October 30
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 1226 - Ly Hue Tong, Emperor of Vietnam
- 1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
- 1522 - Jean Houton, French composer (b. 1459)
- 1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
- 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
- 1611 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- 1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
- 1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer (b. 1595)
- 1654 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
- 1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
- 1757 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan
- 1802 - Charles Alexandre de Colonna, French statesman (b. 1734)
- 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
- 1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (b. 1784)
- 1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
- 1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
- 1893 – John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1894 - Honoré Mercier, 9th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1901 – 2000
- 1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the International Red Cross, co-winner of the first Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
- 1912 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- 1915 – Charles Tupper, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 1951 - Tom Perry, 14th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1879)
- 1956 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (b. 1872)
- 1957 - Fred Beebe, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874)
- 1963 - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
- 1965 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (b. 1888)
- 1968 - Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor, singer and director (b. 1899)
- 1968 - Conrad Richter, American author and playwright (b. 1890)
- 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and writer (b. 1886)
- 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist (b. 1887)
- 1979 - Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer (b. 1887)
- 1979 - Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
- 1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
- 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American movie director (b. 1912)
- 2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, writer, and composer (b. 1921)
From 2001
- 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian Communist leader (b. 1942)
- 2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
- 2009 - Juvenal Amarijo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
- 2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
- 2013 - Ralph Tarrant, English supercentenarian (b. 1903)
- 2014 - Thomas Menino, American politician, longest-serving Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1942)
- 2014 - Bob Geigel, American wrestling promoter (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Mel Daniels, American basketball player (b. 1944)
- 2015 - Al Molinaro, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2016 - Tammy Grimes, American actress (b. 1934)
- 2017 - Fred Beckey, American rock climber, mountaineer and author (b. 1923)
- 2017 - Frank Doran, Scottish politician (b. 1949)
- 2017 - Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (b. 1972)
- 2017 - James D. Martin, American businessman and politician (b. 1918)
- 2017 - Judy Martz, American politician, 22nd Governor of Montana (b. 1943)
- 2017 - Melanmai Ponnusamy, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1951)
- 2017 - Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, American football player (b. 1987)
- 2017 - Daniel Viglietti, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, composer and activist (b. 1939)
- 2018 - David Azulai, Israeli politician (b. 1954)
- 2018 - Whitey Bulger, American criminal (b. 1929)
- 2018 - Bill Fischer, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2018 - María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (b. 1930)
- 2018 - Jin Yong, Hong Kong essayist and journalist (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Beverly McClellan, American singer and musician (b. 1969)
- 2018 - Teodoro Petkoff, Venezuelan journalist and politician (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Sangharakshita, British Buddhist writer and educator (b. 1925)
- 2018 - Bob Skoronski, American football player (b. 1934)
- 2019 - Russell Brookes, British rally driver (b. 1945)
- 2019 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1938)
- 2019 - Jim Gregory, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive (b. 1935)
- 2019 - William J. Hughes, American politician and diplomat (b. 1932)
- 2019 - Mobolaji Johnson, Nigerian military officer and politician (b. 1936)
- 2019 - Bernard Slade, Canadian-American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2019 - Azam Taleghani, Iranian politician, activist and journalist (b. 1943)
- 2019 - J. Bob Traxler, American politician (b. 1931)
Births
Up to 1850
- 39 BC - Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus Caesar (d. 14)
- 1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
- 1327 - Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
- 1513 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
- 1580 – Dirk Hartog, Dutch explorer (d. 1621)
- 1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
- 1632 – Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
- 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen of Prussia (d. 1705)
- 1735 – John Adams, 1st Vice President and 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1741 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (d. 1807)
- 1748 - Martha Jefferson, first wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
- 1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish satirist, playwright and poet (d. 1816)
- 1763 - Heinrich Cotta, German forester (d. 1844)
- 1776 - George M. Bibb, American politician (d. 1859)
- 1778 - Benjamin Ames, Governor of Maine (d. 1835)
- 1785 - Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau, Prussian lieutenant (d. 1871)
- 1789 - Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark (d. 1864)
- 1794 - Prince Frederick of Prussia, Prussian prince and general (d. 1863)
- 1804 - Charles II, Duke of Brunswick (d. 1873)
- 1816 - Henry L. Dawes, American politician (d. 1903)
- 1829 - Suzanne Manet, wife and model of the painter Edouard Manet (d. 1906)
- 1836 - Camillo Boito, Italian writer and architect (d. 1914)
- 1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French painter (d. 1899)
- 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
- 1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
