Feb 2 Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71 Feb 3 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72 Feb 7 Ion Vidu, Romanian composer and conductor, dies at 67 Feb 11 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 Feb 12 Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855) Feb 18 Milan Ć ufflay, Croatian historian and politician, dies at 51 Nellie Melba Feb 23 Nellie Melba [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies at 69 Soprano Nellie Melba Feb 26 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83 Feb 27 Chandra Sekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army), dies at 24 1930 Famous Deaths by Year 1932