Birthdays In History 1890

1890 Anton Melik Slovenian geographer and academic (d. 1966)

1890 Karel Čapek Czech author and playwright (d. 1938)

1890 Kurt Tucholsky German-Swedish journalist and author (d. 1935)

1890 Pina Menichelli Italian actress (d. 1984)

1890 Max Carey American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)

1890 Oswald de Andrade Brazilian poet and critic (d. 1954)

1890 Johannes Vares Estonian poet physician and politician (d. 1946)

1890 Jüri Uluots Estonian journalist lawyer and politician 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945)

1890 Michiaki Kamada Japanese admiral (d. 1947)

1890 Fred M. Vinson American judge and politician 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)

1890 Charles Correll American actor and screenwriter (d. 1972)

1890 Claro M. Recto Filipino lawyer jurist and politician (d. 1960)

1890 Fanny Kaplan Ukrainian-Russian activist (d. 1918)

1890 Nina Hamnett Welsh-English painter and author (d. 1956)

1890 Dick Richards Welsh international footballer (d. 1934)

1890 Robert Ley German politician (d. 1945)

1890 Ronald Fisher English-Australian statistician biologist and geneticist (d. 1962)

1890 Edward Arnold American actor (d. 1956)

1890 Adolphe Menjou American actor (d. 1963)

1890 Marjorie Main American actress (d. 1975)

1890 Myra Hess English pianist and educator (d. 1965)

1890 Mabel Keaton Staupers American nurse and advocate (d. 1989)

1890 Theresa Bernstein Polish-American painter and author (d. 2002)

1890 Norman Bethune Canadian soldier and physician (d. 1939)

1890 Rupert Balfe Australian footballer and lieutenant (d. 1915)

1890 Albert Ogilvie Australian politician 28th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1939)

1890 Vannevar Bush American engineer and academic (d. 1974)

1890 Evert Taube Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1976)

1890 Fritz Busch German conductor and director (d. 1951)

1890 Henri Decoin French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)

1890 Lauritz Melchior Danish-American tenor and actor (d. 1973)

1890 George Clark American race car driver (d. 1978)

1890 Harald Julin Swedish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1967)

1890 Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton Scottish admiral (d. 1974)

1890 Paul Whiteman American violinist composer and bandleader (d. 1967)

1890 Harold Spencer Jones English astronomer (d. 1960)

1890 Ben Adams American jumper (d. 1961)

1890 William Lawrence Bragg Australian-English physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1890 Karl Kirk Danish gymnast (d. 1955)

1890 William Moore British track and field athlete (d. 1956)

1890 Paul Berth Danish footballer (d. 1969)

1890 Victoria Ocampo. Argentine writer (d. 1979)

1890 Marjory Stoneman Douglas American journalist and activist (d. 1998)

1890 Frank Murphy American jurist and politician 56th United States Attorney General (d. 1949)

1890 Dadasaheb Torne Indian director and producer (d. 1960)

1890 Fred Root English cricketer and umpire (d. 1954)

1890 Gertrude Chandler Warner American author and educator (d. 1979)

1890 Clelia Lollini Italian physician (d. 1963 or 1964)

1890 E. E. Smith American engineer and author (d. 1965)

1890 Franklin Carmichael Canadian painter (d. 1945)

1890 Christopher Morley American journalist and author (d. 1957)

1890 Willie Applegarth English-American sprinter (d. 1958)

1890 Helge Løvland Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)

1890 Katherine Anne Porter American short story writer novelist and essayist (d. 1980)

1890 Edith Grace White American ichthyologist (d. 1975)

1890 Eveline Adelheid von Maydell German-American illustrator (d. 1962)

1890 Herbert Marshall English-American actor and singer (d. 1966)

1890 Roger Salengro French soldier and politician French Minister of the Interior (d. 1936)

1890 Baburao Painter Indian actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1954)

1890 Ted Lewis American singer clarinet player and bandleader (d. 1971)

1890 Leslie Banks English actor director and producer (d. 1952)

1890 Egon Schiele Austrian soldier and painter (d. 1918)

1890 May Allison American actress (d. 1989)

1890 Georg Wüst German oceanographer and academic (d. 1977)

1890 Aleksander Warma Estonian commander and politician 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1970)

1890 Robert Laurent American sculptor and academic (d. 1970)

1890 Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)

