Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Warja Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books t…
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (died 2007)
Alice Irene Marble was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940: five in singles, six in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles. She…
Alice Marble, American tennis player (died 1990)
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followe…
Trevor Howard, English actor (died 1988)
Sir Rutherford Ness "Bob" Robertson FRSE was an Australian botanist and biologist, and winner of the Clarke Medal in 1955.
Rutherford Ness Robertson, Australian botanist and biologist (died 2001)
William Crozier Walsh was a film producer, screenwriter and comics writer who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions.
Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (died 1975)
Hélio Gracie was a Brazilian martial artist who together with his brothers Oswaldo, Gastao Jr, George and Carlos Gracie founded and developed the self-defense martial art system of…
Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (died 2009)
Harry William Lookofsky was an American jazz violinist. He was also the father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Brown, who most notably was a founding member of the Left Banke and…
Harry Lookofsky, American violinist and producer (died 1998)
Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films" and a liberal movie icon. As an independent p…
Stanley Kramer, American director and producer (died 2001)
Martial Lavaud Célestin was named Prime Minister of Haïti by President Leslie Manigat in February 1988 under the provisions of the 1987 Constitution, and was approved by the Parlia…
Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2011)
Eugene Bennett Fluckey, nicknamed "Lucky Fluckey", was a United States Navy rear admiral who received the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses during his service as a submarine com…
Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2007)
Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer.
Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer (died 1985)
Simon Carmiggelt was a Dutch writer, journalist, and poet who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appeara…
Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author (died 1987)
Raimond Valgre was an Estonian composer and musician, whose songs have become some of the most well known in Estonia. During World War II, Valgre was conscripted into the Red Army …
Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer (died 1949)
Robert Rowe Gilruth was an American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B. John…
Robert R. Gilruth, American pilot and engineer (died 2000)
Marios Makrionitis, SJ was a Greek Jesuit prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Athens from 1953 until 1959, when he died from injuries caused by an automo…
Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (died 1959)
Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Bo…
Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (died 2011)
Alice Chetwynd Ley, née Humphrey was a British writer of romance novels from 1959 to 1989.
Alice Chetwynd Ley, English author and educator (died 2004)
Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin, a Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet best known for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War…
Igor Torkar, Slovenian poet and playwright (died 2004)
Wolfgang Lüth was a German U-boat captain of World War II who was credited with the sinking of 46 merchant ships plus the French submarine Doris sunk during 15 war patrols, for a t…
Wolfgang Lüth, German U-boat captain (died 1945)
Robert Lowery was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in more than 70 films. He was the second actor to play Batman, appearing as the character in …
Robert Lowery, American actor (died 1971)
Marian Marsh was an American film actress and later an environmentalist.
Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (died 2006)
Faik Türün was a Turkish general. He served in the Korean War as the Chief of Operations for the Turkish Brigade and was awarded the Silver Star by General Douglas MacArthur.
Faik Türün, Turkish general (died 2003)
Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, better known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed "O Poetinha", was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and pla…
Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1980)