Explore 3324 historical events from 2010–2019.
Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the…
Dana Wynter, British actress (born 1931)
Violet Elizabeth McGraw is an American actress. Her acting debut was a recurring role in the 2016 television series Love as Nina, and her first feature film was 2018's Ready Player…
Violet McGraw, American actress
Allan Emrys Blakeney was a Canadian politician who served as the tenth premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982. Originally from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Blakeney moved to Regina…
Allan Blakeney, Canadian scholar and politician, tenth Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1925)
Phoebe Snow was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals on Pa…
Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppres…
Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (born 1937)
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked towards a pan-Islam…
Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founder of Al-Qaeda (born 1957)
Claude Stanley Choules was a British-born military serviceman from Pershore, Worcestershire, who at the time of his death was the oldest combat veteran of the First World War. He s…
Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (born 1901)
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device…
Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
George Webley, better known by the stage name Big George, was a British musician, composer, bandleader and broadcaster who has been described as one of Britain's most successful th…
Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (born 1957)
Victor Ivanovich Nosach was a Soviet and Russian historian, Doctor of Historian Sciences, Member of the Academy of Humanitarian Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russian Federation.
Victor Nosach, Soviet historian (born 1929)
Severiano Ballesteros Sota was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. A member of a gifted gol…
Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)
Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian professional boxer who competed from 1964 to 1976. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and The Ring bantamweight titles from 1968 to 1969, bec…
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (born 1948)
Wouter Weylandt was a Belgian professional cyclist for UCI ProTeam Quick-Step–Davitamon and later for Leopard Trek. His first major win was the 17th stage of the 2008 Vuelta a Espa…
Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (born 1984)
Robert DeShaun "Tractor" Traylor was an American professional basketball player. He got his nickname because of his hulking frame. Traylor was the sixth pick in the 1998 NBA draft …
Robert Traylor, American basketball player (born 1977)
Derek Leendert Boogaard was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Stephen De Staebler was an American sculptor, printmaker, and educator, he was best recognized for his work in clay and bronze. Totemic and fragmented in form, De Staebler's figura…
Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (born 1933)
George Wallace Ferguson McCain was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of McCain Foods. With an estimated net worth of $US 4.15 billion, McCain was ranked by Forbes as the 13th w…
Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (born 1930)
Bruce Ricker was a jazz and blues documentarian. He is best known for his collaboration with Clint Eastwood on films about jazz and blues legends.
Bruce Ricker, American director and producer (born 1942)
Harmon Clayton Killebrew Jr., nicknamed "the Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball player as a first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. He sp…
Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1936)
Ralph Hammond Cecil Barker was an English non-fiction author with over twenty-five books to his credit. He wrote mainly about the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF)…
Ralph Barker, English author (born 1917)
Robert "Bob" Davis was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Bob Davis, Australian footballer and coach (born 1928)
Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor who had a career on the stage and on-screen. He was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in Colditz (1972–73), and Dr. Watson in Gr…
Edward Hardwicke, English actor (born 1932)
Kiyoshi Kodama was a Japanese TV personality and actor. He hosted the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation quiz show Panel Quiz Attack 25 continuously for thirty-six years from its star…
Kiyoshi Kodama, Japanese actor (born 1934)
Garret Desmond FitzGerald was an Irish Fine Gael politician, economist, and barrister who served twice as Taoiseach, serving from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987. He served as Leader…
Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1926)