Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Keir Atwood Dullea is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel, 2010: The Year We Make …
Keir Dullea, American actor
Anatoly Mikhaylovich Albul was a Russian wrestler. He was born in Leningrad. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union. He won a…
Anatoly Albul, Soviet and Russian wrestler (died 2013)
André Bourbeau, was a Canadian politician. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, Bourbeau served as member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Laporte serving from 1981 until 20…
André Bourbeau, Canadian politician (died 2018)
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslav theater and film actor. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War, and one of the internationally best-known ethn…
Bekim Fehmiu, Bosnian actor (died 2010)
Gerald Anthony Scarfe is an English satirical cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker.
Gerald Scarfe, English illustrator and animator
Volodymyr Stepanovych Holubnychy was a Ukrainian race walker, who competed for the Soviet Union. He dominated the 20 kilometre race walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning four Olympi…
Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker (died 2021)
Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. During a career spanning six…
Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2021)
Sir Colin Earl Meads was a New Zealand rugby union player. He played 55 test matches, most frequently in the lock forward position, for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks,…
Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2017)
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013), which also earned him a no…
Bruce Dern, American actor
Daggubati Ramanaidu was an Indian film producer known for his work in Telugu cinema. He founded Suresh Productions in 1964 which became of one of the largest film production compan…
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Levi Stubbs was an American baritone singer, widely known as the lead vocalist of the R&B group the Four Tops, that released a variety of Motown hit records during the 1960s and 19…
Levi Stubbs, American soul singer; lead vocalist of the Four Tops (died 2008)
John Vincent "Vince" Camuto was an American women's footwear designer and shoe industry executive, best known for co-founding the women's fashion brand Nine West. Following the 199…
Vince Camuto, American fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Nine West (died 2015)
Herbert Randolph Sugar was an American sportswriter known for his work covering boxing and baseball. As the author of over 80 books, The New York Times called Sugar an "accomplishe…
Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (died 2012)
Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio "Pippo" Baudo was an Italian television presenter. One of the most notable in his native country, he had a career spanning six decades, which included 13…
Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter (died 2025)
James William Ercolani, known by his stage name James Darren, was an American actor, singer, and television director. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had notable starring…
James Darren, American actor (died 2024)
Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in using computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for…
Kenneth G
Nell Mary Dunn is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. She is known especially for a volume of short stories, Up the Junction, and a novel, Poor Cow.
Nell Dunn, English playwright, screenwriter and author
Michael O'Dwyer was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player. He most famously managed the senior Kerry county team between 1974 and 1989, during which time he became the county…
Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (died 2025)
Sir George Charles Radda was a Hungarian-British chemist.
George Radda, Hungarian chemist and academic
Renaldo "Obie" Benson was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member and the bass singer of Motown group the Four Tops, which he joined …
Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (died 2005)
Rut Irmelin Sandman Lilius is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer.
Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish author, poet, and translator
William Joseph Levada was an American Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2005 to 2012. During that time, he was the highe…
William Levada, American cardinal (died 2019)
Vern Harper Vernon Harper born on June 17, 1936 in Regent Park Toronto, Ontario – May 12, 2018) was a Canadian First Nations Cree Elder, medicine man, and Aboriginal rights activis…
Vern Harper, Canadian tribal leader and activist (died 2018)
Kenneth Charles Loach is a retired English filmmaker. His socially critical directing style and socialist views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty, …
Ken Loach, English director, producer, and screenwriter