Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Brian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic (died 2010)
Baden Powell de Aquino, known professionally as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer. He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing. He p…
Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2000)
Charles Edward Haden was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Haden helped to revolutionize the harmon…
Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (died 2014)
Dame Barbara Windsor was an English actress. She was known for her roles in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She joined the c…
Barbara Windsor, English actress (died 2020)
Zoltán Berczik was a Hungarian table tennis player. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two ti…
Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (died 2011)
Donald Wilson was an English cricketer, who played in six Test matches for England from 1964 to 1971. His first-class cricket career, which lasted from 1957 to 1974, was spent with…
Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (died 2012)
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor. As one of the key leading man actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emo…
Dustin Hoffman, American actor and director
Sheila Varian was an American breeder of Arabian horses who lived and worked at the Varian Arabians Ranch near Arroyo Grande, California. She grew up with a strong interest in hors…
Sheila Varian, American horse breeder (died 2016)
Cornelis Vreeswijk was a Dutch singer-songwriter and poet who lived and worked primarily in Sweden.
Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 1987)
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak was a Russian politician and legal scholar, a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and the first democratically elected mayor of …
Anatoly Sobchak, Russian scholar and politician, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (died 2000)
Anna Raymond Massey was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role t…
Anna Massey, English actress (died 2011)
Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. was an American businessman, and chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), a company with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research,…
Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded International Data Group (died 2014)
Walter Dean Myers was an American writer best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and raised in Harlem, New York City. A difficult childhoo…
Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (died 2014)
David A. Anderson, is a silver medal rower, academic, politician and former Canadian cabinet minister.
David Anderson, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
David Behrman is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music. In 1966, Behrman co-founded Sonic Arts Union with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mum…
David Behrman, American composer and producer
Ian Deans was a Scottish-Canadian politician. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1979 and was a member of the House of Commons of Ca…
Ian Deans, Canadian politician (died 2016)
Boris Rõtov was a Russian-Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship (1978).
Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (died 1987)
Sheila Anne Cassidy is an English doctor, known for her work in the hospice movement, as a writer and as someone who, by publicising her own history as a torture survivor, drew att…
Sheila Cassidy, English physician and author
Richard Reid Ingrams is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and founding editor of The Oldie magazine. He left the …
Richard Ingrams, English journalist, founded The Oldie
William Edward Motzing Jr. was an American composer, conductor, arranger and trombonist best known for the award-winning film and television scores and gold and platinum pop album …
William Motzing, American composer and conductor (died 2014)
Stelvio Cipriani, also known as Viostel, was an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks, conductor and pianist.
Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (died 2018)
Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky is a Russian film and theatre director, screenwriter, and producer. His filmmaking career spans over 60 years in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary…
Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
Sky "Sunlight" Saxon was an American rock and roll musician best known as the leader and singer of the 1960s Los Angeles psychedelic garage rock band The Seeds.
Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and bassist (died 2009)
Donald Campbell Dewar was a Scottish statesman and politician who served as the first first minister of Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000 and leader of the Labour Party in…
Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, first First Minister of Scotland (died 2000)