1890 Paul Boffa Maltese physician and politician 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1962)

1890 Frederick Lewis Allen American historian and journalist (d. 1954)

1890 Dhan Gopal Mukerji Indian-American author and scholar (d. 1936)

1890 Stanton Macdonald-Wright American painter (d. 1973)

1890 Frank Forde Australian educator and politician 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)

1890 George II of Greece (d. 1947)

1890 Verna Felton American actress (d. 1966)

1890 Julie Vinter Hansen Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (d. 1960)

1890 Giorgio Morandi Italian painter (d. 1964)

1890 Rose Kennedy American philanthropist (d. 1995)

1890 Daniel J. Callaghan American admiral Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)

1890 Benjamin Miessner American radio engineer and inventor (d. 1976)

1890 Armas Taipale Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1976)

1890 Konstantin Melnikov Russian architect designed the Rusakov Workers' Club (d. 1974)

1890 Dolf Luque Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1957)

1890 Naum Gabo Russian-American sculptor (d. 1977)

1890 Erich Kleiber Austrian conductor and director (d. 1956)

1890 Wentworth Beaumont 2nd Viscount Allendale English captain and politician Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1956)

1890 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn American author and activist (d. 1964)

1890 Eino Kaila Finnish philosopher and psychologist attendant of the Vienna circle (d. 1958)

1890 Angus Lewis Macdonald Canadian lawyer and politician 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1954)

1890 Bruno Tesch German chemist and businessman (d. 1946)

1890 Jacques Ibert French composer and educator (d. 1962)

1890 Stefan Bastyr Polish soldier and pilot (d. 1920)

1890 Harry Hopkins American politician and diplomat 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)

1890 Walther Funk German economist and politician Reich Minister of Economics (d. 1960)

1890 H. P. Lovecraft American short story writer editor novelist (d. 1937)

1890 Cecil Kellaway South African actor (d. 1973)

1890 Harry Frank Guggenheim American businessman and publisher co-founded Newsday (d. 1971)

1890 Duke Kahanamoku American swimmer actor and surfer (d. 1968)

1890 Jean Rhys Dominican-English novelist (d. 1979)

1890 Man Ray American-French photographer and painter (d. 1976)

1890 Peder Furubotn Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d.1975)

1890 Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson English captain and pilot (d. 1918)

1890 August Alle Estonian poet and author (d. 1952)

1890 Nätti-Jussi Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (d. 1964)

1890 Gunnar Sommerfeldt Danish actor director and screenwriter (d. 1947)

1890 Clara Kimball Young American actress and producer (d. 1960)

1890 Bob Heffron New Zealand-Australian miner and politician 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)

1890 Franz Werfel Austrian-Bohemian author poet and playwright (d. 1945)

1890 Antony Noghès French-Monegasque businessman founded the Monaco Grand Prix (d. 1978)

1890 Ernest Bullock English organist and composer (d. 1979)

1890 Sonja Branting-Westerståhl Swedish lawyer (d. 1981)

1890 Frank Martin Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1974)

1890 Avigdor Hameiri Israeli author (d. 1970)

1890 Linda Eenpalu Estonian activist and politician (d. 1967)

1890 Max Immelmann German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1916)

1890 Charles William Train English sergeant Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1965)

1890 Mike González Cuban baseball player coach and manager (d. 1977)

1890 A. P. Herbert English author and playwright (d. 1971)

1890 Jack Tresadern English footballer and manager (d. 1959)

1890 Florence Violet McKenzie Australian electrical engineer (d. 1982)

1890 Stanley Holloway English actor (d. 1982)

1890 Emilio Portes Gil Mexican politician President of Mexico (d. 1978)

1890 Alan L. Hart American physician and author (d. 1962)

1890 Osman Cemal Kaygılı Turkish writer and journalist (d. 1945)

1890 Snuffy Browne Barbadian cricketer (d. 1964)

1890 Eddie Rickenbacker American soldier and pilot Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1973)

1890 Philippe Thys Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)

1890 Aimee Semple McPherson Canadian-American evangelist founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d. 1944)

