Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He h…
Erich Honecker, German politician (died 1994)
John Alfred Tinniswood was a British supercentenarian who was the world's oldest verified living man from the death of 112-year-old Shi Ping of China on 29 June 2024 until his own …
John Tinniswood, British supercentenarian (died 2024)
Gloria Guinness, previously Countess Gloria von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, was a Mexican socialite and a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar from 1963 to 1971. She was photographed…
Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist (died 1980)
Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berli…
Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner (died 2002)
Patrick Barry Sullivan was an American actor of film, television, theatre, and radio. In a career that spanned over 40 years, Sullivan appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to…
Barry Sullivan, American actor (died 1994)
Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC, was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s …
Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer (died 2016)
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liqu…
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Speci…
Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (died 2011)
Ernest Harvey Bromley was an Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches, one in 1933 and the other in 1934.
Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (died 1967)
Syd Hoff was an American cartoonist and children's book author, best known for his classic early reader Danny and the Dinosaur. His cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, incl…
Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (died 2004)
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at C…
Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor (died 1999)
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, …
John Cage, American composer and theorist (died 1992)
Beata Margareta Kristina Söderbaum was a Swedish-German film actress, film producer, and photographer. She performed in Nazi-era films made by a German state-controlled production …
Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer (died 2001)
Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men.
Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet,, was a Scottish nobleman, general practitioner and farmer. Forbes was a trans man; he was officially registered as the youngest daughter of John, Lor…
Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, Scottish nobleman (died 1991)
Wayne Brewster Barlow was an American composer of classical music. He was also a professor of music, organist, and choir director.
Wayne Barlow, American organist, composer, and director (died 1996)
David Packard was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the b…
David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (died 1996)
Basappa Danappa Jatti was the vice president of India, serving from 1974 to 1979. He was the acting president of India from 11 February to 25 July 1977. He also served as the chief…
Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (died 2002)
Maurice K. Goddard was the driving force behind the creation of 45 Pennsylvania state parks during his 24 years as a cabinet officer for six governors of the Commonwealth of Pennsy…
Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (died 1995)
Reta Shaw was an American character actress known for playing strong, hard-edged, working women in film and on many of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s i…
Reta Shaw, American actress (died 1982)
Irena Kwiatkowska was a popular Polish actress, known in Poland for her many cabaret roles and monologues, as well as appearances in movies and television shows.
Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (died 2011)
Maksim Tank was a Belarusian Soviet poet, journalist and translator.
Maksim Tank, Belarusian poet, journalist, and translator (died 1995)
María de la Cruz Toledo was a Chilean political activist for women's suffrage, a journalist, a writer, and a political commentator. In 1953, she became the first woman ever elected…
María de la Cruz, Chilean journalist and activist (died 1995)
Reuben David was a zoologist and the founder of the Kankaria Zoo in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder (died 1989)