Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Stuart Freeborn was a British motion picture make-up artist. He has been referred to as the "grandfather of modern make-up design" and is perhaps best known for his work on the ori…
Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (died 2013)
Gail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher.
Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator (died 1984)
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century.
Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 2018)
Lída Baarová was a Czech actress.
Lída Baarová, Czech-Austrian actress (died 2000)
Graeme Emerson Bell, AO, MBE was an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader. According to The Age, his "band's music was hailed for its distinctiv…
Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer (died 2012)
James Alfred Van Allen was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa who was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. His discovery o…
James Van Allen, American physicist and philosopher (died 2006)
Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos, was the 269th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 16 July 1972, until…
Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (died 1991)
Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, was an English architect. Hailed as "the greatest English architect of the early heroic modern period", his most known work is the Royal National Theatre, o…
Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre (died 2001)
John Arthur Passmore was an Australian philosopher.
John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (died 2004)
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC (NI), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate …
Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Anglo-Irish captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern…
Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).…
Robert Wise, American director and producer (died 2005)
Pavle was the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, serving from 1990 to 2009.
Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (died 2009)
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his role as Q, MI6's quartermaster, in 17 of the Eon-produced James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.
Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor (died 1999)
Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (died 1994)
Mae Boren Axton was an American singer-songwriter. She was known in the music industry as the "Queen Mother of Nashville". She co-wrote the Elvis Presley hit single "Heartbreak Hot…
Mae Boren Axton, American composer and educator (died 1997)
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He was then Chief of Staff of the United Stat…
Creighton Abrams, American general (died 1974)
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He i…
Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (died 1999)
Orhan Kemal is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Reşit Öğütçü. He is known for his realist novels that describe the life of the poor in Turkey.
Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (died 1970)
Allen Albert Funt was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as …
Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
Tomáš Jan Baťa,, also known as Thomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa ml., was a Czech and Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s until the 80…
Thomas J. Bata, Czech-Canadian businessman (died 2008)
William Oscar Guernsey Grut was a Swedish modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he won the gold medal in modern pentathlon. Grut was a multip…
William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (died 2012)
Shin Kanemaru was a Japanese politician who was a significant figure in the political arena of Japan from the 1970s to the early 1990s. He was also Director General of the Japan D…
Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (died 1996)
Jack Cardiff was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiment…
Jack Cardiff, English director, cinematographer, and photographer (died 2009)
Kenneth Gilbert More was an English actor.
Kenneth More, English actor (died 1982)