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Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith was a flying ace of the Second World War in the Royal Air Force. He was the father of Iain Duncan Smith, a Member of Parliament and Leader of the…
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The 1910s
Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
1914
Stacy Keach Sr
Walter Stacy Keach Sr. was an American actor whose screen career spanned more than five decades.
Stacy Keach Sr
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Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (died 1986)
Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirme…
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (died 1986)
1914
Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (died 1979)
Akinoumi Setsuo , born Nagata Setsuo , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Hiroshima. He was the sport's 37th yokozuna.
Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (died 1979)
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Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator (died 2006)
Akira Ifukube was a Japanese composer. He is best known for composing several entries in the Godzilla franchise as well as developing the titular monster's roar.
Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator (died 2006)
1914
Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist and academic (died 2016)
Beatrice Eileen de Cardi, was a British archaeologist, specializing in the study of the Persian Gulf and the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. She was president of the British Founda…
Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist and academic (died 2016)
1914
Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (died 1988)
Ali Oktay Rifat, better known as Oktay Rifat, was a Turkish writer and playwright, and one of the forefront poets of modern Turkish poetry since the late 1930s. He was the founder …
Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (died 1988)
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Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (died 2012)
Jan Hendrik van den Berg was a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of …
Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (died 2012)
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Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician and orthopedist (died 2009)
Ignacio Ponseti, also known as Ignasi Ponsetí i Vives, was a Spanish-American physician, specializing in orthopedics. He was born on 3 June 1914 in Menorca, part of the Balearic Is…
Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician and orthopedist (died 2009)
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William Lundigan, American actor (died 1975)
William Paul Lundigan was an American film actor. His more than 125 films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonore…
William Lundigan, American actor (died 1975)
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Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (died 2014)
Wu Chuan, courtesy name Wu Ching-yuan, better known by the Japanese pronunciation of his courtesy name, Go Seigen , was a Chinese-Japanese master of the game of Go. He is considere…
Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (died 2014)
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Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (died 2013)
Frederic Franklin, sometimes also called "Freddie", was a British-American ballet dancer, choreographer and director.
Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (died 2013)
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Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (died 1984)
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previo…
Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (died 1984)
1914
Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (died 1999)
Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer wh…
Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (died 1999)
1914
Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (died 2006)
Theresa Hilda D’Alessio, better known as Hilda Terry, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Teena. It ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964. After marriage, she usua…
Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (died 2006)
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Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher (died 2020)
Eleanor Sokoloff was an American pianist and academic who formed a piano duo with her husband, Vladimir Sokoloff. She taught piano on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music f…
Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher (died 2020)
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John Hersey, American journalist and author (died 1993)
John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of f…
John Hersey, American journalist and author (died 1993)
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Everett Eugene Grunz, known professionally as E. G. Marshall, was an American actor. One of the first group of actors selected for the new Actors Studio, Marshall, by 1948, had per…
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Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (died 2000)
Alan MacGregor Cranston was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as President of the World Federalist …
Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (died 2000)
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Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (died 1979)
Lester Raymond Flatt was an American singer, bluegrass guitarist, and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs.
Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (died 1979)
1914
Gordon Juckes, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1994)
Gordon Wainwright Juckes was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He served as the president and later the executive director of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA), and…
Gordon Juckes, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1994)
1914
Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet (died 1982)
Efraín Huerta Roma was a Mexican poet and journalist. Born and raised in the state of Guanajuato, he moved to Mexico City initially to start a career in art. Unable to enter the Ac…
Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet (died 1982)
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist and academic (died 2024)
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ was a Turkish archeologist, librarian, writer, and supercentenarian who specialised in the study of Hittites and Sumerian civilization.
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist and academic (died 2024)
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William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
William Spencer Vickrey was a Canadian-American economist. He was a lifelong faculty member at Columbia University. A theorist who worked on public economics and mechanism design, …
William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)