Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Kerry Wendell Thornley was an American author. He is known as the co-founder of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. …
Kerry Wendell Thornley, American theorist and author (died 1988)
Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 m…
Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (died 2017)
Roger Mark Boisjoly was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space…
Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (died 2012)
Earl Roderick Anthony was an American professional bowler who amassed records of 43 titles and six Player of the Year awards on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. For…
Earl Anthony, American bowler and sportscaster (died 2001)
Steven Bach was an American writer and lecturer on film and a former senior vice-president and head of worldwide productions for United Artists studios.
Steven Bach, American writer, businessman and educator (died 2009)
Gary Ennis Collins was an American actor and television host. Throughout his career, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.
Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (died 2012)
Juraj Jakubisko was a Slovak film director. He directed fifteen feature films, between 1967 and 2008. He often took on the dual role of cinematographer in his films, as well as wri…
Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director and screenwriter (died 2023)
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in Go…
Larry Niven, American author and screenwriter
Moshoeshoe II, previously known as Constantine Bereng Seeiso, was the Paramount Chief of Basutoland, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until the country gained full indep…
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (died 1996)
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier and con artist who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He wa…
Bernie Madoff, American businessman, financier and convicted felon (died 2021)
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, , commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist and jihadist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal…
Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist (died 2017)
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the coun…
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican journalist, author, and critic (died 2010)
Michael George Murphy is an American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including executives, pol…
Michael Murphy, American actor
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominant…
Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (died 2012)
Carroll Edward "Eddie" Cole was an American serial killer who was executed in Nevada in 1985 for killing two women by strangulation. He was also convicted of murdering three other …
Carroll Cole, American serial killer (died 1985)
Dušan Simić, known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of The Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't E…
Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor (died 2023)
Manuel Santana Martínez, also known as Manolo Santana, was a Spanish tennis player. He was ranked as amateur world No. 1 in 1965 by Ned Potter and in 1966 by Lance Tingay and Sport…
Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player (died 2021)
Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023,…
Giuliano Amato, Italian academic and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Italy
Mireille Darc was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legi…
Mireille Darc, French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2017)
Nancy Garden was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults, best known for the lesbian novel Annie on My Mind. She received the 2003 Margaret A. Edwards Award fro…
Nancy Garden, American author (died 2014)
Jason Bernard was an American actor.
Jason Bernard, American actor (died 1996)
Diane Judith Nash is an American civil rights activist and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. …
Diane Nash, American civil rights movement activist
Marcia Judith Freedman was an American-Israeli activist and politician. She advocated for a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, as well as for women's and gay r…
Marcia Freedman, Israeli activist (died 2021)
Pervis Jackson was an American R&B singer, noted as the bass singer for The Spinners, and was one of the group's original members as well as their spokesman.
Pervis Jackson, American R&B bass singer (died 2008)