Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
Erwin Wilhelm Müller was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He …
Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (died 1977)
Wilbert Vere Awdry, often credited as Rev. W. Awdry, was an English Anglican priest, railway enthusiast, and children's author. He was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and sev…
Wilbert Awdry, English author, created The Railway Series, the basis for Thomas the Tank Engine (died 1997)
Gail Patrick was an American film actress and television producer. Often cast as the bad girl or the other woman, she appeared in more than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, …
Gail Patrick, American actress (died 1980)
Irving Fein was an American television and film producer, and the manager of entertainers Jack Benny and George Burns.
Irving Fein, American producer and manager (died 2012)
Vernon Gordon 'Bob' Kirby was a South African tennis player.
Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player (died 1994)
Juan Manuel Fangio was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "el Chueco" and "el Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers'…
Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (died 1995)
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became ver…
Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic (died 2011)
Portia May White was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir…
Portia White, Canadian opera singer (died 1968)
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and fi…
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (died 1956)
Bronisław Żurakowski was a Polish engineer, aeroplane constructor, and glider test pilot.
Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (died 2009)
Marion Milton Magruder was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a pioneer in Radar Intercept Night Fighting. He was the first commanding officer of Marine aircraft squ…
Marion M
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 as the husband of Queen Juliana. They had four daughters together, includi…
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (died 2004)
William Howard Stein was an American biochemist who collaborated in the determination of the ribonuclease sequence, as well as how its structure relates to catalytic activity, earn…
William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980)
Katherine Lester DeMille was an American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s.
Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (died 1995)
Bernard Herrmann was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film scoring. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. Alex Ross …
Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (died 1975)
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature…
Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
Vaidyanath Mishra, better known by his pen name Nagarjun, was a Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues,…
Nagarjun, Indian poet (died 1998)
Arnold Alas was an Estonian landscape architect and artist.
Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (died 1990)
Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov was a Soviet military commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 22 December 1984 until 29 May 1987.
Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012)
Reginald Parnell was a racing driver and team manager from Derby, England. He participated in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scoring a …
Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager (died 1964)
Joseph Hardstaff Jr was an English cricketer, who played in twenty three Test matches for England from 1935 to 1948. Hardstaff's father, Joe senior played for Nottinghamshire and E…
Joe Hardstaff Jr., English cricketer (died 1990)
Leslie Bruce Hamilton was an Australian senior public servant and head of the Department of Social Services between 1966 and 1973.
Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (died 1989)
Endel Aruja was an Estonian physicist specialising in X-ray crystallography, encyclopedian, librarian, supporter of libraries and a long-term Estonian expatriate activist.
Endel Aruja, Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (died 2008)
Haydn William Bunton was an Australian rules footballer who represented Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and P…
Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach (died 1955)