Famous People Who Died in 1930

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Mar 2 English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies of tuberculosis at 44

Mar 6 Alfred von Tirpitz, German architect of the Imperial Navy (Tirpitz Plan, Unrestricted U-boat Warfare) and World War I Grand Admiral, dies at 80
Mar 6 William Milton, British cricket all-rounder (3 Tests South Africa, 2 wickets) and rugby union centre (2 Tests England), dies at 75
Mar 8 Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)

William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

Mar 8 27th US President (Republican: 1909-13) and Chief Justice, dies at 72

Mar 12 Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)

William George Barker (1894-1930)

Mar 12 Canadian fighter ace (Victoria Cross recipient), dies in a training accident at 35

Mar 13 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, American writer (Revolt of Mother), dies at 77
Mar 15 Antonio Beltramelli, Italian writer, dies at 51
Mar 16 Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (1923-30), dies at 60

Arthur Balfour (1848-1930)

Mar 19 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1902-05) and Foreign Secretary (Balfour Declaration), dies of unremitting circulatory trouble at 81

Mar 28 Uchimura Kanzō, Japanese religious writer and pacifist (How I Became a Christian), dies at 69
Mar 29 Anton Bettelheim, Austrian writer, dies at 78
Apr 1 Cosima Liszt, Austrian wife of composer Richard Wagner (founded Bayreuth Festival together), daughter of Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, dies at 92
Apr 1 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
Apr 2 Zewditu, Empress of Ethiopia (1916-30), dies at 53
Apr 3 Emma Albani, Canadian operatic soprano, dies at 82
Apr 4 Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)

Apr 14 Russian poet and playwright (Ode to Revolution, The Bathhouse), commits suicide by shooting himself through the heart at 36

Apr 16 José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
Apr 17 Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
Apr 19 Charles Scribner II, American magazine and book publisher, dies at 75
Apr 19 Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
Apr 21 Alex Smith, Scottish-American golfer (US Open 1906, 10), dies at 56
Apr 21 Robert Bridges, English poet (Testament of beauty) and British Poet Laureate (1913-30), dies at 85
Apr 22 Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet & novelist (Bondens Søn), dies at 63
Apr 24 Henry Ernest Dudeney, English mathematician and puzzle maker, dies at 73
May 8 (Ivar) Henning Mankell, Swedish pianist and composer, dies at 61
May 10 Edward Stratemeyer, American author (The Rover Boys), dies at 67
May 12 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch politician (SDAP), dies at 70

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)

May 13 Norwegian Arctic explorer and advocate for refugees (Nobel Peace Prize 1922), dies of a heart attack at 68

May 13 Helene Lange, German feminist (honoured with the Grand Prussian State Medal), dies at 82
May 14 Władysław Orkan [Franciszek Ksawery Smaciarz], Polish author (Nowele Zebrane), dies at 54
May 17 Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61
May 18 João Marcelino Arroio, Portuguese composer (Amor de Perdiçâo), dies at 68
May 23 R. D. Banerji, Indian archaeologist and historian (discovered ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro), dies at 45 [1]
May 25 Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
Jun 5 Jules Pascin [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian-American painter and cartoonist, commits suicide at 45
Jun 10 Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
Jun 11 George Alexander, British cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies at 79
Jun 11 Henry Clay Folger, American CEO of Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, dies at 72
Jun 12 Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
Jun 13 Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
Jun 16 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), dies at 69
Jun 16 Ezra Fitch, American businessman (Abercrombie & Fitch founder), dies at 64
Jun 22 Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82
Jun 30 Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist known for leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, dies at 85
Jul 2 Andres Randolf, Danish-American actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves, The Kiss), dies at 59

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Jul 7 British author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice, dies at 71

Jul 8 Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (1906-12), dies at 74
Jul 14 William Hare Ashley, South African cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies at 68
Jul 15 Leopold von Auer, Hungarian-American violinist, dies at 85
Jul 19 Robert Stout, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1884-87), dies at 85
Jul 23 Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer and airplane builder, dies at 52
Jul 28 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel Prize 1911), dies at 68
Jul 29 Alexander von Fielitz, German composer and conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at 69
Jul 30 Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona, dies at 52
Aug 4 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer and conductor, dies at 61
Aug 20 Charles Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (3 Tests; first centurion in Test history 165* 1877), dies at 79
Aug 26 Leonidas "Lon" Chaney, American actor nicknamed "the man of a 1000 faces" (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera), dies after long illness at 47
Aug 27 Didericus van Epen, Dutch genealogist (Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
Aug 28 Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies
Aug 29 William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
Sep 5 Carl Panzram, American serial killer and rapist, dies at 38
Sep 5 Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
Sep 10 Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricket all-rounder (25 Tests, 4 x 100s, TS 204; Transvaal), dies from self inflicted gas poisoning at 48
Sep 15 Milton Sills, American actor (The Sea Hawk), dies from a heart attack at 48
Sep 19 Hendrik Zwaardemaker, Dutch physiologist (invented the olfactometer), dies at 73
Sep 23 Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
Sep 24 William A. MacCorkle, American politician, 90th Governor of West Virginia, dies at 73
Sep 28 Daniel Guggenheim, American mining magnate and philanthropist, dies at 74
Sep 29 Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-Russian painter (Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks), dies at 86
Oct 1 Ricardo Drigo, Italian composer, dies at 84
Oct 3 Charles Louis Philippe Zilcken, Dutch painter and author (Bauer), dies at 73
Oct 5 Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
Oct 10 Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
Oct 14 Samuel van Houten, Dutch politician and philosopher (Child labor laws), dies at 93
Oct 15 Ernest Wilson, English botanist (plant collector in China), dies in a car accident at 54

Herbert Henry Dow (1866-1930)

Oct 15 American chemical industrialist (Dow Chemical), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 64

Oct 24 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
Oct 26 Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and thoroughbred horse breeder, dies at 58
Oct 26 Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian bacteriologist (1st to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague), dies at 70
Oct 30 Sakichi Toyoda, Japanese inventor and industrialist (Toyota Industries), dies at 63
Nov 2 Oliver Perry Hay, American paleontologist, dies at 84

Alfred Wegener (1880-1930)

Nov 3 German polar researcher and meteorologist (continental drift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland at 50 (date is approximate)

Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930)

Nov 5 Dutch physician and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929), dies at 72

Nov 11 William Whysall, British cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies at 43
Nov 27 Johnny Tyldesley, English cricket batsman (31 Tests, 4 x 100, 9 x 50, HS 138; Lancashire CCC), dies at 57
Nov 30 Mother [Mary Harris] Jones, American labor organizer (cofounded Industrial Workers of the World), dies at 93
Dec 9 Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
Dec 9 Rube Foster, American Baseball HOF manager and executive (Negro National League pennant 1920–22, 26; Chicago American Giants), dies from insanity at 51
Dec 11 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German general and military historian (Germany & the Next War), dies at 80
Dec 13 Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
Dec 17 Peter Warlock [Philip Heseltine], British composer, dies of a probable suicide at 36

Clarence Kummer (1899-1930)

Dec 18 American Racing HOF jockey (Preakness Stakes 1920, 25; Belmont Stakes 1920, 28; US Champion Jockey by earnings 1920), dies from pneumonia at 31

Dec 19 Johnny Douglas, English cricket all-rounder, captain (23 Tests, 1 x 100, 45 wickets; Essex CCC) and boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1908), dies by drowning at 48
Dec 23 Johannes H. Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
Dec 24 Eduard David, German politician (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
Dec 24 Oskar Nedbal, Czech composer, dies at 56
Dec 25 Harvey Worthington Loomis, American composer (Lyrics of the Red Man), dies at 65
Dec 27 William Courtleigh, Canadian actor (The Birth of Character, Ashes, The Nightingale), dies at 63

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