Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra was a Brazilian army officer, politician and known and convicted torturer who served as a colonel in the Brazilian Army.
Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Brazilian colonel (died 2015)
Sir Leslie Fielding was a British diplomat. In the Diplomatic Service, he spent time in the Foreign Office in London before serving as the European Commission Ambassador to Tokyo…
Leslie Fielding, English diplomat (died 2021)
Nancy Josephine Kassebaum Baker is an American retired politician from Kansas who served as a member of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She is the daughter of Alf Lando…
Nancy Kassebaum, American businesswoman and politician
Theodore Crawford Cassidy was an American actor. He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction works, such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie, and he played L…
Ted Cassidy, American actor and screenwriter (died 1979)
John Rogers Searle was an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at the Uni…
John Searle, American philosopher and academic (died 2025)
Meir David HaKohen Kahane was an Israeli Orthodox ordained rabbi, convicted terrorist, writer and ultra-nationalist politician. He was the founder of the Israeli political party Ka…
Meir Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (died 1990)
Lamar Hunt Sr. was an American businessman and prominent member of the Hunt family. As a sports executive, he was involved in promoting football, soccer, and tennis in the United S…
Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (died 2006)
Peter James O'Toole was an English and Irish actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he received various accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, a BAFTA Award, a Pri…
Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor and producer (died 2013)
Frances Elizabeth Allen was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became t…
Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist and academic (died 2020)
Liang Congjie was a Chinese historian best known for his work as an environmental activist who established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental…
Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (died 2010)
Tera de Marez Oyens was a Dutch composer.
Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch pianist and composer (died 1996)
Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev is a Soviet and Russian conductor, bayanist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989) and the Glinka State …
Vladimir Fedoseyev, Russian conductor
Michael Deeley is a British film producer. He is known for producing films such as The Italian Job (1969), The Deer Hunter (1978), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and…
Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.
Howard Hodgkin, English painter (died 2017)
Charles Gerald Wood was an English playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film.
Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2020)
Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold med…
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (died 1973)
Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor who had a career on the stage and on-screen. He was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in Colditz (1972–73), and Dr. Watson in Gr…
Edward Hardwicke, English actor (died 2011)
Rien Poortvliet was a Dutch artist and illustrator.
Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (died 1995)
Maurice F. Rabb Jr. was an American ophthalmologist. He is widely known for his pioneering work in cornea and retinal vascular diseases.
Maurice Rabb Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (died 2005)
Lonnie Melvin Tillis was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the …
Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
Sir Thomas Dalyell, 11th Baronet, known as Tam Dalyell, was a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgow from 1962 to 2005. A member of the Labour P…
Tam Dalyell, Scottish academic and politician (died 2017)
John Howard Gomery was a Canadian jurist from Quebec. He was a Justice of the Quebec Superior Court from 1982 to 2007, and appointed Commissioner for the Royal Commission investiga…
John Gomery, Canadian lawyer and jurist (died 2021)
Peter Alexander Goehr was a German-born English composer of contemporary classical music and academic teacher. A long-time professor of music at the University of Cambridge, Goehr …
Alexander Goehr, English composer and academic (died 2024)
Gaudencio Borbón Rosales, also known as Lolo Dency, is a Filipino Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Manila, from 2003 to 2011. He was made a cardinal in 2006.
Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal