Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Glenn Ashby "Jeep" Davis was an American Olympic hurdler and sprinter who won a total of three gold medals in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic games.
Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (died 2009)
Nellie Wong was an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong was also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.
Nellie Wong, Chinese American poet and activist
John Anthony Pickard is a British former tennis player turned coach. He is best known as the longtime coach of former world No. 1 Stefan Edberg.
Tony Pickard, English tennis player and coach
Sarah Kofman was a French philosopher.
Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (died 1994)
Paul Francis Little was a New Zealand rugby union player. A centre, Little represented Auckland at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Bl…
Paul Little, New Zealand rugby player (died 1993)
Donald Ray Walser was an American country music singer. He was known for his Texas country and yodeling.
Don Walser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)
Jaegwon Kim was a Korean-American philosopher. At the time of his death, Kim was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Brown University. He also taught at several other leading Am…
Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher and academic (died 2019)
Elgin Gay Baylor was an American professional basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 14 seasons as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minnea…
Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and coach (died 2021)
Joseph Ronald Drew was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who had a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners.
Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)
Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker, known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine major singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first w…
Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (died 1969)
Brian Samuel Epstein was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967.
Brian Epstein, English businessman, The Beatles manager (died 1967)
Austin Vernon Mitchell was a British academic, journalist and Labour Party politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from a 1977 by-election to 2015. He wa…
Austin Mitchell, English journalist, academic and politician (died 2021)
Hamit Kaplan was a Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler of Circassian descent in the Heavyweight class. He won the gold, silver and bronze medal in men's freestyle wr…
Hamit Kaplan, Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler (died 1976)
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning ov…
Sophia Loren, Italian actress
David Ian Marquand FLSW was a British academic and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP).
David Marquand, Welsh academic and politician (died 2024)
Jeff Morris was an American film and television actor. Among his roles was Bob, the owner of Bob's Country Bunker, in The Blues Brothers. He later reprised his role in Blues Brothe…
Jeff Morris, American actor (died 2004)
Rajinder Puri (1934–2015), was an Indian cartoonist, veteran columnist and political activist. He was on the staff of The Hindustan Times and The Statesman as a cartoonist and writ…
Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (died 2015)
María Rubio was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, Cuna de lobos.
María Rubio, Mexican actress (died 2018)
Jack Edwin McGregor was an American politician and lawyer who was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and the founder of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. He …
Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betr…
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (died 2016)
Robert Luther "Lute" Olson was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of…
Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
Sri Lanka Sikhamani Thamotharam Somasekaram was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil geographer and Surveyor General.
T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (died 2010)
Per Olov Enquist, also known as P. O. Enquist, was a Swedish author. He worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist.
Per Olov Enquist, Swedish journalist, author, and playwright (died 2020)
Thomas Cowan Anderson was a Scottish professional footballer. He played as a forward, and was noted for his extremely fast pace.
Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2018)