Explore 3361 historical events from 1930–1939.
Werner Hans Erhard is an American author and lecturer who founded Erhard Seminars Training (est), a course of personal and social transformation, which was offered from 1971 to 198…
Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project
Helen Margaret Gifford OAM is an Australian composer. On Australia Day 1996 she was appointed to the Medal of the Order of Australia, "in recognition of service to music as a compo…
Helen Gifford, Australian composer and educator
Lucille Soong is a Chinese-American actress. In the 1960s she occasionally worked under the stage name Soong Ling. She is best known for her role as Jenny Huang in the television s…
Lucille Soong, Chinese-American actress
Isabelle Collin Dufresne, known professionally as Ultra Violet, was a French-American artist, actress, and writer. She initially studied and worked with Surrealist artist Salvador …
Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress and author (died 2014)
John Martin Bokas Wallace was a Scottish professional football player and manager. Wallace played as a goalkeeper, and has the unique distinction of being the only player ever to p…
Jock Wallace Jr., Scottish footballer and coach (died 1996)
Abdou Diouf is a Senegalese politician who was the second president of Senegal from 1981 to 2000.
Abdou Diouf, Senegalese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Senegal
Richard O'Neal was an American basketball player. He was an All-American college player at Texas Christian University (TCU) and a second round draft pick of the Boston Celtics in t…
Dick O'Neal, American basketball player and dentist (died 2013)
Gopal Baratham was a Singaporean author and neurosurgeon. He was known for his frank style and his ability to write about topics that were often considered controversial in the con…
Gopal Baratham, Singaporean neurosurgeon and author (died 2002)
Nadim Joakim Sawalha is a Jordanian-British actor. He has made over 100 appearances in film and television, in a career spanning more than 40 years, which include two James Bond fi…
Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-born English actor
Chaim Topol, mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye, the lead character in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof.…
Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, and producer (died 2023)
Mary Jane Oliver was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit …
Mary Oliver, American poet (died 2019)
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in …
Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
Richard Howard Hunt was an American artist and sculptor. In the second half of the 20th century, he became "the foremost African-American abstract sculptor and artist of public scu…
Richard Hunt, American sculptor (died 2023)
Fujio Akatsuka was a Japanese manga artist. Known as the "King of Gag Manga" (ギャグ漫画の王様, he created many popular manga such as Osomatsu-kun, Himitsu no Akko-chan, and Tensai Bakabo…
Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator (died 2008)
Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok …
Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2000)
Mar Dinkha IV, born Dinkha Khanania was an Eastern Christian prelate who served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in the village of Darban…
Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (died 2015)
Carl Andre was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His stark minimal art sculptures range from large public artworks, to lar…
Carl Andre, American sculptor (died 2024)
William "Billy Boy" Arnold is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. Arnold is a self-taught harmonica player and has worked with blues musicians such as Bo Di…
Billy Boy Arnold, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Julius Caesar Bass was an American director, producer, lyricist, composer and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded the film productio…
Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, and author (died 2022)
Lilia B. Cuntapay was a Filipina actress and former teacher. She is popularly recognized as the "Queen of Philippine Horror Movies" for her subsequent appearances in horror movies …
Lilia Cuntapay, Filipino actress (died 2016)
Robert R. Kiley was an American public transit planner and supervisor known for his ability to rehabilitate transit systems experiencing serious problems. From 2001 to 2006 he was …
Bob Kiley, American-English businessman (died 2016)
Esther Margareta Vilar is an Argentine-German writer. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author. She is best known for her 1971 book Th…
Esther Vilar, Argentinian-German author and playwright
Helen Marie Williams Jackson was an American fashion model, and one of the first African American models to be featured in mainstream publications of her time.
Helen Williams, American fashion model (died 2023)
Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 196…
Ken Kesey, American novelist, essayist, and poet (died 2001)