Explore 3325 historical events from 2010–2019.
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He was born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered one of the pioneers of…
U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and playwright (born 1932)
John Glen Sperling was an American billionaire businessman who is credited with having led the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States The fortune he amas…
John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (born 1921)
Albert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika was a Cameroonian footballer who played in Cameroon, Malaysia and Algeria.
Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (born 1989)
Annefleur Kalvenhaar was a Dutch cyclist and mountain biker. She won the U23 European Cyclo-cross Championships in 2013. She began her career at the age of 13. She participated for…
Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (born 1994)
Birgitta Alma Sofia Stenberg was a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. She was the 2005 winner of the Selma Lagerlöf Prize.
Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish author and illustrator (born 1932)
Jaume Vallcorba Plana was a Spanish philologist and publisher.
Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Spanish philologist and publisher (born 1949)
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was an English actor, film director, and producer. He won a total of two Academy Awards, six BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awa…
Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1923)
Antônio Ermírio de Moraes was a Brazilian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Votorantim Group, one of the country's largest companies, focused on metals, paper, cement…
Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman (born 1928)
Marcel Masse was a Canadian politician. He served as a Quebec MLA, federal MP and federal cabinet minister.
Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (born 1936)
Nicolaas Martinus Maria Nibbering was a Dutch chemist and mass spectrometrist. He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Thomson …
Nico M. M. Nibbering, Dutch chemist and academic (born 1938)
William Garfield Greaves was an American filmmaker and actor. Trained at the Actors Studio, he worked as a stage and film actor but became disillusioned with the roles available to…
William Greaves, American director and producer (born 1926)
Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson was a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active from the late 1950s. He worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played…
Uziah Thompson, Jamaican-American drummer and producer (born 1936)
Enrique Zileri Gibson was the publisher of Caretas (Masks), Peru's leading newsmagazine, which was cofounded by his mother Doris Gibson. He ran the magazine as "a symbol of resista…
Enrique Zileri, Peruvian journalist and publisher (born 1931)
Christian Bourquin was a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party. He was the president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2010 to his death in August 2…
Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (born 1954)
Peter Bacon Hales was an American historian, photographer, author and musician specializing in American spaces and landscapes, the history of photography and contemporary art.
Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (born 1950)
Caroline Kellett, usually known just as Kellett, was a British journalist who was fashion editor of Tatler and held a number of other positions in British fashion journalism.
Caroline Kellett, English journalist (born 1960)
Chūsei Sone was a Japanese film director known for his stylish and popular Roman Porno films for Nikkatsu, particularly the first two installments of the Angel Guts series. Despit…
Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)
Jacques Friedel ForMemRS was a French physicist and material scientist.
Jacques Friedel, French physicist and academic (born 1921)
Valeri Petrov, was a popular Bulgarian poet, screenwriter, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin.
Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1920)
Benno Pludra was a German children's author. He was born in Mückenberg, now Lauchhammer-West.
Benno Pludra, German author (born 1925)
Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick was an English bass guitarist, and the original bassist for the British rock band Jethro Tull from 1967 to 1970. Rolling Stone has called his playing …
Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (born 1947)
Harold Thomas Finney II was an American software developer. In his early career, he was credited as lead developer on several console games. He later worked for PGP Corporation. He…
Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (born 1956)
John Anthony Walker Jr. was a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1985 and sentenced to lif…
John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (born 1937)
MV Sewol was a South Korean vehicle-passenger ferry, built and previously operated in Japan. She operated between Incheon and Jeju. On 16 April 2014, Sewol capsized and sank with t…
The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High