Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Anthony Frederick Wilding, also known as Tony Wilding, was a New Zealand world No. 1 tennis player and soldier who was killed in action during World War I. Considered the world's f…
Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (born 1883)
John Kirkpatrick, commonly known as John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance during the Gallipoli campaign – the Allied attempt to capture Const…
John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-Australian soldier (born 1892)
Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato was a lieutenant-general in the Imperial Russian Army and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar.
Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (born 1875)
Pte. John Condon was an Irish soldier born in Waterford City. He was mistakenly believed to have been the youngest Allied soldier killed during the First World War, at the age of 1…
John Condon, Irish-English soldier (born 1896)
Charles Reed Bishop was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist in Hawaii. Born in Glens Falls, New York, he sailed to Hawaii in 1846 at the age of 24, and made his…
Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822)
Victor Thomas Trumper was an Australian professional cricketer. A right-handed batter and a right arm medium pace bowler, Trumper is generally regarded as one of the greatest batte…
Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (born 1877)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag was a Dutch marine painter.
Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (born 1831)
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.
James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (born 1837)
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, commonly known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican army general and politician who was the dictator of Mexico from 1876 until his overthrow in 1911.…
Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (born 1830)
Ellen Gould White was an American author, and was both the prophet and a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates an…
Ellen G. White, American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church(born 1827)
Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard t…
Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (born 1827)
Sir John William Downer, KCMG, KC was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia, from 1885 to 1887 and again from 1892 to 1893. He later entered f…
John Downer, Australian politician, 16th premier of South Australia (born 1843)
Jeanne de la Montagnie Lozier was an American physician and educator from New York City. She worked as an instructor of languages and literature in Hillsdale College from the age o…
Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (born 1841)
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical c…
Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (born 1887)
Tevfik Fikret was the pseudonym of Mehmed Tevfik, an Ottoman educator and poet, who is considered the founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry.
Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (born 1867)
Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville was a Canadian politician and medical doctor. He twice served as the premier of Quebec.
Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (born 1822)
Bagha Jatin or Baghajatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee ; 7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Indian independence activist.
Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (born 1879)
William Sprague IV was an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Rhode Island from 1860 to 1863, and a U.S. senator from 1863 to 1875. He participated in the First …
William Sprague IV, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (born 1830)
Andrew Lintner Harris was one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War and served as the 44th governor of Ohio.
Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (born 1835)
Ernest Gagnon was a Canadian folklorist, composer, and organist. He is best known for compiling a large amount of French Canadian folk music which he published as Chansons populair…
Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (born 1834)
Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
Albert Goodwill Spalding was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of the Spalding sporting goods company. He …
Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding (born 1850)
Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the …
Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree (born…
Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. T…
Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic (born 1858)