Explore 1208 historical events from 2010–2019.
Peter William Mayhew was a British-American actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appear…
Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (born 1944)
Alia Abdulnoor was an Emirati woman convicted of supporting and financing Al Qaeda. She was arrested in 2015 and sentenced in 2017 to a 10 year imprisonment on convictions of finan…
Alia Abdulnoor, Emirati imprisoned woman (born 1977)
Margaret Ann Lipton was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role a…
Peggy Lipton, American actress, model, and singer (born 1946)
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was a Spanish statesman, politician and chemist who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 2010 to 2011, and previously as Minister of Education from…
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician and chemist (born 1951)
Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s a…
Doris Day, American singer and actress (born 1922)
Sprent Arumogo Dabwido was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru between 2011 and 2013, and was also a weightlifter. The son of a parliamentarian, Dabwido was origi…
Sprent Dabwido, President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013 (born 1972)
Freddie Starr was an English stand up comedian, impressionist, singer and actor. Starr was the lead singer of Merseybeat rock and roll group the Midniters during the early 1960s, a…
Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (born 1943)
Thomas Edward Silverstein was an American criminal who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison after being convicted of three separate murders, with a fourth murder convictio…
Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (born 1952)
Unita Zelma Blackwell was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project d…
Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist and politician (born 1933)
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. Conway is perhaps best known as a regular cast member (1975–1978) on the TV comedy-variety series …
Tim Conway, American actor, writer, and comedian (born 1933)
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952…
Herman Wouk, American author (born 1915)
Stephen Austin Eubanks was an American motivational speaker on addiction and recovery. He was one of the best known survivors of the Columbine High School massacre, both in its imm…
Austin Eubanks, American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (born 1981)
Pieter Marinus "Piet" Blauw was a Dutch politician for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He was born in Alkmaar, North Holland and was a farmer by profession. Bla…
Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (born 1937)
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive, and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1985. L…
Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver (born 1949)
Tardar Sauce, nicknamed Grumpy Cat, was an American internet celebrity cat. She was known for her permanently "grumpy" facial appearance, which was caused by an underbite and felin…
Grumpy Cat, American cat and internet meme celebrity (born 2012)
Robert James Lee Hawke was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the leader of the Lab…
Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929)
Rik Kuypers was a Belgian film director. He directed 29 films between 1947 and 1981. He co-directed the film Seagulls Die in the Harbour, which was entered into the 1956 Cannes Fil…
Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director (born 1925)
Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he became the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazi…
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (born 1971)
Anna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr was a German-born British writer and illustrator whose books sold more than 10 million copies around the world. She created both enduring picture bo…
Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (born 1923)
Claus von Bülow was a British lawyer, consultant and socialite. In 1982, he was convicted of attempting to murder his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979, which had left her in a temporar…
Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (born 1926)
Prem Tinsulanonda was a Thai military officer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th prime minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988.
Prem Tinsulanonda, Former Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1920)
William Thad Cochran was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator for Mississippi from 1978 to 2018. A Republican, he previously served in the U.S.…
Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
Jason Marcano was a Trinidad and Tobago international footballer who played as a forward.
Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (born 1983)