Famous People Who Died In 1930

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Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1930. This list includes people like William Howard Taft, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Panzram, Alfred Wegener, Arthur Balfour and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, composers, novelists and poets who died in 1930. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany and many more countries.
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 1 
William Howard Taft
(27th President of the United States)
William Howard Taft
27
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: September 15, 1857
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Died: March 8
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
 2 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(British Writer Who Created the Character of Sherlock Holmes)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
26
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: May 22, 1859
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Scotland
Died: July 7
 3 
D. H. Lawrence
(English Writer and Poet Known for His Novels: ‘Sons and Lovers’, ‘The Rainbow’ and ‘Women in Love’)
D. H. Lawrence
12
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 11, 1885
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Eastwood, England, United Kingdom
Died: March 2
 4 
Alfred Wegener
(German Climatologist and Geophysicist Known for His 'Continental Drift Theory')
Alfred Wegener
6
Birthdate: November 1, 1880
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: November 1
 5 
Fridtjof Nansen
(Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and the First High Commissioner for Refugees Appointed by the League of Nations)
Fridtjof Nansen
6
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: October 10, 1861
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Oslo, Norway
Died: May 13
 6 
Lon Chaney
(Actor)
Lon Chaney
4
Birthdate: April 1, 1883
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Died: August 26
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
 7 
Vladimir Mayakovsky
(Russian Poet and Playwright Who was a Prominent Figure of the Russian Futurist Movement)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 19, 1893
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Baghdati, Georgia
Died: April 14
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
 8 
Mary Harris Jones
(Irish-born American Schoolteacher and Activist)
Mary Harris Jones
3
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: May 1, 1830
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Cork, Ireland
Died: November 30
 9 
Rebecca Latimer Felton
(First Woman Who was Appointed to the United States Senate)
Rebecca Latimer Felton
0
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: June 10, 1835
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Decatur, Georgia, United States
Died: January 24
 10 
Mabel Normand
(Actress)
Mabel Normand
3
Birthdate: November 9, 1892
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: New Brighton, Staten Island,
Died: February 23
Height: 5'1" (155 cm)
 11 
Ilya Repin
(Russian Painter Who was One of the Most Renowned Artists in Russia During the 19th Century)
Ilya Repin
0
Birthdate: August 5, 1844
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Chuhuiv, Ukraine
Died: September 29
 12 
Glenn Curtiss
(American Aviation and Motorcycling Pioneer & Founder of the U.S. Aircraft Industry)
Glenn Curtiss
0
Birthdate: May 21, 1878
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Hammondsport, New York, United States
Died: July 23
 13 
Zewditu
(Empress of Ethiopia (1916 - 1930))
Zewditu
5
Birthdate: April 28, 1876
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Werreyimenu, Wollo
Died: April 2
 14 
Frank P. Ramsey
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Economist)
Frank P. Ramsey
2
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: February 22, 1903
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Cambridge
Died: January 19
 15 
Eugen Goldstein
(Physicist)
Eugen Goldstein
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 5, 1850
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Gliwice, Poland
Died: December 25
 16 
Peter Warlock
(Composer)
Peter Warlock
2
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: October 30, 1894
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: London
Died: December 17
 17 
Victoria of Baden
0
Birthdate: August 7, 1862
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Karlsruhe, Germany
Died: April 4
 18 
Rube Foster
(Former Baseball pitcher, Founder of Negro National League)
Rube Foster
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: September 17, 1879
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Calvert, Texas, United States
Died: December 9
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
 19 
Cosima Wagner
(Composer)
Cosima Wagner
2
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: December 24, 1837
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Bellagio, Italy
Died: April 1
 20 
Henry Faulds
(Scientist)
Henry Faulds
2
Listed In: Physicians
Birthdate: June 1, 1843
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Beith
Died: March 19
Harvey Washington Wiley
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: October 18, 1844
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Kent, Indiana, United States
Died: June 30
 22 
Leopold Auer
(Hungarian Composer, Conductor and Violinist)
Leopold Auer
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: June 7, 1845
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Veszprém, Hungary
Died: July 15
 23 
Herbert Henry Dow
(American Chemical Industrialist and Founder of the Multinational Conglomerate 'Dow Chemical')
Herbert Henry Dow
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: February 26, 1866
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Belleville, Canada
Died: October 15
 24 
William George Barker
(Fighter pilot)
William George Barker
2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: November 3, 1894
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dauphin, Canada
Died: March 12
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
 25 
Luigi Facta
(Former Prime Minister of Italy (February 1922 - October 1922))
Luigi Facta
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 16, 1861
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Pinerolo, Italy
Died: November 5
 26 
Pierina Legnani
(Ballerina)
Pierina Legnani
0
Listed In: Dancers
Birthdate: September 30, 1868
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Italy
Died: November 15
Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: February 23, 1866
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Seville, Spain
Died: December 24
 28 
Horace Smith-Dorrien
(Autobiographer, Military personnel)
Horace Smith-Dorrien
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: May 26, 1858
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Berkhamsted
Died: August 12
 29 
Christiaan Eijkman
1
Listed In: Physicians
Birthdate: August 11, 1858
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Nijkerk
Died: November 5
 30 
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
(American Inventor and Entrepreneur Who Invented 'Gyrocompass')
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
0
Birthdate: October 12, 1860
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Cincinnatus, New York, United States
Died: June 16
 31 
Joseph Wright
(English Philologist and Academic)
Joseph Wright
1
Birthdate: October 31, 1855
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Idle, Bradford, United Kingdom
Died: February 27
 32 
Eduard Polón
(Finnish Business Leader and Founder of the 'Nokia' Group)
Eduard Polón
1
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: June 16, 1861
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Nastola, Finland
Died: September 30
 33 
Gaetano Reina
(Gangster)
Gaetano Reina
2
Listed In: Criminals
Birthdate: September 27, 1889
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Corleone, Italy
Died: February 26
 34 
Horst Wessel
(Nazi Party Stormtrooper Who Was Hailed Asa Nazi Hero & Martyr)
Horst Wessel
7
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: October 9, 1907
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bielefeld
Died: February 23
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 31, 1852
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Randolph, Massachusetts, United States
Died: March 13
 36 
Robert Bridges
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 23, 1844
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Walmer, Kent, England
Died: April 21
 37 
Joseph Ward
(17th Prime Minister of New Zealand)
Joseph Ward
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 26, 1856
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Melbourne, Australia
Died: July 8
 38 
Giuseppe Morello
7
Listed In: Criminals
Birthdate: May 2, 1867
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Corleone, Italy
Died: August 15
 39 
John Wheatley
(Politician)
John Wheatley
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: May 19, 1869
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Bonmahon, Ireland
Died: May 12
 40 
Friedrich von Bernhardi
(Prussian General and Military Historian Best Known for His Bellicose Book 'Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg')
Friedrich von Bernhardi
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 22, 1849
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: December 11
 41 
Fritz Pregl
(Nobel Prize-Winning Slovenian-Austrian Chemist Known for His Research on Quantitative Organic Microanalysis)
Fritz Pregl
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 3, 1869
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Died: December 13
 42 
Daniel Guggenheim
(Industrialist and philanthropist)
Daniel Guggenheim
2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: July 9, 1856
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: September 28
 43 
Allvar Gullstrand
(Swedish Optician and Ophthalmologist Who is Known for Study of Refraction of Light in the Human Eye)
Allvar Gullstrand
0
Listed In: Physicians
Birthdate: June 5, 1862
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Landskrona, Sweden
Died: July 28
 44 
Kin Hubbard
(Cartoonist)
Kin Hubbard
0
Birthdate: September 1, 1868
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States
Died: December 26
 45 
John Bowes-Lyon
(British Cricketer and the Second Son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne)
John Bowes-Lyon
2
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: April 1, 1886
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: United Kingdom
Died: February 7
Robert Tommy Dewar
1
Listed In:
Birthdate: January 6, 1864
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Died: April 11
 47 
Habiba Msika
(Singer, Dancer)
Habiba Msika
0
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: 1903 AD
Birthplace: Tunis, Tunisia
Died: February 21
 48 
Randall Davidson
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 7, 1848
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: May 25
 49 
Waldemar Haffkine
(Bacteriologists)
Waldemar Haffkine
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: March 15, 1860
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Odesa, Ukraine
Died: October 26
 50 
Viggo Jensen
(Danish Weightlifter and Sport Shooter)
Viggo Jensen
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: June 22, 1874
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: November 2