Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
Marshall Jacob Brickman was an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen, with whom he shared the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original …
Marshall Brickman, Brazilian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Edward Roy Patten was an American R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. He was a cousin of Gladys Knight. Patten was a member of the group from 1959 …
Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2005)
Nikola Pilić was a Croatian professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. He was the coach of the Croatian, West German and Serbian national tennis teams, with whom h…
Nikola Pilić, Yugoslav tennis player and coach (died 2025)
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at t…
John Kingman, English mathematician and academic
Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw event during her career.
Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter (died 2022)
Joel T. Schumacher was an American filmmaker. During a four-decade career, he directed more than 20 feature-length films spanning various genres. His films were commercially succes…
Joel Schumacher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020)
Elizabeth Ann Cole, known professionally as Elizabeth Ashley, is an American actress of theatre, film, and television. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in…
Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, br…
John Peel, English radio host and producer (died 2004)
Jerry Ivan Allison was an American musician. He was best known as the drummer and only constant member of the Crickets and co-writer of their hits "That'll Be the Day" and "Peggy S…
Jerry Allison, American drummer and songwriter (died 2022)
Denis Thomson Lindsay was a South African cricketer who played 19 Test matches for South Africa between 1963 and 1970. His outstanding series was against Australia in 1966–67, when…
Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer and referee (died 2005)
Claudette Colvin was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing…
Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist (died 2026)
Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty was a Dominican professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder from 1963 to 1979, most prominently as a member …
Rico Carty, Dominican baseball player (died 2024)
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her care…
Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer
William Joseph Devane is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1983–1993) and as James Heller on the Fox serial dram…
William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter
George Robert Lazenby is a retired Australian actor. He began his professional career as a model and an actor in commercials. He had no film acting experience when he was cast as t…
George Lazenby, Australian actor, the second to play James Bond
John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–196…
John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)
George William Tremlett was an English author, bookshop owner, and politician.
George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician (died 2021)
Brigid Emmett Berlin, also known as Brigid Polk, was an American artist and Warhol superstar.
Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer (died 2020)
Susumu Tonegawa was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mec…
Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)
Benjamin William Lattimore, known professionally as Latimore, was an American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. In 2017, Latimore was inducted in to the Blues Hall of …
Latimore, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Peter Gill was a Welsh theatre director, playwright and actor.
Peter Gill, Welsh actor, director, and playwright
Carsten Keller is a former field hockey player from West-Germany, who won a gold medal for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He played 133 international mat…
Carsten Keller, German field hockey player and coach
David William Kearney, known as Guitar Shorty, was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Credited …
Guitar Shorty, American singer and guitarist (died 2022)
David Allan Coe, also known by his initials DAC, was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and priso…
David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)