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Death year 1890

Octavie de Laharpe Facts

Catherine Booth Facts

Catherine Booth (17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the ‘Mother of The Salvation Army’.

Laza Lazarevic Facts

Lazar “Laza” K. Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Лазаp К. Лазаревић, 13 May, 1851 – 10 January 1891, Gregorian calendar) was a Serbian writer, psychiatrist, and neurologist. The primary interest of Lazarević throughout his short life wa

Carlo Collodi Facts

Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), was a children’s writer born in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and writer of the world-renowned fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Princess Zorka of Montenegro Facts

Princess Ljubica Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro (Serbian: Љубица Петровић-Његош; 23 December 1864 – 16 March 1890), and later became Princess Zorka Karađorđević in Serbia. She was better known as Princess Zorka.

Mary Pearcey Facts

Mary Pearcey (1866 – 23 December 1890) was an English woman who was convicted of murdering her lover’s wife, Mrs. Phoebe Hogg, and child, Phoebe, on 24 October 1890 and executed for the crime on 23 December of the same year. The crime is sometimes

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince Facts

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French inventor who shot the first moving pictures on paper film using a single lens camera. He has been heralded as the “Father of Cinematography” since 1930.

Zeng Jize Facts

Marquis Zeng Jize (traditional Chinese: 曾紀澤; Simplified Chinese : 曾纪泽; pinyin : Zēng Jìzé; Wade Giles, Tseng Chi-tse) (1839 – April 12, 1890), one of China’s earliest ministers to London, Paris and Saint Petersburg, played an impor

Jyotirao Phule Facts

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (11 April 1827 – 28 November 1890) was an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer, writer and theologist from Maharashtra. He and his wife, Savitribai Phule, were pioneers of women’s education in India. His work extended

Júlio Ribeiro Facts

Júlio César Ribeiro Vaughan (April 16, 1845 — November 1, 1890) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, philologist, journalist and grammarian. He is famous for his polemical romance A Carne and for idealizing the flag of the State of São Paulo, wh

Camilo Castelo Branco Facts

Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco,1st Viscount de Correia Botelho (16 March 1825 – 1 June 1890), was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is considered

Augusta of Saxe Weimar Eisenach Facts

Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Augusta Marie Luise Katharina; 30 September 1811 – 7 January 1890) was the Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress as the consort of William I, German Emperor.