Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Milton Brown was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a uniqu…
Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (born 1903)
Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over oper…
Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (born 1879)
Teresa de la Parra was a Venezuelan novelist.
Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author (born 1889)
Wajed Ali Khan Panni, also known by his daak naam Chand Mian, was a Bengali politician, educationist and the zamindar of Karatia.
Wajed Ali Khan Panni, Bengali aristocrat and philanthropist (born 1871)
Fuad I was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brothe…
Fuad I of Egypt (born 1868)
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World Wa…
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (born 1861)
Panagis Tsaldaris was a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece twice. He was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years (1922–1936) of the conserv…
Panagis Tsaldaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 124th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1868)
Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first univer…
Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (born 1857)
Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed the final examination in literae hu…
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Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic…
Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (born 1880)
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos was a Greek military officer and politician. He played a major role in Greece's war effort during the First World War, and was the commander-in-chief of th…
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (born 1860)
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall was an English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. His translation of the Qu…
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar (born 1875)
Mathilde Verne was an English pianist and teacher, of German descent. Along with most of her other sisters, Mathilde changed her surname to Verne in 1893 after the death of their f…
Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator (born 1869)
Mirko Seljan and Stjepan Seljan were Croatian explorers.
Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (born 1875)
Sir John Bowser, Australian politician, was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London, the son of an army officer, and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He…
John Bowser, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of Victoria (born 1856)
Robert Ervin Howard was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sw…
Robert E
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century l…
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Hans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.
Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and designer, designed the IG Farben Building (born 1869)
Julius Friedrich Seljamaa was an Estonian politician, diplomat and journalist. From 1933 to 1936, he was the Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1883)
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize …
Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johan…
Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1882)
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism a…
Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (born 1870)
János Szlepecz was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, dean, and writer. He wrote in the Prekmurje Slovene dialect and also in Hungarian.
János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and missionary (born 1872)
Kojo Tovalou Houénou was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of…
Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (born 1887)