Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Brigadier Henry Bachtold, was an Australian soldier and railway engineer. He fought during the First World War as an engineer with the 1st Field Company at the Gallipoli Campaign, …
Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (died 1983)
Jacques Lipchitz was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which na…
Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor (died 1973)
Roy Ewing "Robert" Agnew was an Australian composer, pianist, teacher, and radio announcer. He was described as "the most outstanding of the early twentieth-century Australian co…
Roy Agnew, Australian pianist and composer (died 1944)
Minna Craucher was the pseudonym of Maria Vilhelmiina Lindell, a Finnish socialite and spy. Her home was a noted salon for various writers and artists. She also did espionage, orig…
Minna Craucher, Finnish socialite and spy (died 1932)
David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.
David Shimoni, Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (died 1956)
Acharya Chatursen Shastri was an Indian writer of Hindi literature. He wrote many historical fictions, including Vaishali ki Nagarvadhu adapted into a feature film (1948), Vayam Ra…
Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright (died 1960)
Benno Schotz was an Estonian-born Scottish sculptor, and one of Scotland's leading artists during the twentieth century.
Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (died 1984)
Marquis James was an American author and journalist, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.
Marquis James, American journalist and author (died 1955)
Fritz Todt was a German construction engineer and senior political figure of the Nazi Party. In 1938, he founded Organization Todt (OT), a military-engineering organization that su…
Fritz Todt, German engineer, politician, and senior Nazi official (died 1942)
William Thomas Walsh was an American Catholic historian, author, educator, and violinist. He is best known for popular biographies of Spanish Catholic historical figures and for hi…
William Thomas Walsh, American historian, author, and educator (died 1949)
Pedro Albizu Campos was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and a leading figure in a small but significant Puerto Rican independence movement. He was the president and spokesp…
Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (died 1965)
Jean-François Martial was a Belgian actor who appeared in mostly French films beginning in the silent film era of the early 1910s until his retirement in the early 1960s.
Jean-François Martial, Belgian actor (died 1977)
Arthur Hays Sulzberger was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 t…
Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (died 1968)
Max Pruss was the captain of the Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the disaster.
Max Pruss, German captain and pilot (died 1960)
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov was a Soviet mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also a dominant figure in mathematics in the USSR. He was b…
Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1983)
Karl Dönitz was a German naval officer and politician who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Nazi Germany after the latter's suicide during the Second World War…
Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (died 1980)
Stephanie Julianne von Hohenlohe was an Austrian princess by her marriage to the diplomat Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a member of the noble Hoh…
Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (died 1972)
Rafael Pérez y Pérez, was a popular Spanish writer of over 160 romantic novels from 1909 to 1971. He was one of the first writers to publish romance novels written in Spanish langu…
Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (died 1984)
Tomás Garrido Canabal was a Mexican revolutionary politician, soldier and atheist. Garrido Canabal served as governor of the state of Tabasco from 1920 to 1924 and from 1931 to 193…
Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary (died 1943)
Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is t…
Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (died 1978)
Sir William John McKell was an Australian politician who served as the 12th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1947 to 1953. He had previously been the 27th premier of N…
William McKell, Australian politician, 12th Governor General of Australia (died 1985)
Charles Munch was an Alsatian French symphonic conductor and violinist. Noted for his mastery of the French orchestral repertoire, he was best known for his tenure as music directo…
Charles Münch, French violinist and conductor (died 1968)
Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie in Berlin in 1928, also…
Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1953)
Ian Fairweather was a Scottish painter resident in Australia for much of his life. He combined Western and Asian influences in his work.
Ian Fairweather, Scottish-Australian painter (died 1974)