Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was an American actor, known to film audiences for his work in the horror genre, mostly portraying villains. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, …
Vincent Price, American actor (died 1993)
Robert James Crisp was a South African cricketer who played in nine Test matches between 1935 and 1936. He appeared for Rhodesia, Western Province, Worcestershire and South Africa.…
Bob Crisp, South African cricketer (died 1994)
Dame Thora Hird was an English actress. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 films, as well as many television roles, becoming a household name and a B…
Thora Hird, English actress (died 2003)
Fritz Hochwälder also known as Fritz Hochwaelder, was an Austrian playwright. Known for his spare prose and strong moralist themes, Hochwälder won several literary awards, includin…
Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (died 1986)
Maurice Félix Charles Allais was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory …
Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010)
Joseph Paul McCluskey was an American track and field athlete. During his running career, he won 27 national titles in various distance events and captured the steeplechase title a…
Joe McCluskey, American runner (died 2002)
Ellen Hansen Corby was an American actress and screenwriter. She performed in over 200 films and television series from the 1930s to the 1990s. She played the role of Esther "Grand…
Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (died 1999)
Clifford Brooks Stevens was an American industrial designer of home furnishings, appliances, automobiles, passenger railroad cars, and motorcycles, as well as a graphic designer an…
Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (died 1995)
Leonel Edmundo Rivero was an Argentine tango singer, composer, and impresario.
Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 1986)
Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick was an American harpsichordist and musicologist, widely known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas as well as for his pe…
Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist (died 1984)
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-midd…
Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1977)
Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in part…
Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
Maurice Copeland was an American actor. He had supporting roles in films such as Arthur, The Pope of Greenwich Village and Trading Places.
Maurice Copeland, American actor (died 1985)
Erwin Wilhelm Müller was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He …
Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (died 1977)
Wilbert Vere Awdry, often credited as Rev. W. Awdry, was an English Anglican priest, railway enthusiast, and children's author. He was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and sev…
Wilbert Awdry, English author, created The Railway Series, the basis for Thomas the Tank Engine (died 1997)
Gail Patrick was an American film actress and television producer. Often cast as the bad girl or the other woman, she appeared in more than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, …
Gail Patrick, American actress (died 1980)
Irving Fein was an American television and film producer, and the manager of entertainers Jack Benny and George Burns.
Irving Fein, American producer and manager (died 2012)
Vernon Gordon 'Bob' Kirby was a South African tennis player.
Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player (died 1994)
Juan Manuel Fangio was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "el Chueco" and "el Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers'…
Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (died 1995)
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became ver…
Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic (died 2011)
Portia May White was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir…
Portia White, Canadian opera singer (died 1968)
William Howard Stein was an American biochemist who collaborated in the determination of the ribonuclease sequence, as well as how its structure relates to catalytic activity, earn…
William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980)
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and fi…
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (died 1956)
Bronisław Żurakowski was a Polish engineer, aeroplane constructor, and glider test pilot.
Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (died 2009)