Explore 2579 historical events from 2010–2019.
Kenneth Brown was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles.
Ken Brown, British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940)
Basil Myron Schott was the Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh from 2002 until his death.
Basil Schott, American archbishop (born 1939)
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, ret…
Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941)
Alfonso Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western, science fiction and fantasy.
Al Williamson, American illustrator (born 1931)
Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, television host, actor and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV …
Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)
Marc Louis Bazin was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary, and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was th…
Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (born 1932)
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.
Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer and academic (born 1930)
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC was an English filmmaker and cinematographer. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (…
Ronald Neame, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1911)
Michael Verdi, best known by his ring name Trent Acid, was an American professional wrestler.
Trent Acid, American wrestler (born 1980)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with wh…
José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
Okan Demiriş was a Turkish composer. He was married to the soprano Leyla Demiris.
Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (born 1942)
Manute Bol was a Dinka Sudanese-American professional basketball player and political activist. Listed at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) or 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall, Bol was one of the two tall…
Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (born 1962)
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity Colleg…
Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the coun…
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)
Roberto Rosato was an Italian footballer, who played as a defender.
Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (born 1943)
Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna. His works are lar…
Harry B
Russell Ash was the British author of the Top 10 of Everything series of books, as well as Great Wonders of the World, Incredible Comparisons and many other reference, art and humo…
Russell Ash, English author (born 1946)
Irwin Barker was a Canadian comedian and writer. He wrote for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report, and was nominated for four Gemini Awards as a writer and one as s…
Irwin Barker, Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1956)
İlhan Selçuk was a Turkish lawyer, journalist, author, novelist and editor.
İlhan Selçuk, Turkish lawyer, journalist, and author (born 1925)
John Wear Burton was an Australian public servant, high commissioner and academic.
John Burton, Australian public servant and diplomat (born 1915)
Fred Anderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois. Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but he also incorpora…
Fred Anderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (born 1929)
Alan Frederick Plater was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. He is best known for the sitcom Oh No It…
Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1935)
Richard Beverland Sellars was an American business executive who served as chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson as part of 40 years with the healthcare product firm. Sellars playe…
Richard B
Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was the fourth president of Lithuania, in office from 1993 to 1998. He also served as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2001 to 2006. Brazauskas was the …
Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 4th President of Lithuania (born 1932)