Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Alan Hodgkinson MBE was an English professional football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach.
Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer and coach (died 2015)
Seamus Frederick Mallon was an Irish politician who served as deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2001 and Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Part…
Seamus Mallon, Irish educator and politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2020)
Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of t…
Margaret Heafield Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner
Richard Peter McBrien was a Catholic priest, theologian, and writer who was the Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame near South Bend, Indiana. He a…
Richard McBrien, American priest, theologian, and academic (died 2015)
Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive pol…
Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American professional basketball player. Standing 7 feet 1 inch (2.16 m) tall, he played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14…
Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (died 1999)
Radish Tordia is a Georgian painter of figurative art. He works in oil painting, with particular emphasis on colouristic features. His preferred subject is women, who he regards as…
Radish Tordia, Georgian painter and educator
Charles Louis Brown was an American guitarist, bandleader, and singer known as "The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed around the Washington, D.C., ar…
Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2012)
Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanni…
Robert Redford, American actor, director, and producer (died 2025)
John Callaway was an American journalist, who appeared on radio and television as a host, interviewer and moderator. He was the original host of Chicago Tonight, a nightly news pro…
John Callaway, American journalist and producer (died 2009)
Delmar Allen "Dale" Hawkins was a pioneer American rock singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist who was often called the architect of swamp rock boogie.
Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
Werner Stengel is a German roller coaster designer and engineer. Stengel is the founder of Stengel Engineering, also known as Ingenieurbüro Stengel GmbH.
Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the Maverick roller coaster
Rudy Lewis was an American rhythm and blues singer known for his work with the Drifters. In 1988, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Rudy Lewis, American R&B singer (died 1964)
Henry Lee Lucas, also known as the Confession Killer, was an American murderer who was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. He rose to infamy as a clai…
Henry Lee Lucas, American murderer (died 2001)
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated…
A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet (died 2023)
Kenneth Carroll Guinn was an American businessman, academic administrator, and politician who served as the 27th governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007. He previously served as inter…
Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (died 2010)
Joel Stephen Kovel was an American psychiatrist, scholar, human rights activist, and author known as a founder of eco-socialism. Kovel became a psychoanalyst, but he abandoned psyc…
Joel Kovel, American scholar and author (died 2018)
Lien Chan is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he nominally governed Taiwan as the head of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 199…
Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician, Vice President of the Republic of China
Donald Anton Denkinger was an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB) who worked in the American League (AL) from 1969 to 1998. Denkinger wore uniform number 11, when the AL…
Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire (died 2023)
Warren Morton Washington was an American atmospheric scientist, a chair of the National Science Board, and a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (…
Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar …
Arthur B. C. Walker Jr., American physicist and academic (died 2001)
Giridharilal Kedia was an Indian well known social entrepreneur. He served the Kala Vikash Kendra, Cuttack for 12 years as the Working President and Trustee. Kedia was also the fou…
Giridharilal Kedia, Indian businessman, founded the Image Institute of Technology & Management (died 2009)
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book Imagine…
Benedict Anderson, American political scientist and academic (died 2015)
Charles Joseph Marie Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP). He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 9 September 1918 …
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1873)