Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Jayne Meadows was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career and was the wife of o…
Jayne Meadows, American actress and author (died 2015)
Charles Harting "Chuck" Percy was an American businessman and politician. He was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964, and served as a Republican U.S. senat…
Charles H. Percy, American lieutenant and politician (died 2011)
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to phys…
James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and computer scientist (died 1986)
Dorthea "Doris" Singleton was an American actress, perhaps best remembered as Lucy Ricardo's frenemy, Carolyn Appleby, in I Love Lucy.
Doris Singleton, American actress (died 2012)
Roland Barton "Bill" Proud was an English first-class cricketer.
Bill Proud, English cricketer (died 1961)
Roberto Wenceslao Bonomi Oliva was a racing driver who took part in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix driving a Cooper for the Scuderia Centro Sud team. Before he parti…
Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (died 1992)
Elizabeth Gilels was a Soviet and Russian violinist and professor.
Elizabeth Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 2008)
William Lewis Guy was an American politician who was the 26th governor of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. Guy was North Dakota's longest-serving governor in state history, serving …
William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (died 2013)
Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid-1940s through the 1970s. One of the few performers…
Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (died 2012)
Robert Richard Boyd was an American first baseman in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball.
Bob Boyd, American baseball player (died 2004)
Asrar ul Hassan Khan, better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi language film industry. He wrote lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtra…
Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (died 2000)
John William Duarte was a British composer, guitarist and writer.
John W. Duarte, English guitarist and composer (died 2004)
James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored wit…
James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Donald Henry Pleasence was an English actor. He was known for his "bald head and intense, staring eyes," and played more than 250 stage, film, and television roles across a nearly …
Donald Pleasence, English actor (died 1995)
Thomas Lawton was an English football player and manager.
Tommy Lawton, English footballer and coach (died 1996)
Henriette Davidson Avram was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in …
Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (died 2006)
Sir Zelman Cowen was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and politician, 19th Governor-General of Australia (died 2011)
Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth …
Georges Duby, French historian and author (died 1996)
John James McGrath was an American racecar driver. McGrath died in an accident at Bobby Ball Memorial; he lost control of his car at Turn 3, crashed and flipped, dying instantly.
Jack McGrath, American race car driver (died 1955)
Kiichi Miyazawa was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993.
Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2007)
Willard Zebedee "Bud" Estey was a Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Willard Estey, Canadian academic and jurist (died 2002)
Gerry Ethridge Gomez was a cricketer who played 29 Test matches for the West Indies cricket team between 1939 and 1954, scoring 1,243 runs and taking 58 wickets. He captained in on…
Gerry Gomez, Trinidadian cricketer, manager, and umpire (died 1996)
Kim Ki-young was a South Korean film director known for intensely psychosexual, melodramatic, and grotesque films, often centred on female characters. Born in Seoul and raised in P…
Kim Ki-young, South Korean director, screenwriter, producer, and editor (died 1997)
William Henry Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance, a widely used nonparam…
William Kruskal, American mathematician and statistician (died 2005)