Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Sir Roy Colin Strong, is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and t…
Roy Strong, English historian, curator, and author
Charles Wright is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. From 2014…
Charles Wright, American poet
Ernest Gilbert Broglio was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs from 1959 to 1966.
Ernie Broglio, American baseball player (died 2019)
Ronald Ernest Paul is an American author, activist, medical doctor, and former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to…
Ron Paul, American captain, physician, and politician
Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, representing New Y…
Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (died 2011)
Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer and information scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency (ID…
Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (died 2007)
Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd is an English biographer.
Michael Holroyd, English author
Frank Yablans was an American studio executive, film producer, and screenwriter. Yablans served as an executive at Paramount Pictures, including President of the studio, in the 196…
Frank Yablans, American screenwriter and producer (died 2014)
Melvin Charney C.Q. was a Canadian artist and architect.
Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (died 2012)
Gilles Rocheleau was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He co-founded the Bloc Québécois with Lucien Bouchard in 1990.
Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)
Panait Istrati (Romanian: [panaˈit isˈtrati]; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky…
Panait Istrati, Romanian journalist and author (born 1884)
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (born 1863)
Anastasios Papoulas was a Greek general, most notable as the Greek commander-in-chief during most of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22. Originally a firm royalist, after 1922 he shi…
Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (born 1857)
Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Col…
Leroy Carr, American singer, songwriter and pianist (born 1905)
Henri Pélissier was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France. In addition to his 29 career victories, he was known for his long-standing feud with…
Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (born 1889)
John Cameron was a Scottish footballer and manager. He played as a forward for Queen's Park, Everton and Scotland and was noted as an effective goal-maker and goalscorer. In 1899 h…
John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1872)
Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books …
Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (born 1863)
Ernst Ludwig Bresslau was a German zoologist. He was the son of historian Harry Bresslau.
Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (born 1877)
Józef Klemens Piłsudski[a] was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland. In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasing…
Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (born 1867)
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government.
Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (born 1868)
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose work and writings pioneered the development of abstract painting in the 20th century. He is b…
Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (born 1878)
Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of hi…
Paul Dukas, French composer, critic, and educator (born 1865)
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman…
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Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s …
Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (born 1848)