Explore 4729 historical events from 1940–1949.
Barry Manilow is an American singer and songwriter with a career spanning over sixty years. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Looks Like We Made It", "Mandy", "I Wri…
Barry Manilow, American singer-songwriter and producer
Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist, teaching at University of Westminster. She is best known for her and Ernesto Laclau's contribution to the development of the so-call…
Chantal Mouffe, Belgian theorist and author
Barry Joseph Evans was an English actor. He was best known for his appearances in British sitcoms such as Doctor in the House and Mind Your Language.
Barry Evans, English actor (died 1997)
Éva Marton is a Hungarian dramatic soprano, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of Puccini's Turandot and Tosca, and Wagnerian roles.
Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano and actress
Diane Marleau, was a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Sudbury in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2008, and was a cabinet minister in the government of…
Diane Marleau, Canadian accountant and politician, Canadian Minister of Health (died 2013)
Brian Sternberg was a world record holder in the men's pole vault who was paralyzed from the neck down after a trampoline accident in 1963.
Brian Sternberg, American pole vaulter (died 2013)
Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan is an American retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient a…
Burt Rutan, American engineer and pilot
Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, known professionally as Raffaella Carrà and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and m…
Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)
Alexander Britton Hume, known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. He had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World…
Brit Hume, American journalist and author
John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel P…
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Patrick Bokanowski is a French filmmaker who makes experimental and animated films.
Patrick Bokanowski, French filmmaker
Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.
Vint Cerf, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Ellyn Kaschak, was an American clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University. She was one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, which s…
Ellyn Kaschak, American psychologist and academic
James Lawrence Levine was an American conductor and pianist. He was music director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 to 2016, and conducted 2577 Met performances. At the end of h…
James Levine, American pianist and conductor (died 2021)
Birgit Grodal, was an economics professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1968 until her death in 2004.
Birgit Grodal, Danish economist and academic (died 2004)
Georgie Fame is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and …
Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
Jens Birkemose was a Danish contemporary painter.
Jens Birkemose, Danish painter (died 2022)
Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle regi…
Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Eva Narcissus Boyd, known by her stage name Little Eva, was an American singer best known for her 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion".
Little Eva, American singer (died 2003)
Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 top 40 U.S. hits include "That's t…
Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
Warren Thomas Farrell is an American author, educator, and activist who has written about gender, particularly men's issues. Initially active in the second wave feminist movement o…
Warren Farrell, American author and educator
Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appe…
Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic