Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Jean Louise Geissinger was an American infielder and outfielder who played from 1951 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League with the Fort Wayne Daisies…
Jean Geissinger, American baseball player (died 2014)
Jack Hayford was an American Pentecostal minister, author, songwriter, and broadcaster. He is best known for serving as the senior pastor of The Church on the Way from 1969 to 1999…
Jack W
Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough, better known as Beatriz Sheridan, was a Mexican actress and director. A pioneer of the Mexican telenovelas and prominent figure of the Mexican th…
Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (died 2006)
Robert David Grusin is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television and has won numerous aw…
Dave Grusin, American pianist and composer
Toru Goto is a former freestyle swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he won a silver medal as a member of…
Toru Goto, Japanese swimmer
Robert Douglas Carswell, Baron Carswell,, was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, Northern Irish lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (died 2023)
Roy Gilchrist was a West Indian cricketer who played 13 Tests for the West Indies in the 1950s. He was born in Saint Thomas, Jamaica and died of Parkinson's disease in St Catherine…
Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (died 2001)
Bette Jean Greene was the author of several books for children and young adults, including Summer of My German Soldier, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, and the Newbery Honor book Ph…
Bette Greene, American journalist and author (died 2020)
Carl Milton Levin was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the chair …
Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician (died 2021)
Georges David Wolinski was a French cartoonist and comics writer. He was killed on 7 January 2015 in the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French journalist and cartoonist (died 2015)
Corey Allen was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He is best known…
Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (died 2010)
Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats.
Harry Blackstone Jr
Claude Berri was a French film director, producer, screenwriter, distributor and actor.
Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 2009)
Jamie Farr is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Corporal Maxwell Klinger, a soldier who tried to get discharged from the army by cross-dressing, on the C…
Jamie Farr, American actor
Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh was an English actress and writer. She co-created and starred in the ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975), for which she won the 1975 Emmy Award fo…
Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (died 2025)
Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor. Known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films, he received numerous accolades, inc…
Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (died 2008)
Tom Springfield was a British musician, songwriter, and record producer who was prominent in the 1960s folk and pop music scene. He was the older brother of singer Dusty Springfiel…
Tom Springfield, English musician (died 2022)
Yvonne Bond Miller was a Virginia educator and American politician who became the first African-American woman to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. A Democrat,…
Yvonne B. Miller, American academic and politician (died 2012)
Colin Welland was an English actor and screenwriter. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Mr Farthing in Kes (1969) and the Academy Awa…
Colin Welland, English actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
Robert McNeill (Neill) Alexander, CBE FRS was a British zoologist and a leading authority in the field of biomechanics. For thirty years he was Professor of Zoology at the Universi…
Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (died 2016)
Raquel Teresa Correa was a Chilean journalist who spent the main part of her career with the newspaper El Mercurio. She was well known for her interviews and reporting, and was the…
Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (died 2012)
Edward Daniel DiPrete was an American politician. He served as the 70th governor of Rhode Island for three two-year terms, serving from 1985 to 1991. Convicted of numerous corrupti…
Edward D. DiPrete, American politician, 70th Governor of Rhode Island (died 2025)
Martin Alan Feldman was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes.
Marty Feldman, English actor and screenwriter (died 1982)
Michael Graves was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Fi…
Michael Graves, American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (died 2015)