Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Kálmán Markovits was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics, and 1960 Summer Olympics.
Kálmán Markovits, Hungarian water polo player (died 2009)
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964. Chinmoy establish…
Sri Chinmoy, Indian-American guru and poet (died 2007)
Joseph Robert Cunningham Jr. was an American baseball first baseman and outfielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White S…
Joe Cunningham, American baseball player and coach (died 2021)
Tito Capobianco was an Argentine American stage director and general manager of several opera companies.
Tito Capobianco, Argentinian director and producer (died 2018)
Cristina Deutekom was a Dutch operatic dramatic coloratura soprano.
Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (died 2014)
Ola Lee Mize was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Korean War.
Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2014)
John Stanton Shirley-Quirk CBE was an English bass-baritone. A member of the English Opera Group from 1964 to 1976, he gave premiere performances of several operatic and vocal wo…
John Shirley-Quirk, English actor, singer, and educator (died 2014)
Roger Stanley Williams was a British professor of hepatology. He was Director of the Institute of Hepatology, London and Professor of Hepatology, King's College London. He was also…
Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic (died 2020)
Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL was a prominent British aristocrat and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape fro…
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish-English fencer and businessman (born 1862)
David Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry and the miseries of the peasantry, boldly exposing…
David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (born 1862)
George Pearson Glen Kidston was a British motor racing driver and aviator who completed a record-breaking flight from Netheravon, Wiltshire to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1931. He …
Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899)
Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he r…
Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the "…
Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1858)
David Belasco was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage. He launche…
David Belasco, American director, producer, and playwright (born 1853)
Ernest Noel, FGS was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish seat of Dumfries Burghs from 1874 to 1886. He was chairman of the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company fr…
Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (born 1831)
Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate i…
Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (born 1866)
Willy Stöwer was a German artist, illustrator, and author during the Imperial Period. He is best known for nautical paintings and lithographs. Many of his works depict historical m…
Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (born 1864)
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outb…
Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese medical doctor and bacteriologist (born 1851)
Lucie Lagerbielke was a Swedish author, painter and baroness who was known for her works on Western esotericism.
Lucie Lagerbielke, Swedish writer and painter (born 1865)
Clément Armand Fallières was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913.
Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841)
Otto Mears was a Colorado railroad builder and entrepreneur who played a major role in the early development of southwestern Colorado.
Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840)
Xiang Zhongfa was a Chinese socialist who was one of the early senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1880)
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was a Hejazi leader from the Banu Qatadah branch of the Banu Hashim clan who was the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 and, after proclaiming the Great …
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (born 1853–54)
Charles-Nérée Beauchemin was a French Canadian regionalist poet and physician from Yamachiche, near Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He was part of Quebec's Le Terroir school of poetry.
Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (born 1850)