LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leopold Auer	Violinist	7-Jun-1845	15-Jul-1930	Hungarian violinist, teacher
Arthur Balfour	Head of State	25-Jul-1848	19-Mar-1930	UK Prime Minister, 1902-05
Edward Bok	Author	9-Oct-1863	9-Jan-1930	Editor of Ladies' Home Journal
Robert Bridges	Poet	23-Oct-1844	21-Apr-1930	Prometheus the Firegiver
Florian Cajori	Historian	28-Feb-1859	14-Aug-1930	A History of Mathematics
Lon Chaney	Actor	1-Apr-1883	26-Aug-1930	The Phantom of the Opera
Joseph Force Crater	Victim	5-Jan-1889	6-Aug-1930	NY State Judge vanished
Herbert Croly	Author	23-Jan-1869	17-May-1930	The Promise of American Life
Glenn Curtiss	Aviator	21-May-1878	23-Jul-1930	American aviation pioneer
John T. Dorrance	Business	11-Nov-1873	21-Sep-1930	Invented condensed soup
Giulio Douhet	Military	30-May-1869	15-Feb-1930	Father of strategic air power
Herbert Dow	Business	26-Feb-1866	15-Oct-1930	Founder of Dow Chemical
Arthur Conan Doyle	Novelist	22-May-1859	7-Jul-1930	Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Christiaan Eijkman	Scientist	11-Aug-1858	5-Nov-1930	Research led to discovery of vitamins
Rebecca Latimer Felton	Politician	10-Jun-1835	24-Jan-1930	First female in the US Senate
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti	Business	9-Apr-1864	13-Jan-1930	England's electrical grid
Ezra Fitch	Business	21-Sep-1865	16-Jun-1930	Abercrombie & Fitch
Herbert Gladstone	Politician	18-Feb-1854	6-Mar-1930	UK Home Secretary, 1905-10
Eugen Goldstein	Physicist	5-Sep-1850	25-Dec-1930	Cathode rays
Daniel Guggenheim	Business	9-Jul-1856	28-Sep-1930	Mining magnate
Allvar Gullstrand	Doctor	5-Jun-1862	28-Jul-1930	Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye
Charles K. Harris	Songwriter	1-May-1865	22-Dec-1930	After The Ball
Kin Hubbard	Cartoonist	1-Sep-1868	26-Dec-1930	Abe Martin of Brown County
Mother Jones	Activist	1-Aug-1837	30-Nov-1930	The grandmother of all agitators
D. H. Lawrence	Novelist	11-Sep-1885	2-Mar-1930	Lady Chatterley's Lover
Fridtjof Nansen	Explorer	10-Oct-1861	13-May-1930	Polar explorer, Nobel Prize recipient
Mabel Normand	Actor	16-Nov-1892	22-Feb-1930	Tillie's Punctured Romance
Carl Panzram	Criminal	28-Jun-1891	5-Sep-1930	Relentless sociopath, serial killer
Fritz Pregl	Chemist	3-Sep-1869	13-Dec-1930	Microanalysis of organic compounds
Edward Terry Sanford	Judge	23-Jul-1865	8-Mar-1930	US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-30
Milton Sills	Actor	12-Jan-1882	15-Sep-1930	The Sea Hawk
Elmer Sperry	Inventor	12-Oct-1860	10-Jun-1930	Gyroscopic compass
William Archibald Spooner	Educator	22-Jul-1844	29-Aug-1930	Spoonerisms
William Howard Taft	Head of State	15-Sep-1857	8-Mar-1930	27th US President, 1909-13
Sakichi Toyoda	Inventor	14-Feb-1867	30-Oct-1930	Founder of Toyota Industries Corp.
Herbert Hall Turner	Astronomer	13-Aug-1861	20-Aug-1930	Stellar positions
James K. Vardaman	Government	26-Jul-1861	25-Jun-1930	The Great White Chief
Alfred von Tirpitz	Military	19-Mar-1849	6-Mar-1930	German admiral, pushed U-boats
Wilfrid Voynich	Activist	31-Oct-1865	19-Mar-1930	Voynich manuscript
Joseph Ward	Head of State	26-Apr-1856	8-Jul-1930	Twice Prime Minister of New Zealand
Alfred Wegener	Scientist	1-Nov-1880	Nov-1930	Continental drift
Horst Wessel	Activist	9-Oct-1907	23-Feb-1930	Nazi martyr

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