Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Esther Eng was an American film director and the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in the United States. Eng made four feature films in America, and five in Ho…
Esther Eng, Chinese-American film director (died 1970)
Sir John Robert Kerr was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvem…
John Kerr, Australian politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (died 1991)
Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish and British composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re…
Andrzej Panufnik, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1991)
John Errol Manners was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. He served in the Second World War and held several commands, earning the Distinguished Service Cross…
John Manners, English naval officer and cricketer (died 2020)
Achille Compagnoni was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli on 31 July 1954 he was in the first party to reach the summit of K2.
Achille Compagnoni, Italian skier and mountaineer (died 2009)
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the …
Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, lawyer, author, and 12th Librarian of Congress (died 2004)
John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and …
Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (died 1952)
Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he wa…
Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (died 2011)
Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina 'Mitzi' von Trapp was the second-oldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp F…
Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer (died 2014)
Olive Marie Dehn was an English children's writer, anarchist, farmer and poet who was active from the 1930s to the 2000s. She began her writing career with a satirical poem in Germ…
Olive Dehn, English author and poet (died 2007)
Bernarr Joseph George Rainbow was a historian of music education, organist, and choir master from the United Kingdom.
Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian (died 1998)
James Ford Cairns was an Australian politician who was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Treasurer and the fourth deputy prime minister o…
Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (died 2003)
Brendan Gill was an American journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. Gill also contributed film criticism for Film Comment, wrote about design and architect…
Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist (died 1997)
Zhang Zhen was a general of the People's Liberation Army of China and a member of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party.
Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (died 2015)
Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (died 2002)
Joan Maud Littlewood was an English pioneering theatre director, who has been referred to as "The Mother of Modern Theatre". She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is…
Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (died 2002)
Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar, was an Indian singer and actress. Dubbed "Mallika-e-Ghazal", she is regarded as one of the greatest singers of ghazal, dadra, and…
Begum Akhtar, Indian actress (died 1974)
Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley, was an English actress and dancer and a daughter of Winston Churchill.
Sarah Churchill, English actress (died 1982)
Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.
Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (died 1992)
Herman Walter Keiser was an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour, best known for winning the Masters Tournament in 1946, his only major title.
Herman Keiser, American golfer (died 2003)
Edward Bryan Andrews Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. Andrews was one of the most recognizable character actors on television and in films from the 1950s throu…
Edward Andrews, American actor (died 1985)
Thomas Morgan Fine was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in 23 games for the Boston Red Sox (1947) and St. Louis Browns (1950). The native of Cleburne, Texas,…
Tommy Fine, American baseball player and businessman (died 2005)
Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid-1940s, he became more widely known…
Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1974)
John Edward Hodge was an American chemist, born in Kansas City, Kansas, best known for establishing the mechanisms in the Maillard reaction pathway.
John E. Hodge, African-American chemist (died 1996)