* 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, " With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.

* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

Commercial planting began in 1930 in British North Borneo ; with the commencement of World War II, the supply from the Philippines was eliminated by the Japanese.

The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by which the British parliament renounced any legislative authority over dominion affairs, except as specifically provided in law.

* 1930 – Julian Critchley, British politician ( d. 2000 )

* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

* 1997 – Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler ( b. 1930 )

* 1930: Beardmore Tornado diesel engines power the British airship R101

In 1930, the first all-colour all-talking British feature, Harmony Heaven ( 1930 ), was released.

Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present.

The monarch may, in theory, decline the Prime Minister's advice and ask for another nomination or even appoint a person of his or her own choice, but no such cases have been recorded since November 1930, when James Scullin's proposed appointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs was fiercely opposed by the British government.

* 1930 – Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure ( d. 2010 )

* 1930 – Paula Tilbrook, British actress

Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II.

* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

* 1930 – Pat Halcox, British jazz musician

* 1930 – Bernard Horsfall, British actor

* 1930 – Brian Robinson, British cyclist

The photochemical mechanisms that give rise to the ozone layer were discovered by the British physicist Sidney Chapman in 1930.

A British Creed & Company Teleprinter No. 7 in 1930

** Ron Embleton, British comics artist and illustrator ( b. 1930 )

** Frank Adams, British mathematician ( b. 1930 )

* July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest ( d. 1930 )

The Mexican archeologist and anthropologist Manuel Gamio reported in 1930 that the term " chicamo " ( with an " m ") was used as a derogatory term used by Hispanic Texans for recently arrived Mexican immigrants displaced during the Mexican revolution in the beginning of the early 20th century.

Further Homo erectus fossils of a similar age were found at Sangiran in the 1930 ` s by the anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, who in the same time period also uncovered fossils at Ngandong alongside more advanced tools, re-dated in 2011 to between 550, 000 and 143, 000 years old.

In 1974, the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer prize for The Denial of Death ( 1973 ), which was based on Rank ’ s post-Freudian writings, especially Will Therapy ( 1929 – 31 ), Psychology and the Soul ( 1930 ) and Art and Artist ( 1932 / 1989 ).

Marshall David Sahlins ( born December 27, 1930, Chicago, Illinois ) is a prominent American anthropologist.

* David R. Harris ( born 1930 ), British academic geographer, anthropologist and archaeologist, former head of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London

The Bissagos were visited by Austrian anthropologist and photographer Hugo Bernatzik in 1930 – 1931, who documented daily life among the Bidyogo people.

James Deetz ( February 8, 1930 – November 25, 2000 ) was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology.

David Russell Harris ( born 14 December 1930 ) is a British geographer, anthropologist, archaeologist and academic, well known for his detailed work on the origins of agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.

Kenneth Adrian Raine Kennedy ( born June 26, 1930 ) is an anthropologist who studied at the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Nader ( born 1930 ) is an American anthropologist.

Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge ( December 19, 1901 – August 2, 1963 ) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for his 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Laughing Boy.

* Kenneth A. R. Kennedy ( born 1930 ), American anthropologist

On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.

* Frazer, Sir James George, Myths of the Origin of Fire, London: Macmillan, 1930.

* 1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

On 29 December 1930, Sir Muhammad Iqbal called for an autonomous state in " northwestern India for Indian Muslims ".

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

* May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ( d. 1930 )

* April 26 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1930 )

However, in 1936, thanks to a recommendation made by Sir Alfred Claud Hollis ( Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, 1930 – 36 ), the Leathersellers ' Company awarded him a £ 50 grant to continue his advanced research in history at Oxford.

Sir Hugo Hirst, baronet | Bart, around 1930

He batted two days to amass 334 not out, equalling Sir Donald Bradman's Australian record set in 1930.

It stands on land consisting of of forest surrounded by National and State Parks and was officially opened in 1930 by Dr Sir Earle Page MHR, then Leader of the Country Party and former Treasurer of Australia and later Prime Minister of Australia.

The area was transferred from British colonial authority to the Dominion of Canada in 1894 and named after Sir John Franklin in the following year ; however, the northernmost islands were claimed by Norway until the year 1930.

* Sir Antony Acland ( 1930 –), Head of the Diplomatic Service

" In this bleak cynicism about political ideas and political life, The Roman Revolution strongly resembled another controversial historical masterwork, The Structure of English Politics at the Accession of George III, published in 1930 by the specialist in eighteenth-century British political history, Sir Lewis B. Namier.

Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval ( 1930 – 1996 ), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer Charlie Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike Hailwood and composer John Barry musician Carlos Santana, all owned SMs.

A substantial number of the players performed at the 1930 Promenade Concerts under Sir Henry Wood, and the full BBC Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert on 22 October 1930, conducted by Boult at the Queen's Hall.

In 1930 Johnson played in Cynara with Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Gladys Cooper.

* Sir Neville Howse ( 1863 – 1930 ), the first Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross and one of 13 holders of the same award who are buried in this cemetery

Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman ( born 21 June 1930 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament ( MP ) since 1970, first for Manchester Ardwick, and then subsequently for Manchester Gorton.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ), the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories, whose statue stands in the town centre

From their distribution base in Singapore where they founded parent company Shaw Organization in 1924, and as a strategic development of their movie distribution business in Southeast Asia, Sir Run Run Shaw ( 邵逸夫 ) and his third brother Runme Shaw ( 邵仁枚 ) founded South Sea Film ( 南洋影片 ) in 1930.

Mawson Station is located at Holme Bay in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica, named in January 1930 by Sir Douglas Mawson during the first British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition ( BANZARE ) voyage, aboard Discovery.

The force, renamed the Arab Legion, in 1923 was led by Glubb Pasha ( Sir John Bagot Glubb ) between 1930 and 1956.