.
Arthur Carr, English cricketer (died 1963)
Sir Giles Tatlock Chippindall was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping between 1945 and 1946 and Director-General of the Po…
Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant (died 1969)
Ernest Van "Pop" Stoneman was an American musician, ranked among the prominent recording artists of country music's first commercial decade.
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, American country musician (died 1968)
Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.
Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (died 1962)
Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus was a German zoologist, occupant of the chair of zoology at the University of São Paulo from 1936 to 1963, and co-founder of the Oceanographic Institut…
Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (died 1968)
Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He in…
Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur (died 1961)
H. Bonciu, or Horia Bonciu, was a Romanian novelist, poet, journalist and translator, noted especially as an atypical figure on his country's avant-garde scene. His work, comprisin…
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Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character…
Max Brand, American journalist and author (died 1944)
Mary Eva Comerford was an Irish republican from County Wexford. As a member of Cumann na mBan she witnessed the events of 1916 to 1923 and took an active part in the Irish War of I…
Maire Comerford, Irish Republican (died 1982)
Gillis Emanuel Grafström was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men's Figure Skating as well as an Olympic si…
Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (died 1938)
Gaby Morlay was a film actress from France.
Gaby Morlay, French actress (died 1964)
Emil Frederick "Irish" Meusel was an American baseball left fielder. He played in the major leagues between 1914 and 1927 for the Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, New Yo…
Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (died 1963)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
Dorothy L
Wilhelm Zaisser was a German communist politician and statesman who served as the founder and first Minister for State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1950 to 1953.
Wilhelm Zaisser, German soldier and politician (died 1958)
Roy Oliver Disney was an American entrepreneur. He co-founded with his younger brother Walt what is now the Walt Disney Company in October 1923. Disney also served as the company's…
Roy O
Dorothy Fuldheim was an American journalist and news anchor who spent the majority of her career at The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV, both based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist and news anchor (died 1989)
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress,…
Hattie McDaniel, American actress (died 1952)
Alan Arnold Griffith was an English engineer and the son of Victorian science fiction writer George Griffith. Among many other contributions, he is best known for his work on stres…
Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (died 1963)
Alois Hába was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of microtonal music, espe…
Alois Hába, Czech composer and educator (died 1973)
Count August Zamoyski was a Polish sculptor, member of groups Bunt and Formiści.
August Zamoyski, Polish-French sculptor (died 1970)
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS was an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being …
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (died 1972)
Aarre Merikanto was a Finnish composer.
Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer and educator (died 1958)