Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
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)
William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken…
William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (born 1844)
Peeter Siegfried Nikolaus Põld was an Estonian pedagogy specialist, school director, and politician, and the first Estonian Minister of Education. He was born in Puru, Kreis Wierla…
Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (born 1878)
Robert Means Thompson was a United States Navy officer, business magnate, philanthropist and a president of the American Olympic Association. He is the namesake of the destroyer US…
Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (born 1849)
Milton George Gustavus Sills was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (born 1882)
Gombojab Tsybikov was a Russian explorer of Tibet from 1899 to 1902. Tsybikov specialized in ethnography, Buddhist Studies, and after 1917 was an important educator and statesman i…
Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (born 1873)
William Alexander MacCorkle, was an American teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, the ninth governor of West Virginia and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier. His residence in…
William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (born 1857)
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include Barge Haulers on the V…
Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1844)
Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, was a British Army officer who went on to serve as a Labour minister and peer. He served as Secretary of State for Air under Ramsay…
Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Air (born 1875)