Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
Robin Spry was a Canadian film director, producer and writer. He was perhaps best known for his documentary films Action: The October Crisis of 1970 and Reaction: A Portrait of a S…
Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2005)
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success …
John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
Suzy Covey (Shaw) was an American comics scholar, whose work examined intersections of comics, technology, and sound, including Internet studies and studies of the Comic Book Marku…
Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (died 2007)
Dallas Frazier was an American country musician and songwriter who had success in the 1950s and 1960s.
Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter (died 2022)
Jane Alexander is an American-Canadian actress and author. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Academy Awards, and three Golde…
Jane Alexander, American actress and producer
Andrew Wideman Bey Jr. was an American jazz singer and pianist. Bey had a wide vocal range, with a four-octave baritone voice.
Andy Bey, American singer and pianist
Curtis Edwin Lee was an American singer and songwriter. He is known for his early 1960s hits "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" and "Under the Moon of Love", both of which were produced by…
Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)
Harvey Goldstein was a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology, statistical software, social statistics, and for applying this to educa…
Harvey Goldstein, English statistician and academic (died 2020)
Leland Harrison "Lee" Hartwell is an American former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in …
Leland H. Hartwell, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Miroslav Cerar is a Yugoslav former artistic gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He is also a four-time Wor…
Miroslav Cerar, Slovenian gymnast and lawyer
Edward James Holland Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. His brother is songwriter and record producer Brian Holland.
Eddie Holland, American singer-songwriter and producer
Grace Slick is an American musician and painter whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960…
Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model
Louis Trousselier was a French racing cyclist who won the 1905 Tour de France. His other major wins were Paris–Roubaix, also in 1905, and the 1908 Bordeaux–Paris. He came third in …
Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (born 1881)
Anne Walter Fearn was an American physician who went to Shanghai, China, on a temporary posting in 1893, and remained there for 40 years.
Anne Walter Fearn, American physician (born 1867)
Frank Bee Haller was an American featherweight professional boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a silver medal in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics, beating …
Frank Haller, American boxer (born 1883)
Madeleine Desroseaux is the pseudonym of Florentine Monier (1873-1939), a Breton poet and novelist.
Madeleine Desroseaux, French author and poet (born 1873)
Konstantin Andreyevich Somov was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Modernist period, best known as co-founding member of the Mir iskusstva society. After the Russian Rev…
Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (born 1869)
Ahmet Ağaoğlu, also known as Ahmed Bey Aghaoghlu (Azerbaijani: Əhməd bəy Ağaoğlu; or Ahmed Akif Aghaoghlu was a public and political figure of Azerbaijan and Turkey, thinker, publi…
Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (born 1869)
Ernst Toller was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-li…
Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (born 1893)
Jiří Mahen was a Czech novelist and playwright. He was a prolific author and his literary work also includes essays, poetry, scientific articles, manuals and fairy tales. He was a …
Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (born 1882)
Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal. He is remembered today largely for introducing the Greenwich time signal to BBC rad…
Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic (born 1868)
Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher…
Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (born 1865)
Fanny Searls, also known by her married name Fanny Gradle, was an American physician and botanical collector. Dalea searlsiae, Searls' prairie clover, is named after her. Born in W…
Fanny Searls, American biologist (born 1851)
Moses Joseph Roth was a Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, h…
Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)