Wikipedia / 1930
Wikipedia / 1930
Events
January
January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on January 1, 2257, at .
January 26 – The Indian National Congress declares this date as Independence Day, or as the day for Purna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
January 28 – The first patent for a field-effect transistor is granted in the United States, to Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.
January 30 – Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Slutsk in the Soviet Union.
February
February 10 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launch the Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
February 18 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a celestial body considered a planet until redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.
March
Mahatma Gandhi informs the British Viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week.
André Tardieu begins his second term as Prime Minister of France.
International Unemployment Day is observed in countries throughout the world.
The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest against the British monopoly on salt in India; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.
March 28 – The government of Turkey requests the international community to adopt Istanbul and Ankara, as the official names for Constantinople and Angora. The U.S. State Department adopts the "Istanbul" form in May.
March 29 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
March 31 – The Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) is instituted by the studios in the United States, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in films for the next 40 years.
April
In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks the salt laws of British India by making salt by the sea at the end of the Salt March.
The International Left Opposition (ILO) is founded in Paris, France.
April 11 – Anglo-Indian hunter Jim Corbett shot the second of the man-eating tigers of Chowgarh.
April 18 – The Chittagong Rebellion begins in India with the Chittagong armoury raid.
April 19 - Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) founded
A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, United States kills 320 people.
The Turkestan–Siberia Railway is completed.
April 22 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty to regulate submarine warfare and limit naval shipbuilding.
May
May 6 – The 7.1 Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent); up to 3,000 people are killed.
May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C.
May 15 – Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working on a Boeing Air Transport trimotor.
May 16 – Rafael Trujillo is elected president of the Dominican Republic.
May 17 – French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland (they depart by June 30).
May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
June
June 7 – Carl Gustaf Ekman becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, for the second and final time.
June 14 – The Federal Bureau of Narcotics is established under the United States Department of the Treasury, replacing the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
June 17 – President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law, implementing protectionist trade policies in the United States. It has the incidental effect of defining an antique as older than 1830.
July
July 3–10 – The First Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus in Syria.
July 4 – The dedication of George Washington's sculpted head is held at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
July 5 – The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on birth control expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.
The far-right Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland.
Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the Hoover Dam) is started on the Colorado River, in the United States.
July 11 – Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
July 13 – The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
July 19 – Georges Simenon's detective character Inspector Jules Maigret makes his first appearance in print under Simenon's own name, when the novel Pietr-le-Letton (known in English as The Strange Case of Peter the Lett) begins serialization in a French weekly magazine.
July 28 – R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.
July 29 – British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada.
July 30 – Uruguay beats Argentina 4–2 to win the first FIFA World Cup final in Association football, at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.
August
August – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form permanently in the Sunda Strait.
August 7 – R. B. Bennett takes office as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
August 9 – The cartoon character Betty Boop debut in the Fleischer Studios short film Dizzy Dishes.
August 12 – Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents.
August 16 – The first British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
August 27 – A military junta takes over in Peru.
September
September 3 – The huge 1930 San Zenón hurricane in the Caribbean demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
September 6 – 1930 Argentine coup d'état: José Félix Uriburu carries out a military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
September 8 – Scotch Tape, invented by Richard Gurley Drew, is sold by the 3M company in the United States for the first time.
September 14 – 1930 German federal election: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament, the Reichstag (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party.
September 17 – The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
September 20 – The Eastern Catholic Rite Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed.
September 27 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (6th government).
October
October – The Indochinese Communist Party is formed.
October 1 – British rule of Weihaiwei ends, as it is returned to China.
October 3 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded, following a split in the DSAP in Łódź.
October 5 – British airship R101, the world's largest flying craft, crashes in France en route to India, on its first overseas flight, resulting in the loss of 48 lives, with six survivors. Those killed include Britain's Air Minister, Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson.
October 14 – Ståhlberg kidnapping: The former and first President of Finland, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement but released unharmed.
October 20 – The British Passfield white paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine.
October 24 – Revolution of 1930: Getúlio Vargas overthrows Washington Luís.
October 27 – Ratifications are exchanged in London on the first London Naval Treaty signed in April, modifying the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Its arms limitation provisions go into effect immediately, hence putting more limits on the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories (the United Kingdom, the United States, the Empire of Japan, France and Italy.)
November
November 2 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
November 3 – Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil.
An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.
Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.
December
December – All adult Turkish women are given the right to vote in elections.
December 19 – Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, Indonesia, erupts, destroying numerous villages and killing 1,300 people.
