Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Nehemiah Persoff was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions, and also performed as a voice artist in a career…
Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (died 2022)
Michel Déon was a French novelist and literary columnist. He published over 50 works and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, Les…
Michel Déon, French novelist, playwright, and critic (died 2016)
Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks was the only child of author Agatha Christie.
Rosalind Hicks, British literary guardian and the only child of author, Agatha Christie (died 2004)
Pauline May Betz Addie was an American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer called her the…
Pauline Betz, American tennis player (died 2011)
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis was an Italian and American film producer and businessman. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into film produ…
Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer (died 2010)
John David Wilson was an English artist, animator and producer. He owned his own production studio, Fine Arts Films.
John David Wilson, English animator and producer (died 2013)
Luis Francisco Rodríguez Olmo was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter. Olmo played in the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves (19…
Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager (died 2017)
Johannes Marten den Uijl, better known as Joop den Uyl, was a Dutch politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977. He was a member of t…
Joop den Uyl, Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1987)
Ralph George Houk, nicknamed "the Major", was an American catcher, coach, manager, and front office executive in Major League Baseball. He is best known as the successor of Casey S…
Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager (died 2010)
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, (née Peachey; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, she was one of the founder…
Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist and academic (died 2020)
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. Often regarded as the "Father of Indian sp…
Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (died 1971)
Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard was an American television evangelist whose Cathedral of Tomorrow show was aired on over 600 stations at the peak of its popularity.
Rex Humbard, American evangelist and television host (died 2007)
Sir George Albert Shearing was a British jazz pianist and composer who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records.…
George Shearing, English jazz pianist and bandleader (died 2011)
Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, stage, and movie performer who appeared in the popular "Dead End Kids" movies, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and in th…
Huntz Hall, American actor (died 1999)
Benedict "Ben" Kiely was an Irish writer and broadcaster from Omagh, County Tyrone.
Benedict Kiely, Irish journalist and author (died 2007)
Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950…
Georgia Gibbs, American singer (died 2006)
Walter Bernstein was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s because of his views on communism. Some of his notab…
Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and producer (died 2021)
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the…
Karl-Heinz Euling, German captain (died 2014)
Walter Joseph Hickel was an American businessman, real estate developer, and politician who served as the second governor of Alaska from 1966 to 1969 and 1990 to 1994, as well as U…
Wally Hickel, American businessman and politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska (died 2010)
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American businessman and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He rep…
Malcolm Forbes, American publisher and politician (died 1990)
Adamantios Androutsopoulos was a lawyer and professor. He held various ministerial posts under the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and was finally appointed interim Prime Ministe…
Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer, educator and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin was a Soviet mathematician, who made numerous contributions in algebraic topology, geometry, measure theory, probability theory, ergodic theory and entr…
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist (died 1984)
Tosia Altman was a courier and smuggler for Hashomer Hatzair and the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) during the German occupation of Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Tosia Altman, member of the Polish resistance in World War II (died 1943)
Niels Viggo Bentzon was a Danish composer and pianist.
Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer and pianist (died 2000)