Historical figures in 1889
The atlas holds 39 people and 59 moments here, in 1889. The most recorded lives are Rudyard Kipling, Pedro II of Brazil and Friedrich Nietzsche. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.
Notable people
Adolf Hitler
in 1889
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Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…
Anton Chekhov
in 1889
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Russian playwright, short-story writer, and physician. Chekhov was born in Taganrog, studied and began his literary career in Moscow, undertook a…
Charlie Chaplin
in 1889
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English actor, comedian, director, writer, producer and composer whose screen persona, the Tramp, became an international icon.…
Dmitri Mendeleev
in 1889
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Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…
Émile Zola
in 1889
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French novelist, journalist, and leading naturalist writer. Born in Paris, Zola spent formative years in Aix-en-Provence before returning to Paris;…
Emperor Meiji
in 1889
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Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito) was emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912. His reign encompassed the Meiji Restoration, the transfer of the imperial court…
Empress Dowager Cixi
in 1889
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Empress Dowager Cixi (Yehe Nara Xingzhen) was a Manchu noblewoman who exercised decisive power in the Qing government as empress dowager and regent…
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1889
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American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career spanned more than seven decades.…
Franz Kafka
in 1889
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German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…
Friedrich Nietzsche
in 1889
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German philosopher, classical philologist, cultural critic, poet, and author. Born in Röcken, Nietzsche was educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig,…
Gabriela Mistral
in 1889
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Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
Grover Cleveland
in 1889
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.…
Helen Keller
in 1889
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Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Henrik Ibsen
in 1889
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Norwegian playwright and poet whose career took him from Telemark and coastal Norway to theatre work in Bergen and Christiania, then to long…
H. G. Wells
in 1889
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Herbert George Wells was an English novelist, journalist, historian, teacher, and social critic.…
Jawaharlal Nehru
in 1889
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Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Johannes Brahms
in 1889
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German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms developed as a performer there before touring Central Europe,…
Lavr Kornilov
in 1889
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Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1889
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Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Marie Curie
in 1889
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Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Maxim Gorky
in 1889
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Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Max Planck
in 1889
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German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…
Mikhail Vrubel
in 1889
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Russian painter, draughtsman, sculptor, ceramic artist, and theatrical designer associated with Symbolism and Russian Art Nouveau.…
Nikola Tesla
in 1889
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Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…
Moments
- 1889 Residence at rue de Bruxelles Émile Zola
- 1889 Oak Park home and studio residence Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1889 Attends German boys’ school Franz Kafka
- 1889 Collapses at Piazza Carlo Alberto Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1889 Confined in a Basel psychiatric clinic Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1889 Transferred to the Jena clinic Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1889 Teacher at Henley House School H. G. Wells
- 1889 Experimental sound recording Johannes Brahms
- 1889 Regular summer residence Johannes Brahms
- 1889 Mikhailovsky Artillery School study Lavr Kornilov
- 1889 Returns to Warsaw Marie Curie
- 1889 Return and arrest in Nizhny Novgorod Maxim Gorky
- 1889 Transfer to Borisoglebsk station Maxim Gorky
- 1889 Teaching at Friedrich Wilhelm University Max Planck
- 1889 Emergency journey to Kazan Mikhail Vrubel
- 1889 Exposition Universelle visit Nikola Tesla
- 1889 Grand Street laboratory Nikola Tesla
- 1889 Settlement in Cannes Pedro II of Brazil
- 1889 Holiday stay in Biarritz Queen Victoria
- 1889 Arrival in exile at Zurich Rosa Luxemburg
- 1889 Beginning North American travels Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Journey to Chicago Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Meeting with Mark Twain Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Pacific journey through Japan Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Residence on Villiers Street Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Travel through Yellowstone Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Visit to Vancouver Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Studies hypnotic techniques in Nancy Sigmund Freud
- 1889 Stay with maternal grandparents Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1889 Studied rural life at Alakaevka Vladimir Lenin
- 1889 Battle Creek Sanitorium stays Warren G. Harding
- 1889 First International Congress of Physiology Willem Einthoven
- 1889 Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution Emperor Meiji
- 1889 Retirement residence at the Summer Palace Empress Dowager Cixi
- 1889 Second European tour: Geneva concert Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1889 Arrival at Corinto Rubén Darío
- 1889 Born in Braunau am Inn Adolf Hitler
- 1889 Born in London Charlie Chaplin
- 1889 Birth in Vicuña Gabriela Mistral
- 1889 Birth at Villa Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1889 Stay at the Lintvaryovs' estate Anton Chekhov
- 1889 Documents life at Saint-Rémy Vincent van Gogh
- 1889 Enters Saint-Paul asylum Vincent van Gogh
- 1889 Departure from London before Faraday Lecture Dmitri Mendeleev
- 1889 Settles in the Minute House Franz Kafka
- 1889 Residence at Les Damps Octave Mirbeau
- 1889 Dinner at the Langham Hotel Oscar Wilde
- 1889 Tours Europe and Paris Exposition Thomas Edison
- 1889 Gossensass wedding witness Henrik Ibsen
- 1889 Move to Moscow Mikhail Vrubel