Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as pilot of STS-1 in April…
Robert Crippen, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Paola Margherita Maria-Antonia Consiglia dei Principi Ruffo di Calabria is a member of the Belgian royal family who was Queen of the Belgians during the reign of her husband, King …
Queen Paola of Belgium
George Louis Chuvalo is a Canadian former professional boxer who was a five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight title challenger. He is famous for hav…
George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
Sir Wesley Winfield Hall is a Barbadian former cricketer and politician. A tall, strong and powerfully built man, Hall was a genuine fast bowler and despite his very long run up, h…
Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician
Donald Virgil Bluth is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author. He came to prominence working for Walt Disney Productions before creating his own film studi…
Don Bluth, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios
Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the W…
Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building
Michael Conrad "Joey" Carew was a West Indian cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1963 to 1972.
Joey Carew, Trinidadian cricketer (died 2011)
Fernando de la Rúa was an Argentine politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1999 until his resignation in 2001. A member of the Radical Civic Union, he previously …
Fernando de la Rúa, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (died 2019)
Curtis Piehu Iaukea III was an American professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional U.S. promotions, both as…
King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (died 2010)
Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. was an American economist at the University of Chicago. Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroecon…
Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on h…
Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (died 1993)
Vincent Joseph Naimoli was an American businessman, and the first owner of the Major League Baseball team the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2019)
Nigel Boocock was a motorcycle speedway rider from England. who appeared in eight Speedway World Championship finals. He holds the record number of caps for Great Britain (64) and …
Nigel Boocock, English-Australian motorcycle racer (died 2015)
Orlando Manuel Cepeda Pennes, nicknamed "the Baby Bull" and "Peruchin", was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) a…
Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player (died 2024)
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Medved was a Ukrainian-born Soviet Belarusian freestyle wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union and was named "one of the greatest wrestlers in history" by…
Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler (died 2024)
Sitakant Mahapatra is an Indian poet and literary critic in Odia as well as English. He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and ha…
Sitakant Mahapatra, Indian poet and literary critic
Ralph Gerald Backstrom was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and later a coach, entrepreneur and hockey executive. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal…
Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2021)
Ivy Florence Matsepe-Casaburri was a South African politician. She was the 2nd premier of the Free State and South Africa's Minister of Communications from 1999 until her death. Sh…
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, South African politician (died 2009)
Abner Haynes was an American professional football player who was a halfback and return specialist in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the North T…
Abner Haynes, American football player (died 2024)
Rut Birgitta Dahl was a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. Dahl was a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 2002. She served as Minister for Energy from 1982 to 1990, a…
Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment
General Sir Garry Dene Johnson, is a retired British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1992 to 1994.
Garry Johnson, English general
Monica Zetterlund was a Swedish jazz singer and actress. She represented represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 with the jazz ballad "En gång i Stockholm". Through …
Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (died 2005)
John David D'Amico was a Canadian National Hockey League (NHL) linesman and later supervisor of officials.
John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (died 2005)
Donald Rutherford was an England international rugby union player and administrator. He was the first ever Technical Director of the Rugby Football Union at Twickenham, becoming Di…
Don Rutherford, English rugby player (died 2016)