Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Michael Charles Chilufya Sata was a Zambian politician who served as the fifth president of Zambia from 2011 until his death in 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front …
Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (died 2014)
Tung Chee-hwa is a Hong Kong businessman and retired politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 Ju…
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong
David Hockney was an English painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influentia…
David Hockney, English painter and photographer (died 2026)
Erle Edwards Barham was a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate. He first won the Senate seat in December 1975 beating L. B. Loftin by just 89 votes.
Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (died 2014)
Gun Brynhild Svensson is a Swedish politician and blogger. She was born in Stensele and is a Pirate Party member and blogs under the name Farmor Gun i Norrtälje. In 2009, she won "…
Gun Svensson, Swedish politician
Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai is a Taiwanese writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's fat…
Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese-Taiwanese author
William Henry Cosby Jr. is an American former comedian, actor, and media personality. Often deemed a trailblazer for African Americans in the entertainment industry, Cosby was well…
Bill Cosby, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwards is an American politician who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 1977 to…
Mickey Edwards, American lawyer and politician
Lionel Robert Jospin was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Lionel Jospin, French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France (died 2026)
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane was an American Marine Corps officer who served as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985. Within the Reagan administrat…
Robert McFarlane, American colonel and diplomat, 13th United States National Security Advisor (died 2022)
Guy Anthony Woolfenden was an English composer and conductor. He was head of music at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for 37 years, making music an integral p…
Guy Woolfenden, English composer and conductor (died 2016)
Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but d…
Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist
Yoshirō Mori is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2000 to 2001.
Yoshiro Mori, Japanese journalist and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
Prabhash Joshi was an Indian journalist, especially Hindi journalism, writer and political analyst. He was strongly in favour of "ethics and transparency". He played a part in Gand…
Prabhash Joshi, Indian journalist (died 2009)
Richard Hudson Bryan is an American retired politician and attorney who served as the 25th governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989 and as a United States senator representing Nevada f…
Richard Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Nevada
John Daly was a British film producer.
John Daly, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
Roald Hoffmann is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the…
Roald Hoffmann, Polish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wo…
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (died 2005)
George Hege Hamilton IV was an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, switching to country music in the early 1960s.
George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)
Robert Anson Jordan Jr., known professionally as Richard Jordan, was an American actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway a…
Richard Jordan, American actor (died 1993)
Karen J. Dalton was an American country blues singer, guitarist, and banjo player. She was associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fre…
Karen Dalton, American country blues and folk singer, guitarist, and banjo player (died 1993)
Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was a Soviet footballer who played as a forward for Torpedo Moscow and the Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful att…
Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (died 1990)
Charles Benjamin Jackson was an American R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully. Between 1957 and 1959, he was …
Chuck Jackson, American R&B singer and songwriter (died 2023)
Yasuhiro Kojima , best known by his ring name Hiro Matsuda , was a Japanese professional wrestler, trainer, and booker.
Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (died 1999)