Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
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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Efraín Huerta Roma was a Mexican poet and journalist. Born and raised in the state of Guanajuato, he moved to Mexico City initially to start a career in art. Unable to enter the Ac…
Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet (died 1982)
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)
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ was a Turkish archeologist, librarian, writer, and supercentenarian who specialised in the study of Hittites and Sumerian civilization.
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist and academic (died 2024)
William Spencer Vickrey was a Canadian-American economist. He was a lifelong faculty member at Columbia University. A theorist who worked on public economics and mechanism design, …
William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
Mei Zhi was a Chinese children's author and essayist.
Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist (died 2004)
Kari Diesen was a Norwegian singer and revue actress. She worked for the revue theatre Chat Noir from 1937 to 1953, and for the Edderkoppen Theatre from 1954 to 1959. She participa…
Kari Diesen, Norwegian singer and revue actress (died 1987)
Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and …
Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (died 2000)
Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley,, code names Marie and Pauline, was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second…
Pearl Witherington, French secret agent (died 2008)
Laurence Edward Alan Lee, was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.
Laurie Lee, English author and poet (died 1997)
Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, also known by his daak naam Badshah, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, teacher and author. He established numerous madrasas in Bangladesh and was the f…
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (died 1997)
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark was by birth a Greek and Danish princess, as well as a princess of Hesse-Kassel and a princess of Hanover through her successive marriages to …
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, European royalty (died 2001)
Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez was a Filipina academic and administrator of the Philippine Women's University.
Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and administrator (died 2016)
Giorgio Almirante was an Italian politician who founded the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, which he led until his retirement in 1987.
Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (died 1988)
Aribert Ferdinand Heim, also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concent…
Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (died 1992)
Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE was a Czech conductor and composer.
Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (died 1996)
Christos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos, commonly known as Papa, was a Greek mathematician specializing in geometric topology.
Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician and academic (died 1976)