List of Famous people who died in 1930

Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, was a British civil servant and colonial governor. He was known as "Sir West Ridgeway".

Aubrey Trevor Lawrence, MBE, KC was a successful English barrister and author.

General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, was a British Army General. One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War.

Jacques-René Hermant was a French architect, one of the most renowned architects of fin-de-siècle Paris.

Sergei Gavrilovich Navashin ; was a Russian biologist. He discovered double fertilization in plants in 1898.

George Augustus Campbell was an English cricketer.

George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry,, styled Viscount Deerhurst until 1843, was a British Conservative politician. He was Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms between 1877 and 1880 and again between 1885 and 1886 as well as Master of the Buckhounds between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1901.

Félicien Menu de Ménil was a French composer and Esperanto enthusiast best known for his musical setting of Ludwig Zamenhof's poem "La Espero". He was also the editor of and a contributor to La Revuo.

Sir Guy Stephenson was a British barrister, Assistant Treasury Solicitor and Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions.

Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel, commonly known as Horst Wessel, was a Berlin Sturmführer of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's stormtroopers. After his murder in 1930, he was made into a martyr for the Nazi cause by Joseph Goebbels.