Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Kenneth Douglas Taylor was a Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman, best known for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the "Canadian Caper" when he was the Canadian …
Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (died 2015)
Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist who, together with his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi, raped and murdered ten young women and girls bet…
Angelo Buono, American serial killer and rapist (died 2002)
William Dean Naulls was an American professional basketball player for 10 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a four-time NBA All-Star with the New York Knic…
Willie Naulls, American basketball player (died 2018)
Major-General Julian Howard Atherden Thompson, is a military historian and former Royal Marines officer who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War.
Julian Thompson, English general and historian
Gerald Archibald Hitchens was an English footballer who played as a centre forward.
Gerry Hitchens, English footballer and manager (died 1983)
Marshall Bertram Rosenberg was an American psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher. Starting in the early 1960s, he developed nonviolent communication, a process for supporting…
Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (died 2015)
Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous b…
Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (died 2014)
Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant, journalist, author and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the…
Ulrike Meinhof, German left-wing militant, co-founder of the Red Army Faction, journalist (died 1976)
Abdul Kader Asmal was a lawyer in South Africa and Ireland and later a South African politician. He was a Senior Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin and a professor of human rights …
Kader Asmal, South African academic and politician (died 2011)
James Eubert Holshouser Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 68th governor of North Carolina from 1973 to 1977. He was the first Republican candidate to be e…
James Holshouser, American lawyer and politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (died 2013)
James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Jr. was an American R&B musician based in New Orleans. He was the author of "Jock-A-Mo" (1954), which was later rerecorded as "Iko Iko" by the Dixie Cup…
James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2012)
Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics.
Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician and academic
Oğuz Atay was a Turkish novelist and engineer. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar, appeared in 1971–72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics, it has become …
Oğuz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (died 1977)
Constantine "Costa" Manos was an American photographer known for his images of Boston and Greece. His work has been published in Esquire, Life, and Look. He was a member of Magnum …
Constantine Manos, Greek-born American photographer (died 2025)
Jill Ker Conway was an Australian-American scholar and author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain, she also was Smith College…
Jill Ker Conway, Australian historian and author (died 2018)
Abdullah Ibrahim, previously known as Dollar Brand, was a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultura…
Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer (died 2026)
Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meie…
Richard Meier, American architect, designed the Getty Center and City Tower
Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri is a Greek singer and politician. Over the span of her career, she has released an estimated 450 albums in at least thirteen languages, including Greek, Fre…
Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician
Alan Elsdon was an English jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.
Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (died 2016)
Natesan Ramani, commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian Carnatic flautist. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1996. Ramani is al…
N. Ramani, Indian flute player (died 2015)
Peter Hawthorn Ashdown is a former motor racing driver. He drove in a single Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, racing a Cooper.
Peter Ashdown, English race car driver
Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, h…
Alan Garner, English author and playwright
Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez, also known as Rico, Reco or El Reco, was a Cuban-born Jamaican ska and reggae trombonist. He recorded with producers such as Karl Pitterson, Prince Buste…
Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist (died 2015)
Inger Stevens was a Swedish-born American film, stage, and Golden Globe–winning television actress.
Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (died 1970)