Explore 1013 historical events from 1910–1919.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share thei…
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (died 1981)
Lilli Palmer was a German actress and writer. After beginning her career in British films in the 1930s, she later transitioned to major Hollywood productions, earning a Golden Glob…
Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (died 1986)
Frank Manning was an American dancer, instructor, and choreographer. Manning is considered one of the founders of Lindy Hop, an energetic form of the jazz dance style known as swin…
Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer (died 2009)
Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith was a flying ace of the Second World War in the Royal Air Force. He was the father of Iain Duncan Smith, a Member of Parliament and Leader of the…
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Walter Stacy Keach Sr. was an American actor whose screen career spanned more than five decades.
Stacy Keach Sr
Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirme…
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (died 1986)
Akinoumi Setsuo , born Nagata Setsuo , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Hiroshima. He was the sport's 37th yokozuna.
Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (died 1979)
Akira Ifukube was a Japanese composer. He is best known for composing several entries in the Godzilla franchise as well as developing the titular monster's roar.
Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator (died 2006)
Beatrice Eileen de Cardi, was a British archaeologist, specializing in the study of the Persian Gulf and the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. She was president of the British Founda…
Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist and academic (died 2016)
Ali Oktay Rifat, better known as Oktay Rifat, was a Turkish writer and playwright, and one of the forefront poets of modern Turkish poetry since the late 1930s. He was the founder …
Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (died 1988)
Jan Hendrik van den Berg was a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of …
Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (died 2012)
William Paul Lundigan was an American film actor. His more than 125 films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonore…
William Lundigan, American actor (died 1975)
Ignacio Ponseti, also known as Ignasi Ponsetí i Vives, was a Spanish-American physician, specializing in orthopedics. He was born on 3 June 1914 in Menorca, part of the Balearic Is…
Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician and orthopedist (died 2009)
Wu Chuan, courtesy name Wu Ching-yuan, better known by the Japanese pronunciation of his courtesy name, Go Seigen , was a Chinese-Japanese master of the game of Go. He is considere…
Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (died 2014)
Frederic Franklin, sometimes also called "Freddie", was a British-American ballet dancer, choreographer and director.
Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (died 2013)
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previo…
Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (died 1984)
Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer wh…
Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (died 1999)
Theresa Hilda D’Alessio, better known as Hilda Terry, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Teena. It ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964. After marriage, she usua…
Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (died 2006)
Eleanor Sokoloff was an American pianist and academic who formed a piano duo with her husband, Vladimir Sokoloff. She taught piano on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music f…
Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher (died 2020)
John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of f…
John Hersey, American journalist and author (died 1993)
Everett Eugene Grunz, known professionally as E. G. Marshall, was an American actor. One of the first group of actors selected for the new Actors Studio, Marshall, by 1948, had per…
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Alan MacGregor Cranston was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as President of the World Federalist …
Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (died 2000)
Lester Raymond Flatt was an American singer, bluegrass guitarist, and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs.
Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (died 1979)
Gordon Wainwright Juckes was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He served as the president and later the executive director of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA), and…
Gordon Juckes, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1994)