Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
Angelo Fausto Coppi was an Italian cyclist, the dominant international cyclist of the years after the Second World War. His successes earned him the title Il Campionissimo. He was …
Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist and soldier (died 1960)
William Edward Daley was an All-American fullback who played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1940 to 1942 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1943.…
Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)
Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator (died 1990)
Andy Russell was an American popular singer, actor, and entertainer. He specialized in traditional pop and Latin music. He sold 8 million records in the 1940s wherein he sang bilin…
Andy Russell, American singer and actor (died 1992)
Roger Grenier was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique.
Roger Grenier, French journalist and author (died 2017)
Amalia Hernández Navarro was a Mexican ballet choreographer and founder of the Ballet Folklórico de México.
Amalia Hernández, Mexican choreographer and dancer (died 2000)
Earl Russell H. Fox was an American physician and commissioned officer who served in the Navy and later in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps detailed to th…
Earl R. Fox, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard veteran; last active U.S. servicemember to serve in World War II (died 2012)
Svetozar Ćorović was a Bosnian Serb writer. In his books, he often wrote of life in Herzegovina and, more specifically, the city of Mostar. His brother was Vladimir Ćorović, a dist…
Svetozar Ćorović, Serbian novelist (born 1875)
Augustus D. Juilliard was an American businessman and philanthropist, born at sea as his parents were emigrating to the United States from France. Making a successful career in New…
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Elizabeth Almira Allen was an American teacher, teachers' rights advocate, and the first woman president of the New Jersey Education Association. Allen was born in Joliet, Illinois…
Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (born 1854)
Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum…
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Eva Schiroky, nicknamed Eva Chirowska, was a Czech anarchist and cook. She is best known for having been suspected of being a member of the Ortiz gang, an illegalist group named af…
Eva Schiroky, Czech anarchist and cook (born 1840)
Henry John Heinz was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was involved in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.…
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Hasan Tahsin was the code name of Osman Nevres, a Turkish nationalist and journalist of Dönmeh descent.
Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (born 1888)
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister o…
Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (born 1880)
Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as …
Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (born 1848)
Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist.
Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (born 1853)
Amado Nervo also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator. He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was k…
Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (born 1870)
Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock was an American archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won two bronze medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the …
Eliza Pollock, American archer (born 1840)
Madam C. J. Walker, Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker upon her third marriage, was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. Walker is recorded as the f…
Madam C
Kandukuri Veeresalingam was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India, current Andhra Pradesh. He was considered as the Father of the Telugu Renaissanc…
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (born 1848)
Robert Bacon was an American athlete, banker, businessman, statesman, diplomat and Republican Party politician who served as the 39th United States Secretary of State in the Theodo…
Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (born 1860)
Peter Johnson Sturholdt was an American boxer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Sturholdt was born in Red Wing, Minnesota. In 1904, he finished fourth in the lightweight cl…
Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (born 1885)
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)