Explore 2579 historical events from 2010–2019.
Allan Wesley Eckert was an American novelist and playwright who specialized in historical novels for adults and children, and was also a naturalist. His novel Incident at Hawk's Hi…
Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (born 1931)
Richard Hirschfeld Williams was an American left fielder, third baseman, manager, coach and front-office consultant in Major League Baseball (MLB). Known especially as a hard-drivi…
Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)
Roberts Scott Blossom was an American poet and character actor of theatre, film, and television. He is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone (1990) and as Ezra C…
Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (born 1924)
Elizabeth Anne Ford was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady, she was active in social policy, and set a precedent…
Betty Ford, 38th First Lady of the United States (born 1918)
Donald D. Ackerman was an American professional basketball player. He was nicknamed "Buddy" and also known as "Douglas".
Don Ackerman, American basketball player (born 1930)
Facundo Cabral was an Argentine singer-songwriter.
Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1937)
Pierrette Alarie, was a French Canadian coloratura soprano. She was married to the French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.
Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and educator (born 1921)
Roland Petit was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.
Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (born 1924)
Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television screenwriter and producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, but he now is best known for creating the 1960s television se…
Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (born 1916)
Allan Lindsay Jeans was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame at its inception in 1996. Jeans was known for his orator…
Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (born 1933)
Friedrich "Fritz" Wilhelm Schnitzler was a German landowner and business manager, and also a local politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the founder of the agricultur…
Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and politician (born 1928)
Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers was an English dancer and actress, with a lengthy career spanning some 73 years in theatre, film, and television. She was a well-known actress an…
Googie Withers, British-Australian actress (born 1917)
Forrest Murrell Blue Jr. was an American professional football center who spent eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Francisco 49ers from 1968 to 1974 …
Forrest Blue, American football player (born 1944)
David Ngoombujarra was an Indigenous Australian actor of the Yamatji people. Born David Bernard Starr in Meekatharra, Western Australia, his acting career spanned over two decades …
David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (born 1967)
Taiji Sawada , also known mononymously as Taiji, was a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is best known as bassist of the rock band X from 1986 to 1992. The band rose to prominen…
Taiji Sawada, Japanese musician (born 1966)
Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator (born 1922)
Linda Christian was a Mexican film actress who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weiss…
Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (born 1923)
Cees de Wolf was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.
Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (born 1945)
Amy Jade Winehouse was a British singer, songwriter, musician, and businesswoman. She is known for her distinctive contralto vocals, expressive and autobiographical songwriting, an…
Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (born 1983)
Frank Dietrich was a German politician and member of the CDU. He was a member of the final East German Volkskammer before reunification and from 1990 to 1994 was a member of the La…
Frank Dietrich, German politician (born 1966)
Daniel Milton Peek was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the co-founder of the band America, and later a "pioneer" in contemporary Christian music.
Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
Harald Gill Johnsen was a Norwegian jazz double bassist, known for his contributions in bands like Køhn/Johansen Sextet and Tord Gustavsen Trio, and a series of recordings with suc…
Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (born 1970)
David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also …
David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (born 1961)
Alonzo "Skip" Thomas III, nicknamed "Dr. Death", was an American professional football player. A cornerback, Thomas played college football at Arizona Western Junior College before…
Skip Thomas, American football player (born 1950)