Explore 3967 historical events from 1940–1949.
Sherry Lansing is an American former film studio executive serving as chairwoman of Universal Music Group's board of directors and as a director on the board of Paramount Skydance …
Sherry Lansing, American film producer
Robert Cox Merton is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is best known for his pionee…
Robert C. Merton, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
David Patrick Bernard Norris is an Irish scholar, former independent Senator, and civil rights activist. Internationally, Norris is credited with having "managed, almost single-han…
David Norris, Irish scholar and politician
Dmitry Filippov was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. An influential member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Lensovet before 1991, Filippov establi…
Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician (died 1998)
Nicola James Capaldi was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with S…
Jim Capaldi, English drummer and singer-songwriter (died 2005)
Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos, was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albu…
Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and berimbau player (died 2016)
Morris Berman is an American historian and social critic. He earned a BA in mathematics at Cornell University in 1966 and a PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins Universit…
Morris Berman, American historian and social critic
Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis, better known by his stage name Nino Bravo, was a Spanish baroque pop and ballad singer.
Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (died 1973)
Richard Jay Belzer was an American actor, comedian, and author. He was best known for his role as BPD Detective, NYPD Detective/sergeant and investigator John Munch, whom he portra…
Richard Belzer, American actor (died 2023)
Doudou Ndoye is a Senegalese lawyer and politician who served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Justice from 1983 to 1986. He is the Secretary-General of the Union for th…
Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
Christopher Gunning was an English composer of concert works and music for films and television.
Christopher Gunning, English composer (died 2023)
Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal, popularly known as Inday Badiday, was a Filipino TV host and journalist who was known as Philippine television's "queen of showbiz talk shows" and "…
Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (died 2003)
David Michael Patrick Mingos is a British chemist and academic. He was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University…
Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic
John Martin Wharton, is a British Anglican bishop, a retired Bishop of Newcastle.
Martin Wharton, English bishop
John Glover is an American actor who has played a range of quirky and villainous roles in films and television, such as Lionel Luthor in Smallville, Dr. Jason Woodrue in Batman & R…
John Glover, American actor
Robert Swan Mueller III was an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.
Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 2026)
John Curtis Holmes, better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd, was an American pornographic film actor. Holmes ranks among the most famous and prolific adult film performers, w…
John C. Holmes, American film actor (died 1988)
Michael Jay Johnson was an American pop, country, and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best remembered for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue". He charted four hits on t…
Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2017)
John Renbourn was an English guitarist and songwriter. He was best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, althoug…
John Renbourn, English-Scottish guitarist and songwriter (died 2015)
Simon Taylor is a motor sports journalist who writes for several publications. Taylor is a writer, historian, radio and TV commentator and a keen loyal supporter of historic racing…
Simon Taylor, English journalist and author
George "Geordie" Armstrong was an English football player and coach, who was mostly associated with Arsenal. A winger, Armstrong made his Arsenal debut in 1962 at the age of 17 and…
George Armstrong, English footballer (died 2000)
Patrick André Eugène Joseph Depailler was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980. Depailler won two Formula One Grands Prix across eight seasons.
Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (died 1980)
Samuel Pack Elliott is an American actor. With a career spanning nearly six decades of film and television, he is recognized for his deep sonorous voice. Elliott has received vario…
Sam Elliott, American actor and producer
John Martin Linton is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Battersea from 1997 to 2010.
Martin Linton, Swedish-English journalist and politician