July 30
July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 578 – Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
- 579 – Pope Benedict I
- 734 – Tatwine, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest and martyr (b. 1497)
- 1540 – Robert Barnes, English martyr and reformer (b. 1495)
- 1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
- 1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
- 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
- 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
- 1715 – Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
- 1718 – William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- 1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
- 1789 – Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner and alleged witch (b. 1713)
- 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1753)
- 1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
- 1898 – Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor (b. 1815)
- 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1901 – 2000
- 1908 – James Budd, Governor of California (b. 1851)
- 1912 – Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
- 1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
- 1927 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
- 1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman (b. 1877)
- 1938 – John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- 1949 – Stoyan Danev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1858)
- 1965 – Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
- 1970 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
- 1971 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
- 1978 – Umberto Nobile, Italian airship pioneer (b. 1885)
- 1983 – Lynn Fontanne, stage and movie actress (b. 1887)
- 1985 – Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1986 – John N. Dalton, American politician, Governor of Virginia (b. 1931)
- 1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian comic artist (b. 1914)
- 1992 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Magda Schneider, German actress and singer (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese Emperor (b. 1913)
- 1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (b. 1917)
From 2001
- 2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
- 2005 – John Garang, South Sudanese politician (b. 1945)
- 2006 – Murray Bookchin, American Libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Teoctist Arapasu, Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Anne Armstrong, American diplomat (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian Islamist militant (Boko Haram) (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Chris Marker, French movie maker (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Maeve Binchy, Irish writer (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American politician (b. 1914)
- 2013 – Antoni Ramallets, Catalan-Spanish footballer (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Robert Neelly Bellah, American sociologist (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Julio Grondona, Argentine football executive (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Dick Wagner, American rock guitarist (b. 1942)
- 2014 – Dick Smith, American special effects make-up artist (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Peter Hall, British urban planner (b. 1932)
- 2014 – Harun Farocki, German filmmaker and author (b. 1944)
- 2014 – Manfred Roeder, German Wehrmacht soldier and far-right activist (b. 1929)
- 2015 – Yakub Memon, Indian terrorist (b. 1962)
- 2015 – Lynn Anderson, American country singer (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., American businessman (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Alana Vrzanova, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Tato Cifuentes, Chilean-born Argentine actor and singer (b. 1925)
- 2017 – Ciro Cirillo, Italian politician (b. 1921)
- 2017 – H. Sayeeduddin Dagar, Indian singer (b. 1939)
- 2017 – Paulo Garcia, Brazilian politician (b. 1959)
- 2017 – Slim Mahfoudh, Tunisian actor (b. 1942)
- 2018 – Andreas Kappes, German cyclist (b. 1965)
- 2018 – Khayyam Mirzazade, Azerbaijani composer and professor (b. 1935)
- 2018 – Ron Dellums, American politician (b. 1935)
- 2018 – Michael A. Sheehan, American author (b. 1955)
- 2019 – Marcian Bleahu, Romanian geologist, writer and politician (b. 1924)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Alfred Lepine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
- 1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
- 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and writer (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish Olympic official (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños, Nicaraguan politician (d. 2001)
- 1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle, American author
- 1920 – Marie Tharp, American scientist (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Antoine Duhamel, French composer (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Stan Stennett, Welsh actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Martin Nag, Norwegian writer (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Tony Hiller, British songwriter (d. 2018)
- 1927 – Richard Johnson, English actor, writer and producer (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1928 – Chris Howland, British-German singer, presenter, actor and writer (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Tony Lip, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Bud Selig, American businessman and Commissioner of Baseball
- 1936 – Buddy Guy, American Blues guitarist and singer
- 1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
- 1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
- 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American director
- 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
- 1941 – Paul Anka, Lebanese-Canadian singer
- 1943 – Giovanni Goria, 46th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)
- 1943 – Giuseppe Versaldi, Italian cardinal
- 1944 – Peter Bottomley, English politician
- 1944 – Frances de la Tour, English actress
- 1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist
- 1945 – David Sanborn, American jazz saxophonist
- 1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and former Governor of California
- 1947 – William Atherton, American actor
- 1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor
- 1948 – James H. Burnley IV, American politician
- 1950 – Harriet Harman, British politician
- 1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer
1951 – 1975
- 1954 – Ken Olin, American actor, producer and actor
- 1955 – Christopher Warren-Green, English violinist and conductor
- 1957 – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player
- 1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
- 1958 – Kate Bush, British singer
- 1958 – Daley Thompson, British athlete
- 1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter
- 1959 – Petra Felke, German athlete
- 1960 – Jennifer Barnes, American-English musicologist and academic
- 1960 – Richard Linklater, American director
- 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
- 1962 – Yakub Memon, Indian terrorist (d. 2015)
- 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
- 1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player
- 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer
- 1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-American director
- 1966 – Craig Gannon, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1966 – Lisa Madigan, American politician
- 1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers)
- 1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker
- 1968 – Terry Crews, American actor
- 1968 – Sofie Grabol, Danish actress
- 1969 – Simon Baker, Australian-American actor
- 1969 – Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
- 1970 – Alun Cairns, Welsh politician
- 1970 – Christopher Nolan, English movie director
- 1971 – Claude Dambury, French footballer
- 1971 – Tom Green, American actor and comedian
- 1971 – Christine Taylor, American actress
- 1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer
- 1973 – Dean Edwards, American actor and comedian
- 1973 – Clementa C. Pinckney, American pastor and politician (d. 2015)
- 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress
- 1974 – Jason Robinson, English rugby player
From 1976
- 1977 – Diana Bolocco, Chilean model and journalist
- 1977 – Misty May-Treanor, American volleyball player and coach
- 1977 – Derek Mackay, Scottish politician
- 1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer
- 1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
- 1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
- 1980 – Justin Rose, English golfer
- 1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (d. 2017)
- 1981 – Hope Solo, American soccer player
- 1981 – Lisa Goldstein, American actress
- 1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
- 1982 – James Anderson, English cricketer
- 1983 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
- 1985 – Daniel Friedheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
- 1988 – Lara Jean Marshall, English-Australian actress, singer and dancer
- 1990 – Coco Sumner, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1991 – Diana Vickers, British singer
- 1992 – Fabiano Caruana, American chess player
- 1992 – Hannah Cockroft, British Paralympic athlete
- 1993 – Miho Miyazaki, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1995 – Jorge Cori, Peruvian chess player
- 1995 – Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer
- 1999 – Joey King, American actress
- 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese Royal