Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Bill Cooper, nicknamed "Cannonball", is an American former professional football player who was a fullback and linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football Leagu…
Bill Cooper, American football player
Vice Admiral Lambert Jackson Woodburne was Chief of the South African Navy from 1 July 1990 to 31 August 1992. He is one of only two people to have been awarded the Van Riebeeck De…
Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (died 2013)
Karel Gott was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český …
Karel Gott, Czech singer-songwriter and actor (died 2019)
George Edgar Slusser was an American scholar, professor and writer. Slusser was a well-known science fiction critic. A professor emeritus of comparative literature at University of…
George Edgar Slusser, American scholar and author (died 2014)
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 2006 to 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 1985 to 1995…
Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
William Bell is an American soul singer and songwriter. As a performer, he is best known for his debut single, 1961's "You Don't Miss Your Water"; 1968's top 10 hit in the UK "Priv…
William Bell, American singer-songwriter
Lido Vieri is an Italian former football player and manager who played as a goalkeeper. He won the 1968 European Championship and was a runner-up at the 1970 FIFA World Cup with th…
Lido Vieri, Italian football manager and football player
Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry was a Liberian politician. She served as the interim Chairman of the Council of State of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997, following th…
Ruth Perry, Liberian politician (died 2017)
Gangolli Ramashet Nagaraj, popularly known as Shringar Nagaraj, was an Indian actor, cameraman, and producer in Kannada cinema. He is best known for the 1987 silent film Pushpaka V…
Shringar Nagaraj, Indian actor and producer (died 2013)
Corin William Redgrave was an English actor. He was also a left-wing activist, co-founding the Marxist Party with his sister Vanessa Redgrave.
Corin Redgrave, English actor and activist (died 2010)
Maria Rachele "Mariele" Ventre was an Italian musician and singer born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, the founder and director of the Italian children's choir Piccolo Coro dell'Antoni…
Mariele Ventre, Italian singer and conductor (died 1995)
Andrée Champagne was a Canadian actress, pianist and politician.
Andrée Champagne, Canadian actress and politician (died 2020)
Spencer Davis was a Welsh musician. He founded the Spencer Davis Group, a band that had several hits in the 1960s including "Keep On Running", "Somebody Help Me", "Gimme Some Lovin…
Spencer Davis, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
Brian Albert Gordon Auger is an English jazz rock and rock keyboardist who specialises in the Hammond organ.
Brian Auger, English rock and jazz keyboard player
Dion Francis DiMucci, better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer and songwriter. His music incorporates elements of doo-wop, pop, rock, R&B, folk and blues. Initially…
Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gerald Hundley Moore is an American former college football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at North Texas State University—now the University of North Texas…
Jerry Moore, American football player and coach
Judy Chicago is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the r…
Judy Chicago, American feminist artist
Wilton Jameson "Jamey" Aebersold is an American publisher, educator, and jazz saxophonist. His Play-A-Long series of instructional books and CDs, using the chord-scale system, the …
Jamey Aebersold, American saxophonist and educator
Kim Vincent Fowley was an American record producer, songwriter, and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in …
Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (died 2015)
S. Ramadoss is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu. He is the founder and president of the Pattali Makkal Katchi. In 2025, following a months long dispute with his son, Dr. Anbuma…
S. Ramadoss, Indian politician
Mayumi Shimizu , known by her pen name Jun Henmi , was a Japanese writer and poet. She was known for her works of fiction and nonfiction about people affected by World War II.
Jun Henmi, Japanese author and poet (died 2011)
John Winston Howard is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party of Austra…
John Howard, Australian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
John Dimitri Negroponte is an American diplomat. In 2018, he was a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virgini…
John Negroponte, English-American diplomat, 23rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Walter Jones "The Big Bell" Bellamy was an American professional basketball player. He played 14 seasons as a center in the National Basketball Association, playing for four differ…
Walt Bellamy, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)