Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he…
Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer and conductor (died 1967)
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Ye…
Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet secret police official, head of the NKVD (died 1940)
Cornelius Van Til was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian, who is credited as being the originator of modern presuppositional apologetics.
Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (died 1987)
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them publish…
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author (died 1974)
Count Fidél Pálffy ab Erdőd was a Hungarian nobleman who emerged as a leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary.
Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (died 1946)
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer…
Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (died 1926)
James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger was an American aviation pioneer. He led North American Aviation from 1934 until 1960. An extroverted character, Kindelberger was famed for his em…
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Fulton John Sheen was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1966 to 1969. He was known for his preaching, especially on television and radio.
Fulton J
Edmund Wilson Jr. was an American writer, literary critic, and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. Wilson began his…
Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (died 1972)
Richard Semler Barthelmess was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way …
Richard Barthelmess, American actor (died 1963)
Lucian Blaga was a Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, poetry translator and novelist. He is one of the most important philosophers and poets of Romania, and a prominent philos…
Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (died 1961)
Frank Kent Foss was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record.
Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (died 1989)
Jacques Marie Stanislas Jean Brugnon, nicknamed "Toto", was a French tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early…
Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (died 1978)
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the…
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
William Grant Still Jr. was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, ch…
William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (died 1978)
Joseph Patrick Murphy was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was one of 22 Irish Republicans who died on hunger strike in the 20th century. He was an officer in the Iris…
Joe Murphy, (Irish-American), died during the 1920 Cork hunger strike (died 1920)
William Francis Giauque was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate. He was recognized in 1949, for his studies in the properties of matter, at temperatures close to ab…
William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the…
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (died 1986)
Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.
Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author (died 1964)
Prescott Sheldon Bush was an American banker and Republican Party politician. After working as a Wall Street executive investment banker, he represented Connecticut in the United S…
Prescott Bush, American captain, banker, and politician (died 1972)
William Devereux Byron II, a Democrat, was a U.S. congressman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1939, to February 27, 1941. After his death…
William D
Saul Adler OBE FRS was an Israeli expert on parasitology.
Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist (died 1966)
Reinhold Saulmann was an Estonian track and field sprinter.
Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player (died 1936)
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was a British aircraft designer who worked for the Southampton aviation company Supermarine from 1916 until 1936. He is best known for designing racing sea…
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