Explore 3967 historical events from 1940–1949.
Gerald Vincent Casale is an American musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, co-lead vocalist and bass player of the new wave band Devo, which released a t…
Gerald Casale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director
Eiichi Ohtaki was a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He first became known as a member of the rock band Happy End, but was better known for his solo work …
Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)
John Morrison Clarke was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work app…
John Clarke, New Zealand-Australian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)
William Edward Paultz is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in the now defunct American Basketball Associ…
Billy Paultz, American basketball player
Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez, commonly known as Jean Reno, is a Moroccan-born French and Spanish actor. He established himself as a leading man of French cinema through his collab…
Jean Reno, Spanish-French actor
Otis Taylor is an American blues musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals. In 2001, he was awarded a fellows…
Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Julia Tsenova was a Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.
Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (died 2010)
Georgia Bright Engel was an American actress and comedian.
Georgia Engel, American actress and comedian (died 2019)
Russell Norman Morris is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist who had five Australian Top 10 singles during the late 1960s and early 1970s. On 1 July 2008, the Australian …
Russell Morris, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Andrew Fairweather-Low is a Welsh guitarist and singer. He was a founding member and lead singer of 1960s pop band Amen Corner, and in recent years has toured extensively with Roge…
Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Dennis Mark Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host, political commentator, and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prage…
Dennis Prager, American radio host and author
Tapan Kumar Sarkar was an Indian-American electrical engineer and professor emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He was…
Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Indian-American electrical engineer and academic (died 2021)
Avi Arad is an Israeli-American studio executive and producer of film, television and animation. He became the CEO of Toy Biz in the 1990s, was the chief creative officer of Marvel…
Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
Clifford Branch Jr. was an American professional football wide receiver who played for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders during his entire 14-year National Football League (NFL) ca…
Cliff Branch, American football player (died 2019)
David Andrew Gemmell was a British author of heroic fantasy, best known for his debut novel, Legend. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction…
David Gemmell, English journalist and author (died 2006)
James Lowell Street was a two-sport star athlete at the University of Texas. As quarterback, he led the team to the 1969 National Championship in football and posted a perfect 20–0…
James Street, American football and baseball player (died 2013)
Andrew James Wilson, better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as Blow-Job (1971) were overtly political, often combin…
Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2013)
Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005 under President Jacques Chirac.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France
John Maywood Grubb, Jr. is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter, who also occasionally played at first base. He played with the San Diego Padre…
Johnny Grubb, American baseball player and coach
Raymond Neal Clemence was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he is one of the few players to ha…
Ray Clemence, English footballer and manager (died 2020)
William David Hungate is an American retired bassist noted as a member of the Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015, and the son of judge Wil…
David Hungate, American bass guitarist, producer, and arranger
Shin Takamatsu is a Japanese architect. After obtaining his PhD from the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University in 1980, he held various academic positions: lecturer at…
Shin Takamatsu, Japanese architect and academic
Martin E. Appel is an American public relations and sports management executive, television executive producer, baseball historian and author.
Marty Appel, American businessman and author
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 missi…
Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian engineer and astronaut