Explore 5072 historical events from 1940–1949.
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi was a Yemeni politician and military officer who served as the second president of Yemen from 2012 until his resignation in 2022. He previously served as the…
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni general and politician, 2nd President of Yemen (died 2026)
George Michael Biondo is a musician who served as bass guitarist of the Canadian rock band Steppenwolf from April 1970 to October 1976. Born in New York, Biondo has been based in S…
George Biondo, American bass player and songwriter
Peter Goddard is a British mathematical physicist who works in string theory and conformal field theory. Among his many contributions to these fields is the Goddard–Thorn theorem.
Peter Goddard, English physicist and mathematician
Martha Porter Saxton was an American professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College who authored several prominent historical biographies.
Martha Saxton, American Historian (died 2023)
Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. was an American virtuoso guitarist who combined blues, rockabilly, jazz, and country to create a musical style he called "redneck jazz", a term which he took…
Danny Gatton, American guitarist (died 1994)
William Kenwright was an English theatre and film producer. He was also the chairman of Everton Football Club for nearly two decades, from 2004 until his death in 2023.
Bill Kenwright, English actor, singer, and producer (died 2023)
Eva Bergman is a Swedish film, theatre and television director who worked at Dramaten. She is the daughter of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and was married to crime writer Henni…
Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter
Alastair Ian Stewart is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a style o…
Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jacques Gérard Lemaire is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and head coach who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. He spent his entire twelve-year National Hockey…
Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Victor Pollard is an English-born former Test and One-Day International cricketer and footballer who represented New Zealand at the international level in both sports.
Vic Pollard, English-New Zealand rugby player and footballer
Curtis Alexander Price, KBE was Warden of New College, Oxford, from October 2009 to September 2016. He was previously principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and …
Curtis Price, American musicologist and academic
Peter Edwin Storey is an English former footballer. Able to play at full-back or more commonly as a defensive midfielder, he picked up a reputation in the Football League as an agg…
Peter Storey, English footballer
Lemuel Jackson Barney is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) from…
Lem Barney, American football player
Kelly Groucutt was an English musician best known as the bassist and secondary vocalist for the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) between 1974 and 1982.
Kelly Groucutt, English bass player (died 2009)
Ronald Charles McKernan, known as Pigpen, was an American musician. He was a founding member of the San Francisco band the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972.
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 1973)
Vinko Puljić is a Bosnian Croat prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 1994. He was the archbishop of Vrhbosna from 1991 to 2022.
Vinko Puljić, Croatian cardinal
Rogatien Rosaire Vachon is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 16 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings and Boston Br…
Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Antonius Maria van Heugten was a Dutch sidecarcross rider and the 1981 World Champion in the sport, together with his passenger Frits Kiggen.
Ton van Heugten, Dutch motocross racer (died 2008)
Dione LaRue, known professionally as Dee Dee Sharp, is an American R&B singer. She was one of the first Black female teenage pop stars to achieve mainstream national success in the…
Dee Dee Sharp, American singer
Douglas Lloyd Ingle was an American musician, best known as the founder, organist, primary composer and lead vocalist for the band Iron Butterfly. He wrote the band's hit song "In-…
Doug Ingle, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2024)
José Montserrate Feliciano García is a Puerto Rican musician. He recorded many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors' "Light My Fire" and his self-penned Christm…
José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gerard Henderson is an Australian author, columnist and political commentator noted for his right-wing Catholic and conservative views. He founded and is the executive director of …
Gerard Henderson, Australian journalist and author
Richard Michael Mullane is an engineer and weapon systems officer, a retired USAF officer, and a former NASA astronaut. During his career, he flew as a mission specialist on STS-41…
Mike Mullane, American colonel and astronaut
Franz Anton Beckenbauer was a German professional football player, manager, and official. Nicknamed der Kaiser, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential pl…
Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (died 2024)