Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
Marlina Burgess, professionally known by her stage name Marlena Shaw, was an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and continued to perform until her death. H…
Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer (died 2024)
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on…
Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (died 2016)
Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is an English retired sports journalist and broadcaster best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on …
Henry Blofeld, English cricketer and journalist
Leroy "Roy" Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues rock musician. A pioneer of the "Telecaster sound", Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums…
Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988)
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, was a British politician who was a member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.
Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham, English politician
John Paul Vincent "Sonny" Vaccaro is an American former sports marketing executive. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
Sonny Vaccaro, American businessman
Wayne Maurice Henderson was an American jazz fusion and soul jazz trombonist and record producer. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/jazz fusion group The Jazz Crusaders. Henders…
Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer (died 2014)
Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum was an Israeli media personality and documentarian.
Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (died 2015)
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Pa…
Jacques Vallée, French ufologist
Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, was a British Conservative politician and barrister who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1999. As a member of Parliament …
Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (died 2015)
Feroz Khan was an Indian actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, best known for his work in Indian cinema. He appeared in over 60 films throughout his career and …
Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 2009)
David Scott Mann is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the United States representative for Ohio's 1st congressional district from 19…
David S. Mann, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati
Eric Tomlinson is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles as Bobby Grant in the soap opera Brookside (1982–1988), DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker (1993–2006) and Ji…
Ricky Tomlinson, English actor and screenwriter
Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam is an English interior designer and socialite, and founder of the London-based interior design firm, Nicky Haslam Studio.
Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer and author
Carol Lynn Wright Pearson was an American poet, author, screenwriter, and playwright. She frequently addressed the topics of LGBT acceptance and the role of Latter-day Saint women.
Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright
Kathrynne Ann Whitworth was an American professional golfer. During her playing career she won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments, more than anyone else on the LPGA or PGA Tours. Whitworth w…
Kathy Whitworth, American golfer (died 2022)
Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the Univers…
Stuart Kauffman, American biologist and academic
James Curran Baxter was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half. He is generally regarded as one of the country's greatest ever players. He was born, educated …
Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (died 2001)
Lawrence Lavon Linville was an American actor known for his portrayal of the surgeon Major Frank Burns on the television series M*A*S*H.
Larry Linville, American actor (died 2000)
Hywel Rhodri Morgan was a Welsh Labour politician who was the First Minister of Wales and the Leader of Welsh Labour from 2000 to 2009. He was also the Assembly Member for Cardiff …
Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, 2nd First Minister of Wales (died 2017)
Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor, singer, and theatre director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical S…
Len Cariou, Canadian actor
Anthony Green was an English realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes used compound perspectives and p…
Anthony Green, English painter and academic (died 2023)
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was…
Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Carol Lynn Wright Pearson was an American poet, author, screenwriter, and playwright. She frequently addressed the topics of LGBT acceptance and the role of Latter-day Saint women.
Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright (died 2026)