Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
William Denby Hanna was an American animator, voice actor, and musician. Hanna and Joseph Barbera co-created Tom and Jerry and founded the animation studio and production company H…
William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (died 2001)
Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short, stocky right-hander, McCabe was described by Wisden as "one o…
Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (died 1968)
James Elliott Coyne was a Canadian economist who served as the second governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had…
James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (died 2012)
Diptendu Pramanick was an Indian film personality from Kolkata, India. He was the founder secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association, a fraternity of film personnel…
Diptendu Pramanick, Indian businessman (died 1989)
Mamadou Dia was a Senegalese politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Senegal from 1957 until 1962, when he was forced to resign and was subsequently imprisoned amidst …
Mamadou Dia, Senegalese politician; 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (died 2009)
Vilém Tauský CBE was a Czech conductor and composer. From the advent of the Second World War, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, and was one of a significant group of émigr…
Vilém Tauský, Czech-English conductor and composer (died 2004)
Gordon William Prange was the author of several World War II historical manuscripts which were published by his co-workers after his death in 1980. Prange was a professor of histor…
Gordon Prange, American historian, author, and academic (died 1980)
Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) who wor…
Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist (died 1953)
Ruth Irene Tompson was an American camera technician, animation checker and supercentenarian. She was known for her work on animated features at The Walt Disney Company and was dec…
Ruthie Tompson, American animator and artist (died 2021)
Harry Horner was a Czech-born American art director who made a successful career in Hollywood as an Oscar-winning art director and as a feature film and television director. He was…
Harry Horner, American director and production designer (died 1994)
Julien Gracq was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabular…
Julien Gracq, French author and critic (died 2007)
Guadalupe Natalia Tovar Sullivan, known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress. She is best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version…
Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (died 2016)
Gale Page was an American singer and actress.
Gale Page, American actress (died 1983)
Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia, was a Mexican-born American interiors photographer.
Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (died 2003)
Jean Moréas was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth.
Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (born 1856)
Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist after whom the bacteria family Rickettsiaceae and the order Rickettsiales are named.
Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (born 1871)
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1841)
Stanislao Cannizzaro was an Italian chemist. He is famous for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1…
Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (born 1826)
Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was n…
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (born 1841)
Pauline Viardot was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, she came from a musical family and took up …
Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (born 1821)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has prod…
Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (born 1835)
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has alway…
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832)
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role i…
Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (born 1856)
Pierre-Jules Renard was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles. Among his other works are Le Pl…
Jules Renard, French author and playwright (born 1864)