Explore 4728 historical events from 1940–1949.
Kenneth Thomas Jones is an English drummer best known for his work in the groups Small Faces, Faces and the Who. Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a…
Kenney Jones, English drummer
Susan Diane Ruttan is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Roxanne Melman on L.A. Law (1986–1993), for which she was nominated four times for a Primetime Emmy Awa…
Susan Ruttan, American actress
Dame Julia Catherine Donaldson is a British writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially…
Julia Donaldson, English author and playwright
Kemal Monteno was a Bosnian recording artist and singer-songwriter whose career stretched from the 1960s to the 2010s. He is widely considered one of the greatest songwriters of th…
Kemal Monteno, Bosnian singer-songwriter (died 2015)
John Ritter was an American actor. He was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He played Jack Tripper on the popular ABC sit…
John Ritter, American actor and producer (died 2003)
Marilyn Lorraine "Lynn" Abbey is an American fantasy author.
Lynn Abbey, American computer programmer and author
Jimmie Lee Ard is an American former professional basketball player.
Jim Ard, American basketball player
Mykhaylo Ivanovych Fomenko was a Ukrainian football player and coach.
Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2024)
Reynante "Rey" Magat Langit is a Filipino journalist. He is a longtime columnist for Philippine newspapers Tempo, Balita, People's Tonight, and Pilipino Mirror. He is also the main…
Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio host
Victoria Mallory was an American singer and actress, best known for originating the role of Anne Egerman in the Broadway musical A Little Night Music. She was also an accomplished …
Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (died 2014)
George Raymond Richard Martin, also known by the initials GRRM, is an American author, screenwriter, and television producer. Martin is best known as the author of the epic fantasy…
George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short story writer
Charles Salvatore "Chuck" Panozzo is an American musician best known as a co-founder of the rock band Styx. He is currently a part-time bass player in the band, sharing bass duties…
Chuck Panozzo, American bass player
John Anthony Panozzo was an American drummer best known for his work with rock band Styx.
John Panozzo, American drummer (died 1996)
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)