Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Oluf Bernhard Reed-Olsen was a Norwegian resistance member and pilot during World War II. As a resistance member he is best known for the Lysaker Bridge sabotage as well as operati…
Oluf Reed-Olsen, Norwegian resistance member and pilot (died 2002)
Bob Vanatta was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the head basketball coach for Central Methodist, Missouri State University, Army, Bradley, …
Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (died 2016)
Elizabeth Mary Julia Pirie is best known as a British spy who worked for MI5 from the 1950s through her retirement in the 1990s. She was known to her family as Elizabeth, but as Ju…
Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (died 2008)
Edward Bonfoy Giller was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general who served as the assistant general manager for military application, United States Atomic Energy Commission…
Edward B. Giller, American Air Force major general (died 2017)
Craig Stevens was an American film and television actor, best known for his starring role on television as private detective Peter Gunn from 1958 to 1961.
Craig Stevens, American actor (died 2000)
Nicolaas Govert "Dick" de Bruijn was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician and academic (died 2012)
Jarl Holger Wahlström was the 12th General of The Salvation Army (1981–86).
Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (died 1999)
Harold Edward James Aldridge was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fict…
James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (died 2015)
Charles Augustus Stevens Jr. was an American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Chuck Stevens, American baseball player (died 2018)
Frank L. Lambert was an American academic who was Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is known for his advocacy of changing the definition of the…
Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College (died 2018)
Frederick G. Wacker Jr. was an engineer and former president of two large Chicago companies. He was also a prominent Chicago socialite, a jazz musician, and a racing driver. He par…
Fred Wacker, American race driver and engineer (died 1998)
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tom…
Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (died 2009)
Roy Gerald Krenkel, who often signed his work RGK, was an American illustrator who specialized in fantasy and historical drawings and paintings for books, magazines and comic books…
Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (died 1983)
Alberto Ascari was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1955. Ascari won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1952 and …
Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (died 1955)
Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer, better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity. She began writing the "Ask A…
Eppie Lederer, American journalist (Ann Landers) and radio host (died 2002)
Ronald Bladen was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor. He is particularly known for his large-scale sculptures. His artistic stance, was influenced by European Constructi…
Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor (died 1988)
Marcia Joan Brown was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, six Caldecot…
Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
Fredric John Baur Jr. was an American organic chemist and food storage scientist notable for designing the Pringles packaging. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles cont…
Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (died 2008)
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most not…
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)
Arthur Laurents was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. With a career spanning seven decades he received numerous accolades including two Tony…
Arthur Laurents, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (died 2011)
Jay Wright Forrester was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as …
Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer and systems scientist (died 2016)
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques fo…
Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)
Paul Caswell Powe Farnes, was a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot, and Second World War flying ace. He flew during the Battle of Britain as one of "The Few", piloting Hawker Hu…
Paul Farnes, British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot (died 2020)
Samuel Victor Perry FRS was an English biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of muscle biochemistry. In his earlier years he was a rugby union lock who played club rugby for So…
Samuel Victor Perry, English biochemist and rugby player (died 2009)