Historical figures in 1930
The atlas holds 74 people and 111 moments here, in 1930. The most recorded lives are Albert Einstein, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Henri Matisse. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.
Notable people
Marlon Brando
in 1930
1 moment here
American actor and activist whose stage and screen career ranged from Broadway in the 1940s to major films through the early 2000s.…
Max Theiler
in 1930
1 moment here
South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1930
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mikhail Kalashnikov
in 1930
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian small-arms designer, military engineer, and lieutenant general, best known for the AK-47 and later Kalashnikov weapon systems.…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1930
1 moment here
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister and political leader who led the All-India Muslim League and became Pakistan’s first governor-general after…
Muhammad Iqbal
in 1930
1 moment here
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was a South Asian philosopher, poet, lawyer, and political figure.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1930
4 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1930
1 moment here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Neil Armstrong
in 1930
1 moment here
American naval aviator, research test pilot, NASA astronaut, aerospace administrator, and professor.…
Nelson Mandela
in 1930
1 moment here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Pablo Neruda
in 1930
1 moment here
Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
P. L. Travers
in 1930
1 moment here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Prajadhipok
in 1930
1 moment here
Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1930
3 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Ravi Shankar
in 1930
1 moment here
Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was a leading exponent of Hindustani classical music whose performances, teaching, recordings,…
Richard Nixon
in 1930
1 moment here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Robert Mugabe
in 1930
1 moment here
Zimbabwean nationalist leader, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President from 1987 to 2017.…
Salvador Dalí
in 1930
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sarojini Naidu
in 1930
1 moment here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1930
2 moments here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sukarno
in 1930
2 moments here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Thomas Mann
in 1930
1 moment here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Vallabhbhai Patel
in 1930
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
Võ Nguyên Giáp
in 1930
1 moment here
Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary, and politician. Giáp was a leading commander of the Việt Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam, served…
Moments
- 1930 Visits Kayseri on the 1930 national tour Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1930 Attends Madison Square Garden Hanukkah celebration Albert Einstein
- 1930 Attends Metropolitan Opera Albert Einstein
- 1930 Begins first Caltech visit Albert Einstein
- 1930 Returns to New York Albert Einstein
- 1930 Tours Riverside Church Albert Einstein
- 1930 Work with Wolfgang Pauli in Zürich Lev Landau
- 1930 Berlin residence before return to Hollywood Marlene Dietrich
- 1930 Allahabad Address Muhammad Iqbal
- 1930 Visits Edirne during the Thrace tour Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1930 Imprisonment at Sukamiskin Sukarno