Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian–Russian nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. A …
Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (died 1993)
George Robert Crosby was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which formed around 1935. The Bob-Cats were a New Orleans Dixieland-style ja…
Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader (died 1993)
Charles Snead Houston was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important …
Charles Snead Houston, American physician and mountaineer (died 2009)
Donald John DeFore was an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1952 to 1957 and the sitcom Hazel from 1961 to 1965,…
Don DeFore, American actor (died 1993)
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Productions, contributi…
Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (died 1973)
William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most dist…
Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (died 1995)
John J. Dreyfus Jr. was an American financial expert and the founder of the Dreyfus Funds.
Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (died 2009)
Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.
Robert Irving, English conductor and director (died 1991)
John Terence Reese was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, …
Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (died 1996)
Arthur Lindsay Hassett was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and the Australian national team. The diminutive Hassett was an elegant middle-order batsman, described b…
Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1993)
Richard Tucker was an American operatic tenor and cantor. Long associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Tucker's career was primarily centered in the United States.
Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (died 1975)
Leonard Arthur Butterfield was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1946. He later served as New Zealand's chief harness racing stipendiary steward.
Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (died 1999)
Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert was one of the first female American pitchers in professional baseball history. She was 17 years old when she pitched for the Chattanooga L…
Jackie Mitchell, American baseball pitcher (died 1987)
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was a…
Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Helen Levitt was an American photographer and cinematographer. She was particularly noted for her street photography around New York City. David Levi Strauss described her as "the …
Helen Levitt, American photographer and cinematographer (died 2009)
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (died 2012)
Ludwig Merwart was an influential Austrian painter and graphic artist. He is an important representative of Tachism and was a major force in graphic arts and prints, especially aft…
Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1979)
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was an American mobster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crew during the mid-20th century.
Mickey Cohen, American mob boss (died 1976)
Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller Universit…
Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)
Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first…
Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (died 2005)
Shmuel HaLevi Wosner was a prominent Ashkenazi rabbi and posek living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He was known as the Shevet HaLevi after his major work.
Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (died 2015)
Julie Gibson was an American singer and radio, television and film actress who had a career in movies during the 1940s. Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for…
Julie Gibson, American actress and singer (died 2019)
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of t…
Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (died 2009)
William Shankly was a Scottish football player and manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool. Shankly brought success to Liverpool, gaining promotion to the Fi…
Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (died 1981)