Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. Plaatje was a founding member and first General Secretary of th…
Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (born 1876)
Ernst-Johannes Põdder VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander in the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence.
Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (born 1879)
Adelaide Ames was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral ne…
Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (born 1900)
Urania Charlotte Amalie Marquard Olsen was a Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director.
Urania Marquard Olsen, Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director (born 1856)
Richard Otto Bruno Kastner was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era. Kas…
Bruno Kastner, German actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1890)
Dom Manuel II, sometimes known as the Unfortunate or the Patriot, was the last king of Portugal, reigning from 1908 until 1910.
Manuel II of Portugal (born 1889)
Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg, better known as Sasha Chorny or Cherny, was a Russian poet, satirist and children's writer.
Sasha Chorny, Russian poet and author (born 1880)
Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky, better known by his pen name Alexander Green or Grin, was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unn…
Alexander Grin, Russian author (born 1880)
Henry Eyster Jacobs was an American religious educator, Biblical commentator and Lutheran theologian.
Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (born 1844)
Rasmus Rasmussen was a Norwegian actor, folk singer and theatre director.
Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (born 1862)
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand was a French author and diplomat. He was the French Ambassador to the United States from 1903 to 1925 and played a major diplomatic role during …
Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (born 1855)
Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childho…
Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English author (born 1859)
King Camp Gillette was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor and was the founder of the Gillette razor company. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpe…
King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (born 1855)
Bahíyyih Khánum was the only daughter of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, and Ásíyih Khánum. She was born in 1846 with the given name Fatimih Sultan, and was entitled …
Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (born 1846)
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, who published under his initials C.J. Langenhoven, was a South African poet who played a major role in the development of Afrikaans literature and cul…
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (born 1873)
René François Nicolas Marie Bazin was a French novelist.
René Bazin, French author and academic (born 1853)
William G. Gleason was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played from 1882 through 1889 for three different teams of the American Association. Listed at 5 ft 8 in (…
Bill Gleason, American baseball player (born 1858)
John Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armst…
J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (born 1858)
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936.
Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and academic (born 1866)
Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Pa…
Flo Ziegfeld, American actor and producer (born 1867)
Frederick Charles "Tenby" Davies was a Welsh athlete who became the half-mile world professional champion in 1909 after a race against Irishman Beauchamp Day.
Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (born 1884)
Alfred Henry Maurer was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly …
Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (born 1868)
John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (born 1863)
Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist, theorist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been …
Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (born 1853)