Explore 1843 historical events from 1940–1949.
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Ba…
Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Janric Fraser Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon was a British peer and chartered accountant. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the pas…
Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician
Wallace Fredrick Gabler III was an American professional football player who was a quarterback for seven seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football f…
Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster
Tommie C. Smith is an American former track and field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter spri…
Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time
Ze'ev Friedman was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter. A member of the Israeli Olympic team, he was killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (died 1972)
Richard Gordon Price was an English bassist and singer who played with various Birmingham-based rock bands, most notably Sight and Sound, the Move (1969–1971), and Wizzard (1972–19…
Rick Price, English rock bass player (died 2022)
Dame Christine Joan Beasley, is a British nurse and NHS healthcare administrator.
Christine Beasley, English nursing administrator
David Maurice Curry is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Skipton and Ripon from 1987 to 2010.
David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-…
Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Laurie Colwin was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes. She was known for her portrayals of New York s…
Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (died 1992)
Robert David Keppel was an American law enforcement officer and detective. He was also an associate professor at the University of New Haven and Sam Houston State University. Keppe…
Robert D
Henri Richelet was a French painter.
Henri Richelet, French painter and etcher (died 2020)
Randolph Klaus Johnson was an American professional football player. He was the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons in their inaugural season of 1966. He also had brief st…
Randy Johnson, American football player (died 2009)
Bruce DuMont was an American syndicated radio political analyst and television presenter based in Chicago, Illinois. He was the host of Beyond the Beltway, a syndicated talk radio …
Bruce DuMont, American broadcaster and political analyst
Sandra Lou Posey was an American popular singer who enjoyed success in the 1960s with singles such as her 1966 recording of Martha Sharp's compositions "Born a Woman" and "Single G…
Sandy Posey, American pop/country singer
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music…
Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, composer, writer and poet
Christopher John Spedding is an English guitarist and record producer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Spedding is best known for his studio session work. By the early 197…
Chris Spedding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Thomas Hearne was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. His aggregate of 3061 first-class wickets is the greatest for any bowler of medium pace or above, and his 257 wic…
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Dimitrios Psarros was a Greek army officer, founder and leader of the resistance group National and Social Liberation (EKKA), the third-most significant organization of the Greek R…
Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (born 1893)
Elmer John Gedeon was an American professional baseball player, appearing in several games for the Washington Senators in 1939. Gedeon and Harry O'Neill were the only two Major Lea…
Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (born 1917)
Charles Thorton Jordan was an American magician.
Charles Jordan, American magician (born 1888)
George Joseph Herriman III was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience am…
George Herriman, American cartoonist (born 1880)
Anthony John Mullane, nicknamed "Count" and "the Apollo of the Box", was an Irish professional baseball player who pitched for seven major-league teams during 1881–1894. He is best…
Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player (born 1859)
William Dennison Stephens was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was the 24th governor o…
William Stephens, American engineer and politician, 24th Governor of California (born 1859)