Explore 3324 historical events from 2010–2019.
Frank Evans was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues.
Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)
Martin Fleischmann FRS was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry. The premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heav…
Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)
Paul Winston McCracken was an American economist born in Richland, Iowa.
Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (born 1915)
John David Pritchard was an American professional basketball player. Pritchard was selected in the seventh round of the 1949 BAA Draft by the St. Louis Bombers after a collegiate c…
John Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1927)
George Harris Shanard was an American politician and agribusinessman who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1975 to 1992 and served as majority leader for the Repub…
George Shanard, American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)
Johnnie Alexander Bassett was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician, by the 1990s Bassett h…
Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)
Brian Rossiter Crozier was a British historian, propagandist and journalist. He was also one of the central staff members of a secret propaganda department belonging to the UK Fore…
Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (born 1918)
Edward Jones "Bud" Riley Jr. was an American college football coach who served as an assistant coach at the University of Idaho and Oregon State University.
Bud Riley, American football player and coach (born 1925)
Erwin Axer was a Polish theatre director, writer and university professor. A long-time head of Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw, he also staged numerous plays abroad, notably in German-…
Erwin Axer, Polish director and screenwriter (born 1917)
Michel Daerden was a francophone Belgian politician, a member of the Parti Socialiste, and a finance auditor.
Michel Daerden, Belgian lawyer and politician (born 1949)
Fred Matua was an American football guard. After playing college football for Southern California, he was selected by the Detroit Lions in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL draft. …
Fred Matua, American football player (born 1984)
Martin Eli Segal was a Russian-born American businessman who co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 with two other Lincoln Center executives, William F. May and Schu…
Martin E. Segal, Russian-American businessman, co-founded Film Society of Lincoln Center (born 1916)
María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano, known professionally as Chavela Vargas, was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actress. She gained widespread recognition for her di…
Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (born 1919)
Roland C. Wagner was a French writer of humorous science fiction. Since his professional debut in 1981, he wrote around one hundred novellas and around fifty novels. He was the onl…
Roland Charles Wagner, French author and translator (born 1960)
Richard Cragun was an American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet director who performed with the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany from 1965 to 1996.
Richard Cragun, American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1944)
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and com…
Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1944)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes was an Australian art critic, writer and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "th…
Robert Hughes, Australian-American author and critic (born 1938)
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (born 1913)
Mark O'Donnell was an American writer and humorist.
Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (born 1954)
Ruggiero Ricci was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.
Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (born 1918)
Danny Thomas Roundfield was an American professional basketball player. The 6'8" power forward/center graduated from Detroit's Chadsey Senior High School in 1971. On the collegiate…
Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (born 1953)
Murtuz Najaf oglu Alasgarov, also spelled as Murtuz Aleskerov, was an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 1996 to 2005.
Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani academic and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (born 1928)
Judith Crist was an American film critic and academic.
Judith Crist, American critic and academic (born 1922)
Vladimir Vasilyevich Kobzev was a Russian professional football coach and player.
Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (born 1959)