Explore 1359 historical events from 2020–2029.
Ollie Jngbert Christian Olsen was an Australian multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound designer and pioneer of electronic music in the Southern Hemisphere. From the mid-1970s until…
Ollie Olsen, Australian musician, composer and sound designer (born 1958)
Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar was a Palestinian politician and militant. He served as the fourth chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from August 2024, and as the second leader of …
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas (born 1962)
Toshiyuki Nishida was a Japanese actor. He won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 (1993). He also won the Blue Ribbon Awar…
Toshiyuki Nishida, Japanese actor (born 1947)
Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally was a Polish-American endocrinologist who was a co-recipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology …
Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (born 1926)
Liam James Payne was an English singer and songwriter. He was a member of the pop band One Direction, one of the best-selling boy bands of all time, alongside Niall Horan, Zayn Mal…
Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter from One Direction (born 1993)
Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, known professionally as Mitzi Gaynor, was an American actress, dancer and singer. Her notable films included We're Not Married! (1952), Ther…
Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1931)
Yehuda Bauer was a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He was a professor of Holocaust studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the H…
Yehuda Bauer, Israeli historian of the Holocaust (born 1926)
Ginés González García was an Argentine politician and physician who served twice as the country's Minister of Health under the successive presidencies of Eduardo Duhalde and Néstor…
Ginés González García, Argentine politician and physician (born 1945)
Barbara Jean Spillman, known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon…
Barbara Dane, American folk, blues and jazz singer (born 1927)
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement, which as of 2010 had 8-10 million of followers globally and had established a net…
Fethullah Gülen, Turkish preacher and theologian (born 1941)
Janusz Olejniczak was a Polish classical pianist, academic teacher and actor. He made an international career as a pianist, especially with the piano music of Chopin which he playe…
Janusz Olejniczak, Polish classical pianist and actor (born 1952)
Mimi Hines was a Canadian actress, singer, and comedian, best known for her appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and her work on Broadway. She succeeded Barbra Str…
Mimi Hines, Canadian singer and comedian (born 1933)
Richard Alan Cash was an American global health researcher, public health physician, and internist. He was a pioneer of oral rehydration therapy for lethal diseases such as cholera…
Richard A. Cash, American global health researcher (born 1941)
Walter Jacob was an American Reform rabbi. He was rabbi at the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1997. He served as chairman of organizations such as the Central…
Walter Jacob, American Reform rabbi (born 1930)
Paul Edward Winston White, Baron Hanningfield, was a British politician and farmer. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in various leadership roles in local government…
Paul White, Baron Hanningfield, British life peer (born 1940)
Grizzly 399 was a grizzly bear living in Grand Teton National Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, United States. She was followed by as many as 40 wildlife photograp…
Grizzly 399, American grizzly bear (born 1996)
Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz was a Peruvian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. His 1971 book…
Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (born 1928)
Lynda Rosen Obst was an American film producer and author. Her works include Sleepless in Seattle and Interstellar. Obst founded the production companies Hill/Obst Productions in 1…
Lynda Obst, American film producer and author (born 1950)
Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea, nicknamed "El Toro", was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher. Valenzuela played 17 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons, from 1980 to 1997. He play…
Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1960)
Geoffrey Lewis Humberg Capes JP was an English shot putter, strongman, and Highland Games competitor.
Geoff Capes, British shot putter and strongman (born 1949)
John Allan Jones was an American singer and actor. He was primarily a straight-pop singer whose forays into jazz were mostly of the big-band/swing music variety. He won two Grammy …
Jack Jones, American singer and actor (born 1938)
Amir Abdur-Rahim was an American basketball coach and player who was the head coach of the South Florida Bulls men's basketball team. Prior to coaching at USF, he was the head coac…
Amir Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player and coach (born 1981)
Abdelaziz Barrada, sometimes known as Abdel, was a professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in France, he represented Morocco at international level.
Abdelaziz Barrada, Moroccan footballer (born 1989)
Gary Hoisington, known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to …
Gary Indiana, American writer, playwright and poet (born 1950)