Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Laura Betti was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pas…
Laura Betti, Italian actress (died 2004)
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano is a Mexican politician and civil engineer. A prominent social-democrat and the son of 51st president of Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas, he is a former Head o…
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
Sir Henry Cooper was a British professional boxer. He was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years and held the European heavyweigh…
Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster (died 2011)
Georges Moustaki was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Greek-Jewish origin. He wrote about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in France, including Édith Piaf, Dal…
Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the Four Seasons. He is…
Frankie Valli, American singer and actor
Shirley Valerie Horn was an American jazz singer and pianist. She collaborated with many jazz musicians including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen…
Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (died 2005)
Aimé Henri Konan Bédié was an Ivorian politician. He was President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999, and formerly President of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democ…
Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 2023)
Sir Ransley Victor Garland KBE, usually known as Vic Garland, was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1981, represen…
Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs (died 2022)
Richard Craig "Dick" Shelby is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a…
Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician
Leonard Hubert "Lennie" Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann is a senior South African–British judge. Currently, he serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong; h…
Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, South African-English lawyer and judge
Alan Bennett is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including four BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and tw…
Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist
James Merrill Jeffords was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. Originally a Republican, he served as a member of the Vermont Senate from 1967 to 1969 and Vermont Attorn…
Jim Jeffords, American lawyer and politician (died 2014)
John Kennedy Twyman was an American professional basketball player and sports broadcaster. Twyman is a namesake of the NBA's Twyman–Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. Twyman was in…
Jack Twyman, American basketball player (died 2012)
Ehud Netzer was an Israeli architect, archaeologist and educator, known for his extensive excavations at Herodium, where in 2007 he found and identified the tomb of Herod the Great…
Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and academic (died 2010)
Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel was a German politician and member of the FDP.
Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel, German educator and politician (died 2022)
Ronald Gerald Wayne is an American retired electronics industry business executive. He co-founded Apple Computer Company—which later became Apple Inc.—as a partnership with Steve W…
Ronald Wayne, American computer scientist, co-founded Apple Computer
Dwayne Bernard Hickman was an American actor and television executive, producer and director, who worked as an executive at CBS and had also briefly recorded as a vocalist. Hickman…
Dwayne Hickman, American actor and director (died 2022)
Earl Edwin Morrall was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 21 seasons, both a starter and reserve. He was the l…
Earl Morrall, American football player and coach (died 2014)
Kenneth Owen Morgan, Baron Morgan, is a Welsh historian and author, known especially for his writings on modern British history and politics and on Welsh history. He is a regular r…
Kenneth O
General Sir Antony Kenneth Frederick Walker, was a British Army officer who served as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies from 1990 to 1992.
Antony Walker, English general (died 2023)
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author and poet. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond has authored more than 500 short st…
Ruskin Bond, Indian author and poet
James Charles Lehrer was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He was the executive editor and a news anchor for the PBS News Hour on PBS and was known fo…
Jim Lehrer, American journalist and author (died 2020)
Jocasta Claire Traill Innes was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman. She mainly wrote about cooking, crafts and homemaking, including in her books The Pauper's Homemakin…
Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (died 2013)
Robert Northern, known professionally as Brother Ah, was an American jazz French hornist.
Bob Northern, American horn player and bandleader (died 2020)