Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Jonathan George Snow is an English journalist and television presenter. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he presented from 1989 to 2021. O…
Jon Snow, English journalist and academic
Denis Stamper Lawson is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983) and as John Jarndyce in the television miniserie…
Denis Lawson, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
Michael Lee Aday, known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of H…
Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2022)
Elizabeth Larrieu Torres is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Torres is best known for her role as Mahalia Sanchez in the NBC comedy series The John Larroquette Show (1993…
Liz Torres, Puerto Rican-American actress and comedian
Robert John Carr is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the New South Wales branch…
Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Rhonda Jo Hughes is an American mathematician, the Helen Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.
Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
Sir Richard John Evans is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany. He is the author of eighteen books, including his three-volume The Third Rei…
Richard J. Evans, British historian
Ülo Kaevats was an Estonian statesman, academic and philosopher.
Ülo Kaevats, Estonian philosopher, academic, and politician (died 2015)
Sarosh Homi Kapadia was the 38th Chief Justice of India. He was the first chief justice born after the partition of India.
S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (died 2016)
Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan is an influence on artist…
Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977)
Rula Lenska is a British actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but appeared in a series of television advertisements in the 1970s and 1980s in th…
Rula Lenska, English actress
Dalveer Bhandari is an Indian jurist. He is currently one of the judges of the International Court of Justice. He is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief j…
Dalveer Bhandari, Indian lawyer and judge
Lee William Capra was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, from 1971 to 1977. Nicknamed "B…
Buzz Capra, American baseball player and coach
David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s.…
Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (died 2009)
Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.
Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
Stephen Weaver Collins is an American former actor. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007. Afterwards, Collins played the …
Stephen Collins, American actor and director
Nevill Drury was an English and Australian editor and publisher, as well as the author of over 40 books on subjects ranging from shamanism and western magical traditions to art, mu…
Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (died 2013)
Adriano Tilgher is an Italian far-right and neo-fascist politician.
Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician
Martin Robert Turner is an English musician best known for his time as the bass guitarist, lead vocalist and a founding member of the rock band, Wishbone Ash. Turner is now the lea…
Martin Turner, English singer-songwriter and bass player
Maria Elisabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres, was a Dutch musician who was the lead vocalist of the rock group Shocking Blue. She was known for her sultry voice, eccentric …
Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (died 2006)
Ward LeRoy Churchill was an American activist, author and academic. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. Much of Churchi…
Ward Churchill, American author and activist (died 2026)
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the El…
John Perry Barlow, American poet, songwriter, blogger, and activist (died 2018)
Ben Cauley Jr. was an American trumpet player, vocalist, songwriter, and founding member of the Stax recording group the Bar-Kays. He was the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash …
Ben Cauley, American trumpet player and songwriter (died 2015)
Frederick Adrian DeLuca was an American businessman, who was the co-founder and president of the Subway franchise of fast food restaurants with Peter Buck. During his tenure, Subwa…
Fred DeLuca, American businessman (died 2015)