Explore 942 historical events from 1930–1939.
Sonia Rykiel was a French fashion designer and writer. She created the Poor Boy Sweater, which was featured on the cover of French Elle magazine. Her knitwear designs and new fashi…
Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (died 2016)
Karim Emami was an Iranian translator, editor, lexicographer, and literary critic.
Karim Emami, Indian-Iranian lexicographer and critic (died 2005)
John Simmons Barth was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and i…
John Barth, American novelist and short story writer (died 2024)
William Steele Sessions was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and t…
William S
Eino Tamberg was an Estonian composer whose works are performed internationally. He composed operas such as Cyrano de Bergerac, four symphonies, and several concertos. He taught co…
Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer and educator (died 2010)
Edward Philip George Seaga was a Jamaican politician and record producer. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1980 to 1989, and the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party…
Edward Seaga, American-Jamaican academic and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (died 2019)
Marcus Oswald Hornby Lecky Birley was a British entrepreneur known for his investments in the hospitality industry.
Mark Birley, English businessman, founded Annabel's (died 2007)
Robert Ryman was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings.…
Robert Ryman, American painter (died 2019)
Clinton Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker and musician. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as th…
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, musician, and producer
Elaine Stewart was an American actress and model.
Elaine Stewart, American actress and model (died 2011)
Matt Beresford Poore was a New Zealand cricketer who played 14 Test matches for New Zealand in the 1950s. He was born in Christchurch.
Matt Poore, New Zealand cricketer (died 2020)
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward was an English actor and singer. He began his career on stage, appearing in productions in both the West End of London and on Broadway in New York Cit…
Edward Woodward, English actor (died 2009)
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 mission, on which he became the …
Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 1999)
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel T…
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author and poet (died 1999)
Joseph Hardin Coulombe was an American entrepreneur who founded the grocery store chain Trader Joe's in 1967 and served as its CEO until his retirement in 1988.
Joe Coulombe, founder of Trader Joe's (died 2020)
Air Vice Marshal George Arthur Chesworth was a senior Royal Air Force officer and Lord Lieutenant of Moray.
George Chesworth, English air marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Moray (died 2017)
Maria Grazia Morgana Messina, better known as Morgana King, was an American jazz singer and actress. She began a professional singing career at sixteen years old. In her twenties, …
Morgana King, American singer and actress (died 2018)
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov was a Russian ice hockey player and coach. Tikhonov was a defenceman with VVS Moscow and Dynamo Moscow from 1949 to 1963, winning four national champion…
Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)
José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira, sometimes referred to in Peru as El Amauta, was a Peruvian writer, sociologist, historian, journalist, politician, and Marxist philosopher. A proli…
José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher, and activist (born 1894)
George Mathew Fernandes was an Indian politician, trade unionist, statesman, and journalist, who served as the Defence Minister of India from 1998 until 2004. A veteran socialist, …
George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician, Minister of Defence for India (died 2019)
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin was a Russian and Soviet decorator, painter, and stage designer. He designed productions for Sergei Diaghilev, Constantin Stanislavski, and Vsevolod M…
Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (born 1863)
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, was a Canadian businessman, statesman and senator. Dessaulles was one of the oldest serving politicians ever, only surpassed by Giovanni Battista Borea …
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
Robert Seymour Bridges was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Chris…
Robert Bridges, English poet and author (born 1844)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat,…
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)