Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and student…
Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator (died 1985)
Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew was an American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Renfrew Hall, the university's chemistry b…
Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (died 2013)
Wallace Moses was an American professional baseball right fielder, who played Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox (1942–46) and Boston Red Sox (…
Wally Moses, American baseball player (died 1990)
Marion Price Daniel Sr. was an American jurist and politician who served as a U.S. senator and the 38th governor of Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed by Pre…
Price Daniel, American politician, 38th Governor of Texas (died 1988)
Julius Shulman was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known…
Julius Shulman, American photographer and environmentalist (died 2009)
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship…
John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar …
Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)
Marina Núñez del Prado was a celebrated Bolivian sculptor.
Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (died 1995)
Ester Wier was an American writer.
Ester Wier, American author (died 2000)
Shunkichi Hamada was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics.
Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player (died 2009)
Paul Charles Jules Robert was a French lexicographer and publisher, best known for his large Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française (1953), often called sim…
Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (died 1980)
Farid al-Atrash, also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, composer, and actor. Although born in Syria, he immigrated to Egypt at the age of nine with hi…
Farid al-Atrash, Syrian actor and singer (died 1980)
Chen Liting was a Chinese playwright, drama and film director, screenwriter, and film theorist. He was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist C…
Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (died 2013)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to …
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died…
Richard Mortensen was a Danish painter.
Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (died 1993)
William Henry Rorke, known professionally as Hayden Rorke, was an American actor best known for playing Colonel Alfred E. Bellows on the 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
Hayden Rorke, American actor (died 1987)
Stella Brooks was an American jazz vocalist.
Stella Brooks, American singer (died 2002)
Gunter d'Alquen was chief editor of the weekly Das Schwarze Korps, the official newspaper of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers.
Gunter d'Alquen, German SS officer and journalist (died 1998)
Joseph Landon Evins was an American lawyer and politician who served 15 terms as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1947 to 1977.
Joe L. Evins, American lawyer and politician (died 1984)
James Karrick Woolnough was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commanding General of the United States Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, Virginia. In this …
James K. Woolnough, American general (died 1996)
Yoel Zussman also spelled Yoel Sussman was an Israeli jurist and the fourth President of the Supreme Court of Israel, from 1976 to 1980.
Yoel Zussman, Polish-Israeli lawyer and judge (died 1982)
William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also…
William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (died 1994)
Tyrus Wong was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard…
Tyrus Wong, Chinese-American artist (died 2016)
John Joseph Krol was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1961 to 1988, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese…
John Krol, American cardinal (died 1996)