Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
John "Ian" St John was a Scottish professional football player, coach and broadcaster. St John played as a forward for Liverpool throughout most of the 1960s. Signed by Bill Shankl…
Ian St John, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 2021)
Angelo Amato, S.D.B. was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between 2008 and 2018. He served as Secre…
Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
Charles Jeremy Mawdesley Hardie, CBE is a British economist and businessman.
Jeremy Hardie, English economist and businessman
Giles Pollock Havergal CBE was a Scottish theatre director and actor, opera stage director, teacher and adaptor. He was artistic director of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre from 1969 un…
Giles Havergal, Scottish actor, director, and playwright
Charles Peter Wuorinen was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He also performed as a pianist and conductor. Wuorinen composed more than 27…
Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator (died 2020)
Rahul Bajaj was an Indian billionaire businessman and politician. He was the chairman emeritus of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group. He was awarded the third-highest civilian awa…
Rahul Bajaj, Indian businessman and politician (died 2022)
Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak was a mathematician whose research concerned balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions…
Vasanti N
Jean-Marie Doré was a Guinean politician who was the prime minister of Guinea from January 2010 until December 2010. Doré, who was the president of the Union for the Progress of Gu…
Jean-Marie Doré, Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (died 2016)
Tom Oliver is a British-born naturalised Australian retired actor, known internationally for his long-running role in TV soap opera Neighbours as Lou Carpenter, a role he played fo…
Tom Oliver, English-Australian actor
Czesława Maria Gospodarek, known by her stage name Violetta Villas, was a Polish and international cabaret star, singer, actress, composer and songwriter. Her voice was characteriz…
Violetta Villas, Belgian-Polish singer-songwriter and actress (died 2011)
Julie Ann Felix was an American-British folk singer and recording artist who achieved success, particularly on British television, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She later perf…
Julie Felix, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
Billy Leo Williams is an American former left fielder and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played from 1959 to 1976, almost entirely for the Chicago Cubs. A six-time All-St…
Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Patrick John Boyd-Carpenter, is a former British Army officer who served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff.
Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, English general
Gustav Torgny Lindgren was a Swedish writer.
Torgny Lindgren, Swedish author and poet (died 2017)
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short storie…
Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet
Kevin Joseph Murray MBE, commonly nicknamed "Bulldog", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League in 333 game…
Kevin Murray, Australian footballer and coach
Edward Hugh McDaniel was an American professional football player and professional wrestler better known by his ring name Wahoo McDaniel. He is notable for having held the NWA Unit…
Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (died 2002)
Mickie Most was an English record producer behind acts such as the Animals, Herman's Hermits, the Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu, Suzi Quatro, Hot Chocolate, Arrows, Racey and the …
Mickie Most, English music producer (died 2003)
Donald Blackstone, known professionally as Don Black, is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie, television themes and hit songs. He has provided lyr…
Don Black, English songwriter
John W. Dower is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer P…
John W
Michael M. Richter was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Richter is well known for his career in mathematical logic, in particular non-standard analysis, and in artifi…
Michael M
Joan Elizabeth Kirner was an Australian politician who was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, serving from 1990 to 1992. A Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria from 1982 to …
Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (died 2015)
Lawrence Block is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie …
Lawrence Block, American author
Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Aliyev, commonly known as Abulfaz Elchibey, was a Pan-Turkist Azerbaijani nationalist, politician and Soviet dissident who was the first and, as of early 20…
Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijani politician, 1st democratically elected Azerbaijani President (died 2000)