Explore 1013 historical events from 1910–1919.
David Daniel Rose was a British-American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His best known compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and …
David Rose, English-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1990)
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado was a Peruvian general and politician who was the military leader of Peru from 1968 to 1975 after a successful coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde…
Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (died 1977)
Constance Mary Whitehouse was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of e…
Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (died 2001)
Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an American musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II. For more than two decades, Foley was one of the b…
Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1968)
George Harris Hees was a Canadian politician and businessman.
George Hees, Canadian football player and politician (died 1996)
John Nicholas "Dick" Foran was an American actor and singer, known for his performances in Western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures. He appeared in do…
Dick Foran, American actor and singer (died 1979)
Avon Long was an American Broadway actor and singer.
Avon Long, American actor and singer (died 1984)
Ray McKinley was an American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader. He played drums and later led the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra in Europe. He also led the new Gle…
Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader (died 1995)
Sydney Herbert Allard was a British businessman and rally and hillclimb driver. He was the founder of the Allard car company and competed in cars of his own manufacture.
Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (died 1966)
Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of…
Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tenness…
Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (died 1982)
Jean Moréas was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth.
Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (born 1856)
Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist after whom the bacteria family Rickettsiaceae and the order Rickettsiales are named.
Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (born 1871)
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1841)
Stanislao Cannizzaro was an Italian chemist. He is famous for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1…
Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (born 1826)
Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was n…
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (born 1841)
Josephine Winslow Johnson was an American novelist, poet, and essayist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, Now in November. She is the yo…
Josephine Johnson, American author and poet (died 1990)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has prod…
Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (born 1835)
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has alway…
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832)
Pauline Viardot was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, she came from a musical family and took up …
Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (born 1821)
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role i…
Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (born 1856)
Pierre-Jules Renard was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles. Among his other works are Le Pl…
Jules Renard, French author and playwright (born 1864)
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to…
Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works i…
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