December 30
December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There is one day remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 274 - Pope Felix I
- 1066 – Joseph ibn Naghrela, Jewish vizier (b. 1035)
- 1460 - Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (b. 1411)
- 1460 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, second son of Richard of York (b. 1443)
- 1525 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
- 1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (b. 1512)
- 1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
- 1591 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
- 1662 - Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (b. 1628)
- 1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
- 1777 - Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1727)
- 1803 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
- 1867 - Sarah Booth, English actress (b. 1793)
- 1870 - Juan Prim, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1814)
- 1896 – Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (b. 1861)
1901 – 2000
- 1905 – Frank Steunenberg, 4th Governor of Idaho (b. 1861)
- 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and mystic (b. 1869)
- 1928 - Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
- 1938 - Aleksander Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1862)
- 1941 – El Lissitzky, Russian architect and artist (b. 1890)
- 1944 – Romain Rolland, French writer (b. 1866)
- 1945 – Song Jin-woo, Korean politician, educator and journalist (b. 1889)
- 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
- 1950 – Arthur Davidson, American businessman (b. 1881)
- 1954 - Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
- 1964 - Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neurologist (b. 1885)
- 1966 - Pietro Ciriaci, Italian cardinal (b. 1885)
- 1967 – Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
- 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian diplomat, UN Secretary-General (b. 1896)
- 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
- 1971 – Jo Cals, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)
- 1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
- 1982 - Alberto Vargas, Peruvian painter (b. 1896)
- 1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian poet (b. 1925)
- 1993 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907)
- 1995 - Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
- 1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (b. 1934)
- 1998 - George Webb, British actor (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian, second-oldest woman on record (b. 1880)
From 2001
- 2002 – Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Artie Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1910)
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Abdurrahman Wahid, President of Indonesia, from 1999 – 2001 (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Bobby Farrell, Aruban dancer, DJ and performer (b. 1949)
- 2010 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1917)
- 2011 – Ronald Searle, British cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 2012 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian Nobel Prize-winning neurologist (b. 1909)
- 2012 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)
- 2013 - Eero Mantyranta, Finnish skier (b. 1937)
- 2014 - Luise Rainer, German-born actress (b. 1910)
- 2014 - Antonio Brack Egg, Peruvian ecologist and politician (b. 1940)
- 2014 - Marian Jurczyk, Polish politician (b. 1935)
- 2014 - Walter Roque, Uruguayan-Venezuelan footballer (b. 1937)
- 2015 - Mangesh Padgaonkar, Indian poet (b. 1929)
- 2015 - Howard Pawley, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1934)
- 2015 - Doug Atkins, American football player (b. 1930)
- 2015 - Howard Davis, Jr., American boxer (b. 1956)
- 2016 - Tyrus Wong, Chinese-American artist (b. 1910)
- 2017 - Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (b. 1990)
- 2017 - Khalid Shameem Wynne, Pakistani military officer (b. 1953)
- 2017 - Cheryll Sotheran, New Zealand museum executive (b. 1945)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1904 - Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
- 1905 - Daniil Kharms, Russian surrealist poet, writer and dramatist (d. 1942)
- 1906 - Carol Reed, English movie director (d. 1976)
- 1910 – Paul Bowles, American composer and writer (d. 1999)
- 1910 - Howard W. Jones, American physician (d. 2015)
- 1911 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1917 - David Willcocks, English organist, composer and conductor (d. 2015)
- 1920 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1921 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (d. 1987)
- 1923 – Sara Lidman, Swedish writer (d. 2004)
- 1926 - Stan Tracey, British jazz musician and composer (d. 2013)
- 1927 - Robert Hossein, French actor and director
- 1928 – Bo Diddley, American rock and roll musician (d. 2008)
- 1930 - Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
- 1931 - Frank Torre, American baseball player (d. 2014)
- 1931 – Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Paolo Villaggio, Italian actor, director and writer (d. 2017)
- 1934 – Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1934 - John H. Bahcall, American astrophysicist (d. 2005)
- 1934 - Russ Tamblyn, American actor
- 1934 - Joseph Bologna, American actor
- 1935 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
- 1935 - Jack Riley, American actor
- 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer
- 1937 - Paul Stookey, American singer
- 1938 - Mike Auldridge, American guitarist (d. 2012)
- 1940 - James Burrows, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- 1942 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian writer and dissident
- 1942 – Michael Nesmith, American musician and member of The Monkees
- 1942 – Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
- 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer, actor and member of The Monkees (d. 2012)
- 1945 - Lloyd Kaufman, American movie director
- 1945 - Paola Cacchi, Italian athlete
- 1946 – Patti Smith, American singer and poet
- 1946 – Berti Vogts, German footballer
- 1946 - Marc Forné Molné, former Prime Minister of Andorra
- 1947 - Fatima Jibrell, Somali environmental activist
- 1947 - Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1947 - Teresa Parodi, Argentine singer and composer
- 1948 - Randy Schekman, American cell biologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
- 1949 - David Bedford, English long-distance athlete
- 1949 - Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
- 1950 - Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist
- 1950 - Kazuhisa Kono, Japanese footballer
1951 – 1975
- 1953 - Meredith Vieira, American television journalist and game show host
- 1954 - Corrado Passera, Italian banker
- 1957 - Nick Skelton, British equestrian
- 1957 - Matt Lauer, American newscaster
- 1959 – Tracey Ullman, British actress and singer
- 1960 - Heather Wilson, American politician
- 1961 - Bill English, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1961 – Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian athlete
- 1961 - Seda Sayan, Turkish singer, actress and presenter
- 1962 - Alessandra Mussolini, Italian politician
- 1963 - Mike Pompeo, 70th United States Secretary of State
- 1964 - Sophie Ward, English actress
- 1965 – Essam Abd El Fatah, Egyptian football referee and pilot
- 1965 – Heidi Fleiss, American madam
- 1967 - Carl Ouellet, Canadian wrestler
- 1968 - Sabir Bhatia, Indian computer scientist
- 1968 – Meredith Monroe, American actress
- 1969 – Jay Kay, British musician (Jamiroquai)
- 1969 - David England, American snowboarder and stuntman
- 1969 - Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia
- 1969 - Shane McConkey, American skier and basejumper
- 1971 - Chris Vance, English actor
- 1973 – Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete
- 1974 – Johanna Sallstrom, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
- 1975 – Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer
- 1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer
From 1976
- 1977 – Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer
- 1977 - Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
- 1978 - Phillips Idowu, British long jumper
- 1978 - Tyrese, American singer and actor
- 1978 - Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player
- 1979 - Flavio, Angolan footballer
- 1979 - Timothy Clufetos, American drummer
- 1980 - Cédric Carrasso, French footballer
- 1980 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
- 1981 – Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer
- 1981 - K.Will, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
- 1982 - Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
- 1983 - Kevin Systrom, American businessman, co-founder of Instagram
- 1984 – LeBron James, American basketball player
- 1986 - Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer
- 1986 – Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter
- 1986 - Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
- 1987 - Jake Cuenca, American-Filipino actor and footballer
- 1987 - Jeanette Ottesen, Danish swimmer
- 1988 – Leon Jackson, Scottish singer
- 1989 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder
- 1990 - Joe Root, English cricketer
Deaths
Observances
- Rizal Day (Philippines)