List of Famous people who died in 1930

Nicholas Frederick Brady is an American politician from the state of New Jersey, who was the United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989. In 1982, he was appointed to succeed Harrison A. Williams as a United States Senator until a special election could be held. He served in the Senate for 8 months.

Gustav Weigand, was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Romanian and Aromanian. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romance languages of the Balkans and to the study of the relationships between the languages of the Balkan sprachbund.

Vincenzo Vannutelli was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He spent his career in the foreign service of the Holy See and was made a cardinal in 1890.

Émile Brugsch was a German-born Egyptologist whose career spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known as the official who "evacuated" the mummies from the Deir el-Bahri Cache in 1881, and as being assistant curator of the Bulaq Museum - the core element of what is today's Egyptian Museum.

Tan Yankai was a Chinese politician.

Robert Fenton Miles was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1867 to 1879 for Oxford University and Gloucestershire. He was a right-handed batsman (RHB) and a slow left arm orthodox (SLA) bowler who made 69 first-class career appearances. Miles scored 577 runs with a highest score of 79. He held 28 catches and took 217 wickets with a best bowling analysis of 7–38. He captured five wickets in an innings on 15 occasions and twice took ten wickets in a match.

Johannes Immanuel Volkelt was a German philosopher.

James Kimble Vardaman was an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi and was the Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908. A Democrat, Vardaman was elected in 1912 to the United States Senate in the first popular vote for the office, following adoption of the 17th Amendment. He defeated incumbent LeRoy Percy, a member of the planter elite. Vardaman served from 1913 to 1919.