Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
Kai Martin Edvard Setälä was a Finnish physician and professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Helsinki. Through his daughter Christel, he was the maternal grandfather…
Kai Setälä, Finnish physician and professor (died 2005)
Rubby Sherr was an American nuclear physicist who co-invented a key component of the first nuclear weapon while participating in the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. …
Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (died 2013)
Henry Dreyfuss Brant was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.
Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer and conductor (died 2008)
Bruno Hoffmann was a German glass harpist. Hoffmann is widely acknowledged as the virtuoso who reanimated contemporary interest in the glass harp and glass harmonica.
Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harp player (died 1991)
Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, bef…
Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (died 1971)
John Newton Mitchell was the 67th attorney general of the United States under President Richard Nixon. He also was chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. Prior t…
John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (died 1988)
Johannes "Macky" Steinhoff was a Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, German general, and NATO official. He was one of very few Luftwaffe pilots who survived to fly operation…
Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (died 1994)
Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater n…
Frances Farmer, American actress (died 1970)
Helen Ward was an American jazz singer. She appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC and worked as a staff musician at WNYC. She was most known for her hit cover of the Johnn…
Helen Ward, American singer (died 1998)
Sidney Dillon Ripley II was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for 20 years, from 1964 to 1984, leading t…
Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (died 2001)
Joseph-Alfred Archambeault was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop in Canada. He was the first bishop of Joliette, Quebec.
Joseph-Alfred Archambeault, Canadian bishop (born 1859)
John Barclay Armstrong was a Texas Ranger lieutenant and a United States Marshal. He is usually remembered for his role in the pursuit and capture of the famous gunfighter John Wes…
John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (born 1850)
Henry Moret was a French Impressionist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany. He is best known for his involvement in the Pon…
Henry Moret, French painter (born 1856)
Frédéric-François-Louis Perrier was a Swiss architect and politician who was a Federal Councillor from 1912 until his death in 1913. As of 2009, he is the member with the shortest …
Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (born 1849)
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von der Ahe was a German-American entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the S…
Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (born 1851)
Sarah Ellen Roberts was an Englishwoman who died and was buried in Pisco, Peru. After her death, a legend evolved that she was a vampire and bride of Dracula. On 9 June 1993, th…
Sarah Roberts, English woman who was the subject of a vampire legend (born 1872)
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)…
Emily Davison, English suffragette (born 1872)
Mahmud Shevket Pasha was an Ottoman military commander and statesman.
Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 279th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1856)
Ștefan Octavian Iosif was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian poet and translator.
Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (born 1875)
Manoel Ferraz de Campos Sales was a Brazilian lawyer, coffee farmer, and politician who served as the fourth president of Brazil.
Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (born 1841)
Simon Alphonse Kirchhoffer was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (born 1873)
Edward Burd Grubb Jr. was a Union Army colonel and regimental commander in the American Civil War. He served in three regiments and commanded two of them. In recognition of his ser…
Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (born 1841)
Louis Hémon, was a French writer, best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine.
Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (born 1880)
Clímaco Calderón Reyes was a Colombian lawyer and politician, who became 15th President of Colombia for one day, following the death of President Francisco Javier Zaldúa.
Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (born 1852)