Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Lajos Baróti was a Hungarian football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the most outstanding coaches of his time.
Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2005)
Fumio Hayasaka was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores.
Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (died 1955)
Douglas Vivian Parson Wright was an English cricketer who played for England in 34 Test matches from 1938 to 1950/51. He played first-class cricket for Kent in twenty seasons betwe…
Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach (died 1998)
John Paul Dunphy was an American novelist and playwright. He was widely known as the partner of author Truman Capote.
Jack Dunphy, American author and playwright (died 1992)
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE was a British barrister who served later as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first c…
Rose Heilbron, British barrister and judge (died 2005)
Connie Barriot Gay was an American music entrepreneur who is renowned as a "founding father" and "major force" in country music. He is credited with coining the country music genre…
Connie B. Gay, American businessman, co-founded the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (died 1989)
Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Bo…
Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (died 1984)
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the St…
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (died 2008)
George William Hill was an American astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to…
George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (born 1838)
Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss…
Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (born 1839)
Charles William Post was an American businessman. He was the founder of what became Post Consumer Brands.
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Ida Freund was the first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom. She is known for her influence on science teaching, particularly the teaching of women a…
Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (born 1863)
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in…
Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (born 1849)
Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving was an English dramatist and actor, and the son of actor Henry Irving. He died along with his wife, Mabel Hackney, in the Empress of Ireland disaste…
Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (born 1871)
Sir Henry Seton-Karr was an English explorer, hunter and author and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.
Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (born 1853)
Ödön Lechner was a Hungarian architect, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the Vi…
Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect (born 1845)
Adolphus Frederick V was reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1904 to 1914.
Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1848)
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 under President Grover Cleveland. A mem…
Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (born 1835)
Major Julien-Alexandre Félix was the director of manoeuvres in the French Military Aviation School, École militaire de Pau. He set the altitude record on August 5, 1911 in Étampes …
Julien Félix, French military officer and aviator (born 1869)
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded …
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
Bhaktivinoda Thakur, born Kedarnath Datta, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and spiritual reformer of Gaudiya Vaishnavism who effected its resurgence in India in late 19th and…
Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (born 1838)
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their assassination in Sarajevo sparked a series of event…
Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg (born 1868)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause o…
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (born 1863)
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist after opposing home rule for Ireland, and eventually was a leading imperialist i…
Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1836)