Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
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
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)
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)
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)
John Sidney Ernest Price is an English former cricketer, who played in 15 Tests for England from 1964 to 1972. He played first-class cricket for Middlesex from 1961 to 1975.
John Price, English cricketer
Vasant Baburao Ranjane was an Indian cricketer who played in seven Test matches between 1958 and 1964.
Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (died 2011)
David A. Webster Jr. in Atlanta, Texas, was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for two seasons with the American Football League's (AFL) Dallas Texans (1…
Dave Webster, American football player and engineer (died 2006)
Harikrishan Giri Goswami, professionally known as Manoj Kumar, was an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, lyricist and editor who worked in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of…
Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2025)
John Quinlan Terry CBE is a British architect. He was educated at Bryanston School and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He was a pupil of architect Raymond Eri…
Quinlan Terry, English architect, designed the Brentwood Cathedral
Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn was a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of langu…
Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archaeologist and academic
Ercole Spada was an Italian automobile designer. His most notable designs were produced in the 1960s, for the Zagato design studio house, where Spada was chief stylist. During this…
Ercole Spada, Italian automotive designer (died 2025)
Anna F. Boulter was an English actress and singer, who had a career on stage and screen lasting three decades. She appeared in various theatre productions and had several roles in …
Anna Dawson, English actress and singer
Donald Poe Galloway was an American stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown in the series Ironside (1967–1975). He reprised the rol…
Don Galloway, American actor (died 2009)