Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Phyllis Nicolson was a British mathematician and physicist best known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson method together with John Crank.
Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic (died 1968)
Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine. Her most notable work includes research on vinca alkaloids, …
Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (died 2006)
Philip Francis Rizzuto, nicknamed "the Scooter", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop. He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–…
Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2007)
Obdulio Jacinto Muiños Varela was a Uruguayan football player. He was the captain of the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup after beating Brazil in the decisive fina…
Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (died 1996)
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, best known by his ring name El Santo, was a Mexican professional wrestler and actor. He is the most famous and iconic of the Mexican professional wrestlers, …
El Santo, Mexican Luchador enmascarado, film actor, and folk icon (died 1984)
David Réal Caouette was a Canadian politician from Quebec. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada and founder of the Ralliement des créd…
Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1976)
Trần Đức Thảo was a Vietnamese philosopher. His work attempted to unite phenomenology with Marxist philosophy. His work had some currency in France in the 1950s and 1960s, and was …
Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese-French philosopher and theorist (died 1993)
Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experience…
Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (died 2010)
Carl Ballantine was an American magician, comedian and actor. Billing himself as "The Great Ballantine", "The Amazing Ballantine" or "Ballantine: The World's Greatest Magician", hi…
Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (died 2009)
William T. Orr was an American actor and television producer associated with various Western and detective programs of the 1950s-1970s. In most of his Warner Bros. series, he was b…
William T. Orr, American actor and producer (died 2002)
Benjamin Rubin was an American microbiologist, known as the inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle, which played an important role in the eradication of smallpox. Rubin inv…
Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (died 2010)
Wee Chong Jin was a Malayan-born Singaporean jurist who served as a chief justice of Singapore for 27 years, from 1963 to 1990, where he was the first Asian lawyer appointed as a j…
Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (died 2005)
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the …
Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (died 2014)
Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (died 1987)
Cahal Brendan Daly KGCHS was a Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian and writer from County Antrim.
Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and theologian (died 2009)
Charles Drake was an American actor.
Charles Drake, American actor (died 1994)
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and…
Christian de Duve, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and…
Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1967)
Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1…
Allen Ludden, American television personality and game show host (died 1981)
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the Digit…
Magda Szabó, Hungarian author and poet (died 2007)
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader of the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic …
Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (died 1977)
June Allyson was an American stage, film, and television actress.
June Allyson, American actress (died 2006)
William David Conn was an American professional boxer and Light Heavyweight Champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis. He had a professional boxing record of 63 wins, 11 losses …
Billy Conn, American boxer (died 1993)
John Walter Lord Jr. was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and popular historian known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the Titanic, A Night to Remember.
Walter Lord, American historian and author (died 2002)