Curated category
1890 births
- H. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft died on the 15th of March 1937, at the age of 46, virtually unknown to the reading public. He kept a diary of his terminal cancer…
- Agatha ChristieAgatha Mary Clarissa Miller entered the world on the 15th of September 1890 in Torquay, Devon. She was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family with her…
- Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, on the 14th of October 1890. His family moved to Abilene, Kansas, the following year and lived there for…
- Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin was born in the village of Kukarka, Yaransk Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate. He grew up as the son of a merchant and spent his…
- Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle was born on the 22nd of November 1890 in the northern French city of Lille. He entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr in October 1910…
- Karel ČapekKarel Čapek was born on the 9th of January 1890 in the village of Malé Svatoňovice. This small settlement sat within the rugged hills of the Bohemian…
- TaixuTaixu was born on the 8th of January 1890 in Haining, a county within Zhejiang province. His parents died while he remained very young.
- Maurice PodoloffMaurice Podoloff was born to a Russian Jewish family in the Russian Empire on or about the 18th of August 1890. Doubt remains about his exact birthplace and…
- Allan NevinsJoseph Allan Nevins arrived in the world on the 20th of May 1890. He entered life within Camp Point, Illinois, a small town where his father worked as a…
- Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak was born on the 30th of May 1890 in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family. His father Leonid Pasternak worked as a post-Impressionist painter…
- Adolphe MenjouAdolphe Jean Menjou was born on the 18th of February 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father Albert Menjou came from France while his mother Nora Joyce…
- E. Merton CoulterEllis Merton Coulter entered the world on the 20th of July 1890 in Catawba, North Carolina. His father John Ellis Coulter was a merchant and land speculator…
- El LissitzkyLazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on the 23rd of November 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community southeast of Smolensk.