Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
David Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry and the miseries of the peasantry, boldly exposing…
David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (born 1862)
George Pearson Glen Kidston was a British motor racing driver and aviator who completed a record-breaking flight from Netheravon, Wiltshire to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1931. He …
Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899)
Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he r…
Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the "…
Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1858)
David Belasco was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage. He launche…
David Belasco, American director, producer, and playwright (born 1853)
Ernest Noel, FGS was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish seat of Dumfries Burghs from 1874 to 1886. He was chairman of the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company fr…
Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (born 1831)
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)
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)
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)
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)