Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
John Milton Owens was a singer-songwriter, pianist, and star of the longest running network radio show Don McNeil's Breakfast Club. He was known as "The Cruising Crooner" because o…
Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1982)
Mehmet Ruhi Su was a Turkish opera singer, Turkish folk singer and saz virtuoso of probable Armenian origin.
Ruhi Su, Turkish singer-songwriter (died 1985)
Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing and bebop. He played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, and Dizzy Gillespie, among…
Don Byas, American saxophonist and educator (died 1972)
Alfredo Pián was an Argentine racing driver. He entered the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix with a Maserati 4CLT run by Scuderia Achille Varzi. During the Saturday practice sessions, Pián, …
Alfredo Pián, Argentinian race car driver (died 1990)
Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian and British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-servin…
Georg Solti, Hungarian-English conductor and director (died 1997)
Silviu Bindea was a Romanian football player and coach.
Silviu Bindea, Romanian footballer (died 1992)
Peter Gellhorn was a German conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher. In 1935, he settled in England, where he continued his career thereafter.
Peter Gellhorn, German conductor (music) (died 2004)
Murray Golden was an American television director. He directed for television programs including The Fugitive, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Mannix, Trapper John, M.D., Rawhide, The Time …
Murray Golden, American television director (died 1991)
Abdelkader Ben Bouali was a professional French footballer, the first of North African descent to play on the national team.
Abdelkader Ben Bouali, French footballer (died 1997)
Alfred Klingler was a German field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Klingler was part of the German field handball team, which won the gold medal. He playe…
Alfred Klingler, German field handballer
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian and country singer who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than …
Minnie Pearl, American entertainer and philanthropist (died 1996)
Luigi Raimondi was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints from his elevation to the cardinalate by P…
Luigi Raimondi, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1975)
Donald Siegel was an American film and television director, producer, and editor. He was described by The New York Times as "a director of tough, cynical and forthright action-adve…
Don Siegel, American director and producer (died 1991)
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer i…
Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (died 2005)
Martha George Rogers Ripley was an American physician, suffragist, and professor of medicine. Founder of the Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ripley was one of the mos…
Martha Ripley, American physician (born 1843)
Abraham Stoker was an Irish writer, barrister, and theatre manager. He was the author of Dracula (1897) and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula. The novel and its …
Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (born 1847)
Homer Calvin Davenport was a political cartoonist and writer from the United States. He is known for drawings that satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, most not…
Homer Davenport, American political cartoonist (born 1867)
Nettie Maria Stevens was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male me…
Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (born 1861)
Frederik VIII was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912.
Frederik VIII of Denmark (born 1843)
Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish journalist, novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, and a disti…
Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (born 1847)
Austin Lane Crothers, was an American politician and a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.
Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (born 1860)
Frédéric Passy was a French economist and pacifist who was a founding member of several peace societies and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He was also an author and politician, sit…
Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1822)
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more…
August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (born 1849)
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane…
Wilbur Wright, American pilot and businessman, co-founded the Wright Company (born 1867)