Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Jeffrey Catherine Jones was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976, as …
Jeffrey Catherine Jones, American artist (born 1944)
Randy Mario Poffo, better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, rapper, and professional baseball player. Widely regarded as one o…
Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (born 1952)
Joseph Brooks was a serial rapist, American songwriter, composer, and filmmaker. He was a successful author of commercial jingles during the 1960s, before pivoting to a filmmaking …
Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (born 1938)
Xavier Tondo Volpini was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist who specialized in mountain stages of bicycle races.
Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (born 1978)
Huguette Marcelle Clark was an American painter, heiress, and philanthropist. She became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in hospitals for more than 20 years whil…
Huguette Clark, American heiress, painter, and philanthropist (born 1906)
Hakim Ali Zardari was a Pakistani politician who served as a member of National Assembly of Pakistan from 1972 to 1977,1988 to 1990 and then again from 1993 to 1996.
Hakim Ali Zardari, Indian-Pakistani businessman and politician (born 1930)
Terrence James Jenner was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. He was primarily a leg-spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy sty…
Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1944)