List of Famous people who died in 1930

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen
First Name Fridtjof
Born on October 10, 1861
Died on May 13, 1930 (aged 68)

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his Fram expedition of 1893–1896. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.

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Gauhar Jaan

First Name Gauhar
Last Name Jaan
Born on June 26, 1873
Died on January 17, 1930 (aged 56)
Born in India

Gauhar Jaan was an Indian singer and dancer from Kolkata. She was one of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India, which was later released by the Gramophone Company of India. Having recorded more than 600 songs in more than ten languages between 1902 and 1920, Jaan is credited with popularising Hindustani classical music such as thumri, dadra, kajri, and tarana during the period.

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William Howard Taft

First Name William
Last Name Taft
Born on September 15, 1857
Died on March 8, 1930 (aged 72)

William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position he held until a month before his death.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
First Name Arthur
Last Name Doyle
Died on July 7, 1930

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

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Herbert Henry Dow

First Name Herbert
Last Name Dow
Born on February 26, 1866
Died on October 15, 1930 (aged 64)
Born in Canada

Herbert Henry Dow was a Canadian-born American chemical industrialist, best known as the founder of the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical. He was a graduate of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a prolific inventor of chemical processes, compounds, and products, and was a successful businessman.

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Peter Warlock

First Name Peter
Last Name Warlock
Born on October 30, 1894
Died on December 17, 1930 (aged 36)

Philip Arnold Heseltine, known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.

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Herman Lamm

First Name Herman
Last Name Lamm
Born on April 19, 1890
Died on December 16, 1930 (aged 40)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Herman Karl Lamm, known as Baron Lamm, was a German-American bank robber. A former Prussian Army soldier who immigrated to the United States, Lamm believed a heist required all the planning of a military operation. He pioneered the concepts of "casing" a bank and developing escape routes before conducting the robbery. Using a meticulous planning system called "The Lamm Technique", he conducted dozens of successful bank robberies from the end of World War I.

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Carl Panzram

First Name Carl
Last Name Panzram
Born on June 28, 1891
Died on September 5, 1930 (aged 39)

Charles "Carl" Panzram was an American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, robber and burglar. In prison confessions and his autobiography, he claimed to have committed 21 murders, most of which could not be corroborated, and over 1,000 acts of sodomy of boys and men. After a series of imprisonments and escapes, he was executed in 1930 for the murder of a prison employee at Leavenworth. Only five victims could be confirmed, though Panzram is suspected to have killed more than 100 men in total in United States and Angola.

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Robert Garrison

First Name Robert
Last Name Garrison
Born on July 18, 1872
Died on January 6, 1930 (aged 57)

Robert Garrison was a German-Jewish film actor.

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Rebecca Latimer Felton

First Name Rebecca
Born on June 10, 1835
Died on January 24, 1930 (aged 94)

Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton was an American writer, lecturer, reformer, white supremacist and politician who became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. She was the most prominent woman in Georgia in the Progressive Era, and was honored by appointment to the Senate. She was sworn in on November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours. At 87 years, nine months, and 22 days old, she was the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate. She was the only woman to have served as a Senator from Georgia until the appointment of Kelly Loeffler. Her husband William Harrell Felton was a member of the United States House of Representatives and Georgia House of Representatives and she ran his campaigns. She was a prominent society woman; an advocate of prison reform, women's suffrage and educational modernization; a white supremacist and slave owner; and a woman who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching. Numan Bartley wrote that by 1915 she "was championing a lengthy feminist program that ranged from prohibition to equal pay for equal work."

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