Explore 942 historical events from 1930–1939.
The New Deal was a 1933–1938 series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He in…
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Perry Botkin Jr. was an American composer, producer, arranger, and musician.
Perry Botkin Jr
Vera Samuilovna Krepkina, née Kalashnikova, was a Soviet-Ukrainian track and field athlete. She competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympics. At all these Oly…
Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper (died 2023)
Icarus Nestor Pappas, better known as Ike Pappas, was an American television journalist who worked as a CBS News correspondent for 25 years.
Ike Pappas, American journalist and actor (died 2008)
Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird was an English cricketer and international cricket umpire. During his long umpiring career, he became a well regarded figure among players and the viewi…
Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire (died 2025)
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and singer. Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, and was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her…
Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (died 1967)
Edelmiro Atega Amante Sr., was a Filipino politician.
Edelmiro Amante, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Easley Rutland Blackwood Jr. was an American professor of music, concert pianist, composer, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of m…
Easley Blackwood, Jr
Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also know…
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (died 2014)
John Anthony Llewellyn was a Welsh chemist and a NOAA aquanaut. In August 1967, Llewellyn was one of only two non-American astronaut candidates selected by NASA as part of NASA Ast…
Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist and astronaut (died 2013)
Annie Jean Easley was an African American computer scientist who contributed significantly to the beginning iterations of NASA's rocket technologies.
Annie Easley, American computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer (died 2011)
Leiber and Stoller were an American songwriting and record-production duo, consisting of lyricist Jerome Leiber and composer Michael Stoller. As well as many R&B and pop hits, they…
Jerry Leiber, American songwriter and producer (died 2011)
Joyce Ricketts was a right fielder who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (died 1992)
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American comedian, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous awards and…
Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer
Allen Leonard McCoy was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association from 1972 to 2023. The 2022–23 NBA s…
Al McCoy, American sports announcer (died 2024)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Libe…
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005)
Arno Allan Penzias was an American physicist and radio astronomer. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave bac…
Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Peter Michael Imbert, Baron Imbert, was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service from 1987 to 1993, and prior to that appointment Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police fro…
Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert, English police officer and politician, Lord Lieutenant for Greater London (died 2017)
Edwin Douglas Charles was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball. A right-handed hitter, Charles played for the Kansas City Athletics (1962–67) an…
Ed Charles, American baseball player and coach (died 2018)
(Charles) Russell Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden is a Scottish Conservative Party politician and a life peer. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1985 until his retire…
Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden, English politician
Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow "for their contributions to the theory of the …
Steven Weinberg, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
O'Neil Gordon "Collie" Smith was a West Indian international cricketer.
Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (died 1959)
John Constantine Unitas was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Colts. Nickn…
Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster (died 2002)
Miodrag (Misha) Radulovacki, was a Serbian American scientist and inventor. He was professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UI…
Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian-American neuropharmacologist and academic (died 2014)