Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Mario Bava was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter. His low-budget genre films, known for their distin…
Mario Bava, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1980)
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a French actor and comedian. His acting style is remembered for its high-energy performance and his wide range of facial expressions and…
Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (died 1983)
Jack Delano was a Russian Empire-born Ukrainian photographer, filmmaker, and composer, who spent much of his life in Puerto Rico. In the United States, he worked for the Works Prog…
Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (died 1997)
Alan Moore was an Australian war artist during World War II. He is best known for his images of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the Australian War Memorial holds many of …
Alan Moore, Australian painter and educator (died 2015)
John Lee Thompson was an English film director, screenwriter and producer. Initially an exponent of social realism, he became known as a versatile and prolific director of thriller…
J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Félix Leclerc was a Québécois singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968. Leclerc was posthum…
Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (died 1988)
Big Walter Price was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist.
Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2012)
Beatrice Whitney Straight was an American theatre, film, television and radio actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was both an Academy Award and Tony Award win…
Beatrice Straight, American actress (died 2001)
Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known a…
Parley Baer, American actor (died 2002)
Sir Gordon Freeth was an Australian politician and diplomat. He served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969, including as a minister in the Coalition governments from …
Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2001)
Ferenc Fricsay was a Hungarian conductor. From 1960 until his death, he was an Austrian citizen.
Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and director (died 1963)
Joseph Mercer was an English footballer and manager. He played as a defender for Everton and Arsenal and managed Aston Villa and Manchester City, and served as caretaker manager of…
Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (died 1990)
Jeff Corey was an American actor, television director, and teacher. After being blacklisted in the 1950s, he became one of the most prominent and influential acting coaches in Holl…
Jeff Corey, American actor and director (died 2002)
Carlos Alberto Menditéguy was a racing driver and polo player from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He entered 11 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scor…
Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian racing driver and polo player (died 1973)
Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage st…
Tove Jansson, Finnish author and illustrator (died 2001)
Ray Smith was an English cricketer. He played for Essex between 1934 and 1956.
Ray Smith, English cricketer (died 1996)
Gerd Buchdahl was a German-English philosopher of science.
Gerd Buchdahl, German-English philosopher and author (died 2001)
Ruth Lowe was a Canadian pianist and songwriter. She composed the first Billboard top 80 song "I'll Never Smile Again".
Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter (died 1981)
Grace Elizabeth Bates was an American mathematician and one of few women in the United States to be granted a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1940s. She became an emeritus professor at…
Grace Bates, American mathematician and academic (died 1996)
Herman Russell Branson was an American physicist, chemist, best known for his research on the α protein structure, and was also the president of two colleges. He received a fellows…
Herman Branson, American physicist, chemist, and academic (died 1995)
Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer. He is known for his corporate logo designs, including logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, …
Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director (died 1996)
William Randall Downs, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He worked for CBS News from 1942 to 1962 and for ABC News beginning in 1963. He was one of th…
Bill Downs, American journalist (died 1978)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointe…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1988)
Lucy Dorothy Ozarin was a psychiatrist who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven female …
Lucy Ozarin, United States Navy lieutenant commander and psychiatrist (died 2017)