Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Walter Esau Beall was an American baseball player who played for the New York Yankees on several championship teams in the 1920s.
Walter Beall, American baseball player (died 1959)
Gerald Moore was an English classical pianist best known for his career as a collaborative pianist for many distinguished musicians. Among those with whom he was closely associated…
Gerald Moore, English pianist (died 1987)
Thomas Raymond Mays was an auto racing driver and entrepreneur from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.
Raymond Mays, English race car driver and businessman (died 1980)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Richard Arlen was an American actor of film and television.
Richard Arlen, American actor (died 1976)
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for pre…
Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
Humphrey Cobb was an Italian-born, Canadian-American screenwriter and novelist. He is known for writing the novel Paths of Glory (1935), which was made into an acclaimed 1957 anti-…
Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter (died 1944)
Mary Helen Creighton, CM was a prominent Canadian folklorist. She collected over 4,000 traditional songs, stories, and beliefs in a career that spanned several decades, and she pub…
Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator (died 1989)
Max Frederick Bishop was an American professional baseball player, scout and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman from 1924 through 1935, most notably as…
Max Bishop, American baseball player (died 1962)
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)