1851 – 1900
- 1853 - Louise Abbéma, French painter (d. 1927)
- 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1859 - Karl von Stürgkh, Austrian politician (d. 1916)
- 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
- 1871 - Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
- 1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
- 1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
- 1877 - Hugo Celmins, Prime Minister of Latvia (d. 1941)
- 1881 - Elizabeth Roberts, American poet and writer (d. 1941)
- 1882 - Oldrich Duras, Czech chess player (d. 1957)
- 1882 - William F. Halsey, Jr., American naval commander (d. 1959)
- 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
- 1887 - Sukumar Ray, Bengali writer (d. 1923)
- 1887 - Georg Heym, German writer (d. 1912)
- 1888 - Louis Menges, American soccer player (d. 1969)
- 1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
- 1890 - Tommy Cairns, Scottish footballer (d. 1967)
- 1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (d. 1945)
- 1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
- 1894 - Peter Warlock, English composer (d. 1930)
- 1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German doctor, won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (d. 1973)
- 1896 – Harry Randall Truman, Guardian of Mt. St. Helens (d. 1980)
- 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
- 1897 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
- 1899 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist (d. 1991)
1901 – 1950
- 1905 - Johnny Miles, Canadian marathon runner (d. 2003)
- 1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian racing driver (d. 1966)
- 1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
- 1908 - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (d. 1963)
- 1908 - Patsy Montana, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
- 1908 - Dmitry Ustinov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1984)
- 1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
- 1909 - Jerry Dawson, Scottish footballer (d. 1977)
- 1910 - Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer (d. 1994)
- 1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1914 - Anna Wing, British actress (d. 2013)
- 1914 - Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (d. 1987)
- 1915 - Jane Randolph, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1915 - Fred W. Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- 1917 - Maurice Trintignant, French racing driver (d. 2005)
- 1917 - Anna Marly, Russian-born French singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Nikolai Ugarkov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Gus Savage, American politician (d. 2015)
- 1926 - Tommy Ridgley, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
- 1931 - Vince Callahan, American politician (d. 2014)
- 1932 - Louis Malle, French movie director (d. 1995)
- 1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch conductor and flautist (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (d. 2011)
- 1935 – Michael Winner, English movie director (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French director
- 1938 - Ed Lauter, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist
- 1939 - Eddie Holland, American songwriter
- 1939 - Grace Slick, American rock music singer, songwriter, musician, artist and model
- 1941 - Theodor W. Haensch, German physicist
- 1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
- 1943 - David Triesman, Baron Triesman, English politician
- 1944 - Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (d. 2015)
- 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director and producer
- 1946 - William Thurston, American mathematician (d. 2012)
- 1946 - Robert L. Gibson, American astronaut
- 1946 - Chris L. Slade, Welsh drummer
- 1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American rock musician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
- 1952 - Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares, Angolan historian and poet
- 1953 - Pete Hoekstra, United States Congressman
- 1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born fashion photographer
- 1954 - Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
- 1955 - Heidi Heitkamp, American politician
- 1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor and director
- 1960 – Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1961 - Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
- 1962 - Courtney Walsh, Jamaican cricketer
- 1962 – Stefan Kuntz, German footballer
- 1964 – Jean-Marc Bosman, Belgian footballer
- 1965 - Gavin Rossdale, British musician
- 1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
- 1966 - Zoran Milanovic, 10th Prime Minister of Croatia
- 1967 - Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 - Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015)
- 1969 - Snow, Canadian musician
- 1970 - Xie Jun, Chinese chess player
- 1970 - Nia Long, American actress
- 1970 - Ben Bailey, American comedian and talk show host
- 1970 - Tony Belleci, American visual effects designer and TV host
- 1971 – Fredi Bobic, German footballer
- 1971 - Emma Tate, British voice actress
- 1971 - Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1972 - Jessica Hynes, British actress and writer
- 1973 - Edge, Canadian actor and professional wrestler
- 1975 - Maria Thayer, American actress
From 1976
- 1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
- 1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor and singer
- 1979 - Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
- 1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1981 - Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
- 1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model, businesswoman and socialite
- 1982 - Manny Parra, American baseball player
- 1983 - Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer, television host and actress
- 1984 - Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 - Eva Marcille, American actress, TV host and model
- 1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian skijumper
- 1986 - Margareta Kozuch, German volleyball player
- 1988 - Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
- 1989 - Jay Asforis, British actor, singer and dancer (S Club 7)
- 1989 - Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)
- 1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
- 1989 – Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
- 1989 - Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
- 1996 – Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1998 - Meimi Tamura, Japanese singer
Deaths
Observances
- Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak nation
- Mischief Night (United States)