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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Leopold Auer
Violinist
7-Jun-1845 15-Jul-1930 Hungarian violinist, teacher
Arthur Balfour
Head of State
25-Jul-1848 19-Mar-1930 UK Prime Minister, 1902-05
Edward Bok
Author
9-Oct-1863 9-Jan-1930 Editor of Ladies' Home Journal
Robert Bridges
Poet
23-Oct-1844 21-Apr-1930 Prometheus the Firegiver
Florian Cajori
Historian
28-Feb-1859 14-Aug-1930 A History of Mathematics
Lon Chaney
Actor
1-Apr-1883 26-Aug-1930 The Phantom of the Opera
Joseph Force Crater
Victim
5-Jan-1889 6-Aug-1930 NY State Judge vanished
Herbert Croly
Author
23-Jan-1869 17-May-1930 The Promise of American Life
Glenn Curtiss
Aviator
21-May-1878 23-Jul-1930 American aviation pioneer
John T. Dorrance
Business
11-Nov-1873 21-Sep-1930 Invented condensed soup
Giulio Douhet
Military
30-May-1869 15-Feb-1930 Father of strategic air power
Herbert Dow
Business
26-Feb-1866 15-Oct-1930 Founder of Dow Chemical
Arthur Conan Doyle
Novelist
22-May-1859 7-Jul-1930 Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Christiaan Eijkman
Scientist
11-Aug-1858 5-Nov-1930 Research led to discovery of vitamins
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Politician
10-Jun-1835 24-Jan-1930 First female in the US Senate
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Business
9-Apr-1864 13-Jan-1930 England's electrical grid
Ezra Fitch
Business
21-Sep-1865 16-Jun-1930 Abercrombie & Fitch
Herbert Gladstone
Politician
18-Feb-1854 6-Mar-1930 UK Home Secretary, 1905-10
Eugen Goldstein
Physicist
5-Sep-1850 25-Dec-1930 Cathode rays
Daniel Guggenheim
Business
9-Jul-1856 28-Sep-1930 Mining magnate
Allvar Gullstrand
Doctor
5-Jun-1862 28-Jul-1930 Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye
Charles K. Harris
Songwriter
1-May-1865 22-Dec-1930 After The Ball
Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist
1-Sep-1868 26-Dec-1930 Abe Martin of Brown County
Mother Jones
Activist
1-Aug-1837 30-Nov-1930 The grandmother of all agitators
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
11-Sep-1885 2-Mar-1930 Lady Chatterley's Lover
Fridtjof Nansen
Explorer
10-Oct-1861 13-May-1930 Polar explorer, Nobel Prize recipient
Mabel Normand
Actor
16-Nov-1892 22-Feb-1930 Tillie's Punctured Romance
Carl Panzram
Criminal
28-Jun-1891 5-Sep-1930 Relentless sociopath, serial killer
Fritz Pregl
Chemist
3-Sep-1869 13-Dec-1930 Microanalysis of organic compounds
Edward Terry Sanford
Judge
23-Jul-1865 8-Mar-1930 US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-30
Milton Sills
Actor
12-Jan-1882 15-Sep-1930 The Sea Hawk
Elmer Sperry
Inventor
12-Oct-1860 10-Jun-1930 Gyroscopic compass
William Archibald Spooner
Educator
22-Jul-1844 29-Aug-1930 Spoonerisms
William Howard Taft
Head of State
15-Sep-1857 8-Mar-1930 27th US President, 1909-13
Sakichi Toyoda
Inventor
14-Feb-1867 30-Oct-1930 Founder of Toyota Industries Corp.
Herbert Hall Turner
Astronomer
13-Aug-1861 20-Aug-1930 Stellar positions
James K. Vardaman
Government
26-Jul-1861 25-Jun-1930 The Great White Chief
Alfred von Tirpitz
Military
19-Mar-1849 6-Mar-1930 German admiral, pushed U-boats
Wilfrid Voynich
Activist
31-Oct-1865 19-Mar-1930 Voynich manuscript
Joseph Ward
Head of State
26-Apr-1856 8-Jul-1930 Twice Prime Minister of New Zealand
Alfred Wegener
Scientist
1-Nov-1880 Nov-1930 Continental drift
Horst Wessel
Activist
9-Oct-1907 23-Feb-1930 Nazi martyr




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