Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández Meyzán was a Peruvian professional footballer who played as forward. All his football work was carried out as a player of the Universitario de Deportes of …
Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian footballer (died 1996)
William Redington Hewlett was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).
William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (died 2001)
Carlos Joaquín Gradin, also known as Carlos Gradín, was an Argentine surveyor and archaeologist. He carried out numerous studies in the Patagonian region, and is known for his exte…
Carlos J
Dominique Rolin was a Belgian novelist.
Dominique Rolin, Belgian author (died 2012)
Joseph Lawrence Abreu was an American Major League Baseball infielder. He played nine seasons in professional baseball, one at the major league level. He served in the United State…
Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier (died 1993)
Frederick Richard Dimbleby was an English journalist and broadcaster who became the BBC's first war correspondent and then its leading TV news commentator.
Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and producer (died 1965)
Peter Wilton Cushing was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio r…
Peter Cushing, English actor (died 1994)
Pierre Daninos was a French writer and humorist.
Pierre Daninos, French author (died 2005)
Karin Ekelund was a Swedish actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1933 and 1976. She was the first female radio producer in Sweden, producing, and later directing, for Sveriges…
Karin Ekelund, Swedish actress (died 1976)
Gina Bachauer was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe. Interested in piano at a young age, Bachauer graduated from the Athens Conservat…
Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (died 1976)
Rafael Gil was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film I Was a Parish Priest (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and be…
Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter (died 1986)
Oskar-Heinrich "Pritzl" Bär was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe. Bär flew more than one thousand combat missions, and fought in the Weste…
Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (died 1957)
Josef Manger was a German heavyweight weightlifter who won a European title in 1935, an Olympic gold medal in 1936, and two world titles in 1937 and 1938. Between 1935 and 1941 he …
Josef Manger, German weightlifter (died 1991)
Anthony Florian Zaleski, known professionally as Tony Zale, was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Ste…
Tony Zale, American boxer (died 1997)
William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, was a British Conservative politician, army officer and journalist. He was the first person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabin…
Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (died 2007)
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s, she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessi…
Barbara Pym, English author (died 1980)
Elsie Tu, known as Elsie Elliott in her earlier life, was a British-born Hong Kong social activist, elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong from 1963 to 1995, and member o…
Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and politician (died 2015)
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of…
Pedro Mir, Dominican poet and author (died 2000)
Conrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been rec…
Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic (died 2000)
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also known for his political …
Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (died 2007)
Benjamin Shapira was an Israeli biochemist.
Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (died 1993)
Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robe…
Patrick Steptoe, English scientist (developed in vitro fertilization) (died 1988)
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was an American professional football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). Lombardi is considered by many to be among the greatest coa…
Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager (died 1970)
Risë Stevens was an American operatic mezzo-soprano and actress. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s …
Risë Stevens, American soprano and actress (died 2013)