Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
George Victor Voinovich was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was a United States senator from Ohio from 1999 to 2011, the 65th governor of Ohio from 199…
George Voinovich, American lawyer and politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (died 2016)
Yasuo Fukuda is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008. He was previously the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japanese his…
Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician, 91st Prime Minister of Japan
Leslie Merrill Behunin, Jr., known professionally as Buddy Merrill, was an American guitar player and steel guitar player, best known as a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Buddy Merrill, American guitarist (died 2021)
Robert Franklyn Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. Overmyer was sele…
Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1996)
Jerry Lee Norman was an American sinologist and linguist known for his studies of varieties of Chinese, particularly Min varieties, and also of the Manchu language. Norman had a la…
Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (died 2012)
Venkataraman Subramanya is an Indian former cricketer who played in nine Test matches from 1965 to 1968. He was an aggressive middle order batsman, who captained Mysore for some ye…
Venkataraman Subramanya, Indian-Australian cricketer
David Colquhoun is a British pharmacologist at University College London (UCL). He has contributed to the general theory of receptor and synaptic mechanisms, and in particular the …
David Colquhoun, English pharmacologist and academic
Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the…
Alistair MacLeod, Canadian novelist and short story writer (died 2014)
Barbara Ann Mikulski is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1987 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she also s…
Barbara Mikulski, American social worker and politician
Don Patterson was an American jazz organist.
Don Patterson, American organist (died 1988)
Harold James Rhodes is an English former international cricketer who played two Test matches for England in 1959. He played domestically for Derbyshire between 1953 and 1975 and pl…
Harold Rhodes, English cricketer
Geraldine Claudette Darden is an American mathematician. She was the fourteenth African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Geraldine Claudette Darden, American mathematician
Donald Scott Drysdale, nicknamed "Big D", was an American professional baseball pitcher and broadcaster who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent his entire 14-year caree…
Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1993)
Anthony McLeod Kennedy is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated t…
Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist
Ruth Ann Buzzi was an American actress, singer and comedian. She appeared on stage, in films, and on television. She was best known for her performances on the comedy-variety show …
Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian (died 2025)
Mark Goddard was an American actor who starred in a number of television programs. He is probably best known for portraying Major Don West in the CBS series Lost in Space (1965–196…
Mark Goddard, American actor (died 2023)
Joseph Frederick Harold Gerald "Gerry" Ashmore was a British motor racing driver from England. He participated in four Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, scoring no champi…
Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver (died 2021)
Glenn Marcus Murcutt is an Australian architect. He has been the recipient of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Archi…
Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect and academic
Tsutomu Koyama was a Japanese volleyball player. He was a member of the Men's National Volleyball Team that claimed the bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. H…
Tsutomu Koyama, Japanese volleyball player and coach (died 2012)
Lawrence McMenemy MBE is an English former football coach, best known for his spell as manager of Southampton. He is rated in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the twenty most…
Lawrie McMenemy, English footballer and manager
James Robert Hooper was an American politician who served on the Maryland Senate from 1999 to 2007.
J. Robert Hooper, American businessman and politician (died 2008)
Russell Stanley Jackson is a Canadian former professional football player. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadia…
Russ Jackson, Canadian football player and coach
Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, also known as Sir Gary or Sir Garry Sobers, was a Barbadian cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974. A highly skilled and aggr…
Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. A member of the Republica…
Elizabeth Dole, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Labor