Explore 3063 historical events from 1940–1949.
Richard Davies was an English musician best known as founder, vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band Supertramp. Davies was the band's only constant member and wrote or co-wrote…
Rick Davies, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2025)
Peter Edward Ostling, known professionally as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He appeared in over 250 film and television roles from his debut in 1967 through the mid…
Peter Jason, American actor (died 2025)
Albert Walter "Sparky" Lyle is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1967 through 1982. He was a relief pit…
Sparky Lyle, American baseball player and manager
Sir Anand Satyanand is a New Zealand lawyer, judge, and ombudsman who served as the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand from 2006 to 2011.
Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
Dino Danelli was an American drummer. Danelli was best known as an original member and the drummer in the rock group the Young Rascals. He has been called "one of the great unappre…
Dino Danelli, American drummer (died 2022)
Maria João Alexandre Barbosa Pires is a Portuguese classical pianist, widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of the repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Maria João Pires, Portuguese pianist
Sally Vanessa Beauman was an English journalist and writer. She was the author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels.
Sally Beauman, English journalist and author (died 2016)
Betty Davis was an American singer, songwriter, and model. She was known for her controversial sexually oriented lyrics and performance style, and was the second wife of trumpeter …
Betty Davis, American singer-songwriter (died 2022)
Jean-Marie Leblanc is a French retired professional road bicycle racer who was general director of the Tour de France from 1989 to 2007, when he reached pensionable age and was suc…
Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist and journalist
Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but …
Barbara Thomson, English saxophonist and composer (died 2022)
Vito D'Amato was an Italian professional footballer who played as a forward.
Vito D'Amato, Italian footballer (died 2025)
Jim Bridwell was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from 1965 in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia and Alaska. He was noted for pushing the standards of both ai…
Jim Bridwell, American rock climber and mountaineer (died 2018)
Gerald Hussey Buchanan Birrell was a British racing driver from Scotland, who was killed in a wreck during practice for a Formula Two race at Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (died 1973)
Sir Peter James Bottomley is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1975 until 2024, last representing Worthing West.
Peter Bottomley, English politician
Frances J. de Lautour, better known as Frances de la Tour, is a British actress. A Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner, she is also known for her roles in the tel…
Frances de la Tour, English actress
John Thomas Hearne was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. His aggregate of 3061 first-class wickets is the greatest for any bowler of medium pace or above, and his 257 wic…
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Dimitrios Psarros was a Greek army officer, founder and leader of the resistance group National and Social Liberation (EKKA), the third-most significant organization of the Greek R…
Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (born 1893)
Elmer John Gedeon was an American professional baseball player, appearing in several games for the Washington Senators in 1939. Gedeon and Harry O'Neill were the only two Major Lea…
Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (born 1917)
Charles Thorton Jordan was an American magician.
Charles Jordan, American magician (born 1888)
Anthony John Mullane, nicknamed "Count" and "the Apollo of the Box", was an Irish professional baseball player who pitched for seven major-league teams during 1881–1894. He is best…
Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player (born 1859)
George Joseph Herriman III was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience am…
George Herriman, American cartoonist (born 1880)
William Dennison Stephens was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was the 24th governor o…
William Stephens, American engineer and politician, 24th Governor of California (born 1859)
Violette Morris was a French athlete and Nazi collaborator who won two gold and one silver medal at the Women's World Games in 1921–1922. She was later banned from competing for vi…
Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (born 1893)
Emir Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russ…
Mohammed Alim Khan, Manghud ruler (born 1880)