Explore 4132 historical events from 2010–2019.
Mary Rodgers was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the 1972 novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which s…
Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (born 1931)
Edmond P. Blanchard was a Canadian jurist and politician.
Edmond Blanchard, Canadian jurist and politician (born 1954)
Allen R. Grossman was a noted American poet, critic and professor.
Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1932)
Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat was a Haitian politician who was elected as President of Haiti in a tightly controlled military held election in January 1988. He served as Presid…
Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (born 1930)
Rachid Solh was a Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, kin of one of the most eminent Sunni Muslim families in the country several of whose members became prime ministers, and t…
Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1926)
Seymour Barab was an American composer of opera, songs and instrumental and chamber music, as well as a cellist, organist and pianist. He was best known for his fairy tale operas f…
Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (born 1921)
Violet Milstead Warren was a Canadian aviator, noted for being the first female Canadian bush pilot and one of only four Canadian women to work in the British Air Transport Auxilia…
Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919)
James Patrick Brosnan was an American baseball player and author who played in Major League Baseball in 1954 and from 1956 through 1963. A right-handed pitcher, he appeared in 385 …
Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (born 1929)
On Kawara was a Japanese conceptual artist who lived in SoHo, New York City, from 1965 until his death. He took part in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Bienn…
On Kawara, Japanese painter (born 1933)
Meshach Taylor was an American actor, widely known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986–93), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Aw…
Meshach Taylor, American actor (born 1947)
Damian Basil D'Oliveira was a South African-born English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire, and was the Academy Director of Worcestershire County Cricket …
Damian D'Oliveira, South African cricketer (born 1960)
Dermot Healy was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of Aosdána, Healy was also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. Born in Finea, County…
Dermot Healy, Irish author, poet, and playwright (born 1947)
John Francis "Frank" Cashen was an American Major League Baseball general manager. He was an executive when the Baltimore Orioles won the 1966 World Series and 1970 World Series, w…
Frank Cashen, American businessman (born 1925)
Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated …
Paul Mazursky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)
Željko Šturanović was a Montenegrin politician who was the Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2006 until his resignation in 2008.
Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (born 1960)
Jean Garon was a politician, lawyer, academic and economist in Quebec, Canada.
Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (born 1938)
Robert Moelwyn Jones, CBE was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Wolverhampton City Council from 1980 to 2013 and as the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissio…
Bob Jones, English lawyer and politician (born 1955)
General of the Army Anatoly Mikhailovich Kornukov was a general in the Russian Air Force and the former fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Defence Forces. From 1998 until 2002, he ser…
Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (born 1942)
Stephen Gaskin was an American counterculture Hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding "The Farm", a…
Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founder of The Farm (born 1935)
Walter Dean Myers was an American writer best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and raised in Harlem, New York City. A difficult childhoo…
Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (born 1937)
Emilio Álvarez Montalván was a Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and a Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nicaragua.
Emilio Álvarez Montalván, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and politician (born 1919)
Manuel Cardona Castro was a Spanish condensed matter physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona was one of the eight most cited physicists since 1970. He speci…
Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (born 1934)
Mary Evelyn Hungerford Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, born Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, was a British aristocrat. She was a daughter of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, by …
Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (born 1915)
Harold William Kuhn was an American mathematician who studied game theory. He won the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize jointly with David Gale and Albert W. Tucker. A former prof…
Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (born 1925)