June 30
June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining until the end of the year.
It is the last day of the first half of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 350 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
- 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
- 1520 – Moctezuma II (Montezuma), Aztec ruler (b. around 1465)
- 1538 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
- 1649 – Simon Vouet, French painter (b. 1599)
- 1670 – Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I (b. 1644)
- 1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
- 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh botanist, linguist and geographer (b. 1660)
- 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general (b. 1696)
- 1861 – Robert O'Hara Burke, Irish explorer of Australia (b. 1820)
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
- 1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
- 1898 – Siegfried Marcus, English technician and inventor (b. 1831)
- 1899 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author (b. 1819)
1901 – 2000
- 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist (b. 1842)
- 1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
- 1934 – Night of the Long Knives:
- Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
- Gregor Strasser, Nazi politician (b. 1892)
- Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
- Karl Ernst, Sturmabteilung leader (b. 1904)
- Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
- 1949 – Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
- 1953 – Charles William Miller, British-Brazilian sportsman, considered as the 'father of Brazilian football' (b. 1874)
- 1954 – Andrass Samuelsen, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
- 1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
- 1961 – Lee De Forest, American inventor (b. 1873)
- 1965 – Margarete Sommer, German social worker (b. 1893)
- 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian racing driver (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Crew of Soyuz 11:
- Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
- Georgi Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)
- Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
- 1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
- 1971 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
- 1973 – Nancy Mitford, British writer and biographer (b. 1904)
- 1974 – Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1905)
- 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
- 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
- 1993 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (b. 1962)
- 1995 – Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
- 1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
- 1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1932)
From 2001
- 2001 – Chet Atkins, American musician and producer (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
- 2011 – Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
- 2013 – Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (b. 1920)
- 2014 – Frank Cashen, American baseball executive (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Alvaro Corcuera, Mexican priest (b. 1957)
- 2014 – Christian Fuehrer, German pastor and activist (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Alejandra Da Passano, Argentine actress (b. 1947)
- 2014 – Zeljko Sturanovic, former Prime Minister of Montenegro (b. 1960)
- 2014 – Pierre Bec, French Occitan language poet (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Paul Mazursky, American director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Frank M. Robinson, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Bob Hastings, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (b. 1941)
- 2015 – Leonard Starr, American cartoonist (b. 1925)
- 2016 – Martin Lundström, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1918)
- 2016 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet (b. 1932)
- 2016 – Don Friedman, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
- 2016 – Juan Habichuela, Spanish flamenco guitarist (b. 1933)
- 2016 – Gordon Murray, English puppeteer and television producer (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Simone Veil, French politician (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Barry Norman, English film critic (b. 1933)
- 2017 – Karunamaya Goswami, Bangladeshi musicologist (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player (b. 1938)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1903 – Robert E. Hannegan, American politician, 52nd United States Postmaster General (d. 1949)
- 1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
- 1906 – Anthony Mann, American movie actor and director (d. 1967)
- 1906 – Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
- 1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
- 1908 – Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)
- 1909 – Juan Bosch, Dominican Republic politician (d. 2001)
- 1911 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, Mexican philosopher (d. 2002)
- 1912 – Avigdor Dagan, Czech-Israeli writer, playwright, translator and diplomat (d. 2006)
- 1913 – Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, President of Colombia (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese politician (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Lena Horne, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Oswaldo Lopez Arellano, President of Honduras (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Peter Alexander, Austrian singer and actor (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist
- 1933 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
- 1933 – Derek Bentley, British victim of a miscarriage of Justice (d. 1953)
- 1934 – Harry Blackstone, Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
- 1936 – Assia Djebar, Algerian writer, director and historian (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Apostolis Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
- 1938 – Billy Mills, American runner
- 1939 – John Fortune, British scriptwriter and actor (d. 2013)
- 1939 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer (d. 2014)
- 1941 – Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Robert Ballard, American underwater archaeologist
- 1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
- 1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
- 1944 – Terry Funk, American wrestler and actor
- 1945 – Sean Scully, Irish-American painter
1951 – 1975
- 1953 – Hal Lindes, American-born British guitarist (Dire Straits)
- 1954 – Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia
- 1954 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Wayne Swan, Australian politician
- 1956 – David Lidington, English politician
- 1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
- 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
- 1959 – Brendan Perry, English musician (Dead Can Dance)
- 1960 – James Kwesi Appiah, Ghanaian footballer and coach
- 1960 – Jack McConnell, Scottish politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland
- 1960 – Murray Cook, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
- 1962 – Tony Fernandez, American baseball player
- 1963 – Olha Bryzhina, Ukrainian athlete
- 1963 – Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
- 1964 – Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, Hong Kong-born former member of the Danish royal family
- 1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer
- 1965 – Mitch Raymond, American basketball player
- 1966 – Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
- 1966 – Mike Tyson, American world champion boxer
- 1967 – Nitin Ganatra, British actor
- 1967 – Silke Renk, German athlete
- 1968 – Philip Anselmo, American musician
- 1970 – Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Monica Potter, American actress
- 1972 – James Martin, English chef
- 1973 – Frank Rost, German footballer
- 1973 – Chan Ho Park, Korean baseball pitcher
- 1974 – Juli Zeh, German writer
- 1975 – Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
- 1975 – Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
From 1976
- 1977 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
- 1980 – Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
- 1981 – Barbara Spotakova, Czech athlete
- 1982 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
- 1982 – Willam Belli, American actor, drag queen and television personality
- 1982 – Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
- 1983 – Cheryl Cole, British singer, formerly of Girls Aloud
- 1983 – Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist
- 1983 – Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer
- 1983 – Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedienne
- 1984 – Dimitry Ipatov, Russian ski jumper
- 1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
- 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- 1985 – Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
- 1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
- 1985 – Charley Uchea, American Reality show personality
- 1986 – Allegra Versace, Italian heiress
- 1986 – Fredy Guarin, Colombian footballer
- 1988 – Jack Douglass, American comedian and actor
- 1989 – Miguel Vitor, Portuguese footballer
- 1989 – Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan runner
- 1991 – Kaho, Japanese actress
- 1994 – Rhys Jones, Welsh athlete
Deaths
Observances
- Independence Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day
- Army Day (Guatemala)
- Revolution Day (Sudan)
- Navy Day (Israel)