Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Pavel Landovský, nicknamed Lanďák, was a Czech actor, playwright, and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia.
Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (died 2014)
Stefano Delle Chiaie was an Italian neo-fascist terrorist. He was the founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, a member of Ordine Nuovo, and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare. He went on t…
Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian activist, founded National Vanguard (died 2019)
Harry Danielsen was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Conservative Party, later independent.
Harry Danielsen, Norwegian educator and politician (died 2011)
Terence Daniel Donovan was an English photographer and film director, noted for his fashion photography of the 1960s. A book of his fashion work, Terence Donovan Fashion, was publi…
Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (died 1996)
Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, His research demonstrated that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by releasing nitric oxide into the body. This work led …
Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Lucas Samaras was a Greek-born American photographer, sculptor, and painter.
Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and photographer (died 2024)
Sara Jane Henderson was an Australian pastoralist and author who became an Australia household name after the publication of her autobiography From Strength to Strength in 1993 abo…
Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (died 2005)
Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964, he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and T…
Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (died 2014)
Michael Hennagin was an American composer and university professor.
Michael Hennagin, American composer and educator (died 1993)
Ashley John Cooper AO was an Australian tennis player who played between 1953 and 1968. He was ranked as the world's No. 1 amateur player during the years of 1957 and 1958. Cooper …
Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (died 2020)
Tom McBride, known as Big Tom, was an Irish country, traditional and easy listening singer, as well as a guitarist, and saxophone player.
Big Tom, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)
Martin Joseph Fay was an Irish fiddler and bones player, and a former member of The Chieftains.
Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (died 2012)
Milan Marcetta was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 54 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars between 1967 a…
Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)
Alfred Adolph Oerter Jr. was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in …
Al Oerter, American discus thrower (died 2007)
Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for his television adaptations of The Signalman (1976), To Serve Them All My Days (1980-81), House of C…
Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer
Salvador Reyes Monteón was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a forward.
Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (died 2012)
Sir Kamuta Latasi is a political figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu from Funafuti atoll. He was elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu in 1992. Latasi served as the 4th prime mi…
Kamuta Latasi, Tuvaluan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
Ian Bronson Albery is an English theatre consultant, manager, and producer. He is a former chief executive of Sadler's Wells Theatre (1994-2002), and was in charge of the Donmar Wa…
Ian Albery, English manager and producer
Royden Dickey Lipscomb, known professionally as Dickey Lee, is an American pop/country singer and songwriter, best known for the 1960s teenage tragedy songs "Patches" and "Laurie "…
Dickey Lee, American pop-country singer-songwriter and guitarist
Diane Rehm is an American journalist. She is best known as the former host of The Diane Rehm Show, a public radio talk show produced from 1979 to 2016 by WAMU in Washington, D.C. A…
Diane Rehm, American journalist and radio host
Maurice George Evans was a football player with Reading, and later manager of Shrewsbury Town, Reading and Oxford United.
Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (died 2000)
Robin Gammell is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Robin Gammell, Canadian actor
George Edward Eastham, OBE was an English footballer who played as a midfielder or inside forward for Newcastle United, Arsenal and Stoke City, as well as being a member of England…
George Eastham, English footballer (died 2024)
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. Before the election of Gavriil Popov as the first mayor of Moscow, he also heade…
Yury Luzhkov, Russian soldier and politician, 2nd Mayor of Moscow (died 2019)