Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Vera June Miles is an American former actress. She is known for appearing in John Ford's Western films The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and for pla…
Vera Miles, American actress
Jackie Brenston was an American singer and saxophonist who, with Ike Turner's band, recorded the first version of "Rocket 88" in 1951. It was noted in a subsequent interview that B…
Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (died 1979)
Roger McCluskey was an American IndyCar driver. He was raised in Tucson, Arizona.
Roger McCluskey, American race car driver (died 1993)
Sir Thomas Sean Connery was a Scottish actor and film producer. Connery was the first actor to portray the fictional British secret agent James Bond in motion pictures, starring in…
Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer (died 2020)
György Enyedi was an economist and geographer who has played a major role in the long-term development of regional science. Enyedi was a decisive figure in the rapid development of…
György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer (died 2012)
Graham Powley Jarvis was a Canadian character actor in American films and television from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (died 2003)
Sir Crispin Charles Cervantes Tickell was a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic.
Crispin Tickell, English academic and diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (died 2022)
Joseph Stanislaus Solomon, AA was a Guyanese cricketer who played 27 Test matches for the West Indies from 1958 to 1965, scoring 1,326 runs, mainly from number six and seven in the…
Joe Solomon, Guyanese cricketer and coach (died 2023)
Aase Foss Abrahamsen was a Norwegian writer. She primarily wrote for children and young adults, but also books for adults.
Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (died 2023)
Gholamreza Takhti was an Iranian freestyle wrestler and a practitioner of varzesh-e bastani. He was a gold medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics, 1958 Asian Games, 1959 World Champi…
Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler and politician (died 1968)
Windsor Davies was a Welsh actor. He is best remembered for playing Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981) over its entire run. The show's …
Windsor Davies, British actor (died 2019)
Biagio Anthony "Ben" Gazzara was an American actor and director of film, stage, and television. He received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Drama Desk Awa…
Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
Jacques Bouchard, was a Canadian advertising executive and author. He was one of the founders of Quebec's first French creative advertising agency, BCP, and a pioneer in French-lan…
Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (died 2006)
Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga y Matute was a Filipino basketball player, coach and politician. He was the most dominant basketball player of his era in the Philippines and is considered a…
Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (died 2016)
Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success, Buffett is o…
Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
Noel Sherwin Harford was a New Zealand cricketer who played eight Test matches in the 1950s. In domestic cricket he played for Central Districts from 1953 to 1959 and for Auckland …
Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (died 1981)
Dudley "Big Tiny" Little, Jr. was an American musician who appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1959. His primary instrument was the piano.
Big Tiny Little, American pianist (died 2010)
Turgut Özakman was a Turkish lawyer, a civil servant, a dramaturge and a writer.
Turgut Özakman, Turkish lawyer and civil servant (died 2013)
Charles Mark Correa was an Indian architect and urban planner based in Mumbai, India. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated…
Charles Correa, Indian architect (died 2015)
Cherry Barbara Grimm, better known by the pseudonym Cherry Wilder, was a New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer.
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author and poet (died 2002)
Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades.
Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (died 1992)
William B. Maxson was an American Air Force Major General and vice commander, 15th Air Force, Strategic Air Command, March Air Force Base, Calif.
William Maxson, American general (died 2013)
Charles Foley was the co-inventor of the game Twister, with Neil W. Rabens.
Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (died 2013)
Helmut Piirimäe was a prominent Estonian historian. He was professor emeritus of University of Tartu and an honorary doctor of University of Uppsala.
Helmut Piirimäe, Estonian historian and academic (died 2017)