Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier and con artist who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He wa…
Bernie Madoff, American businessman, financier and convicted felon (died 2021)
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the coun…
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican journalist, author, and critic (died 2010)
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominant…
Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (died 2012)
Carroll Edward "Eddie" Cole was an American serial killer who was executed in Nevada in 1985 for killing two women by strangulation. He was also convicted of murdering three other …
Carroll Cole, American serial killer (died 1985)
Dušan Simić, known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of The Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't E…
Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor (died 2023)
Manuel Santana Martínez, also known as Manolo Santana, was a Spanish tennis player. He was ranked as amateur world No. 1 in 1965 by Ned Potter and in 1966 by Lance Tingay and Sport…
Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player (died 2021)
Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023,…
Giuliano Amato, Italian academic and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Italy
Mireille Darc was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legi…
Mireille Darc, French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2017)
Nancy Garden was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults, best known for the lesbian novel Annie on My Mind. She received the 2003 Margaret A. Edwards Award fro…
Nancy Garden, American author (died 2014)
Diane Judith Nash is an American civil rights activist and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. …
Diane Nash, American civil rights movement activist
Jason Bernard was an American actor.
Jason Bernard, American actor (died 1996)
Marcia Judith Freedman was an American-Israeli activist and politician. She advocated for a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, as well as for women's and gay r…
Marcia Freedman, Israeli activist (died 2021)
Pervis Jackson was an American R&B singer, noted as the bass singer for The Spinners, and was one of the group's original members as well as their spokesman.
Pervis Jackson, American R&B bass singer (died 2008)
Janet Isobel Fish was an American contemporary realist artist. Through oil painting, lithography, and screenprinting, she explored the interaction of light with everyday objects in…
Janet Fish, American painter and academic
Sir Stuart Bell was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough from the 1983 general election until his death in 2012. He was known …
Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician (died 2012)
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics as well as his…
Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist and academic
Marco Aurelio Denegri Santa Gadea was a Peruvian intellectual, literary critic, television host and sexologist.
Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian television host and sexologist (died 2018)
Moisés da Costa Amaral was an East Timorese politician in the Timorese Democratic Union. Born in 1938 in Fahinihan, East Timor.
Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician (died 1989)
Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a…
Herbie Flowers, English musician (died 2024)
Igor Aramovich Ter-Ovanesyan is a Soviet and Russian former long jumper and coach, of Armenian descent. Competing for the Soviet Union, he was a five-time European and two-time Oly…
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Ukrainian long jumper and coach
Henry Lee "Shot" Williams was an American blues singer. He got the nickname "Shot" from his mother at a young age, owing to his fondness for wearing suits and dressing up as a "big…
Lee "Shot" Williams, American singer (died 2011)
Richard Samuel Benjamin is an American actor and director. He has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), Catch-22 (1970), Portnoy's Complaint …
Richard Benjamin, American actor and director
Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American stage, film, and television actress. Thought to be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for a Tony Award at age 18, playing th…
Susan Strasberg, American actress (died 1999)
Cecil Bustamente Campbell, known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the cour…
Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (died 2016)