Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Muhal Richard Abrams was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium. He recorded and toured the United …
Muhal Richard Abrams, American pianist, composer, and educator (died 2017)
Bettye Lane was an American photojournalist known for documenting major events within the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the gay rights movement in the United St…
Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (died 2012)
José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira, sometimes referred to in Peru as El Amauta, was a Peruvian writer, sociologist, historian, journalist, politician, and Marxist philosopher. A proli…
José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher, and activist (born 1894)
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin was a Russian and Soviet decorator, painter, and stage designer. He designed productions for Sergei Diaghilev, Constantin Stanislavski, and Vsevolod M…
Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (born 1863)
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, was a Canadian businessman, statesman and senator. Dessaulles was one of the oldest serving politicians ever, only surpassed by Giovanni Battista Borea …
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
Antonio Margheriti, also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies, was an Italian filmmaker. Margheriti worked in many different genres in the Italian film i…
Antonio Margheriti, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Richard Merritt Montague was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montag…
Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (died 1971)
Robert Seymour Bridges was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Chris…
Robert Bridges, English poet and author (born 1844)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat,…
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, was an Anglican bishop who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928. He was the longest-serving holder of the office s…
Randall Davidson, Scottish-English archbishop (born 1848)
Frank Cowper was an English single-handed yachtsman, explorer, author, illustrator, artist, and journalist who was influential in popularizing single-handed cruising. He has been c…
Frank Cowper, English yachtsman, author and illustrator (born 1849)
Eric Otto Valdemar Lemming was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed at the 1900, 1906, 1908 and 1912 Olympics in a wide variety of events, which mostly involved throwing …
Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (born 1880)
Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, also known as the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist of the School of Paris, known for his paintings and drawin…
Pascin, Bulgarian-French painter and illustrator (born 1885)
Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912. He was ennobled in …
Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (born 1851)
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold …
Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (born 1896)
Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch was an American real estate developer and hobbyist outdoorsman. He bought into and later fully owned the company that became Abercrombie & Fitch.
Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (born 1866)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the…
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (born 1860)
John Mackenzie Moore was a Canadian architect and politician who served as the mayor of London, Ontario, from 1926 to 1927. An apprentice of William Robinson and Thomas Henry Tracy…
John Mackenzie Moore, Canadian architect (b
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlo…
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)
Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant fi…
Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1856)
Leopold von Auer was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers.
Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1845)
Leonora M. Kearney Barry was an Irish-American labor activist. As the only woman to hold national office within the Knights of Labor, she brought attention to the conditions of wor…
Leonora Barry, Irish-born American social activist (born 1849)
Sir Robert Stout was a New Zealand politician who was the 13th premier of New Zealand on two occasions in the late 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand. He was the …
Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1844)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before movi…
Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (born 1878)