Explore 1125 historical events from 1890–1899.
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell was an ethnic German silhouette artist. Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved t…
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German-American illustrator (died 1962)
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.…
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (died 1969)
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall was an English actor of stage, screen, and radio. He starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a succes…
Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer (died 1966)
Roger Henri Charles Salengro was a French politician. He achieved fame as Minister of the Interior during the Popular Front government in 1936. He committed suicide a few months af…
Roger Salengro, French soldier and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1936)
Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916…
Frank Morgan, American actor (died 1949)
Baburao Krishnarao Mestry, popularly known as Baburao Painter was an Indian filmmaker and artist. He was a man of many talents with proficiency in painting, sculpture, film product…
Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1954)
Ted Lewis was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He was well known for his catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" He fronted a band and touring stage show that p…
Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (died 1971)
Karl Spencer Lashley was an American psychologist and behaviorist remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory. A Review of General Psychology survey, publi…
Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (died 1958)
Leslie James Banks CBE was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930…
Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (died 1952)
Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced,…
Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter (died 1918)
May Allison was an American actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in silent films, although she also appeared on stage.
May Allison, American actress (died 1989)
Georg Adolf Otto Wüst was a German oceanographer. His pioneering work on the Atlantic Ocean provided a new view of the motions of water masses between the northern and southern hem…
Georg Wüst, German oceanographer and academic (died 1977)
Stan Laurel was an English actor, comedian, director and writer who was in the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, fea…
Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (died 1965)
Aleksander Warma VR I/3 was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat, and painter.
Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1970)
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was a Dutch supercentenarian who lived to the age of 115 years, 62 days. She is the oldest person ever from the Netherlands, breaking the previous reco…
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (died 2005)
Robert Laurent was a French-American modernist figurative sculptor, printmaker and teacher. His work, the New York Times wrote,"figured in the development of an American sculptural…
Robert Laurent, American sculptor and academic (died 1970)
Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorit…
Paul Boffa, Maltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1962)
Frederick Lewis Allen was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about rece…
Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist (died 1954)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928. He studied at Duff School, and at Duff College, both within …
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (died 1936)
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-gard…
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter (died 1973)
Francis Michael Forde was an Australian politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945, in a caretaker capacity following the death of John Cu…
Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1983)
George II was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947.
George II of Greece (died 1947)
Verna Arline Felton was an American actress known for voicing characters in several classic Disney animated films, including the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (1950), the Queen of …
Verna Felton, American actress (died 1966)
Julie Marie Vinter Hansen was a Danish astronomer. She was the first woman in Denmark to earn an academic degree in astronomy.
Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (died 1960)