Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Gerald Paul Carr was an American mechanical and aeronautical engineer, United States Marine Corps officer and aviator, and NASA astronaut. He was commander of Skylab 4, the third a…
Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut (died 2020)
Houari Boumédiène was an Algerian military officer, revolutionary, and politician who was the second head of state of independent Algeria from 1965 until his death in 1978. He serv…
Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (died 1978)
Enos Mzombi Nkala was one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union.
Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean soldier and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (died 2013)
Marcus Joseph Ruslander, better known as Mark Russell, was an American political satirist and comedian. He is best known for his series of bimonthly comedy specials on PBS televisi…
Mark Russell, American comedian and pianist (died 2023)
Robert Dean Hales was an American businessman and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1994 until his death. As a mem…
Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader (died 2017)
Richard Graham Meale, AM MBE FAHA was a highly regarded Australian composer of instrumental works and operas, and an influential music educator.
Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer (died 2009)
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was a British Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Westminster from 2000 to 2009. He was also president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Englan…
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal (died 2017)
Anatoly Yakovlevich Kartashov was a cosmonaut in the Soviet Vostok program.
Anatoly Kartashov, Soviet aviator and cosmonaut (died 2005)
Luis Salvadores Salvi was a Chilean basketball player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. One of nine boys and two girls, he and his brothers established the Salvadores Salvi…
Luis Salvadores Salvi, Chilean basketball player (died 2014)
Cor Brom was a Dutch football player and manager.
Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2008)
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
Antonia Fraser, English historian and author
Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Ch…
Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator
Andrew James Bathgate was a Canadian professional ice hockey right wing who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Det…
Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2016)
Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contribute…
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
Friedrich Gustav Piffl was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Vienna.
Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (born 1864)
Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist.
Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (born 1883)
William Henry Lockwood was an English Test cricketer, best known as a fast bowler and the unpredictable, occasionally devastating counterpart to the amazingly hard-working Tom Rich…
William Lockwood, English cricketer (born 1868)
Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection Whit…
Hart Crane, American poet (born 1899)
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such ph…
Charles Fort, American journalist and author (born 1874)
Marcel Jacques Amand Romain Boulenger was a French novelist and fiction writer. He was awarded the Prix Nee of the Académie Française in 1918 and the Prix Stendhal in 1919. He was …
Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (born 1873)
John Verran was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as premier of South Australia from 1910 to 1912, the second member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hol…
John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre …
Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852)
Theodorus Heemskerk was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 12 February 1908 until 29 August 1913.
Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1852)
Marie-Clara Dorimène Roy Desjardins and her husband, Alphonse Desjardins, were the co-founders of the Caisses populaires Desjardins, a forerunner of North American credit unions. S…
Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (born 1858)