Explore 3967 historical events from 1940–1949.
Thomas Lee Holland is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and former actor. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, penning the screenplay for Psycho II (1983), th…
Tom Holland, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Peter Frederick Jensen is a retired Australian Anglican bishop, theologian and academic. From 1985 to 2001, he was principal of Moore Theological College. From 2001 to 2013, he was…
Peter Jensen, Australian metropolitan
Robert Malval is the former prime minister of Haiti. He served from 30 August 1993 to 8 November 1994. He was preceded by Marc Bazin and was succeeded by Smarck Michel.
Robert Malval, Haitian businessman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti
Rolf Johann Stommelen was a German racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1969 to 1978. In endurance racing, Stommelen was a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona wi…
Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (died 1983)
Christine Anne McVie was an English musician. She was the keyboardist and one of the vocalists and songwriters of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2022)
Christopher Richard Serle was a British television presenter, reporter, and actor, best known for being a presenter on That's Life!
Chris Serle, English journalist and actor (died 2024)
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery later ear…
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban d…
Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban-American author, poet, and playwright (died 1990)
Paul Theron Silas was an American professional basketball player and head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a player, he was a two-time NBA All-Star and earned…
Paul Silas, American basketball player and coach (died 2022)
Sir Vernon Bernard Bogdanor is a British political scientist, historian and research professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London. He is als…
Vernon Bogdanor, English political scientist and academic
James William Johnson is an American former football coach and sports analyst. Johnson served as a head football coach at the college level for 10 seasons and in the National Footb…
Jimmy Johnson, American football player and coach
LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into m…
LaVyrle Spencer, American author and educator
Joseph John-Michael Ellis III is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His book American Sphinx: The Charact…
Joseph J. Ellis, American historian and author
Donald William Awrey is a Canadian former professional hockey defenceman. He played 979 career National Hockey League (NHL) games with the Boston Bruins, St. Louis Blues, Montreal …
Don Awrey, Canadian ice hockey player
Han Sai Por is a Singaporean sculptor and artist. A graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), East Ham College of Art, Wolverhampton College of Art, and Lincoln Universi…
Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor and academic
Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini is a professional journalist and Italian politician who served in both chambers of the Italian Parliament. She is the wife of Danilo Poggiolini.
Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini, Italian journalist and politician
Christopher Arthur Amon was a New Zealand racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One from 1963 to 1976. Widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers to ne…
Chris Amon, New Zealand race car driver (died 2016)
John Charles Lodge was an English musician who was the bass guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and a songwriter for the longstanding progressive rock band the Moody Blues. Joining the gr…
John Lodge, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2025)
Robert McNab is an English former footballer who played as a defender. McNab featured for clubs Huddersfield Town, Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers, San Antonio Thunder, Barnet, Va…
Bob McNab, English footballer
Adrian Păunescu was a Romanian writer, publisher, cultural promoter, translator, and politician. A profoundly charismatic personality, a controversial and complex figure, the artis…
Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (died 2010)
Wendy Richard was an English actress, best known for her television roles as Miss Shirley Brahms on the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1985, and Pauline Fowler on th…
Wendy Richard, English actress (died 2009)
Friedrich "Fritz" Glatz was an Austrian racing driver from Vienna. He raced under the pseudonyms Pierre Chauvet and Frederico Careca as well as a number of others.
Fritz Glatz, Austrian race car driver (died 2002)
Edward Kirk Herrmann was an American actor, director, and writer. He was best known for his portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the miniseries Eleanor and Franklin (1976) a…
Edward Herrmann, American actor (died 2014)
Henry Campbell Liken McCullough was a musician and singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland. He was best known for his work as a member of Spooky Tooth, the Grease Band and Paul McC…
Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (died 2016)