Explore 1844 historical events from 1940–1949.
Tommy James is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. James is the frontman of the rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which is known for hit singles s…
Tommy James, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
John Laurence Miller is an American former professional golfer. He was one of the top players in the world during the mid-1970s. He was the first to shoot 63 in a major championshi…
Johnny Miller, American golfer and sportscaster
James Ronald Ryun is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner. He …
Jim Ryun, American runner and politician
Paul Stuart Fiddes is an English Baptist theologian and novelist.
Paul Fiddes, English theologian and academic
Finn Bjørn Kalvik is a Norwegian singer and composer. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981.
Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Tom Køhlert is a Danish football manager and former player who managed Brøndby IF from 1979 to 1985 and several times later as a caretaker. He led the club to its first ever Danish…
Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer and manager
Mats Christer Johannes Odell is a Swedish politician. He served as Minister of Communications (Transport) from 1991 to 1994 and as Minister for Financial Markets from 2006 to 2010.
Mats Odell, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Financial Markets
Sir James Dyson is an English inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum clea…
James Dyson, English businessman, founded the Dyson Company
Douglas James Henning was a Canadian magician, illusionist, escape artist and politician.
Doug Henning, Canadian magician (died 2000)
Alan Hugh Dale is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale enjoyed theatre and rugby. After retiring from the sport, he took on a number of occupations, before deciding to become a pr…
Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
Martha C. Nussbaum is an American philosopher and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in…
Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author
Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS NAM is an American biologist whose research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology …
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John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, is a Scottish politician. A member of the Labour Party, he held various Cabinet positions under prime minister Tony Blair from 1999 to 2007, last…
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, Scottish historian and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
Yukiya Amano was a Japanese diplomat, who served as the Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1 December 2009 until his death on 18 July 2019. Pre…
Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (died 2019)
Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of F…
Butch Trucks, American drummer (died 2017)
Michael Grant Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for …
Michael Ignatieff, Canadian journalist and politician
Ana Beatriz Martínez Solórzano, known professionally as Ana Martín, is a Mexican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Miss Mexico 1963. which took her to comp…
Ana Martín, Mexican actress, singer, producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963)
Graeham George Goble, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as a founding member of Australian rock group Little River Band and Birtles Shorr…
Graeham Goble, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
Stephen George Platten, is a retired Anglican prelate, the last to serve as diocesan Bishop of Wakefield in the Church of England.
Stephen Platten, English bishop
John Gerard Bruton was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1994 to 1997 and Leader of Fine Gael from 1990 to 2001. He held cabinet positions between 1981 an…
John Bruton, Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2024)
Cheryl Lynn Clarke is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and Black feminist community activist. Her scholarship focuses on African-American women's literature, black les…
Cheryl Clarke, American writer
Paul Joseph Brady is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician from Strabane, Northern Ireland. His work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music …
Paul Brady, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Nazareth are a Scottish hard rock band formed in Dunfermline in 1968 that had many hit singles and albums in Canada, the United Kingdom, and a number of other European countries be…
Darrell Sweet, Scottish drummer (died 1999)
Roch Thériault was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Moïse, founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. They were a doomsday…
Roch Thériault, Canadian religious leader (died 2011)