Explore 5072 historical events from 1940–1949.
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
Ronald Fenton was an English football player, coach and manager. He played as an inside forward and made nearly 200 appearances in the Football League.
Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2013)
Hermann Knoflacher is an Austrian civil engineer. He was the head of the Institute for Transport Planning and Technology at the Vienna University of Technology.
Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian engineer and academic
Bill Kurtis is a retired American television journalist, television producer, narrator, and news anchor.
Bill Kurtis, American journalist and producer
Anna Karina was a Danish and French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer. She was an early collaborator of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, her first husband,…
Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, poet and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 2016 to 2019. He took office after the impeachmen…
Michel Temer, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 25th Vice President of Brazil
Richard Norman Thornett was one of five Australians to have represented their country in three sports. He was an Olympic water polo player before becoming a rugby league and rugby …
Dick Thornett, Australian rugby player and water polo player (died 2011)
Yves Navarre was a French writer. A gay man, most of his work concerned homosexuality and associated issues, such as AIDS. In his romantic works, Navarre was noted for his tendency…
Yves Navarre, French author (died 1994)
Dame Josephine Clare Barstow, is an English operatic soprano.
Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress
Benoni Beheyt is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer who raced from 1962 to 1968. Beheyt won 22 races and is most famous for winning the 1963 World Cycling Championshi…
Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
Walter William Cobb, known as Billy Cobb, was an English footballer who scored 38 goals from 199 appearances in the Football League playing for Nottingham Forest, Plymouth Argyle, …
Billy Cobb, English footballer
Claudia Falconer Card was an American philosopher who was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Wome…
Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (died 2015)
Harry Winston Jerome was a Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and set a total of seven world reco…
Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (died 1982)
Timothy Severin was a British explorer, historian, and writer. Severin was noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both th…
Tim Severin, Indian-English explorer, historian, and author (died 2020)
Dewey Martin was a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (died 2009)
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)