Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns. He was often paired w…
Alan Ladd, American actor and producer (died 1964)
Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan was a British historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group. Kiernan's work was prominent in the field of Marxist historiography in Br…
Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic (died 2009)
Leônidas da Silva was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the most important players of the first half of the 20th century. At the…
Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (died 2004)
Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Michael Charles Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, was a British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II. Charteris was the longest-serving …
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, English soldier and courtier (died 1999)
Sir John Anthony Quayle was a British actor who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).…
Anthony Quayle, English actor (died 1989)
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by winning four gold medals, setting individual Olympic records in …
Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (died 1980)
Kai Martin Edvard Setälä was a Finnish physician and professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Helsinki. Through his daughter Christel, he was the maternal grandfather…
Kai Setälä, Finnish physician and professor (died 2005)
Rubby Sherr was an American nuclear physicist who co-invented a key component of the first nuclear weapon while participating in the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. …
Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (died 2013)
Abraham Lincoln Gordon was the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University (1967–1971) and a United States Ambassador to Brazil (1961–1966). Gordon had a career both in governmen…
Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (died 2009)
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, and best know…
Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (died 1983)
Jacinto Convit García was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to prevent leprosy and his studies to treat cancer. He played a role in founding Vene…
Jacinto Convit, Venezuelan physician and academic (died 2014)
Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, bef…
Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (died 1971)
Henry Dreyfuss Brant was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.
Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer and conductor (died 2008)
Bruno Hoffmann was a German glass harpist. Hoffmann is widely acknowledged as the virtuoso who reanimated contemporary interest in the glass harp and glass harmonica.
Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harp player (died 1991)
John Newton Mitchell was the 67th attorney general of the United States under President Richard Nixon. He also was chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. Prior t…
John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (died 1988)
Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater n…
Frances Farmer, American actress (died 1970)
Helen Ward was an American jazz singer. She appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC and worked as a staff musician at WNYC. She was most known for her hit cover of the Johnn…
Helen Ward, American singer (died 1998)
Sidney Dillon Ripley II was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for 20 years, from 1964 to 1984, leading t…
Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (died 2001)
Lillian Chestney was an American illustrator and painter. She studied in New York City and illustrated children's books, comic books, and magazine and book covers at a time when fe…
Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (died 2000)
Johannes "Macky" Steinhoff was a Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, German general, and NATO official. He was one of very few Luftwaffe pilots who survived to fly operation…
Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (died 1994)
Carl-Henning Pedersen was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the seco…
Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 2007)
Herb Jeffries was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
Herb Jeffries, American singer (died 2014)
Francis Charles "Mr. Zero" Brimsek was an American professional ice hockey player. He was a goaltender for ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins and…
Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (died 1998)
Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia …
Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (died 2007)