Born on January 30

French statesman (1841–1899), President of the Republic from 1895 until his death. Born into the bourgeoisie of Le Havre, his presidency was defined by the Dreyfus Affair, and he died suddenly at the Élysée Palace in circumstances that have since become notorious.

President of the United States from 1933 to 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt led the country through the Great Depression and World War II. He implemented the New Deal, a sweeping program of social and economic reforms, and played a decisive role in the Allied victory.

Saul Alinsky was an American sociologist and community activist, considered the founder of modern community organizing. He developed methods of collective action to empower disadvantaged populations in urban neighborhoods.

Swedish social democratic statesman, twice Prime Minister of Sweden. A major figure of the European left and of Third World solidarity, he was assassinated on a Stockholm street in 1986, a crime that long remained unsolved.