Explore 1392 historical events from 1940–1949.
Sir David Courtney Suchet is an English actor. He is known for his work on stage and in television. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial Oppenheimer (1980) and recei…
David Suchet, English actor
Norman Yew Heen Chow is an American football coach and former player who is an offensive analyst for the Vienna Vikings of the European League of Football (ELF). He was the head fo…
Norm Chow, American football player and coach
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley is a British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in th…
Joanna Lumley, English actress, voice-over artist, author, and activist
John Woo Yu-sen is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. The recipient of various accolades, including a Hong Kong Film Award for Be…
John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter
Gregory Girard Gumbel was an American television sportscaster. He was best known for his various assignments for CBS Sports. Gumbel became the first African-American announcer to c…
Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster (died 2024)
John Edward Barnard, is an English engineer and racing car designer. Barnard is credited with the introduction of two new designs into Formula One: the carbon fibre composite chass…
John Barnard, English car designer
Gary Lee Bauer is an American civil servant, activist, and former political candidate. He served in President Ronald Reagan's administration as Under Secretary of Education and Chi…
Gary Bauer, American political activist
John Marshall Watson is a British former racing driver and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1985. Watson won five Formula One Grands Prix…
John Watson, British race car driver
James Milton Kelly was an American athlete, martial artist actor, and professional tennis player. After winning several karate championships, he rose to fame in the early 1970s app…
Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (died 2013)
Thelma Houston is an American singer and actress. Beginning her recording career in the late 1960s, Houston scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her recording of "Don't Leave Me Th…
Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress
Marvin Ronald Hubbard was an American professional football fullback who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Oakland Raiders.
Marv Hubbard, American football player (died 2015)
William Kreutzmann Jr. is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fello…
Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer
Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the D…
Michael Rosen, English author and poet
Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as the title character on Murphy Brown. She is also known for her rol…
Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
Donovan Phillips Leitch is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored numerous international …
Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter
Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas or Biruté Mary Galdikas was a Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author. She was a professor at Simon Fraser Un…
Biruté Galdikas, Canadian primatologist and conservationist (died 2026)
Graham Keith Gouldman is an English musician. He is best known as the co-lead singer and bassist of the art rock band 10cc. He has been the band's only constant member since its fo…
Graham Gouldman, English guitarist and songwriter
David Thomas Mason was an English singer-songwriter and guitarist who came to prominence in 1967 as a founding member of the rock band Traffic. He wrote and sang lead vocals on two…
Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)
Daniel Libeskind is a Polish and American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principa…
Daniel Libeskind, American architect, designed the Imperial War Museum North and Jewish Museum
Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith was a British film and television actor and author. For his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series The Jewel in the Crown, he won …
Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author (died 2017)
Marvin Arthur Wolfman is an American comic book and novelization writer. He worked on Marvel Comics's The Tomb of Dracula (1972–1979), for which he and artist Gene Colan created th…
Marv Wolfman, American author
Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý is a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest and dissident involved in many pro-democracy movements, for which he was imprisoned for a total of almost 15 years. For …
Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý, Vietnamese priest and activist
Udo Lindenberg is a German singer, composer, and painter.
Udo Lindenberg, German singer-songwriter and drummer
Frank Hsieh Chang-ting is a Taiwanese politician, diplomat, and former defense attorney who has served as the chairman of the Taiwan–Japan Relations Association since 2026. He was …
Frank Hsieh, Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 40th Premier of the Republic of China