Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Della Reese was an American singer, actress, television personality, author and ordained minister. As a singer, she recorded blues, gospel, jazz and pop. Several of her singles mad…
Della Reese, American actress and singer (died 2017)
William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland. He emerged as a leading man during the late 1950s with his role as the villainous M…
Stephen Boyd, Northern Ireland-born American actor (died 1977)
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the…
Sébastien Japrisot, French author, director, and screenwriter (died 2003)
Ismail Mahomed SCOB SC was a South African lawyer and jurist who served as the first non-white Chief Justice of South Africa from January 1997 until his death in June 2000. He was …
Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and politician, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (died 2000)
László Tábori was a Hungarian middle- and long-distance runner, best known for equalling the 1500 metres world record and placing 4th in that event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
László Tábori, Hungarian runner and coach (died 2018)
David Carroll Eddings was an American fantasy writer. With his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad (1982–84), The Mallor…
David Eddings, American author and academic (died 2009)
Haynes Bonner Johnson was an American journalist, author, and television analyst. He reported on most of the major news stories of the latter half of the 20th century and was widel…
Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (died 2013)
Sylvia Adelaide Bacon was an American judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia who was considered by both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as a potential nominee to t…
Sylvia Bacon, American judge (died 2023)
Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock, better known as Nick Adams, was an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during th…
Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (died 1968)
Gerald Sheldon Herman was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre.
Jerry Herman, American composer and songwriter (died 2019)
Julian Clare May was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms. She is best known for her Saga of Plioce…
Julian May, American author (died 2017)
Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short …
Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Richard Benjamin Gray was an American professional baseball player. He was an infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and …
Dick Gray, American baseball player (died 2013)
Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key …
Roone Arledge, American sports and news broadcasting executive (died 2002)
Thurston Harris was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 hit "Little Bitty Pretty One".
Thurston Harris, American doo-wop singer (died 1990)
Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s an…
Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (died 2018)
Tullio Eugenio Regge was an Italian theoretical physicist.
Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (died 2014)
Eric William Ives was a British historian who was an expert on the Tudor period, and a university administrator. He was emeritus Professor of English History at the University of…
Eric Ives, English historian and academic (died 2012)
Newton Tattrie was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Geeto Mongol.
Geeto Mongol, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2013)
Giuseppe Malandrino was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
Giuseppe Malandrino, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (died 2025)
Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr. was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6-3 swingman, he played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) National Basketball Association (NBA) c…
Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)
Clive Eric Cussler was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have been listed on The New York Times f…
Clive Cussler, American archaeologist and author (died 2020)
Joanna Merlin was an American actress and casting director who worked with Stephen Sondheim and starred in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. She wrote two ac…
Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director (died 2023)
Jacques-Yvan Morin was a Canadian law professor and politician in Quebec. Morin graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Law with a BCL in 1953, where he was the founder of …
Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec (died 2023)