Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan was an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series…
Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author (died 2021)
Ted Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California, where he was a mostly anonymo…
Ted Hawkins, American soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)
Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova was a Soviet and Ukrainian artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast and trainer (died 2005)
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)
Charles Edward Daniels was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz and was a pioneering contribution to Southern rock and progre…
Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (died 2020)
Richard Albert Vermeil is an American former football coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons. He was the head coach of the Philadelph…
Dick Vermeil, American football player and coach
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall was an English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. His translation of the Qu…
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar (born 1875)
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)
Robert Ervin Howard was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sw…
Robert E
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century l…
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Hans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.
Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and designer, designed the IG Farben Building (born 1869)