Explore 1392 historical events from 1940–1949.
Martin Barry Kelner is a British journalist, author, comedian, singer, actor and TV presenter, whose primary career is in radio presenting. He has spent over 40 years hosting radio…
Martin Kelner, English journalist, author, comedian, singer, actor and radio presenter
Wendy Orlean Williams was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial nudity…
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Brian Kidd is an English football coach and former player, who won the European Cup in 1968 with Manchester United. He was most recently assistant coach of Premier League club Manc…
Brian Kidd, English footballer and manager
Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is the founder, leader, lead singer, lead guitarist, and sole continuous member of the roc…
Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Robert Axelrod, also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was primarily known for his voice work, which included Digimon, having started voice actin…
Robert Axelrod, American actor and screenwriter (died 2019)
Peter John Carlesimo is an American former basketball coach who coached in both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and college basketball for nearly 40 years. He is also a t…
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Sir Paul James Duke Coleridge is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He is currently the Chairman of the Marriage Foundation.
Paul Coleridge, English lawyer and judge
Robert George Dylan Willis was an English cricketer, who represented England between 1971 and 1984. A right-handed fast bowler, Willis is regarded by many as one of the greatest fa…
Bob Willis, English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2019)
Thomas Michael Moore, known professionally as Tom Berenger, is an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for …
Tom Berenger, American actor, film producer and television writer
Heather Anita Couper, was a British astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser.
Heather Couper, English astronomer and physicist (died 2020)
Frank Hart Rich Jr. is an American essayist and liberal op-ed columnist, who held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011. He has also produced television ser…
Frank Rich, American journalist and critic
Gabriel Arcand is a Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand.
Gabriel Arcand, Canadian actor
Mark B. Cohen is a Democratic politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented District 202 in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from June 10, 1974, until his def…
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Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow was a Danish-born Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century.
Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (born 1877)
Benjamin Rice Faunce Jr. (1873–1949) was an American druggist and businessman who created the soft drink Boost! and established the Boost! Company.
Benjamin Faunce, American druggist and businessman (born 1873)
Frederick Ingram Walden was an English professional footballer who played outside right for Northampton Town, Tottenham Hotspur and at international level for England during the 19…
Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (born 1888)
Louis II was Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 to 9 May 1949.
Louis II, Prince of Monaco (born 1870)
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, born Dimitrios Papandreou, was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between…
Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1891)
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann was a German writer and anti-fascist activist. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann and Golo Mann.
Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1906)
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made i…
Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (born 1872)
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He wa…
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Alexey Victorovich Shchusev was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture – Art Nouveau, Constructivism, and Stalini…
Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (born 1873)
LeRoy Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, televisi…
Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (born 1890)
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He w…
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (born 1874)