Category:1930 deaths

February 23 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)

February 27 - Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (b. 1898)

March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)

March 8 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)

March 19 - Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)

March 24 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)

April 2 - Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)

April 21 - Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)

April 22 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (b. 1866)

May 13 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861)

May 25 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)

June 5 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)

July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author (b. 1859)

July 28 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)

August 15 - Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b. 1859)

August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest (b. 1844)

September 24 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)

October 26 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)

November 4 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)

November 5 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)

December 9 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, Negro League baseball player

December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian painter (b. 1860)

December 13 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

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