The 1930s

Explore 942 historical events from 1930–1939.

1930

Edsger W

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, mathematician, and science essayist.

Edsger W

1930

Basil H

Basil Harry Losten was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the USA. He was until his death Bishop Emeritus of the Ukrainian Catholic Diocese of Stamford, Connecticut…

Basil H

1930

George E

George Elwood Smith was an American applied physicist and a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). Smith shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Bo…

George E

1930

Mike Gravel, American politician (died 2021)

Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel was an American politician and writer who represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party. He ran …

Mike Gravel, American politician (died 2021)

1930

Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Considered a central figure in the development of American postwar art, he has been variously associated w…

Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor