Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate i…
Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (born 1866)
Willy Stöwer was a German artist, illustrator, and author during the Imperial Period. He is best known for nautical paintings and lithographs. Many of his works depict historical m…
Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (born 1864)
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was a Hejazi leader from the Banu Qatadah branch of the Banu Hashim clan who was the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 and, after proclaiming the Great …
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (born 1853–54)
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outb…
Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese medical doctor and bacteriologist (born 1851)
Lucie Lagerbielke was a Swedish author, painter and baroness who was known for her works on Western esotericism.
Lucie Lagerbielke, Swedish writer and painter (born 1865)
Clément Armand Fallières was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913.
Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841)
Otto Mears was a Colorado railroad builder and entrepreneur who played a major role in the early development of southwestern Colorado.
Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840)
Xiang Zhongfa was a Chinese socialist who was one of the early senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1880)
Charles-Nérée Beauchemin was a French Canadian regionalist poet and physician from Yamachiche, near Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He was part of Quebec's Le Terroir school of poetry.
Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (born 1850)
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish bishop. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1914 to 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemora…
Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribu…
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (born 1868)
Auguste-Henri Forel was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and former eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of …
Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (born 1848)
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted f…
Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (born 1903)
Dorothea Ann Fairbridge referred as Dora Fairbridge was a South African author and co-founder of the Guild of Loyal Women.
Dorothea Fairbridge, South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (born 1862)
Frank Harris was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day.
Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (born 1856)
Wilhelmus Hubertus "Wiel" Nolens was a Dutch politician and a Roman Catholic priest.
Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (born 1860)
Francis Marion Smith was an American miner, business magnate and civic builder in the Mojave Desert, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Oakland, California. He was known nationally an…
Francis Marion Smith, American miner and businessman (born 1846)
David Thomas Abercrombie was the founder of the American brand Abercrombie & Fitch. A topographer and expert in the outdoors, Abercrombie opened the company as New York's outfitter…
David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (born 1867)
John Thomson was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Celtic and the Scotland national football team. He died as a result of an accidental collision with Rangers pl…
John Thomson, Scottish footballer (born 1909)
Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. He was President of the Mo…
Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1869)
Salvatore Maranzano, nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later wou…
Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (born 1886)
Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery.
Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (born 1882)
Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.
Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (born 1856)
Ådalen is the river valley of the Ångerman River, downstream Junsele, in Sweden. It often refers to the broad, densely populated, fjord-like mouth of the river, in Kramfors Municip…
Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration