Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Albon Timothy was a Trinidadian jazz and calypso musician and songwriter who played numerous instruments but was best known for his tenor saxophone playing. His most successful hit…
Al Timothy, Trinidadian musician and songwriter (died 2000)
Air Commodore Leonard Joseph Birchall,, "The Saviour of Ceylon", was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officer who warned of a Japanese attack on the island of Ceylon during the Se…
Leonard Birchall, Royal Canadian Air Force pilot (died 2004)
Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works includ…
Margaret Walker, American novelist and poet (died 1998)
Neil David Van Sickle was an American Air Force major general who was the deputy inspector general at Headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C.
Neil D. Van Sickle, American Air Force major general (died 2019)
Lowell Edward English was a highly decorated officer in the United States Marine Corps who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He is most noted for his service as assistant…
Lowell English, United States Marine Corps general (died 2005)
David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. Many of his works are tonal or modal. Hi…
David Diamond, American composer and educator (died 2005)
Lee Embree was an American Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first American air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Embree took the p…
Lee Embree, American sergeant and photographer (died 2008)
Jean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.
Jean Stafford, American writer (died 1979)
Milton Brent Buckner was an American jazz pianist and organist, who in the early 1950s popularized the Hammond organ. He pioneered the parallel chords style that influenced Red Gar…
Milt Buckner, American jazz pianist and Hammond organ pioneer (died 1977)
Leonard George Goodwin CMG FRS was a British protozoologist noted for his work on testing the effectiveness of chemical compounds in treating tropical diseases. He was born in Lond…
Leonard Goodwin, British protozoologist (died 2008)
Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo who was noted for his quality management innovations. H…
Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator (died 1989)
Albert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned six decades, from the early 1…
Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (died 2010)
Lieutenant General Kashmir Singh Katoch, MC was an Indian Army General and military adviser to the Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, officiating as the Chief of Staff of th…
Kashmir Singh Katoch, Indian army officer (died 2007)
Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes was an American actor. His most successful roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder…
Barnard Hughes, American actor (died 2006)
Elaine Barrie was an American actress who appeared in several films and one Broadway play. She was the fourth, and last, wife of actor John Barrymore.
Elaine Barrie, American actress (died 2003)
Bijon Bhattacharya was an Indian actor from West Bengal associated with Bengali theatre and films. He was an eminent playwright and dramatist.
Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1978)
Arthur Rothstein was an American photographer. His career spanned five decades, and he received recognition as one of America's premier photojournalists.
Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (died 1985)
George Savalla Gomes, better known as Carequinha or Baldy the Clown, was a Brazilian clown and actor, born in a circus to a circus family. He had a thick head of hair, but wore a b…
Carequinha, Brazilian clown and actor (died 2006)
Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le Bailly was a Royal Navy officer who became director-general of intelligence and later a writer.
Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer (died 2010)
Åke Fredrik Hellman was a Swedish-speaking Finnish still life and portrait artist and art professor. He worked as art teacher at the University of Helsinki. In 1963, he received th…
Åke Hellman, Finnish painter (died 2017)
Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. She joined the Pakistani foreign service in 1948, and was the country's first female civil serv…
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (died 2000)
Enrique Fausto Medina Fernando Sr. was the 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. A noted constitutionalist and law professor, he served in the Supreme Court f…
Enrique Fernando, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2004)
Somasunderam Udayar Ethirmanasingham MBE was a Ceylon Tamil businessman and politician who served as a Member of Parliament.
S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Sri Lankan businessman and politician (date of death unknown)
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was an American naval aviator who was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Kennedy family and the oldest of the nine children born to Jo…
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (died 1944)