Explore 3324 historical events from 2010–2019.
Miguel Facussé Barjum was a Honduran businessman and landowner. He was Executive President of Corporación Dinant, a consumer products manufacturing company he founded in Honduras i…
Miguel Facussé Barjum, Honduran businessman (born 1924)
Maria Nirmala Joshi was an Indian religious sister who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity and expanded the movement overseas. After t…
Nirmala Joshi, Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (born 1934)
Richard Vincent Van Patten was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate whose career spanned seven decades of television. He was best known for his rol…
Dick Van Patten, American actor (born 1928)
Cristiano de Melo Araújo was a Brazilian singer-songwriter.
Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1986)
Mario Biaggi was an American politician, attorney, and police officer. He served ten terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1969 to 1988…
Mario Biaggi, American police officer, politician and criminal (born 1917)
Marva Delores Collins was an American educator. Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Gar…
Marva Collins, American author and educator (born 1936)
Susan Ahn Cuddy was the first female gunnery officer in the United States Navy. She was the eldest daughter of Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-ho and Helen Ahn, the first ma…
Susan Ahn Cuddy, American lieutenant (born 1915)
Daniel Patrick Macnee was a British-American actor best known for his breakthrough role as secret agent John Steed in the television series The Avengers (1961–1969). Starting out a…
Patrick Macnee, English actor (born 1922)
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni was the patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1999 until his death in 2015.
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (born 1940)
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. During his long career, he also served as Minister of F…
Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (born 1929)
Chris Thompson was an American television writer and producer. Beginning in 1977, he wrote and produced for the television series Laverne & Shirley and The Larry Sanders Show. He h…
Chris Thompson, American screenwriter and producer (born 1952)
Zvi Elpeleg was an academic, author, and a senior researcher at the Dayan Institute at Tel Aviv University. Born in Poland, Elpeleg served as a colonel in the Israeli army and late…
Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat, author, and academic (born 1926)
Knut Helle was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to severa…
Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (born 1930)
Jack Carter was an American comedian, actor and television presenter. Born in Brooklyn, Carter had a long-running comedy act similar to fellow rapid-paced contemporaries Milton Ber…
Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (born 1922)
Ratu Jope Naucabalavu Seniloli was a Fijian chief who held the title of Turaga Taukei Naua and who served as Fiji's vice-president from 25 March 2001 to 29 November 2004, when he w…
Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (born 1939)
Christopher Russell Edward Squire was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, backing vocalist, and only constant member of the progressive rock band …
Chris Squire, English musician (bass guitarist), singer and songwriter, member of the rock band Yes (born 1948)
Walter Peter Stanowski was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)
Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat was Attorney General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015. During his term as state prosecutor, he was responsible of thousands of controversial prosecutions, in…
Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge (born 1950)
Josef Masopust was a Czech football player and coach. He played as midfielder and was a key player for Czechoslovakia, helping them reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final. He was capp…
Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (born 1931)
Charles Victor Pasqua was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 19…
Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (born 1927)
Lieutenant General Charles Wilson Bagnal was a United States Army officer. He was commander of the United States Army Western Command, from 1985 to 1989. Previously he was Deputy C…
Charles W
Robert Berriedale Keith Dewar was an American computer scientist and educator. He helped to develop programming languages and compilers and was an outspoken advocate of freely lice…
Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (born 1945)
Arthur Thomas Porter IV was a Canadian physician and hospital administrator.
Arthur Porter, Canadian physician and academic (born 1956)
Leonard Starr was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.
Leonard Starr, American author and illustrator (born 1925)