December 24 – In London, inventor Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures on clouds.
December 29 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory, outlining a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
December 31 – The Papal encyclical Casti connubii, issued by Pope Pius XI, stresses the sanctity of marriage, prohibits Roman Catholicss from using any form of artificial birth control, and reaffirms the Catholic prohibition on abortion.
Date unknown
Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt camera.
Births
January
Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of Sudan (d. 2009)
Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer (d. 2026)
Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
Ahmed Osman, Prime Minister of Morocco
January 5 – M. R. Srinivasan, Indian nuclear scientist (d. 2025)
"Professor Tanaka" (Charles Kalani Jr.), American wrestler and actor (d. 2000)
Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
January 9 – Pavel Kolchin, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2010)
January 10 – Roy E. Disney, Disney executive (d. 2009)
January 11 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player, co-founder of Tim Hortons fast food chain (d. 1974)
Jennifer Johnston, Irish novelist (d. 2025)
January 15 – Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020)
January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the Moon
January 21 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician and diplomat (d. 2001)
Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
William Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
January 24 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d. 2016)
January 27 – Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013)
Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist (d. 2025)
Magnus Malan, South African soldier, Minister of Defence (1980–1991) (d. 2011)
February
Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th president of Bangladesh (d. 2022)
Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th president of Bangladesh (d. 2019)
February 3 – Mani Krishnaswami, Carnatic music vocalist from Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2002)
February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
February 7 – Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer and entrepreneur (d. 2017)
February 8 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d. 1987)
February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015)
Israel Kirzner, English-born American economist, author and academic
February 17 – Ruth Rendell, British author (d. 2015)
John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2023)
February 22 – Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
February 23 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (d. 2019)
February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)
March
Heiner Geißler, German politician (d. 2017)
Ion Iliescu, 2-time President of Romania (d. 2025)
K. S. Rajah, Singaporean Senior Counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court (d. 2010)
Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d. 2014)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d. 2017)
Daphne Osborne, English botanist (d. 2006)
March 8 – Douglas Hurd, English politician
March 9 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
Irma Adelman, Romanian-born economist (d. 2017)
Helga Feddersen, German actress (d. 1990)
Alba Arnova, Italian-Argentine ballerina, actress (d. 2018)
Zhores Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
Shadi Abdel Salam, Egyptian film director, screenwriter and costume and set designer (d. 1986)
March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
March 18 – Adam Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate; Archbishop of Detroit (1990–2009)
March 19 – Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef and restaurateur (d. 2017)
March 20 – Thomas Williams, New Zealand cardinal (d. 2023)
Sir Lynden Pindling, 1st prime minister of the Bahamas (d. 2000)
Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host (d. 2023)
Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (d. 2021)
David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2023)
March 27 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer (d. 2024)
Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Albert S. Ruddy, Canadian film and television producer (d. 2024)
Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Mauritius, and 4th President of Mauritius (d. 2021)
John Marshall, Australian swimmer (d. 1957)
John Astin, American actor
Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer and convicted sex offender (d. 2023)
March 31 – Julián Herranz Casado, Spanish cardinal
April
Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2015)
Ásta Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic writer and visual artist (d. 1971)
Lawton Chiles, American politician, U.S. Senator (Florida), 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
Mary Costa, American opera singer and actress
Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (d. 2019)
Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (d. 2007)
Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (d. 2016)
April 9 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer (d. 2020)
Dolores Huerta, American labor leader and civil rights activist
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
Nicholas F. Brady, American politician and businessman, 68th US Treasury Secretary
Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (d. 1997)
April 12 – John Landy, Australian athlete and politician (d. 2022)
April 14 – Bradford Dillman, American actor and author (d. 2018)
April 16 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
April 19 – Dick Sargent, American actor and gay activist (d. 1994)
April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
Richard Donner, American film director and producer (d. 2021)
April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director and writer (d. 2014)
April 26 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete and sportscaster
James Baker, former United States Secretary of State and United States Secretary of the Treasury
Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
Jean Rochefort, French actor (d. 2017)
Mahmud of Terengganu, 16th Sultan of Terengganu (d. 1998)
April 30 – Félix Guattari, French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist (d. 1992)
May
May 1 – Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d. 1968)
May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
May 4 – Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)
Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist and translator
May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
Vernon Shaw, 5th president of Dominica (d. 2013)
Mike Gravel, American politician, former Senator of Alaska and Presidential candidate (d. 2021)
May 14 – María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (d. 2018)
Jasper Johns, American painter
Grace Ogot, Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 2015)
May 17 – María Luisa Mendoza, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician (d. 2018)
May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)
May 20 – James McEachin, American actor (d. 2025)
May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
Kenny Ball, British jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader (d. 2013)
Harvey Milk, American politician and gay rights activist (d. 1978)
May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
John Barth, American writer (d. 2024)
Muhammad Lafir, Sri Lankan snooker player (d. 1981)
May 28 – Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2019)
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist, engineer (d. 1997)
June
June 1 – Edward Woodward, English actor and singer (d. 2009)
June 2 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of Apollo 12 (d. 1999)
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
George Fernandes, Indian politician (d. 2019)
Morgana King, American jazz singer, actress (d. 2018)
Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
June 6 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Grace Mirabella, American journalist, editor of Vogue 1971–88 (d. 2021)
Theo Sommer, German journalist (d. 2022)
Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (d. 2019)
Charles Rangel, African-American politician (d. 2025)
Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d. 2017)
June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
June 19 – Gena Rowlands, American actress (d. 2024)
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military ruler (d. 1987)
June 21 – Gerald Kaufman, British Labour politician (d. 2017)
Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
Sa'dun Hammadi, 33rd prime minister of Iraq (d. 2007)
J. H. Elliott, British historian (d. 2022)
Anthony Thwaite, English poet, critic, and academic (d. 2021)
June 24 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (d. 2010)
Wolfgang Schwanitz, German Leader of the Office for National Security, Head of the Stasi (d. 2022)
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist and caretaker prime minister (d. 2016)
June 27 – Ross Perot, American business magnate, billionaire, politician, and philanthropist (d. 2019)
William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Itamar Franco, President of Brazil (d. 2011)
Robert Evans, American producer (d. 2019)
Viola Léger, American-Canadian actress and politician (d. 2023)
Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (d. 2018)
Thomas Sowell, American economist and social theorist
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (d. 2021)
July
Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivian politician and businessman
Sylve Bengtsson, Swedish Olympic footballer (d. 2005)
Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2023)
Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
Ferdinando Riva, Swiss football forward (d. 2014)
N. Venkatachala, Indian judge (d. 2019)
George Steinbrenner, American businessman and baseball team owner (d. 2010)
Yuriy Tyukalov, Russian rower (d. 2018)
George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2021)
Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (d. 2016)
M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor (d. 2016)
Theodore McCarrick, American Roman Catholic former cardinal (d. 2025)
Biljana Plavšić, Bosnian politician and war criminal
July 9 – Slavko Dacevski, Macedonian football player and manager
Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2024)
Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
July 12 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor (d. 2023)
July 14 – Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
Stephen Smale, American mathematician
Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (d. 2018)
Sir William Heseltine, Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
July 19 – David Rubadiri, Malawian diplomat, academic, poet, playwright and novelist (d. 2018)
Alex Sánchez, Costa Rican football player (d. 2025)
Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d. 2018)
Gene Littler, American professional golfer (d. 2019)
Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
Anand Bakshi, Indian poet/lyricist (d. 2002)
July 22 – Ferruccio Amendola, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2001)
July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (d. 2013)
Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010)
Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014)
August
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
Lawrence Eagleburger, United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
Károly Grósz, 51st prime minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 2014)
Enrico Castellani, Italian painter (d. 2017)
Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shia Ayatollah
August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, commander of Apollo 11 (d. 2012)
August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010)
Carmen Balcells, Spanish literary agent (d. 2015)
Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015)
August 10 – Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d. 2018)
August 12 – George Soros, Hungarian-born investor
August 14 – Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
August 15 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (probable; d. 1969)
Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
Leslie Manigat, 34th President of Haiti (d. 2014)
Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer, actress and equestrienne (d. 2020)
Tony Trabert, American tennis player and commentator (d. 2021)
August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009)
August 20 – Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2019)
August 21 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
August 23 – Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (d. 2016)
August 24 – Sultanah Bahiyah, Sultanah of Kedah (d. 2003)
Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (James Bond) (d. 2020)
Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (d. 2019)
Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, 45th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (d. 2020)
Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur
