Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
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)
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold …
Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (born 1896)
Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch was an American real estate developer and hobbyist outdoorsman. He bought into and later fully owned the company that became Abercrombie & Fitch.
Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (born 1866)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the…
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (born 1860)
John Mackenzie Moore was a Canadian architect and politician who served as the mayor of London, Ontario, from 1926 to 1927. An apprentice of William Robinson and Thomas Henry Tracy…
John Mackenzie Moore, Canadian architect (b
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlo…
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)
Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant fi…
Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1856)
Leopold von Auer was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers.
Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1845)
Leonora M. Kearney Barry was an Irish-American labor activist. As the only woman to hold national office within the Knights of Labor, she brought attention to the conditions of wor…
Leonora Barry, Irish-born American social activist (born 1849)
Sir Robert Stout was a New Zealand politician who was the 13th premier of New Zealand on two occasions in the late 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand. He was the …
Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1844)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before movi…
Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (born 1878)
Pavlos Karolidis or Karolides was a Greek historian who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian and academic (born 1849)
John Riegel DeWitt was an American athlete. He played college football for Princeton from 1901 to 1903 and was selected as an All-American in 1902 and 1903. He also competed in the…
John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (born 1881)
Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician.
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Hans Max Gamper-Haessig, commonly known as Joan Gamper, was a Swiss-born football executive and versatile athlete. He founded football clubs in Switzerland and Spain, most notably …
Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (born 1877)
Launceston Elliot was a British weightlifter, and the first athlete representing the United Kingdom to become an Olympic champion.
Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (born 1874)
Charles Bannerman was an English-born Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he represented Australia in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. At the domestic level, he …
Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1851)
Tom Norman, born Thomas Noakes, was an English businessman, a showman, and the last exhibitor of Joseph Merrick, who was known as the "Elephant Man". Among Norman's later exhibits …
Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (born 1860)
Frankie Campbell was an Italian-American boxer who fought professionally as a heavyweight. He won 33 of his 40 career fights, losing four, drawing twice, and fighting to a no-conte…
Frankie Campbell, American boxer (born 1904)
Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations o…
Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883)
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst C
The 1930 Salmas earthquake occurred on 7 May at 01:34:26 IRST in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The earthquake, which was among Iran's largest, measured 7.1 on the moment magnitud…
An earthquake struck northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, killing up to 3,000 people