Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Brian Sternberg was a world record holder in the men's pole vault who was paralyzed from the neck down after a trampoline accident in 1963.
Brian Sternberg, American pole vaulter (died 2013)
Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director
Alexander Britton Hume, known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. He had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World…
Brit Hume, American journalist and author
Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, known professionally as Raffaella Carrà and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and m…
Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)
John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel P…
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Patrick Bokanowski is a French filmmaker who makes experimental and animated films.
Patrick Bokanowski, French filmmaker
Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.
Vint Cerf, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Ellyn Kaschak, was an American clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University. She was one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, which s…
Ellyn Kaschak, American psychologist and academic
James Lawrence Levine was an American conductor and pianist. He was music director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 to 2016, and conducted 2577 Met performances. At the end of h…
James Levine, American pianist and conductor (died 2021)
Birgit Grodal, was an economics professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1968 until her death in 2004.
Birgit Grodal, Danish economist and academic (died 2004)
Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 top 40 U.S. hits include "That's t…
Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
Georgie Fame is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and …
Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
Jens Birkemose was a Danish contemporary painter.
Jens Birkemose, Danish painter (died 2022)
Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle regi…
Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Eva Narcissus Boyd, known by her stage name Little Eva, was an American singer best known for her 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion".
Little Eva, American singer (died 2003)
Louis Nicollin was a French entrepreneur and director of the Nicollin Company, which specializes in the collection and reprocessing of household and industrial waste. Nicollin nota…
Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC (died 2017)
Warren Thomas Farrell is an American author, educator, and activist who has written about gender, particularly men's issues. Initially active in the second wave feminist movement o…
Warren Farrell, American author and educator
Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appe…
Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic
Florence Glenda Chapman was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including nine num…
Florence Ballard, American pop/soul singer (died 1976)
Saeed Akhtar Mirza is an Indian screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of notable parallel films such as Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pint…
Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter
Philip Brunelle is an American choral scholar, conductor and organist. He is the founder of VocalEssence. In the course of an international career as a choral and opera conductor B…
Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist
Peeter Lepp is an Estonian politician. From 1993 to 2002, he was a member of the Estonian Coalition Party. After its dissolution, he joined the Estonian Reform Party.
Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn
Jeffry Wayne is an American-British composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978, he released Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wel…
Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician and lyricist