Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conduct…
Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (died 2014)
Gene Leroy Green was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and catcher who played all or portions of seven MLB seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals (1957–1959), Baltimore Ori…
Gene Green, American baseball player (died 1981)
David Julian Winnick was a British Labour Party politician who served 42 years as a Member of Parliament (MP), for Walsall North between 1979 and 2017, he was also the MP for Croyd…
David Winnick, English politician (died 2026)
Augustus Andrew Spence was a Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, politician, and militant who was the leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). One of the first UVF memb…
Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist and politician (died 2011)
Robert John Shaw was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in Major League Baseball on seven teams for 11 seasons, from 1957 to 1967. In 1962,…
Bob Shaw, American baseball player and manager (died 2010)
John Elliot Bradshaw was an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author who hosted a number of PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, cod…
John Bradshaw, American theologian and author (died 2016)
Tomislav Ivić was a Croatian professional football player and manager. Often described as a brilliant strategist, Ivić is credited with helping develop the modern style of the game…
Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (died 2011)
Joan Murrell Owens was an American educator and marine biologist specializing in corals. She received degrees in Geology, Fine Art, and Guidance Counseling. She described a new gen…
Joan Murrell Owens, American educator and marine biologist (died 2011)
Michael John Knight Smith, known as M. J. K. Smith or Mike Smith, was an English cricketer and rugby union player. He played for Leicestershire from 1951 until 1955, and for Warwic…
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Orval Roy Tessier was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and coach who played parts of three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Brui…
Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)
Cookie was a male pink cockatoo residing at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was believed to be the oldest member of his species alive in captivity, at the…
Cookie, Australian Major Mitchell's cockatoo, oldest recorded parrot (died 2016)
Rosalie Sorrels was an American folk singer-songwriter. She began her public career as a singer and collector of traditional folksongs in the late 1950s. During the early 1960s she…
Rosalie Sorrels, American traditional folk singer-songwriter (died 2017)
Covington Scott Littleton was an American anthropologist who was Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Occidental College. A co-founder of the Journal of Indo-Eu…
C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (died 2010)
Peter Hullett Desbarats, OC was a Canadian author, playwright and journalist. He was also the dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario (1981–1997), a former commissi…
Peter Desbarats, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (died 2014)
Kenneth Malcolm Wharram was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League, all with the Chicago Black Hawks, wearing number 17…
Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2017)
Edward Newman Brandt Jr. MD was an American physician, mathematician, and public health administrator. He was appointed acting surgeon general of the United States from 1981 to 198…
Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician (died 2007)
Paul-Gilbert Langevin was a French musicologist, who was a specialist on Anton Bruckner, Franz Schubert and 19th-century classical music.
Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critic and physicist (died 1986)
David Gaub McCullough was an American popular historian and author. He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presi…
David McCullough, American historian and author (died 2022)
Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer was a Canadian lawyer and jurist who served as the 16th Chief Justice of Canada from 1990 to 2000.
Antonio Lamer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Chief Justice of Canada (died 2007)
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (died 2015)
Morris Eugene Simmons, better known as Jumpin' Gene Simmons, was an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1964 novelty single "Haunted House".
Jumpin' Gene Simmons, American rockabilly singer-songwriter (died 2006)
Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang, was a Taiwanese Olympian decathlete. Yang attended college at UCLA, where he trained and competed with teammate and Olympian Rafer Johnson and was c…
C.K. Yang, Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (died 2007)
Gerald Sheldon Herman was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre.
Jerry Herman, American musical theater composer (died 2019)
James Anthony Carlen III was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at West Virginia University (1966–1969) a…
Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (died 2012)