List of Famous people who died in 1930

Ahmad Shah Qajar was Shah of Iran from 16 July 1909 to 15 December 1925, and the last ruling member of the Qajar dynasty.

Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev, was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books — "По Уссурийскому Краю" (1921) and "Дерсу Узала" (1923) — telling of his military journeys to the Ussuri basin with Dersu Uzala, a native hunter, from 1902 to 1907. He was the first to describe numerous species of Siberian flora and the lifestyles of native ethnic peoples.

Giovanni Enrico Aberle Sforza, better known as Juan Aberle, was an Italian conductor and composer who lived in Guatemala and El Salvador.

Jules Pams was a French politician who was a deputy from 1893 to 1904, then a senator from 1904 to 1930. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1911 to 1913 and Minister of the Interior from 1917 to 1920. In 1913 he was a candidate for the presidency of France. He is known for the "Hôtel Pams", a mansion in Perpignan that was redesigned and decorated to his taste, and is now a conference center.

Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer.

Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, KCMG, FRS was a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur.

Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold, who published in the West under his German baptism name, Wilhelm Barthold, was a Russian orientalist who specialized in the history of Islam and the Turkic peoples (Turkology).

Ivar Henning Mankell was a Swedish composer, largely of piano works. He studied at the conservatory in Stockholm from 1887 to 1895, and studied piano under Lennart Lundberg. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and wrote music criticism for the Svenska morgonbladet and the Stockholms-tidningen. He gave private lessons in piano and music theory. He is also the grandson of Johan Hermann Mankell, the son of painter Emil Theodor Mankell, and the grandfather of author Henning Mankell.