Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Robert Alvin Von Hebb was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his 1966 hit "Sunny".
Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (died 2010)
Sir David Keith Peters is a retired Welsh physician and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005, where he was also head of the …
Keith Peters, Welsh physician and academic
Pierre Christin was a French comics writer.
Pierre Christin, French comics creator and writer (died 2024)
Ernest Gary Gygax was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (died 2008)
Luis Aragonés Suárez was a Spanish football player and manager.
Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Arsenije "Arsen" Dedić was a Yugoslav and Croatian singer-songwriter. He wrote and performed chansons, as well as film music. He was also an award-winning poet, and was one of the …
Arsen Dedić, Croatian singer-songwriter and poet (died 2015)
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. During Fujimori's tenure, the Peruvian Arme…
Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, President of Peru (died 2024)
Chuan Leekpai MPCh MVM ThChW is a Thai politician who was Prime Minister of Thailand from 1992 to 1995, and from 1997 to 2001. He was President of the National Assembly of Thailand…
Chuan Leekpai, Thai lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Thailand
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was a Canadian and American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until…
Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2005)
Jean Rochon was a Canadian politician and member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He was a cabinet minister for several ministries from 1994 to 2003 when the Parti Québécois for…
Jean Rochon, Canadian physician and politician (died 2021)
Hervé de Charette is a French centrist politician. He is a descendant of the royalist military leader François de Charette and of king Charles X of France.
Hervé de Charette, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
Terence Patrick O'Neill was a British photographer, known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s. O'Neill's photographs capture his subjects candidly or…
Terry O'Neill, English photographer (died 2019)
Stephen Bloomer was an England international footballer and manager who played for Derby County – becoming their record goalscorer – and Middlesbrough. The anthem "Steve Bloomer's …
Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (born 1874)
George Philip "Phil" Bryant was an American archer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He later became President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games for the 193…
George Bryant, American archer (born 1878)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Islamic philosopher and poet. His poetry in Urdu is considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political id…
Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani National philosopher and poet (born 1877)
George Grey Barnard, often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris. He is especially noted for his heroic sized Struggle of the Two Natures in Ma…
George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (born 1863)
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.
Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (born 1859)
Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo. Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and…
Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (born 1860)
Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.
Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
Octavian Goga was a Romanian far-right politician, poet, and writer who served as Prime Minister of Romania.
Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (born 1881)
Thomas Barfoed Thrige was a Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman. In 1894, he started the company Thomas B. Thrige, a manufacturer of electric motors, now known as T-…
Thomas B
George Seymour Lyon was a Canadian golfer, an Olympic gold medalist in golf, an eight-time Canadian Amateur Championship winner, and a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He wo…
George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (born 1858)
Charles-Édouard Guillaume was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discove…
Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
Joseph Baermann Strauss was an American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. He was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, …
Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (born 1870)