Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
David A. Webster Jr. in Atlanta, Texas, was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for two seasons with the American Football League's (AFL) Dallas Texans (1…
Dave Webster, American football player and engineer (died 2006)
Harikrishan Giri Goswami, professionally known as Manoj Kumar, was an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, lyricist and editor who worked in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of…
Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2025)
John Quinlan Terry CBE is a British architect. He was educated at Bryanston School and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He was a pupil of architect Raymond Eri…
Quinlan Terry, English architect, designed the Brentwood Cathedral
Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn was a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of langu…
Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archaeologist and academic
Ercole Spada was an Italian automobile designer. His most notable designs were produced in the 1960s, for the Zagato design studio house, where Spada was chief stylist. During this…
Ercole Spada, Italian automotive designer (died 2025)
Anna F. Boulter was an English actress and singer, who had a career on stage and screen lasting three decades. She appeared in various theatre productions and had several roles in …
Anna Dawson, English actress and singer
Donald Poe Galloway was an American stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown in the series Ironside (1967–1975). He reprised the rol…
Don Galloway, American actor (died 2009)
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire. He died suddenly of heart failure in 1990 at the ag…
Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (died 1990)
Daniel Little McFadden is an American econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. McFadden's share of the prize was "for his de…
Daniel McFadden, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
Jay Johnson Morrow was an American military engineer who was Chief Engineer of the United States First Army and Deputy Chief Engineer of the American Expeditionary Force during Wor…
Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, third Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (born 1870)
William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington,, known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who ma…
Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (born 1856)
Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with…
Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter
William Morton Wheeler was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and professor at Harvard University.
William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (born 1865)
Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic o…
Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (born 1891)
William Hooker Gillette was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes…
William Gillette, American actor and playwright (born 1853)
Gina Oselio was a Norwegian operatic mezzo-soprano. Her signature role was the title heroine in Georges Bizet's Carmen. Oselio was sponsored by Oscar II who he gave her the title o…
Gina Oselio, Norwegian opera singer (born 1858)
Captain Ernst August Lehmann was a German Zeppelin captain. He was one of the most famous and experienced figures in German airship travel. The Pittsburgh Press called Lehmann the …
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Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC was a British politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and hi…
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1864)
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in modern history. Roc…
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Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris…
Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (born 1859)
Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output was organ musi…
Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (born 1870)
Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada duri…
Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1854)
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was a British aircraft designer who worked for the Southampton aviation company Supermarine from 1916 until 1936. He is best known for designing racing sea…
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Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, relations…
Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (born 1870)