Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Terttu Savola is a Finnish politician. She is the chairperson of the For the Poor party, a member of the council of the city of Espoo, the ambassador for human rights and children'…
Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician
Robert C. Christie Hunter was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead. Born near San Luis Obispo, California, H…
Robert Hunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Hugh Roger McDonald is an Australian author of several novels and a number of non-fiction works. He is also an accomplished poet and TV scriptwriter.
Roger McDonald, Australian author and screenwriter
Keith Robert Newton was an English professional footballer who played as a full-back in The Football League in the 1960s and 1970s. He made 27 appearances for the England national …
Keith Newton, English footballer (died 1998)
Mustafa Erkin Koray was a Turkish singer and guitarist who mainly played Anatolian rock.
Erkin Koray, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at…
Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author
Graham Douglas McKenzie – commonly known as "Garth", after the comic strip hero – is an Australian cricketer who played for Western Australia (1960–74), Leicestershire (1969–75), T…
Graham McKenzie, Australian cricketer
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized directors from Quebec, earning widespread a…
Denys Arcand, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
John Albert Raven FRS FRSE was a British botanist who was emeritus professor at University of Dundee and the University of Technology Sydney. His primary research interests were in…
John Albert Raven, Scottish academic and ecologist
Yves Beauchemin is a Québécois novelist.
Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and academic
William Joseph Baxley II, is an American Democratic politician and attorney from Dothan, Alabama.
Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
James Patrick Hogan was a British science fiction author. His major works include the Giants series of five novels published between 1977 and 2005.
James P
Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy…
Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (died 1996)
Alphonso Erwin Downing is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, and L…
Al Downing, American baseball player and sportscaster
Joseph Amadee Goguen was an American computer scientist. He was professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford, and held research positions …
Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language (died 2006)
David Lloyd Johnston is a Canadian academic, author, and statesman who served as the 28th governor general of Canada from 2010 to 2017. Johnston was the special rapporteur appointe…
David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor General of Canada
John Dominic Boccabella is an American former professional baseball player. He played as a catcher and first baseman in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1974 with the Chicago Cub…
John Boccabella, American baseball player
Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian and American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad a…
Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (died 1998)
Peter Maclean Pollock is a retired South African cricketer. He has played a continuing role in the South Africa cricket team as a player and selector. He was voted a Wisden Cricket…
Peter Pollock, South African cricketer and author
Rodrigue Gabriel Gilbert was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played his entire career for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Known as "Mr. Ran…
Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2021)
Alfred Goodman Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins …
Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
Nicolae Saramandu is a Romanian linguist and philologist of Aromanian ethnicity. He has been professor in several universities and vice president and later president of the Atlas L…
Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist
Twyla Tharp is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1965 she formed the company Twyla Tharp Dance, which merged with American Ball…
Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer
William Franklin Guest was an American R&B/soul singer best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips along with his cousins Gladys Knight, Merald "Bubba" Knight and Edward Pat…
William Guest, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2015)