Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire. He died suddenly of heart failure in 1990 at the ag…
Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (died 1990)
Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with…
Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter
Daniel Little McFadden is an American econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. McFadden's share of the prize was "for his de…
Daniel McFadden, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
Peter Oelrichs Duchin is an American pianist and band leader.
Peter Duchin, American pianist and bandleader
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American attorney, lobbyist, and Republican politician who represented the state of New York in the United States Senate from 1981 to 1999. From 1995…
Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician
Ronald Alfred Brierley is a New Zealand investor and corporate raider, chairman and director of a number of companies in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Ron Brierley, New Zealand businessman
Billy Abb Cannon Sr. was an American professional football player who was a halfback and tight end in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He atte…
Billy Cannon, American football player and dentist (died 2018)
María Dussauge Ortiz, known as María Duval, is a Mexican actress and singer, specialized in the musical genres of bolero and ranchera.
María Duval, Mexican actress and singer
Eric Garth Hudson was a Canadian multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for The Band. He was a principal architect of the group's sound and …
Garth Hudson, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (died 2025)
Timothy Gibson Bowden was an Australian author, radio and television broadcaster and producer, and oral historian. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and studied at the University of…
Tim Bowden, Australian historian and television presenter (died 2024)
Steven Berkoff is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director.
Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright
Roland Wallace Burris is an American politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995 and as a United States senator from Illinois from 2009 unt…
Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General
Duncan Albert Sharpe is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1959–60. Sharpe is of Anglo-Indian heritage, and was the third Christian to play Test crick…
Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
David Vickerman Bedford was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandso…
David Bedford, English keyboard player, composer, and conductor (died 2011)
Herbert Paul Brooks was an American ice hockey player and coach. His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team at Lake Placid.…
Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (died 2003)
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)
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)
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)