Alice Harlekinden Lord (later Landon, February 4, 1902 – July 13, 2000) was an American diver who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. She was married to Olympic gold medalist Richmond Landon, who she met on the trip to the Olympics. She is a...
SS Princess Alice, formerly PS Bute, was a British passenger paddle steamer that sank on 3 September 1878 after a collision with the collier SS Bywell Castle on the River Thames. Between 600 and 700 people died, all from Princess Alice, the greatest...
Richmond Wilcox Landon (November 20, 1898 – June 13, 1971) was an American high jumper who won a gold medal for the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Landon attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Yale University. In 1922, he...
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955). From 1925 to 1945 Tolkien was the...
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and space tourist. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and...
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 as a Royal Mail Ship. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister Mauretania three months later. In 1907, she gained the Blue Riband...
This is a list of notable Chinese Australians.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in 1983.