Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert was an English actor. After graduating from RADA and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a succe…
Ian Holm, English actor (died 2020)
Margaret Maud Tyzack was an English actress. Her television roles included The Forsyte Saga (1967) I, Claudius (1976), George Lucas's Young Indiana Jones (1992–1993) and EastEnders…
Margaret Tyzack, English actress (died 2011)
Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor. He is known for his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson, including Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), and Magnolia (19…
Philip Baker Hall, American actor (died 2022)
George Glenn Jones was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He achieved international fame for a long list of hit records, and is well known for his distinctive v…
George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
Barbara Bain is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the action television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969), which earned her three Prime…
Barbara Bain, American actress
Robert Bédard is a former Canadian tennis player and educator. He is the most recent Canadian winner of the men's Canadian Open Tennis Championships.
Robert Bédard, Canadian tennis player and sportscaster
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson is an Australian former athlete and politician. She was the Governor of South Australia between 2001 and 2007. She finished her sporting career with two Oly…
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Australian sprinter and politician, 33rd Governor of South Australia
Rein Maran is an Estonian cinematographer, director, and professor, most notable for teaching at Tallinn University. In 1972, he graduated from a cinematography school. In 1967 he …
Rein Maran, Estonian cinematographer
Brian Weir Henderson was a New Zealand-born Australian radio and television personality and pioneer known for his association with the Nine Network as a television news anchor in S…
Brian Henderson, New Zealand-Australian journalist, actor, and producer (died 2021)
Professor Kandiah David Arulpragasam was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic. He was the first vice-chancellor of Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (died 2003)
Willie Littlefield, Jr., billed as Little Willie Littlefield, was an American R&B and boogie-woogie pianist and singer whose early recordings "formed a vital link between boogie-wo…
Little Willie Littlefield, American-Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2013)
Anne Bancroft was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony A…
Anne Bancroft, American actress (died 2005)
Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later given…
Jean-Claude Carrière, French actor and screenwriter (died 2021)
Julio Humberto Grondona was an Argentine football executive. He served as president of the Argentine Football Association from 1979 until his death in 2014. He also served as Senio…
Julio Grondona, Argentinian businessman (died 2014)
Benjamin Franklin Peay, known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music spanned rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the…
Brook Benton, American pop/R&B/rock & roll singer-songwriter (died 1988)
Derek Gardner was a car designer known for designing advanced transmission systems. He was born in Warwick, and joined Formula One while employed by Harry Ferguson Research, develo…
Derek Gardner, English engineer (died 2011)
Cherd Songsri was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his …
Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)
Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL was a prominent British aristocrat and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape fro…
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish-English fencer and businessman (born 1862)
David Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry and the miseries of the peasantry, boldly exposing…
David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (born 1862)
George Pearson Glen Kidston was a British motor racing driver and aviator who completed a record-breaking flight from Netheravon, Wiltshire to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1931. He …
Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899)
Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he r…
Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the "…
Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1858)
David Belasco was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage. He launche…
David Belasco, American director, producer, and playwright (born 1853)
Ernest Noel, FGS was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish seat of Dumfries Burghs from 1874 to 1886. He was chairman of the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company fr…
Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (born 1831)