Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
Joseph Leo Baxendale was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among his best-known creations are the Beano strips Little Plum, Minnie the M…
Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (died 2017)
Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former director of the Leverhulme Trust. He is the father of theatre and o…
Barry Supple, English historian and academic
Bernard Charles Ecclestone is a British business magnate, motorsport executive and former racing driver. Widely known in journalism as the "F1 Supremo", Ecclestone founded the Form…
Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
Bertha "Puck" Brouwer was a Dutch sprinter.
Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (died 2006)
Niki de Saint Phalle was a French American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptors, …
Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor and painter (died 2002)
Natalie Allyn Sleeth was an American composer of hymns and choral music.
Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (died 1992)
Néstor Almendros Cuyás, ASC was a Spanish cinematographer.
Néstor Almendros, Spanish-American director and cinematographer (died 1992)
Sir Christopher David Foster was a British academic at the University of Oxford and MIT, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, a consultant at Coopers & Lybra…
Christopher Foster, English economist and academic (died 2022)
Omara Portuondo Peláez is a Cuban singer and dancer. A founding member of the popular vocal group Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo has collaborated with many important Cuban musicians du…
Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer
Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His composit…
Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (died 1956)
Don "Monk" Meineke was an American basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Dayton and was a consensus second-team All-American in 1952. He later playe…
Don Meineke, American basketball player (died 2013)
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)
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)
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)
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)