Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
Syd Hoff was an American cartoonist and children's book author, best known for his classic early reader Danny and the Dinosaur. His cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, incl…
Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (died 2004)
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at C…
Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor (died 1999)
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, …
John Cage, American composer and theorist (died 1992)
Beata Margareta Kristina Söderbaum was a Swedish-German film actress, film producer, and photographer. She performed in Nazi-era films made by a German state-controlled production …
Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer (died 2001)
Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men.
Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet,, was a Scottish nobleman, general practitioner and farmer. Forbes was a trans man; he was officially registered as the youngest daughter of John, Lor…
Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, Scottish nobleman (died 1991)
Wayne Brewster Barlow was an American composer of classical music. He was also a professor of music, organist, and choir director.
Wayne Barlow, American organist, composer, and director (died 1996)
David Packard was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the b…
David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (died 1996)
Basappa Danappa Jatti was the vice president of India, serving from 1974 to 1979. He was the acting president of India from 11 February to 25 July 1977. He also served as the chief…
Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (died 2002)
Maurice K. Goddard was the driving force behind the creation of 45 Pennsylvania state parks during his 24 years as a cabinet officer for six governors of the Commonwealth of Pennsy…
Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (died 1995)
Reta Shaw was an American character actress known for playing strong, hard-edged, working women in film and on many of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s i…
Reta Shaw, American actress (died 1982)
Irena Kwiatkowska was a popular Polish actress, known in Poland for her many cabaret roles and monologues, as well as appearances in movies and television shows.
Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (died 2011)
Maksim Tank was a Belarusian Soviet poet, journalist and translator.
Maksim Tank, Belarusian poet, journalist, and translator (died 1995)
María de la Cruz Toledo was a Chilean political activist for women's suffrage, a journalist, a writer, and a political commentator. In 1953, she became the first woman ever elected…
María de la Cruz, Chilean journalist and activist (died 1995)
Reuben David was a zoologist and the founder of the Kankaria Zoo in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder (died 1989)
Kurt Sanderling, CBE was a German conductor.
Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor (died 2011)
Martha George Rogers Ripley was an American physician, suffragist, and professor of medicine. Founder of the Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ripley was one of the mos…
Martha Ripley, American physician (born 1843)
Abraham Stoker was an Irish writer, barrister, and theatre manager. He was the author of Dracula (1897) and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula. The novel and its …
Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (born 1847)
Homer Calvin Davenport was a political cartoonist and writer from the United States. He is known for drawings that satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, most not…
Homer Davenport, American political cartoonist (born 1867)
Nettie Maria Stevens was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male me…
Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (born 1861)
Frederik VIII was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912.
Frederik VIII of Denmark (born 1843)
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more…
August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (born 1849)
Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish journalist, novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, and a disti…
Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (born 1847)
Austin Lane Crothers, was an American politician and a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.
Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (born 1860)