Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Murray Ernest Chapple was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 14 Test matches over 13 years, scoring three fifties with a highest score of 76. He captained New Zealand in one Test i…
Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer and manager (died 1985)
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.
Maureen Forrester, Canadian actress and singer (died 2010)
Alice Parizeau was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.
Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and criminologist (died 1990)
Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (died 2015)
Annie Ross was a British-born American singer and actress, best known as a member of the influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She helped pioneer the vocalese styl…
Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (died 2020)
Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio was a Brazilian intellectual and political activist, who was affiliated with the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). He ran as a candidate for th…
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (died 2014)
Barbara Mary Jefford, OBE was a British actress, best known for her theatrical performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and the National Theatre and her role as…
Barbara Jefford, English actress (died 2020)
Joy Whitby is an English television executive, television, and radio producer who specialises in children's programmes and animated films.
Joy Whitby, English director, producer, and screenwriter
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the L…
Shirley Williams, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Education (died 2021)
Firoza Begum was a Bangladeshi Bengali Nazrul Geeti singer. She was awarded the Independence Day Award in 1979 by the government of Bangladesh.
Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (died 2014)
David Malone "Junior" Kimbrough Jr. was an American blues musician. His best-known works are "Keep Your Hands off Her" and "All Night Long". In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues H…
Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (died 1998)
Jean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.
Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (died 2006)
General Ramsey Muir Withers, CMM, CD was a Canadian Army Officer and Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest ranking position in the Canadian Forces, from 1980 to 1983. He died of …
Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian general (died 2014)
Paul Belville Taylor Jr. was an American dancer and choreographer. He was one of the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He founded the P…
Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (died 2018)
José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira, sometimes referred to in Peru as El Amauta, was a Peruvian writer, sociologist, historian, journalist, politician, and Marxist philosopher. A proli…
José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher, and activist (born 1894)
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin was a Russian and Soviet decorator, painter, and stage designer. He designed productions for Sergei Diaghilev, Constantin Stanislavski, and Vsevolod M…
Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (born 1863)
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, was a Canadian businessman, statesman and senator. Dessaulles was one of the oldest serving politicians ever, only surpassed by Giovanni Battista Borea …
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
Robert Seymour Bridges was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Chris…
Robert Bridges, English poet and author (born 1844)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat,…
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, was an Anglican bishop who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928. He was the longest-serving holder of the office s…
Randall Davidson, Scottish-English archbishop (born 1848)
Frank Cowper was an English single-handed yachtsman, explorer, author, illustrator, artist, and journalist who was influential in popularizing single-handed cruising. He has been c…
Frank Cowper, English yachtsman, author and illustrator (born 1849)
Eric Otto Valdemar Lemming was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed at the 1900, 1906, 1908 and 1912 Olympics in a wide variety of events, which mostly involved throwing …
Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (born 1880)
Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, also known as the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist of the School of Paris, known for his paintings and drawin…
Pascin, Bulgarian-French painter and illustrator (born 1885)
Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912. He was ennobled in …
Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (born 1851)