Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political ec…
Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is a Japanese actress, television personality, World Wide Fund for Nature advisor, and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She joined NHK Broadcasting Theatre Compa…
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress, talk show host, and author
Doyle Frank Brunson was an American poker player who played professionally for over 60 years. He was a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, a Poker Hall of Fa…
Doyle Brunson, American poker player (died 2023)
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in …
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, English lawyer and judge
Rocco Domenico "Rocky" Colavito Jr. was an American professional baseball player, coach, and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielde…
Rocky Colavito, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2024)
David Keith Duckworth was an English mechanical engineer. He is most famous for designing the Cosworth DFV engine, an engine that revolutionised the sport of Formula One.
Keith Duckworth, English engineer, founded Cosworth (died 2005)
Jerry Laymon Falwell was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and politically conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurc…
Jerry Falwell, American minister and television host (died 2007)
Jerzy Marian Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and dramatic theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced t…
Jerzy Grotowski, Polish director and producer (died 1999)
Tamás Vásáry was a Hungarian concert pianist and conductor who made an international career, living in Switzerland from 1956 and later in London from 1970. He was known for interpr…
Tamás Vásáry, Hungarian pianist and conductor (died 2026)
Frederic Lindsay was a Scottish crime writer, who was born in Glasgow and lived in Edinburgh. He was a full-time writer from 1979 and previously worked as a lecturer, teacher and l…
Frederic Lindsay, Scottish author and educator (died 2013)
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones was an American professional racing driver and racing team owner. He is notable for his accomplishments while competing in the Indianapolis 500 and t…
Parnelli Jones, American race car driver and businessman (died 2024)
Minnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health administrator who served as Surgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994. A vice admiral in the Publi…
Joycelyn Elders, American admiral and physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
Richard Robert Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
Robert Lee Helms was an American country singer and musician. In 1957, he had a perennial Christmas hit with "Jingle Bell Rock", and two other hits that same year: "Fraulein" and "…
Bobby Helms, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)
Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist who conducted controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.
Stanley Milgram, American social psychologist (died 1984)
Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, harm…
Mike Seeger, American folk musician and folklorist (died 2009)
Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Wa…
Reiner Kunze, German poet and translator
Thomas Michael Maschler was a British publisher and writer. From 1960, he was influential as the head of publishing company Jonathan Cape over a period of more than three decades. …
Tom Maschler, English author and publisher (died 2020)
Stuart Allen Roosa was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apoll…
Stuart Roosa, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1994)
Max Edward "Mark" Dinning was an American pop music singer.
Mark Dinning, American pop singer (died 1986)
Just Louis Fontaine was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He scored the most goals ever in a single FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches in the 1958…
Just Fontaine, Moroccan-French footballer and manager (died 2023)
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański is a Polish and French filmmaker and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards,…
Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles. She is also a writer, lingerie designer, and real estate mogul. …
Julie Newmar, American actress
Francis Patrick Salemme, sometimes spelled Salemmi, also known as "Cadillac Frank" and "the General", was an American mobster from Boston, Massachusetts who became a hitman and eve…
Frank Salemme, American gangster and hitman (died 2022)