Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Brenda Milner is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner …
Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
Denis Edward Arnold MC was a British Army officer of the Second World War who won the Military Cross in 1944 for an opportunistic attack on a Japanese force while serving with the …
Denis Edward Arnold, English soldier (died 2015)
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio was a military officer and politician who served as the 35th president of Guatemala from 1970 to 1974. A member of the National Liberation Movement, his …
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan soldier and politician, President of Guatemala (died 2003)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist, statesman, and revolutionary who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the countr…
Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Cindy Walker was an American songwriter, country music singer, and dancer. She wrote many popular and enduring songs recorded by many artists.
Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and dancer (died 2006)
Abraham "Appie" Bueno de Mesquita was a Dutch comedian, actor and stage artist, well known for his ability to make funny faces.
Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (died 2005)
Ruth Leone Duccini was an American actress.
Ruth Duccini, American actress (died 2014)
Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from…
Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1999)
Ruggiero Ricci was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.
Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (died 2012)
Jane Schenthal Frank was an American multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, illustrator, and textile artist. Her landscape-like, mixed-media ab…
Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (died 1986)
Marjorie Lord was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The Danny Thomas Show.
Marjorie Lord, American actress (died 2015)
Leonard Joseph Rose was an American cellist and pedagogue.
Leonard Rose, American cellist and educator (died 1984)
Donald George Ingalls was an American screenwriter and television producer. During his 35-year career Ingalls wrote scripts for more than 70 episodes of network television, includi…
Don Ingalls, American writer and producer (died 2014)
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)