Timeline January 1890

Events in January 1890 3

• 1890 – 1938 Karel Čapek (1890-1938) Died 25 December 1938, aged 48 Čapek was a Czech writer whose play R.U.R. introduced the word "robot". He was a prominent critic of fascism and died a few months after the Munich Agreement.
• 1890 – 1935 Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) Died 21 December 1935, aged 45 Tucholsky was a German-Jewish satirist and journalist and one of the sharpest critics of the Weimar Republic's right wing. He died in exile in Sweden.
• 1890 – 1960 Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Died 30 May 1960, aged 70 Russian poet and novelist best known for Doctor Zhivago, for which he was awarded and then forced to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at his home in Peredelkino near Moscow.