Decades: 1880s - 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s
Years: 1930 - 1931 - 1932 - 1933 - 1934 - 1935 - 1936 - 1937 - 1938 - 1939 - 1940
Events
- January 7 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
- January 8 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
- January 11 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- January 13 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany
- January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion
- February 13 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy.
- February 26 - The Luftwaffe is formed
- February 28 - Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers
- March 16 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
- March 21 - Persia is renamed Iran
- March 23 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
- May 29 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
- September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam
- October 3 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badaglio)
- October 23 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time.
- Mao Zedong assumes the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
- Cane toads introduced to Australia.
- 1935 in film
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Les Miserables
- Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
- Anna Karenina
- Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
- 1935 in literature
- 1935 in music
- Swing music evolves from jazz
- 1935 in sports
- 1935 in television
- First TV broadcasts in Germany and England.
- France begins broadcasting regular transmissions from the top of the Eiffel Tower
- January 4 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion
- January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
- January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer
- January 12 - Kreskin, mentalist
- January 16 - Udo Lattek, football coach
- January 16 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
- January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
- February 1 - Dieter Kühn, narrator, dramatist and essayist
- February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994)
- February 11 - Sergio Mendes -- an alternative source gives 1941.
- February 11 - Gerry Goffin.
- February 11 - Bent Lorentzen, composer.
- February 11 - Gene Vincent, American rock guitarist/vocalist -- an alternative source gives 1943.
- February 16 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative
- February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphael, talk show host
- March 1 - Robert Conrad, actor
- March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
- March 15 - Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist
- March 15 - Judd Hirsch, actor
- March 22 - M. Emmet Walsh, actor
- March 24 - Peter Bichsel, writer
- March 25 - Gloria Steinem, feminist, author
- March 31 - Richard Chamberlain, actor
- March 31 - Herb Alpert, musician
- April 26 - Carol Burnett, singer, actress, comedienne
- July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
- July 17 - Peter Schickele, composer
- August 3 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut
- September 11 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
- September 16 - Carl Andre, artist
- September 17 - Ken Kesey, author
- October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian opera singer
- October 14 - La Monte Young, composer
- November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist
- November 23 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
- December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director
- March 12 - Michel Pupin, telephone pioneer
- May 12 - Marshall Jozef Pilsudski, Polish political leader
- May 17 - Paul Dukas, French composer
- July 3 - André Citroën, automobile pioneer
- July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer
- August 29 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
- August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
- December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
- December 24 - Alban Berg, aged 50, Austrian composer
- Physics - James Chadwick
- Chemistry - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
- Medicine - Hans Spemann
- Literature - not awarded
- Peace - Carl von Ossietzky