Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
John Joseph O'Neill was an Irish born catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1902–03), Chicago Cubs (1904–05) and Boston Beaneaters (1906). He bat…
Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (born 1873)
André-Gustave Citroën was a French industrialist and the founder of French automaker Citroën. He is also remembered for his application of double helical gears.
André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded the Citroën Company (born 1878)
Anna Paaske was a Norwegian opera singer and music teacher. She often performed in Wagner roles in concerts in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, and was especially popular in German…
Anna Paaske, Norwegian opera singer and music teacher (born 1856)
Bernard Alexandre George Edmond de Pourtalès was a Swiss infantry captain and sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss captain and sailor (born 1870)
Daniel Edward Howard was the 16th president of Liberia, serving from 1912 to 1920.
Daniel Edward Howard, 16th president of Liberia (born 1861)
Alfred Dreyfus was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair. In 1894, Dreyfus fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that eventually sparked a majo…
Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (born 1859)
Zheng Zhengqiu was a Chinese filmmaker often considered a "founding father" of Chinese cinema.
Zheng Zhengqiu, Chinese filmmaker (born 1889)
George William Russell, who wrote with the pseudonym Æ, was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a central f…
George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (born 1867)
Meletius Metaxakis was primate of the Church of Greece from 1918 to 1920 as Meletius III, after which he was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as Meletius IV from 1921 to 1923…
Meletius IV of Constantinople (born 1871)
David Wood Townsend was an American art director.
David Townsend, American art director and set designer (born 1891)
Friedrich Hermann Schottky was a German mathematician who worked on elliptic, abelian, and theta functions and introduced Schottky groups and Schottky's theorem.
Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (born 1851)
Wiley Hardeman Post was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped devel…
Wiley Post, American pilot (born 1898)
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, no…
Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1879)
Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism.
Paul Signac, French painter and author (born 1863)
Adam Beattie Gunn was a Scottish-American athlete who competed mainly in the "All rounder", the forerunner of today's Decathlon. Gunn took first place in the Amateur Athletic Union…
Adam Gunn, American decathlete (born 1872)
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (born 1860)
Rev. John Thorneycroft Hartley was a tennis player from England, and the only clergyman to win Wimbledon.
John Hartley, English tennis player (born 1849)
Frederick Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in …
Childe Hassam, American painter and academic (born 1859)
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a …
Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (born 1873)
Namık İsmail was a Turkish Impressionist painter and art educator, who received his training in France.
Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (born 1890)
Carl Austin Weiss Sr. was an American physician who is suspected in the assassination of U.S. Senator and former Governor Huey Long at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1…
Carl Weiss, American physician (born 1906)
Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 u…
Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (born 1893)
Charles Norris was New York's first appointed chief medical examiner (1918–1935) and pioneer of forensic toxicology in America.
Charles Norris, American coroner (born 1867)
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics. Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the pioneers of space f…
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (born 1857)