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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s |
| Years: | 1927 1928 1929 – 1930 – 1931 1932 1933 |
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1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- November 2 – Haile Selassie became King of Ethiopia
- The Trump Building is built in New York City which is at the time the world's tallest building
- The Chrysler Building surpasses The Trump Building and also claims world's tallest building
Births
January
- January 3 - Robert Loggia, American actor (died 2015)
- January 10 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman (died 2009)
- January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
- January 30 – Gene Hackman, American actor
February
- February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
- February 19
- John Frankenheimer, American movie director (died 2002)
- Milenko Stefanovic, Serbian clarinet player
March
- March 7
- Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Lord Snowdon, British photographer and member of the British Royal Family from 1960 to 1978
- March 22 – Pat Robertson, American preacher and television host
- March 24 – Steve McQueen, American actor (died 1980)
- March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court justice
- March 30 – Rolf Harris, Australian born- British cartoonist, singer and television presenter
April
- April 3 – Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
- April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German born-British actor
- April 13 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian movie director (died 2013)
- April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
- April 28 - James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
May
- May 8 – Gary Snyder, American writer
- May 9 – Joan Sims, British comedy actress (died 2001)
- May 13 – Mike Gravel, former US Senator from Alaska (died 2021)
- May 14 – Ali La Pointe, Algerian revolutionary
- May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
- May 29
1930 Media
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Former President of Finland K. J. Ståhlberg and his wife Ester at the Helsinki Central Station after their kidnapping. In the middle of picture their daughter Elli stands behind them.
Still from "The Harrad Experiment" released in a press kit promoting the movie by Cinerama Releasing Corporation without copyright notice.
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize in Literature 1992; picture taken at his honorary dinner, Amsterdam, May 20th 2008
Gene Hackman at a book signing in June 2008.
Publicity photo of Robert Wagner in 1967.
Photo of actress Joanne Woodward.
Ruth Rendell, writer
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– Jack Catain Jr., American businessman and convicted criminal (d. 1987)
- May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer
June
- June 1 – Edward Woodward, British actor (died 2009)
July
- July 2 – Carlos Menem, President of Argentina (died 2021)
- July 4
- Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet – Armenian actor (died 1993)
- Johnny Saxton, American boxer
- July 7 – Lord Wyn Roberts of Conwy, Welsh politician (died 2013)
- July 30 – Captain Lou Albano, Italian born-American professional wrestler and manager (died 2009)
August
- August 1 - Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (died 2011)
- August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (died 2012)
- August 8 – Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (died 1975)
- August 10 - Barry Unsworth, British writer (died 2012)
- August 14 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (died 2013)
- August 21 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (died 2002)
- August 25 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (died 2020)
- August 28
- Windsor Davies, Welsh comedy actor (died 2019)
- Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
- August 30 - Warren Buffett, American businessman
September
- September 7
- Baudouin I, King of Belgium (died 1993)
- Sonny Rollins, American musician
- September 23 – Ray Charles, American singer and musician (died 2004)
- September 29 - Colin Dexter, British writer
October
- October 1
- Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (died 2002)
- Philippe Noiret, French actor (died 2006)
- October 6 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (died 2000)
- October 10 - Harold Pinter, British playwright (died 2008)
- October 14 - Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of Zaire (died 1998)
- October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, British racing executive
- October 31 - Michael Collins, American astronaut (died 2021)
November
- November 14 – Michael Robbins, English actor (died 1992)
- November 15 - J. G. Ballard, British writer (died 2009)
- November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (died 2013)
December
- December 1 – Matt Monro, British singer (died 1985)
- December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist
- December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (died 2014)
- December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
Deaths
- March 8 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
- March 19 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
- July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer and doctor (b. 1859)
- September 29 - Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (b. 1844)
- October 26 – Mary Harrison McKee, American First Lady, daughter of Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
- after November 2 - Alfred Wegener, German geologist (b. 1880)
- November 22 - Paul Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)