Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
John Terence Reese was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, …
Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (died 1996)
Richard Tucker was an American operatic tenor and cantor. Long associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Tucker's career was primarily centered in the United States.
Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (died 1975)
Leonard Arthur Butterfield was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1946. He later served as New Zealand's chief harness racing stipendiary steward.
Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (died 1999)
Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert was one of the first female American pitchers in professional baseball history. She was 17 years old when she pitched for the Chattanooga L…
Jackie Mitchell, American baseball pitcher (died 1987)
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was a…
Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Helen Levitt was an American photographer and cinematographer. She was particularly noted for her street photography around New York City. David Levi Strauss described her as "the …
Helen Levitt, American photographer and cinematographer (died 2009)
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (died 2012)
Ludwig Merwart was an influential Austrian painter and graphic artist. He is an important representative of Tachism and was a major force in graphic arts and prints, especially aft…
Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1979)
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of t…
Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (died 2009)
William Shankly was a Scottish football player and manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool. Shankly brought success to Liverpool, gaining promotion to the Fi…
Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (died 1981)
Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns. He was often paired w…
Alan Ladd, American actor and producer (died 1964)
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was an American mobster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crew during the mid-20th century.
Mickey Cohen, American mob boss (died 1976)
Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan was a British historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group. Kiernan's work was prominent in the field of Marxist historiography in Br…
Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic (died 2009)
Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller Universit…
Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)
Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first…
Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (died 2005)
Shmuel HaLevi Wosner was a prominent Ashkenazi rabbi and posek living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He was known as the Shevet HaLevi after his major work.
Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (died 2015)
Julie Gibson was an American singer and radio, television and film actress who had a career in movies during the 1940s. Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for…
Julie Gibson, American actress and singer (died 2019)
Leônidas da Silva was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the most important players of the first half of the 20th century. At the…
Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (died 2004)
Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Michael Charles Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, was a British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II. Charteris was the longest-serving …
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, English soldier and courtier (died 1999)
Sir John Anthony Quayle was a British actor who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).…
Anthony Quayle, English actor (died 1989)
Abraham Lincoln Gordon was the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University (1967–1971) and a United States Ambassador to Brazil (1961–1966). Gordon had a career both in governmen…
Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (died 2009)
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, and best know…
Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (died 1983)
Jacinto Convit García was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to prevent leprosy and his studies to treat cancer. He played a role in founding Vene…
Jacinto Convit, Venezuelan physician and academic (died 2014)
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by winning four gold medals, setting individual Olympic records in …
Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (died 1980)