Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth func…
James Lovelock, English biologist and chemist (died 2022)
Svetozar Ćorović was a Bosnian Serb writer. In his books, he often wrote of life in Herzegovina and, more specifically, the city of Mostar. His brother was Vladimir Ćorović, a dist…
Svetozar Ćorović, Serbian novelist (born 1875)
Augustus D. Juilliard was an American businessman and philanthropist, born at sea as his parents were emigrating to the United States from France. Making a successful career in New…
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Elizabeth Almira Allen was an American teacher, teachers' rights advocate, and the first woman president of the New Jersey Education Association. Allen was born in Joliet, Illinois…
Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (born 1854)
Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum…
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Eva Schiroky, nicknamed Eva Chirowska, was a Czech anarchist and cook. She is best known for having been suspected of being a member of the Ortiz gang, an illegalist group named af…
Eva Schiroky, Czech anarchist and cook (born 1840)
Henry John Heinz was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was involved in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.…
Henry J
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister o…
Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (born 1880)
Hasan Tahsin was the code name of Osman Nevres, a Turkish nationalist and journalist of Dönmeh descent.
Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (born 1888)
Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as …
Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (born 1848)
Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist.
Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (born 1853)
Amado Nervo also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator. He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was k…
Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (born 1870)
Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock was an American archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won two bronze medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the …
Eliza Pollock, American archer (born 1840)
Madam C. J. Walker, Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker upon her third marriage, was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. Walker is recorded as the f…
Madam C
Kandukuri Veeresalingam was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India, current Andhra Pradesh. He was considered as the Father of the Telugu Renaissanc…
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (born 1848)
Robert Bacon was an American athlete, banker, businessman, statesman, diplomat and Republican Party politician who served as the 39th United States Secretary of State in the Theodo…
Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (born 1860)
Peter Johnson Sturholdt was an American boxer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Sturholdt was born in Red Wing, Minnesota. In 1904, he finished fourth in the lightweight cl…
Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (born 1885)
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
Spyridon Lambros or Lampros was a Greek history professor and briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the National Schism.
Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1851)
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy.
Edward Poynter, English painter and illustrator (born 1836)
Cora Agnes Benneson was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She was one of the first women to practice law in New England. Benneson was raised in Quincy, Illinois, to paren…
Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (born 1851)
José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, O.F.S. was a Venezuelan physician and active member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, he became a highly renown…
José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician and educator (born 1864)
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projecti…
Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
The Polish–Soviet War was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution…
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army