Explore 3361 historical events from 1930–1939.
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johan…
Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1882)
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism a…
Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (born 1870)
János Szlepecz was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, dean, and writer. He wrote in the Prekmurje Slovene dialect and also in Hungarian.
János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and missionary (born 1872)
Kojo Tovalou Houénou was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of…
Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (born 1887)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928. He studied at Duff School, and at Duff College, both with…
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (born 1890)
Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova, later known as "Mother Catherine of Siena", was a Russian Greek Catholic religious sister and literary translator, who died after more than a decade of so…
Anna Abrikosova, Russian linguist (born 1882)
Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.
Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)
Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian national…
Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (born 1885)
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity p…
Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)
José María of Manila was a Criollo Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, and is the third Fi…
José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (born 1880)
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of …
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)
Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century pho…
Edward Weston, English-American chemist (born 1850)
Juliette Adam was a French author and feminist.
Juliette Adam, French author (born 1836)
Lt.-Col. Ronald Townshend Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn was a British peer, the son of Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn. He succeeded to the Barony on 23 September 1924. He l…
Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (born 1886)
Nikita Fyodorovich Balieff was a Russian Armenian vaudevillian, stage performer, writer, impresario, and director. He is best known as the creator and master of ceremonies of La Ch…
Nikita Balieff, Armenian-Russian puppeteer and director (born 1876)
Gustave Kahn was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. He was also active, via publishing and essay-writing, in defining Symbolism and distinguishing it from the Decadent Movemen…
Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (born 1859)
Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (born 1878)
Paulina Ódena García, known as Lina Ódena, was a Spanish anti-fascist, communist, and miliciana. She participated in the Revolution of 1934 and was a combatant for the Republican f…
Lina Ódena, Spanish communist and miliciana (born 1911)
Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose ac…
Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (born 1899)
Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean…
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (born 1867)
Ettie Annie Rout was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same…
Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand author and activist (born 1877)
Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian music theorist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani classical music, an art which had been propagated for centuries most…
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (born 1860)
The Junkers Ju 52, best known in its Ju 52/3m form is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers. First introduced in 1930 as a civi…
A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven pe
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to May …
Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italian troops (pictured) captured the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa unopposed