Paul Poupard, French cardinal
September
September 1 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand novelist (d. 2002)
September 6 – Salvatore De Giorgi, Italian cardinal
King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
Sonny Rollins, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 2026)
Yuan Longping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in hybrid rice (d. 2021)
Mario Adorf, German actor and writer (d. 2026)
Jeannette Altwegg, English figure skater (d. 2021)
September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
September 11 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d. 1997)
September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 13 – Jimmy McLane, American Olympic swimmer (d. 2020)
September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, First Lady of Ivory Coast
David Huddleston, American actor (The Big Lebowski) (d. 2016)
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut (d. 2024)
September 20 – Kenneth Mopeli, Chief Minister of QwaQwa bantustan (d. 2014)
September 23 – Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004)
September 24 – John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
Elsa Aguirre, Mexican actress (d. 2026)
Shel Silverstein, American author, poet and humorist (d. 1999)
Philip Bosco, American actor (d. 2018)
Alice Harnoncourt, Austrian violinist (d. 2022)
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor singer (d. 1966)
Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (d. 2017)
Richard Bonynge, Australian pianist and conductor
October
Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer (d. 2002)
Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
October 2 – Dave Barrett, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
October 4 – Andrej Marinc, Slovenian politician (d. 2025)
Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator (d. 2015)
October 8 – Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
Yves Chauvin, Belgian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
October 11 – A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh (d. 2024)
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d. 2006)
Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1997)
October 17 – Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
October 18 – Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
October 19 – Ron Joyce, Canadian businessman (d. 2019)
October 21 – Ivan Silayev, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2023)
Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2019)
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American singer (d. 1959)
October 27 – Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet (d. 2019)
October 28 – Bernie Ecclestone, English motor racing tycoon
Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer
Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (d. 2002)
Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002)
October 31 – Michael Collins, American astronaut (d. 2021)
November
November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist and educator (d. 2017)
Mabandla Dlamini, 3rd prime minister of Swaziland (d. 2025)
Alevtina Kolchina, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2022)
Richard A. Falk, American academic
Fred R. Harris, American politician and United States Senator from Oklahoma, 1964 to 1973 (d. 2024)
Monique Mercure, Canadian actress (d. 2020)
Jānis Pujats, Latvian cardinal, Archbishop of Riga
November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
Salvatore Riina ("Toto"), Italian multiple murderer (d. 2017)
November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
November 19 – Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Austrian-German politician and philanthropist (d. 2026)
November 20 – Choe Yong-rim, North Korean politician
November 22 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d. 2019)
November 24 – Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian publisher, photographer (d. 2018)
November 26 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2018)
November 29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries (d. 2021)
December
December 2 – Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (d. 2022)
Ronnie Corbett, Scottish-born comedian (d. 2016)
Jacqueline du Bief, French figure skater
December 6 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
December 7 – Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-born British writer (d. 2017)
Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
Michael Kahn, American film editor.
Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2020)
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor and director (d. 2022)
December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur (d. 2024)
December 14 – Fred Gray, American attorney, civil rights movement legal representative
Antonietta Meo, Italian saint (d. 1937)
Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist (d. 2024)
December 17 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, Russian-born German actor
December 19 – Anca Giurchescu, Romanian academic and ethnochoreologist (d. 2015)
Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official (d. 2018)
Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (d. 1986)
December 28 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (d. 2010)
Alvin Peterson, Jamaican percussionist (d. 2021)
Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 31 – Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)
Deaths
January – February
January 8 – Martha Tynæs, Norwegian social worker and politician (b. 1870)
January 9 – Edward Bok, American author (b. 1863)
January 19 – Frank Ramsey, British philosopher, mathematician and economist (b. 1903)
January 22 – Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, British politician and courtier (b. 1852)
January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician (b. 1835)
January 27 – Dewa Shigetō, Japanese admiral (b. 1856)
January 28 – Emmy Destinn, Czech operatic soprano (b. 1878)
Michele Bianchi, Italian fascist leader (b. 1883)
February 14 – Sir Thomas MacKenzie, New Zealand politician, explorer, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand and High Commissioner (b. 1854)
February 15 – Giulio Douhet, Italian general, air power theorist (b. 1869)
Mabel Normand, American actress (b. 1892)
Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue, composer (b. 1907)
Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
Rafael Merry del Val, British-born Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and Servant of God (b. 1865)
March – April
March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, British writer (b. 1885)
