Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Joan Benham was an English actress best known for her portrayal of Lady Prudence Fairfax in the ITV period drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. She was born in London and was the fir…
Joan Benham, English actress (died 1981)
Märta Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of R…
Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (died 2005)
Wilfrid James Mannion was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, making over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough. He also played international foo…
Wilf Mannion, English footballer and manager (died 2000)
Aleksandra Leontievna Boiko was a tank commander in the Soviet Army active in the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
Alexandra Boyko, Russian tank commander (died 1996)
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Charles Jackson was an American competitive sport shooter. In his international career, he won numerous medals across three Summer Olympic Games, three IS…
Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (died 2015)
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch univer…
Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist, historian, and academic (died 2000)
Edward Butts Lewis was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
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Denis Charles Scott Compton was an English multi-sportsman. As a cricketer he played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole career with Middlesex. As a footballer, he played as a w…
Denis Compton, English cricketer and sportscaster (died 1997)
Coleman Alexander Young was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was the first African-American mayor of Detroit and has been d…
Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (died 1997)
Yasuhiro Nakasone was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of sta…
Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2019)
Johnny Wayne was a Canadian comedian and comedy writer best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster alongside Frank Shuster (1916–2002).
Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (died 1990)
Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein, who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet.
Pita Amor, Mexican poet and author (died 2000)
Robert Lewis Evans was an American restaurateur and marketer of pork sausage products. He founded a restaurant chain bearing his name. The company also owns Owens Country Sausage.
Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (died 2007)
Robert Osterloh was an American actor. In a career spanning 20 years, he appeared in films such as The Dark Past (1948), The Wild One (1953), I Bury the Living (1958), and Young Di…
Robert Osterloh, American actor (died 2001)[better source needed]
Lloyd Albert Quarterman was an American chemist working mainly with fluorine. During the Second World War, he was one of the first six African American scientists and technicians o…
Lloyd Quarterman, African American chemist (died 1982)
Ruth Atkinson Ford, née Ruth Atkinson and a.k.a. R. Atkinson, was an American cartoonist and pioneering female comic book writer-artist who created the long-running Marvel Comics c…
Ruth Atkinson, Canadian-American illustrator (died 1997)
Kathryn Tucker Windham was an American storyteller, author, photographer, folklorist, and journalist. She was born in Selma, Alabama, and grew up in nearby Thomasville.
Kathryn Tucker Windham, American journalist and author (died 2011)
Edward Sydney Patrick Cargill was an English actor known for his television and film roles, including the lead role in the British television sitcom Father, Dear Father.
Patrick Cargill, English actor and producer (died 1996)
Marie Frances Van Schaack, known professionally as Lili St. Cyr, was a prominent American burlesque dancer and stripper.
Lili St
Kenneth Connor was a British stage, film and broadcasting actor, who rose to national prominence with his appearances in the Carry On films.
Kenneth Connor, English comedy actor (died 1993)
Edwin Gerhard Krebs was an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 tog…
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George Edward Hughes was an Irish-born New Zealand philosopher and logician whose principal scholarly works were concerned with modal logic and medieval philosophy.
George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (died 1994)
Robert Preston Meservey was an American stage and screen actor best-known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man, for which he received the Tony Aw…
Robert Preston, American actor and singer (died 1987)
John Dombrowski Roberts was an American chemist. He made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemic…
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