Explore 3061 historical events from 1940–1949.
Gerald Vincent Casale is an American musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, co-lead vocalist and bass player of the new wave band Devo, which released a t…
Gerald Casale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director
Eiichi Ohtaki was a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He first became known as a member of the rock band Happy End, but was better known for his solo work …
Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)
John Morrison Clarke was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work app…
John Clarke, New Zealand-Australian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)
William Edward Paultz is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in the now defunct American Basketball Associ…
Billy Paultz, American basketball player
Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez, commonly known as Jean Reno, is a Moroccan-born French and Spanish actor. He established himself as a leading man of French cinema through his collab…
Jean Reno, Spanish-French actor
Otis Taylor is an American blues musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals. In 2001, he was awarded a fellows…
Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Julia Tsenova was a Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.
Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (died 2010)
Baron Kantarō Suzuki was a Japanese politician and admiral who served as prime minister of Japan from 7 April to 17 August 1945, during World War II. He was prime minister at the …
Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1868)
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist. He taught at the University of Wisco…
Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (born 1887)
Jāzeps Vītols was a Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic. He is considered one of the fathers of Latvian classical music.
Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (born 1863)
Knut Ernst Robert Tandefelt was a Swedish-speaking Finnish nobleman.
Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (born 1876)
U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw, was a leading Burmese politician who served as Prime Minister of British Burma during the colonial era before the Second World War. He is also kno…
U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (born 1900)
Hans Waldemar Wessolowski was a German-American artist best known under the pseudonym "Wesso" for his many cover illustrations for pulp magazines in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Hans Waldemar Wessolowski, German-American illustrator (born 1894)
Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, also known as "Kick" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgera…
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (born 1920)
Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Diocese of O…
Edward J
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Claude McKay, Jamaican writer and poet (born 1889)
Jacques Feyder was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films duri…
Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1885)
Witold Pilecki, known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader (born 1901)
Torsten Lars Herman Jamte Bergström was a Swedish film director and theater and film actor.
Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (born 1896)
Dame Mary Louise Webster, known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two w…
May Whitty, English actress (born 1865)
József Klekl was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest from Prekmurje and politician in Hungary, writer, governor of the Slovene People's Party (Slovenska lüdska stranka), later a delega…
József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (born 1874)
Alex Gard was a Russian American cartoonist. He was a regular cartoonist for newspapers, magazines and books, but is most well known for his celebrity caricatures at Sardi's restau…
Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (born 1900)
Karl Franz Gebhardt was a German physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps a…
Karl Gebhardt, German physician (born 1897)
Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many c…
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (born 1903)