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1930 (''' MCMXXX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar).
Events
January-February
March
April-May
June-August
September-December
Unknown dates
Births
January-February
- January 2 - Julius LaRosa , American singer
- January 12 - Jennifer Johnston , Irish writer
- January 20 - Buzz Aldrin , American pilot and astronaut
- January 23 - Derek Walcott , West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 26 - John Straffen , British serial killer
- January 27 - Bobby Bland , American singer
- January 30 - Gene Hackman , American actor
- February 22 - Marni Nixon , American singer and actress
- February 27 - Joanne Woodward , American actress
- February 27 - Peter Stone , American writer (d. 2003 )
- February 28 - Leon Neil Cooper , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March
- March 3 - Heiner Geißler , German politician
- March 6 - Allison Hayes , American actress (d. 1977 )
- March 6 - Lorin Maazel , French-born conductor
- March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones , Lord Snowdon
- March 10 - Claude Bolling , French jazz pianist and composer
- March 15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 17 - James Irwin , astronaut (d. 1991 )
- March 19 - Ornette Coleman , American musician
- March 20 - Willie Thrower , American football player
- March 22 - Pat Robertson , American televangelist
- March 22 - Stephen Sondheim , American composer and lyricist
- March 24 - David Dacko , first President Of The Central African Republic (d. 2003 )
- March 24 - Steve McQueen , American actor, film director, and producer (d. 1980 )
- March 25 - John Keel , American author
- March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor , U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- March 27 - David Janssen , American actor (d. 1980 )
- March 28 - Jerome Isaac Friedman , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 30 - John Astin , American actor
- March 30 - Rolf Harris , Australian-born entertainer
- March 30 - Peter Marshall , American game show host
April
- April 3 - Helmut Kohl , Chancellor Of Germany
- April 8 - Carlos Hugo Of Bourbon-Parma, Duke Of Parma
- April 10 - Pertti "Spede" Olavi Pasanen , Finnish television personality (d. 2001 )
- April 11 - Anton LaVey , American religious leader (d. 1997 )
- April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , President Of Iceland
- April 16 - Herbie Mann , American jazz flutist (d. 2003 )
- April 21 - Silvana Mangano , Italian actress (d. 1989 )
- April 24 - Richard Donner , American film director and producer
- April 25 - Paul Mazursky , American director and writer
- April 29 - Jean Rochefort , French actor
May-August
- May 4 - Roberta Peters , American soprano
- May 8 - Heather Harper , Irish soprano
- May 9 - Joan Sims , English actress (d. 2001 )
- May 10 - Pat Summerall , American football player and broadcaster
- May 15 - Jasper Johns , American painter
- May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry , American playwright (d. 1965 )
- May 21 - Malcolm Fraser , twenty-second Prime Minister Of Australia
- May 22 - John Barth , American writer
- May 22 - Harvey Milk , American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978 )
- May 31 - Clint Eastwood , American actor, director, and producer
- June 2 - Charles Conrad , astronaut (d. 1999 )
- June 8 - Robert Aumann , German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Economics
- June 9 - Monique Serf , French musician (d. 1997 )
- June 12 - Jim Nabors , American actor, musician, and comedian
- June 17 - Brian Statham , English cricketer (d. 2000 )
- June 19 - Gena Rowlands , American actress
- June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin , cosmonaut (d. 1998 )
- June 27 - Ross Perot , American billionaire and politician
- July 2 - Carlos Menem , President Of Argentina
- July 3 - Carlos Kleiber , Austrian conductor (d. 2004 )
- July 4 - George Steinbrenner , baseball team owner
- July 11 - Harold Bloom , American literary critic
- July 15 - Jacques Derrida , Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004 )
- July 25 - Maureen Forrester , Canadian contralto
- July 25 - Murray Chapple , New Zealand Cricket Captains (d. 1985 )
- August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist
- August 5 - Neil Armstrong , astronaut
- August 12 - George Soros , Hungarian-born businessman
- August 17 - Ted Hughes , English poet (d. 1998 )
- August 21 - Princess Margaret, Countess Of Snowdon (d. 2002 )
- August 25 - Sir Sean Connery , Scottish actor
- August 30 - Warren Buffett , American investor
September-December
- September 3 - Cherry Wilder , New Zealand author (d. 2002 )
- September 7 - King Baudouin I Of Belgium (d. 1993 )
- September 16 - Anne Francis , American actress
- September 25 - Shel Silverstein , American author, poet, and humorist (d. 1999 )
- September 26 - Fritz Wunderlich , German tenor (d. 1966 )
- September 30 - Ray Charles , American singer and musician (d. 2004 )
- October 1 - Richard Harris , Irish actor (d. 2002 )
- October 5 - Anne Haddy , Australian actress (d. 1999 )
- October 5 - Pavel Popovich , cosmonaut
- October 5 - Reinhard Selten , German economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 6 - Hafez Al-Assad , President Of Syria (d. 2000 )
- October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu , Japanese composer (d. 1996 )
- October 10 - Yves Chauvin , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 10 - Harold Pinter , English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 11 - Sam Johnson , American politician
- October 17 - Robert Atkins , American nutritionist (d. 2003 )
- October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone , English auto racing tycoon
- October 30 - Clifford Brown , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956 )
- October 30 - Timothy Findley , Canadian author (d. 2002 )
- October 31 - Michael Collins , astronaut
- November 4 - Doris Roberts , American actress
- November 14 - Edward White , astronaut (d. 1967 )
- November 16 - Chinua Achebe , Nigerian writer
- November 24 - Bob Friend , baseball player
- December 1 - Joachim Hoffmann , German historian (d. 2002 )
- December 2 - Gary Becker , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 6 - Daniel Lisulo , Prime Minister Of Zambia {d. 2000 )
- December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor
- December 15 - Edna O'Brien , Irish writer
- December 21 - Adebayo Adedeji , Nigerian UN official
Date unknown
Deaths
- February 23 - Horst Wessel , Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907 )
- February 27 - Ahmad Shah Qajar , Shah Of Persia (b. 1898 )
- March 2 - D. H. Lawrence , English writer (b. 1885 )
- March 8 - William Howard Taft , President Of The United States , Chief Justice Of The United States (b. 1857 )
- March 19 - Arthur James Balfour , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1848 )
- March 24 - Eugeen Van Mieghem , Belgian painter (b. 1875 )
- April 2 - Empress Zawditu Of Ethiopia (b. 1876 )
- April 21 - Robert Bridges , English poet (b. 1844 )
- April 22 - Jeppe Aakjær , Danish poet and novelist (b. 1866 )
- May 13 - Fridtjof Nansen , Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861 )
- May 25 - Randall Thomas Davidson , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1848 )
- June 5 - Pascin , Bulgarian painter (b. 1885 )
- July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle , British author (b. 1859 )
- July 28 - Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1862 )
- August 15 - Florian Cajori , Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b. 1859 )
- August 29 - William Archibald Spooner , British scholar and Anglican priest (b. 1844 )
- September 24 - William A. MacCorkle , Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857 )
- October 26 - Harry Payne Whitney , American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872 )
- November 4 - Buddy Bolden , American musician (b. 1877 )
- November 5 - Christiaan Eijkman , Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1858 )
- December 9 - Andrew "Rube" Foster , Negro League baseball player
- December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall , Canadian painter (b. 1860 )
- December 13 - Fritz Pregl , Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869 )
Nobel prizes
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