Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Gwendolyn Joy Marston was an American quilter, quilt teacher, lecturer, and author who championed a style of quilting she called "liberated quiltmaking". She encouraged modern quil…
Gwen Marston, American quilter and writer (died 2019)
Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmo…
Steve Reich, American composer
Charles John Hurley was an Irish footballer who mainly played in the centre half position. Nicknamed 'King', Hurley was a defender for both Sunderland, where he was named as "Playe…
Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager (died 2024)
Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2001, representing part of County Durham,…
Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician (died 2022)
Julius LeVonne Chambers was an American lawyer, civil rights leader and educator.
Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist (died 2013)
Rona Barrett is a retired American television news correspondent, interviewer, gossip columnist and businesswoman. She runs the Rona Barrett Foundation, a non-profit organization i…
Rona Barrett, American journalist and businesswoman
Michael Jerome Young was an Australian politician. He rose through the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to become its National Secretary, before serving as a Labor member of the House …
Mick Young, Australian politician (died 1996)
Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of …
Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (died 2011)
Adrian Howard "Odie" Smith was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Northeast Mississippi Community College and Kentucky, winning the NCAA c…
Adrian Smith, American basketball player (died 2026)
Michael Hurll was a British television producer who specialized in the comedy and light entertainment genres. He produced many British TV shows including The Two Ronnies, Top of th…
Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Brian Blessed is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, loud booming voice, and exuberant personality and performances. He portrayed PC "Fancy" Smith in Z-C…
Brian Blessed, English actor
Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Ertl's res…
Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. His …
C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 2013)
Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.
Billy Higgins, American drummer and educator (died 2001)
James Munro McPherson is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton Uni…
James M. McPherson, American historian and author
Chitti Babu was a classical musician from India, and arguably one of the greatest Veena artistes, in the Carnatic Music genre of South India, who became a legend in his own lifetim…
Chitti Babu, Indian veena player and composer (died 1996)
Johan Hendrik "Hans" Kraay was a Dutch professional football player and manager who played as a defender. Subsequently, he became well known for his football management skills as w…
Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer and manager (died 2017)
Jürg Schubiger was a Swiss psychotherapist and writer of children's books. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1996 for Als die Welt noch jung war.
Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (died 2014)
Michel Henri Aumont was a French theatre, film, and television actor. Throughout his career, he gained four Molière Awards and nominations for three César Awards. In 2015, he was m…
Michel Aumont, French actor (died 2019)
Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell was the elder son of Carine Boardman and Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and a grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st B…
Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (died 2019)
Peter John Bowles was an English screen and stage actor, best known for playing Richard DeVere in To the Manor Born, as well as Guthrie Featherstone in Rumpole of the Bailey and Ar…
Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter (died 2022)
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered,…
Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (died 1994)
Mladen Košćak was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer.
Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (died 1997)
Akira Machida was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan from 2002 to 2006.
Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan (died 2015)