Explore 942 historical events from 1930–1939.
Frank Philip Stella was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York…
Frank Stella, American painter and sculptor (died 2024)
Mart Laga was an Estonian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the EuroBasket 1955 and EuroBasket 1957 events.
Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (died 1977)
Ralph Idris Steadman is a Welsh illustrator and collaborator with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman draws satirical political cartoons, social caricatures, and pictu…
Ralph Steadman, English painter and illustrator
Paul Zindel Jr. was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator.
Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist (died 2003)
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He is considered one of the key figures of the New Hollywood era. He earned prizes from the Cann…
Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (died 2010)
Leon Walton, better known by his stage name Leon Ashley, was an American country music singer. He is known mainly for his single "Laura ", which topped the country singles charts i…
Leon Ashley, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Türker İnanoğlu was a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer.
Türker İnanoğlu, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Michael Sandle is a British sculptor and artist. His works include several public sculptures, many relating to themes of war, death, or destruction.
Michael Sandle, English sculptor and academic
Karl Lehmann was a German prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016, being elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (died 2018)
Anthony Jared Zerbe is an American actor. After pursuing an interest in theater in his early years, including a stint at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, he enli…
Anthony Zerbe, American actor
Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their tran…
Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
George Harry Heilmeier was an American engineer, manager, and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall…
George H
Ingeborg Hallstein is a German coloratura soprano, known for the purity and range of her voice. She had an international career as a guest singer on the opera houses of Europe and …
Ingeborg Hallstein, German soprano and actress
Charles Mayberry Kimbrough was an American actor. He was best known for his role as the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. In 1990, his performance in the role earn…
Charles Kimbrough, American actor (died 2023)
Harold Montgomory Budd was an American composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimal music and avant-garde s…
Harold Budd, American composer and poet (died 2020)
Thomas Hall, known professionally as Tom T. Hall and informally nicknamed "the Storyteller", was an American country music singer-songwriter and short-story author. He wrote 12 num…
Tom T
Rusi Framroze Surti was an Indian cricketer who played in 26 Tests from 1960 to 1969. He was a left-arm medium pace and left-arm spin bowler and a lower-order batsman. Surti was al…
Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (died 2013)
Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist. She was one of the founders and the first editor of A Chronicle…
Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Russian-Polish poet and activist (died 2013)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Benjamin Bathurst, was a British Royal Navy officer. After training as a pilot and qualifying as a helicopter instructor, Bathurst commanded a naval …
Benjamin Bathurst, English admiral (died 2025)
Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. was an American actor. He made his stage debut at age 17. Shortly thereafter, Gossett successfully auditioned for the Broadway play Take a Giant Step. He …
Louis Gossett Jr
Marcel Masse was a Canadian politician. He served as a Quebec MLA, federal MP and federal cabinet minister.
Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (died 2014)
Claude E. Forget, is a Canadian economist and former politician.
Claude Forget, Canadian academic and politician
Betty Shabazz, also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate who was married to Malcolm X.
Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (died 1997)