Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Ar…
Fernando Arrabal, Spanish actor, director, and playwright
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper was a Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate. He was the founder and owner of the now-defunct TV and media company CanWest Global Communications Corp and …
Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest (died 2003)
Sir Geoffrey Arthur Cass MA (Oxford), MA (Cambridge), CCMI, HonFInstD. Chairman of the Royal Theatrical Support Trust. Spent twenty years as chief executive of Cambridge University…
Geoffrey Cass, English businessman
Peter David Eisenman is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his high modernist and deconstructive designs, as well as for his authorsh…
Peter Eisenman, American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia
John Summer Gorrie is an English director and screenwriter. He began his career as an actor, but in early 1963 he completed the BBC's directors' course. His first assignments as a …
John Gorrie, English director and screenwriter
Dallin Harris Oaks is an American religious leader and former jurist who is the eighteenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as the first coun…
Dallin H. Oaks, American lawyer, jurist, and religious leader
Charles John O'Donnell was an American radio and television announcer, primarily known for his work on game shows, and for his distinctive baritone voice. Among them, he was best k…
Charlie O'Donnell, American radio and television announcer (died 2010)
Sirikit was Queen of Thailand from 28 April 1950 to 13 October 2016 as the wife and distant cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Sirikit, Queen mother of Thailand (died 2025)
Shirley Bell Hoffman (1932–2007) was an American science fiction fan, an editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Western and romance novels. She wrot…
Lee Hoffman, American author (died 2007)
Gladys Marlene Wasden, known professionally as Abby Dalton, was an American actress, known for her television roles on the sitcoms Hennesey (1959–1962) and The Joey Bishop Show (19…
Abby Dalton, American actress (died 2020)
Robert Lull Forward was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His literary work was noted for its scientific credibility and use of ideas developed from his career as a…
Robert L. Forward, American physicist and engineer (died 2002)
James John Lange was an American game show host and disc jockey. He was known to listeners in the San Francisco and Los Angeles radio markets with stints at several stations in bot…
Jim Lange, American game show host and DJ (died 2014)
Johan van Zyl Steyn, Baron Steyn, PC was a South African-British judge, until September 2005 a Law Lord. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn, South African-English lawyer and judge (died 2017)
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels …
V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic describes him as having a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in th…
Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer (died 1980)
Jean-Jacques Sempé, usually known as Sempé, was a French cartoonist. He is known for the series of children's books he created with René Goscinny, Le Petit Nicolas, and also for hi…
Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist (died 2022)
Luc Montagnier was a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery…
Luc Montagnier, French virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Thomas Paul Salmon was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 75th governor of Vermont from 1973 to 1977.
Thomas P. Salmon, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of Vermont
Banharn Silpa-archa was a Thai politician who served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1995 to 1996. Banharn made a fortune in the construction business before he became a Mem…
Banharn Silpa-archa, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996) (died 2016)
Anthony Ainley was a British actor. He is best known for portraying the Master in the BBC television series Doctor Who from 1981 to 1989.
Anthony Ainley, English actor (died 2004)
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three gener…
Vasily Aksyonov, Russian physician, author, and academic (died 2009)
Atholl Henry McKinnon was a South African cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1960 to 1966.
Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (died 1983)
Menashe Kadishman was an Israeli sculptor and painter.
Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter (died 2015)
Melvin Van Peebles was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel …
Melvin Van Peebles, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2021)