Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States public figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Robert Caro, American journalist and author
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le …
Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian-Swiss author (died 2011)
Michael Robert Winner was a British filmmaker. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collabor…
Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Panait Istrati (Romanian: [panaˈit isˈtrati]; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky…
Panait Istrati, Romanian journalist and author (born 1884)
James Evan Perry Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1959 to 1975 for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, De…
Jim Perry, American baseball player
John Cameron was a Scottish footballer and manager. He played as a forward for Queen's Park, Everton and Scotland and was noted as an effective goal-maker and goalscorer. In 1899 h…
John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1872)
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (born 1863)
Anastasios Papoulas was a Greek general, most notable as the Greek commander-in-chief during most of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22. Originally a firm royalist, after 1922 he shi…
Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (born 1857)
Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Col…
Leroy Carr, American singer, songwriter and pianist (born 1905)
Henri Pélissier was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France. In addition to his 29 career victories, he was known for his long-standing feud with…
Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (born 1889)
Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books …
Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (born 1863)
Ernst Ludwig Bresslau was a German zoologist. He was the son of historian Harry Bresslau.
Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (born 1877)
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government.
Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (born 1868)
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose work and writings pioneered the development of abstract painting in the 20th century. He is b…
Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (born 1878)
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman…
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Józef Klemens Piłsudski[a] was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland. In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasing…
Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (born 1867)
Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of hi…
Paul Dukas, French composer, critic, and educator (born 1865)
Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of socia…
Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)
Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s …
Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (born 1848)
Josef Suk was a Czech composer, violinist, and Olympic silver medalist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married.
Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (born 1874)
Arthur Freiherr Arz von Straußenburg was an Austro-Hungarian colonel general and last Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the outbreak of the First World Wa…
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general (born 1857)
Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian Confederation…
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (born 1862
Szymon Askenazy was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school.
Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (born 1866)
Eugène Augustin Lauste was a French inventor instrumental in the technological development of the history of cinema.
Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (born 1857)