Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
Alan Melville was a South African cricketer who played in 11 Test matches from 1938 to 1949. He was born in Carnarvon, Northern Cape, South Africa and died at Sabie, Transvaal.
Alan Melville, South African cricketer (died 1983)
Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942), both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called …
Margaret Wise Brown, American author and educator (died 1952)
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson was a British architect, also active as an interior designer, an artist, and a writer and broadcaster on twentieth-century design. He was the director of ar…
Hugh Casson, English architect and academic (died 1999)
Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers was an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and Dick Hallorann in Stanle…
Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (died 1986)
Franz Kline was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock,…
Franz Kline, American painter and academic (died 1962)
Artie Shaw was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and author of both fiction and non-fiction.
Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (died 2004)
James Newton Demaret was an American professional golfer. He won 31 PGA Tour events in a long career between 1935 and 1957, and was the first three-time winner of the Masters, with…
Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (died 1983)
Imre "Imi" Lichtenfeld, also known as Imi Sde-Or, was a Hungarian-born Israeli martial artist. He is widely recognized for developing Krav Maga, an Israeli martial art.
Imi Lichtenfeld, Hungarian-Israeli martial artist, boxer, and gymnast (died 1998)
Georg Gaßmann was a German politician.
Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (died 1987)
Rachel Redgrave, known primarily by her birth name Rachel Kempson, was an English actress. She married Sir Michael Redgrave, and was the matriarch of the famous acting dynasty.
Rachel Kempson, English actress (died 2003)
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electri…
T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1975)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov was a Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union. His meticulous and almost photo-real style was popular, but courted controversy among ar…
Aleksandr Laktionov, Soviet painter (died 1972)
Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. was an American track and field sprinter and politician. He jointly held the world record in the 100-meter dash and placed second in that event in two Oly…
Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (died 1978)
Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer. Bernstein lived in Brick Township, New Jersey. He died at the age of 101, on June 3, 2011.
Harry Bernstein, English-American journalist and author (died 2011)
Gyula Kállai was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1951, Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1965 to 1967 and Speaker of…
Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary (died
Hector "Hec" Monroe Dyer was an American athlete, winner of a gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Hector Dyer, American sprinter (died 1990)
Paulette Goddard was an American actress and socialite. She was a prominent leading actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Paulette Goddard, American actress and model (died 1990)
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.
Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (died 1999)
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, also known as Mubarak bin Landan, was a British military officer, explorer, and writer. Thesiger's travel books include Arabian Sands (1959), on his f…
Wilfred Thesiger, British military officer, explorer, and writer (died 2003)
Arthur Gardner was an American actor and film producer. He was known for his television western, The Rifleman. He was a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie…
Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (died 2014)
Jan Heinrich Tilman Kiwe, also known as Til Kiver or Till Kiwe, was a German actor, voice actor and screenwriter who also was an ethnologist and highly decorated army officer and P…
Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (died 1995)
Michael John "Lefty" Sebastian was an American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Pir…
Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (died 1989)
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. was an American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer. He established the Boston Museum of Science, served as its director from 1939–198…
Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (died 2007)
Marion Post Wolcott was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivati…
Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (died 1990)