Explore 1359 historical events from 2020–2029.
Michael John Ahern was an Australian National Party politician who was Premier of Queensland from December 1987 to September 1989. After a long career in the government of Sir Joh …
Mike Ahern, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Queensland (born 1942)
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was a Bangladeshi Islamic leader, politician and scholar who served as a Member of Parliament representing the Pirojpur-1 constituency from 1996 to 2006. Bef…
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Bangladeshi Islamic lecturer, politician (born 1940)
Albert Harold "Al" Quie was an American politician and farmer from Minnesota. Quie served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Minnesota's 1st con…
Al Quie, American politician, 35th Governor of Minnesota (born 1923)
Vašo Patejdl was a Slovak musician and composer. He was best known for being a co-founder and long-term member of the pop-rock band Elán. He wrote songs for other musicians, includ…
Václav Patejdl, Slovak musician (born 1954)
Terrance Dee Funk was an American professional wrestler and actor. Funk is known for the length of his career, which spanned more than 50 years and included multiple short-lived re…
Terry Funk, American professional wrestler (born 1944)
Howard Saul Becker was an American sociologist who taught at Northwestern University. Becker made contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of mus…
Howard S. Becker, American sociologist (born 1928)
Lolita, also called Tokitae or Toki for short, was a captive female orca of the southern resident population captured from the wild in September 1970 and displayed at the Miami Sea…
Lolita, the second-oldest orca in captivity (born ca. 1966)
Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 …
Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Dmitry Valerievich Utkin was a Russian military officer and mercenary. He served as a special forces officer in the GRU, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the co…
Dmitry Utkin, Russian army officer, founder of Wagner Group (born 1970)
Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was a Russian mercenary leader, rebel commander, and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russi…
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian businessman, chief of Wagner Group (born 1961)
Windham Lawrence Rotunda, better known by his ring name Bray Wyatt, was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures in WWE from 2009 to 2021 and again from…
Bray Wyatt, American wrestler (born 1987)
Robert William Barker was an American media personality, game show host, and animal rights advocate. He hosted CBS's The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in North Amer…
Bob Barker, American television game show host (born 1923)
Miguel "Mike" Castro Enriquez was a Filipino broadcast journalist and television presenter. He started his career as a radio broadcaster in 1969, and after signing with GMA Network…
Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcaster (born 1951)
Steven Scott Harwell was an American musician and singer. He was the lead vocalist of the rock band Smash Mouth from their formation in 1994 until his retirement in October 2021.
Steve Harwell, American singer (born 1967)
Wanda Janicka was a Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw Uprising.
Wanda Janicka, Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw Uprising (born 1923)
James William Buffett was an American singer-songwriter, author, and businessperson. He was known for his tropical music sound blending country, rock, folk, calypso, and his person…
Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter, musician, author and businessman (born 1946)
Sir Ian Wilmut was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was the leader of the research group th…
Ian Wilmut, British embryologist (born 1944)
Fernando Botero Angulo was a Colombian painter and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can repr…
Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (born 1932)
Brereton Chandler Jones was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1991 to 1995, he was the state's 58th governor, and had served from 1987 to 1991 as the 5…
Brereton C. Jones, American politician, 58th Governor of Kentucky (born 1939)
Madeleine Cusack was an English footballer who played as a midfielder. She began her career with local club Nottingham Forest before moving to Aston Villa, where she made her profe…
Maddy Cusack, English football player (born 1995)
Walewska Moreira de Oliveira was a Brazilian volleyball player in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. She won a bronze medal with the women's national team in Sydn…
Walewska Oliveira, Brazilian volleyball player and Olympic champion (born 1979)
David Keith McCallum was a Scottish actor and musician. After varied film roles in his native Britain, he gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryak…
David McCallum, Scottish actor (born 1933)
Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his si…
Michael Gambon, Irish-English actor (born 1940)
Francis Henry Lee, also known as Franny Lee, was an English professional footballer and businessman. He was also later the chairman and main shareholder of Manchester City, as well…
Francis Lee, English footballer (born 1944)