Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
François Tombalbaye, also known as N'Garta Tombalbaye, was a Chadian politician who served as the first President of Chad from the country's independence in 1960 until his overthro…
François Tombalbaye, Chadian politician, 1st President of Chad (died 1975)
Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Ajahn Chah, Thai monk and educator (died 1992)
Alf Francis was a motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor.
Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (died 1983)
Jerome Karle was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures …
Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaig…
Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)
George John Lynch was an American racing driver.
George Lynch, American race car driver (died 1997)
Zoltán Sztáray was one of the better known contemporary writers of the Hungarian emigration. He was imprisoned in the Recsk forced labor camp for many months until he escaped and m…
Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian-American author (died 2011)
Robert A. Boyd was a Canadian electric engineer and utility executive. He successfully led the construction of the first phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project, a large dam c…
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James Bysse Joll FBA was a British historian and university lecturer whose works included The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870. He also wrote on the history of …
James Joll, English historian, author, and academic (died 1994)
Edmund Walter Lopat was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, coach, manager, front office executive, and scout. He was sometimes known as "the Junk Man", but better known as …
Eddie Lopat, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1992)
Dee Molenaar was an American mountaineer, author and artist. He is best known as the author of The Challenge of Rainier, first published in 1971 and considered the definitive work …
Dee Molenaar, American mountaineer (died 2020)
Robert Vincent Roosa was an American economist and banker. He served as Treasury Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs during the Kennedy administration from 1961 to 1964. He believe…
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Tibor Szele was a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra.
Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1955)
Josephine Webb was an American electrical engineer who obtained two patents for oil circuit breaker contact design, known colloquially as "switchgear". She designed an eighteen-inc…
Josephine Webb, American engineer (died 2017)
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hos…
Cicely Saunders, English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (died 2005)
Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988.
Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (died 1993)
Mildred Ladner Thompson was an American journalist, writer, and columnist with The Wall Street Journal, where she became one of its first female reporters. She also worked as a re…
Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist and author (died 2013)
Yong Nyuk Lin was a Singaporean politician who served as the Minister for Communications between 1968 and 1975, Minister for Health between 1963 and 1968, and Minister for Educatio…
Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean businessman and politician, Singaporean Minister for Education (died 2012)
Percy Howard Newby CBE was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having received the in…
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Leopold Rosner was a Polish-born Australian musician. Rosner, who was Jewish, survived the Holocaust in Nazi concentration camps during World War II by playing his accordion for Na…
Leo Rosner, Polish-born Austrian Jewish musician (died 2008)
Raleigh Ernest Rhodes, who often went by the nickname of Raleigh "Dusty" Rhodes, was an American World War II combat fighter pilot and the third leader of the Blue Angels flight te…
Raleigh Rhodes, American combat fighter pilot (died 2007)
John Brooks Fuqua was an American businessman, philanthropist, and chairman of The Fuqua Companies and Fuqua Enterprises. The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University is named a…
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Adolph Gustav Kiefer was an American competition swimmer who swam for the University of Texas, a 100-meter gold medalist in the 1936 Summer Olympics, and a former world record-hold…
Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (died 2017)