Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
John Hospers was an American philosopher and political activist. Hospers was interested in Objectivism, and was once a friend of the philosopher Ayn Rand, though he later broke wit…
John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (died 2011)
Henriette Ragon, better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress, best-known for popularizing Georges Brassens songs by singing them before he became famous. She was an O…
Patachou, French singer and actress (died 2015)
Herbert "Barry" Morse was a British-Canadian actor, writer, and director. He was known for playing Lt. Philip Gerard, the principal antagonist of the American television series The…
Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor and director (died 2008)
Ruth Hughes Aarons was a US table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager.
Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (died 1980)
Georgia Louise Harris Brown, is considered to be the second African American woman to become a licensed architect in the United States. She was also the first black woman to earn a…
Georgia Louise Harris Brown, American architect (died 1999)
Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer was a Ceylon Tamil mathematician, physicist and academic.
Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (died 2001)
Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. was an American actor, stuntman, and professional rodeo cowboy.
Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (died 1996)
Percy Rodriguez was a Canadian actor who appeared in many television shows and films from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was of Afro-Portuguese heritage and was born in the Saint-Henri…
Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (died 2007)
Helmut Johannes Siegfried Lent was a German night-fighter ace in World War II. Lent shot down 110 aircraft, 102 of them at night. Born into a devoutly religious family, he showed a…
Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (died 1944)
François Tombalbaye, also known as N'Garta Tombalbaye, was a Chadian politician who served as the first President of Chad from the country's independence in 1960 until his overthro…
François Tombalbaye, Chadian politician, 1st President of Chad (died 1975)
Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Ajahn Chah, Thai monk and educator (died 1992)
Alf Francis was a motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor.
Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (died 1983)
Jerome Karle was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures …
Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaig…
Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)
George John Lynch was an American racing driver.
George Lynch, American race car driver (died 1997)
Zoltán Sztáray was one of the better known contemporary writers of the Hungarian emigration. He was imprisoned in the Recsk forced labor camp for many months until he escaped and m…
Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian-American author (died 2011)
Robert A. Boyd was a Canadian electric engineer and utility executive. He successfully led the construction of the first phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project, a large dam c…
Robert A
James Bysse Joll FBA was a British historian and university lecturer whose works included The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870. He also wrote on the history of …
James Joll, English historian, author, and academic (died 1994)
Edmund Walter Lopat was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, coach, manager, front office executive, and scout. He was sometimes known as "the Junk Man", but better known as …
Eddie Lopat, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1992)
Dee Molenaar was an American mountaineer, author and artist. He is best known as the author of The Challenge of Rainier, first published in 1971 and considered the definitive work …
Dee Molenaar, American mountaineer (died 2020)
Robert Vincent Roosa was an American economist and banker. He served as Treasury Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs during the Kennedy administration from 1961 to 1964. He believe…
Robert V
Tibor Szele was a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra.
Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1955)
Josephine Webb was an American electrical engineer who obtained two patents for oil circuit breaker contact design, known colloquially as "switchgear". She designed an eighteen-inc…
Josephine Webb, American engineer (died 2017)