Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Richard Leroy Trickle was an American race car driver. He raced for decades around the short tracks of Wisconsin, winning many championships along the way. Trickle competed in the …
Dick Trickle, American race car driver (died 2013)
Hank Brian Marvin is an English musician and songwriter. He is known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows.
Hank Marvin, English singer and guitarist
George William Davies is an English fashion designer and retailer.
George Davies, English fashion designer
Paul Archer Tyler, Baron Tyler is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodmin from February to October 1974 and for North C…
Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler, English politician
Marcel Berlins was a French lawyer, writer and broadcaster. He was best known for his work in the United Kingdom, writing for British national newspapers The Times and The Guardian…
Marcel Berlins, French-English lawyer, journalist, and academic (died 2019)
Aleksandr Dmitrievich Dulichenko was a Russian-Estonian Esperantist, linguist, and expert in Slavic microlanguages who lived in Estonia. He was a professor at the University of Tar…
Aleksandr Dulichenko, Russian-Estonian linguist and academic
Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy…
Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Otis Williams is an American second tenor/baritone singer. He is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is a co-founder and last surviving original member o…
Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer
Robert Primrose Wilson is a former Scotland international football goalkeeper and later broadcaster / anchorman.
Bob Wilson, English footballer and sportscaster
Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairma…
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (born 1880)
Johanna Müller-Hermann was an Austrian composer and pedagogue.
Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (born 1878)
Julius Carl Fritz Manteuffel was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (born 1875)
Karin Maria Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1…
Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (born 1900)
Salih Bozok was an officer of the Ottoman Army, later the Turkish Army and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He was the chief aide-de-camp of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the fou…
Salih Bozok, Turkish commander and politician (born 1881)
Penelope Delta was a Greek author. She is widely celebrated for her contributions to the field of children's literature. Her historical novels have been widely read and have influe…
Penelope Delta, Greek author (born 1874)
Christopher Hobart McKivat was an Australian rugby union and rugby league player – a dual-code rugby international. He represented the Wallabies in over 20 Tests and tour matches f…
Chris McKivat, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1880)
Platon of Banja Luka was a Serbian Orthodox cleric who served as the Bishop of Banja Luka between 1940 and 1941. His tenure ended in May 1941, when he was abducted, tortured and ki…
Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (born 1874)
Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (born 1854)
Natalija Obrenović, née Keshko, known as Natalie of Serbia, was the Princess of Serbia from 1875 to 1882 and then Queen of Serbia from 1882 to 1889 as the wife of Milan I of Serbia…
Natalie, queen consort of Serbia (born 1859)
Olof Teodor "Tore" Svennberg was a Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades.
Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (born 1858)
A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.
Frederick Christian, English cricketer (born 1877)
Ōnishiki Uichirō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 26th yokozuna. On 2 November 1922, he became the first yokozuna to perform the yokozuna dohyō-iri at…
Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (born 1891)
Werner Sombart was a German economist, historian and sociologist. Head of the "Youngest Historical School," he was one of the leading Continental European social scientists during …
Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (born 1863)
Vice-Admiral Lancelot Ernest Holland, was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the British force in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941 against the German battleship Bismarc…
Lancelot Holland, English admiral (born 1887)