Explore 4728 historical events from 1940–1949.
Linda Ann Gray is an American actress, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering wife of Larry Hagman's character J.R. Ewing on the CBS television drama series…
Linda Gray, American model and actress
Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was the president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.
Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate
Brian Maurice Brain was an English first-class cricketer whose career with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire stretched over more than two decades. He was capped by Worcestershire …
Brian Brain, English cricketer (died 2023)
Kerry Matthew Stokes is an Australian businessman. He holds business interests in industries including electronic and print media, property, gas, oil, mining and construction equip…
Kerry Stokes, Australian businessman
Ventseslav Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, aphorist and translator of German and English literature.
Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator (died 2019)
Padmakar Kashinath Shivalkar was an Indian first class cricketer. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, Shivalkar spent over 20 years playing for Bombay and is the team's highest wicket…
Padmakar Shivalkar, Indian cricketer (died 2025)
Merlin Jay Olsen was an American professional football player, announcer, and actor. For his entire 15-year professional football career, he was a defensive tackle with the Los Ang…
Merlin Olsen, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (died 2010)
Hamiet Bluiett was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument was the baritone saxophone, and he was considered one of the finest players of th…
Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist and composer (died 2018)
Earl Henry "Butch" Buchholz, Jr. is a former professional tennis player from the United States who was one of the game's top players in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Butch Buchholz, American tennis player
Paul Edward Winston White, Baron Hanningfield, was a British politician and farmer. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in various leadership roles in local government…
Paul White, Baron Hanningfield, British life peer (died 2024)
Jan Kenneth Eliasson is a Swedish diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 2012 to December 2016. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, …
Jan Eliasson, Swedish politician and diplomat, 4th Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Peter Lever was an English cricketer, who played in seventeen Tests and ten ODIs for England from 1970 to 1975. A fast-medium opening bowler, he took 41 wickets and was a handy low…
Peter Lever, English cricketer (died 2025)
Gilberto Parlotti was an Italian professional motorcycle racer competing in the FIM World Championship between 1969 and 1972. He competed for the Benelli, Derbi, Morbidelli and Tom…
Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1972)
Francis Thomas Avallone , known professionally as Frankie Avalon, is an American singer, actor and former teen idol. He had 31 charting U.S. Billboard singles from 1958 to late 196…
Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor
Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhod…
Zandra Rhodes, English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum
Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he also served as Deputy Prime Minister …
Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
William Franklin Finley was an American actor who appeared in the films The Funhouse, Simon, Silent Rage, Phantom of the Paradise, Sisters and The Wedding Party.
William Finley, American actor (died 2012)
Anna Pavord is a British horticultural writer. She wrote for The Observer for over twenty years and for The Independent for over thirty years. Her book The Tulip (1999) was listed…
Anna Pavord, Welsh-English journalist and author
Tony D'Arcy was an Irish Republican militant and activist. A senior leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), he died on 16 April 1940 after a 52-day hunger strike, at the age o…
Tony D'Arcy, Irish Republican died while on hunger strike (born 1908)
Jack McNeela was an Irish republican and a senior member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Ballycroy, County Mayo, Ireland. McNeela was one of 22 Irish republicans who died o…
Jack McNeela, Irish Republican Army, died on hunger strike
Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one p…
Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
Ernest Edward Mills Joyce AM was a Royal Naval seaman and explorer who participated in four Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, in the early 20th …
Ernest Joyce, English explorer (born 1875)
George Lansbury was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour governmen…
George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (born 1859)
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North Ame…
Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist (born 1869)