Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Daniel Edward Murtaugh was an American second baseman, manager, front-office executive, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Murtaugh is best known for his 29-year association…
Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1976)
Rodney Robert Porter was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "…
Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (died 1982)
Roque Gastón Máspoli Arbelvide was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He was the goalkeeper for the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup. He was also the head coac…
Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer and manager (died 2004)
James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic, and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the Ern Malley poetry hoax.
James Phillip McAuley, Australian Poet (died 1976)
Reed Erickson was an American engineer, activist, and philanthropist, as well as a transgender man who, according to sociology specialist Aaron H. Devor, largely informed "almost e…
Reed Erickson, American philanthropist (died 1992)
George Virl Osmond Sr. was the patriarch of the singing Osmond family.
George Osmond, American talent manager (died 2007)
Janice Miner was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Jan Miner, American actress (died 2004)
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in A…
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (died 2007)
Paul Tanner was an American musician and a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He developed and played the Electro-Theremin, a theremin soundalike instrument that is best known f…
Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (died 2013)
Alfred Benlloch Llorach was a Spanish inventor with over one hundred patents registered in different areas.
Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (died 2013)
Martin Paterson Donnelly was a New Zealand-born sportsman who played Test cricket for New Zealand and rugby union for England. He worked for Courtaulds in England and Sydney.
Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (died 1999)
Marsha Hunt was an American actress with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.
Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (died 2022)
Aimo Allan Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. The case gained more notor…
Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (died 1989)
Norman Fowler Leyden was an American conductor, composer, arranger, and clarinetist. He worked in film and television and is perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symph…
Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (died 2014)
Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist and playwright.
Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (died 1991)
Adele Stimmel Chase was an American artist who worked in ceramics, metal sculpture and painting.
Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (died 2000)
William Joel Blass was an American war veteran, jurist, attorney, educator, and politician.
William Joel Blass, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)
Walter Heinrich Munk was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. Munk worked on a…
Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and academic (died 2019)
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande was an Indian mathematician with notable achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He was notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose …
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician (died 2020)
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citiz…
Stéphane Hessel, German-French activist and diplomat (died 2013)
Ants Kaljurand popularly known as Terrifying Ants,, was an Estonian anti-communist and forest brother during and after World War II.
Ants Kaljurand, Estonian anti-communist, freedom fighter and forest brother (died 1951)
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress best known for her film roles during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Fontaine appe…
Joan Fontaine, English-American actress (died 2013)
Carl Forssell was a Swedish fencer. Competing in the team épée he won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, a silver at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as well as four silver and t…
Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer (died 2005)