Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
Arthur Mahaffey Jr. is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the National League (NL) Philadelphia Phillies (1960…
Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
Moira Anderson is a Scottish singer.
Moira Anderson, Scottish singer
Karin Balzer was an East German hurdler who competed in the 80 m hurdles event at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics, and in the 100 m hurdles in 1972. She won a gold medal in 1964 a…
Karin Balzer, German hurdler (died 2019)
Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent er…
Kevin Brownlow, English historian and author
Roy Henry Higgins MBE was an Australian jockey who rode from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. His talent in the saddle was to later earn him the nickname "The Professor".
Roy Higgins, Australian jockey (died 2014)
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
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)
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)
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