Welcome! Check out today's birthdays, recent birthdays, or our birthday stats.

In the year 1930

1,241 Notable birthdays

Dick Sargent

American actor (1930-1994).

Born April 19th, 1930 in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Died July 8th, 1994 at 64 years old in Los Angeles (prostate cancer).

Tom Wolfe

American author and journalist (1930–2018).

Born March 2nd, 1930 in Richmond.

Died May 14th, 2018 at 88 years old in New York City.

Helmut Kohl

Chancellor of west germany and reunified germany (1982–1998).

Born April 3rd, 1930 in Friesenheim. [ref]

Died June 16th, 2017 at 87 years old in Ludwigshafen. [ref]

Edward Woodward

British actor (1930-2009).

Born June 1st, 1930 in Croydon. [ref]

Died November 16th, 2009 at 79 years old in Truro (pneumonia). [ref]

Richard Donner

American film director (1930–2021).

Born April 24th, 1930 in The Bronx.

Died July 5th, 2021 at 91 years old in West Hollywood (heart failure, atherosclerosis). [ref]

Ronnie Corbett

Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, writer, broadcaster, and comedian (1930-2016).

Born December 4th, 1930 in Edinburgh.

Died March 31st, 2016 at 85 years old in London (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]

Tim Horton

Canadian ice hockey player and businessman (1930–1974).

Born January 12th, 1930 in Cochrane.

Died February 21st, 1974 at 44 years old in St. Catharines (traffic collision).

George Steinbrenner

American businessman, major league baseball team owner (1930-2010).

Born July 4th, 1930 in Rocky River.

Died July 13th, 2010 at 80 years old in Tampa (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Roy E. Disney

Longtime senior executive for the walt disney company (1930-2009).

Born January 10th, 1930 in Los Angeles.

Died December 16th, 2009 at 79 years old in Newport Beach (cancer). [ref]

Anne Francis

American actress (1930–2011).

Born September 16th, 1930 in Ossining.

Died January 2nd, 2011 at 80 years old in Santa Barbara (lung cancer). [ref]

James Baker

American lawyer and statesman (born 1930).

Born April 28th, 1930 (age 95 years) in Houston.

Albert S. Ruddy

American film producer and screenwriter (1930–2024).

Born March 28th, 1930 in Montreal.

Died May 25th, 2024 at 94 years old in Los Angeles. [ref]

Harold Pinter

British playwright (1930–2008).

Born October 10th, 1930 in London. [ref]

Died December 24th, 2008 at 78 years old in London (liver cancer). [ref]

Jim Rohn

American motivational speaker.

Born September 17th, 1930 in Yakima.

Died December 5th, 2009 at 79 years old in West Hills (pulmonary fibrosis). [ref]

Pierre Bourdieu

French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.

Born August 1st, 1930 in Denguin. [ref]

Died January 23rd, 2002 at 71 years old in Paris (small cell carcinoma). [ref]

J. G. Ballard

British novelist (1930–2009).

Born November 15th, 1930 in Shanghai, Shanghai International Settlement.

Died April 19th, 2009 at 78 years old in London (prostate cancer). [ref]

Maximilian Schell

Swiss and austrian film and stage actor (1930–2014).

Born December 8th, 1930 in Vienna.

Died February 1st, 2014 at 83 years old in Innsbruck (pneumonia).

Salvatore Riina

Sicilian mafia boss (1930–2017).

Born November 16th, 1930 in Corleone.

Died November 17th, 2017 at 87 years old in Parma (renal cell carcinoma). [ref]

Sally Ann Howes

British actor and singer.

Born July 20th, 1930 in St John's Wood.

Died December 19th, 2021 at 91 years old in Palm Beach Gardens. [ref]

Bernhard Caesar Einstein

American physicist (1930-2008).

Born July 10th, 1930 in Dortmund.

Died September 30th, 2008 at 78 years old in Bern.

Baudouin I of Belgium

Fifth king of the belgians.

Born September 7th, 1930 in Laken - Laeken.

Died July 31st, 1993 at 62 years old in Motril (myocardial infarction).

K. Balachander

Indian director, producer, writer, actor, playwright, stage conductor, and comedian.

Born July 9th, 1930 in Nannilam.

Died December 23rd, 2014 at 84 years old in Chennai (infectious disease).

George Fernandes

Indian politician.

Born June 3rd, 1930 in Mangalore.

Died January 29th, 2019 at 88 years old in New Delhi (swine influenza). [ref]

Charuhasan

Indian actor.

Born January 5th, 1930 (age 96 years) in Chennai.

Vic Tayback

American actor (1930–1990).

Born January 6th, 1930 in New York City.

Died May 25th, 1990 at 60 years old in Glendale (myocardial infarction).

Birthdays 51 to 75 of 1241

« 1929
1931 »

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle