Explore 1208 historical events from 2010–2019.
Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystall…
Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (born 1926)
Jean-François Théodore was a French businessman, President, chairman and CEO of Euronext N.V., deputy CEO and Head of Strategy of NYSE Euronext Inc. for Euronext N.V and chairman o…
Jean-François Théodore, French businessman (born 1946)
Flora MacNeil, MBE was a traditional singer of Scottish Gaelic folk music. MacNeil gained prominence after meeting Alan Lomax and Hamish Henderson during the early 1950s, and conti…
Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (born 1928)
Bruce Lundvall was an American record company executive, best known for his period as the President and CEO of the Blue Note Label Group, reporting directly to Eric Nicoli, the Chi…
Bruce Lundvall, American businessman (born 1935)
Edward Watson McWhinney was a Canadian lawyer and academic specializing in constitutional and international law. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2000 for t…
Ted McWhinney, Australian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1924)
Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller was a philanthropist who, as the wife of the 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller, served as second lady of the United …
Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, socialite; 31st Second Lady of the United States (born 1926)
Prashant Bhargava was an Indian-American filmmaker and designer. He died of a heart attack from a history of heart trouble. Bhargava's short film Sangam, described by Greg Tate of…
Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (born 1973)
Moshe Levinger was an Israeli Religious Zionist activist and an Orthodox Rabbi who, since 1967, had been a leading figure in the movement to settle Jews in the territories occupied…
Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (born 1935)
Robert Solomon Wistrich was a scholar of antisemitism, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on antisemitism.
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James Robert Belden was an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and producer. As a producer, he was mostly associated with the remastering of recordings by trumpet…
Bob Belden, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (born 1956)
Femi Robinson was a Nigerian film and television actor, famous for his lead role in The Village Headmaster, where his stage name, "Ife Araba, The Village Headmaster", was coined. C…
Femi Robinson, Nigerian actor and playwright (born 1940)
Annarita Sidoti was an Italian race walker.
Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (born 1969)
Lynn Annette Ripley, better known by the stage name Twinkle, was an English singer-songwriter. She had chart success in the 1960s with her songs "Terry" and "Golden Lights".
Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (born 1948)
Jassem Al-Kharafi, was a Kuwaiti oligarch who was the speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly from 1999 to 2011. In his capacity as Speaker in 2006, Al-Kharafi played a critical r…
Jassem Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti businessman and politician, 8th Kuwaiti Speaker of the National Assembly (born 1940)
Fred Earl Gladding was an American professional baseball player and coach. He was a right-handed pitcher for all or parts of 13 seasons (1961–1973) with the Detroit Tigers and Hous…
Fred Gladding, American baseball player and coach (born 1936)
Louis Johnson was an American bass guitarist. Johnson was best known for his work with the group the Brothers Johnson and his session playing on several hit albums of the 1970s and…
Louis Johnson, American bass player and producer (born 1955)
Marques Haynes was an American professional basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters, notable for his ability to dribble the ball and keep it away from defenders. A…
Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)
Anne Meara was an American comedian and actress. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, di…
Anne Meara, American actress, comedian and playwright (born 1929)
Volodymyr Katriuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian soldier and beekeeper, who was accused of having taken part in the Khatyn massacre and other massacres under the cover of anti-partisan w…
Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (born 1921)
Aleksey Borisovich Mozgovoy was a commander of the Russian-installed separatist Luhansk People's Republic in Ukraine. He was the leader of the pro-Russian Prizrak Brigade.
Aleksey Mozgovoy, Pro-Russian Ukrainian separatist leader (born 1975)
Alicia Esther Nash was a Salvadoran-American physicist. The wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., she was a mental-health care advocate, who gave up her professional aspirati…
Alicia Nash, Salvadoran-American physicist and engineer (born 1933)
John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geome…
John Forbes Nash Jr
Dean Carroll was an English professional rugby league footballer and cricketer who played in the 1980s and 1990s.
Dean Carroll, English rugby player (born 1962)
Sir Kenneth Sydney Jacobs was an Australian judge who served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Kenneth Jacobs, Australian lawyer and judge (born 1917)