Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Glenn Marcus Murcutt is an Australian architect. He has been the recipient of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Archi…
Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect and academic
Tsutomu Koyama was a Japanese volleyball player. He was a member of the Men's National Volleyball Team that claimed the bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. H…
Tsutomu Koyama, Japanese volleyball player and coach (died 2012)
Lawrence McMenemy MBE is an English former football coach, best known for his spell as manager of Southampton. He is rated in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the twenty most…
Lawrie McMenemy, English footballer and manager
James Robert Hooper was an American politician who served on the Maryland Senate from 1999 to 2007.
J. Robert Hooper, American businessman and politician (died 2008)
Russell Stanley Jackson is a Canadian former professional football player. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadia…
Russ Jackson, Canadian football player and coach
Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, also known as Sir Gary or Sir Garry Sobers, was a Barbadian cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974. A highly skilled and aggr…
Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. A member of the Republica…
Elizabeth Dole, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Labor
George "Buddy" Guy is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jim…
Buddy Guy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Viscountess of La Torre, sometimes known more simply as Pilar de Borbón, was the elder daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess …
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz (died 2020)
Charles Joseph Marie Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP). He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 9 September 1918 …
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1873)
Milton Brown was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a uniqu…
Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (born 1903)
Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over oper…
Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (born 1879)
Teresa de la Parra was a Venezuelan novelist.
Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author (born 1889)
Wajed Ali Khan Panni, also known by his daak naam Chand Mian, was a Bengali politician, educationist and the zamindar of Karatia.
Wajed Ali Khan Panni, Bengali aristocrat and philanthropist (born 1871)
Fuad I was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brothe…
Fuad I of Egypt (born 1868)
Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first univer…
Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (born 1857)
Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed the final examination in literae hu…
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Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic…
Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (born 1880)
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World Wa…
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (born 1861)
Panagis Tsaldaris was a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece twice. He was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years (1922–1936) of the conserv…
Panagis Tsaldaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 124th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1868)
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos was a Greek military officer and politician. He played a major role in Greece's war effort during the First World War, and was the commander-in-chief of th…
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (born 1860)
Mathilde Verne was an English pianist and teacher, of German descent. Along with most of her other sisters, Mathilde changed her surname to Verne in 1893 after the death of their f…
Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator (born 1869)
Mirko Seljan and Stjepan Seljan were Croatian explorers.
Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (born 1875)
Sir John Bowser, Australian politician, was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London, the son of an army officer, and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He…
John Bowser, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of Victoria (born 1856)