Explore 1208 historical events from 2010–2019.
Allan Emrys Blakeney was a Canadian politician who served as the tenth premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982. Originally from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Blakeney moved to Regina…
Allan Blakeney, Canadian scholar and politician, tenth Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1925)
Phoebe Snow was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals on Pa…
Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
Marian Ethel Mercer was an American actress and singer.
Marian Mercer, American actress and singer (born 1935)
Erhard Loretan was a Swiss mountain climber. He was the third man to climb all fourteen peaks over 8,000 meters, and the second to do so without supplementary oxygen.
Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (born 1959)
Siamak Pourzand was an Iranian journalist and film critic. He was the manager of the Majmue-ye Farhangi-Honari-ye Tehran—a cultural center for writers, artists, and intellectuals—a…
Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (born 1931)
Dorjee Khandu was an Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 2007 until his death in a helicopter crash in April 2011.
Dorjee Khandu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1955)
Evald Okas was an Estonian painter, probably best known for his portraits of nudes.
Evald Okas, Estonian painter (born 1915)
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became ver…
Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist, author, and painter (born 1911)
Sir Henry Cooper was a British professional boxer. He was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years and held the European heavyweigh…
Henry Cooper, English boxer (born 1934)
Edwin Charles Ernest Lowe, MBE, was an English snooker commentator for the BBC and ITV. His husky, hushed tones earned him the nickname "Whispering Ted".
Ted Lowe, English sportscaster (born 1920)
Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppres…
Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (born 1937)
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked towards a pan-Islam…
Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founder of Al-Qaeda (born 1957)
John Cooper Jr., known professionally as Jackie Cooper, was an American actor and director. He began his career as a child actor and was a featured member of the Our Gang ensemble …
Jackie Cooper, American actor, television director, producer and executive (born 1922)
Sergo (Sergei) Parmenovich Kotrikadze was a Georgian association footballer from the former Soviet Union who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi and FC Torpedo Kutaisi. He was part of the…
Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer and manager (born 1936)
Thanasis Veggos was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus. He performed in around 130 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, starring in mor…
Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (born 1927)
Samuel McKee McCrory was a professional footballer from Northern Ireland, most notably spending five years with Southend United and scoring the first goal at their Roots Hall stadi…
Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (born 1924)
Claude Stanley Choules was a British-born military serviceman from Pershore, Worcestershire, who at the time of his death was the oldest combat veteran of the First World War. He s…
Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (born 1901)
Yosef "Yosale" Merimovich was a football player and manager. A one-club man, he played as a forward for Maccabi Tel Aviv between 1947 and 1958, winning six championships and six cu…
Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (born 1924)
Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the…
Dana Wynter, British actress (born 1931)
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device…
Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Severiano Ballesteros Sota was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. A member of a gifted gol…
Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)
George Webley, better known by the stage name Big George, was a British musician, composer, bandleader and broadcaster who has been described as one of Britain's most successful th…
Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (born 1957)
Victor Ivanovich Nosach was a Soviet and Russian historian, Doctor of Historian Sciences, Member of the Academy of Humanitarian Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russian Federation.
Victor Nosach, Soviet historian (born 1929)
Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian professional boxer who competed from 1964 to 1976. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and The Ring bantamweight titles from 1968 to 1969, bec…
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (born 1948)