Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
Lajos Baróti was a Hungarian football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the most outstanding coaches of his time.
Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2005)
Fumio Hayasaka was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores.
Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (died 1955)
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE was a British barrister who served later as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first c…
Rose Heilbron, British barrister and judge (died 2005)
Douglas Vivian Parson Wright was an English cricketer who played for England in 34 Test matches from 1938 to 1950/51. He played first-class cricket for Kent in twenty seasons betwe…
Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach (died 1998)
John Paul Dunphy was an American novelist and playwright. He was widely known as the partner of author Truman Capote.
Jack Dunphy, American author and playwright (died 1992)
Connie Barriot Gay was an American music entrepreneur who is renowned as a "founding father" and "major force" in country music. He is credited with coining the country music genre…
Connie B. Gay, American businessman, co-founded the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (died 1989)
Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Bo…
Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (died 1984)
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the St…
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (died 2008)
John Richard Basehart was an American actor. Known for his "deep, resonant baritone voice and craggy good looks," he was active in film, theatre and television from 1947 until 1983…
Richard Basehart, American actor (died 1984)
John H. Adams was an American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey who was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1965.
John H. Adams, American jockey (died 1995)
Dixy Lee Ray was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculo…
Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician, 17th Governor of Washington (died 1994)
Rudolf Leiding was the third post-war chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company, succeeding Kurt Lotz in 1971.
Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (died 2003)
Stuart Freeborn was a British motion picture make-up artist. He has been referred to as the "grandfather of modern make-up design" and is perhaps best known for his work on the ori…
Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (died 2013)
Gail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher.
Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator (died 1984)
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century.
Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 2018)
Lída Baarová was a Czech actress.
Lída Baarová, Czech-Austrian actress (died 2000)
Graeme Emerson Bell, AO, MBE was an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader. According to The Age, his "band's music was hailed for its distinctiv…
Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer (died 2012)
James Alfred Van Allen was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa who was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. His discovery o…
James Van Allen, American physicist and philosopher (died 2006)
Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos, was the 269th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 16 July 1972, until…
Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (died 1991)
Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, was an English architect. Hailed as "the greatest English architect of the early heroic modern period", his most known work is the Royal National Theatre, o…
Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre (died 2001)
John Arthur Passmore was an Australian philosopher.
John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (died 2004)
Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).…
Robert Wise, American director and producer (died 2005)
Pavle was the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, serving from 1990 to 2009.
Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (died 2009)
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his role as Q, MI6's quartermaster, in 17 of the Eon-produced James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.
Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor (died 1999)