Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
Samuel Michael Fuller was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and actor. He was known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, of…
Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1997)
Claire Linton Cribbs was an American basketball player and high school coach. He was a two-time All-American at the University of Pittsburgh and won over 400 games as a high school…
Claire Cribbs, American basketball player and coach (died 1985)
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been tr…
Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (died 2001)
William Ben Hogan was an American professional golfer who is considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game. He profoundly influenced golf swing theory, an…
Ben Hogan, American golfer and sportscaster (died 1997)
Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershe…
Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Frank Friedman Oppenheimer was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Franc…
Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (died 1985)
Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for having brought French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Ma…
Julia Child, American chef and author (died 2004)
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rat…
Wendy Hiller, English actress (died 2003)
Edward Joseph Drake was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league …
Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (died 1995)
Generalmajor Otto Ernst Remer was a German Army officer who served during World War II and played a major role in stopping the 20 July plot in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. He was a c…
Otto Ernst Remer, German general (died 1997)
Hermann Olaf Frances "Herb" Narvo was an Australian rugby league footballer and boxer of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a national representative rugby league player and national heav…
Herb Narvo, Australian rugby league player, coach, and boxer (died 1958)
John Hersey Michaelis was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander, United States Forces Korea/Commanding General, …
John H. Michaelis, American general (died 1985)
Eugene Curran Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style. Kelly sought to create a new form …
Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1996)
Joseph Hector "Toe" Blake was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Blake played in the NHL from 1935 to 1948 with the Montreal Maroons and Mo…
Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1995)
Prince Igor Nikolayevich Troubetzkoy was a French aristocrat and athlete of Russian descent. He was styled His Serene Highness, but did not use the style often.
Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver (died 2008)
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He h…
Erich Honecker, German politician (died 1994)
John Alfred Tinniswood was a British supercentenarian who was the world's oldest verified living man from the death of 112-year-old Shi Ping of China on 29 June 2024 until his own …
John Tinniswood, British supercentenarian (died 2024)
Gloria Guinness, previously Countess Gloria von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, was a Mexican socialite and a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar from 1963 to 1971. She was photographed…
Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist (died 1980)
Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berli…
Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner (died 2002)
Patrick Barry Sullivan was an American actor of film, television, theatre, and radio. In a career that spanned over 40 years, Sullivan appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to…
Barry Sullivan, American actor (died 1994)
Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC, was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s …
Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer (died 2016)
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liqu…
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Speci…
Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (died 2011)
Ernest Harvey Bromley was an Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches, one in 1933 and the other in 1934.
Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (died 1967)