Explore 4728 historical events from 1940–1949.
Eric Clifford Drysdale is a South African former tennis player. After a career as a highly ranked professional player in the 1960s and early 1970s, he became a tennis commentator.
Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player and sportscaster
Imants Kalniņš is a Latvian composer, musician and politician. Having studied classical and choral music, he has written seven symphonies, several operas, oratorios, cantatas, choi…
Imants Kalniņš, Latvian composer
Miriam Margolyes is a British-Australian comedian, writer and actress. Known for her work as a character actor across film, television, and stage, she received the BAFTA for Best S…
Miriam Margolyes, English-Australian actress and singer
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career. With…
Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate
Elizabeth Howland was an American actress known for her work on stage and television. She was best known for playing waitress Vera Gorman in the sitcom Alice.
Beth Howland, American actress and singer (died 2015)
Douglas Keith Scott was an English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1…
Doug Scott, English mountaineer and author (died 2020)
Robert David Simon was an American television correspondent for CBS News. He covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries during his career. Simon reported the withdrawal of Ame…
Bob Simon, American journalist (died 2015)
Dame Margaret June Clark, FAAN FLSW was a British nurse and academic who was Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing, at Swansea University in Wales.
June Clark, Welsh nurse and educator
Louis Joseph Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin…
Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
William Dawbney Nordhaus is an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and…
William Nordhaus, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent …
Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira
Alexander Valentinovich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian chief scientist and astronomer serving at the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI).
Alexander V
Walter Stacy Keach Jr. is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. Keach first distinguished himself in Off-Broadway productions and is a prominen…
Stacy Keach, American actor
Irène Schweizer was a Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist.
Irène Schweizer, Swiss jazz pianist (died 2024)
Wilmer Dean Chance was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in 11 Major League Baseball seasons for the Los Angeles / California Angels, Minn…
Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager (died 2015)
Louis Vincent Anthony Nanne is a Canadian-born American former National Hockey League defenceman and general manager. He played in the National Hockey League with the Minnesota Nor…
Lou Nanne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
Charles Robert Watts was an English musician who was the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
Charlie Watts, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2021)
Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian sold…
Kenneth G
Martha Argerich is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest living pianists.
Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist
Erasmo Carlos was a Brazilian singer and songwriter, most closely associated with his friend and longtime collaborator Roberto Carlos. Together, they created many chart hits includ…
Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 2022)
Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor and writer. He is best known for driving autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as…
Spalding Gray, American writer, actor, and monologist (died 2004)
Gudrun Sjödén is a Swedish fashion designer.
Gudrun Sjödén, Swedish designer
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Shakerley was a British party planner, writer and socialite from the Anson family. She was a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II and sister of …
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, British party planner, writer and socialite (died 2020)
Robert Jonathan Bradford was a Methodist Minister and a Vanguard Unionist and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland until his …
Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician and activist (died 1981)