Explore 3063 historical events from 1940–1949.
Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.
Vint Cerf, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Ellyn Kaschak, was an American clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University. She was one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, which s…
Ellyn Kaschak, American psychologist and academic
James Lawrence Levine was an American conductor and pianist. He was music director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 to 2016, and conducted 2577 Met performances. At the end of h…
James Levine, American pianist and conductor (died 2021)
Birgit Grodal, was an economics professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1968 until her death in 2004.
Birgit Grodal, Danish economist and academic (died 2004)
Georgie Fame is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and …
Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
Jens Birkemose was a Danish contemporary painter.
Jens Birkemose, Danish painter (died 2022)
Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle regi…
Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Eva Narcissus Boyd, known by her stage name Little Eva, was an American singer best known for her 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion".
Little Eva, American singer (died 2003)
Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 top 40 U.S. hits include "That's t…
Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
Warren Thomas Farrell is an American author, educator, and activist who has written about gender, particularly men's issues. Initially active in the second wave feminist movement o…
Warren Farrell, American author and educator
Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appe…
Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic
Louis Nicollin was a French entrepreneur and director of the Nicollin Company, which specializes in the collection and reprocessing of household and industrial waste. Nicollin nota…
Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC (died 2017)
Florence Glenda Chapman was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including nine num…
Florence Ballard, American pop/soul singer (died 1976)
Saeed Akhtar Mirza is an Indian screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of notable parallel films such as Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pint…
Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter
Peeter Lepp is an Estonian politician. From 1993 to 2002, he was a member of the Estonian Coalition Party. After its dissolution, he joined the Estonian Reform Party.
Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn
Gary Peter Waldhorn was an English actor and comedian known for his roles in British television and theatre. He is particularly remembered for his work in the main casts of several…
Gary Waldhorn, British actor (died 2022)
Judith Durham was an Australian singer, songwriter and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian folk music group the Seekers in 1962.
Judith Durham, Australian folk-pop singer-songwriter and musician (died 2022)
Norman Earl Thagard is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space flights and on March 14, 1995,…
Norman E. Thagard, American astronaut
Konrad "Conny" Bauer is a German free jazz trombonist. He is the brother of the trombonist Johannes Bauer.
Conny Bauer, German trombonist
Philip Brunelle is an American choral scholar, conductor and organist. He is the founder of VocalEssence. In the course of an international career as a choral and opera conductor B…
Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist
Jeffry Wayne is an American-British composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978, he released Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wel…
Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician and lyricist
Larry Ellsworth Lake was an American-born Canadian composer, trumpeter, freelance writer on music, radio broadcaster, and record producer. As a composer, he was primarily known for…
Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (died 2013)
Kurtwood Larson Smith is an American actor. He is known for playing Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987), Robert Griggs in Rambo III (1988), Thomas Perry in Dead Poets Society (198…
Kurtwood Smith, American actor