Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Edwin Greene O'Connor was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961). His ances…
Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (died 1968)
Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.
Mary Lee Settle, American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (died 2005)
Paul Delos Boyer was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Che…
Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
Henry Jones Jr. was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians have described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The Nati…
Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2010)
Sir Francis Henry Renouf was a New Zealand stockbroker and financier.
Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (died 1998)
Theodore Judson Jemison, better known as T. J. Jemison, was minister of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in June 1953 when he led a bus boycott to protest …
T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist (died 2013)
James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Govern…
James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (died 2014)
Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist and spymaster who headed the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, known as Project…
Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (died 1999)
Larry Haines was an American actor.
Larry Haines, American actor (died 2008)
Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or so…
Eddie Jefferson, American singer-songwriter (died 1979)
Brian Rossiter Crozier was a British historian, propagandist and journalist. He was also one of the central staff members of a secret propaganda department belonging to the UK Fore…
Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (died 2012)
Tom Drake was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances.
Tom Drake, American actor and singer (died 1982)
Nancy Elizabeth Oliphant was a co-founder of the National Ballet School of Canada.
Betty Oliphant, English-Canadian ballerina, co-founded Canada's National Ballet School (died 2004)
Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer, concert promoter, and founder. He founded the record labels Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo and the Jazz at the Philha…
Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager (died 2001)
Cornelis "Kees" Buddingh' was a Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator. Amongst others he translated A Clockwork Orange and the complete works of William Shakespeare into Dutch. His …
C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (died 1985)
Gordon Zahn was an American sociologist, pacifist, professor, and author.
Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (died 2007)
Kermit King Beahan was a career officer in the United States Air Force and its predecessor United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He was the bombardier on the crew flyi…
Kermit Beahan, American Air Force colonel (died 1989)
Giles Stannus Cooper, OBE was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio and television. He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "S…
Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright (died 1966)
Albert A. Seedman was an officer with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for 30 years, known for solving several high-profile cases before resigning as chief of the Detecti…
Albert Seedman, American police officer (died 2013)
Eugene Parks "Dennis" Wilkinson was a United States Navy officer. He was selected for three historic command assignments. The first, in 1954, was as the first commanding officer of…
Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (died 2013)
Sidney Bernstein was an American music promoter, talent manager, and author. Bernstein changed the American music scene in the 1960s by bringing the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, He…
Sid Bernstein, American record producer (died 2013)
Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, was a distinguished bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was the first Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron, whi…
Guy Gibson, Anglo-Indian commander and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1944)
Noor Mohamed Hassanali TC was a Trinidadian lawyer, judge and politician who served as the second president of Trinidad and Tobago from 1987 to 1997. A retired high-court judge, he…
Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (died 2006)
Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)