March 6 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German politician, admiral (b. 1848)
March 8 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, 10th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)
March 12 – William George Barker, Canadian pilot (b. 1894)
March 13 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, American author (b. 1852)
March 14 – A. A. Kannisto, Finnish politician (b. 1876)
March 16 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish military officer, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
March 19 – Arthur Balfour, British politician and statesman, 48th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
March 27 – Sister Christine, German-born Hindu teacher
March 30 – Shyamji Krishna Varma, Indian lawyer, journalist and revolutionary (b. 1857)
April 1 – Cosima Wagner, wife and inspiration of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)
April 3 – Dame Emma Albani, Canadian operatic soprano (b. 1847)
April 4 – Victoria of Baden, Queen consort of Sweden (b. 1862)
April 9 – Rose Caron, French operatic soprano (b. 1857)
April 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1893)
April 21 – Robert Bridges, British poet (b. 1844)
April 22 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet, novelist (b. 1866)
May – June
May 8 – Patriarch George V of Armenia (b. 1847)
May 13 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861)
May 17 – Herbert Croly, American political author (b. 1869)
Randall Davidson, English clergyman, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858)
Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (b. 1880)
Jules Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
June 9 – William Allardyce, British colonial governor (b. 1861)
June 10 – Adolf von Harnack, German Lutheran theologian and church historian (b. 1851)
June 13 – Sir Henry Segrave, British racer, land and water speed record holder (b. 1896)
June 14 – Enrico Millo, Italian admiral and politician (b. 1865)
June 16 – Anna Whitlock, Swedish suffragist (b. 1852)
June 30 – Yashiro Rokurō, Japanese admiral and politician (b. 1860)
July– August
July 7 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British fiction writer (Sherlock Holmes) (b. 1859)
July 8 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
July 11 – Masataka Ogawa, Japanese chemist (b. 1865)
Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist (b. 1845)
Rudolph Schildkraut, Ottoman-born Austrian actor (b. 1862)
July 16 – Juan Luis Sanfuentes, 16th President of Chile (b. 1858)
David Bonis, Canadian politician
Sir Robert Stout, 2-time prime minister of New Zealand (b. 1844)
Oku Yasukata, Japanese field marshal, leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1847)
July 23 – Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
July 26 – Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian (b. 1849)
July 28 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)
August 3 – James Alexander Anderson, Canadian politician
August 4 – Siegfried Wagner, German composer and conductor, son of Richard Wagner (born 1869)
August 11 – Edward Angle, American dentist (b. 1855)
August 12 – Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, English general (b. 1858)
August 15 – Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b. 1859)
August 21 – Sir Aston Webb, British architect (b. 1849)
August 24 – Tom Norman, British freak showman (b. 1860)
August 26 – Lon Chaney, American actor (b. 1883)
August 29 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar, Anglican priest (b. 1844)
September– October
September 1 – Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogical scientist, politician (b. 1878)
September 10 – Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
September 18 – Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot (b. 1905)
September 20 – Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian explorer (b. 1873)
Daniel Guggenheim, American mining magnate and philanthropist (b. 1856)
Prince Leopold of Bavaria, German prince and field marshal (b. 1846)
October 4 – Olena Pchilka, Ukrainian writer, translator and publisher (b. 1849)
October 10 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
October 15 – Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-born chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
October 16 – James Surtees Phillpotts, English writer and educator (b. 1839)
October 20 – Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubí, Spanish general (b. 1838)
October 26 – Harry Payne Whitney, American horse breeder and businessman (b. 1872)
October 27 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
October 28 – Mary Harrison McKee, de facto First Lady of the United States (b. 1858)
October 30 – Sakichi Toyoda, Japanese inventor, industrialist (b. 1867)
November – December
November – Alfred Wegener, German geophysicist, meteorologist (b. 1880)
November 3 – Nikolai Alexandrov, Soviet actor and director (b. 1870)
November 4 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (b. 1859)
Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, pathologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
Luigi Facta, Italian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1861)
November 8 – Alexander Bedward, Jamaican preacher (b. 1848)
November 9 – Tasker H. Bliss, American general (b. 1853)
November 20 – Sir Neville Howse, Australian politician and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1863)
November 21 – Clelia Merloni, Italian nun and founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
November 26 – Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sinhalese lawyer and politician (b. 1851)
Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1873)
Simon Kahquados, Potawatomi political activist (b. 1851)
November 28 – Constantine VI, Turkish-born bishop, briefly Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1859)
November 30 – Mary Harris Jones, Irish-born American labor leader (b. 1837)
December 8 – Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (b. 1894)
Andrew "Rube" Foster, American Negro league baseball player (b. 1879)
Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian painter (b. 1860)
December 12 – Nikolai Pokrovsky, Russian politician, last foreign minister of the Russian Empire (b. 1865)
December 13 – Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
December 17 – Peter Warlock, British composer (b. 1894)
December 22 – Vintilă Brătianu, 31st Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1867)
December 25 – Eugen Goldstein, German physicist (b. 1850)
Nobel Prizes
References
Sources
The 1930s Timeline: 1930 from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia