Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Robert Hugh Fearon Anderson was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1960 and in Formula One from …
Bob Anderson, English race car driver (died 1967)
Trevor Edward Peacock was an English actor and songwriter. He made his name as a theatre actor, including for his roles in Shakespeare. He later became known for playing Jim Trott …
Trevor Peacock, English actor, screenwriter and songwriter (died 2021)
Kenton Lloyd Boyer was an American professional baseball third baseman and manager. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, …
Ken Boyer, American baseball player and manager (died 1982)
Edward Louis Smith was an American jazz trumpeter from Memphis, Tennessee.
Louis Smith, American trumpeter (died 2016)
Barbara Barrie is an American actress and author.
Barbara Barrie, American actress
Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko was a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew to space on three missions, each bound for rendezvous with a different Salyut space station. Soyuz 17 was the first crew…
Georgy Grechko, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2017)
Herbert Eser Gray was a Canadian lawyer who became a prominent federal politician. He was a Liberal member of parliament for the Windsor area over the course of four decades, from …
Herb Gray, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (died 2014)
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of over 58 motion pictures, dating back to 1967's Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley. Th…
Irwin Winkler, American director and producer
Makrand Mehta was an Indian social and business historian from Gujarat.
Makrand Mehta, Indian historian (died 2024)
André Barbeau, was a French Canadian neurologist. He was known for his research into Parkinson's disease and Friedreich's ataxia and taurine research.
André Barbeau, French-Canadian neurologist (died 1986)
Field Marshal Sir John Lyon Chapple, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the professional head of the British Army, from 1988 to 1992. Early …
John Chapple, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (died 2022)
Bernard Fresson was a French actor who primarily worked in film.
Bernard Fresson, French actor (died 2002)
Faten Ahmed Hamama was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were mino…
Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (died 2015)
Philip Kotler is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus. He was the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg …
Philip Kotler, American author and professor
Carroll Baker is a retired American actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by d…
Carroll Baker, American actress
Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., ASC was an American cinematographer and film director, known for his influential work during the American New Wave of the 1970s, collaborating with director…
Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (died 2014)
Larry A. Silverstein is an American billionaire businessman. Among his real estate projects, he is the developer of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New Y…
Larry Silverstein, American real estate magnate
John Robert Schrieffer was an American theoretical physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theor…
John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
Shirley Verrett was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles making her a Soprano sfogato. Verrett enjoyed great fame from the late 1960s…
Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (died 2010)
Walter Horak was an Austrian football player.
Walter Horak, Austrian footballer (died 2019)
Françoise Arnoul was a French actress who achieved popularity during the 1950s.
Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-French actress (died 2021)
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician, general, and revolutionary who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-part…
Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba
John Frederick Lange Jr. is an American writer who, as John Norman, has authored the Gor series of science fantasy novels. Norman was also a philosophy professor.
John Norman, American philosopher and author
Lindy John Remigino was an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.
Lindy Remigino, American runner and coach (died 2018)