Explore 5072 historical events from 1940–1949.
Nicos Anastasiades is a Cypriot politician and businessperson, who served as the seventh president of Cyprus from 2013 to 2023. Previously, he was the leader of Democratic Rally be…
Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot lawyer and politician, seventh President of Cyprus
Tommy Wayne Cannon was an important Native American artist of the 20th century. He was popularly known as T. C. Cannon. He was an enrolled member of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklah…
T. C. Cannon, American painter and sculptor (died 1978)
Thomas Michael Bower is a British writer and former BBC journalist and television producer. He is known for his investigative journalism and for his unauthorised biographies, often…
Tom Bower, English journalist and author
Jeffrey Duncan Jones is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in B…
Jeffrey Jones, American actor
Patricia Hodge is an English actress. She is known on-screen for playing Phyllida Erskine-Brown in Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992), Jemima Shore in Jemima Shore Investigates (198…
Patricia Hodge, English actress
Arturo Lindsay is a Panamanian-born artist and professor of art and art history at Spelman College. His scholarship specializes in ethnographic research on African spiritual and ae…
Arturo Lindsay, Panamanian-American artist
Fran Brill is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street, as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film Being There (1979), Dana Mardukas i…
Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer
Jochen Richard Mass was a German racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1982. Mass won the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix with McLaren. In endurance racin…
Jochen Mass, German race car driver (died 2025)
Andrew Paul Sheahan is a former Australian international cricketer who played 31 Test matches and three One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 a…
Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator
Majid Jahangir Khan, nicknamed "Majestic Khan" by the British press, is a former cricketer, batsman and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. In his prime, he was consider…
Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the Hous…
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Widely regarded as one of salsa's most important and influential vocalists, Lavoe played …
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 1993)
Raël is a French journalist and religious leader who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.
Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism
Arthur Chevrolet was an American racing driver and automobile manufacturer.
Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American racing driver and engineer (born 1884)
Juan Bautista Sacasa was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the former's cousin twice …
Juan Bautista Sacasa, Nicaraguan medical doctor, politician and 20th President of Nicaragua (born 1874)
Mae Busch was an Australian-born actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedi…
Mae Busch, Australian actress (born 1891)
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, was an English economist whose writings are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoot…
John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (born 1883)
James Larkin White was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of …
James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (born 1882)
Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now ca…
Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (born 1870)
Olayinka Herbert Samuel Heelas Badmus Macaulay was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist, and musician. Macaulay is considered by many as fo…
Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (born 1864)
William Joseph Denny was an Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902…
Bill Denny, Australian journalist, lawyer, politician, and decorated soldier (born 1872)
Seán McCaughey was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader in the 1930s and 1940s and hunger striker.
Seán McCaughey, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1915)
Zara "Zadie" DuPont (1869–1946) was an American suffragist, serving as the first Vice President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.
Zara DuPont, American suffragist (born 1869)
Bruno Emil Tesch was a German chemist and entrepreneur. Together with Gerhard Peters and Walter Heerdt, he invented the insecticide Zyklon B. He was the owner of Tesch & Stabenow, …
Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (born 1890)