Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Jelle Zijlstra was a Dutch politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 November 1966 until 5 April 1967. He was a member of the Anti-Revolution…
Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
Leonard Brandt Cole, commonly known as L. B. Cole, was a comic book artist, editor, and publisher who worked during the Golden Age of Comic Books, producing work in various genres.…
L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (died 1995)
Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician and human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and s…
Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician (died 2020)
Sir Harold Winter Atcherley was a businessman, public figure and arts administrator in the United Kingdom.
Harold Atcherley, English businessman (died 2017)
William Russell Johnson was an American professional baseball player. He was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played in 964 games for the New York Yankees in the 1940s …
Billy Johnson, American baseball player (died 2006)
Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for…
Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (died 2002)
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring work…
Alan Jay Lerner, American songwriter and composer (died 1986)
Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among oth…
Allen Drury, American journalist and author (died 1998)
Helen Losee Wagner was an American actress.
Helen Wagner, American actress (died 2010)
Paul Harvey Aurandt was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast News and Comment on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his f…
Paul Harvey, American radio host (died 2009)
Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. …
Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (died 2014)
Luis Alcoriza de la Vega was a Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor.
Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1992)
Robert Cummin Katter was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1990, representing the National Party. He served as Minister for the Army …
Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician (died 1990)
Frederick Francis "Fred" McCarthy, O.F.S., was an American Franciscan cartoonist, creator of the popular Brother Juniper single-panel comic strip.
Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk (died 2009)
Harold Amos was an American microbiologist. He taught at Harvard Medical School for nearly fifty years and was the first African American department chair of the school.
Harold Amos, American microbiologist and academic (died 2003)
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.
Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician aft…
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (died 2012)
Ray Charles was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry …
Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (died 2015)
Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor. He was one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob H…
Dick Haymes, Argentinian actor and singer (died 1980)
Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.
Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (died 1967)
Israel López Valdés, better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga. Throughout…
Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (died 2008)
Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management str…
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., American historian and academic (died 2007)
Margot Loyola Palacios was a Chilean folklorist, musician, dancer, and teacher. She is considered one of the most influential musicians of Chile, pioneering folkloric research and …
Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an American entertainer best known for his appearances as a panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including Match Game, Password, Hol…
Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (died 2005)