Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., ASC was an American cinematographer and film director, known for his influential work during the American New Wave of the 1970s, collaborating with director…
Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (died 2014)
Larry A. Silverstein is an American billionaire businessman. Among his real estate projects, he is the developer of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New Y…
Larry Silverstein, American real estate magnate
John Robert Schrieffer was an American theoretical physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theor…
John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
Shirley Verrett was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles making her a Soprano sfogato. Verrett enjoyed great fame from the late 1960s…
Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (died 2010)
Walter Horak was an Austrian football player.
Walter Horak, Austrian footballer (died 2019)
Françoise Arnoul was a French actress who achieved popularity during the 1950s.
Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-French actress (died 2021)
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician, general, and revolutionary who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-part…
Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba
John Frederick Lange Jr. is an American writer who, as John Norman, has authored the Gor series of science fantasy novels. Norman was also a philosophy professor.
John Norman, American philosopher and author
Lindy John Remigino was an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.
Lindy Remigino, American runner and coach (died 2018)
Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa was a Bahraini royal who served as the first Emir of Bahrain from 1961 until his death in 1999.
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahranian king (died 1999)
Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist. He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological toleranc…
Gustav Nossal, Austrian-Australian biologist and academic
Yves Blais was a politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He served in National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 to 1998 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ).
Yves Blais, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)
Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.…
Jacques Demy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1990)
Jerzy Prokopiuk was a Polish anthroposophist, gnostic, philosopher, and translator of literature, born in Warsaw. He translated into Polish works written by Aldous Huxley, Rudolf S…
Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish anthropologist and philosopher (died 2021)
Richard Eugene Hickock was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman …
Richard Hickock, American convicted murderer (died 1965)
Dame Virginia Anne McKenna is a British actress. She is best known for the films The Cruel Sea (1953), A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966),…
Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
Jackie Mason was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2021)
Nandini Satpathy was an Indian politician and author. She was the Chief Minister of Odisha from June 1972 to December 1976.
Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (died 2006)
William Charles Virdon was an American professional baseball outfielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Virdon played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pit…
Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the…
Dana Wynter, British actress (died 2011)
Sir Bryan Cartledge, is a former British diplomat and academic.
Bryan Cartledge, English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia
João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto, was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late…
João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Rodney William Whitaker was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved bestsell…
Trevanian, American author and scholar (died 2005)
Rona Jaffe was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003. During the 1960s, she also wrote cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan.
Rona Jaffe, American novelist (died 2005)