Explore 1125 historical events from 1890–1899.
Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. He was nominated for the first Aca…
Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (died 1995)
Louis Alexandre Chiron was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix.
Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (died 1979)
Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer, federal government official, and religious leader. He served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture during the entirety of both…
Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died…
Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous …
P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (died 1996)
Benjamin James Sealey or Sealy was a West Indian cricketer whose career spanned the years 1924 to 1941. He was an attacking, middle-order batsman, a medium-pace, leg-break bowler a…
Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer (died 1963)
José Ramón Guizado Valdés was the 17th President of Panama. He belonged to the National Patriotic Coalition (CNP).
José Ramón Guizado, Panamanian politician, 17th President of Panama (died 1964)
Janet Loxley Lewis was an American novelist, poet, and librettist. She was considered one of the finest American literary figures of the 20th century.
Janet Lewis, American poet and novelist (died 1998)
Colleen Moore was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era and continued into the early sound film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable sta…
Colleen Moore, American actress (died 1988)
Paul Herman Buck was an American historian. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1938 and became the first Provost of Harvard University in 1945.
Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author (died 1978)
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, best known by his pen name C.S. Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower seri…
C. S. Forester, English novelist (died 1966)
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six d…
Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (died 1980)
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. Hi…
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (died 1986)
Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. H…
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983)
Charles Boyer was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found …
Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (died 1978)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal w…
Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet (died 1951)
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)
James Wong Howe, ASC was a Chinese-born American cinematographer and film director, who worked on over 130 films during the Golden Age of Hollywood and well into the 1970s. During …
James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (died 1976)
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)