Explore 3773 historical events from 2000–2009.
William Berenberg, M.D. was an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy.
William Berenberg, American physician and academic (born 1915)
Vladimir Volkoff was a writer of Russian origin who lived in France and whose books were written in French. He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young read…
Vladimir Volkoff, French soldier and author (born 1932)
Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).…
Robert Wise, American director and producer (born 1914)
Guy Mervin Charles Green OBE BSC was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1948, he won an Oscar as cinematographer for the film Great Expectati…
Guy Green, English director and cinematographer (born 1913)
Michael Sidney Luft was an American producer and businessman, the second husband of actress Lynn Bari, and later the third husband of actress and singer Judy Garland.
Sidney Luft, American manager and producer (born 1915)
Harry Freedman, was a Canadian composer, English hornist and teacher.
Harry Freedman, Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (born 1922)
Richard Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier.. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight w…
Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (born 1920)
Jacques Lacarrière was a French writer, born in Limoges. He studied moral philosophy, classical literature, and Hindu philosophy and literature. Professionally, he was known as a p…
Jacques Lacarrière, French journalist and critic (born 1925)
Alfred Reed was an American neoclassical composer, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name. He also travele…
Alfred Reed, American composer and educator (born 1921)
Michael Steven Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire. He worked with former world champions Richard Burns and Colin McRae as a gravel note expert while co-drivi…
Michael Park, English racing driver (born 1966)
Clint Cornelius Wilson Sr. was an African-American editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the most prominent Black owned newspaper in California.
Clint C. Wilson, Sr., American cartoonist (born 1914)
Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janow…
Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (born 1908)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Libe…
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (born 1933)
Donald James Yarmy, known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart in the television situa…
Don Adams, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)
Madeline-Ann Aksich, was a Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, artist and founder of the International Children's Institute. On May 1, 2001 she was appointed to the Order of Ca…
Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1956)
George William Archer was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969.
George Archer, American golfer (born 1939)
Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development. This framework, broadly referred to…
Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (born 1917)
Ghulam Mustafa Khan, SI was a Pakistani researcher, literary critic, linguist, author, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics, educationist and religious and spiritual leader b…
Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist and critic (born 1912)
Morgan Scott Peck (1936–2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.
M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (born 1936)
Friedrich Peter was an Austrian politician who served as chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria from 1958 to 1978. He was an active Nazi between 1938 and 1945 and an SS-Obersturm…
Friedrich Peter, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1921)
Helen Cresswell was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction. Her most popular book series, L…
Helen Cresswell, English author and screenwriter (born 1934)
Ronald Golias was a Brazilian comedian and actor.
Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (born 1929)
Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.
Mary Lee Settle, American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (born 1918)
Constance Baker Motley was an American jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A key strategist of th…
Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921)