Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Jean Yanne was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director and composer. In 1972, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film We Won't…
Jean Yanne, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of sever…
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright (died 2017)
Buddy Wayne Knox was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1957 rock and roll hit song, "Party Doll".
Buddy Knox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1999)
Cormac McCarthy was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic ge…
Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2023)
Desmond Rex Williams is an English retired professional billiards and snooker player. He was the second player to make an official maximum break in snooker, achieving this in an ex…
Rex Williams, English snooker player
John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor, who wrote the popular 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth f…
John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (died 1982)
Raimund Johann Abraham was an Austrian architect.
Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Cultural Forum (died 2010)
Bernard Whalen "Bert" Convy was an American actor, singer, game-show panelist, and host known for Tattletales, Super Password and Win, Lose or Draw.
Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (died 1991)
Julian Alexander Bream was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant …
Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (died 2020)
John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known fo…
John Hopfield, American physicist and neuroscientist, 2024 Nobel laureate
Benedict Joseph Groeschel, C.F.R. was an American Franciscan friar, Catholic priest, retreat master, author, psychologist, activist, and television host. He hosted the television t…
Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (died 2014)
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside was a British and Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture. He was the founde…
Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building (died 2021)
George Douglas Sanders was an American professional golfer who won 20 events on the PGA Tour and had four runner-up finishes at major championships.
Doug Sanders, American golfer (died 2020)
Nicholas Wells Reynolds was an American folk musician and recording artist. Reynolds was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio, whose folk and folk-style material captur…
Nick Reynolds, American singer and bongo player (died 2008)
Edward James Whitten Sr. OAM was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Ted Whitten, Australian football player and journalist (died 1995)
Charles Edward Hodge was a Canadian ice hockey player who played as a goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, and Oakland Seals of the National Hockey League betw…
Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player and scout (died 2016)
Louis Vincent Albano was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor, who performed under the ring/stage name "Captain" Lou Albano. He was active as a professional…
Lou Albano, Italian-American wrestler, manager, and actor (died 2009)
Colin Charles Houghton Davis was a British racing driver from England, who won the 1964 Targa Florio.
Colin Davis, English race car driver (died 2012)
Robert Fuller is an American retired actor. Fuller was known for his deep "charcoal" voice, his roles on the popular Western series Laramie as Jess Harper and Wagon Train as Cooper…
Robert Fuller, American actor and rancher
Lloyd Arrington Sparks, known professionally as Randy Sparks, was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority.
Randy Sparks, American folk singer-songwriter and musician (died 2024)
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was t…
Cees Nooteboom, Dutch journalist, author, and poet (died 2026)
Norman Leroy Siebern was an American professional baseball player and scout. He appeared in 1,406 games over a 12-year career in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and left f…
Norm Siebern, American baseball player (died 2015)
Dominick DeLuise was an American actor, comedian, director, musician, chef, and author. Known primarily for comedic roles, he rose to fame in the 1970s as a frequent guest on telev…
Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (died 2009)
Masaichi Kaneda was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher of Zainichi Korean origin, one of the best-known pitchers in Japanese baseball history, and is the only Japanese pitch…
Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player and manager (died 2019)