Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Brian Price was a Wales international rugby union player. Price first played international rugby for Wales in 1961 after impressing in the Barbarians squad against South Africa. He…
Brian Price, Welsh rugby player (died 2023)
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)
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)
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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Jean Harlow was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-…
Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later exe…
Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (born 1893)
Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue was a French politician who served as President of France from 1924 to 1931.
Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (born 1863)
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a British novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to Lon…
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Colin Glenn Clive was a British theatre and film actor. Known for portraying individualistic, tumultuous characters which often mirrored his personal life, he is most famous for hi…
Colin Clive, British actor (born 1900)
Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the fath…
Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (born 1877)
Daniel Edward "Ned" Sawyer was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (born 1884)
Oliver Law was an African-American communist and labor organizer, who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Having previously served in the United States Army, he trave…
Oliver Law, American commander (born 1899)
Julius L. Meier was an American businessman, civic leader, and politician in the state of Oregon. The son of the Meier & Frank department store founder, he would become a lawyer be…
Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (born 1874)
Julian Heward Bell was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his h…
Julian Bell, English poet and academic (born 1908)
Olga Hahn-Neurath was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher. She is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle. She was sister of the mathematician Hans Hahn.
Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1882)
Edgar Arthur "Ted" McDonald was a cricketer who played for Tasmania, Victoria, Lancashire and Australia, as well as being an Australian rules footballer who played with Launceston …
Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1891)
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fas…
George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (born 1898)
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi, was an Italian radio-frequency engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based …
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)