Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Norman Gordon was a South African cricketer who played in five Test matches during the 1938–39 South African cricket season.
Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (died 2014)
Constance Christina Aimee Heaven was a British writer of romance novels, under her maiden name, her married name and under the pseudonym Christina Merlin. In 1973, her novel The Ho…
Constance Heaven, English author and actress (died 1995)
István Bibó was a Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist.
István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (died 1979)
Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema's supr…
Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (died 1979)
Rosetta LeNoire was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was known to contemporary audiences for her work in television. She had regular roles on such series as Gim…
Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (died 2002)
William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical and experimental studies of t…
William Alfred Fowler, American astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate (died 1996)
Eddie Futch was an American boxing trainer. Among the fighters he trained are Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick, four of the five men to defeat Muhammad Ali…
Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer (died 2001)
John McQuade was a Northern Irish unionist politician. He was a professional boxer under the name of Jack Higgins.
John McQuade, Northern Irish soldier, boxer, and politician (died 1984)
Leonidas Andrianopoulos was a Greek footballer who played as a forward.
Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer (died 2011)
Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-White, FBA was a British academic and ancient historian. He was a fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford and President of the Society for the Pro…
A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and author (died 1993)
Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn was Prime Minister of Thailand from 1963 to 1973. Prior to taking office, he supported and initiated military coups and served as Thailand's defence min…
Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (died 2004)
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known by the stage name Cantinflas, was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mex…
Cantinflas, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer (died 1993)
William Bernbach was an American advertising creative director. He was one of the three founders in 1949 of the international advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB). He direc…
William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founded DDB Worldwide (died 1982)
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher was a German-born British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. He …
E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (died 1977)
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an …
Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (died 1995)
Karl Martin Sandberger was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a convicted Holocaust perpetrator. He was the commander of Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A, as well …
Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (died 2010)
Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson was an American activist and supercentenarian who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, and a key figure in t…
Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (died 2015)
Klára Dán von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman t…
Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (died 1963)
Maria Ulfah Soebadio Sastrosatomo, better known by her first married name Maria Ulfah Santoso, was an Indonesian politician and women's rights activist who served as Minister of So…
Maria Ulfah Santoso, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist (died 1988)
Anna Alberdina Antoinette Terruwe was a Dutch Catholic psychiatrist. She discovered emotional deprivation disorder and how obsessive–compulsive disorder could be healed: the "beves…
Anna Terruwe, Dutch psychiatrist and author (died 2004)
Elizabeth R. Schwartz was an American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 metres for women.
Betty Robinson, American sprinter (died 1999)
James Vincent Cunningham was an American poet, literary critic and teacher.
J.V. Cunningham, American poet, literary critic, and translator (died 1985)
Otto Oscar Binder was an American author of science fiction and non-fiction books and stories, and comic books. He is best known as the co-creator of Supergirl and for his many scr…
Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter (died 1974)
Võ Nguyên Giáp was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist military forces to victory …
Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (died 2013)