Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor and dancer. A popular star of French cinema, he was initially known for his comedy film appearances, though he also proved a gifted dramatic a…
Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (died 2007)
Henry Gregg was a Northern Irish professional footballer and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Manchester United during the reign of Sir Matt Busby, with a total of 247 appearan…
Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2020)
Dolores Moore ["Dee"] was an infielder who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 153 lb., she…
Dolores Moore, American baseball player (died 2000)
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965…
Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1963)
Spyros Achilleos Kyprianou was a Cypriot barrister and politician, who served as President of Cyprus from 1977 to 1988. He also served as President of the Cypriot House of Represen…
Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (died 2002)
Suzy Parker was an American model and actress active from 1947 until 1970. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the 1950s, when she appeared on the covers of dozens of mag…
Suzy Parker, American model and actress (died 2003)
Joyce Brenda Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton is a British Labour Party politician.
Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician
Richard Eugene Garmaker was an American basketball player who played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1961, and was a four time NBA All-Star…
Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (died 2020)
Barun De was an Indian historian. He served as the first professor of social and economic history of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, founder-director of the Centre fo…
Barun De, Indian historian and author (died 2013)
Louis Marie Malle was a French filmmaker who worked in France and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "difficult to pin down", his works often depict provocative or controversia…
Louis Malle, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1995)
Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contribute…
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
Friedrich Gustav Piffl was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Vienna.
Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (born 1864)
Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist.
Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (born 1883)
William Henry Lockwood was an English Test cricketer, best known as a fast bowler and the unpredictable, occasionally devastating counterpart to the amazingly hard-working Tom Rich…
William Lockwood, English cricketer (born 1868)
Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection Whit…
Hart Crane, American poet (born 1899)
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such ph…
Charles Fort, American journalist and author (born 1874)
Marcel Jacques Amand Romain Boulenger was a French novelist and fiction writer. He was awarded the Prix Nee of the Académie Française in 1918 and the Prix Stendhal in 1919. He was …
Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (born 1873)
John Verran was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as premier of South Australia from 1910 to 1912, the second member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hol…
John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856)
Theodorus Heemskerk was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 12 February 1908 until 29 August 1913.
Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1852)
Marie-Clara Dorimène Roy Desjardins and her husband, Alphonse Desjardins, were the co-founders of the Caisses populaires Desjardins, a forerunner of North American credit unions. S…
Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (born 1858)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre …
Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852)
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. Plaatje was a founding member and first General Secretary of th…
Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (born 1876)
Ernst-Johannes Põdder VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander in the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence.
Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (born 1879)
Adelaide Ames was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral ne…
Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (born 1900)