January 30
January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of the year (336 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 680 - Bathild, Frankish Queen (b. 626)
- 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
- 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
- 1314 - Nicholas III of Saint Omer
- 1384 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- 1649 – King Charles I of England, Ireland and Scotland (b. 1600)
- 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
- 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
- 1867 – Emperor Komei of Japan (b. 1831)
- 1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
- 1889 – Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
- 1889 – Baroness Marie Vetsera, mistress of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf (b. 1871)
1901 – 2000
- 1913 - James Henderson Berry, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1841)
- 1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
- 1927 - Simeon Eben Baldwin, American politician, 65th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1840)
- 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish doctor, won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
- 1929 - La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
- 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
- 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader and advocate of non-violence (assassinated) (b. 1869)
- 1948 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
- 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automobile engineer (b. 1875)
- 1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer (b. 1888)
- 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1969 – Dominique Pire, Belgian monk (b. 1910)
- 1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
- 1982 – Stanley Holloway, British actor (b. 1890)
- 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
- 1984 - Luke Kelly, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)
- 1986 - Ivan Papanin, Russian explorer (b. 1894)
- 1989 - Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cadiz, Spanish royal and claimant to the French throne (b. 1936)
- 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist (b. 1908)
- 1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (b. 1925)
- 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
From 2001
- 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Jeremy Beadle, British television presenter (b. 1948)
- 2009 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Sune Jonsson, Swedish writer, movie maker and photographer (b. 1930)
- 2009 - H. Guy Hunt, 49th Governor of Alabama (b. 1933)
- 2011 – John Barry, British movie score composer (b. 1933)
- 2013 - Patty Andrews, American singer (b. 1918)
- 2014 - Jack Stoddard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
- 2014 - The Mighty Hannibal, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1939)
- 2014 - Arthur Rankin, Jr., American animator, director, producer and writer (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Gerrit Voorting, Dutch road bicycle racer (b. 1923)
- 2015 - Zhelyu Zhelev, 2nd President of Bulgaria (b. 1935)
- 2015 - Geraldine McEwan, English actress (b. 1932)
- 2015 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, novelist and playwright (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Frank Finlay, British actor (b. 1926)
- 2016 - T. N. Gopakumar, Indian journalist (b. 1957)
- 2016 - Georgia Davis Powers, American civil rights activist and politician (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Francisco Flores Pérez, President of El Salvador (b. 1959)
- 2016 - Mohammad Salimi, Iranian general (b. 1937)
- 2017 - Marta Becket, American dancer, painter and choreographer (b. 1924)
- 2017 - David Burhani, Tanzanian footballer (b. 1990)
- 2017 - Carmen Contreras-Bozak, American World War II veteran (b. 1919)
- 2017 - Mario R. Ramil, Filipino-born American justice (b. 1946)
- 2018 - Rolf Schafstall, German footballer (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Mark Salling, American actor and singer (b. 1982)
- 2018 - Clyde Scott, American football player and hurdler (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Kevin Towers, American baseball executive (b. 1961)
- 2018 - Terry Van Ginderen, Belgian television and music producer (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Azeglio Vicini, Italian footballer (b. 1933)
- 2018 - Louis Zorich, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2019 - Stewart Adams, British chemist, inventor of ibuprofen (b. 1923)
- 2019 - Per Jorsett, Norwegian sports reporter (b. 1920)
- 2019 - Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (d. 1959)
- 1910 - Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
- 1911 – Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician (d. 1989)
- 1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
- 1913 - Percy Thrower, English gardener and television host (d. 1988)
- 1913 - Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter (d. 1941)
- 1915 – John Profumo, British politician (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver, journalist and author (d. 2008)
- 1920 - Michael Anderson, British director
- 1920 - Delbert Mann, American director (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American inventor (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
- 1928 – Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
- 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician, surgeon and aid worker (d. 1996)
- 1929 - Isamu Akasaki, Japanese scientist, joint-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor
- 1930 - Janis Krumins, Latvian basketball player (d. 1994)
- 1930 - Egon Klepsch, German politician (d. 2010)
- 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American writer (d. 2016)
- 1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
- 1934 - Tammy Grimes, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
- 1934 - Giovanni Battista Re, Italian cardinal
- 1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)
- 1935 - Jean Tiberi, former Mayor of Paris
- 1936 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (d. 1998)
- 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
- 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
- 1937 - Ed Hansen, American movie director and editor (d. 2005)
- 1938 – Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)
- 1940 - Mitch Murray, English songwriter and producer
- 1941 - Gregory Benford, American science fiction writer
- 1941 – Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
- 1945 - Meir Dagan, Israeli general (d. 2016)
- 1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
- 1946 - John Bird, Baron Bird, English social entrepreneur
- 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (d. 1991)
- 1947 - Malgorzata Braunek, Polish actress (d. 2014)
- 1948 - Sergio Cofferati, Italian politician
- 1949 – Peter Agre, American biologist
- 1949 - Jaak Salumets, Estonian basketball player and coach
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Phil Collins, British singer and musician
- 1951 - Philip Whitchurch, British actor
- 1955 – John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine
- 1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
- 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
- 1956 - Darko Rundek, Croatian musician, actor and theatre director
- 1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
- 1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
- 1959 – Irina Pudova, Yakut ballerina
- 1960 - Eddie Jones, Australian rugby union player and coach
- 1961 - Liu Gang, Chinese physicist and computer scientist
- 1961 – Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
- 1962 – King Abdullah II of Jordan
- 1963 - Tina Malone, English actress
- 1964 - Otis Smith, American basketball player
- 1965 - Julie McCullough, American model and actress
- 1967 - Jay Gordon, American musician
- 1967 - Sergey Tchepikov, Russian biathlete
- 1968 – King Felipe VI of Spain
- 1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician
- 1969 - Alexey Dreev, Russian chess player
- 1971 - Darren Boyd, British actor
- 1972 - Jennifer Hale, Canadian-American actress and comedienne
- 1974 – Christian Bale, British actor
- 1974 – Olivia Colman, British actress
- 1974 – Jemima Khan, British socialite
- 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer
- 1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
From 1976
- 1976 – Cristian Brocchi, Italian footballer
- 1978 - Romesh Ranganathan, English comedian
- 1979 - Davide Simoncelli, Italian cross-country skier
- 1979 - Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor and producer
- 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer
- 1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
- 1982 - DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player
- 1983 - Ben Maher, English equestrian
- 1984 – Kid Cudi, American Hip hop performer
- 1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
- 1987 - Phil Lester, English YouTuber, vlogger and radio personality
- 1987 – Rebecca Quin, Irish professional wrestler better known as Becky Lynch
- 1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor
- 1990 - Yoon Bo-ra, South Korean singer
- 1993 - Katy Marchant, English track cyclist
- 1995 - Misaki Iwasa, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1995 - Viktoria Komova, Russian gymnast
- 1995 - Danielle Campbell, American actress
- 1995 - Jack Laugher, English diver
- 2000 - Benee, New Zealand singer
- 2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II of Jordan
Deaths
Observances
- Observances related to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi