Same Day / Decades
The 1930s
91 icons active, 24 born, 23 at their peak.
The twelve longest careers
Born in the 1930s
- Steve McQueen1930
- The Big Bopper1930
- Ray Charles1930
- James Dean1931
- Sam Cooke1931
- Elizabeth Taylor1932
- Johnny Cash1932
- Patsy Cline1932
- Little Richard1932
- Jayne Mansfield1933
- James Brown1933
- Nina Simone1933
- Del Shannon1934
- Jackie Wilson1934
- Elvis Presley1935
- Gene Vincent1935
- Buddy Holly1936
- Roy Orbison1936
- Jim Marshall1936
- Natalie Wood1938
- Eddie Cochran1938
- Etta James1938
- Marvin Gaye1939
- Dusty Springfield1939
At their peak in the 1930s
- Anna May WongFilm
- Bela LugosiFilm
- Boris KarloffFilm
- Busby BerkeleyDirector
- Carole LombardFilm
- Charlie ChaplinFilm
- Clark GableFilm
- Duke EllingtonMusic
- Errol FlynnFilm
- Fred AstaireFilm
- George HurrellPhotographer
- Ginger RogersFilm
- Greta GarboFilm
- Groucho MarxFilm
- James CagneyFilm
- Jean HarlowFilm
- Mae WestFilm
- Marlene DietrichFilm
- Oliver HardyFilm
- Peter LorreFilm
- Robert JohnsonMusic
- Stan LaurelFilm
- W. C. FieldsFilm
Active in the 1930s
- Alfred Eisenstaedt1927 to 1993
- Alfred Hitchcock1920 to 1976
- Anna May Wong1919 to 1960
- Ansel Adams1927 to 1984
- Barbara Stanwyck1927 to 1986
- Bela Lugosi1917 to 1956
- Bessie Smith1912 to 1937
- Bette Davis1931 to 1989
- Billie Holiday1930 to 1959
- Billy Wilder1929 to 1981
- Bing Crosby1926 to 1977
- Bix Beiderbecke1923 to 1930
- Boris Karloff1919 to 1968
- Busby Berkeley1930 to 1971
- Buster Keaton1917 to 1966
- Carole Lombard1921 to 1942
- Cary Grant1932 to 1966
- Cecil B. DeMille1914 to 1956
- Cecil Beaton1925 to 1974
- Charlie Chaplin1914 to 1976
- Charlie Parker1937 to 1955
- Clara Bow1922 to 1933
- Clark Gable1924 to 1960
- D. W. Griffith1908 to 1931
- Doris Day1939 to 1973
- Dorothea Lange1918 to 1965
- Dorothy Dandridge1935 to 1964
- Douglas Fairbanks1915 to 1934
- Duke Ellington1923 to 1974
- Édith Piaf1935 to 1963
- Edward G. Robinson1916 to 1973
- Edward Steichen1898 to 1962
- Ella Fitzgerald1934 to 1993
- Errol Flynn1933 to 1959
- Frank Capra1922 to 1961
- Frank Sinatra1935 to 1995
- Fred Astaire1905 to 1981
- Fritz Lang1919 to 1960
- Gary Cooper1925 to 1961
- Gene Kelly1938 to 1994
- George Hurrell1925 to 1992
- Ginger Rogers1929 to 1984
- Glenn Miller1924 to 1944
- Gloria Swanson1914 to 1975
- Greta Garbo1922 to 1941
- Groucho Marx1905 to 1976
- Hank Williams1937 to 1953
- Henry Fonda1928 to 1981
- Horst P. Horst1931 to 1991
- Howard Hawks1926 to 1970
- Howlin' Wolf1930 to 1975
- Humphrey Bogart1928 to 1956
- Ingrid Bergman1935 to 1982
- James Cagney1930 to 1984
- James Stewart1932 to 1991
- Jean Harlow1928 to 1937
- Joan Crawford1925 to 1972
- John Ford1914 to 1971
- John Wayne1926 to 1976
- Judy Garland1928 to 1969
- Katharine Hepburn1928 to 1994
- Lana Turner1937 to 1991
- Lead Belly1903 to 1949
- Lillian Gish1912 to 1987
- Lon Chaney1912 to 1930
- Louis Armstrong1919 to 1971
- Louise Brooks1925 to 1938
- Mae West1907 to 1978
- Mahalia Jackson1927 to 1971
- Man Ray1915 to 1976
- Margaret Bourke-White1927 to 1957
- Marlene Dietrich1923 to 1978
- Mary Pickford1909 to 1933
- Montgomery Clift1935 to 1966
- Myrna Loy1925 to 1981
- Nat King Cole1934 to 1965
- Oliver Hardy1914 to 1955
- Orson Welles1934 to 1985
- Peter Lorre1930 to 1964
- Rita Hayworth1934 to 1972
- Robert Johnson1929 to 1938
- Sammy Davis Jr.1933 to 1990
- Spencer Tracy1921 to 1967
- Stan Laurel1906 to 1955
- Toni Frissell1931 to 1970
- Tyrone Power1932 to 1958
- Vincent Price1938 to 1993
- Vivien Leigh1935 to 1965
- W. C. Fields1898 to 1946
- Walt Disney1921 to 1966
- Woody Guthrie1930 to 1954