Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
John Whitefoord Heyer was an Australian documentary filmmaker, who is often described as the father of Australian documentary film.
John Heyer, Australian director and producer (died 2001)
Margaret Mary Day Lockwood was a British actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included The Lady Vanishes (1938), Night Tra…
Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress (died 1990)
Frederick Carlton Weyand was a general in the United States Army. Weyand was the last commander of United States military operations in the Vietnam War from 1972 to 1973, and serve…
Frederick C. Weyand, American general (died 2010)
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw was the first Premier of Saint Kitts and Nevis, and previously served as Chief Minister, legislator, and labour activist.
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (died 1978)
Francis Michael "Bumper" Farrell was an Australian premiership winning and international representative rugby league footballer. A prop forward, his long club career with the Newto…
Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman (died 1985)
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, and also the fi…
M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian Carnatic vocalist (died 2004)
Sir Frank Leslie Walcott, KA, OBE was a Barbadian trade unionist, politician, ambassador and one of the eleven National Heroes of Barbados. He played a key role in organizing the B…
Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician (died 1999)
Marie Vieux-Chauvet was a Haitian novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Her novels are considered by translator Myriam J. A. Chancy to be "by far the best-known works by a …
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (died 1973)
Balkrishna Mahadev Gogte, known colloquially as Raosaheb Gogte, was an Indian lawyer, industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.
Raosaheb Gogte, Indian industrialist (died 2000)
Mary, Lady Stewart was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations. She also…
Mary Stewart, British author and poet (died 2014)
Rossano Brazzi was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He was known for playing roles that typified the suave, romantic leading man archetype, both in his native country a…
Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (died 1994)
John Jacob Rhodes Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Rhodes served as a U.S. representative from Arizona for thirty years from 1953 to 198…
John Jacob Rhodes, American lawyer and politician (died 2003)
Françoise Giroud was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician.
Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, French Minister of Culture (died 2003)
Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963…
Aldo Moro, Italian academic and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1978)
Ruth Leach Amonette was an American businesswoman, author, and educator. She was appointed as the first female executive and vice president at IBM in 1943, becoming one of only a f…
Ruth Leach Amonette, American businesswoman and author (died 2004)
Yizhar Smilansky, known by his pen name S. Yizhar, was an Israeli writer and politician. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent figures in Israeli literature, he was awarded the …
S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician (died 2006)
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was an English and Australian actor.
Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (died 1977)
Olga Vasilyevna Lepeshinskaya was a Soviet ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1951.
Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (died 2008)
Ronald "Carl" Giles OBE, often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist who worked for the British newspaper the Daily Express.
Carl Giles, English cartoonist (died 1995)
Josef Traxel was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and the German repertory.
Josef Traxel, German operatic tenor (died 1975)
James Alfred Wight, better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author.
James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (died 1995)
Jessica Margaret Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Born in Gayndah, Anderson lived the bulk of her life in Sydney apart from a few years in London. She be…
Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (died 2010)
Deendayal Upadhyaya, was an Indian politician, a proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya J…
Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (died 1968)
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "p…
Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)