1930 deaths

British writer and physician (1859–1930)

27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)

Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)

Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)

English writer and poet (1885–1930)

Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)

British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)

German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)

Swedish ophthalmologist (1862-1930)

Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)

Dutch physician (1858–1930)

Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930

Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)

The seventh and last Shah of Iran Qajar (1909–1925)

Zewditu (, born Askala Maryam; 29 April 1876 – 2 April 1930) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She officially adopted the regnal name "Zewditu" at the beginning of her reign, which was triggered by the dethroning of Lij Iyasu in 1916. Her coronation was held on February 11, 1917, in the Cathedral of St. George in Addis Ababa—a capital founded by her father. Forty years old and childless when crowned, she is the first and only empress regnant of the Ethiopian Empire. Described as the first modern female head of a nation in Africa, she was the last female Ethiopian head

Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.

American actor (1883–1930)

Queen consort of Sweden (1907-1930)

Danish poet and novelist (1866–1930)

Swiss football pioneer, player and club president (1877-1930)

Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930)

Russian and Soviet explorer, ethnographer and writer (1872-1930)

Italian politician (1861-1930)

German Admiral and Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office (1849-1930)

British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)

German botanist (1844-1930)

Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)

American actress (1893–1930)

bacteriologist (1856–1930)

Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript (1865-1930)

daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner (1837-1930)

Czech writer (1851–1930)

Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)

German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)

Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)

German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement (1874–1930)

German orientalist and scholar (1836–1930)

French mathematician (1855-1930)

American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)

Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer (1854-1930)

American politician (1835-1930)

Ukrainian academic (1849–1930)

Danish sportsman (1874–1930)

Russian artist (1862-1930)

daughter of President Benjamin Harrison (1858-1930)

German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)

American aviator and industrialist (1878-1930)

German general (1846-1930)

German physicist and the great science-history maker (1850-1930)

French painter (1885-1930)

Scottish weightlifter (1874–1930)

Russian orientalist (1869–1930)

Hungarian-born British chess player

Swedish athlete (1880–1930)

Italian general (1869–1930)

American mathematician (1859–1930)

Portuguese poet (1894–1930)

wife of Mao Zedong (1901-1930)

German ancient historian, Egyptologist and ancient orientalist (1855–1930)

American stage and film actor (1882-1930)