Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Howard David Blake is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake's most successful work is his …
Howard Blake, English composer and conductor
Thomas Nicholas Meschery is an American former professional basketball player. Born in China to parents who had fled Russia, he spent his childhood in a Japanese internment camp du…
Tom Meschery, Chinese-American basketball player
David L. Budd is a retired American basketball player who played for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association. He played college ball at Division I Wake Forest Un…
Dave Budd, American basketball player
Gary Cowan is a Canadian amateur golfer.
Gary Cowan, Canadian golfer
David Dimbleby is an English journalist and former presenter of current affairs and political programmes, best known for having presented the BBC topical debate programme Question …
David Dimbleby, English journalist
Anne Perry was a British crime writer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction.
Anne Perry, English author (died 2023)
Ralph Bakshi is an American animator and filmmaker, known for his fantastical animated films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independen…
Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
Peter Stampfel is an American fiddle player, old-time musician, and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of The Holy Modal Rounders, which he formed with guitar…
Peter Stampfel, American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter
Moses "Morris" Lurie was an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men of…
Morris Lurie, Australian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 2014)
Stephen Bloomer was an England international footballer and manager who played for Derby County – becoming their record goalscorer – and Middlesbrough. The anthem "Steve Bloomer's …
Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (born 1874)
George Philip "Phil" Bryant was an American archer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He later became President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games for the 193…
George Bryant, American archer (born 1878)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Islamic philosopher and poet. His poetry in Urdu is considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political id…
Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani National philosopher and poet (born 1877)
George Grey Barnard, often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris. He is especially noted for his heroic sized Struggle of the Two Natures in Ma…
George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (born 1863)
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.
Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (born 1859)
Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo. Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and…
Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (born 1860)
Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.
Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
Octavian Goga was a Romanian far-right politician, poet, and writer who served as Prime Minister of Romania.
Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (born 1881)
Thomas Barfoed Thrige was a Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman. In 1894, he started the company Thomas B. Thrige, a manufacturer of electric motors, now known as T-…
Thomas B
George Seymour Lyon was a Canadian golfer, an Olympic gold medalist in golf, an eight-time Canadian Amateur Championship winner, and a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He wo…
George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (born 1858)
Charles-Édouard Guillaume was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discove…
Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
Jakob Ehrlich was an early Zionist and leader of the Jewish Community in Vienna, Austria. Ehrlich represented the city's 180,000 Jewish citizens in the city government before World…
Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian academic and politician (born 1877)
Joseph Baermann Strauss was an American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. He was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, …
Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (born 1870)
Frederick Ruple was a 20th-century Swiss-American painter, primarily of portraits. He was commissioned to paint Confederate Civil War battle scenes and murals. At times Ruple lived…
Frederick Ruple, Swiss-American painter (born 1871)