1890 A. V. Kulasingham Sri Lankan journalist lawyer and politician (d. 1978)

1890 Conrad Richter American journalist and novelist (d. 1968)

1890 Álvaro de Campos Portuguese poet and engineer (d. 1935)

1890 Maria Goretti Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)

1890 Paul Strand American photographer and director (d. 1975)

1890 Roy Kilner English cricketer (d. 1928)

1890 Aleksander Maaker Estonian bagpipe player (d. 1968)

1890 Floyd Bennett American aviator (d. 1928)

1890 Kōtarō Tanaka Japanese jurist and politician (d. 1974)

1890 Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Indian journalist and politician (d. 1931)

1890 Toshinari Shōji Japanese general (d. 1974)

1890 Nishinoumi Kajirō III Japanese sumo wrestler the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933)

1890 Moa Martinson Swedish author (d. 1964)

1890 Harry Stephen Keeler American author (d. 1967)

1890 Eustáquio van Lieshout Dutch-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1943)

1890 Klabund German author and poet (d. 1928)

1890 Jan Zrzavý Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977)

1890 Jan Matulka Czech-American painter and illustrator (d. 1972)

1890 Lily Kronberger Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)

1890 Richmal Crompton English author and educator (d. 1969)

1890 Robert Armstrong American actor (d. 1973)

1890 Harald Madsen Danish actor (d. 1949)

1890 Lauri Tanner Finnish gymnast (d. 1950)

1890 El Lissitzky Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)

1890 Isaac Rosenberg English soldier and poet (d. 1918)

1890 David Bomberg English painter illustrator and academic (d. 1957)

1890 Fritz Lang Austrian-American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1976)

1890 Yoshio Nishina Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)

1890 Rudolf Schlichter German painter and illustrator (d. 1955)

1890 Bohuslav Martinů Czech-American pianist and composer (d. 1959)

1890 Laura Salverson Canadian author (d. 1970)

1890 László Bárdossy Hungarian politician and diplomat 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946)

1890 Mark Tobey American-Swiss painter and educator (d. 1976)

1890 Harry Babcock American pole vaulter (d. 1965)

1890 Prince Joachim of Prussia (d. 1920)

1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong American engineer invented FM radio (d. 1954)

1890 Yvonne Arnaud French pianist actress and singer (d. 1958)

1890 Jaroslav Heyrovský Czech chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

1890 Hermann Joseph Muller American geneticist and biologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

1890 Noel Odell English geologist and mountaineer (d. 1987)

1890 Konstantinos Georgakopoulos Greek lawyer and politician Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1973)

1890 Percy Hodge English runner (d. 1967)

1890 Quincy Wright American political scientist historian and academic (d. 1970)

1890 Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Mexican soldier and politician 47th President of Mexico (d. 1973)

1890 Nikolai Reek Estonian general and politician 11th Estonian Minister of War (d. 1942)

1890 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Pakistani activist and politician (d. 1988)

1890 James McGirr Australian politician 28th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1957)

1890 Agnes Macphail Canadian educator and politician (d. 1954)

1890 Frank Morgan American actor (d. 1949)

1890 Maurice Duplessis Canadian lawyer and politician 16th Premier of Quebec (d. 1959)

1890 Adolf Schärf Austrian soldier and politician 6th President of Austria (d. 1965)

1890 Percy Shaw English businessman invented the cat's eye (d. 1976)

1890 Andy Sandham English

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