Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
George Blatz Rathmann (1927–2012) was an American chemist, biologist, pioneer in biotechnology and corporate executive. In 1980 he co-founded and served as the first CEO of Amgen, …
George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (born 1927)
Maj Lillemor Arvidsson was a Swedish trade union leader and the Governor of Gotland from 1998 to 2004.
Lillemor Arvidsson, Swedish trade union leader and politician, 34th Governor of Gotland (born 1943)
John Christopher Ethridge was an American country rock bass guitarist. He was a member of the International Submarine Band (ISB) and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and co-wrote sever…
Chris Ethridge, American bass player and songwriter (born 1947)
Raymond Thorsteinsson, was a Canadian geologist who focused on the geology of the high Arctic. He was a Fellow of The Arctic Institute of North America, primarily known for his con…
Raymond Thorsteinsson, Canadian geologist and paleontologist (born 1921)
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other me…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after
On 11 June 2012, two moderate earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide. The landslide buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days …
Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried
René G. Lépine was a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist. Lépine was the chairman of Groupe Lépine, a real estate development and investment firm he founded in 1953. …
René Lépine, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)
Kathy Diane Wentworth, known as K. D. Wentworth, was an American science fiction author. A University of Tulsa graduate, she got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest…
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Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll…
Levon Helm, American musician and actor (born 1940)
LeRoy T. Walker was an American track and field coach and the first African-American president of the United States Olympic Committee. In the 1996 Olympics, Walker was delegated to…
LeRoy T
Gerald Edmund "Gerry" Bahen was a businessman and Australian rules football player and administrator who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Leag…
Gerry Bahen, Australian footballer (born 1929)
Denzil Eugene Jones was an American rancher and Republican politician. Jones is remembered as a 13-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in which he represented citizens f…
Denny Jones, American rancher and politician (born 1910)
Terence George Spinks MBE was an English boxer, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mirce…
Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (born 1938)
Herbert Maurice William Weedon was an English guitarist whose style of playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a …
Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1920)
William Taylor Bryans was a Canadian percussionist, songwriter, music producer and DJ, known as one of the founders of The Parachute Club, among other accomplishments in music. As …
Billy Bryans, Canadian drummer, songwriter and producer (born 1947)
Edna Moscelyne Larkin Jasinski was an American ballerina and one of the "Five Moons", Native American ballerinas from Oklahoma who gained international fame in the 20th century. Af…
Moscelyne Larkin, American ballerina and educator (born 1925)
Louis le Brocquy HRHA was an Irish painter born in Dublin to Albert and Sybil le Brocquy. Louis' sister is the sculptor Melanie Le Brocquy. His work received many accolades in a ca…
Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1916)
Daniel Eugene Boatwright was a Democratic politician from the state of California. Boatwright was a longtime state legislator from Concord, California, a suburb in the San Francisc…
Daniel E
William Joseph Skowron, nicknamed "Moose", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1954 to 1967 for the New Yo…
Bill Skowron, American baseball player (born 1930)
Sir Frederick Richard Allen was a captain and coach of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. The All Blacks won all 14 of the test matches they played under his …
Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1920)
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.
Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (born 1919)
Allen Joseph Ecuyer was an American football player.
Al Ecuyer, American football player (born 1937)
Patricia Paz Maria Medina was a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955).
Patricia Medina, English actress (born 1919)
Milan Popović (1924–2012) was a renowned Serbian psychiatrist-psychoanalyst, a full professor of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
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