Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
William Ben Hogan was an American professional golfer who is considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game. He profoundly influenced golf swing theory, an…
Ben Hogan, American golfer and sportscaster (died 1997)
Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershe…
Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Frank Friedman Oppenheimer was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Franc…
Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (died 1985)
Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for having brought French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Ma…
Julia Child, American chef and author (died 2004)
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rat…
Wendy Hiller, English actress (died 2003)
Edward Joseph Drake was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league …
Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (died 1995)
Generalmajor Otto Ernst Remer was a German Army officer who served during World War II and played a major role in stopping the 20 July plot in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. He was a c…
Otto Ernst Remer, German general (died 1997)
Hermann Olaf Frances "Herb" Narvo was an Australian rugby league footballer and boxer of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a national representative rugby league player and national heav…
Herb Narvo, Australian rugby league player, coach, and boxer (died 1958)
John Hersey Michaelis was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander, United States Forces Korea/Commanding General, …
John H. Michaelis, American general (died 1985)
Joseph Hector "Toe" Blake was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Blake played in the NHL from 1935 to 1948 with the Montreal Maroons and Mo…
Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1995)
Eugene Curran Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style. Kelly sought to create a new form …
Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1996)
Prince Igor Nikolayevich Troubetzkoy was a French aristocrat and athlete of Russian descent. He was styled His Serene Highness, but did not use the style often.
Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver (died 2008)
John Alfred Tinniswood was a British supercentenarian who was the world's oldest verified living man from the death of 112-year-old Shi Ping of China on 29 June 2024 until his own …
John Tinniswood, British supercentenarian (died 2024)
Gloria Guinness, previously Countess Gloria von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, was a Mexican socialite and a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar from 1963 to 1971. She was photographed…
Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist (died 1980)
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He h…
Erich Honecker, German politician (died 1994)
Martha George Rogers Ripley was an American physician, suffragist, and professor of medicine. Founder of the Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ripley was one of the mos…
Martha Ripley, American physician (born 1843)
Abraham Stoker was an Irish writer, barrister, and theatre manager. He was the author of Dracula (1897) and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula. The novel and its …
Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (born 1847)
Homer Calvin Davenport was a political cartoonist and writer from the United States. He is known for drawings that satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, most not…
Homer Davenport, American political cartoonist (born 1867)
Nettie Maria Stevens was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male me…
Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (born 1861)
Frederik VIII was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912.
Frederik VIII of Denmark (born 1843)
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more…
August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (born 1849)
Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish journalist, novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, and a disti…
Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (born 1847)
Austin Lane Crothers, was an American politician and a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.
Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (born 1860)
Frédéric Passy was a French economist and pacifist who was a founding member of several peace societies and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He was also an author and politician, sit…
Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1822)