Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock, better known as Nick Adams, was an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during th…
Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (died 1968)
Gerald Sheldon Herman was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre.
Jerry Herman, American composer and songwriter (died 2019)
Julian Clare May was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms. She is best known for her Saga of Plioce…
Julian May, American author (died 2017)
Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short …
Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Richard Benjamin Gray was an American professional baseball player. He was an infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and …
Dick Gray, American baseball player (died 2013)
Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key …
Roone Arledge, American sports and news broadcasting executive (died 2002)
Thurston Harris was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 hit "Little Bitty Pretty One".
Thurston Harris, American doo-wop singer (died 1990)
Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s an…
Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (died 2018)
Tullio Eugenio Regge was an Italian theoretical physicist.
Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (died 2014)
Eric William Ives was a British historian who was an expert on the Tudor period, and a university administrator. He was emeritus Professor of English History at the University of…
Eric Ives, English historian and academic (died 2012)
Newton Tattrie was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Geeto Mongol.
Geeto Mongol, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2013)
Giuseppe Malandrino was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
Giuseppe Malandrino, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (died 2025)
Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr. was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6-3 swingman, he played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) National Basketball Association (NBA) c…
Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)
Clive Eric Cussler was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have been listed on The New York Times f…
Clive Cussler, American archaeologist and author (died 2020)
Joanna Merlin was an American actress and casting director who worked with Stephen Sondheim and starred in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. She wrote two ac…
Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director (died 2023)
Jacques-Yvan Morin was a Canadian law professor and politician in Quebec. Morin graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Law with a BCL in 1953, where he was the founder of …
Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec (died 2023)
Fergus Gordon Thomson Kerr was a Scottish Catholic priest of the English Dominican province. He published significantly on a wide range of subjects, but was famous particularly for…
Fergus Gordon Kerr, Scottish Roman Catholic priest of the English Dominican Province
Norman Burt Sherry was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers a…
Norm Sherry, American baseball player, manager, and coach (died 2021)
Shakuntala Bhupendra Karandikar was an Indian biographer and philanthropist, best remembered for writing Vishwasta (1992), a biography of her father in Marathi, and for her advocac…
Shakuntala Karandikar, Indian biographer, essayist and philanthropist (died 2018)
Anthony Ernest Marsh was a British racing driver from England. His Formula One career was short and unsuccessful, but he enjoyed great success in hillclimbing, winning the British …
Tony Marsh, English race car driver (died 2009)
Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.
Sonny Clark, American pianist and composer (died 1963)
Plas John Johnson Jr. was an American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, probably most widely known as the tenor saxophone soloist on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme…
Plas Johnson, American saxophonist (died 2026)
Jorge León Schidlowsky Gaete was a Chilean and Israeli composer and painter. He wrote music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and instruments including the piano, violin, cel…
Leon Schidlowsky, Chilean-Israeli painter and composer (died 2022)
Leonard Gerald "Leo The Lion" Labine was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A native of Haileybury, Ontario, Labine played for teams in the NHL, WHL, EPHL, and the AHL. At …
Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2005)