Explore 3061 historical events from 1940–1949.
Christian Boesch is an Austrian operatic baritone. He is the son of the soprano Ruthilde Boesch, and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, from 1959 to 196…
Christian Boesch, Austrian opera singer
Johannes Georg Fritsch was a German composer.
Johannes Fritsch, German viola player and composer (died 2010)
Bill Crider was an American author of crime fiction among other work.
Bill Crider, American author (died 2018)
Riccardo Muti is an Italian conductor. He is current music director of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Muti has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, t…
Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor and educator
Jennifer Jill Dunn was an American politician and engineer who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing…
Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (died 2007)
Goenawan Mohamad is an Indonesian poet, essayist, playwright and editor. He is the founder and editor of the Indonesian magazine Tempo. Mohamad is a vocal critic of the Indonesian …
Goenawan Mohamad, Indonesian poet and playwright
David Hattersley Warner was an English actor who portrayed a variety of villainous characters, as well as more sympathetic roles, in a career spanning six decades across stage and …
David Warner, English actor (died 2022)
Jesusa Purificación Levy Sonora-Poe, known professionally as Susan Roces, was a Filipino actress. She rose to fame in mid-1950s and became the biggest box-office star of the 1960s.…
Susan Roces, Filipino actress and producer (died 2022)
Paul Albert Anka is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and actor. His songs include "Diana", "You Are My Destiny", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", "(You're) …
Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairma…
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (born 1880)
Johanna Müller-Hermann was an Austrian composer and pedagogue.
Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (born 1878)
Julius Carl Fritz Manteuffel was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (born 1875)
Karin Maria Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1…
Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (born 1900)
Salih Bozok was an officer of the Ottoman Army, later the Turkish Army and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He was the chief aide-de-camp of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the fou…
Salih Bozok, Turkish commander and politician (born 1881)
Penelope Delta was a Greek author. She is widely celebrated for her contributions to the field of children's literature. Her historical novels have been widely read and have influe…
Penelope Delta, Greek author (born 1874)
Christopher Hobart McKivat was an Australian rugby union and rugby league player – a dual-code rugby international. He represented the Wallabies in over 20 Tests and tour matches f…
Chris McKivat, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1880)
Platon of Banja Luka was a Serbian Orthodox cleric who served as the Bishop of Banja Luka between 1940 and 1941. His tenure ended in May 1941, when he was abducted, tortured and ki…
Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (born 1874)
Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (born 1854)
Natalija Obrenović, née Keshko, known as Natalie of Serbia, was the Princess of Serbia from 1875 to 1882 and then Queen of Serbia from 1882 to 1889 as the wife of Milan I of Serbia…
Natalie, queen consort of Serbia (born 1859)
Olof Teodor "Tore" Svennberg was a Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades.
Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (born 1858)
A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.
Frederick Christian, English cricketer (born 1877)
Ōnishiki Uichirō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 26th yokozuna. On 2 November 1922, he became the first yokozuna to perform the yokozuna dohyō-iri at…
Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (born 1891)
Werner Sombart was a German economist, historian and sociologist. Head of the "Youngest Historical School," he was one of the leading Continental European social scientists during …
Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (born 1863)
Vice-Admiral Lancelot Ernest Holland, was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the British force in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941 against the German battleship Bismarc…
Lancelot Holland, English admiral (born 1887)