Explore 747 historical events from 1910–1919.
Robert George Brian Dickson was a Canadian lawyer, military officer and judge who served as the 15th chief justice of Canada from 1984 to 1990 and as a puisne justice of the Suprem…
Brian Dickson, Canadian captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1998)
Giuseppe "Beppe" Tosi was an Italian discus thrower. He won silver medal at the 1946, 1950 and 1954 European championships and 1948 Summer Olympics, every time beaten by the teamma…
Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower (died 1981)
Walker Percy, OblSB was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, …
Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (died 1990)
Henriette Roosenburg was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner. Her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down described her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after b…
Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist and author (died 1972)
Justin Catayée was a French politician who served in the French National Assembly from 1958 to 1962 and was the founder of the Guianese Socialist Party and fought in World War II. …
Justin Catayée, French soldier and politician (died 1962)
Morton Meskin was an American comic book artist best known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age.
Mort Meskin, American illustrator (died 1995)
Albert Haanstra was a Dutch director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare …
Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)
Robert Francis Furchgott was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.
Robert F
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician and environmentalist from Wisconsin who served as a United States senator and governor. He was a member of the Democratic Party and …
Gaylord Nelson, American politician and environmentalist, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (died 2005)
Fernand Leduc was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene in the 1940s and 1950s. During his 50-year career, Leduc partici…
Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (died 2014)
Ephraim Shay was an American merchant, entrepreneur and self-taught railroad engineer who worked in the state of Michigan. He designed the Shay locomotive and patented the type. He…
Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (born 1839)
Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. He is one of the best known authors of the Geração de Orpheu, and is usually considered their greatest poet, after Fernando P…
Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Portuguese poet and writer (born 1890)
Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (born 1850)
Thomas James Clarke was an Irish republican and a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Clarke was arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising. A proponen…
Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (born 1858)
Thomas Stanislaus MacDonagh was an Irish political activist, poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916…
Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (born 1878)
Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in …
Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (born 1879)
John Edward Daly was commandant of Dublin's 1st Battalion of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising of 1916. He was the youngest man to hold that rank and the youngest execu…
Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) (born 1891)
John (Jack) Murray was an Australian politician who was the 23rd premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912.
John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (born 1851)
William James Pearse was an Irish republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising. He was a younger brother of Patrick Pearse, a leader of the rising.
Willie Pearse, Irish rebel (born 1881)
Joseph Mary Plunkett was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. As a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Repub…
Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer (born 1887)
John MacBride was an Irish republican and military leader. He was executed by the British government for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
John MacBride, executed Irish soldier and rebel (born 1865)
Maurice Raoul-Duval was a French polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (born 1866)
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer.
Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (born 1873): xix
James Connolly was a Scottish-born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains …
James Connolly, executed Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (born 1868)