Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
John W. Winkin Jr. was an American baseball coach, scout, broadcaster, journalist and collegiate athletics administrator. Winkin led the University of Maine Black Bears baseball te…
John Winkin, American baseball player, coach, and journalist (died 2014)
Virginia Gilmore was an American film, stage, and television actress.
Virginia Gilmore, American actress (died 1986)
James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth func…
James Lovelock, English biologist and chemist (died 2022)
Colonel Hemchandra "Hemu" Ramachandra Adhikari was an Indian cricketer, representing his country both as a player and a coach in a career that spanned three decades. He received th…
Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricketer (died 2003)
Curtis Edward Gowdy was an American sportscaster. He called Boston Red Sox games on radio and TV for 15 years, and then covered many nationally televised sporting events, primarily…
Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster and actor (died 2006)
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one no…
Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (died 1987)
Stanley Middleton FRSL was a British novelist.
Stanley Middleton, English author (died 2009)
Nehemiah Persoff was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions, and also performed as a voice artist in a career…
Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (died 2022)
Michel Déon was a French novelist and literary columnist. He published over 50 works and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, Les…
Michel Déon, French novelist, playwright, and critic (died 2016)
Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks was the only child of author Agatha Christie.
Rosalind Hicks, British literary guardian and the only child of author, Agatha Christie (died 2004)
Pauline May Betz Addie was an American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer called her the…
Pauline Betz, American tennis player (died 2011)
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis was an Italian and American film producer and businessman. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into film produ…
Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer (died 2010)
John David Wilson was an English artist, animator and producer. He owned his own production studio, Fine Arts Films.
John David Wilson, English animator and producer (died 2013)
Johannes Marten den Uijl, better known as Joop den Uyl, was a Dutch politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977. He was a member of t…
Joop den Uyl, Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1987)
Ralph George Houk, nicknamed "the Major", was an American catcher, coach, manager, and front office executive in Major League Baseball. He is best known as the successor of Casey S…
Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager (died 2010)
Luis Francisco Rodríguez Olmo was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter. Olmo played in the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves (19…
Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager (died 2017)
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, (née Peachey; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, she was one of the founder…
Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist and academic (died 2020)
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. Often regarded as the "Father of Indian sp…
Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (died 1971)
Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard was an American television evangelist whose Cathedral of Tomorrow show was aired on over 600 stations at the peak of its popularity.
Rex Humbard, American evangelist and television host (died 2007)
Sir George Albert Shearing was a British jazz pianist and composer who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records.…
George Shearing, English jazz pianist and bandleader (died 2011)
Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, stage, and movie performer who appeared in the popular "Dead End Kids" movies, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and in th…
Huntz Hall, American actor (died 1999)
Benedict "Ben" Kiely was an Irish writer and broadcaster from Omagh, County Tyrone.
Benedict Kiely, Irish journalist and author (died 2007)
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the…
Karl-Heinz Euling, German captain (died 2014)
Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950…
Georgia Gibbs, American singer (died 2006)