Explore 942 historical events from 1930–1939.
Johnny Tillotson was an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary…
Johnny Tillotson, American singer-songwriter (died 2025)
Alan Bond was an English-born Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings. These included his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1…
Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (died 2015)
Ronald H. Miller was professor of the Religion Department at Lake Forest College in Illinois. Miller earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Religions from Northwestern University, and a B.S…
Ronald H
Kerry Wendell Thornley was an American author. He is known as the co-founder of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. …
Kerry Wendell Thornley, American theorist and author (died 1988)
Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 m…
Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (died 2017)
Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi,, SAN, was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer, and politician.
Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (died 2009)
Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, notably the Pleats, Please line, exhibitions and fragrances such as L'eau d'…
Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (died 2022)
Adam Eliot Geoffrey Raphael is an English journalist and author. In the British Press Awards of 1973, he was named Journalist of the Year for his work on labour conditions in Sou…
Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
Roger Mark Boisjoly was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space…
Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (died 2012)
Ton Schulten was a Dutch painter who mainly painted landscapes using bright blocks of colour.
Ton Schulten, Dutch painter and graphic designer
Duane Eddy was an American guitarist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood which were noted for their characteristically "twa…
Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024)
Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were an American doo-wop/R&B vocal group in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Originally the (Royal) Charms, the band changed its name to the Gladiol…
Maurice Williams, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter
Joseph Paul Luc Alain Caron was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in various leagues from 1956 to 1976.
Alain Caron, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1986)
Madge Dorita Sinclair CD was a Jamaican actress best known for her roles in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Convoy (1978), Coming to America (1988), Trapper John, M.D. (1980–1986), …
Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (died 1995)
Earl Roderick Anthony was an American professional bowler who amassed records of 43 titles and six Player of the Year awards on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. For…
Earl Anthony, American bowler and sportscaster (died 2001)
Steven Bach was an American writer and lecturer on film and a former senior vice-president and head of worldwide productions for United Artists studios.
Steven Bach, American writer, businessman and educator (died 2009)
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier and con artist who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He wa…
Bernie Madoff, American businessman, financier and convicted felon (died 2021)
Gary Ennis Collins was an American actor and television host. Throughout his career, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.
Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (died 2012)
Juraj Jakubisko was a Slovak film director. He directed fifteen feature films, between 1967 and 2008. He often took on the dual role of cinematographer in his films, as well as wri…
Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director and screenwriter (died 2023)
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in Go…
Larry Niven, American author and screenwriter
Moshoeshoe II, previously known as Constantine Bereng Seeiso, was the Paramount Chief of Basutoland, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until the country gained full indep…
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (died 1996)
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, , commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist and jihadist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal…
Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist (died 2017)
Michael George Murphy is an American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including executives, pol…
Michael Murphy, American actor
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominant…
Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (died 2012)