Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Artur Sirk was an Estonian political and military figure. A veteran of the country's struggle for independence, Sirk later became a leading figure within the right-wing Vaps Moveme…
Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1900)
James Guthrie was a Scottish motorcycle racer.
Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer (born 1897)
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals…
Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (born 1862)
Sigizmund Aleksandrovich Levanevsky was a Soviet pioneer of long-range flight who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for his role in the SS Chelyuskin rescue.
Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (born 1902)
Marciano Pedro Durruti Domingo was a Spanish anarchist and Falangist revolutionary. The younger brother of Buenaventura Durruti, he followed him into the Spanish anarchist movement…
Pedro Durruti, Spanish anarchist and Falangist revolutionary (born 1911)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of…
Albert Roussel, French composer (born 1869)
Catherine Ruth Baldwin was an American-born English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things crowd. She was the first important lover of American heiress Joe Carstairs.
Ruth Baldwin, British socialite (born 1905)
Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov was a Soviet Russian constructivist writer, playwright, poet, and special correspondent for Pravda.
Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (born 1892)
David Donaldson Robertson was a Scottish sportsman who represented Great Britain and Ireland at golf in the 1900 Summer Olympics, and also played international rugby for the Scotla…
David Robertson, Scottish rugby player and golfer (born 1869)
George Michael "Mick" Prendergast was an Australian politician who served as the 28th Premier of Victoria. He was born to Irish emigrant parents in Adelaide, but he grew up in Staw…
George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (born 1854)
Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic …
Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (born 1863)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the…
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (born 1850)
Walter Dubislav was a German logician and philosopher of science (Wissenschaftstheoretiker).
Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (born 1895)
James Ridley Osgood Perkins was an American actor.
Osgood Perkins (actor, born 1892), American actor (born 1892)
Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues, she was the most popula…
Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (born 1894)
Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková was the first female Czech botanist and zoologist. Baborová was born in Prague to a school teacher's family and learned many languages at a young age…
Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (born 1877)
Raymond Clarence Ewry was an American track and field athlete who won eight gold medals at the Olympic Games and two gold medals at the Intercalated Games. This puts him among the …
Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (born 1873)
Ernest Louis was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918. A grandson of Queen Victoria, he was known as a patron of the arts and founded the Darmst…
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
Jean de Brunhoff was a French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books concerning a fictional elephant, the first of which was publi…
Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (born 1899)
Joseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman and shipowner who was the chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, and President of the International Mercantile Marine …
J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (born 1862)
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described…
Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)
Nils Wahlbom was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in around forty films including The Women Around Larsson (1934).
Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (born 1886)
Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki was a Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies. He was also the military commander of the Greater Poland Uprising.
Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (born 1867)
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Se…
Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm tha