Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Bettina L. Cirone was an American photographer, interviewer, and Ford model. Cirone took photographs of celebrities; including actors, musicians, artists, politicians in the United…
Bettina Cirone, American model and photographer
Sir David Alan Hopwood is a British microbiologist and geneticist.
David Hopwood, English microbiologist and geneticist
Debra Paget is a retired American actress and entertainer. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and in Elvis Presle…
Debra Paget, American actress
Ted Donaldson was an American actor.
Ted Donaldson, American actor (died 2023)
George John Mitchell Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Maine from 1980 to 199…
George J. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
Dame Janet Abbott Baker is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
Janet Baker, English soprano and educator
Michael Dacher was a German mountain climber. In 1979 he and Reinhold Messner climbed the K2 in record time and without oxygen equipment.
Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (died 1994)
Barry Leslie Norman was a British film critic, television presenter and journalist. He presented the BBC's cinema review programme, Film..., from 1972 to 1998.
Barry Norman, English author and critic (died 2017)
Erik Paaske was a Danish theater, TV and film actor and singer.
Erik Paaske, Danish actor and singer (died 1992)
Sylva Koscina was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, best known for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul New…
Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (died 1994)
Robert Floyd Curl Jr. was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Priz…
Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Donald Malcolm Talbot was an Australian Olympic swimming coach and sport administrator.
Don Talbot, Australian swim coach and administrator (died 2020)
Peter Barton Wilson is an American attorney and politician who served as the 36th governor of California from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Wilson previously serv…
Pete Wilson, American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
Rupert, Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Count of Löwenstein-Scharffeneck was a Spanish-born Bavarian aristocrat and the longtime financial manager of the rock band the R…
Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English banker and manager (died 2014)
Patrick Francis McManus was an American educator and humor writer, who primarily wrote about the outdoors. A humor columnist and editor for Outdoor Life from 1983 to 2009, and Fiel…
Patrick F. McManus, American journalist and author (died 2018)
Wayne Shorter was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures in the history of modern jazz. Over a…
Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer (died 2023)
Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor and director, who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. The beginning of his film career coincided with the …
Tom Skerritt, American actor
Philip Neville French was an English film critic and radio producer. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before eventually becoming a BBC Radio producer, and l…
Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (died 2015)
Patrick Augustine Kalilombe was a Roman Catholic theologian who was the Bishop of Lilongwe from 1972 to 1979.
Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop and theologian (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
Sorel Etrog, was a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian artist, writer, and primarily, a sculptor. He specialized in modern art works and contemporary sculpture. Etrog's works explore hi…
Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (died 2014)
Arnold Koller is a Swiss professor and politician. He served as a member of the Federal Council from 1987 to 1999 for the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). Koller previous…
Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
Donald Ross Getty was a Canadian athlete, businessman, and politician who served as the 11th premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992.
Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta (died 2016)
Dorothy Ann Richards was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Trea…
Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (died 2006)