Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage st…
Tove Jansson, Finnish author and illustrator (died 2001)
Jeff Corey was an American actor, television director, and teacher. After being blacklisted in the 1950s, he became one of the most prominent and influential acting coaches in Holl…
Jeff Corey, American actor and director (died 2002)
Carlos Alberto Menditéguy was a racing driver and polo player from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He entered 11 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scor…
Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian racing driver and polo player (died 1973)
Ray Smith was an English cricketer. He played for Essex between 1934 and 1956.
Ray Smith, English cricketer (died 1996)
Gerd Buchdahl was a German-English philosopher of science.
Gerd Buchdahl, German-English philosopher and author (died 2001)
Ruth Lowe was a Canadian pianist and songwriter. She composed the first Billboard top 80 song "I'll Never Smile Again".
Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter (died 1981)
Grace Elizabeth Bates was an American mathematician and one of few women in the United States to be granted a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1940s. She became an emeritus professor at…
Grace Bates, American mathematician and academic (died 1996)
Herman Russell Branson was an American physicist, chemist, best known for his research on the α protein structure, and was also the president of two colleges. He received a fellows…
Herman Branson, American physicist, chemist, and academic (died 1995)
Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer. He is known for his corporate logo designs, including logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, …
Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director (died 1996)
William Randall Downs, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He worked for CBS News from 1942 to 1962 and for ABC News beginning in 1963. He was one of th…
Bill Downs, American journalist (died 1978)
Lucy Dorothy Ozarin was a psychiatrist who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven female …
Lucy Ozarin, United States Navy lieutenant commander and psychiatrist (died 2017)
Lajos Baróti was a Hungarian football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the most outstanding coaches of his time.
Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2005)
Fumio Hayasaka was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores.
Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (died 1955)
Douglas Vivian Parson Wright was an English cricketer who played for England in 34 Test matches from 1938 to 1950/51. He played first-class cricket for Kent in twenty seasons betwe…
Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach (died 1998)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointe…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1988)
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE was a British barrister who served later as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first c…
Rose Heilbron, British barrister and judge (died 2005)
John Paul Dunphy was an American novelist and playwright. He was widely known as the partner of author Truman Capote.
Jack Dunphy, American author and playwright (died 1992)
Connie Barriot Gay was an American music entrepreneur who is renowned as a "founding father" and "major force" in country music. He is credited with coining the country music genre…
Connie B. Gay, American businessman, co-founded the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (died 1989)
Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Bo…
Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (died 1984)
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the St…
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (died 2008)
John Richard Basehart was an American actor. Known for his "deep, resonant baritone voice and craggy good looks," he was active in film, theatre and television from 1947 until 1983…
Richard Basehart, American actor (died 1984)
John H. Adams was an American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey who was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1965.
John H. Adams, American jockey (died 1995)
Dixy Lee Ray was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculo…
Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician, 17th Governor of Washington (died 1994)
Rudolf Leiding was the third post-war chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company, succeeding Kurt Lotz in 1971.
Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (died 2003)