Explore 5072 historical events from 1940–1949.
Jonathan George Snow is an English journalist and television presenter. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he presented from 1989 to 2021. O…
Jon Snow, English journalist and academic
Denis Stamper Lawson is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983) and as John Jarndyce in the television miniserie…
Denis Lawson, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
Michael Lee Aday, known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of H…
Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2022)
Elizabeth Larrieu Torres is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Torres is best known for her role as Mahalia Sanchez in the NBC comedy series The John Larroquette Show (1993…
Liz Torres, Puerto Rican-American actress and comedian
Robert John Carr is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the New South Wales branch…
Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Rhonda Jo Hughes is an American mathematician, the Helen Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.
Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
Sir Richard John Evans is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany. He is the author of eighteen books, including his three-volume The Third Rei…
Richard J. Evans, British historian
Ülo Kaevats was an Estonian statesman, academic and philosopher.
Ülo Kaevats, Estonian philosopher, academic, and politician (died 2015)
Sarosh Homi Kapadia was the 38th Chief Justice of India. He was the first chief justice born after the partition of India.
S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (died 2016)
Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan is an influence on artist…
Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977)
Rula Lenska is a British actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but appeared in a series of television advertisements in the 1970s and 1980s in th…
Rula Lenska, English actress
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he lived u…
Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (born 1900)
Jozef Gašpar Tiso was a Slovak politician, dictator and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, fr…
Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (born 1887)
Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark a…
Christian X of Denmark (born 1870)
Meir Feinstein was an Irgun member in Mandatory Palestine, during the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Feinstein, who was sentenced to death by the British authorities, is…
Meir Feinstein (born 1929, disputed) with Moshe Barazani (born c
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded t…
Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1873)
Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though h…
Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (born 1867)
Dorothea "Theodora" Binz was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust. She was known as one of the most brutal, ruthless and sadi…
Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (born 1920)
Byron Joseph LaForest was a Canadian professional baseball player who appeared in 52 games in the major leagues, primarily as a third baseman, for the Boston Red Sox during the lat…
Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (born 1917)
Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership led to his becoming one of th…
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (born 1858)
Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and revolutionary. He was known as "Young Nazrul" and "Kishore Bidrohi Kobi", for his rebellious stance and opposition against the British R…
Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (born 1926)
George William Forbes was a New Zealand politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of New Zealand from 28 May 1930 to 6 December 1935. He was the last leader of the remnant o…
George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1869)
Harold Homer Chase, nicknamed "Prince Hal", was an American professional baseball first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball, widely viewed as the best fielder at his posit…
Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (born 1883)
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. H…
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)