Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
David Alexander Balon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Balon played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1959 and 1973 along with nine games in …
Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2007)
Pierre De Bané was a Canadian politician who served in both the House of Commons of Canada and the Senate. Elected as the Member of Parliament for Matane in 1968, he was the first …
Pierre de Bané, Israeli-Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2019)
Terence John Peck was a member of the Falkland Islands Defence Force who during the 1982 Falklands War became a war hero by spying on the Argentine invaders, subsequently escaping …
Terry Peck, Falkland Islander soldier (died 2006)
Sir Michael Terence Wogan was an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in Britain for most of his career. Between 1993 and his semi-retirement in 2009, his …
Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television host (died 2016)
Ellen Wolf Schrecker is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Lib…
Ellen Schrecker, American historian and academic
Paul Bartel was an American actor, writer and director. He was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy Eating Raoul, which he co-wrote, starred in and directed.
Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000)
Peter Roman Bonerz is an American actor and director.
Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
Albert Winsborough Yancey was an American professional golfer who won seven times on the PGA Tour and later played on the Senior PGA Tour.
Bert Yancey, American golfer (died 1994)
Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automotive designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into t…
Giorgetto Giugiaro, Italian automotive designer
Sir Jack Edward Baldwin was a British chemist. He was a Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1978–2005) and head of the organic chemistry at Oxford.
Jack Baldwin, English chemist and academic (died 2020)
Jacques Joseph Robert Hétu was a prominent Canadian composer and music educator. Hétu is the most frequently performed of Canadian classical composers, both within Canada and inter…
Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer and educator (died 2010)
Connie Stevens is an American actress and traditional pop singer. Born in Brooklyn to musician parents, Stevens was raised there until the age of 12, when she was sent to live with…
Connie Stevens, American actress and businesswoman
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma is a Ukrainian politician who served as the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. The only president of Ukraine to serve two te…
Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 2nd President of Ukraine
Rodney George Laver is an Australian former professional tennis player. Laver was ranked as the world number 1 professional player indisputably for five years from 1965 to 1969, an…
Rod Laver, Australian tennis player and coach
Otto Rehhagel is a German former football coach and player. He is nicknamed "King Otto" for his triumph with the Greece national team in the 2004 European Championship and his succ…
Otto Rehhagel, German footballer, coach, and manager
Anthony Lee Ross is a British author and illustrator of children's picture books. In Britain, he is best known for writing and illustrating his Little Princess books and for illust…
Tony Ross, English author and illustrator
Jean-Paul L'Allier was a Canadian politician, a two-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) and the 38th mayor of Quebec City from 1989 to 2005.
Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian journalist and politician, 38th Mayor of Quebec City (died 2016)
David Cortez Clowney, known by the stage name Dave "Baby" Cortez, was an American pop and R&B organist and pianist, best known for his 1959 hit, "The Happy Organ".
Dave "Baby" Cortez, American R&B pianist, organist, and composer (died 2022)
William John Masterton was a Canadian–American professional ice hockey player who was a centre in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota North Stars in 1967–68. He is t…
Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1968)
Bernardus "Bennie" Muller was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Ajax, Holland Sport, and the Netherlands national team.
Bennie Muller, Dutch footballer (died 2024)
Nesbert "Stix" Hooper is an American drummer and founding member of The Crusaders.
Stix Hooper, American jazz drummer
Pran Kumar Sharma, better known as Pran, was an Indian cartoonist best known as the creator of Chacha Chaudhary (1971). He also created other characters like Shrimatiji, Pinki, Bil…
Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist (died 2014)
Maxine Moore Waters is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. The district, numbered as the 29th distric…
Maxine Waters, American educator and politician
Janusz Andrzej Zajdel was a Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland to Stanisław Lem. His major genres were social science fiction and dystopia. His main recu…
Janusz Zajdel, Polish engineer and author (died 1985)