Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist who conducted controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.
Stanley Milgram, American social psychologist (died 1984)
Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, harm…
Mike Seeger, American folk musician and folklorist (died 2009)
Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Wa…
Reiner Kunze, German poet and translator
Thomas Michael Maschler was a British publisher and writer. From 1960, he was influential as the head of publishing company Jonathan Cape over a period of more than three decades. …
Tom Maschler, English author and publisher (died 2020)
Stuart Allen Roosa was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apoll…
Stuart Roosa, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1994)
Max Edward "Mark" Dinning was an American pop music singer.
Mark Dinning, American pop singer (died 1986)
Just Louis Fontaine was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He scored the most goals ever in a single FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches in the 1958…
Just Fontaine, Moroccan-French footballer and manager (died 2023)
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański is a Polish and French filmmaker and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards,…
Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles. She is also a writer, lingerie designer, and real estate mogul. …
Julie Newmar, American actress
Francis Patrick Salemme, sometimes spelled Salemmi, also known as "Cadillac Frank" and "the General", was an American mobster from Boston, Massachusetts who became a hitman and eve…
Frank Salemme, American gangster and hitman (died 2022)
Bettina L. Cirone was an American photographer, interviewer, and Ford model. Cirone took photographs of celebrities; including actors, musicians, artists, politicians in the United…
Bettina Cirone, American model and photographer
Sir David Alan Hopwood is a British microbiologist and geneticist.
David Hopwood, English microbiologist and geneticist
Debra Paget is a retired American actress and entertainer. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and in Elvis Presle…
Debra Paget, American actress
Ted Donaldson was an American actor.
Ted Donaldson, American actor (died 2023)
George John Mitchell Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Maine from 1980 to 199…
George J. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
Dame Janet Abbott Baker is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
Janet Baker, English soprano and educator
Michael Dacher was a German mountain climber. In 1979 he and Reinhold Messner climbed the K2 in record time and without oxygen equipment.
Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (died 1994)
Barry Leslie Norman was a British film critic, television presenter and journalist. He presented the BBC's cinema review programme, Film..., from 1972 to 1998.
Barry Norman, English author and critic (died 2017)
Erik Paaske was a Danish theater, TV and film actor and singer.
Erik Paaske, Danish actor and singer (died 1992)
Sylva Koscina was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, best known for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul New…
Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (died 1994)
Robert Floyd Curl Jr. was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Priz…
Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Donald Malcolm Talbot was an Australian Olympic swimming coach and sport administrator.
Don Talbot, Australian swim coach and administrator (died 2020)
Peter Barton Wilson is an American attorney and politician who served as the 36th governor of California from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Wilson previously serv…
Pete Wilson, American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
Rupert, Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Count of Löwenstein-Scharffeneck was a Spanish-born Bavarian aristocrat and the longtime financial manager of the rock band the R…
Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English banker and manager (died 2014)