Explore 338 historical events from 2020–2029.
Catherine Haste, Baroness Bragg, was an English author, biographer, historian and documentary film director, who worked freelance for major television networks in the UK and US ove…
Cate Haste, English author (born 1945)
Anthony Edward Payne was an English composer, music critic and musicologist. He is best known for his acclaimed completion of Edward Elgar's third symphony, which gained wide accep…
Anthony Payne, English composer (born 1936)
Olympia Dukakis was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, in some 60 films, and in approximately 50 television series. Best known as a screen actre…
Olympia Dukakis, American actress (born 1931)
Marcel Leopold Stellman was a Belgian born British record producer and lyricist. Among the many artists who recorded Stellman’s songs are Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Charles Aznavou…
Marcel Stellman, Belgian record producer and lyricist (born 1925)
Lloyd Price was an American R&B and rock and roll singer known as "Mr. Personality" after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was…
Lloyd Price, American R&B vocalist (born 1933)
Ivor Neville "Nick" Kamen was a British singer, songwriter and model. He was best known for the singles "Each Time You Break My Heart" from 1986 and "I Promised Myself" from 1990, …
Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (born 1962)
Kentaro Miura was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for his dark fantasy series Berserk, which began serialization in 1989. By 2023, Berserk had over 60 million copies in…
Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (born 1966)
Helmut Jahn was a German and American architect, known for projects such as the The Center Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the James R. Tho…
Helmut Jahn, German-American architect (born 1940)
Colton James Brennan was an American football quarterback. He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes, Saddleback Gauchos, and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. With the Rainbow …
Colt Brennan, American quarterback (born 1983)
Norman Nathan Lloyd was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He worked in every major facet of the indus…
Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (born 1914)
Pauline Cecilia Tinsley was a British soprano, notable for her performances for the Welsh National Opera and the English National Opera (1963–1974).
Pauline Tinsley, British soprano (born 1928)
Oliver J. Gillie was a British journalist and scientist. He previously served as the medical correspondent for The Sunday Times, and later medical editor for The Independent.
Oliver Gillie, British journalist and scientist (born 1937)
Charles Sidney Grodin was an American actor, comedian, author, and television talk show host. Known for his deadpan delivery and often cast as a put-upon straight man, Grodin becam…
Charles Grodin, American actor and talk show host (born 1935)
Yolanda Tortolero Martínez was a Venezuelan physician and politician, alternate deputy of the National Assembly for the Carabobo state and the A New Era party.
Yolanda Tortolero, Venezuelan politician
Bruno Covas Lopes was a Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician who was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and served as the mayor of São Paulo from 2018 u…
Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician (born 1980)
Paul Gladney, better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, was an American comedian, writer, and actor. He collaborated with Redd Foxx, Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle, wrote for co…
Paul Mooney, American comedian (born 1941)
Gary Bruce Wilson was an American writer and anti-pornography campaigner.
Gary Wilson, American anti-pornography activist (born 1956)
Lois Jane Ehlert was an American author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo in 1990. Some of her other …
Lois Ehlert, American author and illustrator (born 1934)
Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat.…
Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Christian activist, and author (born 1931)
Billy Joe Thomas was an American singer widely known for his country, contemporary Christian, and pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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Cornelius Sim DD was a Bruneian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Vicar Apostolic of Brunei from 2004 until his death. He had previously served as the apostolic prefect …
Cornelius Sim, Bruneian cardinal (born 1951)
Ronald Hill MBE was a British runner and clothing entrepreneur. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, and laid claim to…
Ron Hill, English long-distance runner (born 1938)
Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into mor…
Eric Carle, American children's book designer, illustrator, and writer best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar (born
John William Warner III was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he previously…
John Warner, American attorney and politician (born 1927)